EVERYONE WORSHIP ONLINE
Our 9:30 a.m. Worship Service will be live streamed at pcpc.org/live. We encourage you to share the link with friends, family, and co-workers. We will also live stream to Facebook, Youtube, the Apple TV app (search Park Cities Presbyterian), and the PCPC app.
PCPC KIDS
As we go through this turbulent time, our Children’s Ministry staff, along with key volunteers, are working diligently to provide resources to you and your family. · pcpc.org/kids – The website contains lots of content from the Nursery, Preschool, and Elementary ministries. · Instagram – Search (@pcpckids) and follow us so you can receive updates, ideas, and encouragement throughout the day. · Spotify – Search (@pcpckids) and follow us so you and your family can listen to the songs we sing on Sunday mornings.
COVID-19 RESPONSE TEAM UPDATE
1. Pray – First responders will receive a card with information about the PCPC live stream and an email address to submit prayer requests for their station and their families. We’d love for you to join us in praying for them, so please email faith.jennings@pcpc.org to be added to the team.
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2. Encourage – write notes of encouragement for first responders and let your kids color pictures! Notes can be dropped off at the PCPC Security Desk on Monday, April 20 and 27, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Food for Dallas Families Project As the COVID-19 Response Team has communicated with nonprofit partners around the city, food scarcity has been identified as a big concern. Over the next week, PCPC will order bulk food product which will be packed by the PCPC Diaconate and distributed to a few ministry partners for families in their communities. Food ordered will feed a family of four for three weeks, at $160 per family. We want to care for as many as 1,000 families, primarily in West and South Dallas. If you would like to financially contribute to our COVID-19 & Disaster Relief projects, you can donate online at pcpc.org/give or write a check to Park Cities Presbyterian Church with “COVID-19 & Disaster Relief” in the memo line.
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THISWEEK@PCPC
Festive Kitchen First Responders Project PCPC has partnered with The Festive Kitchen to provide meals for families of first responders serving the Park Cities, along with Dallas Fire Station 11 which responds to calls made from the church. Each family will receive two frozen meals for three consecutive weeks, along with a thank you note from PCPC. There are two ways you can help:
Our new Easter 2020 Daily Prayer Guide is available at pcpc.org/resources. We’ve also made it available through the PCPC app (download via Apple App Store or Google Play Store for free), so you can have access wherever you are.
RE-ENTER WEEKENDS (POSTPONED)
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Our desire is for every member and friend of PCPC to join us for one of our new RE-ENTER Weekends, the purpose being to help us connect more deeply to Christ, to one another, and to the great vision God has given us to EXTEND His Kingdom. However, due to COVID-19, we are postponing these weekends until we can all safely gather together again.
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Such a Time as This
– Tommy Overton
Dear church family, be encouraged. God has prepared us for this moment! We know that our sovereign, omniscient Lord has chosen us to be alive for “such a time as this.” So, what is “this time” for you? Fill in the blanks: this global pandemic is _____ and _____. Regardless of how you filled in the blanks, the good news is that our Good Shepherd has fed and led us for this time in history. From Joseph’s time in Egypt to John the Baptist’s time in the Jordan, we see how the Lord is uniquely preparing the way for His beloved people. The same is true for our time. Just look back over the past few years and see how the Lord has graciously prepared this particular expression of His Church for this pandemic. The Lord fed and led us to soak in portions of Scripture dealing with suffering and trials. For example, our most recent series, “So Great a Salvation.” This letter to the Hebrews was all about encouragement and exhortations to persevere through trials. But don’t forget about the series on Spiritual warfare as well. Here is my short list of other ways that God has prepare our PCPC church family for “such a time as this.” • The “Tackling Fear and Worry” summer series • The conference with Ed Welch, “Fear, Worry and the God of Rest” • The teaching in all the Women’s Bible studies • The Men’s Tuesday Morning Bible study, “By Faith: Believing God in an Unbelieving World” • What did God teach you in your Sunday Morning Community, small group, or Midweek class? • What did God reveal to you in Union or re|engage? • Do you remember the lessons learned from serving with City Missions, Children’s Ministry, or Helping Hands? • How did God prepare you for this crisis on a mission trip, a Silent Retreat, or the High School Florida Trip? • Do you see how God prepared us through previous disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the EF 3 Tornado back in October 2019? • Do not forget about the ways that God worked to lead us to the EXTEND Vision!
Are you wondering how to make a difference in the lives of others during these difficult days? You can make a big difference in the lives of prisoners! As we shelter-in-place, we must remember that our mission as Christ’s body has not changed. We are called to go and proclaim the hope we have in Him who has conquered death, hell, and the grave. We can continue our “going” to those in prison by corresponding and praying for them daily. If you would like to be a part of Metanoia Prison Ministries correspondence ministry, then here are the steps: 1. Contact Paul Miller so he can explain to you what it means to be a corresponder at pmiller@pcanet.org. 2. If you choose to be a corresponder, he will send you an application and instructions on where to send it once you complete it. If you are not ready to make this commitment but you would like to receive email newsletters, then simply email him at pmiller@pcanet.org and let him know you would like to be a subscriber.
YOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL: MEALS FOR OUR HOMELESS NEIGHBORS
Let's come together to feed 100 homeless men & women in our community. Make a meal and drop it off at PCPC. What you can do: individually package a meal with a note or drawing in a ziplock baggie. Meal: turkey or ham sandwich (hearty), chips, fruit (soft on teeth, i.e. not an apple). Drop off at PCPC's Oak Lawn West parking lot on Saturday, April 25, between 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. meredith.scudder@pcpc.org
WOMEN Join the women of PCPC for Emerging: Crisis and God’s Power to Change Us, a study from the life of Elijah the Prophet. The study is 5 weeks long beginning Wednesday, May 6, and audio recordings will be posted online to pcpc.org/women. If you are interested in participating in a online small group using Zoom, contact Leslie Newman. There is no homework and no cost! For more information, go to our website pcpc.org/women/bible-studies/early-morning/. leslie.newman@pcpc.org
EVERYONE
What would you add to this list? I could have added many more examples of God’s provision prior to this pandemic. We are not in control. We are not sufficient in our own strength, but God is!
ONLINE GIVING
Finally, don’t forget about Easter. The empty tomb changes everything. Just as the lyrics of the hymn, “The Power of the Cross” proclaims: For through Your suffering I am free. Death is crushed to death; Life is mine to live, Won through Your selfless love. Be encouraged that God has prepared you for this moment by the incomparable work of our Lord and Savior. Continue to abide in Christ!
Since we are not able to meet together at PCPC, we’ve moved not only our Worship service online, but we have a secure website and PCPC app where you can give online (including setting up recurring gifts). Please take advantage of this act of worship as the Lord provides and as He leads. Thank you! pcpc.org/give GENERAL FUND
budget
2019/2020 operating budget
$13,500,000
July 1, 2019—April 12, 2020 budget
$11,232,236
July 1, 2019—April 12, 2020 giving
$10,859,254
Budget Variance
• Thomas “Tommy” Wilson Vick, son of Wilson & Kristen Vick (CC#07) on March 30, 2020. • Margaret Jeannine Newman, daughter of Bryan & Laura Newman (CC#22) on April 14, 2020.
marriages • Margaret Taylor Shead and Chad Ronald Johnson on March 21, 2020.
sympathies • Julian & Christiana Russell (MTW Missionaries Bahamas) on the loss of his brother, Michael Russell, on March 9, 2020. • Beau Longino (CC#22) on the loss of his grandfather, Carl Theodore Mottek, on March 29, 2020. • Dave & Betsy Willis (CC#09) on the loss of her father, Alfred Walker, on April 8, 2020. • John & Ready Bateman (CC#10) on the loss of his father; Davis Bateman (CC#10) & Martha Bateman (CC#10) on the loss of their grandfather; Yates & Ally Bateman (Outof-town members) on the loss of his grandfather, Earl Y. Bateman, Jr., on April 10 ,2020. Care Clusters – pcpc.org/care/care-clusters/
EARLY MORNING BIBLE STUDY
Indeed, “Aslan is on the move.”
births
–$372,982