We need your help to find our new Director of Children's Discipleship. Are you connected with an organization, like a parenting club or a PTO, where there might be someone who is looking for a job working with children? Maybe you know someone with a teaching degree who is looking for something outside of the classroom, or a stay-at-home mom or dad who is looking to go back to work. We invite you to send this link to our job posting to anyone who might be interested, share it on social media, and post it on community message boards for preschools, playgroups, and other organizations where you are a member. We trust that God will provide us with the right person, but we need your help to get the word out!

These cards will be inserted in your bulletin this Sunday so you can leave a friendly note to a downtown business during Downtown Connection Week.

You may now order a shirt with our new church logo! Reliant Apparel, a downtown Topeka business, has designed T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, and jackets for our members to wear when we are out in the community. You may visit our Web Store at ReliantApparel.com to view the products and place your order, or visit the T-Shirt table in the Celebration Room on March 12, 19, & 26th. You must place your online order by March 31st. After that day, our web store will be taken down. All orders (web and in person) will be delivered to the church, and will be available for pick up on April 9th.

Many of our members have inquired about ordering new name tags with our logo, so they can wear them to "advertise" our church when they go to events out in the community and on Sunday mornings. Stay tuned for more information!

Men are invited to a Tech Session with the FUMC Men's Group on Saturday, March 11th at 7:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall . Craig Selley and Tina Boles will be there to help you load the Church Life app onto your smartphone, tablet, and/or laptop. Coffee and donuts will be provided.

Following the Tech Session, the Men's Group will host a water station near 6th & Harrison for the IrishFest 5k run and walk at 9 a.m. to reinforce our church's commitment to downtown Topeka. Please consider coming to the Tech Session then helping with the Run afterwards.

If you would like to dedicate an Easter lily in honor or in memory of a loved one, fill out the form you will find in your bulletin this Sunday. Lilies are $10 each, and will be placed in the Chapel and Sanctuary on Easter, with the dedications listed in the bulletin insert. After this Sunday, you may pick up a form from the front desk. Order forms must be turned in by Sunday, April 2nd.

 

Last year our members enjoyed running and walking in downtown Topeka's Bridge 2 Bridge 5k. We encourage you to join in the fun and participate in this event with your fellow church members. Our new church T-shirts will be ready in time for the race, which is on April 22nd, so we can represent our community spirit as a church family!

 

We have had so many new faces join the First Church Family in recent months, and we want to give you the opportunity to put names with these faces! Lifetouch will be taking photos for our new church pictorial directory on several dates in early May and in early June. Each family will receive a complimentary 8x10 portrait and free directory for participating. We hope you will choose to be a part of our family album and make it complete. Sunday morning and online sign-ups will begin in early April.

 

  Ross Miller

Stephen Ministry has purchased this helpful new book and put it in our church library. It is written in a warm, conversational style that covers the wide range of issues a cancer diagnosis brings. Check it out!

 

Phase 2 is inviting everyone to help spruce up the church grounds for the spring on Saturday, April 1st , 9 a.m.-12 p.m. with lunch following in the Celebration Room. You may email Tiwana or sign up on the Phase 2 board in the Celebration Room if you'd like to help out.

 

Beth Evans 

 

The Missions Team food collection focus for the month of March is grocery bags of needed items for Doorstep. If you missed the bag handouts last Sunday, you can still pick up a bag with a list of requested items at church. Please return your filled grocery bag by the end of the month. 

Third graders will receive their bibles on Sunday, March 12th, during the 9:30 service in the chapel. Families of third graders should have received a letter via post. If you haven't received a mailing, or have questions, please contact Sue Blackman. Please R.S.V.P. so we can plan for your child. Email Sue Blackman or call her at 785-213-6745.