Monday, April 14th

9am - Preschool (M-Th)

10am - Women's Bible Study Zoom

11am- PW Circle 2 meeting

6pm - Youth Parents' Lenten Book Study

Tuesday, April 15th

8:30am - Men's Gathering

10am - Staff meeting

12:30pm- Knitwits & Happy Hookers

2pm - Memorial service for Toni Coleman

5pm - New Member Social at City Walk Brewery

6:30pm - Women's Bible Study

Wednesday, April 16th

6:45am - High School youth Breakfast & Beliefs at Chick-fil-a

5:30pm - Wednesday Night Supper

6pm - Grace Notes Choir year-end celebration

6:15pm - Easter egg hunt for all children 5th grade and under

6:15pm - Lenten programming for adults

6:30pm - Kairos Band rehearsal

7pm - Chancel Choir rehearsal

Thursday, April 17th

9am- Youth Parents' Lenten Book Study

9:30am - Art Class

10am - Morning Silence meditation group

6:30pm - Maundy Thursday service in fellowship hall

Friday, April 18th

6:30am - Men's Bible Study

9am - Preschool closed

12pm - Community Good Friday service at St. Alysius

6:30am - Sunrise service in columbarium

9:15am - Kairos worship in fellowship hall

11:15am - Sanctuary worship

Luke 24:1-12

The Resurrection of Jesus

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to the hands of sinners and be crucified and on the third day rise again.” Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.

April 14

Lock Murray

April 15

River Brock

Jeff Mitchell

April 17

Griffen Fox

April 18

Felix Urruty

April 20

Ann Brooks

Beth Marvin

Katherine Mull

Alex Pleasant

Hunger Relief/Lilies With a Purpose

Throughout the month of April FPC will be focusing on hunger relief programs that serve our community: the Hickory Soup Kitchen, PORCH, and the Backpack program. Our Lilies with a Purpose will honor or remember your loved ones and benefit these three programs. The deadline to order is today. Sign up online for your Lilies With a Purpose.

Youth This Week



Our high school youth will meet this Wednesday at 6:45am at Chick-fil-a for Breakfast & Beliefs.

Flowering the Cross

Our bare wooden cross will be in the porte-cochère during Holy Week. We invite you to bring flowers on Easter morning to place on the cross, and we invite you to take family pictures in front of the cross. We hope you will enjoy this symbol of new life and Christ’s resurrection.

Holy Week Worship Schedule

We will have our Maundy Thursday service this Thursday, April 17 at 6:30pm in the fellowship hall. On Easter morning, our Sunrise service will be in the columbarium at 6:30am, our Kairos worship service will be at 9:15am in the fellowship hall, and our Sanctuary worship service will be at 11:15am. We will not have our education hour on Easter Sunday. We hope you'll join us!

Community Good Friday Service

St. Aloysius Catholic Church is hosting the Good Friday Seven Last Words ecumenical worship service this year from noon - 3pm. Heather Davis is preaching the second word at 12:30pm. You are free to come and go as you wish. An offering will be collected for the Hickory Soup Kitchen.

Wednesday Night

We’ll enjoy a meal this week with Lenten programming. Our kids birth – 5th grade will enjoy an Easter egg hunt after supper. We will not have a meal or programming on April 23 but will celebrate the end of another great year on Wednesday, April 30.

Meditation Groups

We have two meditation groups that meet on Thursdays. Rob Evans facilitates the Morning Silence group the first and third Thursdays of the month at 10am, and Katheryn Harlan and Todd Courtney facilitate the Beyond Belief group every Thursday at 6:30pm. Both groups will meet in the Session room.

Upcoming Adult Mission Trip

FPC is partnering with other churches in our presbytery for an adult mission trip focusing on Hurricane Helene relief in western NC this May 18-23. You can serve all week, part of the week, or even one day. Work will include distribution of supplies, yard clean up, demolition, home repairs, and spreading God’s grace. Contact Bobbi Trick (bobbitrick@gmail.com) or Derwin Nelson (nelsonda@corning.com) for more details by April 21.

FPC Book Club



We will discuss Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger on Monday, May 12 at 7pm in the parlor. All are welcome!

New Realm Update

We invite you to sign up for Realm, our new church database that will allow you to have access to our online directory. Please know Realm is still new to us, and the online directory is now live. Please contact Beth Taylor (beth@hickoryfpc.org) if you need help signing up or have questions.

Church Office: (828) 322-6343

237 2nd St. NW

Hickory, NC 28601