HEADLINE NEWS

🎉 175th Anniversary Update: Shirts, Smiles & a Snapshot in History! 🎉You—and 477 of your FRC family—are signed up for the BIG 175th Anniversary Celebration on June 1, right after the 10 AM worship service. 📣 HEAR YE, HEAR YE!  After worship on May 18 or 25, swing by the Fellowship Hall to grab your official anniversary t-shirt and pre-selected 175th gift. We’re asking everyone to wear their shirt to worship or bring it along and toss it on for a GIANT aerial photo in the Prayer Garden because nothing says 175 years of God’s faithfulness like 478 people standing shoulder to shoulder, smiling skyward in matching shirts. That’s a snapshot worth saving! 

🧹 All Hands on Deck – May 17! It’s go time, FRC! We’re taking on a Spring Clean-Up Day on Saturday, May 17, and we need your hands, feet, and maybe a few items like rake, pails with rags, or wheelbarrow (to name a few). 🕖 Start with donuts & coffee/juice at 7:45 AM, then head out in small teams to tackle about 10 projects for our FRC family & friends. 💪 Ready to serve? Click HERE to sign up!  We’ve got just under two weeks to rally the crew and match people to projects—help us make it smooth and strong from the start. Let’s get out there and be the hands and feet of Jesus—with snacks.

Fuel the Mission! 🔧💛 🚀  FRC Students are heading to Indianapolis this July for a hands-on mission trip with Lead 222—serving in the inner city with projects like drywalling, painting, demolition, and running a VBS for 250 kids! 💪 It’s tools, sweat, and serious impact—and we need Mission Control (that’s you!) to help launch this right. Here’s how to fuel the mission: 🟡 May Special Offering – Give to support the trip, 👕 FRC & 175th Apparel – buy gear (HERE), back the team; and 🙏 Prayer – Every mission needs it! 

IN OTHER NEWS

⏳ The Countdown Is On! 🎉VBS is coming in hot, and we’re getting ready for the ultimate summer celebration of the Good News June 16-19! Every game, craft, and snack is better when we know how many kids to expect — so help us plan well and get those registrations in! 📱Just open your phone camera, point it at the QR code, and poof! — the VBS sign-up link appears like summer magic. You’ve got this FRC parents! ☀️

Sing Praise Concert is TONIGHT at 6 pm. Bring your friends for an evening of worship with the Pine Haven Men’s Chorus and special guests.

🏀 SLAM DUNK! Are we witnessing our first EVER THREE-PEAT?!  That’s right FRC, team — we just posted 411 on the scoreboard last Sunday, making it three consecutive weeks with 400+ in attendance! We’re on a hot streak, and the Editor, and Chief Attendance Statistician are shouting halleljuah! Major props to the Uth squad for leading a powerful worship! And give it up for Brayden Grunwald, who stepped up to the free throw line of faith in front of 411+ fans to challenge us to pass the baton — or should we say, the ball — of our faith to the next generation. Clutch move, Brayden 🏀🙏.

💸 Numbers Are Our Friends (Really!).  Our March/April Special Offering totaled $7,599 — thank you for your generosity, FRC! Here’s how it all shook out:  ➡️ $1,318 designated for the Wenigs,  ➡️ $4,473 designated for Bob Abel & Remember Nhu and  ➡️ $1,807 undesignated (split evenly). Which brings our final totals to:  ✅ Wenigs: $2,218 and  ✅ Remember Nhu: $5,373. You’ve made a big impact! Thanks for being part of the mission!

🎶 The Easter Choir crushed it—can we get an amen?! Now we’re turning up the volume for the 175th Anniversary Worship Service on June 1, and we want to pack the stage with even more voices! Think of it as the reunion tour nobody saw coming... but we all look forward to. We’re keeping it super chill: just two mini-rehearsals (like 15 minutes max!) after worship on May 11 and 18. No auditions. Just harmonies! Come sing your heart out. Or at least sing in the general vicinity of the right notes. 🎵😄

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✔️Our Christian Sympathy is extended to Carol Hengst, Terri & Tedd Mentink, Dean & LeAnne Hengst, Jay & Terri Hengst, Jamie & Stephanie Hengst and Phyllis & Neal VanderPloeg and their extended families in the passing of Marvin (Mucks) Hengst who passed on Wed. evening, April 30. At the time of this writing funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.

✔️Muriel Ledeboer’s family wishes to extend our heartfelt thanks for all the support we received at the time of her passing. We especially thank Pastor Brian and Jill for the beautiful service, the funeral committee for serving and those who prepared the cakes. Thank you for all the prayers, cards and gifts towards the memorial. We are so blessed to be a part of such a loving church family.

✔️ Closet Clean-Out Blessing! ✨Turns out, our recent closet cleaning led to buried treasure — a whole box of Gold ‘n Honey Children’s Bibles! These little gems are packed with inspiration and ready to bless new homes. 📖 Grab a free copy at the table near the Fellowship Room — whether it’s for your child, a neighbor, or to tuck into a gift. First come, first blessed!

✔️The offering last week totalled $12,370. 

✔️ Are You a Numbers Superstar, or maybe a Wannabe? The Hartman Cemetery Board is looking for a Treasurer! Help keep the books balanced—great volunteer role. Please call Murray Prinsen asap: 920-917-4636.