April 6th, 2025 Prayer Requests and Announcements

Announcements / Mark your Calendars

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Attn. Parents:

Palm Sunday: Those children who are willing will gather on cue at back of church to process with palm branches during the choir’s special music. Cindy McGuire and Terri Dunford will help them with timing.

Easter: The choir will be singing several pieces accompanied by narration. Then Pastor Mac will deliver a shorter message than usual. The children will be staying in the service.

Choir Practice – Wednesdays, 7pm.

1. FCA Outdoors – Tuesday, April 8, 6:30pm. (Tonight)
2. Men’s Community Breakfast – Saturday, April 12, 8am.
3. Walk to the Cross (good Friday) sign up to bring soup or salad for dinner following walk in fellowship hall (time TBD)
4. Easter Egg hunt, 1pm at Shady Grove, Saturday April 19th, followed by cookout. Let Cindy know if you can bring side dishes. Bring plastic eggs filled with candy by Sunday, April 13.
5. Community sunrise service at 7:00 AM on Easter Sunday at Walker’s Creek Presbyterian Church, followed by coffee and doughnuts at the community center
6. Gail Pitzer sent greetings to Church Family. Hopes to visit soon.
7. VBS, Monday,  July 7^th through Thursday 10^th – Friday, 11^th, Picnic
8. VBS Planning session,  Sunday, April 27^th, directly after church…
9. Let Patti Price know if interested in participating in a Church Bowling Night
10. Thanks to Terri Dunford for cucumbers.
11. Shady Grove board minutes will be posted on the bulletin board for those that have interest.

Building and expansion update: We as a church are in a very exciting and blessed position to be growing in numbers and also very blessed to have so many generous donations to help with the physical facility growth.  The Shady Grove board met this past Sunday to discuss and make a recommendation to the church body to move forward with getting contractor bids for the new building, renovations toward the current fellowship hall, and improvements toward the current sanctuary.  After many open meetings to hear everyone’s points of view and opinions, the board is recommending to keep the original plans to house the classrooms in the new building versus remodeling the fellowship hall for that purpose.  Truly, most of the board members, including myself, went back and forth over the past few weeks, because there are pros and cons to both concepts.  For Teresa and me, our final thoughts were determined due to the necessity of using the current wing extension that houses the little bathroom as an extension of the seating area for the sanctuary starting very soon.  (We will set up chairs in that area and encourage those who are comfortable to sit there in order to leave more room for guests in the main sanctuary). Because of that, we feel child traffic in and out of the current fellowship hall would cause challenges and possible disruptions to the service versus having all classrooms within the new building. Due to our growth, we have to consider not only the classroom space, but the sanctuary space.  These are all great problems to have.

We are asking all members of Shady Grove that are 18 and older to vote to allow the church to move forward in getting engineering completed, county inspectors involved, and licensed contractor bids for this building program direction.  (Although there are members who are minors, the governmental laws require adult members for legal approvals.) This is NOT a vote to approve building or renovating anything, but only to get numbers so we know the cost of these projects.  Once we have all of the numbers and we feel we can move forward to build and renovate, we will ask the church to vote to approve the construction.  All costs of the new facility, the renovations of the current fellowship hall, updates on electrical, and current sanctuary improvements will all be looked at as a whole once we have all the numbers.  Please understand that with all of the research, feedback, and personal desires we all have, the county inspector may point out things that become major roadblocks to our plans, so that is why we need to move forward to get professionals involved.

The vote will be on Sunday, April 27^th (private ballots).

Interested in serving?

• The Giles Mission Food Pantry is always in need for donations. If you have canned foods, you are welcome to bring them to church service and deposit them in a box in foyer. They will be delivered to the mission. ex. Cereal, hamburger or tuna helper, canned fruit, canned soup, crackers, etc.
• Please share your God-given talents and volunteer to serve in our Church Ministries. Please let Mac Miller know of any ideas you may have.
• Saturday, April 19th at 1pm, we are having our annual Easter Egg Hunt at Shady Grove. Please bring plastic eggs filled with goodies. Plan to join everyone for a cookout after the hunt. Church provides hamburgers and hotdogs. Please bring sides. Let Cindy know what you plan to bring.
  • Building and properties
  • Sunday school/church teachers We desperately need volunteers to help our current teachers and need additional teachers for both Sunday school and church (once a month or once a qt). 

Praises For.

• Those with health issues and their Families – Jeff Broadwell, Becky Carr, Naheel’s sister-Badia, Jean
• Robertson, Betty Francis’ brother-Aubry Kirk, Irene Broadwell, Amanda Robertson, Gail Pitzer, Barbara
• McGuire’s brother-David, and Ernie Miller.
• Kurt Aschliman’s cousin with the sudden passing of her husband.
• Cindy McGuire’s friend, Kitty, with her upcoming surgery.
• Levi Havens – travel mercies.
• Families impacted in Mid-West by tornadoes and floods.
• Susan Smith’s Dad’s peace and comfort in new Virginia residence.
• Prayers for the lost
• Our country, our leaders, our pastor, our church
• Unspoken

Speakers for 2025

• May 4th – Justin Jones
• June 1st – Shahn Wilburn
• July 27th – Shahn Wilburn
• Aug – Mike McMahon
• Sept 7th – Justin Jones
• Nov 2nd – Shahn Wilburn
• Dec 7th – Justin Jones