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What's Happening

Food Bank Request for February

Peanut Butter and Canned Meat - your donation can be dropped off in the food bin by the elevator. Please help us fill the bin.

Calling All Cooks, Connoisseurs, Contented Diners

Recipe Book The Samaritan House homeless shelter in Kalispell is compiling a community cookbook that will be a must for every household. It will be full of tasty recipes from area restaurants, markets, caterers, churches, and YOU, the closet chefs, who are famous for your sauces or pies or chicken done just so. We need your recipes, your tips, your tales of food sharing. This cookbook will be filled with beautiful full color photos, interesting facts about food, presentation and serving tips, food stories from the homeless shelter, local homeless statistics, how you can cook for groups both large and small and how to share and enjoy food as a language of love.

What To Do - Gather your recipes for appetizers, soups, salads (and salad dressings), pastas, vegetables, meats, breads, breakfast dishes, and desserts or anything else that’s a hit with your friends and family. Request entry forms from Heidi Long, heidi@longviews.com or your local church. Mail entry forms to Curt Lamm c/o the Samaritan House 124 9th Ave W, Kalispell, MT 59901. Call Heidi with any questions at 261-2480 or Curt at 257-5801.
Deadlines - All recipes must be submitted by March 1st. We’ll have a “Bake Off” to determine “Best Loved” recipes in each category and to select those to be photographed. Finalists will be contacted by March 5st. Bake Off dates will be March 9th, and 10th and March 15th & 16th with entrants bringing prepared dishes (servings for four or more) to the Samaritan House dining hall at the Administration Center-1110 2nd St West in Kalispell. Residents, participants, and local chefs will determine the category winners. Photos will be taken of various entries.
Advance Sales - Prepaid orders for cookbooks will sell for $15 instead of the $20 cover price. To qualify for advance sales price, orders and payment must be received by April 4th. Mail in payment for number of books ordered to P.O. Box 592, Kalispell, MT 59903. Please make a note in the memo section of your check that payment is for cookbook advance sales order.
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Ash Wednesday - February 22nd at 6:00 p.m.

This Wednesday begins the Lenten Season. We invite you to join us as we begin our season on Ash Wednesday—February 22nd. Join us for our 6:00 p.m. potluck followed with worship at 6:45 p.m. Please bring a potluck dish to share. This is also a good opportunity to invite a friend to come with you.

Lent Dinners and Worship Starting February 22nd

Each Wednesday evening following Ash Wednesday we will gather for a congregational soup and bread dinner followed by Taize Worship. Dinners will be at 6:00 p.m. beginning February 29th and will continue through March 28th. A special worship service of healing will be held on February 29th.

We are seeking cooks to provide the soup and/or bread on March 14, 21 and 28. Please call the church office at 752-7488 if you can volunteer for providing the soup and/or bread on one of these dates.

Ladies Night Out Thursday, February 23rd 6:00 p.m.

Our next Ladies Night Out dinner will be on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 6:00 P.M. at the Alley Connection. It's a wonderful opportunity to have dinner and visit with other women of our congregation. All ladies and their women guests are welcome to attend. If you need additional information or a ride, please contact Nancy Ross at 755-0300.

A Fun Family Night Out Tuesday, Feb. 28th from 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Fun Zone

The Fun Zone off Hwy 2 between Kalispell and Columbia Falls has offered First Presbyterian a free night of fun for the whole congregation! The church will purchase pizzas for everyone. Think of bringing a family down the street, family, or inviting folks you haven’t seen for a while. This will be a fun time for fellowship!

Bring a couple of bucks to purchase your own drink or if you want to play some arcade games. The Fun Zone will have their free bounce area and lazer tag –or just come for food and fellowship. No RSVP, just show up!

College Scholarship Fund - Applications Due April 1, 2012

Students who will be enrolled in undergraduate or technical college programs during the 2012-2013 academic year are eligible to apply for First Presbyterian scholarships. College Scholarship applications are available in the informational rack in the parlor and in the church office. Completed applications must be returned to the church office by Sunday, April 1, 2012.

All donations will be gratefully received! If you would like to donate to this fund, please write “scholarship” in the memo section.

Offering Envelopes

Your 2012 Offering Envelopes are ready for you to pick up in the church parlor. To assure accurate recording to your giving statement we ask that you please use your envelopes when giving. Thank you for your cooperation. If you don’t see your box, but would like giving envelopes, please call the church at 752-7488.

Children’s Sunday School

Sunday School is held at 10:15 a.m. and is for children age 4 years (3-year olds, if ready) through 5th grade. Class time starts after A Time With the Children during worship and will be in the lower level.

Sunday School Teachers are as follows: Pre-K-1st Grade: Deb Burfeind and Cooke Thompson Second - 5th Grade: Cheryl Fritz and Marisa Roth.

Youth Group

Youth Group meets every Wednesday night from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This semester we are asking, Who is Jesus? We have an active, strong youth group, consisting mostly of non-member youth from the community. Friends always come and are warmly welcomed. We begin with dinner, have games, study and prayer.

Adult Education Class

Pilgrimage Tour: Join Pastor Miriam on February 5th - February 19 as she will lead class with a walk through her pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Please join us in the Fireside Room at 8:30 a.m.

Our Adult Sunday Morning Class during Lent will focus six weeks on the kingdom of God with the gospel of Mark as our guide. The theme is "New Wineskins, New World." Throughout Mark's gospel, Jesus preaches that God's kingdom is coming, changing the world as we know it. He calls his disciples and all those who follow him to live through the power and grace of God, according to the rules of this new world. We, as modern day disciples, will follow Jesus on the road to Jerusalem as he challenges us to become new wineskins, vessels of his sacrificial love and power

Wednesday Book Study

Book of Colossians: The letter from Paul to the believers in Colosse was written to correct some errors that had sprung up in the church there. Many of those false-teachings are still with us today. We welcome you to join us at the Wednesday Book Study as we do a four week exploration of the book of Colossians, starting on January 25th. We meet in the parlor at noon - feel free to bring your lunch.

February 22 - March 28: Lenten Study on Parables of the Kingdom of God.

Beginning Wednesday, February 22nd through March 28, Pastor Glenn and Pastor Miriam will lead discussion on the Parables of the Kingdom of God - in tandem with our Lenten Study. The first class will be the Introduction to Parables with the reading of Mark 4:1-33, Matthew 13:1-23 and Luke 8:4-15. We hope you join us for this great study.