Greetings in the name of our Lord, December 7, 1941.

Its hard to believe that just the mention of a date can bring up so many emotions, so many memories. As you know this date stands in infamy because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The world was now at war. September 11, 2001 is another date that lives in infamy; another date that stirs emotions and difficult memories. It is another set of horrific events that has pushed us into war. As much as we remember the specific date, I feel, many have forgotten about the war or that it has become every day news. This year marks the 10th anniversary of September 11th and by no means should we ever forget that day. The church should lead the way in remembering, but we should also lead the way in working towards peace. I hope you will join the faith community of Ocala on Sunday, September 11th at 7:00PM at First Congregational United Church of Christ on SW State Road 200 for a "Service of Memory, Hope, and Light." This will be a great way to honor those who have fallen and a positive witness in a world filled with anger and tension. I will never forget where I was and what I was doing on 9/11. I will never forget the uncountable sacrifices the men and women of our nation made that terrible day, and since. Let us, as a church, honor their memory by leading the way towards peace. We should join together with the community of interfaith believers on Sunday the 11th and pray fighting around the world will end, and that all nations and faiths will join hands and honor our creator by working for peace in every aspect of our lives so that a December 7th and a September 11th will never happen again. Blessings,

Pastor.........................................Andy Gans Director of Discipleship............Amanda Osenga Visitation Pastor (Ret.).............Tom McNeil Executive Assistant....................Chris Muramatsu Nursery Attendant ....................Tammy Keeslar

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ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE

Fort King Presbyterian Church Financials Effective 7/31/11
Monthly Budget Actual July 2011 Delta Budget Actual Budget Year-To-Date Actual Jan - Jul 2011 Delta Budget Actual 2010 Delta Jan-July 2011 YTD Actual -2010 YTD

Income Estimate of Giving Mortgage Reduction Other Income Total Income Total Expense Net Surplus/ Deficit Endowment 22,586 1,690 27 24,304 25,770 -1,350 25,882 245 0 26,127 29,009 1,263 3,295 (1,445) (27) 1,823 3,238 152,188 12,990 25 216,657 185,887 3,972 154,296 4,880 3 224,930 183,227 2,024 2,108 -8,110 -22 8,273 -2,660 122,467 12,450 116 216657 185,887 3,972 660 -9,080 -100 8,273 -2,660

27,057

39,611

12,555

27,057

12,555

CONGREGATIONAL CARE

Thank You
We greatly appreciate the gift of a beautiful new wrought iron bench placed within the front garden entrance of Fort King Presbyterian Church. The gift was given by a friend of our church family to honor her beloved sister, Susan S. Paulsen. Thanks be to God for families, friends, and gifts that help us remember God's love for each of us!

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Thank You
Thank you Gwynn Pealer for doing such a fabulous job with securing refreshments for the multiple memorial receptions we've, unfortunately, had to host in the last few months. I'm certainly not excluding a big thank you to all those who volunteered to bring sandwiches and other goodies. Plus, another thank you to all those who helped with the set up for these receptions. Carol Slemmer's was one of the biggest I've been involved in. With the help of the volunteers, all went well. The participation from the congregation is a testimonial to the generosity of the wonderful people in our Church. Maria Madigan

September Birthdays

DISCIPLESHIP
Greetings! I am writing this letter as our children and youth embark on their first day of the school year. Our children and youth will be passing through many doors today. Some doors they will pass through for the first time and I can only imagine the emotions that the parents must be feeling as they accompany their children to the first day of kindergarten. I can almost feel the nerves myself of the freshman as they learn their way around new hallways. Other doors will be quite familiar as I can sense the excitement of the fifth graders as they are now the leaders of their school. As they pass through these doors, familiar and unfamiliar, I pray for their year. I pray also for those who will be passing through our own doors whether it be for the 100,000th time and for the first time. As we enter into a new program year renew your commitment to learning and growing in faith. Join us Sunday mornings for Sunday school and encourage your youth to join us for PYC in the evenings. Commit to a mid-week Bible study. God of doors and homes, bless this community - this year and every year. Bless all who come and go through our doors, both those who are seasoned worshippers and those who are visiting. May all who enter through our doors come in peace and bring joy. May all who come through our doors find welcome and love. May the love and joy in this community overflow and spread into the community and the world. Amen.

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Nursery Help Needed
Our church family has been so blessed recently with a number of births. This is great news! These beautiful new additions mean a few more children in our Church Nursery on Sunday mornings so we need your help. We need you. We are looking for more nursery volunteers during the worship hour on Sunday mornings. You will not be alone, our professional care giver, Tammy Keeslar, will be with you and guide you. If you are interested in helping care for these beautiful bundles of joy, please contact Gouley Andrews at 368-9612.

Enrichment 2011 Saturday, September 10th

Enrichment is a wonderful opportunity to grow and learn together with the wider Presbytery of St. Augustine. There are a wide variety of classes and workshops taught by gifted members of our presbytery. The classes are everything from spiritual growth to worship planning to Biblical studies. Registration by September 3rd is $20. Registration after September 3rd is $25.00. Childcare is available for $15.00. This year, Enrichment will take place at Palms Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville. If you are interested in attending, please let the church office know and we can arrange car pooling. Registration and class descriptions can be found outside of Amandas office,

What is Missional Theology? Introduction to the Beatitudes Yoga as Christian Spiritual Practice An Oasis for Prayer and Contemplation Making the Resource Center Work for You Childrens Ministry with Limited Resources Social Media and the Church Narrowing In On the Comfort of God: New Guidance from Psalm 23 in a Tired, Restless and Fracturing World

Solace for the Children Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs: A Christian Understanding of Law Enforcement

The Family and Childrens Christmas Eve Service

Justice at the Table: Cooking & Eating as Spiritual Practice

Scripture and Science: Using the Bible to think about the Creation

Worship and Visual Arts Mindfulness for Life

Waters Ways

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Grow in Faith, Love and Hope

"We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Sunday mornings from 9:15 10:15 a.m. adults meet in the Session Room for a study on Faith, Hope and Love led by Joyce-Ellen Horne and Anthony Clegorne. We will look at faith that produces works, love that prompts action and hope that goes the distance. For those who do not attend Sunday School, a three week Bible study will be held at the home of Joyce-Ellen Horne on Thursday nights September 8, 15, and 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Safeguarding Children Training

There will be a Safeguarding Children Training on September 18 from 2:00 4:00 p.m. We value the protection and safety of our children here at Fort King. We require that all current session members as well as volunteers with our nursery, children, and youth programs must complete this training. If you will be working with our children and youth this year please plan to attend this training. This training is open to anyone. If you would like to be able to work with our children and youth come join us. Please RSVP to Amanda Osenga

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Library Corner
You have surely heard the expression variety is the spice of life. Well, if you want to spice up your life, come see the wide variety of new material in the church library. Thanks to generous donations of books by members and their families, as well as a few specific book purchases, the shelves are brimming with everything from biographies to mysteries to Christian fiction; books on spiritual growth, Bible study, and health; nature, travel, politics, and history. Lots of American history! Lucille Rowoldts son gave most of her personal library to our church. Lucille especially liked reading American history and had many good books about the founding fathers and the early days of the USA. She would be pleased to know that others are now also enjoying some of her favorite books. Something else new is the Mobile Library cart which displays a different selection of items from our library each week. You can check out items right there at the cart. Look for it on Sunday mornings. Since it is mobile, it moves around! The library is open Sunday mornings from 9:00 to about 11:45, or at least 15 minutes after the end of the worship service. Come see whats new.

Fall Women's Retreat

Ladies of the church please mark your calendars and plan to join us at Camp Montgomery, November 11-13 for a spiritual and playful retreat. Allison Donovan will be leading our spiritual component and we will conclude the weekend with worship. More details will follow in October along with registration information. If you have any questions please contact Cheryl Gans or Bernice Henry the conference co-chairs.

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High Tide
Calling all K-5th graders to join us this year for High Tide. We will kick off the year on Sept. 11 around the campfire as we create a ceremony to remember 9/11 families. Other dates to place on your calendar include Sept 25, Oct. 9, Oct 23, Nov, 13, Dec. 4, Dec. 18. All our evening events include organized games, dinner, stories, crafts and a spiritual component. Join us from 5-7 pm. See you in September.

September PYC Happenings

Come join us this year as we Grow with God and in our relationships with one another. We meet Sunday evenings from 5:00 7:00. August 28 Life is good! And its even better with a little tie dye! Are you Living the Good Life? (Your money is due for Rock the Universe if you plan to come!) Sept. 4 Friends are the best! Its going to be a night of enjoying our friendships with one another. Sept. 10 Rock the Universe. Were heading down to Orlando to enjoy some Christian music and rides. Were meeting at the church @ 2:30. $25.00 for PYC youth and $50.00 for friends. Sept. 11 Jesus was big on making others feel like they were welcome no matter who they were or where they were from. You are welcome too! Well be planning a welcoming party for your friends. Sept. 18 Invite your friends! Youre going to be leading PYC for the evening and hosting a welcome party for your friends. Lets let them know they are loved! Sept. 25 Weve made our friends welcome, now its time to get out into the community and make others feel welcomed too. More details on our Mission project will be coming!

EVANGELISM
Community Concert Series

Saturday, September 10th at 6:00 p.m. we welcome back Great Day to sing for us. Great Day is made up of Bill, Brenda and their daughter, Lisa Ann Ferguson. They provide a wide range of music, from old quartet standards, to fresh new arrangements from some of gospel musics most prolific writers.

Sunday, November 6th from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Southern Express will perform. Southern Express is an 18member, popular big band who perform a variety of standards and contemporary tunes. Please invite your friends and family to enjoy these free concerts to be held at Ft. King.

GROUP ACTIVITIES

Mens Night Out

Mens Night Out will meet on Monday, September 12th at 6:30 p.m. Your host this month will be John Toney. John says that the pool is clean and anyone interested can show up early for a swim. Contact John at 261-1170 to find out what you can bring.

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Presbyterian Women
All women of Fort King are Presbyterian Women and are invited to participate in all the activities of Presbyterian Women. If you have not attended a Circle meeting before, come join us in September and participate in the spiritual experience and fellowship that Circles provide. Our Bible Study this year will be Confessing the Beatitudes. Esther Circle will meet on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the home of Shirley Orme at 7:00 p.m. Joyce-Ellen Horne will have the lesson. Deborah Circle will meet on Tuesday September 20, 2011 in the Session Room at 10:00 a.m. Prudence Pritz will have the lesson.

PW Plan for 2011-2012 Year

Presbyterian Women have been diligently working on plans for this year. We hope to minister to more of the congregation and make an impact on the lives of our congregation. We need the help of all the women of the congregation and look forward to more participation to provide the mission of this organization. Please call Anne Hill at 368-2491 and lets discuss what part you would like to play in helping. Let us all be about the work that we have been called to do!

Rape Crisis Center Mission

As you are on your travels remember to save your personal size items from motels (shampoo, conditioner, soap, shower caps, etc.). These are perfect for the Rape Crisis Center as people come in with no personal care items. Please put them in the box in the Narthex. Thanks for thinking of those in need. Presbyterian Women are in the process of making individual tote bags for the women that come into the Rape Crisis Center. We will fill them with shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, brush and comb and many other toiletry items that may be needed. If you would like to help with this project, please contact Anne Hill at 368-2491 or talk to any member of a circle.

Craft Bazaar
Presbyterian Women continue to work on projects for the Craft Bazaar to be held October 22, 2011. Thank you to all of the Crafty Ladies that work each week to provide crafts for our bazaar and to all of the ones that are working at home to help with this fund-raising project.

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Crafts Group
Please join the Crafts Group on Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. We work on individual projects and joint projects.

The Merry Widows

All widows of the church are invited for socializing and support. The Merry Widows will meet at Bob Evans on Silver Springs Blvd. on Wednesday, September 21st at 1:00 p.m. Please come and join us.

MISSION
Help Needed At Ward Highlands !!
Ward Highlands Elementary is Ft. Kings adopted school. Several members of our congregation volunteered their time to assist teachers or help in the library or some other area of the school last year. The staff at WardHighlands was so appreciative of their help. Please consider volunteering at Ward-Highlands. Any amount of time or days of the week would be very much appreciated. We hope to begin our volunteer work in late September or early October once the necessary forms are completed. What a great opportunity to serve God by assisting those who have the great responsibility of educating Gods most precious gift to usour children. Please fill out the form below if you can help and return it to the church office or place it in the offering plate. Please contact Harvey Bohner (622-1333) if you have any questions or concerns about this project.

I Would Like To Volunteer at Ward Highlands

NAME (please print) _______________________________________________________________________________________

PHONE NUMBER__________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS _____________________________________

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SESSION

Session Notes August 18, 2011

Celebrations: 1. Elder Judith Bullens birthday 8/18 2. Gwynn Pealer has agreed to be the chair for Adult Discipleship. 3. Latest blood drive was good. 4. Evangelism conference in St. Pete Beach went well. 5. School is starting. 6. Carol Slemmers life among us. 7. Sarah Horne arrived safe at Navy boot camp. Motions: 1. Separate motions were made for the following individuals to serve on ministries as follows: Rebecca Bishop Congregational Care Joe Strawder Mission Gwynn Pealer Adult Discipleship chair Louise Olivarez Adult Discipleship 2. Motion from Finance to adopt the revised Financial Policy. 3. Motion to remove 2 dead pine trees from the back of the property at a cost of $900.

SESSION MEMBERS CLASS OF 2011 Kathy Bohner Judith Bullen Jim Hill Jodi Lawson Sally Layendecker Martha MacKay Ken Orme CLASS OF 2012 Randy Butler Maria Madigan Margy Marshall Mary Beth Neely Ray Seaman Charles Vowinkel CLASS OF 2013 Randy Hodges Donna Johnson Bill Pangrass Bill Reed Sheletha Strawder Joan Woods

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WORSHIP

Choir
Fall always brings changes weather, new classes, new friends, etc. If a change of perspective during worship is something that you have been thinking of, come and find a seat in the choir loft. We practice from 7:00 until 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights and warm up at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings for worship.

How Great Thou Art

It was an English missionary named Stuart K. Hine who brought How Great Thou Art to the attention of the world after he heard it on his travels through the Ukraine in the 1930's. His conjecture was that the song, originally attributed to a Swedish divine, Carl Boberg, found its way there in the repertoire of traveling penitents who sang pious anthems as they wandered from place to place. Hine translated the text and notated the music from memory. Both resemble to some degree a sacred song, The Almighty, written nearly a century earlier by Franz Schubert. How Great Thou Art has become universally familiar and beloved mainly because of its being part of Billy Graham's Crusade music. More than 150 recorded versions existed as of 1974 in an extraordinary range of devotional styles.

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Flower Calendar
Please note: I am trying to work ahead on the flowers, so if you would like to provide flowers to commemorate a special event/occasion/memory etc. for a specific date, please call Nancy Hall at 694-3221 as soon as possible. Please also note: It is never too early to call to select your chosen date. As of this mailing, the following people will be providing flowers in September, October, and November 2011. If you can provide flowers for a date in 2011 or 2012, please call Nancy Hall. Thank you. Thank you to these people as they share in donating the flowers for the following worship services. September 4, 2011In loving memory of Julien from Kay Dahlen September 11, 2011In celebration of our 59th wedding anniversary from Jack and Sue Harshman September 18, 2011In celebration of our 64th wedding anniversary from Glendon and Mildred Shank September 25, 2011From Dorothy Roth in loving memory of Merl on their wedding date October 2, 2011OPEN October 9, 2011OPEN October 16, 2011From David and Martha MacKay in celebration of their 26th wedding anniversary October 23, 2011In celebration of their 58th wedding anniversary from Dick and Margy Marshall October 30, 2011From Charles Kirk November 6, 2011From Debbie and Larry Bush in celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary November 13, 2011From Joy Hunt, in memory of my beloved husband, Jim November 20, 2011In remembrance of Cleance Pritchett, from his daughter, Sherry November 27, 2011 to December 25, 2011Poinsettias

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September 2011
Italicized items are non-FKPC activities using FKPC facilities

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
1 2 1:00 Crafts 6:00 Worship Ministry 6:00 - 8:00 Marions United (FH) 7:00 AA Meeting (CE)

Friday Saturday
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10 Enrichment (Off-Site) 2:30 PYC Rock The Universe (off-site) 6:00 Great Day Concert

9:00 - 11:45 Library OFFICE CLOSED 9:15 Sunday School 10:00 Choir Practice 10:30 Worship 5:00 PYC 6:00 Congregational Care Ministry (offsite) 5:30 TOPS (FH) 6:00 Property Ministry 11 12 7:30 Mens Bible Study

10:00 Prayer Shawl 10:00 PW Council Ministry 6:00 - 7:45 Community Dance (FH) 6:00 Evangelism 4:00 Fellowship Ministry Ministry 6:00 Finance Ministry 7:00 Womens Retreat Planning 7:00 Choir Practice (off-site) 14 13

1:00 Crafts

10:00 Card Making Ministry

7:00 Bible Study (off-site)

7:00 - 9:00 AA Meeting (CE)

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9:15 Sunday School 10:00 Choir Practice 10:30 Worship 5:00 PYC 6:00 - 7:45 3:30 Staff Meeting 5:00 High Tide Community Dance (FH) 5:30 TOPS (FH) 6:00 Mission Ministry 6:00 Discipleship Ministry - Adult 6:30 Mens Night Out (Off-Site) and Children 7:00 Ester Circle (Off-Site) 20 19 18 9:15 Sunday School 7:30 Mens Bible 10:00 Deborah Study 10:00 Choir Practice Circle 10:30 Worship 2:00 Safeguarding 6:00 - 7:45 Children 5:30 TOPS (FH) Community Training Dance (FH) 5:00 PYC 27 26 25 2 Cents A Meal and 7:30 Mens Bible Study Food 4 Kids Dedication Sunday 9:15 Sunday School 10:00 Choir Practice 6:00 - 7:45 10:15 Congregational Community 5:30 TOPS (FH) Meeting Dance (FH) 10:30 Worship 5:00 PYC 5:00 High Tide

1:00 Crafts

6:00 Session 7:00 Bible Study (off-site) 7:00 - 9:00 AA Meeting (CE) 23 22 1:00 Crafts 7:00 Exploration Ministry 7:00 Bible Study (off-site) 7:00 - 9:00 AA 7:00 Choir Practice Meeting (CE) 30 29 28

7:00 Choir Practice 21 1:00 The Merry Widows (Off-Site) 3:00 Pastoral Care Team Ministry

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7:00 AA Meeting (CE) 7:00 Choir Practice

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Interfaith Service September 11th
The Interfaith Alliance is holding a "Service of Memory, Hope, and Light" in memory of 9/11/2001. The event is interfaith: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Humanism, and others. Details are: Sunday evening, 9/11/2011 7:00 p.m. First Congregational United Church of Christ 7171 Southwest State Road 200 Ocala, Florida 34476 352-237-3035 Please bring candles from your communities of faith (plus something to hold the candle). These will be used in the service. You and yours are all welcome.