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March 15-21, 2015
Volume 6, Issue 10
Special points of interest:

Solo Connection

Marriage Conference

Holy Week Schedule
Two Exciting Concerts:
March 28: 3 pm & 7 pm
Contact John Kimer
352.325.1505
For more information
Get your Free
HOPE Tickets at
www.thelampstandfl.org/hope
New Life Church
201 LaVista St
Fruitland Park 34731
Inside this issue:
Prayer Requests
Deacons of the Week
Upcoming Sermons
Calendar
2
Birthdays
Solo Connections
Read through the Bible
Flower Calendar
Facts and Figures
Facebook
3
Brunch Report
Ides of March
4
Marriage Conference
Easter Sunrise Service
5
Holy Week Schedule
6
Vision Statement
Mission Statement
Staff
7
Conductor
Derric Johnson
Liberty Voices
Jodi
Benson
(voice of
Ariel,
Disney’s
Little
Mermaid)
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The following names have been submitted to us for
prayer. Please make them a priority during the week.
Some are sick at home; some are hospitalized; some
have had surgery; and some have crises in their lives.
Some are short term requests. Some are long term. We/
You may not know the circumstances but God does.
David Martin; Alan Witherington; Cliff Keegan; Brian
Hudson; David Hammond, Donna’s son; Betty Cameron;
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Sarah Cleeton; Gayle Darden; Van White; Donald
Themm, Chuck’s brother; Larry Sexton; Claudia
Harrison; Greg Giordano, Jerry Hick’s brother-inlaw; Mark Cone, son of Joe and Donita Cone; Mike
Webb; Ed Neuzil, friend of Don Lowe; Kitty Hicks;
Sam Butner; Florence Landram; Dan Lang; Alisha
Rose, Ciaran Doherty Keys, Patrick and Bridgeen
and family requested by Karen Loria; Josephine
Shoop, Natalie Hicks and Debbie Simmons’ mother;
Donna Lentsch, Natalie’s neighbor; Judith Albanese,
Brian McKean’s sister; John Marynell; Jan
Bednarek; New Life Church Leadership Team; our
military personnel; Anna Harvey, missionary in
Middle East. Call the church office (728.1861) with
your prayer requests. 
March 15
The Salvation of God
Ephesians 2:1-10;
John 3:14-21
April 2
Maundy Thursday
What a Night!
John 13:1-17; 31b-35
April 3
Seder Feast
Deacons for the week are:
March 22
Following the Lamb
Wherever He Goes
John 12:20-33
Bradley Myer
Debbie Simmons (728-1057,
dsimmonsrealtor@centurylink.
net) and Sue Greenwood (352
March 28
HOPE
3:00 and 7:00 p.m.
-552-2270 or email
[email protected]). If you
have a need during the week
lease feel free to call or email
them. 
April 5
Easter Sunrise Service
God Meets Our Needs
Mark 16:1-8
Morning Worship
A New Normal
John 20:1-18 
March 29
Palm Sunday
What a Week!
Mark 11:1-11
March 15-21 2015
Sunday
15
9:00 Sunday School
10:00 Worship
11:40 Deacons Mtg
6:00 Youth
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
16
17
1:30 Ladies Bible
5:00 Lampstand
6:00 Kids Central
6:00 Ladies’ Bible
Review
7:00 Crohn’s
Support Grp
8:00 Lampstand
4:30 New Life Bells
Open Prayer Time
10:00 Staff Mtg
6:45 HOPE
Rehearsal
7:00 Stephens Min
7:00 AA
18
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
19
20
21
8:00 Thrift House
Open
6:30 Session Mtg
12:30 Solo
Connection to
Olive Garden in
The Villages
10:00 Lunch
Brigade
11:00 MacKerell
Memorial Service
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March 15
Carl Brown
Berni White
March 17
Debbie Bucchino 
We’re going to Olive Garden in The Villages on
Friday, March 20. Come join us at 12:30 p.m. for
lunch, fun, and fellowship. Need more information?
Contact Cathy Marynell at 787-1703 or 874-1703. 
Our Bible Readings for the week are:
Monday, March 16
Tuesday, March 17
Wednesday, March 18
Thursday, March 19
Friday, March 20
Saturday, March 21
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I Samuel 4-8
I Samuel 9-12
I Samuel 13-15
I Samuel 16-19
I Samuel 20-23
I Samuel 24-26
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Annual Budgeted Expenditures
General Fund Giving YTD (03/08/15)
Remaining Unfunded Expenditures
Weekly (42 Weeks)
$483,000.00
$ 72,932.77
$410,067.23
$ 9,764.00
Needed as of last week (03/08/2015)
Received 03/08/2015
$
$
There are several dates open on the 2015
flower calendar for those of you who would like
to place an arrangement in the Worship Center
in honor and/or memory of loved ones or
special events. Please sign up at the Welcome
Desk and provide the requested information for
the bulletin. Arrangements are $25 each and
are ordered through the office. 
9,646.00
4,712.39

The City of Fruitland Park is attempting to get
300 “likes” on their Facebook page. Please visit
them at http://www.facebook.com/
CityofFruitlandPark. This site is updated
frequently and will give you information about
what’s happening in our community. 
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Brunch
Report
We had 77 people enjoy brunch gold this lucky
March with our scrumptious food and fantastic
fellowship! Our celebrity chefs this month were
Bob & Jan O’Connor and they were a hit. They
were busy making eggs and special pancakes
just the way you like them. Our secret chef
mixed the family secret recipe pancake batter
and the pancakes were the talk of the brunch.
He said that he will bring it back next month. If
you did not try one, talk to someone who did
Definition: The Ides of March was a date on the
Roman calendar corresponding with our date of
March 15. It was a fateful date.
You may remember the soothsayer’s warning to Julius
Caesar to “Beware the ides of March,” but the term
didn’t originate with William Shakespeare. The earliest
Roman calendar, which consisted of ten months
beginning with Martius (March), was believed to have
been created by King Romulus around 753 B.C. At
that time, dates were expressed in relation to the lunar
phase of the month using three markers: Kalends
(Kal), Nones (Non) and Ides (Id). The first phase of
the moon, the new moon, was denoted by Kalends
and signified the first day of the month; the first
quarter moon fell on either the fifth or seventh day of
the month and was referred to as Nones; the full
moon fell on either the 13th or 15th day of the month
and was referred to as Ides. The ides of March—
March 15—initially marked the first full moon of a new
year.
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and they will tell you just how fantastic they
were.
A special thank you to all of our other
volunteers as well starting with our Top Chef
Tommy Richey, Sherry Collins, Steve
Hanigan, Jerry and Natalie Hicks and Sharyn
Gatter. From the small group “God’s Gal’s,”
Lauren Otten, Sue Greenwood, Sally Cannon
and Michele Lange.
There was one empty spot on the brunch
serving line that we tried to fill but no one fills
it like Cliff Keegan. We miss you! We are
praying for you to feel better and take your
place for the Easter brunch.
Our next brunch is April 12, 2015. This will be
the Sunday AFTER EASTER so make your
plans and we hope to see all of you there. 
During the late Roman Republic, a new year’s festival
was held on the ides of March in which people would
gather a mile outside of Rome on the Via Flaminia by
the banks of the Tiber River. Participants celebrated
with food, wine and music and offered sacrifices to the
Roman deity Anna Perenna for a happy and
prosperous new year. Between 222 and 153 B.C., the
ides of March also signaled the beginning of the new
consular year, in which two annually-elected consuls
took office as leaders of the republic.
In 46 B.C., after consulting with the Alexandrian
astronomer Sosigenes, Julius Caesar reformed the
Roman calendar by adding ten days to the 355-day
year, instituting January 1 as the first day of the new
year (beginning in 45 B.C.) and introducing a leap year
every four years. Shortly thereafter, he was granted
the title Dictator Perpetuus or “dictator for life.”
Concerned with Caesar’s increasing power and
monarchical leanings, a group of Roman senators
stabbed the ruler to death on March 15, 44 B.C.—
forever linking the ides of March with the assassination
of Julius Caesar.
Now you know… 
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Easter Sunrise Service
Sunrise service is a worship service on Easter
practiced by some Protestant churches, replacing the
traditional, ancient Easter Vigil preserved by the Roman
Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran
churches.
The first Easter Sunrise Service recorded took place in
1732 in the Moravian congregation at Herrnhut in the
Upper Lusatian hills of Saxony. After an all-night prayer
vigil, the Single Brethren, the unmarried men, of the
community, went to the town graveyard, God's Acre, on
the Hill above the town, to sing hymns of praise to the
Risen Savior. The following year, the whole
Congregation joined in the service. Thereafter the
"Easter Morning" or "Sunrise Service" spread around the
world with the Moravian missionaries. The procession to
the graveyard is accompanied by the antiphonal playing
of chorales by brass choirs. The service takes place
outdoors, sometimes in a park, and the attendees are
seated on outdoor chairs or benches.
Many churches in the American South still hold
traditional sunrise services in cemeteries as a sign of
recognition that Jesus no longer lay in the tomb on
Easter morning. The service starts early in the morning
and is timed so that the attendants can see the sun rise
when the service is going. Services usually loosely
follow the format of the church's normal service and can
include music (hymns or praise band), dramatic scenes
and the Easter message.
The most famous Moravian Sunrise Service in the
United States is probably that of the Salem
Congregation in what is now Winston-Salem, NC, held
annually since 1772. More than six thousand worshipers
gather before dawn in front of the church to proclaim the
Resurrection. The worshipers then move in procession
to the historic graveyard, or "God's Acre." Brass choirs
from twelve congregations, totaling over five hundred
members, play hymns antiphonally during the procession.
The service concludes with a proclamation of faith and
hymns of hope.
In 2012, in Washington D.C., thousands of individuals
gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the ecumenical 34th
“Sunrise Celebration” Easter service, a Washington
tradition for Christians of all denominations. The tradition
goes back for more than three decades.
Another long-running sunrise service dates back to 1944
atop Stone Mountain near Atlanta. The park opens
extremely early at 4:00 a.m., and the skylift operates early
as well to carry worshipers to the top and back down
again. 
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March 29
Palm Sunday
What a Week!
Mark 11:1-11
April 2
7:00 p.m.
What a Night!
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Nail sins to the cross—Foot washing—Communion
Friday, April 3 — 6:00 p.m.
Fellowship Hall
April 5
7:00 a.m.
Morning Worship
April 5
God Meets
Our Needs
Mark 16:1-8
God Meets Our Needs
John 20:1
20:1--18
New Life Presbyterian Church
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201 LaVista Street
Fruitland Park FL 34731-4423
Phone: 352.728.1861
Fax: 352.728.8306
E-mail: [email protected]
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power, love and self-discipline.
II Timothy 1:7
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VISION STATEMENT: As followers of Jesus Christ, we believe that the Bible is the Word of God, and our love for
God and others compels us to spread the Gospel, by the power of the Holy Spirit, locally, nationally, and globally,
helping everyone experience new life through Christ alone.
MISSION STATEMENT: “The mission of New Life Presbyterian Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ, nurture
and grow the discipleship of those who believe, and send disciples into the world as witnesses to God’s love and
saving grace.” 
New Life
Pastor:
Jim Keegan ([email protected])
Phone: 352.250.0348
Music/Worship Coordinator:
John Kimer ([email protected])
Disciple for Families
Bob Blaise ([email protected])
Youth Pastor:
Bradley Myer ([email protected])
Ministry Assistant:
Sherry Willingham ([email protected])
Financial Manager/Admin Assistant:
Marybeth Harvey
([email protected])
Custodian:
Clarence Willette
([email protected])
Pianists:
Quirino (Q) Rubio
Keri Sellars
Treasurer:
Mac Andrews
Nursery Attendants:
Hattie Corbin
Erin Myer
Funeral Coordinator
Bette White 