Thursday June 10^th 2021
A daily e-mailer from
Matt Matthews
 
To Members and Friends of 
First Presbyterian Church
Champaign, Illinois
 
Dear Friends,
I haven’t shared any jokes lately . . .
 
Q: Why did the robber wash his clothes before he ran away with the loot? 
A: He wanted to make a clean getaway.
 
Q: Why did the invisible man turn down a job offer? 
A: He just couldn’t see himself doing it.
 
Q: Where do generals keep their armies?
A: In their sleevies.
 
Q: Why can’t you play hide-and-seek with mountains?
A: Because they’re always peaking.
 
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Right now, the Session is considering the Covid-19 Response Team’s suggested new guidelines as we open up out of pandemic. This will be certain: The team urges all unvaccinated people who are medically able to do to get vaccinated. And all unvaccinated people must remain masked indoors at all times. 
 
I hope to have a letter and a list in tomorrow’s emailer.
 
 
Good Word: Romans 5:1-5
 
5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. ³ And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
 
 
 
Let us pray: 
 
GOD, you bring our days to an end
like a story that is told.
Help us to remember that 
at the end of our small day,
is the eternity of your love.
 
Amen.
 
(Reinhold Niebuhr)
  
PEACE,
 
Matt Matthews
Cell: 864.386.9138
Matt@FirstPres.Church