Do you have a High School Senior or a College Senior graduating this Spring? Please contact Ms. JoAnne with the following information: name (as you want it to appear in the bulletin), school graduating from, plans for what is next (what college if they are a high school graduate...additional school if they are a college graduate or employment plans). Graduate Sunday is May 19.

To help in the nursery and with Children's Worship

As you may have noticed, our population of children has increased, which is a blessing. With the increased numbers we need folks to volunteer in the nursery as well as assist with Children's Worship. Both areas give you an opportunity to build relationships with our youngest members. Please ponder on giving one Sunday in a quarter to our children. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. JoAnne.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050844AEAB2AA3FE3-nursery2 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050844AEAB2AA3FE3-nursery2 

We still need volunteers in the church office to help with answering the phone, taking deliveries, and "holding down the fort" while the staff takes lunch. We have several days/times available. Please contact Kathy at 904-223-6922 to help out.

YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED

COVERED DISH LUNCH

Where: Hodges BIvd Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall

When: Sunday April 21st @ 11:15am (Immediately after Service)

What to bring: Your favorite dish to share

*Please sign-up online*

Come join the choir for our Festival of Hymns!

• No long-term commitment required
• A chance to sing with other choirs from around the city
• Be part of something bigger than just us (goal 50+ singers)
• Possibly singing with an orchestra!
• Hosted at our church

We will rehearse weekly on Wednesday evenings at 6:30. Music will be provided along with recordings of each song that are part-specific. There will be two mass rehearsals here at HBPC with the other churches performing. Dress rehearsal is on June 1 and the performance on June 2.

For more information see Duane Carter or email at dcarter@hbpcusa.org.

Coming Soon!

Vacation Bible School 
June 17-21, 9am-noon

Registration Opening Soon!

Vacation Bible school is on the horizon. If you have helped in the past, now would be the time to send Ms. JoAnne an email, text, or call her and let her know your interest for this summer. This includes youth who have helped in the past and want to help again. (You will receive Community Service hours for volunteering.) Our theme is Camp Firefly, our dates are June 17-21, 9am-noon.

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO JOIN!

This year we’ve been falling more in love with God through the amazing Book of Hebrews, but it’s changing. Wednesday, April 17, we’re meeting again to learn about a new phase in the book and a change in the strategy of the writer. As we shift, it’s a great time to get onboard with the study. One more change: In May we’ll meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, so May 8 and 22. Same time, 7 pm, and same place, Fellowship Hall. Hope to see you there!

Come and hear what God is saying to us in his word! Join us in person or online at link below.

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Save the date for Family Fun Day, at Montgomery Center, on June 1. Swimming and archery will be available from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. for guests, and camp tours will be available at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. This is a FREE event.

Parents and Grandparents!!!

Registration for summer camp at Camp Montgomery is open! Several families from here at Hodges are going Session 3, July 14-19. Use this link to check it out, and let's go to camp together!

Contact Ms. JoAnne for scholarship information.

Montgomery Center Residential Camps

Bill was to have a competency hearing last Thursday. It was postponed until May 7, and Thursday’s meeting was changed to a status hearing. He remains at the Nassau County Jail and is unable to receive visitors. He can receive scanned mail at the below address. Mail is being rejected that has illustrations/pictures, so please text only. Please join the family and me in our prayers that Bill gets sent back to North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center. 

Nassau County Jail and Detention Center, Florida

William Broyles 90461

PO Box 247

Phoenix, MD 21131

Our HBPC mission team has been hard at work repairing homes damaged during Hurricane Ian. They spent the day repairing the drywall inside a residence and then enjoyed dinner at a local restaurant.

We are currently enrolling for the 2024-2025 school year!

What a great spring we have had learning about our Lord and Savior! We are so blessed to have the opportunity to learn and grow with our students and families.

Kimberly K. Welch

HBPC Preschool Director

Have you noticed Ms. JoAnne on our Facebook page? It helps with the algorithm which pushes our page out to other people if you do the following:

1. Like it
2. After you like it make a comment
3. Share it to your profile, and say why!

There will be an adult discussion group on faith, Sunday mornings at 9:00 am using The Present Word. Please join us in the Sunrise Room.

We were blessed to provide groceries to 394 clients, 220 homeless and helped 5 families financially in March. Five of our homeless were able to find jobs and we continue to provide bus passes for our homeless to go to job interviews and work!

Pantry needs are: canned pasta, chili, canned meat, tuna, Vienna sausage, canned fruit, rice, crackers, peanut butter crackers, protein/breakfast bars, snacks, clean T-shirts and gently used Bibles.

We continue to give thanks to the congregation’s response to our “Blessed to Be a Blessing” generosity campaign. We have received 53 pledges totaling $458,546. At this point we expect 2024’s total income to be $615,000 and total expenses to be at $676,000.

We hope to hear from those who have not responded as we continue to evaluate our expectations, before we complete our plan for next year.

Please consider your blessings, as we plan for next year, and how we at Hodges Boulevard Presbyterian Church may respond to God’s call.

If you have already submitted your 2024 Estimate of Giving, we thank you. If you have not, we ask you to please do so by submitting it by mail or online. We pray you will be generous in your giving to our church in the coming year.