DISCOVER PRESTON TRAIL CLASS
If you want to learn more about PTCC, this gathering is for you. Led by our senior pastors, the next class will be Sunday, June 24th at 11:00 AM in the Corner Office. Sign up at the Yes! Table.

SEND YOUR ANONYMOUS PRAYERS - Our new series of messages for July is on prayer. Our aim is to help you communicate with God more meaningfully and honestly. To succeed in that goal, it would help to know what you’re praying these days. So, would you send some of your current prayers - anonymously - to a website that we have set up for this purpose? Whether your prayers are filled with praise or anger or fear or loneliness or thanksgiving, just send some of them to www.7729.org. They are strictly anonymous, so you can be 100% honest with yourself and with God.

FFS HYGIENE AND CLEANING PRODUCT DRIVE
The Summer months at the Frisco Family Services pantry can be a time of greatest need. PTCC will hold a Hygiene and Cleaning Product Donation Drive on June 10, 17, and 24. A sample list of products is below. (All full size bottles, not small travel size, please.)
1. Hygiene (Shampoo and Conditioner, Soap, Lotion, Toothpaste, Sanitary napkins)
2. Cleaning (Laundry Detergent, Dish washing liquid, Fantastic/409 spray cleaner, Windex, Disinfectants- Pinesol, Lysol, etc.)

THE SAMARITAN’S HEART - A MINISTRY OF COMPASSION
We are seeking volunteers to join us for local nursing home visits two times a month. Help us as we strive to instill hope and faith in Jesus Christ to senior residents through fellowship, worship, and prayer. We meet every other Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at Victoria Gardens of Frisco (at Rolater and Hillcrest). For more information, contact Peter & Alainna Palmer at 214-432-7575 or pandapalmer@tx.rr.com.

MEN’S COLORADO ADVENTURE
PTCC Men are invited to Durango, Colorado July 30-August 3 for an outdoor adventure. Pick up a registration packet at the Yes! Table at the Men’s Ministry area for further details or on the website.

WOMEN’S RETREAT
Looking for a weekend get-a-way this summer? Some fun before the school year kicks into high gear? Well, you’re in luck! PTCC Women’s Ministry is having their first annual Women’s Retreat on Friday, August 17th - Saturday, August 18th at Lantana Lodge. This weekend will include great teaching, worship, and tons of fun! Cost is $80, and a $40 deposit is due upon registration. The full payment will be due by July 1st. Spots are limited, so sign up now at the YES! Table.

PARTNERSHIP
Take the next step in your commitment to God and to PTCC by becoming a partner, our membership program. Partnership focuses on five biblical principles that we call the 5Gs: Grace, Growth, Groups, Gifts and Good Stewardship. You may complete the self-directed Bible Study found on our website or you may attend our next partnership class July 15 from 9:30 AM - Noon at the PTCC building. Sign up at the Yes! Table today!

ONLINE GIVING
Make your life simpler by automating your giving. Follow the easy directions at www.prestontrail.org to setup for debit or credit card for regular giving and dream big donations. All transactions are secure and will appear on your regular statement.

LIFE GROUPS
Sign up at the Information Table or email info@prestontrail.org and get involved in a group!

7729

Six years ago our family spent a week together in London. One of our surprises was the huge number of British teenagers who kept looking down at their cell phones all the time – not talking on them, but looking at them. They had discovered a new phenomenon that hadn’t yet caught on in the US – text messaging. We observed them on the subway and at restaurants as they worked their fingers to the bone sending e-notes to friends via their cell phones. In case you didn’t know it, we have finally caught up with our friends across the Atlantic. Text-messaging is all the rage these days.

That reality led our church staff to a title for the upcoming message series in July. The series will focus on how to connect to God any time through prayer, so we named it 7729. (Look at those numbers on your cell phone and you’ll get it.)

For this series to be of maximum help, it would be great if you would let us know what and how you are praying these days. That’s why I am asking you to send some of your prayers to us – anonymously – so we can understand what you say when you connect to God.

Last week I mentioned in Trail Notes that you can send your anonymous prayers to a new website we have set up for this purpose. It’s www.7729.org. Many of you have already responded. Whoever you are … thank you. Your prayers came right from your heart.

But don’t stop now. If you have already sent in a prayer, send in some more. If you haven’t done so yet, you can log on today and write in a prayer that you’re praying. These requests will help me customize my messages for our people.

Here is the lineup for the new series entitled “7729. Connecting to God. Whenever.”

July 1    Pray when you’re happy

July 8    Pray when you’re afraid

July 15    Pray when you’re guilty

July 22    Pray when you’re lonely

I hope you will join us for this practical study of how to pray so God hears.

One more thing: Jim concludes his excellent series on parenting this Sunday June 24 with a message on “The Board of Education.” It promises to be a great talk on how to discipline your children in love and firmness.

Hoping your summer is filled with God’s presence at every turn,

Paul Basden, senior pastor

ONLINE GIVING
Make your life simpler by automating your giving. Follow the easy directions at www.prestontrail.org to setup for debit or credit card for regular giving and dream big donations. All transactions are secure and will appear on your regular statement.

Read previous Trail Notes here

LISTEN! Preston Trail Podcast
PTCC worship messages are available by subscription to our podcast or for listening on our website. So, if you missed a service, or want to share one with a friend go here and take a listen.
You will have the option of downloading and listening to them on your computer or even subscribe here (or press the iTunes image on the right) to have them come to your computer automatically each time one is added - then play them on your computer or your iPod while you're exercising or driving.

Calendar at a glance...

June 24 - Discover Preston Trail - 11:00 AM, Corner Office

July 15 - Partnership Class - 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

July 30 - Aug. 3 Men's Colorado Adventure

Aug. 17 - 18 Women's Retreat