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May 2015
Notes from the Clergy
"You can't see it from here."
We feel that way often, don't we?
We find ourselves in a troublesome
situation and can't quite see what is
over the hill. We prefer to know
what's coming next…and the not
knowing is unsettling.
mystic, Julian of Norwich (1342–
1416), famously said, "All shall be
well, and all shall be well, and all
manner of things shall be well." I
urge you to put those words to
memory…because "all will be well" is
particularly true when we can't quite
see where we are going from here.
We can trust "all will be well" because God is the main character in
this particular tale and the next, just
as God is the main character in every
aspect of our lives.
In his Lord of the Rings trilogy,
J. R. R. Tolkien has Sam Gamgee
say to Frodo Baggins… "What sort of
tale have we fallen into?" There is a
sense in which, as people of faith, we
are always a part of a "tale" that is
larger than ourselves…a tale in
which we are characters, though not
the main character. If we have eyes
to see, we know God is the main
character.
Thanks be to God.
L'Chaim (To Life),
One of the ways we can be the
church is to encourage one another
to trust that God is the main character in the "tales" we fall into. English
A Service of Prayer for Wholeness and Healing
You are invited to attend our monthly Service of Prayer for
Wholeness and Healing. Generally this service is held the first Sunday
of the month at 5:00 in the evening. This 45 minute service will be led
by your pastor and will include prayers both general and specific, scripture reading, singing, and silence. For those who may be so inclined,
there will be opportunity for the laying on of hands. Everyone interested
is invited to attend the May 3 service.
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Preaching Schedule for May
May 3
5th Sunday of Easter
Texts: Jn. 15:1-8
Preacher: William M. Klein
Sermon: Like the Branches to the Vine
May 10
6th Sunday of Easter
Texts: Jn. 15:9-17; Ps. 98:4-9
May 17
7th Sunday of Easter
Texts: Ps. 1:1-3
May 24
Pentecost Sunday
May 31
Trinity Sunday
Texts: Jn. 3:1-17 & Ps. 121
Preacher: William M. Klein
Sermon: Blessing
Preacher: William M. Klein
Sermon: Happiness as Delighting in God
Preacher: Sarah L. Hill
Preacher: William M. Klein
Sermon: The Prematurely Saved
Sympathy to:
The family of
Betty Natkin
Welcome to:
Allen Mercer Worrell
born February 24, 2015
Parents: Courtney and Robert Worrell
Grandparents: Carolyn Worrell
and the late DeWitt Worrell
Congratulations to Cil Repair
on the birth of a
new great grandson
Deb Klein
(her sister)
Doug Stevenson
(his brother)
The family of
Charlie Terhune
The family of
Hurley Brittigan (service dog)
Thank you to Skip Hess
for sprucing up the outside, front and back, with benches
and the beautiful planters of shrubbery and plants
Thank you also to George Ray and Curt Fredin
for helping to fill the planters
Thank you to Mac, Becky and David Felts
for their work at the Randolph Street entrance planting both dogwoods on Randolph Street,
and for weeding and mulching
Thank you to the Boy Scouts for assembling the benches on the front porch
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News Items for
the June 2015
Newsletter
People like to
know what is going on in the
church. Write an article for the
newsletter and share the information. Please email to Mary
Atthowe by May 15th at
<[email protected]> in
Word format please, or leave your
information in the church office.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Meetings
Alcoholics Anonymous has proven to
be a life-giving tool to many folks
seeking to manage alcohol addiction.
But in order for AA to be useful, people must be self-reflective enough to
know when they have a problem with
alcohol. If you would like the support
an AA group can provide, you are welcome to attend one of many meetings
that occur at RE Lee Episcopal
Church. AA meets:
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Community
Table
The 4th Monday of the Month is Lex. Pres. day
to provide dessert for The Community Table. In May,
that day falls on Memorial Day and The Community Table will not be open. So we are taking May off
from baking. We will resume June 22 with bar
cookies. Special thanks to all of you who have baked
and helped provide desserts. Special thanks to all who
provided ingredients for March's Strawberry Shortcake
desserts. Diners loved it! Shout outs to Jeanette Jeffer, Mary Dugan, Heather Marion, Annette John, Ingrid
Sukow, Betty Dahl, Kay Lera, Ruth Floyd, Jennie and
Bill Sykes, Anne and Sydney Remington, Patsy Aligood, Cathy Grace, Mary Raine Paxton, Pat Browning, Patti Thomas, Lori Inman, Gaye Johnson, Kay
Roberts, Myra Young, Cullen and Lia Bruner, Marian
Rohne, Ellen Smith, Margie Page for baking desserts
so far this year! A little help goes a long way and your
service to The Community Table is greatly appreciated! If you are able to bake or have questions, please
contact Mary Beth Baker at 463-9563 or
[email protected]
Sundays: 6:30 PM (women only)
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM (step meeting)
Wednesdays: noon (open meeting) &
8:00 PM (closed meeting)
Fridays:
8:00 PM (open meeting)
Saturdays: 10:00 AM (open meeting)
11:15 AM (Step Al Anon)
8:00PM(big book meeting)
Sundays at the hospital at 8:00 PM
(open meeting)
Open Door Al Anon Meeting at Stonewall Jackson Hospital Conference
Room A on Sundays at 6:45 p.m.
All meetings are non-smoking meetings. Call 463-3411 for more information.
Presbyterian Women
1. World Outreach is assembling
health kits again. You may drop the
following items in the PW corner:
hand towels, washcloths, metal nail
clippers, bath size bars of soap,
toothbrushes in original packaging,
Band-Aids.
2. May 13, 2015 will be the PW annual Birthday
Luncheon in Dunlap at 12:00 p.m. All women are
invited.
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May Food of the Month,
Donated to the RARA Food Pantry:
Canned Fruit/Lo-Sugar
Please leave the food in boxes in the front hallway outside of the
church office.
The Congregational Life Committee is eager to introduce a subcommittee to help coordinate the myriad of dinners, teas, receptions, shows, and other events Lex Pres
offers more and more frequently: The Food and Beverage Subcommittee. This subcommittee will work to streamline food and beverage use and purchases, to maintain
the kitchen in good order, and to keep a better log of kitchen-related events the
church and community offer within our walls. It’s our hope that The City will provide
an invaluable tool to helping us become better coordinated and informed. The Food
and Beverage Subcommittee consists of Macy Coffey (Chair), Curt Fredin (Food and
Beverage Director), Joyce Fraley, Linda Franke and Skip Hess. Please do not hesitate to contact any of us if you have questions or concerns.
Habitat Women Build 2015
Groups of Rockbridge County women will join forces to help to build a Habitat home in May at Thompson’s
Knoll (near Lylburn Downing). Leah Circle will be working
on the Women Build on Thursday, May 21, from 5:00-8:00
p.m. Please come join us. No skills are needed - it's a lot
of fun learning together! You will gather with others learning how to do what is needed. If you can’t swing a hammer, don’t worry. Bring water and nibbles to the volunteer
group to support their efforts. That fully qualifies as a Women Build volunteer. We
welcome men as well! Habitat is asking each volunteer this year to make a $10 donation to use toward the purchase of building materials used in Women Build
2015. Please contact Cynthia Hintze ([email protected] or 463-7825) to volunteer and help build a small home for single mother Samantha Mason and her young
daughter, Nevaeh.
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Brittigan Endowment Fund Awards Annual Grants
The Dan and Betsy Brittigan Endowment Fund, whose mission is to provide
financial assistance for at risk children and youth in Lexington, Buena Vista and
Rockbridge County, has awarded its annual grants. Money was granted to the
Rockbridge Area Health Center to set up a pediatric waiting room, to Yellow Brick
Road Early Learning Center to help fund their scholarship program, to the Rockbridge Area YMCA to fund scholarships for their summer childcare/camp program, to RAISE Infant Program to re-stock their lending library of adaptive equipment, to Hoofbeats to fund scholarships for 6 children, and to the Lexington Office on Youth to help fund their Summer Fun program. In addition to these institutional grants, funding is also being allocated to help individualized needs of local
children.
The Brittigan Fund Committee (comprised of Linda Moreschi, Vicki Sessions,
Margie Page and Ron and Robin Telsch) is working to expand our funding to
more individualized needs. For instance, we provided funding to the principal of
Central Elementary to purchase shoes for 5 children in need last fall. It was so
successful that we provided similar funding to cover new shoes this spring. We
were also approached through RAISE and the Community Services Board to provide funding for cleaning and childproofing supplies for a young mother who was
being threatened with eviction. With supplies purchased with money from the
Brittigan fund endowment allotment, these supplies were purchased and W&L
students with the Shepherd Poverty Program worked with this young mother to
help her develop the skills to keep her apartment clean and avoid eviction.
The Brittigan Fund was formerly administered as RAPH (Rockbridge Area
Presbyterian Home) and was brought under the church umbrella in 2013. The
committee is actively seeking ways to most effectively utilize these funds to help
at risk kids, and especially want to be a resource when traditional funding isn’t
available for a particular need. Perhaps our biggest accomplishment since 2013
is providing the seed money ($2000) for the Summer Backpack Program, which
brought the first mobile food pantries to rural areas of our county in 2014. The
program is being expanded in 2014, and has even served as an inspiration for
the first 3 year-round mobile food pantries being run by W&L’s Campus Kitchen.
If you would like further information, please contact one of the committee
members. If you know of a program or organization which might fit our criteria
and needs funding, please bring that to our attention. If you would like to make a
contribution to the Brittigan Fund, please indicate whether you would like your
contribution to be added to our annual spending allotment or added to the endowment fund. It certainly “takes a village” to better the lives of children in our
community. Dan and Betsy Brittigan dedicated their lives to helping at risk children, and we are grateful for the blessings that we are able to bestow in their
honor.
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Helping Hands
Helping Hands will not meet again until October 5th. All that
we have been working on will be on display at the Luncheon on May
13th. The hats and baby items will be sent to Church World Service
for distribution. The animals are given to the Lab and ER at the Hospital, Project Horizon, and the Sheriff’s Office—-all greatly appreciated.
Call Ellen Smith at 464-5141 if you have any questions.
Please notify
[email protected] when you
have a change of mailing
and/or email address.
Thanks!
Check us out at
www.lexpres.org
I want to thank all who have sent me cards, flowers, food, and
prayers during my recovery. I am getting better; it is just a slow
progress. I am most grateful for your many kindnesses.
Evelyn Pankey McCorkle
Bike Loaner Needed!
The Shepherd Program is hosting two college students in Lexington for 8-weeks this
summer; Ray Xi from Berea College and Deja Collins from Bucknell College. The
students are splitting their time between the Buena Vista Health Department, where
Lex Pres member, Laura Brown, will mentor them, and the Campus Kitchen and
Blue Ridge Autism Center, respectively. Here’s
the pickle, neither student has a car! I’d love to
offer them loaner bikes for the summer so they
can get around Lexington more easily. Please let
Fran Elrod or Amy DeHart know if you have a
bike (and helmet if possible) that you are willing
to loan to them from June 7th – August 4th!
Fran Elrod
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Rafiki Report
Sending Godly Leaders Beyond the Walls
A fourteen year old boy stood at the gate of
Rafiki Village Kenya—he had gotten the last Rafiki
school application form. With no chance for schooling
in sight, Curtis’ future looked bleak. One of the 200
applicants for only eighteen slots, Curtis feared he would not get in. As the
youngest of six children, he had spent months in and out of primary school due
to his parents’ financial struggles—-” the school ride was rough. I would stay at
home for even a month due to lack of school fees.” In spite of these roadblocks, Curtis performed with excellence on national exams. And so, he submitted his application and hoped against hope. By God’s providence, Curtis
was admitted to the Rafiki School in Kenya in 2006. Over the next eight years,
Curtis received a quality Christian education. He daily participated in RBS lessons on forty-four books of the Bible, excelled in sports, became class president
and was a role model as he tutored students and taught in his church’s Sunday
school. His high national exam scores gained Curtis admission to university.
With funding from a local donor, Curtis began pursuing a degree in public health
at a top Kenyan university. He is the first member of his family to attend university—going beyond the walls!
God has built a firm foundation in Curtis’ life through Rafiki schools.
Wouldn’t you like to provide children like Curtis the same opportunity? Consider
becoming a STUDENT SPONSOR. The total cost to send a child to our
schools is $90 a month. For a minimum of $25 a month you can participate in
the education of a day student like Curtis and receive regular updates on the
student’s progress. See our website for details (www.rafikifoundation.org).
Prayer Requests:
 For student sponsors.
 Safe travel, good health, affordable lodging and wisdom for teachers.
 For teachers and students to grow in their English language skills.
March Offerings:
Sunday School-$37.05
Koininia-$34.00
Bible-$19.00
Total-$90.05
A-Z Books Assembled—-585 by 12 people
Rafiki website—-www.rafikifoundation.org.
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Faith Village
Our final story of the school year is Daniel, a Believer in Babylon. We will look at both, Daniel in the Lion’s Den and Daniel’s three
friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The workshops will include Storytelling and Drama, Cinema, and Art. A new kind of workshop will be a Spiritual Walk led by Deb Klein. Don’t miss this fun
month of biblical exploration!
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Thantastic Thursdays have ended for the Spring, but they will
be back the first part of October. We are always open for suggestions
for programs. Thank you for being part of fantastic Thantastic Thursdays!
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May 3 Intergenerational Sunday School – All Ages and Classes Together
The disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?" He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, "Truly I tell you, unless
you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. (Matthew 18: 1-5)
Again we are being offered an opportunity for everyone in the congregation to be
together for a time of fellowship and learning in an intergenerational Sunday School time
on Sunday, May 3 at 9:45 am in Dunlap Auditorium. There will be breakfast goodies and
coffee while we share in learning in new ways and from a different perspective. Everyone
is invited whether you attend a class regularly or not.
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Secret Pal “Reveal”
On Sunday, May 3 after the 11 am worship service, all those who
participated in the Secret Pal program are invited to learn the true identity
of your Secret Pal. All the families are invited to share in the fun. The
menu will be hot dogs and Mac & Cheese! Now is the time that you can
really start enjoying the relationship with each other! Please let Betsy
Woody ([email protected]) know if you plan to attend!
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May Youth Activities
Youth and parents mark your calendars for our May plans!
May 3 – Hiking
May 10 – Mother’s Day – no youth group
May 17 – Regular Meeting
May 24 – No meeting
May 31 – End of Year Bash at the Irby’s Pool, 2-5 p.m.
This summer five of the high school youth are planning to attend Montreat! Middle
school youth are beginning to plan for their retreat at Massanetta. It’s shaping up to
be an active and enriching summer.
The Parenting Teenagers Course
With so many busy parents and teens during the school year, we ran into difficulty finding an time to meet. Now, with summer coming let’s try again!
The Parenting Teenagers Course, comprised of 10 sessions, (DVD & discussion time) is an initiative of the “Embrace Families” of Project 225. Parents will receive lots of good information, and enjoy the community of other parents who are
weathering the ups and downs of this particular stage of parenting. The time will
be 8:45-9:45 am on Sunday mornings – before the joint 10:00 am worship service
during the summer months, with the discussion led by Deb and Bill Klein. It will
begin June 7. If you are interested, please contact Bill or Deb or Lila in the church
office. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3tMFe4ZRYfor a taste of the
course.
Sunday May 10
Make Mother’s Day a special day for the whole family to help feed hungry
people all around the world. A service project of the Youth will be to help with the
packing of hundreds of meals which will be shipped overseas. This is the efforts of
Stop Hunger Now organization. The two youth who went to Massanetta Middle
School Conference last summer, helped to pack over 10,000 meals in one hour with
all the 200 campers packing. We will be at RE Lee Episcopal Church from 2 – 4 pm
on May 10 helping pack rice, dry milk and protein into packages to be shipped. Let
Sarah Hill know if you would like to be a part of this great effort.
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ROAD SIGN : DETOUR AHEAD
[avoid the town of Gossip]
Yiddish folk lore offers a telling tale about gossip-makers. One such man had told
so many malicious untruths about the local rabbi that, overcome by remorse, he
begged the rabbi to forgive him. “And, Rebbe, tell me how I can make amends.”
The rabbi sighed. “Take two pillows, go to the public square and there cut the pillows open. Wave them in the air. Then come back.”
The rumormonger quickly went home, got two pillows and a knife, hastened to the
square, cut the pillows open, waved them in the air, and hastened back to the rabbi’s
chambers. “I did just what you said, Rebbe!”
“Good.” The rabbi smiled. “Now, to realize how much harm is done by gossip, go
back to the square...”
“And?”
“And collect all your feathers.”
Leo Rosten in Hooray for Yiddish
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The Jewish faith is not alone in its condemnation of gossip. The apostle James offers the Christian viewpoint: “The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do. A great forest can be set on fire by one tiny spark...If anyone can control his tongue, it proves that he has perfect control over himself in every other
way.” (See the 3rd chapter of the Book of James, the Living Bible translation.)
Even the great philosopher Nietzsche (who, according to Rollo May in the book
Man’s Search for Himself, was religious in spirit if not in dogma) weighed in on the
subject. “Anyone in our day who wishes an illustration of so-called ‘morality’ motivated by resentment need look no farther than gossip in a small town...” (As if to illustrate this point the Congregational Christian Church of Red Cloud, Neb., once listed
its sermon topic Gossip. Immediately following was the hymn I Love to Tell the Story.)
Eleanor Roosevelt made the following observation for the person on the receiving
end of gossip: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” As Ann
Landers once pointed out, “He who throws dirt loses ground.” Meanwhile her sister,
Dear Abby, suggested to someone whose feathers were ruffled that she clip the following and hand it to her friend who was gossiping: “There is so much bad in the
best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it doesn’t behoove any of us to
talk about the rest of us.”
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The Lexington Presbyterian Church
Session “At Work”—-April 7, 2015
DATA
 Current Membership—544
 Death: Betty Natkin (3/24/15) and
Charles Terhune (4/3/15)
 Birth: Hadley Rae Braddick (3/11/15)
 Pastoral Concerns were shared and
prayer offered.
SESSIONAL COMMITTEES
Christian Education
 New Nursery worker—Hannah Patterson
 Secret Pal Program—-16 pairs of
pals; reveal lunch May 3
 Faithful Friends to hike on Woods
Creek Trail on April 12.
 Youth group growing
 Youth helped with egg hunt at the
manse
 5 LPC youth will attend Montreat this
summer.
 Grant applications due May 1
 Ad hoc committee will look into a
sound system for Dunlap.
Communications
 The City demonstration to session
Property
 The steeple project continues.
 Manse update
 Landscaping project soon to be completed
 Boilers are undergoing needed repairs.
Outreach
 Working with Congregational Life to
feed the Project Horizon volunteers
on March 26.
Congregational Life
 Food/Beverage Committee has been
formed (Skip Hess, Curt Fredin, Linda Franke, and Joyce Fraley).
Financial Management
 Distributed a year-end fiscal report for
2014 and a balance sheet for 2015 to
date.
Nominating
 Beginning the process of finding
nominees for Session Class of 2018.
Planning
 Session Retreat follow-up
Personnel
 Unanimously approved the following:
a one-time moving/storage cost for
salvageable furnishings from the
manse up to $10,000; to cover utilities for the Kleins’ cottage; to cover
mileage from the cottage to the
church from January until housing
allowance approved; approved an
annual housing allowance of
$22,200. These go to the congregation for approval April 26.
Major Report
The Major Report of the Congregational
Life Committee was presented by Elders
Coffey and Carter (see pages 12-13)
Next Administrative Council meeting:
Wed., April 29, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
Next Session meeting: Tues., May 5,
2015, 7:30 p.m.
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Major Report to Session from Congregational Life Committee
April 7, 2015
Mission:
The mission of the Congregational Life Committee is to encourage and comfort
the members of the congregation; to welcome new members; and to facilitate
fellowship opportunities for the on-going life of the congregation. Duties include
both “Membership Services” and “Kitchen Services” in collaboration with the
Food and Beverage Committee. The Committee assists with regular fellowship
activities by providing meals for the Thantastic Thursday program, providing
meals/receptions for other church events and by planning monthly summer fellowship activities for the church family. CLC also provides “membership services” by organizing and promoting the House Church program, supporting
Friends in Need, and working with Presbyterian Women to provide bereavement
receptions for church members when requested.
Committee Membership:
2015 Session members: Macy Coffey (Co-Chair), Derek Carter (Co-Chair) Buddy Bryan, Bob Doyle, Curt Fredin, Jane Horton, and Pat Jones
Food and Beverage Subcommittee:
Macy Coffey (Chair), Curt Fredin (Food and Beverage Director), Linda Franke,
Joyce Fraley, and Skip Hess
CLC Activities and Events: January, 2014 through March, 2015
 Thantastic Thursday dinners/programs occur weekly October through May
 February: Ash Wednesday dinner/service 3/5
 March: St. Patrick’s Day dinner 3/13; Seder dinner/Maundy Thursday service
4/17
 June 22: Family Field Day and Picnic at the Ruritan Barn on Valley Pike
 July: SOWS potluck picnic at the Manse 7/13
 August 17: Family Swim and Picnic at the home of Pat and Tom Jones
 December: Joy Gift Luncheon after church 12/21 (130-140 attended)
 March: Ash Wednesday dinner/service 2/18
Food and Beverage Director:
Curt Fredin serves as the Food and Beverage Director and has the responsibility
for overseeing food purchase, preparation, service, and clean-up of church
meals, including instructing and supervising volunteers and arranging for paid
clean-up staff when needed. Kitchen supplies, including paper products, coffee,
tea, lemonade, plastic utensils are used by other groups and committees within
the church. Guidelines for Use of the Kitchen were updated, and a Kitchen Manual was developed re: use of appliances, directions for meal and beverage preparation, service and clean up.
(continued on page 13)
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Friends in Need and Bereavement Receptions:
Carolyn Worrell and Elizabeth Lauck have served as FIN (Friends in Need) coordinators since September 2014, assisted by a team of over 40 volunteers.
FIN offers encouragement and support to church families who have had recent
illnesses or hospitalizations, deaths in the family, births or other celebrations and
to assist with bereavement receptions as needed for the church family. The support usually comes in the form of providing meals, but the committee also offers
other types of support such as visits, a sympathetic ear, and rides. FIN actively
reaches out to church members and families when it becomes aware of situations that might require support. In the period from September to December
2014, FIN made 10 such contacts and provided encouragement, condolences,
meals, etc. as needed.
House Church:
House church groups meet monthly over a meal in members’ homes, affording
participants the opportunity to get to know each other through fellowship and discussion based on a curriculum developed by Bill Klein. For 2014-15, there is a
total of 4 groups with a total of 53 participants, 12-14 per group. In addition, there
is a young adult group that Bill and Deb have organized consisting of between 8
and 15 participants.
Budget:
CLC 2014
CLC 2015
Budget $900.00
Actual $900.00 (receptions and special events)
Budget $900.00 + $960 babysitting TOTAL: $2,000
2015 Objectives:
-Continue to collaborate with Christian Education and provide weekly Thantastic
Thursday meals October-May. Coordinate schedule for assistance with Thantastic Thursday meal prep and clean up; recruit volunteers to assist in the kitchen for
meals and other special events.
-Update kitchen manual as needed with kitchen use, clean up and appliance instructions; update guidelines for kitchen use as needed; educate volunteers on
use of kitchen.
-Support Project 225 and try to increase involvement of the congregation in fellowship activities and events. Plan and implement special fellowship events for
the congregation during the year and monthly activities during the summer with a
special focus on intergenerational and family-friendly events and activities.
-Identify member interest and organize House Church groups in September. Encourage House Church hosts to invite new members and/or guests to a meal/
program as a way of welcoming them to the church.
-Continue to respond to member needs via Friends in Need program.
-Provide Bereavement Receptions as needed in collaboration with Presbyterian
Women and Friends in Need volunteers.
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Want to honor a loved one?
Please consider contributing $20.00 for a
plaque that will appear on the inside cover of
one of our new hymnals.
Cut out and complete the form below and it will
be printed to express your wishes. Just mail it,
drop it off at the church office, or you can place
it in the offering plate. Please use the space
below for additional hymnals that you would like
to purchase to honor others.
Over 70 members have already made their contributions!
Thank you for your support of our new hymnals.
Your worship committee at LPC
This hymnal is presented
In honor of
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by
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Table of Contents
Inside This Issue
Page Numbers
Notes from the Clergy……...……..….1
May Preaching Schedule…….......….2
Miscellaneous…………………….…3-4
Brittigan Endowment Fund…………..5
Helping Hands………………….... ….6
Rafiki Report…………………………...7
Christian Education/Youth..……..…8-9
Road Signs….…………..…...…...….10
Session………………………………..11
Congregational Life Major Rept...12-13
Hymnal Honor/Memory Donations....14
May Calendar…....….…...….............15
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