The Connection - May, 2015 70 Years of Serving the Community Calvary Presbyterian Church 701 South Maryland Ave. Wilmington, DE. 19804 (302) 994-4044 Fax - 444-2711 E-mail - [email protected] Website - www.calvarypcusa.org Address Correction Requested Calvary will host a Choral Workshop for the Presbytery churches and CAP, all are welcome. It will be led by Gordon Appleton. $10.00 registration. Connect with us on Facebook ! www.facebook.com/calpcusa Not on Facebook yet? Stop by the office and John will gladly help you get set up. D EA H A T’S A WH May, 2015 June, 2015 Holy Communion Sunday, May 3, 10:30 am Holy Communion Sunday, June 7, 10:30 am Andrew’s Place Saturday, May 9, 4:45 pm Committees Tuesday, June 12, 7pm Committees Tuesday, May 12, 7pm Andrew’s Place Saturday, June 13, 4:45 pm Connection Deadline Friday, May 15 Connection Deadline Friday, June 15 Annual Congregational Meeting Sunday, May 24 Presbyterian Women Picnic Pastor Neta’s house Monday , June 29 , 10:30 am SESSION Tuesday, May 26, 7 pm May 16 Music Workshop with Gordon Appleton 10am - 12pm - Workshop Session 1 12pm - 1pm - Lunch 1pm - 3pm - Workshop Session 2 3pm - 3:30pm - Tea Break 3:30pm - 4:15pm - Choral Service SESSION Tuesday, June 30, 7 pm Gordon Appleton retired in 2012 after nineteen years as a staff member of the Royal School of Church Music in the UK. A native of County Durham in the north of England; after graduating from Christ Church College. Canterbury (where he was organ scholar) took his first school teaching post in Hertfordshire. He then spent five years teaching in Jamaica (West Indies) first at Vere Technical High School, Clarendon and then at Kingston College where he was Organist and Choirmaster of the chapel choir. He left Jamaica in 1976 to live in Perth, Australia, as Organist and Choirmaster at Guildford Grammar School. From 1987 to 1993 he was Master of the Music at St. George’s Cathedral, Perth. In 1993 he returned to the UK as RSCM Regional Director for the North of England, Scotland, North Wales and Ireland. After a period of restructuring in the RSCM he was appointed Director of RSCM Voluntary Networks in 2001. In this role he coordinated the work of the many RSCM Volunteer committees in the UK and throughout the world. Throughout his career he has tried to provide encouragement, support and education for children and adults involved in music in worship, particularly in parishes. For all these 19 years, he was Director of the RSCM Northern Cathedral Singers which sings cathedral evensongs regularly throughout the north of England. He has directed annual residential courses for children and residential RSCM Cathedral Courses for boys, girls and adults throughout the UK. He has directed choral festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. He has also been the Director of annual RSCM National Summer Schools in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Since retirement” he has continued to lead choir workshops and direct choral festivals in the UK, Continental Europe, South Africa, Canada and the USA. He has invitations to direct choir festivals, workshops and courses later this year in Nigeria and Australia. He is Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians, and holds diplomas from the Royal Schools of Music and Trinity College, London. In 2013 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. From Neta And John “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. . .” writes Qoheleth, the author of Ecclesiastes. “There is a time to keep silent. . .” There are things better not said, things that wound and hurt and need not be spread around. “And a time to speak” when injustice must be named and right must be defended. “A time to be born and a time to die.” Yet some are born too soon and some die too soon. How do we understand those things that happen out of time? How do we deal with the injustice of it? One option is to become cynical or angry. We can rail against the darkness and cry out against the loss. Later in his reflections, Qoheleth, the writer of Ecclesiastes, points out: the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all. (9:11) Or as Scottish poet Robert Burns puts it in his “Ode to a Mouse”: But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley. An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! That’s the human predicament, isn’t it? We plan, but there is no guarantee that what we plan will happen. What then do we do? Give up? Drift along on whatever comes? Or is there another choice? Live well, says Qoheleth. Live well. Be happy. Enjoy life and whatever it brings. Work hard, and take satisfaction in the work you do. Love well. Laugh and dance and cry and enjoy all the rich texture of life. Live well. As you live, remember that all of life, the good, the hard, the joyous, the painful, is held within the hand of God. CANCER PATIENTS ETERNAL LIFE - Christopher Pepper (Jo Q grandson) Meurice Southam 1919 - 2015 Cindy Dwyer Bella Angel Polka Peggy Kernehan A SPRING SALE is in the works so we’ll need your “FINE QUALITY” attic treasures. Please be sure our items are clean and in working order. You can leave your donations in the church garage. Any questions, call LINDA GREEN (994-4997). Neta side. We're meeting neighbors while walking our dog, cutting the grass, and just by having a meal in the yard. My hope is that we can use the When it came time for Amy and I to consider Manse as another installment of Calvary's new moving the biggest draw to living in the Manse handshake to the community. So far the people was the sheer amount of face time I would get that I have met have been shocked and surprised with people who lived in our community. I was that I'm a pastor! If we want to truly be the excited to do some fall BBQs and have a few church of 2015 we are going to have to help rebackyard parties. Well, when you make an unmind, and help insure, that we don't look, feel, expected trip to the hospital before you even finsmell, and sound like the church did a couple of ish unpacking, a lot of those ideas get put on decades ago. If we reimagine ourselves it will hold. have an impact on those around us. I know it But now that spring is FINALLY here we can happened once in this community in 1944, and start to make use of having a backyard! So far I'm sure it can happen again! we have meet a fair amount of the people who live in the community just by being out- Jeff Gropp Laura Ferguson George Gioffre Jessie Jones SECOND SUNDAY SHARING Pentecost and Friendship House will be upcoming missions for Second Sunday Sharing. Watch for more information in the narthex and in bulletins as the time nears. THANK YOU - “Dear Calvary Family, thank you to everyone who prayed for John. Thank you to Neta and John for all their visits. Thank you to Gail Graham and her team for their help with the luncheon after the funeral. Your support has meant so much to me and my family. Love, Sharon Lynch” The fruits of the Manse. John Meet Elizabeth Arthur ! I was raised in an Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. I married and moved to Mobile, Alabama where we had one car, so I had to walk to church, which was a Baptist Church. When I lost my husband I decided to come to Delaware. I sat in the house and watched it snow for 2 months, then I got out and found a church. The one thing I wanted was organ music and I found it at Calvary. It was the right choice, I feel so comfortable here and a big plus is how friendly everyone is. SAVE THIS DATE THE ORGANIST ENTERTAINS - MAY 24
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