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THE HERALD

Heritage Presbyterian Church 880 So. 35th Street Lincoln, NE 68510

(402) 477-3401

Rev. Dr. Raymond A. Meester www.HeritagePres.org

assistant@heritagepres.org

If you’re interested in joining Heritage Presbyterian Church, we invite you to speak to Rev. Raymond Meester or email him – Raymond@HeritagePres.org

UPCOMING EVENTS July 19-23, Youth Triennium July 24-29, Synod School August 21, Sunday School, Prayer Shawl and Coffee Corner will resume August 31, Chancel and Bell Choirs will resume September 6, Presbyterian Women’s Circle will resume at 10:00 AM

COMMUNION

Office Hours: Mon.-Thur.:

9:00 AM—1:00 PM

IN THIS ISSUE

Calendar ....................................... 2 Birthdays, Prayer Requests .......... 3 Vacation Bible School .................. 4 Mission News ............................... 6 Our History ................................... 7 Synod School ................................ 8

July 2016

Choir Practice Will resume August 31

July 10

August 14

September 11

October 2

November 6

November 20

December 24

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July 2016 Sunday, July 3 10:30 AM Worship Service Wednesday, July 6 6:00 PM Daisy Troop Meeting in Fellowship Hall Sunday, July 10 10:30 AM Worship Service & Communion Saturday, July 16 12:00 PM Lincoln Deaf Club in Fellowship Hall Sunday, July 17 10:30 AM Worship Service Wednesday, July 20 6:30 PM Session Meeting Sunday, July 24 10:30 AM Worship Service Sunday, July 31 10:30 AM Worship Service

SUMMER SCHEDULE

Presbyterian Women’s Circle will resume Tuesday, September 6 at 10:00 AM

Chancel Choir and Bell Choir rehearsals will resume

Wednesday, August 31 Prayer Shawl meetings will resume Sunday, August 21 Coffee Corner will resume Sunday, August 21 Sunday School will resume Sunday, September 11 Worship services will resume regular time August 21

We are in need of more volunteers to help in the Pantry. We pack boxes and distribute food on Tuesdays from 7:00 - 8:00 pm and on Fridays from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. If any people from your community of faith would like to help with this important mission, please have them call the Eastridge Presbyterian Church office at 402-488-7844. The Pantry is in need of the following items. Please consider purchasing an item or two from this list for the pantry when you go shopping. Thank you!

Jelly Jam Sugar Flour Tomato sauce Pancake syrup Pancake mix Cooking oil

Hot cereal Cold cereal Graham crackers Animal crackers Quick cooking rice Quick pasta packets Canned meats Macaroni and cheese

Granola bars Condiments Bar soap Laundry soap Dishwashing soap Volunteers

EASTRIDGE PANTRY

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BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, PRAYER REQUESTS...

July 3: 2 Kings 5:1-14; Psalms 30; Galatians 6:(1-6) 7-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

July 10: Amos 7:7-17; Psalms 82; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37

July 17: Amos 8:1-12; Psalms 52; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42

July 24: Hosea 1:2-10; Psalms 85; Colossians 2:6-16 (16-19); Luke 11:1-13

July 31: Hosea 11:1-11; Psalms 107:1-9, 43; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21

LECTIONARY FOR JULY

JULY BIRTHDAYS 02 Lane Gibson 03 Kay Schweitzer 05 Karli Gaines 07 Jackson Helms 07 Lew Sieber 07 Lariah Smith 07 Dave Thompson 10 Jeanette Emert 10 Mary Louis Gillispie 16 Barbara Queen 18 Larry Baker

18 Jessica Smith 21 Abraheem Haas 23 Loretta Neill 24 Katrina Kendle 25 Carl Quist 29 Adam Bahr 30 Raymond Meester

†Please update your prayer requests with the church office or Marilyn Smith weekly, 477-3401; or

assistant@HeritagePres.org

PRAYER REQUESTS† Gene DeMari Robert Laura Denise Eric Chad

Janet Donita Mike G. Boyle Family

JULY ANNIVERSARIES 05 Norman & Pat Zink—t years 11 Wade & Debbie Kendle 15 Lane & Leah Gibson 25 John & Kelly Jack

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Congratulations to Cynthia Smetter on her

new great-great granddaughter, Krimsyn Nova. She was born on Sunday, June 19. She weighed 4lbs. 11 oz. and was 17 inches long.

BIRTHDAY CLUB Thanks to Barb Bratt-Kennedy for joining the “Birthday Club”. Please consider making a donations to our Birthday Club. Birthday Club donations are deposited to our endowment fund. These gifts will be used to help our ministry continue. This is also a great way to honor a friend or relative!

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MISSION NEWS AND UPDATES…

MISSION BINGO! Have you gotten a BINGO yet? If you haven’t picked up your own card, make sure to join the fun this summer with the Mission Committee's BINGO game! BINGO cards are available on the mission bulletin board in the narthex. See how many of the 20

different activities you and/or your family can complete during the summer months. Activities include things you can do at home, at the church or in our community. Some will cost nothing, some will be donations of items, some will ask for donations of money. Hopefully, we have included something for everybody! At the end of the summer, turn in your card for a chance to win a prize. The more BINGO's you have the better your chances!

MISSION SUMMER FOCUS The Mission Committee is asking for your help this summer as we focus on giving opportunities on various levels – national, church and community: June – PDA Cleanup Buckets and Hygiene Kits --

thank you to all who have brought items to be donated to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

July – Supplies for church kitchen – check out the mission bulletin board for a list of items needed for our church kitchen

August – School supplies for local schools – list to be posted in early July

MISSION FOCUS AT VBS Thank you to all the children of VBS who brought items or money to be donated to the hungry in our community. Forty-seven food items and $18.33 will be donated to the Eastridge Food Pantry. An additional 37 bottles of water (with labels decorated by the children) will be donated to Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach.

SESSION Session has endorsed Gina Meester and, after consultation, Homestead Presbytery’s Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) is recommending to the presbytery that she be enrolled as an Inquirer. She plans to begin three to five years of study at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in August. Please keep Gina in your prayers as she makes this transition and during this process as she grows intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually towards the possibility of ordained ministry.

2016 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Sundays 7:00 PM Antelope Park, John Shildneck Memorial Bandshell:

July 3—Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Celebrating America

July 10—If You Knew Sousa: Marches and More

July 17—Movie Magic: Music from the Big Screen

July 24—Cool Cars and Summer Music: Classic Cars on Display

July 31—Give My Regards: Music from Broadway

August 7—Olympic Fanfare: Music from Around the World

August 14—America the Beautiful: Honoring Our Veterans

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SACRED SPACES: BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF FAITH “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”—Matthew 18:20

We often associate worship spaces with gothic cathedrals, steeples, bell towers, and stained glass windows. But throughout history, the need for traditional worship spaces has been challenged—both out of necessity and in an effort to seek a more intimate connection with God. Many church communities began in temporary, makeshift dwellings, private homes, or in “the open air." The erection of churches has been linked to the missionary enterprise since the founding of Presbyterianism in America. While the national church could offer few financial resources to help small communities build new church structures, it extended its reach by enlisting Sunday school ministers and mobile ministers, who traveled the country to find communities in need. Mobile ministers have found success among diverse communi-ties across the country—lumberjacks in the Pacific Northwest and cowboys and ranchers in the Southwest are just two of many examples. The ministry of mobile missionaries often led to the erection of the first Presbyterian church building in a community, which the minister built alongside residents. All images appearing in this exhibit are sourced from the society's collections.- See more at: http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/exhibits/building-communities-faith-page-1#sthash.HjcYKE5N.dpuf

OUR HERITAGE: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH In Western Europe, the authority of the Catholic Church remained largely unquestioned until the Renaissance in the fifteenth century. Around 1450, the invention of the printing press in Germany made it possible for the masses to read the Bible and other religious texts, enabling the dis-covery of religious thinkers who had begun to challenge the Church. The term “Reformation” is used to describe the series of changes in Western Christendom between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. The early sixteenth century, in particular, brought divergences from Catholic doctrine caused by the perceived financial excesses of the Papacy and the Curia. The emerging Reformed churches are those that were influenced by the theology of reformers such as Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Philipp Melanchthon, John Calvin, Theodore de Be`ze, and John Knox. Designation of these ‘Protestant’ churches as Églises ré-formées, reformierten Kirchen, and ecclesiase reformatae was common before the end of the sixteenth century. This exhibit examines sixteenth century European reformers and their contributions to the Reformation. Unless noted, all images are sourced from the society's collections. - See more at: http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/exhibits/foundations-faith-page-1#sthash.RFyHv2Ka.dpuf

Philipp Melanchthon (left), Martin Luther (center), Johann Bugenhagen (aka Pomeranus, second from right), and Caspar Cruciger (right) translate the Bible. Lithograph by Alphonse Léon Noël from a painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, ca. 1846. [Image no. 4433]

LEARNING TO SING: THE PSALMS OF DAVID

Early American Presbyterian governing bodies left the decision of singing psalms or hymns up to the individual congregations. As a result, Presbyterian churches across the young United States used a variety of psalters and hymnals in their worship. During this period, most psalms were “sung” in a “metered” rhythm using psalters which contained words but rarely music. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) is one of the most notable names of early American hymnology. A chaplain in the United States Army, Dwight later served as president of Yale College. This volume, used almost exclusively in Connecticut, is one of the numerous variations on Watts' Psalms of David. - See more at: http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/exhibits/psalms-david-page-1#sthash.Vbv3q70x.dpuf

Initially published in 1719, The Psalms of David was one of the most commonly used psalters in the British Colonies and the United States. Frequently adapted, revised, and amended, it is the basis of numerous variations. Isaac Watts. The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: 1772. (Image ID: 1772)

Reverend Herbert M. Peters rests his Bible on a tree stump while holding an open-air service for a group of lumberjacks in the north woods of Minnesota, ca. 1951. [Image no. 4098]

OUR HISTORY...

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Heritage Presbyterian Church 880 South 35th Street, Lincoln, NE 68510-3499 The Rev. Dr. Raymond Meester, Pastor Issued monthly, Issue #07/16 Heritage Presbyterian Church, (www.HeritagePres.org)