The Last Word Page 11

Service Schedule

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Covenant Happenings Page 2

Kid’s Korner

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CPW Page 3

Inside this issue...

June 2012

The Family, Events, and Ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Springboro

June Calendar Page 7

YOUNG AT HEART PICNIC

Saturday, June 2, from 1-3PM at Otterbein Pavilion. Food, fun,

and entertainment are all part of the line up! Come and have a great time!

June 19 4-8PM Sign up to donate at: www.donortime.com

Sign up to help serve refreshments to donors. The sign up sheet is on the table in the Worship Center.

Covenant is having a “Father’s Day” picnic in the park at Patricia Allyn Park on

Route 48 just south of 73. The fun starts at 4PM. Bring a side dish to share as meat will be provided.

Come on out and have a great time! Bring your father too!

June 23 7PM

Come out and watch the Dragons play Bowling Green. For $11.00 you get your ticket, a baseball hat and $5.00 worth

of concessions! Hard to beat! Sign up today!!

Join Amicae Circle on June 26 as we continue our study of “Confessing the Beatitudes.” We

will be discussing lesson 9. In this lesson, Jesus calls us to take the joyful risk of putting our honor and life on the line for his sake and

the sake of the gospel.

Mark your calendar for June 11, 6:30 p.m. here at Covenant. We will be

discussing lesson #10 from Max Lucado’s book of James. We will also be deciding on what we would like to study next. Do you have a good

suggestion? Come and share your ideas! Please see Linda Eaton for more information.

This will be our last lesson in this series. We meet monthly here at Covenant at 1PM. We welcome all women to

join our group as we learn and enjoy fellowship together. See Barb Mourouzis if you have any questions.

Ladies, join us for High Tea at Unique Celebrations in Centerville on

June 23 at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $15.00 per person. Sign up by 6/16. Enjoy a great lunch and

delicious tea. Bring a friend, too! Please see Barb Mourouzis if you

have any questions or check out their website at www.uniquecelebrationshop.com.

Traditional Service Usher/Greeter (Carole Hepp) 03 Bill & JoAnn West 10 The Butler Family 17 The Butler Family 24 The Butler Family Contemporary Service Usher/Greeter (Loretta Sebastian) 03 TBA 10 TBA 17 one service 24 one service Counters (Debbie Shear) 03 Tim Knoth & Debbie Shear 10 Ken Shear & Le’Anne Leahy 17 Bill Ilg & Tom Sebastian 24 Debbie Shear & Mary White Nursery (Stephanie Butler) Traditional Contemporary 03 Erica Hicks TBA 10 Erica Hicks TBA 17 TBA (one service) 24 TBA (one service) Children’s Church Pre/K (Yvonne Craycraft) Traditional Contemporary 03 Erica Hicks Yvonne Craycraft 10 Erica Hicks Yvonne Craycraft 17 Erica Hicks (one service) 24 Yvonne Craycraft (one service)

Children’s Church Traditional (Becky Hegwood) 1-6 03 Loretta Sebastian 10 Loretta Sebastian 17 Jen Knoth (one service) 24 Becky Hegwood (one service) Children’s Church Contemporary (Becky Hegwood) 1-6 03 Maureen Justice 10 Maureen Justice 17 Jen Knoth (one service) 24 Becky Hegwood (one service)

Service Schedule for June

Fellowship 03 10 Carole & Jim Hepp 17 The Leahy Family 24

VBS will be July 30-Aug. 3 from 9-11:30 each day. Get ready for a fantastic week of fun, food, crafts, and

learning all about God’s love! Register your child now at: www.groupsvbspro.com/vbs/ez/cpc2012

Be sure and stop by the table in the narthex to sign up to help out this summer. Donations are needed

as well. You always make the difference in Covenant’s VBS program being the best in town!

The SKY’S the limit!

starts June 17 and goes through September 2. It will start each

week at 10:00 a.m. We go back to two services on Sept. 9.

Don’t forget!!

For more information on joining one of our small groups here at Covenant, call the Church office

at 937-748-0272.

Sun Mon T

Please email any updates and articles to the secretary at: cpcsecretary@sbcglobal.net

3 9:30 & 11:00 AM Worship & Children’s Church 6:30 PM SNSG

4 5-7:30 PM Weight Watchers

5 7:00 AM Men

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9:30 & 11:00 AM Worship & Children’s Church 6:30 PM SNSG

11 5-7:30 PM Weight Watchers 6:30 PM Growing in Grace 7:00 PM Youth Ministry

12 7:00 AM Men 6:30 PM Adm

17 10:00 AM Summer Worship & Children’s Church 4PM All Church Picnic at Patricia Allyn Park

18 5-7:30 PM Weight Watchers

19 7:00 AM Men 6:30 PM Sess

24 10:00 AM Summer Worship & Children’s Church

25 5-7:30 PM Weight Watchers 7PM Deacons

26 7:00 AM Men 1:00 PM Amic

Birthdays and Anniversaries are published with your

permission only. In an effort to update our list, please notify

the office of your families’ special dates, especially if you are new to our fellowship. We

want to include you!

June Birthdays 1 Megan Neumann Rachel Wayne Wanda Huntley 3 Matt Howard Pam Goins Leandra Hess Alex Spaeth 6 Sara Craycraft Melinda Neumann 10 Myrtle Edens 11 Daniel Gardner 13 Eric Grecula 15 Diane Howard Laci Van Scoy Luke Van Scoy 19 Ken Craycraft 24 Emma Hicks 27 Corinna Justice 30 Jacob Tibbits

June Anniversaries 5 Frank & Karyn Catrine 12 Steve & Michelle Teska 16 Bill & Nina Henderson 19 George & Barb Mourouzis

Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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2 7-9:30 AM Weight Watchers 1-3PM Young at Heart Picnic

at McDonalds 6 10:00 AM Bible Study 26:45 PM Choir Practice 8:00 PM Praise Band

7 9:30-11:30 AM Weight Watchers

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9 7-9:30 AM Weight Watchers

at McDonalds inistration

13 10:00 AM Bible Study 6:45 PM Choir Practice 8:00 PM Praise Band

14 9:30-11:30 AM Weight Watchers 7 PM Hegwood Bible Study

15 16 7-9:30 AM Weight Watchers

at McDonalds sion

20 10:00 AM Bible Study 6:45 PM Choir Practice 8:00 PM Praise Band

21 9:30-11:30 AM Weight Watchers 1PM CPW Team

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23 7-9:30 AM Weight Watchers 11:30 AM CPW High Tea 7 PM Dayton Dragons

at McDonalds cae Circle

27 10:00 AM Bible Study 6:45 PM Choir Practice 8:00 PM Praise Band

28 9:30-11:30 AM Weight Watchers 7PM Hegwood Bible Study

29 30 Please email any updates and articles to the secretary at:

Financial Info

Operating

April Year-to-date Receipts 2012 $17,030 $49,827 Expenditures 2012 - $14,217 -$45,278 Balance in Reg. Operating Fund $2,813 $4,549

Thank you for your gifts and continued support!

Mortgage Reduction

April Year-to-date Receipts 2012 $2,872 $8,348 Expenditures 2012 - $3,128 -$8,399 Difference -$256 -$51 April Year-to-date Other Receipts: Per Capita paid by members $176.52 $1,359.13

Want to be a Member of CPC?

On any given Sunday we have families, large and small (sometimes as small as one!), worshipping with us who have never officially joined Covenant. Are you one of those

families? Are you interested in taking the step to become a communicant member? If so, let me know. I would like to schedule a time when a group can get together and

talk about church membership, meet with the session, and join the church.

I have scheduled a couple of these gatherings recently, but the times never seemed to work for those interested in joining. So I thought I’d try this new approach. Let’s see

who is interested and I’ll try to schedule around your schedules! Will that work? Let me know your wishes.

Thanks - Ken

June Services

Office Hours

The Pastor’s day off is Monday and the office is closed. Pastor Ken is here most mornings Tuesdays through Fridays. Frequently in the afternoons, he makes visits.

Our secretary is generally in the office Tuesday through Friday from 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. Phone: (937) 748-0272 & (937) 748-4734 Fax: (937) 748-4734

If you would like to have your concern lifted to the Lord through the Prayer Chain, contact Ken Howard (748-0272), or Debbie Shear (Kshear@woh.rr.com/748-2809). Please pray for: Jon Gardner as he recovers from kidney transplant surgery. Bob and Betty Robinson. All of our military men & women and their families. Mary Ann Lashley. Wanda Huntley as she recuperates from surgery. Bill Madison as he regains strength in his legs. Nina Henderson, who is trying to find the cause of her headaches. Mike & Ella Wentzel. Rod Dillon, Jim & Carole Hepp’s son-in-law, as he awaits a lung transplant.

Church Staff Rev. Ken Howard Pastor Alysia Fuchs Youth Director Janet Wayne Church Secretary Kim Denney Music/Choir Director Susan Pfeiffer Pianist/Organist Mary White Treasurer Debbie Shear Financial Secretary Cam’s Cleaning Svc. Custodian Covenant’s Email Addresses kencpc@sbcglobal.net cpcsecretary@sbcglobal.net www.covenantspringboro.com

Special Dates June 3 Trinity Sunday June 14 Flag Day June 17 Father’s Day June 20 First Day of Summer!

June 3 – “Get Going!” (John 20:1-18) Our Youth will be leaving for Charleston, WV today for their mission trip. June 10 – “Amazing Grace” (John 21:15-19) June 17 – “Who Is Really King?” (I Samuel 8:1-22 and John 19:12-16) June 24 – “Defining Marriage” (Genesis 2:18-25 and Mark 10:1-9)

THANKS, DAD!

Pittsburgh, PA! Many of you know we have several families who have called, and in fact still do call, Pittsburgh home. I remember my first trip to Pittsburgh. It was the summer of 1977 and Diane and I were traveling east to visit the Presbyterian seminaries at Pittsburgh and Princeton, NJ, trying to determine where I would attend seminary. We were driving northeast through rolling hills toward Pittsburgh on I-279 (now called I-376 as well). We went through a tunnel and, coming out the north side, we suddenly were faced with downtown Pittsburgh. What a sight – the stadium (Three Rivers is where the Pirates and Steelers played then), the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers to form the Ohio River, and downtown Pittsburgh! Wow! Impressive! Why am I mentioning Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh is an important place for the Presbyterian Church (USA) this summer. The 220th General Assembly of the PC(USA) will be meeting there from June 30 through July 7. Nearly 700 commissioners from around the country will gather to debate, discuss, and take action that will affect Presbyterians around the country. There is one particular issue that will indeed be a hot topic and will certainly hit the national news: the definition of marriage. Currently our Book of Order says this about marriage: Marriage is a gift God has given to all humankind for the well-being of the entire

human family. Marriage is a civil contract between a woman and a man. For Christians marriage is a covenant through which a man and a woman are called to live out together before God their lives of discipleship. In a service of Christian marriage a lifelong commitment is made by a woman and a man to each other, publicly witnessed and acknowledged by a community of faith. (W-4.9001)

The General Assembly this summer will hear various overtures that wish to change the definition of marriage in our Book of Order to a civil contract between two people. These overtures would delete every reference to “man and woman” and replace that phrase with “two people.” This is certainly a significant change, to say the least! Overtures to confirm or even strengthen the current statement are also expected. On Sunday, June 24, my sermon title will be “Defining Marriage.” I will be sharing my understanding of how scripture defines marriage as well as sharing with you the results of our session’s discussion on this issue (the elders meet Tuesday, June 19 – this issue will be discussed at that meeting). I hope you can be with us on the 24th. Please be praying for your session as well as me as this issue is discussed and preached. Keep the PC(USA) in your prayers as well as they gather in Pittsburgh. Ken

Worship Guide Deadline By 9:00 a.m. on the Tuesday before the Sunday you would like it to appear in the worship guide. Courier Newsletter Deadline June 15, 9:00 a.m. for the July edition. You may leave articles on the office desk or e-mail them to cpcsecretary@sbcglobal.net. Men’s Fellowship Men meet weekly at McDonalds every Tuesday morning from 7:00 - 7:30 a.m. Contact John Ritzinger (748-1437) if you have any questions. If you’ve never joined us, we would greatly welcome you! Administration Ministry Administration will meet on June 12 at 6:30 p.m. Contact David Payne for questions. (513-836-3464) Personnel Ministry The next meeting will be on an “as needed” basis. Contact George Mourouzis, (748-3049) for questions.

Adult Ministries The next meeting will be on an “as needed” basis. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Hegwood at (937) 885-1031. Session Session will meet on June 19 at 6:30 p.m. Prayer Partners We have a vital prayer ministry here at Covenant. We have an electronic prayer chain for those who would prefer to be notified of needs as they arise via email. To get connected in prayer through the internet, email Debbie Shear (Kshear@woh.rr.com). Outreach Ministry meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Contact Susan Stewart for questions. (937-746-3343) Youth Ministry meets the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Contact Erica Hicks for questions. (937-748-6352)

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Ken Howard Pastor Worship Services: 9:30 a.m. Traditional Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship Service 10:00 a.m. One service starting June 17 Children’s Church - Toddlers and children through 6th grade have age appropriate learning opportunities. Nursery - provided for ages 2 and under.

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