Northminster News

Summer 2011Northminster Presbyterian

Sunday ScheduleMay 29 - July 31

9:00 AM - Sunday School 9:00 - Opening Worship for everyone in the sanctuary.

9:15 - Divide into classes

10:10 AM - Coffee, snacks,fellowship, and choir

10:30 AM - Worship

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MOMENT FOR MISSION 5 June 2011

HEIFER PROJECT

Father's Day Cards

Father's

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that can be presented to themen of any age in your life to

honor them on Father's Day onJune 5th and June 12th at the welcome desk.Do you know someone who is “busy as abee”? someone who is a “lamb” in personal-ity? or is he a lovable “old goat”?

We will have a variety of cards that conveyyour appreciation of the gentlemen in yourlife. For a suggested donation of $5.00 each,you will have a colorful card directly from theHeifer website. Heifer will greatly benefit byour gifts. Heifer does such a great job in help-ing people help themselves.

Come see us on June 5th and 12th beforeand after church.

PENTECOST OFFERINGJune 12, 2011

At Pentecost we celebrate the coming of theHoly Spirit as the bringer of new life. Be-cause of the Spirit’s coming, we no longerhave to depend on ourselves but can knowthe transforming and creative love of Godthat makes the impossible possible.The Pentecost Offering is one of our fourannual churchwide Special Offerings of thePCUSA. Through it, we bring God’s trans-forming love to children at risk. We helpGod and nurture the faith of Presbyterianyoung people, and we equip a new gen-eration of church leader-ship through the PCUSAYouth Adult VolunteerProgram.The 40% of the offeringthat stays in our congre-gation will go to our localFavor House, a familyabuse and protection cen-ter, for their "Paths to Safety" project.This years theme, “So I Send You” (John20:21), reminds us that, as Jesus was sentby God to heal a hurting world, we alsoare called to that task. We are called to acton the basis of our faith.Through our generous gifts to the Pente-cost Offering, we can make tangible, posi-tive changes in our church, our communityand our world.

COVENANT HOSPICE

Life's A DanceJune 17, 2011Saenger Theater

An elegant evening of show-stoppingdance featuring performers from ABC's"Dancing wih the Stars" and local celeb-rity dancers.

Tickets available onlinefrom ticket-master.com or at the Saenger Box Office.

FAVORHOUSE

On Sunday, June 5, the featured mission will be Favor House, a safe havenfor victims of family abuse. Sue Hand, Director, will bring us up to date onits activities, including a special child center being developed for the manytramatized children who arrive with their mothers.

Your Mission Committeewill be offering Heifer Cards

This gives us a temporary surplus, $13,730.76, of monies that wereallocated but not yet spent. Was informed we are about $13,119.00behind in our budgeted giving for the first third of the year. Ifgiving is not increased, this would put us some $39,357.00 be-hind for the year. Learned we currently have a total of$196,280.80 in our building fund accounts.

—we have about $1,500 worth of repairs scheduled for our air- handling units.—new member classes are being planned for Tammie Sue Caudill, Sharon Deyton and

Phyllis Ann Kuczora.—there are plans to increase the number of our deacons from 5 to 8.—the steel for our new building is to arrive June 2nd.—in addition to pouring a foundation for our new building we are investigating paving

17 May 2011Session received the following information:

—the Interim Pastor Search Committee hopes to bring us very goodnews in June.

—we have year-to-date revenues of $78,514.20 and expenses of $64,783.44.

the gravel parking in front of our church with concrete. This willprovide folks with handicaps much better parking and access andis thought to be within the budget allocated for the new building.No additional drainage will be needed as this area was originallydesignated as an impervious surface.

—οur new gas stove is to be installed shortly. The cost will be $700 to

SESSION MEETING

Meeting

Session

bring the hood up to code and $400 to connect the new stove.—our response to the recent tornados in the southern states is going

well. The donations of materials for Gift-of-the-Heart-Clean-upand Hygiene Kits will be assembled by Northminster and coor-dinated for delivery with those from Trinity and First Presbyte-rian. A volunteer group may go at a later date as part of the Pres-byterian Disaster Assistance Program.

—the Habitat Presbyterian house is completed. Northminster planson participating in next year’s house.

—Samuel L. Smith, Clerk of Session