April 15, 2009

The Women’s A.M. Circle is planning its own version of Antiques Road Show. All women are invited to join us this Friday, April 17, at 9:30 a.m. in the parlor. If you’d like, bring 3 of your favorite antiques to be identified and appraised by our resident experts, Marie Shepherd and Betty Pitts.

Fellowship Event: The Deacons are planning an outing to hear the Wheaton College Gospel Choir this Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Coray Auditorium. There is a sign-up sheet in the narthex, but it is only to indicate who might be attending the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the door the night of the concert. Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. Those who attended last year’s concert are looking forward to hearing the performance again this year. (Coray Auditorium is in the Beamer Center on the Wheaton College campus.)

This Sunday in worship we’ll have “Second Collection” as our special musical guests! This group of musicians from St. James the Apostle Catholic Church includes our own Paul Jeziorski on bass and Linda Jeziorski on vocals. We welcome them to our service!

At last – the time has come! This Sunday, April 19th, beginning at 5:30, the long awaited Southminster Talent Show and Pasta Dinner will happen! Come enjoy delicious food, delightful entertainment, and donate to a fine and worthy cause. Cost is $5 per adult, $3 for youth ages 4 to 17. No charge for children 3 and under.

From Christian Ed.: This year’s Easter Celebration turned out to be such a joyous event! Thank you to everyone on the Christian Ed. Committee, Property Committee, and all others who were involved in making this day God-honoring and memorable. A special thanks to Chris Kozich and Betsy Rogers for their overall coordination.
June 14 is the beginning of our Summer Sunday School. We will do a one-room Sunday School program for thirteen weeks filled with Bible stories, games and activities. If you are interested in teaching or helping for all or just part of the summer, please contact Laura Baer at smpcce@ameritech.net or 630-469-9149.
Youth Sunday, May 10! Sunday School parents, please mark your calendars for a special rehearsal on Saturday May 9 from 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., and 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 10, before the service.
Pennies 4 PADS: Our children are attempting to collect a mile’s worth of pennies (84,480) to donate to our PADS mission. We collected 5,506 more pennies this week. That brings the grand total to 58,117, or 68.8% of the total. Please keep bringing in your extra pennies; there is a collection box in the narthex. With your help, we might even make it by the end of our Sunday school year!

Our Adult Education class will continue the lectionary-based Bible study this Sunday with the following passages: Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31. Consider joining us in the parlor on Sundays following worship, if you have not so far. There is nothing like a good group and the Good Book. –Blair

Just a reminder: Monday, April 20, is the deadline for the May Dialog.

Every year we spend the last Saturday in April rehabbing the home of a needy family in Aurora through Rebuilding Together Aurora (formerly Christmas in April). No special skills are required because there are always many basic cleaning and yard care things that need to be done. However, if you happen to have any special skills, our House Captain Norm Ellsworth would like to know about them in advance for planning purposes. We are also anxious to know your job preferences ahead of time, so look for our sign-up sheets in the narthex. Norm is gathering a team to do preliminary work this coming Saturday, and there may be some follow-up work to do after the 25th, so even if you can’t come on the main work day, contact Norm – there may be another day or way that you can help.

We’ve received an invitation from Jessica Henks... After she graduated from seminary last spring, she left Southminster to accept a call from a church in Kankakee. She has now passed her ordination exams and will be ordained in May – and we are invited! The service will be Sunday, May 3, at 4:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Kankakee, 1756 W. Route 113, Kankakee, IL 60901. A reception will follow the service.

As you do your spring cleaning and come upon things that you no longer want or need, SAVE THEM for the Rummage Sale the weekend of May 16. Our youth will be happy to recycle your stuff in another fundraiser for the summer mission trip. We have no place to store things here at church, so please hold on to your donations until after worship on May 10. Please, no clothing or items that require costly recycling or disposal if not sold (i.e. computers). Questions? Ask Blair Nelson (email smpcyouth@ameritech.net or call 630-917-6035.

Susie Salins, who handles most of the church’s publicity, hopes you’ll keep your eyes open for articles about Southminster in the local papers. She’d love to have clippings of the articles that appear. If you see one, would you clip it and leave it for her in Ginny Kline’s mailbox (Membership Committee)? Susie tries to catch all of them, but some slip by... especially those in the Daily Herald. Thanks in advance!