Next Sunday, and the first Sunday of every month, is the day we bring offerings for the People’s
Women’s Breakfast meets the first Monday of the month - May 4 - at 8:00 a.m. at IHOP in Danada East. New friends are always welcome!
The Rummage Sale cometh! We will begin accepting items for the Rummage Sale on May 10, after worship. Please contact Blair, at the church or at smpcyouth@ameritech.net, if you need help transporting items to the church. Also, if you have the vehicle and the time, contact Blair to help pick up and transport items. Plan to come, buy, and get washed and fed, on May 16 and 17. Let’s support our youth!
And this just in: Save your old, dirty, worn out, ready-to-throw-away adult and children’s gym shoes and bring them to the Rummage Sale. They will be donated to SCARCE in
From Christian Ed.:
Parents, mark your calendars for a special service on Mother’s Day/Youth Sunday, May 10. We will have two practices in the sanctuary: Saturday, May 9, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., and Sunday, May 10, at 8:45 a.m. Please have your child/children there promptly so they can be prepared for this memorable day.
We will do a one-room summer Sunday School beginning June 14. We will have lots of Gospel-filled stories and hands-on games and activities in store for a sun-shiny summer. We are also looking for teachers for the thirteen-week program. If you are interested in teaching for all or part of the summer, please contact Laura Baer at 630-469-9149 or smpcce@ameritech.net.
Our VBS 2009 theme is “Crocodile Dock!” Got stuff tucked away that might fit in with this theme? If you come across the following items while sorting through your belongings for the youth rummage sale, we could use them for VBS: Spanish moss, inflatable alligators (yes, really!), rope lights, green and blue material, fishing nets or other fishing equipment, bug catchers, lanterns, crates, greenery. Please contact Laura Baer at 630-469-9149 or at smpcce@ameritech.net with any donations.
There are four weeks left of the Easter season, as we anticipate Pentecost. Check out our library or a Christian book store for additional resources on keeping the Risen Lord in our hearts not only during the Easter season but throughout the year.
July 11-15, 2009 is the Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in
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 another 395 this week. That brings the total to 58,772, or 69.6% of our goal. 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 3:12-19, 1 John 3:1-7, Luke 24: 36-48. Join us and we’ll learn together. –Blair
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
The A.M. Circle’s May meeting will be a luncheon at
Welcome in any other language is...
This summer we will be upgrading our vestibule/entrance with a sign above the door that says, “Welcome Home.” We plan to have “welcome” written in several languages, as well. Do you have a particular language that you would like represented? If so, please let the office knew by May 18.
S.O.L.A.C.E. is having a breakfast reception with Pastor Wendy as our guest on Friday, May 22, at 10:00 a.m. S.O.L.A.C.E. means Sharing Our Love and Concern Effectively. The group was started in 1996 to support the widowed and to provide a social atmosphere. This reception is not limited to the widowed; we are also reaching out to anyone who needs to experience a friendly relationship with others. Contact Pat Petersen 630-690-1434 if you plan to attend.
On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend (May 24) we will remember those among us who have served in the armed forces. We don’t know the name of everyone who has served, and we don’t want to miss anyone. Please let the office know by email or phone if you have served in the armed forces. We are also looking for mementos such as letters, diaries, or even clothing. We would like to display these items on the Lord’s Table as demonstration of our lives as a gift to God.
The liturgical color for the Day of Pentecost – the birthday of the church – is red. We will decorate our sanctuary on Pentecost (Sunday, May 31) with red geraniums. The plants for $11.00 apiece and will look great transplanted to your garden after they’ve been seen here. Please sign up in the narthex by May 24. If you would like to have a geranium for Memorial/Decoration Day, you may order ahead of time.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) publishes an annual planning calendar. It has liturgical-themed art for each month, listings of lectionary readings, directories of PC (USA) offices, and notes about Presbyterian publications, mission materials, curriculum, and much more. (There is a sample copy in the office if you’d like to see one.) We will order these soon for the staff. If you would like one, they are $8.00 each. Please let us know by May 13.
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!
