March 8, 2010 by Birgit Chisholm under "The Buzz",
Wishing you all a good week and hoping you’ll be able to join us on Wednesday evenings for a soup supper and worship time.
Joys and Concerns
This week we ask prayers for Sue Mitchell. Her stem cell procedure did not work and she is awaiting further discussion on treatment. Also, please pray for travel mercies for Les Jackson as he heads to Florida for a much needed vacation! Tina Smith is working in Haiti; please continue to pray for her and her team as they minister to the people they meet there. Also continue to pray for those in our Sunday bulletin’s prayer corner. Read more »
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.’ Matthew 6:34
How true Jesus words are, we should not worry about tomorrow. But it is hard to take one day at a time. Jesus helps us put tomorrow in perspective in the verses before this advice. He reminds us that since God cares for the birds of the air, He cares even more for us. Then He tells us to seek first the kingdom of God. If our focus is on the things of God and we remember that God cares for us, we will worry less about tomorrow.
Announcements:
4th & 5th Grade Game Night – 4th and 5th graders are invited to a Game Night on FRIDAY, March 19th from 6:30-8:00 in the Youth House. Please bring a friend and a snack to share! Please email S.Silvern@hrcrca.org, if you are able to come.
VBS Planning Meeting – If you’d like to help prepare for VBS, please join us this THURSDAY at 10:00 in the Community Room. This week we will be working on decorations.
Children at the Table – Classes for children who desire to share in communion and have expressed faith in Jesus Christ will be held on March 18th and March 25th at 4:30. Please contact me at S.Silvern@hrcrca.org or call 227-1965, if you have any questions or if your child would like to participate.
VBS – Save the week of August 16th – 20th for SonQuest Rainforest VBS!
Registration starts May 1st. Read more »
for Mid-Hudson Love INC’s 2nd Annual Cookie Walk on Saturday, March 27th. Bakers are needed to bake 4-5 dozen (or more!) home-made, specialty cookies. We would also like to have a couple of volunteers to coordinate delivery of the cookies to Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church on Friday, March 26th between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. People are also needed to help at the event: set up Friday from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. and during the day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. Sign-up sheets are at the Welcome Kiosk in the Fellowship Hall. CONTACT Karen Gomba for further information or visit www.mid-hudsonloveinc.org.
This is a great way to find out more about the organization and its wonderful ministries. It will be held on Sunday, March 14th from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Fishkill. It’s a casual drop-in Open House with tours of the Personal Care Pantry every 15 minutes, and light refreshments available. The Annual Meeting at 4:15 will include inspiring testimony and exciting challenges, and if you’ve been volunteering and have not been to a training session, or you’re open to becoming a Love INC volunteer, join us at 3:15 or 4:45 for one of our Volunteer Orientation sessions. CONTACT Karen Gomba for further information or visit www.mid-hudsonloveinc.org.
There are some additional ways that you can contribute to our CMP ministry, besides actually working on homes. Please consider volunteering to help with one of these positions:
Expense Tracking Coordinator– work with our site leads to keep track of our onsite expenditures, fill out expense forms, make sure receipts are turned in, and report to the CMP team on expenses for each site.
Lunch Coordinator: - make sure that the work teams have lunch provided
Donated Material Coordinator - keep track of what has been donated or offered to CMP in terms of materials, appliances, cars, etc. and where they are.
Site Evaluator- do technical evaluations of work to be done on new site applications
Visitor Coordinator - make sure we have a visitor for each new site. CMP visitors are people who go to new sites to spend time with and listen to the resident.
Sign up on your Connection Card. If you have any questions, please CONTACT Karen Gomba or Kevin Warren.
Saturday, March 20th at 5:30 PM HRC will once again be hosting a Christian Passover Seder. We will learn about our Judeo-Christian roots through a feast and celebration of the exodus out of Egypt. Bring family, friends, and a healthy appetite. A free will offering will be taken. CONTACT Leslie MacConnell (226-4920).
Welcome Wesley
“O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.” (Psalm 98:1)
Chalk it up to the latest evidence of God’s providence; we are hiring Wesley Joseph to be our organist and choir director. God has done marvelous things! Read more »
ONE: It is cold and dark and Jill, Kyle and I are leaving the hospital after his last surgery. We cross over the Sprain Brook Parkway and come to a long line of cars. This never happens this late at night. Horns start blaring. Cars start swerving into the on coming lane. It is our turn. I pull around the lady sitting in her Audi frantically trying to start it. My son just had major surgery and we needed to get home. Jill hits me on the arm and tells me to turn around. Long story short, I take up another lane as I move in beside the Audi, hook up to her battery and get enough juice for her to get out of the middle of the road so she can wait for her friend. Even with hoods up, flashers blinking and me standing outside with a flashlight, cars blare their horns and give us dirty looks (Too dark to see any other jesters!). Thirty minutes and we are on our way. Read more »
Hope you are all warm and toasty on this first day of March! Wishing you all a good week and hoping you’ll be able to join us on Wednesday evenings for a soup supper and worship time.
Joys and Concerns
This week we ask prayers for all those in our community that worked and are still working to bring back everyone’s electricity! This is surely an exhaustive job and we appreciate you all! Read more »
Classes for children who desire to share in communion and have expressed faith in Jesus Christ will be held on March 18th and March 25th at 4:30. Children will share in communion at the Maundy Thursday service on April 1st at 7:30 PM. Please CONTACT Sheryle Silvern.
