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SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
10:30 AM through June 24th
SUMMER SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
at 9:30 AM
REGULARLY SCHEDULED WEEKLY MEETINGS:
SUNDAY ADULT BIBLE STUDY 12:00 NOON
FRIDAY MORNING ADULT BIBLE STUDY 10:30 AM
Wednesday 2 pm Pastor Fred’s Lectionary
Bible Study
YOUTH GROUP - Youth Group Meets Friday Evenings 7:30 PM
“Friday Night Live”
(see Youth Group Happenings for dates)
Chancel Choir Rehearsals—Sundays 9:30 AM & Thursdays 8:00 PM
“FRIENDSHIPS OF WOMEN” - Sundays
6:30 PM—8:30 PM
A weekly woman’s group for Bible Study, fellowship, and prayer. If you are a woman and want to grow in faith and love, we encourage you to come (particularly if you are not already part of a small group). For more information, contact Diane Hartmann, 631-673-8104.
REGULARLY SCHEDULED MONTHLY MEETINGS:
Personnel 7:30 PM—First Tuesday /Month
Deacons 7:30 PM—First Tuesday /Month
Committees
7:30 PM—Second Tuesday/Month
Session 7:30 PM—Third Tuesday /Month
Women’s Circle Meetings
Grace Circle Fourth Monday of each month,
2:00 PM—TBD
Joy Circle Second Thursday of each month
1:00 PM—Parlor
Lectionary Bible Study
Beginning on Wednesday May 4th, Pastor Fred will be hosting an afternoon Lectionary Bible Study. In a Lectionary Bible Study, church members (and friends) gather around the biblical texts that come before the congregation each week in worship. They discover a bit more about not only what the biblical text brings to them, but also the specific questions and concerns that they bring to the Bible.
This study will not be the forum for expert opinions delivered from on high, but a humble gathering of the faithful before the word of God. The hope is that all the participants, including the pastor, will rediscover in communal study the transformative power of the Bible to shape Christian life.
Lectionary studies have another recognizable benefit. They help pastors become better preachers by helping them to better understand the congregations they serve. As Thomas Long has once remarked, “when preachers go to scripture, they must take the people with them, for what will be heard is a word for them.” Lectionary studies help preachers take their people with them wherever they go.
If you think such an informal bible study might be of interest you, come and see. Our first meeting will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 4th, in the parlor.
Men’s Bible Study to Begin
We are starting a Men’s Bible Study Group
on Thursday, January 12, 2012 from 7pm-8pm. We will continue meeting every Thursday at the same time. This is open to any men who would like to study the Bible and share their thoughts and experiences with others. Any questions call Roger Kaufmann at 631-651-9091.
BIBLE STUDY
Bible study is held every Friday morning at 10:30 for both men and women. During this time we discuss passages in the Bible, magazine articles, devotionals, and DVDs and share our thoughts about what the article means to us. We welcome everyone whether you are a member or a guest of the church.
A men's Bible study group is meeting every Thursday evening at 7 PM. During this time we will discuss Bible passages as well as current issues that concern men. Everyone is welcome and feel free to bring friends to share in our discussions.
Scouting Recognition Sunday- February 12, 2012 In February 2012, Scouting in the United States turns 102! As part of our celebration of more than a century of scouting as well as the relationship our church is privileged to share with Pack and Troop 877, we will recognize Scouting Recognition Sunday in worship on February 12th. Eagle Scout Cole Ellenbogen, as well as one of our congregation’s very own Eagle Scout, Andrew Schweighardt (who, in December, successfully defended his PhD dissertation!) have been invited to speak. Come join us as we celebrate more than a century of Scouting, recognize Eagle Scouts who have completed their projects at our
church over the past years, and affirm our
special relationship with the boys of
Pack/Troop 877.
Lenten Soup Suppers
As we enter the Lenten season we reflect on the life of our Savior, Jesus. Ash Wednesday falls on February 22, when we start our Lenten soup suppers. Please join us every Wednesday from February 22nd to March 28th at 6:30 pm. If you are able, please either bring a soup or some bread for everyone to share together.
There is so much about you that lets others see God’s goodness and love shinning through.
That’s why this THANK-YOU is really a prayer that HIS blessings will shine upon you!
Thank you so much for your generous giving at Christmas time to my friends at Carillon Nursing Home. God Bless you! Maria Hottinger
Joint Worship with the
Ebenezer Wesleyan Church
On October 2, 2011, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenlawn joined with members of the Ebenezer Wesleyan Church up in the C.E. hall to celebrate World Communion Sunday. What a worship-full experience we had in each other’s company. And what amazing hospitality!
As I later wrote Pastor Rochemond, the coffee hour fellowship our Haitian brothers and sisters hosted for us would have put most Presbyterian churches to shame. But the hospitality we experienced exemplified a generosity of the Spirit, further testimony to the will of our Lord who prayed that we may all be one.
And so we discovered, as we often do in our mission relationships, that although we sometimes suppose ourselves to be the benefactors, we are really the ones on the receiving end, recipients of the triune love of God in the neighbors God has given us to love.
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Deacons’ Corner
When tempted to lose patience
with others
Remember God’s patience with you.
Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up.
1 Corinthians 13:4
“To Know Christ and to Make Him Known”
The Deacons
Valentine’s Day Bake-Sale
It’s that time of year again for our
Annual Bake Sale
February 12, 2012
Please support this event again with your delicious, special, goodies.
Thank you for your support each year!
God Bless You!
Maria Hottinger
Christian Coffee House
We will be hosting a Coffee House on Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 PM in the Christian Education room. We will be featuring Christian music with the Spirit Lifters and Ray Melograne singing. Admission is $5.00 and a love offering will be taken. Refreshments will be served. We have hosted both groups in the past and you will be entertained with great, original, Christian music.
Hosted by the Congregational
Care Committee
A Reflection on the Season of Lent
Although Lent signifies for us a time of penitence and renewal, it was also a time during which candidates were prepared for baptism at Easter. Lent remains a special season to focus upon what it means to be a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ and to reaffirm our baptismal identity.
Because the Lenten journey is from the ashes of death to resurrected life, both the Protestant and the Catholic traditions have therefore recognized the sign of ashes. As the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship reminds the community of the faithful, “this ancient sign speaks of the frailty and uncertainty of human life, and marks the penitence of the (Christian) community.”
Not all Presbyterians choose to participate in the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday, but all of us do well to recognize the deep significance of this very potent symbolism. In ancient Israel, the symbol of ashes reminded the people of God of both the pervasiveness of human sin and the inevitability of human death. This emblem of grief and mourning has been adopted by the Christian church to signal our needful reliance in all things upon the grace of God.
As you make your journey to the cross as an Easter people, may the grace of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Submitted by Pastor Fred “For dust you are, and to dust you shall return” (Gen 3:19).
PRAYER CORNER
January 2012
PRAYER
Father, give me the wisdom to know how to pray for others—
with kindness, not criticism; with love, not anger;
with grace, not judgment.
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS
~Norman Vincent Peale
“The way to happiness:
Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much.
Scatter sunshine.
Forget self, think of others.
Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
A NEW DIRECTION
~Ruth Stafford Peale
“Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts.
It may be very difficult, but try another day
until it becomes habitual,
and life will move in the direction
of becoming healthy, vital and alive.”
ON LOVE
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu~
(6th century BC )
philosopher of ancient China and central figure in Taoism
It's easy to fall in love.
The hard part is finding someone to catch you
~Bertrand Russell~
(May 18, 1872– February 2, 1970)
British philosopher, historian, logician,
Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
Love is that condition in which
The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
~Robert A. Heinlein ~
( July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988)
American novelist
The first duty of love - is to listen
~Paul Tillich~
(August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965)
German American theologian, Christian existentialist philosopher
submitted by Betty Chatfield
Are You Considering Church Membership?
Are you curious about membership in the church? Would you like a comfortable, “no-pressure” setting in which to explore what membership in the church might mean for you?
Beginning on Sunday, August 7th, and continuing through the four Sundays of August, I will set aside time after Sunday worship to meet in a casual setting with those interested in or contemplating church membership. Attendance at these Sunday meetings need not be consecutive.
Here is a chance to ask those questions you were too afraid to ask: Why do we worship the way we do? What are our historical roots? How do we relate to other churches and/or other faith traditions? What are our distinctive theological beliefs? How is our church organized and governed? Who gets to make what decisions? What are the privileges and responsibilities of membership?
Come and be a part of the conversation!
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