March 5, 2015 - Cordova Presbyterian Church

In this Issue:
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Daylight Savings THIS Saturday Mar 7
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World Day of Prayer THIS Friday March 6/RSVP for Weekday Lenten Service “field trips”
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Palm Sunday Cantata/RSVP for Wed Dinner Mar 11th/March coat collection
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What Lent is About/Pinecrest Event/Ronald McDonald House donations
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Birthdays, Calendar, Prayer Concerns
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The Bulletin Board—look for announcements, letters and volunteering.
Bits & Pieces
for March 5, 2015
Weekday Lenten Services….
Please join Rev. Ruth Lovell Bradham at the church to carpool for 2
“field trips” to Calvary Episcopal during this Lenten Season:
Reminder….
Daylight Savings Time
THIS Saturday March 7th
is Daylight Savings Time.
Remember to set your
clocks forward 1 hour
before you go to bed.
DATES
...Thursday, March 12th and Tuesday, March 24th
PLAN
...Meet at CPC at 10:00 am to consolidate cars for carpooling to downtown.
...Park at St. Mary’s Episcopal (it’s free and they have a shuttle to Calvary).
...Arrive at Calvary Episcopal around 11:00 am for Lunch.
...Lunch in the “Waffle Shop” from 11-11:45 am.
...Entrees range from $3-$10, desserts $4-$5 . If finances are an issue,
please see Ruth.
...Worship from 12:05-12:40 pm.
...Shuttle back to St. Mary’s immediately following worship.
...Arrive back at CPC around 2:00 pm.
Please RSVP by 9 am Wednesday March 11th and Monday March 23rd
to Rev. Ruth or the church office.
World Day of Prayer THIS FRIDAY March 6th, 2015
The first organized “day of prayer for the world” began February 20, 1920 and was organized
by women around the world to pray for world peace, missions, equality and justice.
Now, men, youth and children, along with women, from around the world gather collectively
to worship on the first Friday in March of each year.
Please join fellow Christians at St. George’s Episcopal Church 2425 S. Germantown Road
at 12:00 noon on March 6th for the World Day of Prayer 2015.
A light lunch reception will follow the service.
Posters are located on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall and also outside the Choir room.
Detailed information is located on the table in the narthex and outside the church office.
CANTATA REHEARSAL HAS BEGUN
The Choir
...Has begun practicing for their Palm Sunday Cantata which will be March 29th.
...If you would like to join in the singing or would like to play a rhythm instrument
during the Palm Sunday processional, please let Lori Kearney know.
The Kids
...Will start practicing the processional as well.
...They will be singing and marching with the choir, so we would love to have as many
kids join us as possible!
...The children have begun practicing and will continue to practice in their classroom
with Lexi Terwilliger after the kids’ sermon. This will continue every Sunday
between now and Palm Sunday in addition to working on special crafts and
learning all about Palm Sunday and Easter.
Come join the fun and get to know our church family!
This Sunday’s Fellowship
Clay & Lori Kearney
3/15 Lee & Winnie
3/22 Cindy Green
3/29 Open
4/5
Easter Breakfast
This Sunday’s Nursery VolunteerPam Spencer
3/15 Joy Walker
3/22 Corey Morgan
3/29 Pam Spencer
4/5
Joy Walker
Wednesday Night Dinner Menu & Program ...
Please RSVP now for Wednesday dinner March 11th.
Dinner is at 6:00 pm, Program is from 6:40—7:10 pm.
Cost per adult is $5, children under 12 years will be half price.
RSVP by signing the pew pads, call or email the church office.
Dinner Menu & Program:
Mar 11: Ham, cheese grits, cranberry slaw, biscuits, cherry cobbler.
Program: Saints, Shamrocks & Snakes...oh my! The History of Saint Patrick’s Day. (All encouraged to wear green)
Mar 18: Poppy-seed chicken, rice, spinach salad, rolls, brownies.
Program: “...baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.” (Matt. 28:19b)
Mar 25: Meat loaf, hash-brown casserole, cabbage, Artisan bread, pie.
Program: Making Holy Week a Little Holier.
What is Lent All About?
This is what the season of Lent is about, about being born again, about following the path of death
and resurrection, about participating in Jesus' final journey. To become somewhat more concrete,
some of us may need to die to specific things in our lives perhaps to a behavior that has become
destructive or dysfunctional, perhaps to a relationship that has ended or gone bad, perhaps to an
unresolved grief or to a stage in our life that it is time to leave, perhaps to our self preoccupation, or
even to a deadness in our lives (you can die to deadness.) It is possible to leave the land of the dead.
So, the journey of Lent is about being born again about dying and rising, about mortality and
transformation.
On Ash Wednesday, we Christians are traditionally reminded of our own mortality in a very vivid way,
as the ashes are marked on our foreheads in the sign of the cross. In the sign of the cross we hear the
words spoken over us, "Dust thou art and to dust thou wilt return." This is a reminder not just of our
physical mortality, but of the very path of Lent itself. We begin this season of Lent not only reminded
of our death but marked for death, and that path of death is about our transformation.
The journey of Lent is about being born again by participating in the death and resurrection of Jesus,
about that journey from Galilee to Jerusalem. The journey of Lent with its climax in Good Friday and
Easter, is about embarking on the way of Jesus on that path of mortality and transformation that is at
the very center of the Christian life. When you think of it, who of us does not yearn for this? Who of
us does not yearn for a fuller connection to life? Who does not yearn for an identity that releases us
from anxiety and self preoccupation? To be born again, it seems to me, corresponds to our deepest
yearning. May we this Lent experience that internal transformation that is at the center of the
Christian life. May we experience being born again.
Copyright ©2002 Dr. Marcus J. Borg
In the month of March we are collecting new and clean,
gently used coats for all ages and sizes.
They will be used in Worship on Palm Sunday (March 29)
and donated to charity after Easter (April 5).
Pinecrest Upcoming Event……
March 20—21
Please leave them in the Fellowship Hall during the week..
Spring Camp Out
6:00 pm Friday—10:30 am Saturday…
$40/adult, $30/child (covers lodging, activities, food).
FOR ELEMENTARY—AGED KIDS and their favorite grown-up!
To RSVP and for Additional Information contact [email protected].
Print outs are posted on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall.
This Week’s Calendar
Friday—March 6 World Day of Prayer
12:00 pm St. George Episcopal Church
Wednesday—Mar 11
6:00 pm Dinner
6:40 pm Program
7:15 pm Choir
Saturday—March 7
Daylight Savings time begins.
Set your clocks forward 1 hour
before you go to bed.
Thursday—March 12
10:00 am Meet at church to
carpool to Calvary Episcopal
This Sunday—Mar 8 Lent III
9:30 am Choir
10:30 am Worship
11:30 am Fellowship
11:45 am Session
12:00 pm Choir Comm. Mtg.
Sunday—March 15 Lent IV
10:00 am Choir
10:30 am Worship
11:30 am Fellowship
11:45 am PW
Tuesday—Mar 10
11:00 am Senior Bingo
The Ronald McDonald
House….
Is always in need of
donations.
You will find the giving tree
with items needed for
donations in the Fellowship
Hall on the counter.
Thank you for your help.
Bulletin Board
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See Bulletin Board outside Choir Room for Music related Events and Announcements.
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See Bulletin Board in Fellowship Hall for Fellowship and
Flower sign-ups, special Letters for Church members,
current event announcements and special recognitions.
Prayer Concerns
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Family of
Fanelle Maddux who passed away last week.
Church Family:
Martha Drew
Richard Schwam
Helen Kintner
Nikkie Patton
Bob Brasfield
Kati McGoldrick (recovery from surgery)
Friends:
George Hobaugh (brother of Pat Wainwright)
This week we are also praying for**
Ann Chapman, George & Jan Colgate, Christina Collins (Alexa, Sean), Gordon Coughlin, Johnny
& Marie Crawford, Martha Drew, as well as their extended families.
**We will lift each member in our prayers for two weeks of every year.