Heritage Happenings - Heritage Christian Reformed Church
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Heritage Happenings - Heritage Christian Reformed Church
www.HeritageCRC.org Volume #11 Issue 15 April 8, 2012 Heritage Happenings Heritage Christian Reformed Church ● 2857 S 11th Street ● Kalamazoo MI 49009 Worship Fellowship Birthdays… Henrietta Mentor ~ April 8 ~ 97 years young! Zach Razenberg ~ April 8 Marge Booden ~ April 9 Richard Visser ~ April 11 Judy Wieringa ~ April 13 25th Anniversary: If you have a picture you are willing to loan or a memory you would like to share, please drop this by the Church office. WORSHIP CONVERSATIONS: When God Comes Calling: Welcome to study of men and women God engaged in conversation in both Old and New Testament, and how these moments changed people (or not). Today, April 8, Easter Sunday through Sunday, May 6 there will be no class. Class will resume again on Sunday, May 13 when we will look at Gideon (runts become warriors when God comes calling) & on May 20 we will look at Job (God bets on certain hearts?). Grab a cup of coffee and join us today from 10:55 to 11:50 in the choir room. All are welcome and don’t worry if you have missed previous classes ~ each lesson stands on its own. If you have any further questions, please see Amy Blackledge, who is leading this class. Congregational Meeting: A meeting of the congregation is scheduled for next Sunday, April 15 following the morning service to discuss and vote on the proposal from the Council to hire a part-time Youth Director. Orange District Potluck: A potluck will be held on Sunday, April 22 at noon. The Orange District consists of members Hegelmann through Stremler. Marge Booden or Jerry Oele will be contacting each of you in the next week or so to inquire how many are able to attend and what dish each family might be able to bring (salad, main dish, or dessert). Please call Marge or Jerry if you have questions or have not been contacted by April 14. Thank you We extend a big thank you to Norm Langeland for all his work behind the scenes in keeping our pulpit here at Heritage filled. Thanks for all your phone calling, emails, and follow up work Norm! Discipleship Men’s Bible Fellowship: our next Bible study will be THIS Wednesday, April 11 at 7 am. See you around the table! (Note the May meeting is Wednesday, May 9.) Nursery Coordinator Needed: We are looking for a new Nursery Coordinator to oversee the Heritage Church Nursery. After 4 years of ministry in this position, Dorothy Broekhuizen is stepping down and we thank her for her invaluable service to our children and families. Please contact Pastor Simon if you are interested in this ministry or if you would like more information! Children & Youth Sunday School: Please take note the Sunday School and catechism classes will not meet today, April 8 but will resume classes next week, April 15. Children and the Lord’s Supper: Two years ago the elders re-affirmed their commitment to the faith formation journey of our children and youth and what should be done to welcome children and youth to the Lord’s Supper. In keeping with this the elders encourage our parents to visit the Information Center and pick up a copy of the brochure Nurturing Your Child’s Faith: Leading Your Child to the Lord’s Supper. This guide is a resource for parents to help them discern the spiritual development of their children, to assess a child’s readiness to come to the Lord’s Table and the steps the shepherding elders will follow to ensure this process is a meaningful and joyful experience for the child, their parents and the congregation as a whole. If you have any questions, please contact one a shepherding elder or Pastor Simon. Evangelism & Missions Emails or Letters to Missionaries Ed & Karan Finch ~ Wayne DeYoung Nick & Stephanie Finch ~ Jimmy Lin Bruce & Ruth Fletcher ~ Joseph Mutebi Check out the latest news at the missionary table. If you do not have a copy of our missionairies’ email addresses, both their most current newsletter and email addresses are on the Missionary table right next to the mailboxes! Loaves & Fishes: Wish list: April: Pasta May: Pasta Sauce Please place your donations in the grocery cart in the fellowship hall Offerings and Tithes PM Offering is always for the General Fund April 8 General Fund Ministry Shares Loose Change Benevolence Fund April 15 General Fund Faith Promise Loose Change K-zoo Christian Sch April 22 General Fund Debt Reduction Loose Change Kids Alive April 29 General Fund Loose Change Wycliffe Bible Trans Requested Announcements Favorite Verses: In this week’s Letters from Prison, we explore favorite Bible verses of CBI students. Go to www.cbi.fm to listen to Crossroad Connection – a restorative justice ministry of Crossroad Bible Institute. I am the Bread of Life: Bread is a symbol of nutritional sustenance and satisfaction. So when Jesus calls himself the Bread of Life, that means he can satisfy all our needs. But do we really know what our needs are? Join the April 15th Groundwork conversation on John 6:25-40 to discuss what it means that Jesus is the bread of your life. Find a local radio station or listen online at www.GroundworkOnline.com. Three On Responsibility: If it isn’t Liz’s fault, then whose fault is it? Help Liz figure out responsibility on this week’s Kids Corner. Then check out www.kidscorner.net for devotions, puzzles, and more of Liz’s adventures. Birch Run & Frankenmuth Bus Trip: please join us for a wonderful day of shopping and see the sights of Frankenmuth on Saturday, April 28. Bus leaves promptly at 8 am from Calvary Church (7829 S. 5th Street, Mattawan, MI) & the cost is $35.00 per seat (payment confirms seat). The cost includes a continental breakfast. We will head home from Birch Run at 7 pm. Please call Lori Lacoss at 372-2851 to reserve your seat. All profits go toward an adult mission trip to Haiti. GRAVEYARDS Rodney J. Hugen Arlington is no longer. Its perfect rows of whitewashed markers blown a thousand miles away, all plowed up in furrowed ground, an awesome, massive rending. Fertile ragged soil, unkempt and wild, lies in heaped haphazard piles. Gettysburg is the same, the ancient battlefield newly scarred and ripped, torn and twisted, as if a thousand cannon balls had lashed the earth again. In Orleans town ancient sacred mausoleums crack and crumble, lie crushed in awful ruin as in Katrina's days. In Tombstone's sunlit desert Boot Hill is blown apart. Cowboys laid there, boots turned up, their epitaphs now gone, forgotten words found tangled in ravaged thorny weeds. Across the roiling seas, the greens of Normandy feel once again the gash of war, rocks and boulders tossed about, flowered fields quick overturned. All has gone amuck. In lands beyond the sun, Khmer's killing fields are carved asunder and further still Rwandan ditches open wide to brighting sun. Green Acres no longer green my father's grave open wide. On that great day we all will know: it's not just One who rises up! In Celebration of Resurrection Sunday and in memory of a loved one, the following have purchased an Easter Easter lily for our worship service this morning: Jim & Marian Razenberg ~ Evelyn Razenberg & Bill VanderMeer Simon & Heather Tuin ~ Emily Grace Tuin Jerry & Ruth Mather ~ parents & Diane Mather Dave & Carole Bickle ~ John & Ann Talsma and Franklin Bickle Ken & Judy Fletcher ~ Parents Ferrel & Marilyn Stremler ~ Ruth Stremler, Clarke DeKryger & Darrell Stremler Judy Wieringa ~ Mom, Dad, siblings Helen Selles ~ Bob (son) Selles & Bill (husband) Selles Phil & Barb Nieboer ~ Parents Vicki Kinens ~ family Roger & Jackie Croy ~ parents Angie Schippers ~ Bob Schippers Stephanie Finch ~ William Taylor Betty & Lisa Vlietstra ~ Donald Vlietstra The Bruinwoods ~ John Bruinwood Bruce & Ruth Fletcher ~ Parents & brother, Jim Bob & Barb Razenberg ~ Evie Razenberg Bonnie & Norm Langeland ~ parents Please remember to take your lily home with you after the morning worship service. NURSERY: April 8: Dorothy Broekhuizen & Pam Gould April 15: Lyndsay Berkenpas & Ruth Wagner COFFEE SERVERS: April 8 & 15: Pat & Carol Schewe, Norm & Bonnie Langeland, Herm & Gretchen Vanders April 22 & 29: Lisa Vlietstra, Dick & Nadine VanDam, Jim & Marian Razenberg HEARTLAND HEALTHCARE CENTER (Services begin at 3:30 pm & last approx 30 minutes) April 8: Gary Broekhuizen & Ellen Byle April 15: Glen Wagner If you can’t speak or play on the date you are scheduled, please trade with someone else on the list. PRAYER LINE MINISTRY ~ Glen Wagner/Judy Fletcher PRAYER EMAIL MINISTRY ~ [email protected] SERVICE MINISTRY ~ April: Betty Vlietstra MULTIMEDIA MINISTRY ~ April 8: Pat Schewe Sun Mon 9 8 April 15: Paul Booden Tue 10 Wed 11 Coffee Break Bible Study 9:30 – 11 am (last meeting until Fall!) 9:30 am Pastor Simon “Three Days Changed the World” Matthew 28:1-10 PM: Gary Broekhuizen Thu 12 Fri Sat 13 14 20 21 26 27 28 3 4 5 Men’s Bible Fellowship 7 am G.R.O.W. Bible Study 9:30 – 11 am Admin Board Meeting 7 pm 5 pm “Easter Song Service” 16 9:30 Pastor Simon “After Easter: Now What?” 1 John 3:16-24 Congregational Meeting 10:50 Sunday School 5 pm Pastor Simon “From Antagonist to Evangelist” Acts 9:1-31 23 22 9:30 Rev. Greg Sinclair 10:50 Sunday School 5 pm Pastor Simon “Brought to New Life” Acts 9:32-43 15 30 Mission Emphasis Week 9:30 am Rev. John DeVries 10:50 Sunday School Celebration Sunday 5 pm Pastor Simon “Good News For All People” Acts 10:1-11:18 29 17 18 19 P.U.S.H. Prayer Meeting 7 pm 24 25 G.R.O.W. Bible Study 9:30 – 11 am (last meeting until Fall!) Book Club 2-4 pm Elders Meeting 3 pm 1 2 Deacons Meeting 7 pm Praise Team Practice 6:30 – 8 pm Newsletter deadline: Wednesday at noon. Call, leave a note, or e-mail to [email protected]. Cancellations A tornado watch or warning in effect 1 hour prior to a worship service or meeting will result in the worship service or meeting being cancelled. Announcements regarding worship services will be announced on WWMT channel 3, WOODTV Channel 8 and WOTV channel 4. Office Hours Tuesday – Wednesday: 9-2 pm & Thursday 9-Noon