The Meetinghouse News october2017 (1)

The Meetinghouse News team is crippled. And if a key member of the Important Dates Harvest Home will be coming on October 2017 team is injured – or just doesn’t show up for  October 1 - Church BBQ the game – the whole team suffers. The team  October 1 - Fellowship Group - 6 October 21. Sign up sheets to help or donateWinter is an etching, spring a watercolor, fails to score. pm food items will be out soon. YOUR HELPsummer an oil painting and autumn a  October 21 - Harvest Home IS NEEDED............as this is one of ourmosaic of them all. A healthy church has a lot in common with a Dinner major community outreach programs. finely oiled sports team. Church shouldn’t  October 29 Heritage Sunday Please sign up or call Leni Hughes at 732- ~Stanley Horowitz be just a spectator sport with a few players  November 11 - Holiday Boutique 308-0650 for more information. entertaining the crowd. Church – especially Church Is a Team Sport a small church – relies on each person Fellowship Group Membership and Outreach actively doing what he or she does best. by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson Church is a team sport. Returns this month with a meal and a Louie The Membership and Outreach Committee Giglio lecture!! Don't know who he is? will have a busy fall.Most sports teams have a star player. Get the Let me ask you: what’s your role in your Then you best come and find out!!! Tony Calcaterra and Bill Sauer will beball to him and he’ll score. Get him up at bat congregation? What are you doing to move selling BBQ ribs and chicken after churchwith two men on base and he’ll hit them the ball forward? What have you Pot Luck Meal at 6pm followed by a video (noon – 2pm) on October 1st . Proceeds willhome. The sports commentators keep been askedto do that might further your of Louie Giglio, followed by a time of be sent to Hurricane Harvey Relief efforts.extensive statistics on each player that effectiveness as a willing servant of the discussion about the video. Please support Tony and Bill with thisthey’ll pull out during a lull in the play. It’s Head of the Church. outreach on October 1st.all about the numbers — each person Remember its a Pot-Luck meal, soplaying to advance his own career, to Some of you are wonderful, indispensable coordinate with Cindy so everyone doesn't Marge and Laurie Nelson are leading theincrease his averages – at least that’s the team members that help your church do bring a dessert or a salad. Holiday Boutique planning for Novemberway it seems sometimes. Christ’s work! Thank you! But your pastor 11th with support from RoseAnn. RoseAnn longs for the day that others will submit to You will be amazed at what you learn!! For is assembling baskets and 26 vendor tablesBut once in a while you see a team that the discipline of being faithful members of a a teaser, I'll add \"if the earth was a golf ball\" have been booked. Tell your friends andplays together with a kind of magic. It’s not team, a team that has the goal of glorifying neighbors to hold the date on their calendars.about one person scoring big, but it’s every God and bringing people to Christ. See you that evening for food andteam member doing his utmost to move the fellowship.team forward to win the game – to get the Dear friends, it’s time to suit up together!ball across the line, to score. Game on! Committee ReportsEach player on the field or in the court has a Church Liferole to play. And when each plays that rolewell and aggressively — keeping his eye on Coffee Servers Needed - Regular coffeethe ball – the whole team benefits. When hour will resume September 17. Please signone player just goes through the motions, the up for a Sunday in Old Scot's Hall. All you need to bring is milk, juice and a snack to share - all other items are provided.

Once again we are working hard to prepare Anniversary of the Reformation. We will survived the sleepover at Old Scot’s. It was October 22for the “Journey to Bethlehem” Drive have our 11:00 worship service outside at an AWESOME adventure! Liturgist – Sara Jane NixonThrough. Pat Herzceg hosted a work day on Old Scot’s Burial Ground. This is Old Greeter – RoseAnn ThompsonSaturday, September 23rd. We still need Tennent’s original site. It is located on Rally Day went well! The Confirmand Head Usher – Eda Cruzhelp with set up, actors, hospitality, and Gordon’s Corner Road in Marlboro. Families met with Doug, Leni, Sarah, and Ushers - Charles Buda & Sara Hughesclean-up crew. Consider inviting your me. Welcome Dakota and Trevor! Thefriends and family to participate in this Home-Bound Communion Sunday School participated in Worship with October 29 - Heritage Sundayoutstanding community outreach. Ministry our talented Linda Sauer then met with their Liturgist – Linda Sauer The Communion Ministry needs four past teachers for a bit before assembling Personal Greeter – Pat HerczegThe committee is grateful to Nancy Dieker and present Elders and Deacons to reach out Hygiene Kits and making a “GOD BLESS Head Usher – Bill Sauerfor all her hard work investigating multiple and share fellowship and serve communion AMERICA” Patriot’s Day Craft. Ushers - Linda Saueradvertising options – predominantly those to our home-bound members on Sunday A sign-up for the Crop Walk will be madethat are at no charge. This information will after worship. There is a sign-up sheet on available for participants. The date is Final Thoughtsbe useful for advertising all future church the bulletin board as you enter Old Scots Sunday, October 15th…at 2 PM…assembleevents. Hall on the left. Please speak to Pastor at 1:30. Michael Cruz (SR.) will walk with \"The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Doug about this special ministry. the participants. Warms the low spot; upon its grassy moldWe would love to hear from you! If you Eda and I will be meeting with the Olderhave an suggestion for outreach please Youth Ministries Youth on Sunday, October 29th at 6PM in The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen boughcontact Tony, Marge, Pat or Sue. their new space. drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of The OTC Youth Fun Fair/Youth FriendlyMission Committee Flea Market was held on Saturday, gold.\" September 9th. 9 Youth and several family - William Cullen BryantPeace and Global Witness Offering members participated. All who came couldEphesians 2:14-17 teaches us that through participate in a variety of games of skill Worship AssistantsChrist, we have been made into one body. including activities with my parachute. ItIt's a sentiment repeated throughout the New was great fun with free prizes and a October 1Testament. We are called to put aside our wonderful way to get the youth excited Liturgist – Charles Budadifferences, to put aside our hostilities - to about Rally Day the next day. The GOAL of Greeter – Sarah Shawlove one another. being VISIBLE to the community also went Head Usher – Eda Cruz well. WE THANK OUR CHURCH Ushers - Sara Hughes & Marge Nelson We're calling on you to join us this FAMILY FOR ALL THEIR DONATIONS. Sunday, October 1st to celebrate October 8 The Flea Market profited $100 so far. $75 Liturgist – Sara Jane Nizxon Worldwide Communion. went to Eda to begin reimbursing her for the Greeter – Virginia Campbell sofa expenditure for the ‘NEW Older Youth’ Head Usher – Mike DiMaioBy promoting this offering, you join in work room makeover…$25 went towards food Ushers - Sue DiMaio & Nancy Diekerthat provides safety for people fleeing expenditures and helped out with the pizzaviolence, hope for people working to end that was ordered for the youth staying October 15hostilities in areas torn by conflict, and overnight. The food concession profited Liturgist – Eda Cruzsupport for peacemakers with congregations. $35 for Hurricane Relief. After the event, Greeter – Carole McLean Kayla, Charlotte, Angelina, Isaiah, and I Head Usher – Bob McLeanWorship went to the Dollar Tree to purchase items for Ushers - Gary Weiss & Renee Naden Presbyterian Disaster Assistance PersonalHeritage Sunday Hygiene Kits and a Disaster Clean-upPresbyterians celebrate the tradition that Bucket.grounds their faith on Reformation Sunday.Reformation or Heritage Sunday is on Those staying overnight got to go to BelmarOctober 29th. This Sunday marks the Beach to see ‘JAWS’! They also enjoyed theoccasion in 1517 when Martin Luther posted surf, the sand, and the moon. We evenhis 95 theses on the church door inWittenberg, Germany. 2017 is the 500th