News of the Pews
February 2012
Congratulations, Carolina Beach Presbyterian Church! Our Certificate of Occupancy has been granted and your new building expansion is ready to be used for God’s mission!
The ceremonial words and formal celebrations will take place in the near future; for now, we can all give thanks to God for the hard work, dedication, and vision of many of our church members, past and present. It is especially appropriate to acknowledge our Design & Construction Committee, whose moderators have been active and present, day and night, throughout the course of this project. But where would we be without the many who headed up the Capital Campaign and its various committees and subcommittees? And how far from our goals would we be if not for the Interior Design & Furnishings Committee? We’d still be wondering how the whole thing would ever get off the ground if not for the leaders who comprised the Building Expansion Committee. Our contractor had already joined our church before he gave us a great bid, and has worked tirelessly. And many other individuals have been crucial to this moment. How about everyone who has faithfully contributed prayers, money, energy, expertise, and time, just for starters?
Work remains to be done, but it is a joyful work, as we move furnishings into the new space. The Soup Supper on January 25 will be recorded as the first event to take place in the new fellowship hall, and Sunday School classes and other programs will be moving in over the next few weeks. Though our worship space is not significantly changed, we will see new patterns as the minister greets worshipers at the new door leading to the new foyer and into the new fellowship hall. And other patterns will gradually become part of our daily church life. And we are proud to announce that from now on, you may park in our lovely, new back parking area, and enter the building through the first doors you come to!
Meanwhile, this is a jam-packed, expanded issue of the N.O.P. that includes lots of dates for your 2012 calendar, and a lot of info about many various ministries, programs and opportunities. Please read carefully so as not to miss anything that might be just right for you.
On we go! “Not to us, O God, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness” (Psalm 115:1).
Mother, Father, Parent God,
We are ‘almost’ moved in. The walls are up, the roof is on, the carpet is laid, the windows let in the light of the sun. Once we are “certified”, the furniture comes next, and then we can sit down in this place dedicated to “providing an atmosphere that encourages the spiritual development of its members through teaching God’s word, through opportunities for stewardship and fellowship, and by reaching out to our members and community.” We will gather in these spaces to listen, to learn, to love, and to exercise our responsibilities as the priesthood of all believers. May we nurture each other as we see Your face in each other’s faces, and may we take what we have learned about You and about ourselves out into the world. Yes, we are loved, and yes, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God. Amen.
—Submitted by Linda Lorah
You can earn $50 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and keeping trash out of our landfills, through Progress Energy’s Appliance Recycling Program. If you have an appliance for disposal call 800-599-5798.
We would like to thank you for your donation of men’s clothing to the Seamen’s Center. We appreciate all you do to help out the Seamen.
—Your friends at the Seamen’s Center
Thanks to the generosity of the CBPC congregation, we were able to supply five care packages to the Marine Corps 2/2 BLT on their ten month deployment, which began March 2011. Lt. Col Gordon Miller has let me know how much these packages meant to the 1,000 young Marines out of Camp Lejeune. Thank you for your prayers for these men and your generous gifts for the care packages. Hopefully by the time you read this, these men will be reunited with their families. —Virginia Parman
Feb. 5: Souper Bowl Offering (Help Center)
March 11: Blankets+ Offering
April 1: 2-˘-a-Meal (hunger ministries)
April 15: One Great Hour of Sharing
May 27: Pentecost (40% to DVS Children’s Program)
June 17: Father’s Day: Scotia Village Retirement Home
July 8: 2-˘-a-Meal (hunger ministries)
Sept. 9: Peacemaking (25% to Ministerial Roundtable)
October 7: 2-˘-a-Meal (hunger ministries)
Nov.18: Barium Springs Home for Children
Dec. 23: Retired/needy clergy/PC(USA) minority colleges
Jan. 6, 2013: 2-˘-a-Meal (hunger ministries)
More Dates for Your 2012 Calendar:
Feb. 20 (Monday): Red Cross Blood Drive
Feb. 26 (Sunday): Fellowship Dinner
April 22 (Sunday): Fellowship Dinner
June 3: Graduation Sunday
June 10-15: Vacation Bible School
June 10-15 or July 15-20: Montreat Youth Conference
August 5 (Sunday): Hymn Sing/Ice Cream Social
Sept. 15 (Saturday): Learning Fair & Leadership School
September 9 (Sunday): Fellowship Dinner
December 2 (Sunday): Fellowship Dinner
Equipping the Saints
Workshops Promoting Christian Education & Stewardship Balancing Our Inward & Outward Spiritual Journey - SPEAKER: Rev. Louie Andrews
Saturday, February 11, 2012 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Cost - $12; Graves Memorial Presbyterian Church, 201 Fayetteville St., Clinton, NC 28328
8:45-9:15 A.M.—Registration/Coffee/Displays
9:15-10:00 A.M.—Opening & Keynote
10:15-11:30 A.M.—Session #1 Workshops
11:45-1:00 P.M.—Session #2 Workshops
Workshops
10:15 – 11:30 (1) Soul Music: From Heart to Hands; ( 2) Serving Those Who Serve; (3) 2012 VBS and Beyond; (4) Faith Formation, Not Just Information: Small Group Resources; ( 5) INspired OUTreach: Churches Doing Mission
11:45-1:00 ( 1) Your 2˘-a-Meal at Work; (2) With Voice & Hands: Youth Music/Mission Ministry; (3) Stewards of God’s Creation: Congregations Responding; ( 4) Your Inner Creativity Found Outside
For more information call 1-800-277-7479.
All committee members and leaders of church programs and groups are encouraged to attend. Download the form from presbycc.org or pick one up from the table in the front hall; fill it out; and bring it to the church office by February 2 with your $12 registration fee (checks payable to Presbytery of Coastal Carolina). You may be reimbursed by the CBPC budget if you request it. Car pools can be arranged.
Usher Schedule
8:30 Ushers: Jim & Debbie McDonald and regular weekly rotation
11:00 Ushers : Virginia Parman, captain, Sylvia Heinisch, Mark McLamb, Jeanette Raynor, George Rose, Bettie & Harry Slusser, Norma Weeks
11:00 Reception Team : Carole Rogers, captain, Kim Meehl, Gordon & Suzanne Moiles, Norma & Kelli Weeks, Juanita Winner
Birthdays
Feb 1 Rhonda Gebbia, Kyle Jefferys, Rob Penn, Susan Penn
Feb 2 Sharon White
Feb 3 Wendell White
Feb 4 Louise Ramsdell
Feb 5 Sarah Efird, Scott Lyon
Feb 8 Betty Clark, Jim McDonald
Feb 9 Judy McMahon
Feb 10 Margie Harrington
Feb 12 Gesiella Silva
Feb 13 Helen Bennett
Feb 14 Rick Thomas
Feb 15 Mark Carter
Feb 16 Braden Clamme
Feb 17 Ned Foutz, Ellie Kurtz, Doug Sphar
Feb 18 Laurel Nusbaumer, Sybil Tucker
Feb 24 Kitte Kraus
Feb 26 Jeanette Raynor
Feb 28 Alan Porter, Debi Taylor
Nursery Schedule
8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.
1st Sunday Sylvia Davis & Mary Crookes
2nd Sunday Sylvia Davis & Jeanne Martin
3rd Sunday Sylvia Davis & Becky Clamme
4th Sunday Sylvia Davis & Matt or Britt Thompson
5th Sunday Sylvia Davis & Becky Clamme
9:25 A.M. – 12:10 P.M.
1st Sunday Sylvia Davis & Debbie McDonald
2nd Sunday Cherry Hershey & Scott or Christy Harris
3rd Sunday Ruth and/or Wendell White & Cathy Manning
4th Sunday Mary Crookes & Sylvia Heinisch
5th Sunday Sylvia Davis & Cherry Hershey
The Prayer Group meets on the Second Tuesday of the month at 9:00 A.M. at a member’s home.
NAMI , a group for families of people with mental illness, meets 3rd Thursdays, 8:30 A.M.
Calling all SENIOR ADULTS…You are invited to come to be part of an organization meeting/supper February 5, 5:00 P.M. to discuss the purpose and help make plans for a senior adult ministry program. Please bring a sandwich and we’ll provide drinks and chips.
The Presbyterian Women’s Coordinating Team will meet Monday, February 6, 6:30 P.M.
Circle meeting dates for the month:
Naomi Ruth Feb 7 10:00 A.M.
Mary Martha Feb 13 6:30 P.M.
Cole Burriss Feb 14 11:30 A.M.
Rising Women Feb 28 6:30 P.M.
The Presbyterian Men’s breakfast will be at 7:00 A.M. on Wednesday, February 1 hosted by Berry’s Barbarians.
The Book Club will meet on Thursday, February 9 at Linda Lorah's home at 7:00 P.M. Linda will lead the discussion of Sing You Home, a novel by Jodi Picoult. All are welcome!
We need children for a "two-practice only" Children's Choir (1st-5th graders)
Practices are February 19 and 26, 5:00-6:00 P.M. All children of this age are encouraged to be involved whether you have been part of a choir before or not. With more voices, the more this will be a success, and our hope is to sing in worship soon after these practices. (Children are needed for both practices.)
Parents, thank you for encouraging your children in Christian education activities such as this!
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A great MISSION to help children who suffer from poverty, neglect, abuse, and AIDS.
The Naomi Ruth Circle is sponsoring a mission project for the Amani Children’s Foundation. Amani is the Swahili word for peace. The Amani Children’s Foundation is a special organization that provides care for infants orphaned by AIDS and poverty in Kenya. The challenge of orphaned children in Africa is one of unprecedented proportion: 15 million orphans are vulnerable to neglect, abuse, and to eventually getting AIDS themselves.
Cherry Hershey has worked with this mission project previously and will be helping guide our church in this special mission opportunity. She and the Naomi Ruth Circle are sponsoring two “Amani” jewelry making days: February 10 and February 21, 9:00 A.M. -7:00 P.M. Any interested adults, youth or older children can come when you can at any time on those days to help make beautiful jewelry, which will be sold to benefit these orphanages. ( 100% of all donations will go directly to Kenya to care for the babies.) Even the beads are a Fair Trade item as well, adding to this great project of love and support. You can see a story of hope about one of these orphanages from a December 2011 CNBC news article at amanichildren.org.
Come learn more, and be part of this fun and meaningful mission project!
Middle School Retreat: "God Hears a Who" is the topic of the presbytery Middle School Retreat, March 10-11 at Camp Kirkwood, and it looks to be a great event for this age group. Middle Schoolers who are interested in attending, please speak with one of our Youth leaders or Vivian Hare.
Vacation Bible School week will be June 10-15 (more info to come about specific dates). Many volunteers will be needed to help make this community event happen. A VBS Leadership meeting of all volunteers who are willing to help will be held Sunday, March 18, 5:00 P.M. Please volunteer!
The Choir Lenten workshop retreat will be February 25, 8:30-1:00 P.M.
Budget & Finance – Mark McLamb, Matt Thompson
Buildings & Grounds – Ron Bell, Scott Harris
Chris tian Education – Lynn Beeker
Congregational Care – Ed Davis
Hospitality & Fellowship – Donna Benton
Membership – Harry Slusser
Mission & Benevolence – Sally Hillbeck
Personnel – Bonnie Fanelli
Worship & Music – Cindy Snead
Clerk of Session – Peggy Cooper
Note: we have a new committee of the session, “Membership,” which oversees our mission of inviting, greeting, welcoming, and incorporating new members, and nurturing the discipleship of all church members. See all Committee Descriptions on the Church Life page at cbpchurch.com.
A Sacraments Education Class for Kindergarten age through 5th graders will take place March 17, 9:00-12:00. This class is for parents and children. If your child has not yet participated, please make plans to involve them in this important class for learning about the two sacraments we observe as Presbyterians, Baptism and Communion. (Children do not need to have been baptized to participate.)
Learning activities will include art, trips to the sanctuary, question/answer time, games, and a portion of our time will include making communion bread together. Please let DCE Vivian Hare know by Feb. 12 if you and your child plan to attend.
CENTERPOINT
Last month I wrote about the popular phrase, “it is what it is.” Clients often seem to use the saying to express a feeling of passive hopelessness. The result is a mind trap of negativity.
I suggest adding three words, “it is what it is, while it is.” Those three words could have beneficial effects for a range of difficulties from everyday stress to anxiety and depression. Here’s how… Negative thoughts induce negative feelings that become a mind trap. The thoughts are not facts, but the feelings are real. Telling yourself “it is what it is, while it is” pushes you back into the present moment and reminds you that the feelings are not forever.
Saying, “it is what it is, while it is” gives you enough distance that you can choose a different response. As your mind gets triggered into the “what if” game in which you look at upcoming scenarios as catastrophes, saying “it is what it is, while it is” helps you realize your mind is playing the negativity game. You can begin to recognize that the anxiety has a life of its own, and that, like everything else, it comes and goes.
Saying “it is what it is, while it is,” is not a magical cure-all. You will need to integrate it into other helpful actions such as developing satisfying, nourishing activities, and finding supportive friends. Counseling is a way to reach deeper self-understanding and acceptance.
Visit us at presbyteriancounselingcenter.org or call 452-7370. —Jonathan R. Kelley
Feb. 22, 7:00 P.M. Ash Wednesday
March 25 Stations of the Cross (time TBA)
April 5, 7:00 P.M. Maundy Thursday (HC)
April 6, 12:15 P.M. Good Friday
April 8, Easter Sunday (HC)
May 6, 6:00 P.M. Service for Wholeness (HC)
May 27, Pentecost Sunday (HC)
July 8, 3rd Quarter (HC)
Sept. 23, 6:00 P.M. Service for Wholeness (HC)
Oct. 7, World Communion Sunday (HC)
Oct. 28, Reformation Sunday (HC)
Nov. 25, Christ the King Sunday (HC)
Dec. 2, 8:30 A.M. Hope and Remembrance (HC)
Dec. 2, 11:00 A.M. Hanging of the Greens
Dec. 16, Sunday 11:00 A.M. Lessons & Carols
Dec. 24, 7:00 P.M. Christmas Eve traditional (HC)
Dec. 24, 10:00 P.M. Christmas Eve Late Service (HC)
Jan. 6, 2013, Epiphany/Ordination (HC)
Church Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 8:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.; Friday, 8:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Pastor Keith Grogg can usually be reached at the church Tuesday through Saturday.
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