June Issue of Covenant Presbyterian Church Courier

The Family, Events, and Ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Springboro

Covenant Happenings Page 2

CPW Page 3

Service Schedule Page 4

The Last Word 1

Kid’s Korner Page 9

Our church picnic will be held on

June 9 at Patricia Allyn Park on

Route 48. It will run from 4-7PM.

Bring a covered dish and drinks as

meat will be provided. Come enjoy

good food, games, and fellowship. You

don’t want to miss this!

P.S. We’ll be at Shelter #2.

One service at 10:00 a.m.

starts on June 9 and continues through

September 1. Don’t forget!

Sign your kids up now for this year’s awesome VBS adventure. It all starts on July 29 at 9:00 a.m. and lasts until 11:30 a.m. daily. VBS runs through August 2. For more

information and to sign your child up, go to: www.groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/cpc2013

will have their next meeting on June 25 at 1PM here at Covenant. We will continue with “Dispatches to

God’s Household, the General Epistles.” We welcome all women of Covenant to join us. Please see Barb Mourouzis if you need more

information. Come join us!

will meet at the church on June 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the small room next to Ken’s office. Chapter 10 from “Having a Mary

Heart in a Martha World” will be discussed. This has been a great study and we welcome all women of the church to join us. Please bring a friend too! See Linda Eaton if you would like

more information on Growing in Grace.

Come and join us on June 3 at 6:30 p.m. If

you enjoy knitting or crocheting, we would

love to have you be a part of this ministry.

If you would like to learn how to knit, then

bring your needles and someone will get

you started! Please see Louise Winheim

if you have any questions!

Traditional Service Usher/Greeter (Carole Hepp) 02 The Butler Family Contemporary Service Usher/Greeter (Debbie Shear) 02 Ken & Debbie Shear Summer Service Usher/Greeter 09 The Butler Family 16 The Butler Family 23 The Butler Family 30 Jim & Carole Hepp Counters (Debbie Shear) 02 Jay White & Dave Siegler 09 Tim Knoth & Debbie Shear 16 Ken Shear & Le’Anne Leahy 23 Debbie Shear & Mary White 30 Dave Payne & Flossie Power

Children’s Church Pre/K (Yvonne Craycraft)

Traditional 02 Pam Goins

Children’s Church Pre/K (Yvonne Craycraft)

Contemporary 02 Yvonne Craycraft

Summer Pre/K 09 Erica Hicks 16 Kristin Tibbits 23 Kristin Tibbits 30 Yvonne Craycraft

Children’s Church Traditional (Becky Hegwood) Grades 1-6 02 Steve Hegwood Children’s Church Contemporary (Becky Hegwood) Grades 1-6 02 Becky Hegwood

Summer Children’s Church 1-6 09 Becky Hegwood 16 Loretta Sebastian 23 Steve Hegwood 30 Alysia Fuchs

Fellowship 02 09 Youth Ministries 16 23 30 Bill & JoAnn West

Picture It at Covenant We would like to show more of what goes on at Covenant over the Internet via our

Website and Facebook pages. Do you have any pictures of recent Covenant events or activities that you can share? If so please send them into Janet in the church office. Plus in the future – please take as many photos of your events and activities as possible and send them in so that we can post them for everyone to see what is happening at Covenant. Whether it is a photo of someone in prayer, worshipping God, having fun, eating food, singing, studying, working hard or just

enjoying each other’s company – why not take a shot of it and send it in. With your help - we will try to get as many photos as we can onto the

website for all to see.

Patrik Hornak, one of our worshippers, recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati. He has been accepted into UC’s Medical School starting

this August. As we all know, college can be very expensive let alone med school. The Growing in Grace group decided that they would like to help Patrik out by giving him a few items that he could use in his apartment. We are asking the congregation to join in on this project. In this small way we can help him in his

life long commitment to help others. On the table in the Worship Center is a list of needed items. If you would like to help out, sign your name next to the item you would like to provide. Let’s help send Patrik off with the things he needs to make this happen! Bring your items in by July 28. There will be a box with his name on it

or you can place them by the Clothes That Work area in the narthex. Any questions, please see Flossie Power or Linda Eaton.

Thank you!

Sun Mon Tue

Please email any updates and articles to the secretary at: [email protected] or call me at 937 748-0272.

2 9:30 AM Traditional Worship

& Children’s Church

11:00 AM Contemporary Worship &

Children’s Church

3 5-7:30 PM Weight Watchers

6:30 PM Prayer Shawl Ministry

4 7:00 AM Men at McDonalds

7 PM Outreach Ministries

9 10:00AM Summer Worship


4-7 PM Picnic in the Park

Patricia Allyn Park


6:30 PM Growing in Grace

7:00 PM Youth Ministry


6:30 PM Administration





6:30 PM Session



30 10:00AM Summer

Worship & Children’s Church


7:00 PM Deacons


1PM Amicae Circle

Birthdays and Anniversaries are published with your

permission only. In an effort to update our list, please notify the office of your families’ special dates, especially if you are new

to our fellowship. We want to include you!

June BirthdaysJune BirthdaysJune BirthdaysJune Birthdays 1 Megan Neumann Rachel Wayne Wanda Huntley 3 Matt Howard Pam Goins Leandra Hess Alex Spaeth 6 Melinda Neumann 10 Myrtle Edens 11 Daniel Gardner 15 Diane Howard Laci Van Scoy Luke Van Scoy 19 Ken Craycraft 24 Emma Hicks 27 Corinna Justice 30 Jacob Tibbits

June AnniversariesJune AnniversariesJune AnniversariesJune Anniversaries 5 Frank & Karyn Catrine 12 Steve & Michelle Teska 16 Bill & Nina Henderson 19 George & Barbara Mourouzis

Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 8-9:30 AM Weight Watchers

7:00 AM Men at McDonalds

7 PM Outreach Ministries

5 10:00 AM Adult Bible Study

6 PM Adult Ministries

6:45 PM Choir Practice

8:00 PM Praise Band

6 9:30-11:30 AM Weight Watchers

7



6:30 PM Administration



8:00 PM Praise Band


14 15 8-9:30 AM Weight Watchers


6:30 PM Session



8:00 PM Praise Band


1PM CPW Team

21



1PM Amicae Circle



8:00 PM Praise Band


28 29 8-9:30 AM Weight Watchers

Financial Info

Operating

April Year-to-date Receipts 2013 $10,140 $49,030 Expenditures 2013 $12,616 $50,318 Net Receipts (Expenditures) - $2,476 - $1,288

Thank you for your gifts and continued support!

Mortgage Reduction

April Year-to-date Beg. Balance -$122 $234 Receipts 2013 $1,877 $7,821 Mortgage Payments $2,100 $8,400 Balance End of Month -$345 -$345

Remember... Please help our counters each Sunday by using your offering envelopes and

placing the amount on the outside of the envelope. It makes their job much easier!

Summer’s here

and that means

VACATION TIME!

But don’t take a vacation

from church and forget

your pledges. The church

still operates in the

summer and has financial

obligations. Besides, you

don’t want to end up

like Ed Bibberley!!

June ServicesJune ServicesJune ServicesJune Services

Office Hours

The Pastor’s day off is Monday and the office is closed. Pastor Ken is here most mornings Tuesdays through Fridays. Frequently in the afternoons, he makes visits.

Our secretary is generally in the office Tuesday through Friday from 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. Phone: (937) 748-0272 & (937) 748-4734 Fax: (937) 748-4734

If you would like to have your concern lifted to the Lord through the Prayer Chain, contact Ken Howard (748-0272), or Debbie Shear ([email protected]/748-2809). Please pray for: Mike & Ella Wentzel Steve & Eleanor Axiotes Ginny Requarth Margy Dunn Bob Power All of the men and women serving in the military and their families.

Church Staff Rev. Ken Howard Pastor Alysia Fuchs Youth Director Janet Wayne Church Secretary Kim Denney Music/Choir Director Susan Pfeiffer Pianist/Organist Vera Escott Treasurer Debbie Shear Financial Secretary Cam’s Cleaning Svc. Custodian

Covenant’s Email Addresses [email protected] [email protected] www.covenantspringboro.com

June 2 – “Walk This Way” (Galatians 5:13-26) June 9 – “A Journey” (Genesis 12:1-3) June 16 – “God and Golf” (Romans 8:28-39) June 23 – The Reverend David Fleming will be preaching today. June 30 – The Reverend David Fleming will be preaching today.

Special DatesSpecial DatesSpecial DatesSpecial Dates June 14 - Flag Day June 16 - Father’s Day June 21 - First Day of Summer

The end of May means the Memorial Day weekend. But, did you know Memorial Day is still

May 30th? That’s what my little black book says! Now we “observe” Memorial Day on the last

Monday of May (the 27th this year), which gives us all a three-day weekend. Though I like the

three-day weekend, I believe it has detracted somewhat the meaning of this special day.

I remember when Memorial Day was called Decoration Day, the day when the Boy Scouts

(including me) would gather (not always on Monday!) in the local cemetery early in the

morning. We would take flower bouquets and decorate the graves of the men and women who

had served in the military. How thankful we are for those men and women who served then and

who serve now in the name of freedom.

The end of May also means the beginning of June: That means school is out, or almost out, and

summer has begun. Summer: a time for traveling, vacationing, and relaxing.

Unfortunately, summer often becomes a time to miss church! What often happens is attendance

lessens a bit and offerings are forgotten (church expenses do continue throughout the summer!).

Remember, we are open every Sunday. The family of God that calls Covenant home will

continue to gather for worship. Our doors will be open, we will sing praises to God, the children

will gather for children’s church, the offering will be received, we’ll join in prayers, the

fellowship hour will continue, and a sermon will be delivered!

Oh, wait a minute, one thing will change – we’ll be worshipping together. Beginning June 9th,

and continuing through Labor Day weekend, we’ll have just one service (10:00 a.m.). Take

advantage of the summer Sundays to meet, greet and worship with people you may not

normally see during the other nine months of the year. I believe you’ll discover there’s some

pretty neat people in “the other” service! But of course you already knew that. The music may

be a blend of both services, or may be one or the other, depending on Susan’s and Kim’s

schedules. Which Sundays will be which? You’ll just have to show up and enjoy.

I hope you have a great summer! See you at worship!

Ken

Worship Guide Deadline By 9:00 a.m. on the Tuesday before the Sunday you would like it to appear in the worship guide.

Courier Newsletter Deadline June 21 9:00 a.m. for the July edition. You may leave articles on the office desk or e-mail them to [email protected].

Men’s Fellowship Men meet weekly at McDonalds every Tuesday morning from 7:00 - 7:30 a.m. Contact John Ritzinger (748-1437) if you have any questions. If you’ve never joined us, we would greatly welcome you!

Administration Ministry Administration will meet on June 11, at 6:30 p.m. Contact David Payne for questions. (513-836-3464) Personnel Ministry The next meeting will be on an “as needed” basis. Contact George Mourouzis, (748-3049) for questions.

Adult Ministries usually meets the 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Hegwood at (937) 885-1031. Session Session will meet on June 18, at 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Partners We have a vital prayer ministry here at Covenant. We have an electronic prayer chain for those who would prefer to be notified of needs as they arise via email. To get connected in prayer through the internet, email Debbie Shear ([email protected]). Outreach Ministry meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Contact Susan Stewart for questions. (937-746-3343) Youth Ministry meets the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Contact Erica Hicks for questions. (937-748-6352)

Covenant Presbyterian Church 415 N. Main St.

Springboro, OH 45066

address correction requested

Ken Howard Pastor

Worship Services: 9:30 a.m. Traditional Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship Service 10:00 a.m. One Service begins June 9 Children’s Church - Toddlers and children through 6th grade have age appropriate learning opportunities. Nursery - provided for ages 2 and under.

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