Newsletter

September 30, 2018

Serving People in our Community

Daily Office Open 9 am – 3 pm Monday thru Thursday

Weekly MONDAYS 11 AM – Staff Meeting TUESDAYS 10 AM – 12 PM Food Pantry WEDNESDAYS 8 AM—Men’s Prayer Breakfast at Daisy’s DT 3 PM—Partnership 7PM – Wired Word THURSDAYS 10 AM – 12 PM Food Pantry SATURDAYS 8 AM—Men’s Bible Study-SPC Parlor SUNDAYS 9:30 am – Prayer in the Chapel 10 am – Worship & Sunday School 11:30 AM—Adult Study

MONTHLY 1ST MONDAY

Facilities—3:30 PM Outreach – 6:30 PM Personnel – 6 PM

2ND SUNDAY Cake Sunday Worship at Chapel Grove— 2 PM

2ND MONDAY Session – 7 PM

2ND TUESDAY Board of Deacons – 6 PM

2ND WEDNESDAY Worship at Sharonbrooke—10 AM

2ND FRIDAY Fellowship Dinner – 6 PM

3RD MONDAY Community Dinner – 4 PM

3RD TUESDAY Education – 6:30 PM

4TH MONDAY PW CT Comm– 6:30 PM

4TH WEDNESDAY Community Dinner – 4 PM Worship – 7 PM

We need your items! Please bring them to the gym Leave items at the room next to

Food Pantry Call the office for pickup.

Proceeds go to the Back Pack Program.

IT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK!

In three weeks, we will celebrate our annual Kirkin’ of the Tartans, October 21, 2018. The pipes are calling YOU! It’s time to sign up to present your tartan. You may still have time enough to obtain a tartan to present.

WHERE can I search for m y tartan? If it is not in your closet or drawer, try:

Ø Libraries have books about tartans and clans; try looking in the 929 series. 929.1 has genealogy and 929.7 has tartan books

Ø Try online. Dozens of web sites can help. tartansauthority.com has a number of resources.

Ø Not only names, but also districts, towns and organizations have tartans

WHERE can I get a tartan item ?

Ø Grab your passport and go: Scotland, Bermuda, Canada, all have stores where tartan items are available

Ø Ordering over the internet is another way. Located in Kansas jhiggins.net has been a good source.

Ø Contact Karen Bunning for other ideas: 740-366-1190

From the Office … Monthly newsletter published the last Sunday of the month with article deadline the Tuesday before.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

OCTOBER’S SCHEDULE

10/7 – Communion Sunday is Family Worship

Sunday. Children will stay in the sanctuary and learn first-

hand about our worship traditions and service, so there is no

separate Sunday school class. (The Nursery is available every

Sunday for children from infancy through pre-school-age.)

10/14, 10/21, 10/28 - Elementary students dismissed to class

following the Children’s Moment.

10/14 – Middle school students are dismissed to class following

the Children’s Moment.

Annual De-Clutter the Church Day

A Great Success!

E ven though there are many areas you do not visit regularly, many rooms, closets and hallways were de-cluttered. Thank you to everyone who came on that day and worked throughout the week before for their

dedication and hard work. We are in agreement that it went so well that it should be an annual event.

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The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be observed on October 7. If you know a shut-in who might like to have communion delivered to them at their home that week, please contact the church office or a deacon. ============================

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL

ANNOUNCING A NEW STUDY BEGINNING IN OCTOBER :

CHRISTIAN HOPE

“Christian hope is not based on our own dispositions, or whether we are optimistic or pessimistic. Christian hope is rooted in God,

what God has done, and what God promises for the future in Jesus Christ.”

Through this “Being Reformed; Faith Seeking Understanding” study, we are

introduced to the basics of Christian hope.

Coming up: The Difficulty of Hope; Thy Kingdom Come; Resurrection.

Everyone is always welcome! You don’t have to come every week! Please

join us any time you can.

Sundays, 11:30 – 12:10, Emmaus Room

2-Dana Hammond

4-Katherine Pound

5-Mary Kreager

7-Diann Priest

9-Phaedra Abdalla

Patricia Cain

Jerry Krebs, Jr.

11-Amy Mader

Addy Tracy

13-Janet Englefield

Phillip Fronckel

17-Betty Hammond

20-Dawn Ambrus-Cook

Ted Cobb III

21-Shirley Brough

24-Cathy Gough

Dorothy Harvey

28-Sophie Abdalla

Chelsea Gough

29-Lori Feightner

30-Karen Gough

Carolyn Myers

CHOICE

FOOD

PANTRY

For August we served 160

households of which there were 63

children (ages 0-17), 219 adults (ages

18-59) and 627 Seniors (60+) for a

TOTAL OF 344 PEOPLE

SERVED!

Coming to the

Midland Theatre

October 28, 2018

7:00pm Presented by Awakening

Events Inc.

Chonda Pierce, a stand-up comedian, television hostess, author and now actress, Pierce has channeled her life experiences into positivity, bringing laughter to audiences around the country.

Also, Special Guest Karyn

Williams Christian Singer

Tickets:

$27 (some ticketing fees may apply)

$49.50 (VIP Ticket)

VIP Ticket includes:

Best seat in the house, Pre-show meet and greet with Chonda, Commemorative VIP Pass, $5 off $25 or more on Chonda merchandise VIP Only crowd fee shopping. Must arrive by 5:15pm

News from Presbyterian Women…

Are YOU interested in an active role with the PW Coordinating Team?

Come and join in as we meet on the 4th Monday at 6:30 in the Emmaus room. You are invited and welcome!

Looking forward to all that October will bring

for Presbyterian Women!

First, on Sunday October 14th

11:30 in the SPC Dining

Room you will find the

Annual PW Meeting and Luncheon

“Salads and Sweets Smorgasbord”

We look forward to your fellowship as we celebrate the

“30th BIRTHDAY OF PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN”

The 2019 PW budget and nominations for the Coordinating Team will be presented for approval and we will dedicate our fall mission “The Thank Offering”. We welcome all ladies and men of the church! Please contact Debbie Kullman to make your reservation at 740-364-1140

Second, we will host the Fall Gathering of Presbyterian

Women/Presbytery of Scioto Valley on Saturday

October 27th

!

This is the perfect opportunity to explore the programs of Presbyterian

Women and meet with friends from around the Presbytery. This

gathering will feature a “mission fair’” and the theme our speakers will

share is “Hunger”. We are excited that Sally Henry will participate as a

speaker, sharing about the Y-Healthy Kids Backpack Program.

Breakfast provided by Utica PW and Lunch provided by SPC

Might you be interested in helping with parking, directions and serving?

Please contact Ruth Cooper if you can help!

Items will be collected for the SPC Food Pantry

as our Mission Ingathering.

9:30 am – 2:30pm $10 registration includes lunch

Register with Ruth Cooper by October 19th

Pecans have been ordered and will arrive in

time for holiday baking and gift giving!

Coming soon and will be sold after Sunday

Worship services.

Vision Statement

We, the congregation of Second

Presbyterian Church accept that

we have been called to love,

serve and worship God; and to

proclaim the good news of our

Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As a beacon of Christ serving

our community, we joyfully

pledge to use our God-given

gifts of time, talent and treasure

to meet the spiritual and physi-

cal needs of all people. We

exist by the grace of God, and

will respond each day to His

love by loving one another with

the kindness, humility and gen-

tleness of Jesus Christ.7

F all officially began last Saturday, September 22, and, despite my assumptions that it would stay

90 degrees forever, the weather has actually turned, and it really does feel like Autumn is upon us. Changes of season always get me thinking about changes of habits. Some of those habit changes are unavoidable; like changing from cutting the grass to raking the leaves or changing from wearing shorts and t-shirts to wearing long pants and sweatshirts. But other habit changes require intentional choice and commitment.

I want to suggest that all of us, as this new season begins, think about a new season in our personal life of faith. Maybe for you it means committing to come to worship more often or setting aside a new time to pray each day. Maybe it means committing to spending more time with your church family or adding a regular faith discussion to your family dinners.

I have realized recently that I have not been spending as much time in scripture as I would like to. I spend lots of time studying and working on the scripture that we will use in worship, but that can very easily become all the time that I devote. So, I want to challenge myself, and all of you too, to commit to adding a habit of daily Bible reading to our lives. I’ll leave it up to each of you how you go about doing it, but I am going to use the daily lectionary from our PC(USA) Book of Common Worship. This lectionary is a two-year cycle of daily readings including morning and evening Psalms, an Old Testament Reading, a New Testament Reading, and a Gospel Reading. While this will far from cover the entire Bible, it will give a seasonally appropriate, wide-ranging look at scripture. If you want to join me in this, you can find the daily readings at www.presbyterianmission.org/devotion/daily/ or you can download a copy of each month’s readings on the “learn” tab of www.spcnewark.org or pick up a print copy in the church office.

Maybe this is something you do on your own, or maybe you make this commitment as a couple or a family, or maybe you could even get a small group of people together from the church and commit to reading the same things and meeting occasionally to discuss. However it works for you, I am confident that if a group of us in the church commit to spending more time in scripture that God is going to use it to do wonderful things in our lives and in the life of the church. Are you game? If so, I would love to hear about your plan and your experience.

Grace and Peace,

Second Presbyterian Church

42 E Church Street, PO Box 428 Newark, OH 43058-0428 740/349-8691, Fax 740/345-0718 NEW EMAIL… office@spcnewark.org www.spcnewark.org

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