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WILTON PRESBYTERIAN

June 10, 2007

Website: www.wiltonpresbyterian.org

Sermon manuscripts from each service are available at the website.

Four listening devices are available on the table in the Narthex

Wear your name tag!

Say “Hello” to at least one person you don’t know!

INVITATION TO NEW MEMBERS. We welcome friends and visitors at worship this morning. We’re glad you’re here! Please join us for a cup of coffee following the worship service. (Juice is available for children). Should this be the right time and season for you to join this family of faith, please speak with the Elder Greeter, Mike Jenkins, the Pastor, or call the church office (762-5514). The next regularly scheduled Session meeting to receive new members will be at 9:30 AM on Sunday, June 24.

GOD’S PEOPLE HERE. At morning worship last Sunday it was our privilege and pleasure to welcome, in addition to Stewart and Jane MacColl, Augusta and Ken Benjamin and their daughter, Barbara Haines, Diane Carlson, Jane and Jerry Garbacz, Margaret Gregory, Norman and Jean Hansen and their children Steve and Kathy, Camilla, Jorgen, and Kate Heidemann (and Kate’s finance, Michael Robertson), Drew Masters, and Jim Trucksess (among many other alumni/ae who attended). What a wonderful anniversary service it was…and, thanks to Beth and Chip Mason, brunch afterwards for WPC “veterans” at their home…Former WPC member Ruth Duffield writes: “WPC is 45 years young??!! I have never thought of it this way before…WPC is younger than me! What a great celebration for all who have walked through the doors! We are on our way back home after a trip in Europe…Some business followed by some R and R and celebrations of our own…25 years of marriage and some significant birthdays! Hugs to all!”…...Sonny Gerquest has been a patient at Norwalk Hospital fighting an allergic reaction to antibiotics, but she was transferred back to Wilton Meadows on Tuesday….Mike Jenkins underwent knee surgery at New Milford Hospital on Friday…Jean Leinroth has been a patient at Norwalk Hospital this week (instead of home)… Phil Reinertsen is home recuperating with the tender loving care of his daughter, Laura and others…Former WPC member Faith Sherman was graduated in May from the Juilliard Opera Center, receiving her Artist’s Diploma. She won the Houston Grand Opera Aria Competition in April; she will be moving from New York to Houston, Texas, where she will joint the Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist program…We hold close in prayer Carole Telyan’s father who has been moved from hospital to rehabilitation center….Frank and Marsha Whitman celebrated an important anniversary last Sunday!!!...Rob Wilkinson’s Foodmobile has delivered food you donated on Sunday, May 20 to Alpha Community Homes in Bridgeport, to Pivot Ministries in Norwalk-Bridgeport, and to Wilton Social Services, from each of whom we have received letters expressing their heartfelt thanks to you for your food donations.

Kailey Fellows,

People to People Student Ambassador,

is selling her cookbook, “Everyone Favorite Recipes,”

and handcrafted jewelry she designed and made

At Village Market today

Until l PM Today

Kailey , a member of our 6^th Grade Sixers Youth Group, will travel this August with a delegation to Alaska.  The People To People program was started in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to promote world peace through increased understanding between the citizens of our world.  Please stop by the market after church this morning to support this wonderful effort—you can even get the author to personally autograph your cookbook!

MANNA HOUSE: The second Tuesday of each month, volunteers from WPC help serve a meal to hungry and homeless people in South Norwalk. Set-up and preparation begins at 11:30 AM and the meal is served at 1:00 PM. We also need people to donate food as well as help prepare the meals in the WPC kitchen that will be taken to Manna House. If you would be willing to help in any way, please call Nancy Hayes at 761-9818. Your generosity is sincerely appreciated!

THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF WPC’S HISTORY is commemorated in the memoirs of its first two installed Pastors: W. Stewart MacColl’s Random Memories and J. Stephen Jacob’s Not Without Laughter. Copies of these memoirs are available on the table at coffee hour. Pick up your copies…and enjoy.

2007 FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Monday, June 4, 2007)

            2007 Budget Approved:              $398,475

            Pledges Received To Date:                  $243,653

            Received Last Week:                             $ 10,585

            Required Weekly:                                   $  4,994

STAFF NOTES: Jane Field, Director of Children’s and Youth Activities, is on her summer break. She will return to her office on Monday, August 13…Al Galletly, Director of Music, will be on vacation from this Friday, June 15 through Wednesday, June 27. In his absence we are grateful for the music leadership of Roger Thulin.

LIGHTEN YOUR BURDEN! Please return any church building keys that you no longer need. Keys may be left in the church offices or with any staff member. Thanks, Sandy Muschler WEPCO

CALENDAR

Sunday 10:00 AM Morning Worship

Tuesday Men’s Bible Study will resume Tuesday, September 4

Thursday 7:15 AM Morning Prayer

Sunday 10:00 AM Morning worship

MATE MISSION TRIP #26

Saturday, June 23 – Thursday, June 28, 2007

Farmington,Maine

Co-Leaders; Sarah and Mark Carta

Register online at www.wiltonpresbyterian.org

For more information, call Mark Carta (203-210-5263)

It’s that time of year!

Cookies and Snacks for M.A.T.E. lunches!

In the years past we have asked for your support.

This year is no different.

Lunch is a VERY important part of M.A.T.E. COOKIES and/or SNACKS (like individually wrapped chips or crackers) really hit the spot when you have been working hard all day. PLEASE HELP!

Starting June 18^th please bring your donations to the church office. There will be a place to put them outside the office door.