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WILTON PRESBYTERIAN                                                                September 30, 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. Should this be the right time and season for you to join this family of faith, please speak with the Elder Greeter, Mac MacGregor, the Pastor, or call the church office (762-5514). The next regularly scheduled Session meeting to receive new members will be next Sunday, October 21, 9:30 AM in the Quiet/Meditation Room.

 

GOD’S PEOPLE HERE. It was Session’s pleasure and privilege to receive as new members last Sunday morning

  • Chris and Lelei Coyle, 11 Coachman’s Place, Wilton, CT 06897. Telephone: 762-5626. Email: leleicoyle@sbcglobal.net; christoph@sbcglobal.net. Chris and Lelei have three children: Jackson (8/26/00 in Grade 1); Walker (8/19/02 in Kindergarten), and Brooks (5/2/07). They joined WPC by Certificate of Transfer from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Ridgefield, CT. Their Deacon is Margret Greene.
  • Cheryl Loraditch, 4 Wolfpit Lane, Wilton, CT 06897. Telephone:563-9390. Email: meleclm@aol.com. Cheryl and her husband, John, have a daughter, Linsey (7/6/02 in Kindergarten). She joined WPC by Reaffirmation of Faith. Cheryl’s Deacon is Carol Rowe.

It was wonderful to welcome at morning worship last Sunday Bob and Honey Evans, former WPC members now living in Williamsburg, Virginia. They were visiting Honey’s son and grandson who live in Darien!..We continue to hold in prayer, Barbara Watkins, mother of Hank Watkins, who is battling cancer. However, she recently returned home from a convalescent center in San Diego and is looking forward to redecorating her living room!….We hold in prayer Arne Gittleman, father of Jane Poole, a friend of WPC, who is gravely ill at home in Wilton….We give thanks to God for the recovery of Laura Andrews, mother of Nancy Kelley, a friend of WPC. Laura is mending well from a grave illness this past summer and is looking forward to returning to her home in Maryville, Tennessee as soon as the time is right…Our prayers are with, Elaine, a dear friend of Adele and Mac MacGregor’s, who after being cancer free for 18 years after treatment for ovarian cancer, is now diagnosed with cancer again.

 

TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! TODAY!

 

“Our Life Together in Christ”

 

Worshipping with us this morning is Anne Philbrick, a consultant with Church Smart Resources. Anne has been retained by Session to help both leaders and members of WPC discern and move into a next chapter in our life together as the body of Christ.

  • From 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (following morning worship) Anne will meet in the Lounge with those 30

WPC members who last spring completed a Natural Church Development Survey, presenting its results, interpreting its meaning, and welcoming their questions and comments.

  • At 1:30 PM Anne will meet with members of the WPC staff concerning the implications of the survey for their work and welcome their questions and comments.
  • From 4:30 – 6:00 PM this afternoon, Anne will lead an “Evening of Conversation” with ALL Elders, Deacons,

and members of the congregation in the Lounge. Again, she will share the survey results, offer comments about the survey’s significance for our life together, and welcome leader/member questions and comments. This is a rare opportunity for all to learn and grow together in moving forward into the next chapter of our life together in Christ. Do come!

 

2007 FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Monday, September 24, 2007)

            2007 Budget Approved:                                                 $398,475

            Pledges Received To Date:                                $300,513

            Received Last Week:                                                    $    8,235

            Required Weekly:                                                          $    6,531

 

 

 

 

A JOINT FELLOWSHIP BRUNCH will take place immediately following the joint World Communion Service next Sunday, October 7th in Parish Hall. Come and enjoy some conversation, coffee and quiche with your fellow Episcopalian brothers and sisters. The meal will be provided by both congregations. Please help out by bringing the following for the buffet (last names beginning with):

            A-D     Fresh Fruit (cut up or whole)

            E-J       Salad

            K-Q     Breakfast breads and pastries

            R-Z      Main dish (quiches, egg casserole, etc.)

We also need volunteers to assist with set-up, serving and clean-up. If you can lend a hand or have questions, please call Patty Connor at 761-0163 or email at shelby27@optonline.net.

 
 

Please join us for WPC’s second annual

FALL FEST

A celebration of Foliage, Fellowship

And Stewardship

 

Sunday, October 14

After worship ‘til 2 PM

At the Home of Jim & Lisa Lillie

203 Nod Hill Road

 

Come by for a burger, a chance to socialize with friends,

And fun games and crafts for the kids

 

‘Price of Admission’:

Your stewardship packet and/or

a friend!

 

CHURCH SCHOOL: Our first Joyful Noise Sunday for this year will be today.  At 10:45 children in grades Kindergarten through 4th grade will gather in the Upper Core where they will sing both hymns and such old favorites as “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”, “Jesus Loves Me”, and “Father Abraham”.  Children will also receive communion, alternating between Presbyterian and Episcopalian traditions. Last year Joyful Noise was a great success.  Both children and parents are excited about continuing this opportunity to explore faith through music.  Parents should pick up their children in the Upper Core at the end of worship. 

 

CALENDAR

 

Sunday                         10:00 AM         Morning Worship

                                      4:30 PM          Koinonia & Katalysta

                                      4:30 PM        A Congregational Evening of Conversation: Natural Church Development

Monday                        10:00 AM         Staff

                                      7:30 Pm          Deacons

Tuesday                        12:00 PM          Men’s Bible Study

Wednesday                     6:00 Pm          7th/8th Grade Fellowship

Thursday                        7:30 AM         Morning Prayer

                                      7:30 PM          Sanctuary Choir

Sunday                         10:00 AM         Joint World Communion Sunday/Church School Teacher Commissioning

                                    11:15 AM         Joint Reception

 

 

 

 

 

K-6; WPC KATRINA RECOVERY TEAM 6

to Gulfport, Mississippi

Wednesday, November 28 – Sunday, December 2, 2007

For information, call/write Linda Rost (438-7795;lander0411@yahoo.com) or Sonny Kern (401-466-2483; sonnykern@aol.com). Do come…to give thanks for God’s blessings, to wrap a gift to others in need with your time.