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WILTON PRESBYTERIAN

January 20, 2008

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

 

Please turn off all cell phones and pagers when entering the sanctuary

 

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, Steve Connor, the Pastor, or call the church office (762-5514). The next regularly scheduled Session meeting to receive new members will be next Sunday, February 17, 9:30 AM in the Quiet/Meditation Room.

 

GOD’S PEOPLE HERE.  We hold close in prayer former WPC member Enoch Sherman, who writes that his recovery from heart bypass surgery in Sarasota, Florida “is going as well as could be hoped…and for David Sheffield, father of Lisa Lillie, who underwent lung surgery last Monday in Detroit, Michigan.

 

STAFF NOTES. As part of the Wilton Clergy Association Pulpit Exchange Pastor David Graybill is preaching at the Wilton Baptist Church this morning…the church office will be closed tomorrow in observance of Martin Luther King’s birthday.

 

The Session invites interested members of the congregation to review their report, PATHS TOWARD

ENLIGHTENMENT. This Report includes a Report of the Session by Sandy Shifrin and complete copies of the three reports Session received last year: Natural Church Development Survey (prepared by Ann Philbrick, Heartwood Resources), summary of Elder-lapsed member interviews (prepared by Mike Jenkins), and a memo from Ed White (Senior Consultant, Alban Institute) following his WPC visit. Members are invited to pick up a copy in the church office at your discretion.

 

Session has called

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION

Next Sunday, January 27, 2008

In Parish Hall

Immediately Following Morning Worship

 

To hear 2007 mission and ministry reports

To receive 2007 financial reports of the Church Treasurer

To receive the 2008 WPC Operating Budget

To elect at-large members of the 2008 Nominating Committee

To authorize changes in the Declaration of Condominium

 

Members are urged to participate and vote. Friends are invited to observe this congregation’s “Presbyterian way” at its best. Copies of the 2007 Annual Report are available on the table in the foyer this morning.

 

HELP NEEDED. Can you help us find the right person to be our new nursery supervisor? Do you know a nanny or an adult who is good with children who would like to work in our nursery on Sunday mornings from 9:45 to 11:30 am?  We are looking for a caring, responsible, and dependable adult to provide care for infants through 2 year olds.  Please see Sheri (834-2570) or Becky (834-0943) for more information.

 

JOINT ADULT EDUCATION

January 20 and 27, February 3 and 10, 9:00 AM

Conference Library

“Global Poverty in the Context of

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals”

With Chip Lyons, Former Director, UNICEF

Currently, Director of Gates Foundation’s Special Initiatives for Global Development

CHILDREN’S CHOIR FOR A DAY! We are inviting all Presbyterian children (Grades 2 and up) to join with St. Matthew’s boys and girls choir to sing two anthems during the Festival of Children service on February 10. There will be only one rehearsal on Sunday, February 3rd following worship in the Upper Core for about 30 minutes. No need to sign up, just come! Questions? Call Sheri Richards at 834-2570.

 

CAN YOU HELP PIVOT?

 

Those who were in worship last Sunday, January 13, had the good fortune to see, with their own eyes, the power of Christ at work in people’s lives through the men from Pivot Ministries who brought their unique and powerful faith into our sanctuary. WPC has had a long and meaningful relationship with Pivot Ministries. This year the Church in Action Committee intends to make that relationship even stronger and more involved. As a beginning point, several members of the committee will visit the new halfway house in Bridgeport to see the results of several years of support and volunteer labor. Those efforts have created a safe place to live for the men who have finished the program of taking back their lives from substance abuse, but need a protected environment while they re-enter society with a clean and new start. We plan to share lunch with the men in Bridgeport during our visit. 

 

Everyone is welcome to join us. We will meet at WPC on Friday, January 25th at 11 AM and caravan/drive to Bridgeport, arriving at around noon.  Please let the church office know by Wednesday, January 23 if you can be part of this uplifting experience.

 

Pivot has some needs, and perhaps you can help:

            * used washing machines and/or dryers (ready to replace your old ones with front loading?)

            * used computers and printers (consider Pivot when you upgrade?)

            * used suits, coats, shirts (church clothes for men?)

            * assistance with grant applications -- researching grant sources and writing

 

If you can help, please contact Linda Rost at 438-7795 / lander041@yahoo.com or Sonny Kern at 834-7654 / sonnykern@aol.com.

 

TEENS GOING ON THE 16TH ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL MISSION TRIP TO WASHINGTON DC NEED YOUR HELP!  As a part of their ministry in DC, our youth hand out warm hats, gloves, mittens and scarves to folks living on the streets.  We are collecting NEW winter hats, scarves, mittens and gloves in adult sizes (very clean & gently used items are OK, too) to give away to those in need whom we meet in DC soup kitchens and homeless shelters, on the sidewalks and in the parks of DC.  Please bring your donations to the church office by noon on February 10—we are shipping everything down to DC ahead of our arrival, since our van space is already filled with luggage!  Questions?  Contact Jane Field (762-5514) or John Satula (762-7400).

 

ASH WEDNESDAY

February 6

The Lounge

6:15 PM – Pot-luck supper (for children, teens, and adults).

6:45 PM – Jesus in the Wilderness. A Bible Conversation led by Jane Field and John Satula

7:30 PM – The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (in the Sanctuary)

This is the first of seven Wednesday evening Lenten Suppers/Bible Conversations on the theme: “Through Hardship to Hope.” Soup and infant-nursery child care provided. Bring yourself and some simple, natural foods to share with others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CALENDAR

Sunday                           9:00 AM         Adult Education

                                    10:00 AM         Morning Worship, Rabbi Leah Cohen, Preaching

Monday                                                Office Closed

Tuesday                        10:00 AM         Staff

                                    12:00 PM          Men’s Bible Study

Wednesday                     4:30 PM          Confirmation Class

                                      6:00 PM          67th-8th Grade Fellowship

Thursday                        7:30 AM         Morning Prayer

                                      7:30 PM          Sanctuary Choir

Friday                             7:30 PM          Officer Retreat @ First Presbyterian Church, New Canaan

Saturday                         9:00 AM         Officer Retreat @ First Presbyterian Church, New Canaan

Sunday                         10:00 AM         Morning Worship

                                    11:00 AM         Refreshments

                                    11:30 AM         Annual Meeting of the Congregation