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WILTON PRESBYTERIAN

February 24, 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

 

ECUMENICAL/INTER-RACIAL WORSHIP

Wilton Presbyterian Church at Grace Baptist Church

17 West Avenue, South Norwalk

Sunday, March 2

10:30 AM

 

Please note the change in morning worship TIME (10:30 AM) and also the change in worship PLACE (at Grace Baptist. On this Sunday only there will be no worship service and church school at WPC this morning.)  Grace Baptist’s pastor, Lindsay Curtis, will be leading worship; WPC’s Pastor, David Graybill, will be preaching; and the Grace Baptist Senior Choir will be singing. This is one of the year’s most spirited of services (children included).  Come yourself—with your family and friends.

Directions (10 minutes, 6 miles from WPC): Take Route 7 connector south. Exit toward Maritime Center/South Norwalk. Turn right onto West Ave. Grace Baptist Church is .2 miles on left. Enter church parking lot at driveway immediately beyond church on left.

 

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 Pastor or call the church office (762-5514). The next regularly scheduled Session meeting to receive new members will be Sunday, March 16,  9:30 AM in the Quiet/Meditation Room.

 

STAFF NOTES.  Youth & Children’s Activities Director, Jane Field, is worshipping at Zion’s Hill Methodist Church this morning.

 

LENTEN WEDNESDAY SUPPERS AND TABLE TALKS

This Wednesday, February 27

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

6:45 PM – Bible Table Talks (led by David Graybill): “Paul’s Treasure”

This Wednesday will be the third of seven suppers/Bible table talks on the theme: “Through hardship to Hope.” Bring yourself and some simple, natural foods to share with others. If you need nursery-infant child care, please call the church by 12 noon this Friday, February 29 to reserve the use of the church’s babysitter for Wednesday, March 5. If, later than this Friday, you find you can come with your babysitter, we’ll be happy to make available the Discovery Room for your children and your sitter.

 

THE 2008 CHURCH DIRECTORY is available on the credenza in the foyer/Narthex. Members and friends of WPC are welcome to pick one up. They are also available in the church office.

 

WPC FAMILY (alias the “Rogue’s Gallery”) If your picture is NOT posted on WPC Family bulletin board in the Gathering Space, may we ask you to consider either bringing an individual/family photo and drop it in the offering plate on a Sunday morning or calling Susan Graybill (762-2916 evenings) to arrange for a Deacon to snap your picture in the Quiet/Meditation Room on a Sunday morning before/after worship between next Sunday, February 17 and Palm Sunday, March 16? Thanks.

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2008 FINANCIAL INFORMATION

            2008 Budget Approved:                                     $398,905

            Pledges Received To Date:                                $  66,785          

            Received Last Week:                                        $    3,403

            Required Weekly:                                              $    7,380

 

WOMEN OF WPC. It’s Margarita Time! Please join us for Una celebration Mexicana para la mujer Presbyterian (a fiesta for the Presbyterian women). Friday, February 29th, 7:30 PM until the Margarita’s run dry (!) at the home of Sandy Shifrin, 41 Duck Pond Place, Wilton. Cost is $35 per person and all proceeds will benefit WPC’s Women’s Ministry. RSVP to Carol Rowe at 762-9766 or carolrowe@optonline.net. Your hosts are Patty Connor, Carol Rowe and Sandy Shifrin. Hope to see you there!

 

AED: WEPCO has purchased an Automatic External Defibrillator. It is stored in the upper cabinet in the Little Kitchen located behind the Lounge. Look for the red and white sign. There is no special certification required to use this life saving equipment. The machine talks you through the procedure and WILL NOT let you use it incorrectly.

See Sandy Muschler with any questions

 

There are extra ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING mites boxes and envelopes available on the credenza in the foyer/Narthex. Please help yourself.

 

A GIRLFRIEND’S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE

 

A Girl Friend’s Guide to the Bible is a new Bible Study starting up **March 7** (Friday group, 10:00 AM) and **March 9** (Sunday group, 11:30 AM).   This 6 week course will explore selected texts and topics that especially speak to women interested in nourishing themselves and their faith.  There’s no homework!  Just come as you can to whichever group and topic fits your schedule and interests.  It’s a time for you to enjoy study and conversation, and to develop and deepen friendship with each other and with Jesus Christ. 

                                                                                                                       

Each week, we’ll explore texts and topics tending to our faith through:           

v      Busyness                The Martha/Mary Conundrum                                                                                        3/7 or 3/9         

v      Wilderness              Feeling like Job-ette: Why is this happening to me?                                                     3/14  or 3/16

v      Prayerfulness          Re-imagining the Lord’s Prayer with The Lady’s Prayer                                              3/28  or 3/30

v      Truthfulness            Gentle Truth Telling: At home, at work, at church                                                             4/4 or 4/6

v      Care-fullness           Going to the Back of the Boat: Caring for others while                                                  4/25 or 4/27

we care for ourselves

v      Mindfulness            Reading and hearing God’s Word through the meditative                                     5/2 or 5/4

                                    practice of Lexio Divina

 

If you have any questions, call or email Chris Delmar (762-8722; delmar@optonline.net)

 

 

                                                                         

CALENDAR

 

Sunday                         10:00 AM         Morning Worship led by youth from the DC Mission Trip

Monday                        10:00 AM         Staff

Tuesday                        12:00 PM          Men’s Bible Study

                                      7:30 PM          Session

Wedneday                      6:15 PM          Lenten Supper

  6:45 PM          Table Talk

Thursday                        7:30 AM         Morning Prayer

                                      7:30 PM          Sanctuary Choir

Friday                             7:30 PM          Women’s Fiesta Night

Saturday                         9:30 AM         Choir Plus

Sunday                         10:30 AM         Worship at Grace Baptist Church, South Norwalk

                                      4:30 PM          Koinonia & Katalysta