Church Alive for May 18, 2008

 

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Please remember:  Bulletin announcements are due on Mondays by 5 pm.

Welcome to Lake Grove Presbyterian Church!  Please let us know you are here by filling out the “friendship pad,” and be sure to include your mailing and email addresses. 

If you are a first-time visitor today please stop at the Information Desk to receive a gift from us. Just ask for a “blue bag!” We hope to see you again soon!

Fellowship and Refreshments - Due to the Sanctuary Enhancement Project, fellowship time after the 8:00 and 9:30 services will be in the Breezeway today.  Fellowship time after the 11:00 service will be in Fellowship Hall.  Please join us. 

Children’s Ministry Volunteers – Don’t forget to come picnic with us today!  12:00 in Hub room.  Please be our guest and let us say thank you for your wonderful partnership in ministry.

Senegal Benefit:  The benefit concert raised $19,696 for Senegal relief.  A big THANKS to the choir for their gift and to all who made financial gifts to this important ministry.

Sanctuary Enhancement Project:  The project is underway.  Watch for periodic reports about our progress, which will be sent to you by email.  Copies will also be available in the Gathering Area.  And you can see for yourself by taking a look through the window in the Narthex.

Pew Envelopes and Prayer Cards are available in the friendship pads and at the usher’s station.

Of Special Interest

A Congregational Meeting will be held June 1, 2008, immediately following the 11:00 worship service, for the purpose of electing church officers.

Cyclone Relief: If you would like to make a financial contribution to the relief efforts for Myanmar, please make your check payable to LGPC, marked for "Cyclone Relief."  We will forward it to World Vision who has staff in Myanmar and is marshalling resources for the relief effort.  Please keep the victims of this devastation in your prayers.

Church Meeting Room Reservations:  All recurring meeting room reservations end on June 30.  Please submit new pink reservation forms ASAP for your group’s regular weekly or monthly meetings for the next year.

Photography for the church pictorial directory will continue this week.  Make appointments today in the Fellowship Hall.  Questions?  Contact Gail Fechtmeister at fechtmeister@comcast.net or 503-656-9737.

Directory photos:  If you are only receiving the free 8x10, the photographs will be available for you to pick up in the Fellowship Hall at the appointment table.  If you purchased photographs, they will be mailed to you.

If you are following the Lake Oswego/Lake Grove history series in the VIEW, you may wish to see the display in the Courtyard Room. 

Welcome New Members:  Please pick up your certificates in the Gathering Area today.

SEP Pledge Report:  Over 250 families committed nearly $850,000 to the project.  Please prayerfully consider your participation.  Our hope is that everyone will participate in this important project.

Children’s Ministry

All students are in class at 9:30 this morning.  At 11:00, the 1st through 3rd graders will join their families in worship.

Register for Discovery Bible Camp (June 16-20) today!  Registration forms are at the Children’s Ministry Counter.  $15 per child/$25 per family.

Attention DBC Volunteers.  Please come to one training meeting, either today at 4:00 pm or Sunday, June 1 at 12:00 pm.  Haven’t signed up to volunteer? Contact Susie Graham, susieg@lakegrovepres.org.

Noah’s Ark Early Childhood Education program has openings in the two-year-old class, Thursdays from 9:00-11:30 am.  Go to the LGPC website, www.lakegrovepres.org or call Nancy Stewart, 503-699-8828.

Mission & Ministry

Manna Ministries needs drivers on Monday and/or Friday mornings to pick up food from a local market and/or to deliver food to a few locations in Tigard and Tualatin.  Please sign up in the Gathering Area or call Wayne Waldal at 503-590-2336.  Thank you.

Book Collection for Woodburn Children's Summer Reading Program:  May 4 – June 8, the Children's Stewardship Committee will be collecting new and gently-used elementary-age reading books for the children at Cipriano Ferrel Education Center.  Collection baskets will be located near the church library and nursery. Questions?  Please contact Nancy Marshall, 503-488-5841 or Karen Juergens, 503-635-9905.

Habitat Build:  We have completed the framing of the house and are now working on siding and the interior.  Sign up for Saturday work days by going to the WWHFH website, info@wwhfh.org.  For more information, call Brian MacMillan, 503-691-6735. 

YD Adventures needs host homes to house their summer staff.  Please contact Jeremy Bucher at 503-266-7622 or jbucher@yd.org.

Youth Ministry

Youth Ministries needs your help!  We need backyards on Sunday or Wednesday evenings during the summer to host Entheos and Fish Co. offsite.  You provide the yard; we provide the food and the students!  Contact Kathleen for more information:  kathleen@lakegrovepres.org or 503-636-5656 x117.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Fish School meets this morning, 9:30 am in the Youth Room.

Join us Wednesday evening at Fish Co., 6:30-8:45 pm for a rare opportunity to hear from Holocaust survivor, Alter Wiener.  Parents and friends of Fish Co. are invited to attend this special event.  Bring $3 for dinner.

Glamour Girlz meet Saturday, May 31, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm.  Meet at the church and then we’ll head out for Glow-in-the-dark-underground-pirate-mini-Golf and a super service project.  Cost is $10.  To RSVP, contact kathleen@lakegrovepres.org.

HIGH SCHOOL

Higher Grounds meets at 9:30AM today for coffee and great discussion.  Join us upstairs in Room 204 as we study “The Afterlife.”

We celebrate our Confirmation students this morning at the 9:30 service.  The congregation is invited to a cake reception upstairs in the Youth Room following the worship service.

Mission Team Meeting today, noon to 2:30 pm, in the Youth Room.

Entheos tonight welcomes special guest, Holocaust survivor, Alter Wiener.  Parents and friends of Entheos are invited to join us for the evening and hear his powerful personal story, 7:00-9:00 pm, in the Youth Room. 

Baccalaureate:  Our high school seniors are invited to attend the 2008 Baccalaureate service, Sunday, June 1, 9:30 am.  Immediately following the service is a reception in the Youth Room for seniors and their families.  Please RSVP right away to Lenore Caldwell:  lenore@lakegrovepres.org

Adult Christian Education

Sundays at 9:30 am - Ephesians, taught by Tom Swearingen, will meet in the Library May 18 – June 1.

Growing in the Grove has concluded.  It will start up again on September 24, 2008.

Fellowship

Family Camp Sign Ups Today! You can sign up for family camp by going to www.lgpcfamcamp.info or stopping at the Welcome Center today. Don’t miss the fun July 11-13 at beautiful Camp Magruder!

Sign up to be part of the Captain’s Table – a fun way to get to know folks here at LGPC. Groups of 8 will form and have dinner together once a month during June, July, August, and September, either in a restaurant or at each other’s homes. You can join a group online or at the Information Desk – or call Jenny Haymore, 503-699-2777, to learn more.

Men's Annual Golf Tournament:  Men's Annual Golf Tournament Saturday June 21, 3:00 pm. Please sign up NOW at the information desk or on the LGPC website. We need to know if you are planning to attend!

The Women’s Connection this week features Brent James.  Join us Thursday, May 29 at 9:30 am in the Courtyard Room.

Women’s Ministries Spiritual Mentoring program: If you are a woman seeking to grow in your relationship with the Lord, please pick up information from the Gathering Area, or e-mail Ruth Ann Moore, ramo6061@aol.com or Beth Schmit at bizet37@yahoo.com.

PrimeTime Adventures: 

June 12 luncheon (12:00 pm) at LGPC features Flamenco dancers as entertainment.  $7 per person.

July 14 – A visit to Tillamook Forest and Tillamook Cheese Factory. 

Make reservations now for a 3-day trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, August 11-13.  Brochures are available at the Information Desk. 

The Prime Time committee is planning now for next year, and would love written in put from members ASAP. We will meet on June 9th to start hammering out the agenda for 2009.

For information about Prime Time events, or to sign up, visit the Information Desk next Sunday morning, or call Joy & Ralph Morgan, 503-639-9204.

Prayer Opportunities

The Prayer Cards in the pews are designed to help us pray effectively for your requests.  Drop completed cards in the box provided in the Gathering Area.

Come to Pastor Libby’s office, any Tuesday morning at 8:25 am for an hour of prayer.

For the Prayers of God’s People

For strength: Doris Price; Ed and Edie Dake, son and daughter-in-law of Lee Dake; Dorothy Dake, daughter-in-law of Lee Dake; Madison Harwood’s uncle and family.

For grieving families:  Linda Gregg and family in the loss of her father, Richard Davies; Phil and Sally Robinson, in the loss of Sally’s mother.

For recovery:  Gloria Miller Wilcox; Alyce Kluck; Robin Garvin’s friend, Lynn Whitehead; Bev McDaniel; Marie Stanley, Kerry Stanley’s mother; Isaac Scott’s father, Tom; Helen Eby; Margaret Young.

For upcoming surgery: Ann Pritchard for kidney transplant surgery and donor, Cindy Klein.

Pray for our Mission Partners

International Justice Mission:  Pray for the IJM Rwanda office.  They are still in the process of getting the office up and running, integrating Rwandan lawyers, and coordinating with the Rwandan government.

Salvation Army West Women's Shelter:  Pray that God will supply the many needs of the women and children in the Salvation Army West Women's Shelter.