Announcements
March, 2012
Together, we have the power to end homelessness
in our community.
The Interfaith Hospitality Network–Main Line (IHN-ML) is committed to helping homeless families in our community to achieve lasting independence. Its goal is to provide safe, temporary housing, meals and support services to homeless families in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.
In March, St. Paul’s in Telford has the opportunity to open our doors to a few families who are in transition and need a place to sleep, shower, and eat. Our volunteers will cook and serve meals, play and interact with the children, provide transportation back and forth to the Keystone Opportunity Center, as well as provide emotional support to guests. This is a chance to go on a mission trip without travel.
If you would like to connect with your passion for outreach and take advantage of this opportunity, sign up in the Narthex or email Peter Detweiler (socialministry
stpaulstelford
org) or Pastor Christensen.
Our next Senior Event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 2 pm.
The subject is Dealing with Losses – Others’ and Your Own. If you’ve lost a loved one and think you should “just get over it”, or care about others who are grieving, but just don’t know what to say or how to show you care, this event can help you understand the nature of “normal” grief, the ups, the downs, and the duration of the journey and what may be most helpful to those around you who need your support. Our speaker for this event is Elaine Ely, Bereavement Coordinator for Grand View Hospital Hospice. Elaine is a UCC pastor with 16 years’ experience in hospice care, having spent the past 7 years serving our community through GVH.
As usual, we will not be having Senior Events during February due to the very real possibility of inclement weather. Keep warm and rest up for more festive, fun and fabulous events coming next spring.
ACOLYTE SIGN UPS – WILL OCCUR MONTH OF FEBRUARY – During the month of February acolyte sign up sheets will be available Wednesday evenings before and after confirmation and Sunday mornings. The sign up sheets will be in the fellowship hall on a table. We will be scheduling acolytes, nursery helpers and crucifers for the months of April – September 2012. Please bring your calendars and sign up. We will also be holding acolyte training in the next few months – details to follow. Any questions, please contact Kris Fosbenner.
Book club pick for January: Roomby Ema Donoghue. Come January 23rd at 7:00pm in the parlor to discuss this fabulous book!To five year old Jack, Room is the world… It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven by eleven foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating– a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
Join us in the Fellowship Hall on January 30,2012 for a presentation of ‘Stories from Around the World’ by Bonnie Moyer of Ten-Thousand Villages. This presentation is open to all. The presentation will begin at 7:30 pm and will be preceded by devotions at 7:00 pm. Please sign up on the list outside the Sacristy.
In 2012, members will be receiving your weekly offering envelopes by mail & will not have to pick them up at church. The envelopes will be mailed directly to your home every two months. You should receive January & February envelopes late in December. March & April envelopes will be received in late February & so forth. The mailing list will be updated every two months. If you have any changes notify the church office as soon as possible. Everyone will receive envelopes so that you can take advantage of the special envelopes i.e. Christmas, Easter, Lent, Lutheran Community at Telford, & Initial offering.
KIDS CLUB IS BACK!! What’s Kids Club? It’s a great evening activity for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Children will gather in the blue Sunday School room at 6:00 pm to eat dinner. At 6:30 children in grades K-2 go to Cherub Choir while the children in grades 3-6 enjoy a craft. At 7 pm the Cherubs return to the Sunday School room to work on their craft project while the Red Angels Choir rehearses. Kids Club and Red Angels Choir both end at 7:45. Kids Club will meet on the first Wednesday of each month (February 1st). All children in grades K-6 are invited to be part of this fun evening. Please contact Priscilla Landis for more information.
EVENING WORSHIP SERVICES AT ST. PAUL’S…
SUNDAY @ 6:00 P.M. –is scheduled for the THIRD Sunday of each month in the church parlor at 6 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend this contemporary Worship Service.
The Senior Lunch and Bible Study led by Pastor Huber, takes place the third Thursday of every month from noon to 1:30PM; come, join us for good fellowship and good discussion. Please bring your own sandwich, beverages are provided. The Bible Study meets year around in the Conference room across from the Choir Room, see you on January 19, 2012.
ANNUAL COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING WORSHIP SERVICE…Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the annual community thanksgiving worship service scheduled for WEDNESDAY, November 23rd, 2011 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Participating churches: Trinity UCC and Grace United Methodist Church.
November 30, 2011 we will take a trip to Northlandz, a model train exhibit in Flemington, NJ. We will carpool, leaving St. Paul’s parking lot at 10:30AM. There is also a doll exhibit. When we arrive in Flemington, we will have lunch at Alfonso’s before we tour the exhibit. The entrance fee is $12.00 per person. Please give your money to Pastor Huber, Ellie Landis, or Shirley Maxwell no later than 11/23, 2011. There is an optional outdoor train ride, for those who wish to take a ride. If 20 or more of us want to ride the fee is $1.75 per person, if less than 20 the fee is $2.75 payable on the day of the event at Northlandz. We will each be responsible for our own lunch at Alfonso’s. Entrée pricing, per their website, runs about $8.00 to $12.00 for lunch. They serve pizza, sandwiches, salad, and entrees. Please sign up and indicate your ability to drive. Shirley Bonner is the coordinator of this event.
December 15, 2011 at 2:00PM we will meet in the Fellowship Hall to sing Christmas Carols and enjoy nutcrackers. Light refreshments will be served. Ruth Sommers is the coordinator of this event.
As always, these events are open to everyone…regardless of age.
Saturday, October 29th 2011
9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Bring your used or broken computers, monitors, printers, any other computer related accessory, audio/video equipment, tv’s, compact florescent light bulbs, florescent tubes, CD’s/DVD’s, cell phones, and ink cartridges to be recycled.
A donation for the items you bring will be appreciated to help cover part of our cost to transport and properly dispose of your items.
A donation of $10 for each TV & CRT monitor will be appreciated to help offset the higher cost to recycle these items.
Drop off CFL bulbs, CD’s/DVD’s, cell phones and ink cartridges for free.
DO NOT BRING: Small kitchen appliances, vacuums, microwaves, or hazardous material.
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
October 17th at 7:00 PM in Fellowship Hall – Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s past.
Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. Don’t miss out on great discussion of this fabulous book.
October 15th from 5:00PM to 9:00PM
We will celebrate our reunion with Pastor Christensen at a traditional Lutheran covered dish supper. We will eat together and see what Pastor Christensen has been doing and chat with him about what we have been doing.
Come and share a dish that is part of your ethnic heritage or just one of your family favorites. Ham, chicken, rolls and beverages will be provided.
Sign up in the narthex to reserve your seats.
When School Bells Ring…CHILDREN SING! Back to school means back to choirs! Choirs for children in Kindergarten through Sixth Grade will start on Wednesday September 14. The schedule is:
Cherub Choir (grades K-2) 6:30 pm – 7 pm
Red Angels Choir (grades 3-6) 7 pm – 7:45 pm
Both choirs rehearse in the Choir Room. Children may join any Wednesday night. All children in grades K-6 are invited to participate.
Come and join the fun!