by janet | Apr 2, 2015 | Click Date to Respond
MARKETPLACE 2015
We are excited to present again to the congregation and community, Marketplace 2015. The dates are Friday, April 10th 6 – 8 pm for the church family only, and Saturday, April 11th 8 am – 2 pm for everyone in the community. Proceeds will go to help kids attend camp and to support our youth ministry. Shopkeepers can decide what percentage of their sales will go toward the ministry project.
Shopkeepers are needed to make this a success. Shopkeepers will bring items from home that are clean and in good repair. Shopkeepers will set up their booth, work their booth on Friday & Saturday, clean up Saturday and remove all leftover items from the church on Sunday. This is a great way to get rid of all those “spring cleaning” treasures you don’t want anymore.
Shopkeepers can also have a booth with hand made items available for sale.
Pricing: Items will not be priced. The purpose of a Marketplace is to barter and make deals. In previous years, we received more for bartered items for the most part than if we had taken the time to price items, plus, it was a lot of fun making “deals” and getting to know people. Craft items may be priced as they are new and have labor involved.
Have just a few items? Two or more people can go together to have a booth if you feel you don’t have enough for a booth on your own, or contact someone who will be having a booth, and bring in items to be displayed at their table.
Alternative Booths: If anyone would like to have a booth for baked goods, we would encourage that. We also hope to serve a light lunch and snacks on Saturday. If you are interested in helping with this, please let us know.
We need shopkeepers to sign up ASAP so we can make sure we have enough booths for the Marketplace. To sign up, or if you have questions, contact: Donnella Lawson, or Joyce Huntsperger. We also need extra volunteers to help shopkeepers with their booths, cashiers, elevator operators, etc. Booths can be set up any time after Wednesday, April 8th. Don’t forget extension cords and fresh batteries to help with your sales.
Now is the time to start cleaning out and cleaning up all those items in the attic, garage, and basement.
by janet | Apr 2, 2015 | Click Date to Respond
The Seasons of the Church
Lent is a season of preparation for the celebration of Easter. The word Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon lencten, which means “spring,” the time of the lengthening of days. At first, Lent was a time to prepare new believers for baptism on Easter. They were taught the gospel message and the Lord’s Prayer. People prayed and fasted. Eventually, Lent became a time of reflection and self-examination for all Christians.
In our busy, secular world, Lent can be a time of renewal; a time to remember Jesus – to walk with Him in study, prayer, and service to others, and to engage in personal and corporate worship.
by janet | Feb 8, 2015 | Click Date to Respond
Groundhog Day is a day that traverses centuries. The groundhog tradition stems from practices associated with Candlemas Day (February 2); where the custom was to have the clergy bless candles and distribute them to the people. The Roman legions supposedly brought this practice to the Germanic people, who picked it up and concluded that if the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal, the hedgehog, would cast a shadow, this predicting six more weeks of bad weather, which they interpolated as the length of the “Second Winter.” (Adapted from “Groundhog Day: 1886 to 1992” by Bill Anderson)
by janet | Feb 8, 2015 | Click Date to Respond
Jim Elliot
American missionary and Auca Indian martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: “One does not surrender a life in an instant- that which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
by janet | Feb 8, 2015 | Click Date to Respond
Miles Coverdale
Death of Miles Coverdale (b. 1488), publisher of the first printed English Bible. He completed the translation of the Old Testament which William Tyndale and left unfinished at this death. Although Tyndale had openly criticized King Henry Viii, Coverdale dedicated his 1535 edition of the Bible to him.
Here is John 3:16,17 as printed in the Coverdale English Bible:
“For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his onely sonne, that who so euer beleueth in him, shulde not perishe, but haue euerlasting life. For God sent not his sonne in to the world to condempne the worlde, but that the worlde might be saued by him.”
