Family Camp is right around the corner! May 24 to 26th—mark your calendars and be ready for some fun! We will be going to Skyline again this year. There are a lot of activities for everyone including: fishing, canoeing, archery, hayrides, swimming (weather permitting), hiking, biking, campfires, family skits, singing, s’mores, drumming, shelter building and obstacle courses. Families of all sizes and ages are welcome! Registration is online at www.campskyline.org. If you would like a room in Focus Hall register early before they fill up, cabins and tent sites are also available.
| 10:00 am | Worship |
| Sermon: “God the Father Keeps Working,” by Rev. Dr. Rob Carlson | |
| Scripture Lesson: John 5:1-17 | |
| 11:15 am | Church School for Youth & Children |
| 11:30 am | Adult Christian Education |
| May 5: The Life and Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with Rob Carlson. | |
| May 12: Book Discussion: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. |
Friday evening, May 24 to Sunday morning, May 26th: Come join us. There are a lot of activities for everyone. Families of all sizes and ages are welcome! Register now online at www.campskyline.org. If you would like a room in Focus Hall, register early. Cabins and tent sites are also available. Talk to Sue Schnackenberg or Alice Townley for more information.
For the next three weeks, the Mission Committee will be collecting the following specific household items needed by local refugees and families through St. Vincent Catholic Charities. So please clean out your closets and cupboards and drop your items off in the designated area within Fellowship Hall by Sunday, May 26th. Items needed include: pots and pans (sauce & frying), full-size blankets, twin and full sheets, mops, brooms, alarm clocks, dinner plates, towels (bath, hand and wash cloths), dish towels, bowls (mixing, serving, cereal) and shower curtains. You may also drop off gift cards that can be used to purchase some of these items. Thanks for your support!
May Birthdays will be celebrated on Sunday, May 19, following the worship service, with cake, punch, and coffee. If you have a May birthday and would like to find your name on the cake, please sign up at the kiosk.
Our Congregation’s monthly newsletter, The Grapevine, is available to view and to copy (in color) online. However, if you’d rather have a hard copy (in less flattering black and white), some are available in the literature rack by the south entrance of Fellowship Hall.
| 10:00 am | Worship: Youth Sunday |
| Some of our High School seniors will be preaching; other youth will be leading our worship and music for the morning. | |
| *Nursery care is available from 9:30 am – 12:30 am. | |
| 11:15 am | Church School for Youth & Children |
| 11:30 am | Adult Christian Education |
| Phil Henderson will lead the discussion of The Warmth of Other Suns. Special guests will be Jonas Chenault, Ph.D. a native of Detroit. Among other positions, Jonas was, until his retirement, Associate Professor of Education, Urban Counseling Program, MSU. Also with us will be Herman Anderson of Detroit, who was the Civil Rights attorney in Albany, Georgia who helped to free many of the activists in that city's civil rights struggle including Dr. William G Anderson who began the Albany Movement and who subsequently became a professor in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine. They will speak to us regarding the great African-American migration to Detroit and Michigan. | |
| 12:30 pm | Women’s Connection meets Sunday at 12:30 in the Board Room. |
| Enjoy fellowship with other women of the church, then lunch provided by Barbara Dorr and Shirley Rumminger. Bettie Senger is our featured speaker, sharing stories of her faith journey and about her daughter's recent wedding in India. Please join us ... no reservation required. | |
| 12:30 pm | Trip to Scotland |
Interested in a pilgrimage to Iona? Explore one week on the Island to experience the Iona Community, working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community, and the renewal of worship. Participants will
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Our own John Duley is receiving the Distinguished Community Service Award from the East Lansing Educational Foundation on May 9th, 2013 at a dinner from 5:30—9:15 at the Eagle Eye Golf and Athletic Center. The dinner is a benefit to the East Lansing Educational Foundation and is $50 per person. If you are interested in going to honor John, please contact Dorinda VanKempen.
Friday evening, May 24 to Sunday morning, May 26th: Come join us. There are a lot of activities for everyone. Families of all sizes and ages are welcome! Register now online at www.campskyline.org. If you would like a room in Focus Hall, register early. Cabins and tent sites are also available. Talk to Sue Schnackenberg or Alice Townley for more information.
Saturday, May 4, at 6:00 pm is the PCO Progressive Dinner. If you want to be part of the Progressive Dinner, please be sure to fill out the form and give it to Jerri Gillett by the end of Fellowship Hour SUNDAY! These dinners are always lots of fun. The Parish Life committee hopes you can participate!
Saturday May 4- 9 am—Noon. Lou Cravotta has agreed to spear head this event, please see him for instructions before you start to work. If you have them, please bring your yard and gardening tools.
| 10:00 am | Worship |
| Sermon: “Simple Words Sung Often” Scripture Reading: Revelation 7:9-17 and Psalm 23 |
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| *Nursery care is available from 9:30 am–12:30 am. | |
| 11:00 am | Celebration of May Birthdays in Fellowship Hall following the worship service. |
| 11:15 am | Church School for Youth & Children |
| 11:30 am | Adult Christian Education begins at 11:30 am in the Chapel. |
| Race & Religion Series: This Sunday Kent Workman will lead our class as we share our early ethnic origins and understandings. | |
| 5:00 pm | Confirmation Class |
| 6:00 pm | Youth Group |
The Worship and Music Committee is in the process of taking an inventory of the church's hymnals and bibles. If you have borrowed either, please return them to the sanctuary or let the church office know that you have them.
Saturday, May 4, at 6:00 pm we are bringing back the PCO Progressive Dinner. Please consider hosting part of this event if you are able, but if you can’t, do sign up to come and enjoy the fellowship. The bulletin insert can be mailed, or you can use the phone numbers to make your reservation(s), which we need back by next Sunday, April 28.
Please see the April Grapevine for further information. There are two local recycling events in April to dispose of items:
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