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CPC Needs You!
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Many folks have noted to me over the past year that CPC has become much more than a Sunday-morning church.
That is great testimony to your faithfulness. And is also requires your leadership.
We have a couple of key leadership positions to fill this spring.
First, we need someone to step up to serve as treasurer for the congregation. Dar Davis has served in this role for several years, but is leaving the area soon. She has automated most of the treasurer functions (bill paying, for example), and is available to train her successor.
If you feel called to this important ministry, please let me know.
We also need additional offering counters on Sunday mornings. We will train you in the task. Please let me know if you can join the team.
We are looking for a new member for the CPC-Clarendon Child Care Center liason team which meets no more than once a month to coordinate joint building use concerns. Please let me know if you are able to take this on.
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Thanks
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Thanks to all those who joined in worship leadership last week in my absence: Marit Simenson, Wes MacAdam, Travis Reindl, and Carl Layno. And thanks to Reg Mitchell for welcoming Ruty.
Thanks to Mike Holloway for coffee time.
There is a sign up sheet for hosting coffee hour. It's posted on the bulletin board outside the church office on the main floor.
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Celebrate Life
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Saturday at 2:00 p.m. we will gather in worship to affirm our resurrection faith and to
celebrate the life of Fred Regetz.
While for Fred, death came as a friend at the end of a long struggle, we hold Jeannette, Suzann and Jonathan in the light of our prayers as they grieve.
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Come and Worship;
Celebrating Together
Progressive ... Inclusive ... Diverse
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March 2010
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Greetings!
 This weekend we will gather in worship a couple of times and give thanks to the God of life and source of our being.
Saturday afternoon at 2:00, we gather to celebrate the life of Fred Regetz and worship the God of resurrection hope.
Sunday morning we gather to celebrate the sacrament of communion, welcome new members and worship the God of life we graciously welcomes us to table.
In our living and in our dying, we belong to God. We give thanks and rejoice in all circumstances because the God who gives us life promises to be with us in each step of our journeys. Whether in the valley of the shadow of death or on the mountaintop of joy, God is with us.
So come and worship. Come and celebrate.
peace,
David
We continue to talk about God's calling this Sunday. Please prayerfully read the plea for leadership at CPC in the left column today and consider how God may be calling you to service.
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Worship Week -- Breaking Bread
We celebrate at table Sunday morning as we share the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 
The texts for the morning at Isaiah 6:1-8 (the call of Isaiah), and Luke 5:1-11 (the call of the first disciples). The sermon is "Lord and Savior."
We welcome new members who were received by session at its February meeting. They are Heather Bean, Joshua Burriss, John Gunn, Mike Holloway, and David Pitts.
Through the season worship will also include reflections on the central role of mission in the life of the church. This week Wes MacAdam will share his thoughts on One Great Hour of Sharing.
Another WARNING for this week: The young people will issue a challenge to us!
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MLP Sponsors Documentary Filmmaker
Filmmaker
Alice Bouvrie will be at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, March 14 at 4:00
p.m., to promote and raise funds for her current project, Thy Will Be Done. Bouvrie will show a portion of the film and discuss it with the audience.
The film, currently in post production, follows
Sara Herwig, a male-to-female transsexual, on her journey toward ordination as
a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Herwig was
accepted by the church as a candidate for ordination in 2002, but her
ordination has faced continued opposition from those who do not recognize her
as female and those who challenge her candidacy because she is in a same-sex
relationship with a woman.
When Herwig was married last March to Jenn, a
biological female, the situation was further complicated. Jean Southard, the pastor who performed the
marriage, now faces disciplinary charges in the church.
Thy Will Be Done is a
feature length documentary that addresses gender justice and sexual equality in
faith communities and the broader society.
Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church is at One Chevy Chase Circle NW, Washington, DC, 20015.
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Coming to CPC in March
March brings opportunities to worship, study, serve and celebrate. Here's a quick look at some highlights. - Thursday evenings at 7:00 through the month our Bible study on peacemaking continues.
- Sunday afternoons at 4:30 our study of The Future of Faith continues through the month.
- March 7 we welcome new members during worship.
- March 15 we bag groceries at AFAC.
- March 19 we hold our next Wii Kirk games and pizza night.
- March 20 we hold the Ibis Chamber Music ensemble's annual free family concert.
Come as often as you like as we continue our journey through Lent.
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Free! Music! Free! Music! Free!
The price is right and the music will be great, so come to CPC Saturday, March 20 at 10:30 a.m. for "Song and Dance," a performance by the Ibis Chamber Ensemble.
Children of all ages are invited to meet the harp, flute and strings in this 40 minute program.
IBIS was founded in Florida by Joseph Scheer and Susan Robinson. Now
residents of Arlington, Virginia, Joe is the concertmaster of the
Boston POPS Esplanade Orchestra, and Susan is the principal harpist of
the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade
Orchestra. Joe and Susan will be joined this season by colleagues from
the Kennedy Center Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra on
flute, violin, viola and cello.
Our mission
is to present great chamber music concerts, that feature a refreshing
variety of music and a friendly approach to music-making. Our
programming ranges from the familiar to the unconventional and
encompasses a dazzling spectrum of sonorities. We are as interested in
the audience member who protests that he 'knows nothing about music' as
the more experienced concert-goer. Our concerts are attended by
neighborhood folks, music lovers from all around D.C., and even a
healthy number of kids. An IBIS concert is always informal, informative
and fun!
Best of all, most of our performances are free to the public.
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Exposing Ourselves on Facebook
Well ... not exactly. But we are moving beyond passively waiting for people to come across our virtual presence on the web.
For the next couple of months we are advertising on Facebook, and thousands of local Facebook users will, at the very least, see our ad.
In the first couple of weeks more than 100,000 Facebook users were exposed to our ad. More than 20 have clicked through to our website and traffic on the web site has regularly pushed past 25 visits per day -- almost double what it was in January.
As you all know, we have a great story to tell -- our part of the old, old story of God's love. We're exploring new ways to tell the story. If you have suggestions, please let me know.
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