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Gracias! Lots of Notes of Thanks that We Should Share
| Thanks to Gwen Wray-Samans for hosting coffee time, and thanks to Karen Kimmel for extending gracious hospitality to the exploring membership gathering.
Help Wanted!
We have no one signed up to host coffee hour Sunday. If you can do so, please let me know.
The sign up sheet for hosting coffee hour is posted on the bulletin board outside of the church office, and there are plenty of dates remaining.
(You can check the schedule each week on the calendar on the CPC web site.
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Session Endorses New Music Position, Approves Budget for 2011
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At its planning retreat last weekend, CPC's session endorsed the recommendation from the music ministry task force to create a new quarter-time director of congregational music position, and budgeted $6,400 for a partial year.
The new position will be included in the budget as presented for congregational affirmation Sunday, Jan. 30. Following that meeting, session plans to create a small task force that will seek applicants for the new position, conduct interviews and make a recommendation to session.
The new position includes these responsibilities:
* Planning and overseeing the music program for all worship services.
* Directing the choir, and building it up.
* Growing the congregation's music ministry, including music with young people and children.
* Planning and providing for special music events.
The new position works within the approved budget, but the approved budget will work better if we meet our pledge goal.
We have received 31 pledges thus far for the 2011 CPC budget, and the drive stands at $76,726. Our goal is $85,000.
Thanks so much to all those who have pledged already. It is tremendously helpful to the budget process. If you haven't offered your pledge yet, please do so now. You can simply send an e-mail to Reg Mitchell with your pledge amount. Also let Reg know if you plan to honor the pledge on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis or some other schedule that fits your own circumstance.
Give until giving makes a difference in your life.
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End your week in play
Begin the next one in prayer
Progressive ... Inclusive ... Diverse |
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Greetings!
 Tomorrow evening join us for the first Wii Kirk evening of 2011. We'll open the joint at 6:30, and soon thereafter, Clark and Cheryl will start pulling the first pizzas from the oven. Bring something to share, and start the weekend on a joyous note. Wii Kirk is a great time for good conversation, simple fun, and great food. It's also a great place to bring a friend. I hope to see you tomorrow evening. End this week in play, and begin the new one in prayer, worship and praise! Worship Sunday comes with a "Harry Potter warning." One of the readings Sunday, Leviticus 19:30-38, has a wizard warning and, having taken Hannah to see the most recent Harry Potter film on Monday I just couldn't resist the connection. Actually, we'll be talking about welcoming the stranger. All are welcome -- including muggles. peace, DavidPS: under the heading "decent and in order" comes this reminder that our January congregational meeting is Sunday, Jan. 30, following worship. |
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Great Turnout for AFAC Night of Prayer and Groceries!
CPC continues its remarkable support of the Arlington Food Assistance Center. Monday evening 16 of us showed up to celebrate Martin Luther King Day as a "day on" in service to the community.
 Our showing was timely and essential as we arrived on the heels of a weekend food drive that filled the AFAC warehouse. Most months we take food from milk crates to fill grocery bags to be distributed to AFAC clients. Monday we worked the other direction, filling milk crates with the tons of food that had come from donation sites across Arlington. We emptied numerous giants bins and sorted the food into crates for short term storage.
Our regular monthly volunteer time coincides with another, small community group. Monday evening one of their volunteers looked at the crowd and said, "did the entire congregation show up tonight?"
Well, not quite, but about 20 percent of us participated in the night's work. It was another good night of good work done kindly and well. In the words of the poet Wendell Berry, that is the definition of prayer.
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Prayers of the People
Our Seasons of the Spirit prayers for the coming week include immigrant families struggling to make a home in the U.S.; churches along the U.S.-Mexico border working to protect people in the desert; and these members of the CPC family: Josh Burruss and Heather Bean Burruss, and Dave Norman. Please let them know that you are holding them in the light.
Our texts for the weekinclude Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 18:1-8; Leviticus 19:33-34; Psalm 146; Matthew 25:35; Luke 10:38-42.
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Come and See! Exploring Membership at CPC
Thus Sunday we wrap up our winter exploring membership gathering with some good conversation about what we mean when we confess our faith in joining the church.
If you'd like to join the fun, we're meeting in the purple parlor/church library after worship. The gathering will last about one hour, and includes a simple lunch. All are welcome, whether or not you could be with us earlier.
We will formally welcome new members to CPC Sunday, Jan. 30. We'll hold a special session meeting that morning at 9:00 to receive new members, and then publicly receive them in worship.
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Come and Sing! John Bell Is Coming to Arlington
 John Bell, who led an evening of congregational song at Clarendon two years ago, is returning to Arlington to lead a series of workshops and worship services at Arlington Presbyterian Church, March 13-16.
John is a minister in the Church of Scotland and a member of the Iona Community, where he has helped to lead a broad renewal movement in congregational singing and global hymnody.
Details are available on the National Capital Presbytery web site, and there's a flyer on the bulletin board outside the office at church.
If you've never had the opportunity to sing with John, make sure you mark your calendars for Sunday evening, March 13, at 7:00, when he will lead a community sing. You will be part of making some beautiful music, and you'll have a blast while doing it.
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