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Gracias! Lots of Notes of Thanks that We Should Share
| Thanks to Marit for providing food for the Unchurch, and to everyone who helped clean up.
Coffee time!
Someone seems to have walked away with the fall coffee time sign up sheet that was last seen in Wilson Hall. So we'll have another one this weekend. In the meanwhile, if you signed up for this weekend please let me know!
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Wii Kirk Returns!
| The first Wii Kirk pizza and games evening of the fall is coming Friday, September 30, at 6:30.
Come for an evening of fantastic pizza courtesy of Clark Chesser and Cheryl Lederle, aka Mr. and Ms. Pizza.
Bring anything you'd like to share.
We'll have the Wii set up with all manner of games to test your video chops against the young ones. They promise to be kind!
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| A-SPAN Servicep | We're feeding our neighbors in need with A-SPAN on Friday, September 30.
Join the crew that will gather at church at 5:45 p.m. to distribute food at two sites. Please let me know that you can help out.
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Milestones
| We will hold a celebration of the life of Ditty Boaz and a service of witness to our resurrection faith Saturday, October 29, at 4:00 p.m. at Clarendon.
Ron Bookbinder asks prayers for his Great Aunt Francie Huber. After a fall, she is recovering in a rehab facility and hopes to be able to return to her home.
Cheryl Lederle asks prayers for her colleague, Uhuru Goss, who is facing surgery and is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is being treated for cancer.
In this space we celebrate moments and milestones in the lives of members of the community. So, if you have a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation, a promotion, a retirement, or other milestone to celebrate send me a note and we'll shout it out right here.
Likewise, if you have a prayer concern that you'd like lifted up in the prayer lives of the the community, let me know and we'll list that here, as well.
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Coming soon to the wee kirk:
A-SPAN, Friday, Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m..
Wii Kirk, Friday, Sept. 30, 6:30 p.m.
Session budget retreat, Saturday, Oct. 1, 9:00 a.m.
Exploring membership, Sunday, Oct. 2, 11:30 a.m.
Unchurch! Sunday, Oct. 2, 6:00 p.m.
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This Sunday is Special
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Greetings!
 I rarely make special appeals for Sunday morning attendance, but this Sunday is special. To begin with, it is World Communion Sunday, so we will share with brothers and sisters across the globe in breaking bread and drinking from the cup of salvation. It's also the Sunday on which we receive the annual peacemaking offering that supports the work of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program as well as the work that we do through AFAC at home. Those are important enough, worthy of your participation and your offerings, but this Sunday is important in the life of CPC because we are going to begin a month of study that will shape the future of the congregation in profound ways. We need you to be there. The sermon Sunday, Darkness & Bread, will lay out the situation and the steps to come during October. I know that some of you will be away this weekend, so I encourage you to do two things: where ever you are Sunday morning, pause for a moment and hold the congregation in prayer, and then take time to read the sermon on line next week. Session is beginning this work during a budget retreat this Saturday morning, so I also encourage you to hold us in your prayers Saturday morning that we may discern well what God is calling us to be and to become. grace and peace, David |
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Bread for Body and Soul!
Wii Kirk returns Friday evening!
Kick away a bit of the gloom of this endlessly gray September this Friday evening (Sept. 30) at the first Wii Kirk gathering of the school year.
Doors open at 6:30, and the Wii will be plugged in for games, tables set for conversation, and Clark and Cheryl turning out the best pizza in Arlington County for your enjoyment.
Bring a friend, and bring whatever you'd like to share with pizza.
Feed Our Neighbors as Ourselves!
In addition to the joyous gathering of the Wii Kirk, come out a bit earlier for the joyous feeding of our neighbors in need. We're doing the evening meal delivery for the Arlington Street People's Assistance Network this Friday.
Amber Hodgen will be coordinating food prep with A-SPAN at church Friday afternoon beginning with meal preparation at 4:30. The delivery crew will head out from the CPC parking lot at 5:45. We should be back at church just about in time for the first round of hot pizza coming out of the ovens.
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Come to the Unchurch! And Bring a Friend.
Sunday evening at 6:00 the Unchurch continues.
Click here to download an unchurch flyer to share with friends! This week Cindy Bolbach, current moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will drop by to share from her experience as moderator.
We'll be using the middle Sundays of Unchurch to talk together about what it means to be church. We'll close the month with DC poet Rose Berger (a longtime staff writer for Sojourners). Rose will be joined by poet Joseph Ross for a joint reading.
In November we'll devote the unchurch to further explorations of the spiritual practice of hospitality. Picking up where we left off last winter during our Lenten soup series, Clark Chesser and Cheryl Lederle will guide us deeper into the art and practice of Christian hospitality.
Unchurch will feed your body and your soul. The evening will begin with a community meal at 6:00, followed by about 45 minutes of program time, and a brief prayerful closing time of worship in the style of the Taize community in France -- lots of candles, simple songs, the evening psalm and community prayers. There will be childcare available for the youngest members of the community during the program time, and there will be programs for the elementary-middle school children as well.
Unchurch is for everyone, but it's especially for folks for whom the traditional Sunday morning worship time (even as nontraditionally as we do it at CPC) does not work. All of which means, it's a great time to invite friends who might otherwise shy away from church. Unchurch will be an open space to build community, share ideas and experiences, learn from each other and from artists, poets, activists, musicians, theologians and leaders in the larger church. If you have an idea for a leader, or if you've a topic you'd like to lead, please let me or Marit Simenson know.
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Exploring Membership at CPC this Fall
Sundays in October we will convene our next "exploring membership" gatherings. We'll be meeting in the church library/purple parlor following coffee time beginning Sunday, Oct. 2.
The gatherings will give folks who are new to the community an opportunity to learn about Clarendon, about the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and about each other.
All are welcome! If you'd like to be part of this fall's exploration, please contact David.
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AFAC Hits New High in Clients
Last month, AFAC served 1,450 families, a 19 percent increase from one year ago and a new record high for a single month. AFAC sites two key reasons behind the increase. First is the continuing economic stagnation, and second is new distribution sites. With more families struggling to secure adequate income the strain on food budgets continues. CPC continues to "fill the gap" for these families by filling the bags at AFAC every month. We're also harvesting the first small "crop" from our "Plot Against Hunger." |
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