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Weekly E-News June 11, 2014

PASTOR'S CORNER

In life and in death we belong to God.

Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel,
whom alone we worship and serve. - Brief Statement of Faith

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! - Holy, Holy, Holy by R. Heber

Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, blessed Trinity, let us see with fresh eyes the world you created; let our vision for the future be your vision. Give us the courage and wisdom to join with you as co-creators of a world that is as it is in heaven. This is our prayer for Trinity Sunday.

Basking in the glory of the Holy One!

George

"Only that which is apart from my own being is capable of being doubted by me. How then can I doubt God, who is my being? To doubt of God is to doubt of myself."

This is prairie minister's meditation on the culmination of his life experience in the novel, "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. "Gilead" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Award in 2005 and will be the inspiration and first subject of Memorial Drive's Book Club. Please join us at 7:00pm at Savage Pizza on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of June and July and share your insights on this glowing work which covers just about everything we encounter in life with inspired meaning and amazing beauty. Hope to see you today, June 11 at 7:00 pm at Savage Pizza.

Carlos

READINGS

Revised Common Lectionary Readings for Sunday, June 15, 2014, Trinity Sunday (Year A)

Please see the link to the calendar:

MDPC Calendar

Clarkston Stitchers' Club

Women and girls of the Clarkston refugee community are gathering on Thursdays at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church to learn and refine basic sewing machine skills. Under the tutelage of experienced volunteers from the Global Village Project, a school in Decatur that serves teenage refugee girls whose educations have been interrupted by war, the program participants use fabric, sewing machines and related equipment to design and produce personal items that will find application in their own lives. Good sewing machine practice and care, identification of various types of fabrics and their best use, proper measurement techniques, and simple color theory are all covered in the course of the 8 meetings scheduled for June, July, and August. The club is limited to 10 participants at this time.

Congregational Meeting

A Congregational Meeting will be held this Sunday, June 15 to hear the reports from the Nominating Committee and to elect two New Elders to the Class of 2017.

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