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 Presbytery of New Covenant News
 
November 19, 2013

In Our Prayers

 

Cynthia and Dan Cross - Dan has had 2 detached retina surgeries in the past months and is confined to home for healing. Cynthia is the Director of Music Ministries of First Presbyterian, Huntsville; Dan is a graduate of Austin Presbyterian Seminary, Class of 2008.

 

TE Bob Coberly and family - Bob's mother, Thelma Coberly, died Nov. 11. Bob is a Chaplain at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, Houston.

 

TE Callie Candee - Callie broke her hand and is recovering from surgery. Callie is a Chaplain at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan.

 

 

This week, please pray for the congregations listed here. 


 
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Postlude

  

"Desperate for God"

Sermon by Casey Jones

preached at November presbytery meeting

 

Connections

  

 

Presbytery Open House

Thurs., Dec. 5

11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

 

  
  
 
 

  

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REVIVAL THOUGHTS
 
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer, be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.
- General William Booth

founder of Salvation Army

Help for the people of the Philippines

Our denomination is actively responding through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to the crisis in the Philippines. Initial response includes the provision of non-food items, material resources, drinking water, emergency shelter kits, and cash-for-work-programs.

 

Reports from our mission co-workers indicate that all are safe, including current Young Adult Volunteers. Mission coworkers in the Philippines are Cobbie & Dessa Palm, Rebecca Lawson, Paul Matheny & Mary Nebelsick and their daughter Rachel, Duncan Kirk (YAV), Abby Kraft (YAV), Shelby Miller (YAV), and Mallory Tober (YAV). Former moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow, who is teaching for a month at Silliman Divinity School in Dumaguete and staying with Cobbie and Dessa when the typhoon hit, is also safe.

 

If you wish to contribute financially, you can donate online.

Special Christmas treat! 
Concerts on Carter Creek will host a Messiah Sing-along Sun., Dec. 1, 5:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian, Bryan. Conductor Jane Van Valkenburg will lead orchestra and soloists in the Christmas portion of Handel's oratorio. The audience will form the choir and will sing six choruses: And the Glory of the Lord, For Unto Us a Child Is Born, O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion, Glory to God, Lift Up Your Heads, and Hallelujah! Singers should furnish their own music. All Messiah choruses are available for free download at imslp.org; scores will be sold at the door for $10. Listeners are welcome, as well! Although donations will be accepted, this is a free concert. Free child care is also available.

Star of Birth:

MDPC Sanctuary Choir

All are invited to a unique holiday concert, featuring the Sanctuary Choir of Memorial Drive Presbyterian, Houston. The Houston premiere of Karl Jenkins' Stella Natalis (Star of Birth) will be held Sun., Dec. 8, 7:00 p.m. This concert celebrates Christmastide in a fresh palette of musical colors, both instrumental and vocal. Dan Forrest's Arise Shine sets the joyous mood of the program, from its majestic proclamations on "your light has come," to his characteristic tunefulness and rich choral sonorities and orchestrations. This concert is presented free-of-charge, although a free-will offering will be collected to cover program costs. Open seating.
Unique gift shopping opportunity
The Joy of Giving Market at First PC, Sugar Land, will provide you with a wide selection of quality, handcrafted items from Ten Thousand Villages, The Community Cloth, and Texas Foundation of Hope - and will also make your heart smile. The Market will be open Sun., Dec. 8, Sat., Dec. 14, and Sun., Dec. 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on each day.

 

Free admission. Cash or checks only.

Postlude omission!

I wish to apologize to Former Moderator Garry Schoonover (Grand Lakes) and RE Judy Bochner, (Clerk of Session, Covenant, College Station) for omitting their names as reporters in the latest issue of Postlude. They provided the article on the Middle East Peace Overture that explained the overture and the action taken by the commissioners at the Nov. presbytery meeting. Thanks, Garry and Judy!

- Helen Wolf             

Needed: digital project and hymn books

Woodforest Presbyterian, Houston, lost the use of its digital projector in a lightning strike. If anyone has one not being used, the church would appreciate its loan or donation. The church also needs 12-20 copies of the paperback hymnal, "Sing the Faith" (copyright 2003). If anyone can help with these requests, please call 713-444-1254.

Nurturing families 

The Winter issue of The Advocate (Association of Presbyterian Church Educators) centered around the theme, "Every Family Matters," raises the question, "Do the families in your church look more like Leave It to Beaver or Modern Family?" The issue explores the changing definition of family through the generations and offers concrete suggestions for how the church can partner with every family in their faith nurture.

Check it out!

From Darkness to the Light

How powerful is the gospel! The good news of Jesus can transform our life from darkness to the light, like it has for Farhad, an Iranian refugee living in Houston. Born as a Muslim, Farhad was not sure that Islam provided him inner peace, so he was interested to know more about Christianity. God opened his heart while he was in Iran. Since it was dangerous for Farhad to live in Iran because of his faith, he came to the USA as a refugee.   Read more