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Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church
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Saturday's Leadership Training: Equipping the Saints - Rescheduled to February 13
Sunday School this Sunday - Cancelled
Annual Congregational Meeting - Rescheduled to January 31
More information below...
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For news of snow cancellation for
Sunday's Worship Service,
please check the main page of the church website or the voice mail message
(732-899-0587) for the latest information.
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 Lord:
In the midst of Winter, when the days are cold and wind can pierce
..... remind us of the warmth of your love.
In the midst of Winter, when days are short, dawn comes late, and dusk arrives early
..... remind us that in the darkness your light still shines.
In the midst of Winter, when the flowers of spring still lie hidden in the earth, when leaves are off the trees, and the world can seem bleak
..... remind us that Easter is but a short time away.
And when in our lives we feel as if we are experiencing a season of winter, reach out to us with the power of your resurrection so that we may feel the warmth of your love and see your light that alone can take away the darkness of our soul.
Amen
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
10:00 a.m. - Worship/Noisy Offering
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School Cancelled
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 Noisy Offering
We all have some--in a jar on the dresser, in a desk drawer, in the car, maybe even in the cushions of the couch. Loose change accumulates in various locations of our household. Those humble coins can help feed someone. This Sunday, we'll collect the Noisy Offering that - through Monmouth Presbytery's Cents-Ability appeal - supports ministries to relieve hunger locally, regionally, and globally.
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Annual Congregational Meeting: POSTPONED
 The Annual General Meeting of the Congregation and Corporation of the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church will now be rescheduled to take place NEXT Sunday, January 31 due to the impending weather. The Congregation will elect officers, elect the Nominating Committee (for the election of officers), approve the Pastor's terms of call, and conduct any other business that may properly come before the Congregation. The 2015 Annual Report is available in the Narthex and online. An extended program for Church School children will be available in the Education Annex, so parents may attend the Annual Meeting.
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"Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." Philippians 4:6
The Prayer Family for the week of January 24 is the Matthews-Brown family. Let us be prayerfully aware of Diantha and George as well as all our members and friends. Prayer Concerns: The family of Shirley Wilton; the family of Margaret Jalowski; Bill O'Dell (relative of Kevin Conheeney); Sue Leasure; John Meklin; Les Thornton; Sheri Williams. Long term concerns: Bill Blauvelt (Jacque Thornton's brother-in-law); Cliff Brendler; Elsie Cason; Kathryn Feldman (Bill Shoppell's sister); George Griffiths (Cousin of Heidi Steinert); Kim Kearns (sister-in-law of Rusty and Mindy Gilbert); Maryanne Leach; Ethel Lemke (mother-in-law of Scott Smith); Margie McGhee; Jim Millar; Gerda Mooney; Edith Pula; Gemma Roberts; Mary Steinert; Stan Thornton; Bill Williams; those struggling with addictions and mental illness. Military: Michael Fahey III; Matthew Warren; all those in our nation's service.
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING: EQUIPPING THE SAINTS - Equipping the Saints, scheduled for this Saturday, January 23 at Princeton Theological Seminary, has been POSTPONED due to the winter storm warning this weekend. The event will be rescheduled for the snow date of Saturday, February 13. New registration and workshop info will be made available soon.
AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS (AGO) OCEAN COUNTY CHAPTER will be presenting Sacred Choral and Organ Music on January 31, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. This choir festival will take place at Christ Episcopal Church, Washington Street in Toms River. A free will offering will be accepted.
THANK YOU FROM THE YOUTH CONNECTION - Last week's gift auction was a lot of fun and well received. Thank you to everyone who donated items or placed a bid. We were happy to raise $775 for our trip to Triennium! Currently we are still in need of an additional $2500 to fully fund our trip. Watch for additional fundraisers from the Youth Connection. Anyone willing to make a donation to help our 5 teens and 4 adults to attend this event in July can do so by indicating "Triennium" on the memo line of your check. Checks can be placed in the offering plate on any Sunday.
VAN FOR SALE - The church is selling its contractor van, which has been used for the Volunteer Village. It's a 2004 GMC3500 with 85,000 miles. Know someone who's interested? Please call the church office. SNOW CANCELLATION - In case of snow, please check the main page of the church website or the voice mail message (732-899-0587) for the latest information about cancellations of church activities. LUNCH AT THE RAINBOW DINER - This Monday, January 25, members of our congregation will be meeting for Lunch at the Rainbow Diner in Brick. Lunch begins at 12 noon. Stop in and have lunch with some laughs.
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Shirley MacKenzie Wilton
 On Wednesday night, January 20, our Pastor's mother, Shirley MacKenzie Wilton, died peacefully at the Health Center of the Harrogate retirement community in Lakewood. She was 88. Carl writes: "They call Alzheimer's 'the long goodbye, and it was certainly that for our family. We are grateful beyond words for her life and all that she meant to us, and grateful for her sake that her suffering is ended and she is now in the loving embrace of the Author of Life." The Pable-Evertz Funeral Home, Point Pleasant, is handling arrangements. Visiting hours will be held at the Funeral Home on Friday, February 12 from 3:00-7:00 pm, with a memorial service taking place in the church Sanctuary on Saturday, February 13 at 10:00 am.
Shirley's obituary may be read on the funeral home's website.
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You can now make a contribution to Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church with a quick text message!
Simply send a text to 732-451-7575 with the amount you would like to contribute. Make sure to include the dollar sign before the amount. Example: $25. Within a few minutes, you'll be sent a text with a link to register. Click on the link and enter your cardholder name and credit or debit card
information. Once your registration is complete, you will receive a text verification and a receipt via email. For future giving, simply send a text with the amount you wish to give, and it will process automatically!
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Lenten Adult Bible Study
Are you up for a fun Lenten study this year? Then sign up for this one called BREAD AND BROTH. Each week we will look at a character from the Bible and pair it with a soup. For example, session one is Jacob and the soup is lentil. (See Genesis 25:29-30.)
This is a 6 week study and will begin Monday, February 15th. The class will run from 11:00 a.m until Noonish. Recipes for the soups are included and we would share the fun of making (or buying) the soups for the rest of the class. The cost of the book is $10.
There is a sign up for the class (and soups) in the Narthex or call the church office or speak to Linda Chase. Come join us for this first ever kind of class.
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Interfaith Hospitality Network
Arriving February 7
February 7 we will once again host families from IHN of Ocean County. Sign up sheets are now in the Narthex. Help is need with
- Meals
- Set-up
- Evening Fellowship
- Overnight Hosting
- Laundry
- A vehicle with a hitch to move the trailer. (Please call Dorothy Tolley if you can help with this).
Donations of hygiene items for IHN guests can be dropped off in the "IHN" bin in the North Hall.
Please indicate where you can help. Questions? Please contact Dorothy Tolley at 732-892-9306. Thank you!
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Presbyterian Women's Fundraiser
The Women's Bean Project sales before Christmas were great and PW thanks you  all for your support! We have covered our purchase and shipping charges and are now working on earning the profits that will help pay for our nursery personnel.
We still have an assortment of items available that would make great additions to any Super Bowl party or home baked Valentine dessert! They are also a great way to say "thank you", either pre-baked or in its colorful bag, to show your appreciation to someone special.
We will have some small samples available next Sunday before the start of the Congregational Meeting. Help yourself to a sample and please consider a small purchase.
Your support not only helps your own church, but impoverished and unemployed women who depend on programs like the Women's Bean Project which provides jobs and life skills for those who would otherwise have a difficult time. This allows them to support their families and be contributing members to their local communities.
Here is their mission statement and you can be a part of it:
The mission of Women's Bean Project is to change women's lives
by providing stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise.
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Due to the extreme weather, Sunday School is cancelled for January 24.
See you next Sunday the 31st, at 10:00 am, for Sunday School beginning in the Sanctuary worship service as usual - followed by an extended session during the rescheduled annual congregational meeting that follows.
Peace and Blessings,
Tricia Stoffers
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Point Beach Prep Preschool will be having an Open House on Saturday, January 30th from 10am-12 pm. This is the time to register for our 2016/2017 school year. The registration will be half price ($50) for anyone who registers that day. Space is limited-if you are interested, please check us out!
 Point Beach Preschool makes learning fun, while building self-esteem and a positive attitude toward learning! We promote kindergarten readiness and provide the tools to prepare the children for school and life.We are open Monday-Friday 8:30am-12pm, with an optional lunch bunch 12pm-1pm. Call us today 732-701-9900 or visit us on the web: www.pointbeachprep.com
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This Week at Point Beach Prep
 N is for Nurse! On Monday we had Nurse Lisa come to our Pre-K class. She spoke about healthy habits, including lots of hand washing and eating healthy. She also talked about staying away from the medicine cabinet. The children received surgical masks, gloves and a sterile hat.
Our friends heard lots of Nursery Rhymes this week, and sang the nose song. They made noodle necklaces, neckties, number flash cards, and nests. They discussed all the different animals that make nests. They learned sign language for "no" and "night." They read The Napping House, Noah's Ark, Naughty Monkeys, and more. This week was neat!
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Souper Bowl of Caring
On February 7th, our Youth Connection will be joining other youth around the country to make a difference. On February 7, please bring a food (canned or box) for our food pantry and /or make a donation in one of the soup pots they'll be holding at the doors as you leave worship. Last year our youth collected $375.68 in cash as well as food items that was given to St. Gregory's Pantry. This offering reminds us that a little gift given in faith can become more than we could ever imagine.
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A Lesson from the Andes: God's Mission Takes Every Hand
 Hunter Farrell is Director of World Mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In a recent article, he tells this story from his days as a mission worker in Peru:
One bitterly cold morning in 2006, I participated in a beautiful custom in Santa Barbara that took place when a herd of vicuņa (the graceful relatives of the Andean llama) wandered down into the community from their high-altitude habitat. In order to round up the vicuņa and harvest some of their valuable wool, the community arose well before sunrise, joined hands and slowly walked up the side of a steep hill to gather the vicuņa herd into a fenced corral. After these beautiful, untamed animals were calmed, the wool of several of them was sheared and they were released. The Santa Barbara community believes that tukuy maki ("every hand") is needed for this important mission. If a child is sick or an expectant mother is about to give birth and cannot participate in the rigorous climb to the round-up in the high meadow, they send along a prenda - a handkerchief - or some other personal item that symbolizes that the community engages in its mission with their blessing. There's a widespread belief that, without the blessing of every hand, the mission cannot be a success.
I think the people of Santa Barbara are onto something: in an age where our culture's value of "rugged individualism" can grow to become self-centeredness, fragmentation and disunity, many U.S. Presbyterians today engage in God's mission on their own. They travel with "their money," on "their time" to do "their mission," as one mission leader told me last summer. But Scripture reminds us that it is God's mission, not ours, and that we are graciously invited to join in that mission as God's people, not as "lone rangers" (the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 is a plural command, addressed to all God's people).
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Winners from the Youth Connection's
Re-Gift Auction.
Pastor Linda, Peter Farwell and Diane Sikora all enjoyed their new handmade aprons.
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CHURCH CALENDAR - The latest edition of the church calendar is available online, on the church's website. 
Sunday, January 24
10:00 a.m. - Worship/Noisy Offering
9:00 a.m. - PW Coordinating Team
6:15 p.m. - Choral Bells
12:00 p.m. - Lunch at the Rainbow Diner, all welcom
Tuesday, January 26
10:00 a.m. - Busy Hands
7:00 p.m. - Sarah Hope Circle
Wednesday, January 27
9:00 a.m. - Women's Breakfast at the Rainbow Diner
5:00 p.m. - Dove Choir, Sanctuary
6:30 p.m. - Youth Connection
7:00 p.m. - Bear Den
7:30 p.m. - Troop 6, CE Annex
Thursday, January 28
8:00 a.m. - Men's Breakfast at US Subs
6:00 p.m. - Pinewood Derby Setup
7:30 p.m. - Chancel Choir Rehearsal
7:30 p.m. - Tiger Den
8:00 p.m. - Webelos Den
Friday, January 29
Saturday, January 30
10:00 a.m. - Point Beach Prep Open House
Sunday, January 31 10:00 a.m. - Worship/Special Music 10:00 a.m. - Sunday School begins in Worship 11:00 a.m. - Congregational Meeting |
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BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS
Jan 24
Jan 25 Jason Braaten, Christopher Muraglia
Jan 26
Jan 27 Samantha Trainor
Jan 28 Jordan Cooper, Connor Durante, Joe Michigan
Jan 29 Blake Birdsong, Jaime Williams
Jan 30 Michael Fanizzo, Ronald Krayl
Jan 31 Donna Ferry, Maria Tirpak
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February 7 - Interfaith Hospitality Network Arrives
February 10 - Ash Wednesday Soup Supper
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Pastors
The Rev. Carl Wilton, Ph.D., Pastor
The Rev. Linda Chase, Associate Pastor
Office Staff
Kim Gaydos, Church Secretary
Donna Ferry, Financial Secretary
Dee D'Amore, Volunteer Village Bookkeeper
Music Staff
Sara Hoey, Organist
William Shoppell, Chancel Choir and Choral Bells Director
Rebecca Muraglia, Acting Dove Choir Director
Christian Education Staff
Courtney Rzeplinski, Youth Connection Coordinator
Tricia Stoffers, Sunday School Coordinator
Devlin House, Point Beach Prep Preschool Director
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