Trinity Presbyterian Church
2200 N Bell Denton TX 76209
940-382-8815
web site: http://tpcdenton.org
email address: trinity@tpcdenton.org
Craig L. Hunter, pastor
Trinity Greetings - April 6 - April
12, 2011
Table of Contents
1. Marisa
McNeil Rozdilsky
2, From the Pastor
3. Sunday, April 10,
2011
4. Christian Education
Sunday Classes
Mid-Week Bible Study
5. ODIS Fundraiser
6. Calling all Trained Liturgists
7. Coffee Fellowship
8. Stuff Swap and Share
9 . Remember in Prayer
10. 2011-2012 Presbyterian Planning Calendar
11. Birthdays
12. Coming Events
Marisa McNeil Rozdilsky
I just received word that Marisa Rozdlisky passed peacefully from this world to join the
church triumphant this morning at 9 a.m. I am grateful for her life,and that for her pain and
suffering are past. There will be a memorial service and burialin
Illinois soon, and a service here at Trinity in the next few weeks. The times
and dates for those services are not yet set.
It has been planned that I share with you this coming Sunday
about my trip to see her just 4 weeks ago. It was a very profound
experience for all of us involved--and that means Marisa, her family, me and
all of you at Trinity Presbyterian. The timing was perfect and the sharing was
rich. It seemed to me a time not of our human reckoning(chronos), but rather an experience of God's time(kairos). I thank you for sending me to represent all of us
in that, and look forward to sharing with you.
Lurline DuPree
From the Pastor
As
I announced in church on Sunday, I was recently selected to serve on our
denomination's Peace Discernment Steering team. Over the course of the next three
years, this team will consider the future of peacemaking in our
denomination. I am humbled, honored, and most of all, excited to be a
part of this ministry, which hopefully will engage my passion and my
experience, and indeed my calling.
Here is the announcement that the denomination released yesterday:
Peace Discernment Steering team announced
The Compassion, Peace and Justice ministry area and the Advisory Committee on
Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) are pleased to announce the selection of the Peace
Discernment Steering Team. This body was jointly selected to help guide the
process of churchwide exploration of next steps in
the denomination's peacemaking witness approved by last year's General
Assembly. This study is the result of seven overtures coming to the 219th
Assembly that contained requests for a study or discernment process honoring
the 30th anniversary of the influential policy statement, Peacemaking: The Believers'Calling (1980) and look at new dimensions of the
church's peace witness for the next generation in the context of a growing
interest in non-violent response to conflict. The General Assembly Committee on
Peacemaking combined elements from all of the overtures in a program/policy
analysis combination that will involve both the Peacemaking Program and the
Advisory Committee. One aspect of the ove
rall process will be convocations that will
involve faculty and students from the colleges, universities and seminaries
engaged in peace studies. The members of the steering team are as follows:
The Rev. J. Mark Davidson, Chair, pastor of Church of Reconciliation in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. The Rev. Davidson has served congregations previously in
Texas, where he also studied Christian Ethics at Southern Methodist University.
He has an M.A. in Peace Studies from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
Dr. Kathryn Poethig, Associate Professor of Global
Studies, California State Monterey Bay. Dr. Poethig
was raised in the Philippines, daughter of mission co-workers. She has been
involved in refugee and post conflict issues particularly in South East Asia.
Her Ph.D. is from the Graduate Theological Union.
Ms. Shaya Gregory, Program Associate for Sub-Saharan
Africa, Search for Common Ground, Washington, D.C. Ms. Gregory has served
internships with the Advocacy Committee for Women's Concerns of the PC (USA)
and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, from which she has also
received a certificate. Her M.A. from Lesley University is in Intercultural
Relations and Conflict Management.
Ms. Jessica Hawkinson, Master of Divinity student,
Princeton Theological Seminary. Ms. Hawkinson has
served on the staff of the Presbyterian United Nations Office as both an intern
and an associate. She has also studied in England and the Netherlands and worked
for Macalester College's Institute for Global Citizenship.
Ms. Shaheen Amjad-Ali,
Lecturer in World Religions, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, and
researcher in Islamic studies and the role of Christian minorities. A member of
the Church of Pakistan and raised in that country, Ms.
Amjad-Ali received her B.A. and M.A. at Durham
University in Great Britain.
The Rev. Craig Hunter, Pastor, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Denton, Texas. Rev.
Hunter has studied extensively overseas in Germany, China, Israel/Palestine
and served for two years as an associate pastor in Japan. He has also been a
Young Adult Volunteer with the PC(USA).
As may be noted, all members appointed have international experience and two
are in their twenties. Since the process is explicitly designed to help
envision the peacemaking enterprise of the church for the future, the team
itself reflects a tilt toward future generations. Two other members of the team
are in their thirties.
In making these appointments, Dr. Gloria Albrecht of the Advisory Committee on
Social Witness Policy and Ms. Sara Lisherness,
Director of the Compassion, Peace, and Justice Ministry area, emphasized that experts active in policy analysis and program development
would be involved in the discernment process. An initial gathering of seminary
and university ethicists is already being planned.
Along with staff from the Advisory Committee and the Peacemaking Program, the
steering team will supervise the preparation of work that will be initially
presented to the Advisory Committee and to the Compassion, Peace, and Justice
Ministry area. According to an outline of the work contained in the Assembly
action, an initial report and invitation to discernment will be made to the
2012 General Assembly.
For further information, please email ACSWP<mailto:acswp@pcusa.org>
Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 5th Sunday
in Lent
9:00 a.m. Children's Choir
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Coffee Fellowship -- Hosts: Sara &
Melvin Hagan Coffee Fellowship
Greeter: Pat Cheek
11:00 a.m. Worship
Liturgist: Don Smith
Greeters: Nancy Secrest
Christy
Ushers: Ben Miller &
Dwight Skinner
12:15 p.m. Sermon Talk
Back
12:15 p.m. SALT Shakers
4:00 p.m. Youth Choir
5:00 p.m. Youth Group
Christian Education
Sunday School for all Ages on
Sundays at 9:30 a.m.
Adult Classes
"Who’ll Be a Witness?"—Faith Story Conversations
By discovering and sharing our personal faith stories, we will search for the
relationship between our story and THE story, the good news of the gospel of
Jesus Christ---Prentice Barnett and Nancy Secrest
Christy, facilitators
"Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear"
Through politics, marketing, news programming, and popular culture we are
taught to fear, often in ways that profit others. But what does all this fear
do to our moral lives as it forms (or deforms) our character and our judgment?
Drawing on Christian scripture and tradition, Following Jesus in a Culture of
Fear articulates a response to fear that resists an ethic of security in favor
of fostering an ethic of risk. The Christian virtues of hospitality,
peacefulness, and generosity are presented as the way to defeat the
counter-virtues of suspicion, preemption, and control. Pastors, students, and
lay people will find this unique book both accessible and intriguing. --Paula
Blind, teacher
"Journeys Through Revelation: Apocalyptic Hope
for Today"
Full of mysterious symbolism, the often misunderstood book of Revelation is
ultimately a book of hope for all who are oppressed. Revelation can help guide
the choices we make as we seek to live into the renewal that God promises for
our world.
--Shelby Miller, teacher
Mid-Week Bible Study -- During the Lenten season, we will be studying
"Good News to the Poor, Peacemaking in the Gospel of Luke". This is a
five lesson series on the teachings and life of Jesus as told in the Book of
Luke. Come join us for group Prayer and our study Wednesdays at 5:30. The
nursery is available. For information and a study guide contact Margaret Dawson
940-591-1008 or mdawson6and@aol.com
Easter Breakfast
The menu has been decided. New tables have been
purchased. It is time for our EASTER BREAKFAST. Breakfast will be served
between church services [9:30-11] on Easter
Sunday, April 24. The Hospitality committee needs help
with the set up.This will be at 3 p.m. on
Saturday, April 23. Are you creative? Help is needed creating and making decorations for the tables. We also need help
cleaning up after this breakfast and help taking down tables and chairs after
the 11 a.m. service on Easter Sunday. The sign up
sheets will be in the narthex Wednesday evening.
Fundraiser for ODIS
Greg Strange, the owner of Frilly's on Denison St. in Denton, is delighted to have a
fundraiser for ODIS on
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 5-9 PM
There will be a band playing that evening. They will donate a portion of the
receipts that evening to ODIS. Please e-mail your friends so we can "pack
the house" for a fun time that evening.
Many thanks.
Jack Thomson
Calling
all trained liturgists!
Please call
or email Lurline DuPree at lurlinedupree@me.com, or 940.382.1909 to sign up
to serve as liturgist during the summer months.
Taize
Prayer Service
Tired? Stressed? In need of a spiritual break? Please join us at our April Taize service to be held on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. If
you wish to come early at 7 p.m., you are welcome to come to meditate or pray.
For those people who have never attended a Taize
service, it consists of prayer, opportunities to meditate, Bible readings, and
songs that are sung like chants. Ours is a short service. It ends at 8 p.m.. Please join us.
COFFEE FELLOWSHIP
TWO FAMILIES NEEDED EACH SUNDAY TO
HOST COFFEE FELLOWSHIP! Now is the time to volunteer for April and May. The calendar
is in the Fellowship Hall or you may call the church office.
April 10 Melvin & Sara Hagan &______________________
April 17 Sher Harnish, Eva
& Earnest Poole
April 24 Easter Breakfast
May 1 _________________________________________
May 8 ________________________________________
May 15 ________________________________________
May 22 ________________________________________
May 29 ________________________________________
Coffee fellowship greeters are needed for the month of April. You will be asked
to greet new comers to Trinity as they come into fellowship hall and to
introduce them to some Trinity folk. If you are interested, please contact
Diane Winchester or Barbara Vance in the church office. The signup sheet is in
fellowship Hall
April 3 ____________________
April 10 ____________________
April 17 ____________________
ARE YOU GETTING READY
FOR THE STUFF SWAP & SHARE???
Some good listeners have discovered that many people haven’t realized that
the annual Stuff Swap has TWO main goals. One is to simplify our own lives by
getting rid of things we don’t need or want; the other of course is to make
those things available to those who need them. For this third year, we will
again meet both these goals, but as planned, we are inviting more local service
groups to come make use of what we have available. To make sure this second goal
is understood, we’re changing the name of the event to STUFF SWAP AND SHARE. Makes sense. Everything we bring in ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 4
can be accepted and distributed that very day. Easy. Fun. And don’t forget the other Saltshakers event, the BOOK
SWAP, which happens May 1, 8, & 15. More later........
Church Information
Church office hours are1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Deadline for the Trinity Greetings is 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday and the Sunday
bulletin deadline is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER:
The family of Marisa McNeil Rozdilsky as they mourn her death this morning.
Jerry Dawson's brother, John Dawson, is having a prostate biopsy on April 11th
Laura Davis, former member of Trinity now living in Hawaii, had hip replacement
surgery on Monday, March 28.
Brooke Sheldon (friend of Ann Barnett) who is being treated for cancer in New
Mexico
Jim Caldwell is now living in a rehab facility. His new address is 13305
Wimberley, Frisco TX 75035
Pam and Terrill who have cancer, friends of Doris Shumway's daughter
Lt. Mark Batey, U.S. Marines, grandson of Ann and
Prentice Barnett,and his men
are in Afghanistan
All military personnel serving all over the world
Prayer Requests - Cards are provided for your prayer requests in the attendance
folder and by the box in the Narthex. You may leave your prayer requests in the
box in the Narthex. Prayer requests will be removed from the list after they
have appeared for three weeks. Prayer requests that have been on the list for
three weeks must be resubmitted.
2011-2012 Presbyterian Planning Calendar will be $8.50 each
if ordered through the church office. An order will be placed on April 16 so
call or e-mail the office if you want one.
April Birthdays -- Report errors and omissions to the office.
April 1 Nancy Viens
April 2 Claudette Fette
April 3 Carolyn Harrod
April 4 Cindy Harris
April 6 Adam Cheek
April 7 Kirk Kooker
Mary Mace
April 8 Shad Griffin
April 9 Suzanne Sweeney
April 12 Dianne Randolph
April 16 Raylene Mattingly
David Thompson
April 19 Lois Sorensen
April 20 Jeff Fegan
April 25 Alice Miller
Coming Events
April 10 12:15 p.m. SALT Shakers
April 12 6:00 p.m.
Committee meetings
April 14 5-9 p.m. ODIS Fundraiser at Frillys
April 17 7:30 p.m. Taize Prayer Service
April 21 7:00 p.m. Maundy
Thursday worship at First Christian Church
April 22 7:00 p.m. Good Friday worship at Trinity
April 23 3-7 p.m. Prauer Vigil
7:00 p.m. The Vigil of the
Resurrection
April 24 8:30 a.m. Easter worship
9:30 a.m. Easter breakfast
11:00 a.m.
Easter worship