May 18, 2016 - White Memorial Presbyterian Church

WMPCWEEK LY
Volume L
May 18, 2016
No. 20
Visit whitememorial.org to view
this week’s Sunday Snippet.
Joys and Concerns
Prayers and Christian Concerns to:
Hospitals (* = discharged):
Nancy and Kyle Honeycutt on the death of Nancy’s mother,
Maude Moore Underwood, May 7; Andy, Susan, Taylor, Kaitlyn
and Anna Morison on the death of Andy’s brother, Thomas
Bennie Morison Jr., May 9; Bonner and Hal Jones on the death of
Bonner’s father, David A. Phillips, May 13.
Duke Raleigh: *Kar en Wilson; Rex: *Linda Mahan;
WakeMed: *David Allen.
Baptisms - May 15:
Ella Grace McMillen, child of Ker r i and Rob McMillen.
New Presbyterian:
Knox Lloyd McCaskill, bor n May 12, child of Mer edith
and Jamie McCaskill, grandchild of Donna McCaskill.
Marriage:
Meredith Victoria Edwards and Henry Michael Frailey,
May 14, WMPC. Tori is the daughter of Linda Edwards and
Andy Edwards.
Armed Forces Day
May 21 will be a national day for recognizing men and women
serving in the armed forces. Please take some time on May 21 to
offer a prayer of thanksgiving for those who serve our country.
And if you or a member of your family is currently serving, please
contact Sarah Clapp at 919-834-3425, ext. 210, so we may keep
our records up to date and offer additional prayers throughout the
year.
In the Church Triumphant
Suzanne Newell Davis – May 13, 2016
Help Wanted, Service and Mission
Montreat Needs Small Group Leaders
Carnation Instant Breakfast Collection
Montreat is now recruiting small group leaders for all youth
conferences this summer! This is a fun and meaningful way to
serve the greater church. If you are an adult 25 or older and can
contribute a week of your summer, please consider applying. All
room/board and travel is covered. For more information, contact
Nathan Proctor at ntproctor@gmail.com or visit
montreat.org/small-group-leader.
The Haiti Committee is coordinating a breakfast
food campaign to provide Carnation Instant
Breakfast (all flavors) and whole milk to our
mission partner, Haiti Outreach Ministries.
Donations will be taken by the youth mission
team on July 6. Our goal is to fill at least six duffle bags and
provide funds to purchase milk. Collections are being taken
through June 30 and can be placed in marked bins in The
Connector. If you’d like to give money to purchase milk in Haiti,
please make your check payable to WMPC and designate “Milk
for Haiti” on the memo line. Thank you for helping children start
their day with a nutritious breakfast. If you have questions, contact
Diane Payne at dpaynebhs@earthlink.net.
Friends of Oberlin Village Fundraiser
Join Friends of Oberlin Village for a pig picking fundraiser on
May 28 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Historic Oberlin Cemetery, 1014
Oberlin Road. Park behind the Interact Building. Bring a chair or
blanket and enjoy music, dinner plates ($10), raffles, a cake walk
and more! Proceeds benefit Historic Oberlin Cemetery. If you
cannot attend, please consider mailing a check to Wilson Temple
UMC, 1023 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, NC 27605 (please write
“Friends of Oberlin” in memo line). For details, contact Sabrina
Goode at 336-416-1895 or visit friendsofoberlin.org.
Rolling Suitcases Needed
WMPC is collecting wheeled suitcases for our upcoming
mission trip to Haiti in June. We carry toiletries, dental and
pharmacy supplies in suitcases when we travel each year on
the First Presbyterian/WMPC mission week. If you have
unused wheeled suitcases, consider donating them towards
this trip. Leave donations in Judy Pidcock's office on the third
floor of the Witherspoon Building. Please note - these will not
be returned. Thank you!
June 8 newsletter deadline:
Tuesday noon, May 24.
Let’s Do Lunch
WMPC has partnered with Raleigh Rescue Mission to provide 70
sack lunches monthly for their 2016 “Sunday Sack Lunches”
program. We need willing hands to make and pack the lunches.
Everything will be provided. We will meet July 2 from
10:00-11:00 a.m. in C100. Contact Tyler Craft at
tycraft@gmail.com to sign up.
Volunteers Needed at StepUp!
StepUp Ministry builds stability in lives through Employment and
Life Skills. With larger class sizes in Jobs, Life Skills and Alumni,
we have many new opportunities for you to share your talents,
gifts and time. StepUp has immediate needs for more volunteers
to serve as children’s helpers on Tuesdays or Thursdays,
co-partners and summer meal servers (great group opportunity!).
Please contact StepUp’s Volunteer Coordinator, Suzanne
Templeton, at stempleton@stepupminsitry.org to volunteer!
The WMPC Weekly, May 18, 2016 Page 2
2016 COMMISSIONING CLASS
Front L to R: Steve Cadwallader, Dan Daniel, George Ramsay. Second L to R: Lillian Poole*, Tracey Daniel,
Dorothy Crowder, Robbie Kidd. Third L to R: Mike Condrey*, Sheron Sumner, Jean Williams, Judy Bright,
Nancy Benninger, Anne Ramsay.*
*SM Leaders
STEPHEN’S BIRD
Stephen’s bird will fly to the tree, dependable, always there.
She lights on the same branch at the same hour on the same day every week. She does not speak…but tilts her ear to
hear. She is a tiny powerful bird. Balanced always on her limb she can remain motionless, easily focused on crazy
Little Bird who flies in each week, sometimes barely lighting on her limb in dependable chaos.
Little Bird begins to chirp a sad tale woven with fear, sadness, and tales of woe.
Stephen’s Bird sits connected to her limb watching…so grounded to the heaven’s above. For days she will sit
engaged in listening, just listening to Little Bird’s chanting and restless songs.
Each week will be carried with grief that brings Little Bird regularly flying in to meet Stephen’s bird. Sad heavy
chirps that tumble and fall on her limb nothing will be balanced. Flying in and out of the same branch each week
only the branch where Stephen’s bird sits will be strong and steady while Little Bird sways unsteady, feet sometimes
losing balance. So much fear, will she fall?
At the appointed minute, it is time to sing. The wand is raised like a conductor ready to begin. Stephen’s bird will lift
her head. She prepares a new song each time and raises her song to heaven with head bowed. Her song is measured
praise and guided with bars of singing purpose. She lifts her divine song to the open door to heaven above.
Little Bird will listen. She hears the new songs each week. It is a symphony of songs leading her away from what
great sadness that defines her heart.
Soon a veil will be lifted, and darkness will be replaced with light. Little Bird will sense it like the bird who watches
for a storm and then sun, darkness then light.
The WMPC Weekly, May 18, 2016 Page 3
One Day Event - Sunday, June 12
9:30 a.m. teaching in sanctuary
11:00 a.m. preaching in sanctuary
noon - lunch from Café Carolina
in Geneva Hall
Join us as our guest theologian,
Dwight Hopkins, speaks with us on what
it means to build healthy communities.
Register by noon Friday, June 10, online at
whitememorial.org/register or call Tonya Higgins,
919-834-3425, ext. 216.
Cost for lunch is $8.00 per person.
Come study the GOSPELS
with Mickey Efird!
Sundays 6/19-8/14
9:30 a.m. l Sanctuary
Come enrich your faith and grow in Christ as Mickey
Efird shares his deep knowledge of the good news of
Jesus’ life and ministry with us.
Did you know...
That approximately
160,000 different
people in North
Carolina receive
emergency food
May 21
10:00 a.m.-noon
Saint Saviour’s Center
Volunteers will sort diapers and books
and help with yardwork
at St. Saviour’s Center.
For more information and registration,
visit whitememorial.org/register.
assistance in any
given week?
This summer WMPC will Focus on Hunger
by partnering with local ministries like
Urban Ministries and Wake Relief to aid in
the food crisis so many of our neighbors are
experiencing. Stay tuned for more
information about how you can get
involved helping with these
awesome causes!
The WMPC Weekly, May 18, 2016 Page 4
Calendar for the Week
Rising Ninth Grade Mountain
Missions Orientation
Orientation for participants and parents will
be Sunday, May 22, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in
C200.
High School Prayer Breakfast
We meet Tuesdays at 6:30 a.m. at
Duck Donuts on Creedmoor Road and
Wednesdays at 6:45 a.m. at the
Cameron Village Chick-fil-a.
Graduation Sunday Reminder: June 5
Student and parent breakfast will be at
9:30 a.m. in Geneva Hall. Registration is
required at whitememorial.org/events by
May 31.
Summer Church School Begins June 5
There will be no church school on May 29
(Memorial Day weekend). Current eighth
graders (rising ninth graders) will join the
high school class in K100. Current
fifth-seventh graders (rising middle
schoolers) will meet in C100.
Vacation Church School Youth
Leadership
VCS will be June 20-24 from 8:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. Contact Rebecca Hancock at
rebeccabhancock@gmail.com if you are
interested in helping.
Summer in the City- Middle School
Students Serving Raleigh
Middle school students are invited to
participate in local missions on July 22,
August 5 and 19 from 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Online registration is required.
Sunday, May 22 (Proverbs 8:22-31; John 16:12-15 )
8:15 a.m. - Worship (Sanctuary)
9:00 a.m. - OnPoint House Band Rehearsal (Pickard)
9:30 a.m. - Worship (Sanctuary); Bible Day for Three-Year-Olds (Geneva)
10:00 a.m. - Beginnings Class Gathers (Connector)
10:30 a.m. - Beginnings Class Meets with Session (Chapel)
10:45 a.m. - Youth Strings Rehearsal (L309)
11:00 a.m. - Worship (Sanctuary); OnPoint@1704 (Pickard)
11:00 a.m. - Beginnings Class Introduced (Sanctuary); Cancer Companions Alumnae (C203)
12:15 p.m. - Mountain Missions Trip Youth/Parent Meeting (C200)
4:30 p.m. - Cancer Companions (C204)
Monday, May 23 (Ps. 29; Prov. 3:11-20; 1 John 3:18-4:6; Matt. 11:1-6)
5:30 p.m. - T’ai Chi for Exercise (Pickard); Worship Committee (S300)
7:00 p.m. - Alcoholics Anonymous (C100)
8:00 p.m. - Adult Basketball (Pickard)
Tuesday, May 24 (Ps. 133; Prov. 4:1-27; 1 John 4:7-21; Matt. 11:7-15)
6:30 a.m. - High School Prayer Breakfast - North Raleigh (Off Site)
7:00 a.m. - Men’s/Women’s Breakfast/Bible Study (Geneva/K100)
9:30 a.m. - Fit After Fifty (Pickard)
6:00 p.m. - Centering Prayer (Chapel); StepUp Life Skills (Geneva)
6:30 p.m. - StepUp Co-Partner Training (C200)
7:00 p.m. - Chancel Choir (S300); Weekday School Board Meeting (C204)
7:30 p.m. - Boy Scout Troop 395 (K300, K303-308)
Wednesday, May 25 (Ps. 33; Prov. 6:1-19; 1 John 5:1-12; Matt. 11:16-24)
6:45 a.m. - High School Prayer Breakfast - Cameron Village (Off Site)
9:30 a.m. - Bible Belles (Off Site)
noon - Caregivers Support Group (W400)
6:00 p.m. - Yoga for Exercise (C100)
6:30 p.m. - Disciple 2 (K307); Healing Prayer Sessions (C200)
6:45 p.m. - Young Adult Bible Study (C102); OnPoint House Band Rehearsal (K100)
7:00 p.m. - Outreach Committee (W400)
8:00 p.m. - Al-Anon (C100)
Thursday, May 26 (Ps. 62; Prov. 7:1-27; 1 John 5:13-21; Matt. 11:25-30)
9:15 a.m. - Library Committee (C203)
9:30 a.m. - Thursday A.M. Bible Study (W400)
10:45 a.m. - Keenagers: Amy Wood Pasquini - Our State Magazine (K100)
11:00 a.m. - Weekday School Closing Chapel Service (Sanctuary)
noon - Keenager Lunch (Geneva)
12:30 p.m. - Praying Our Church into Its Future (Chapel)
7:00 p.m. - Webelo Blue & Gold Ceremony (Chapel); Webelo Scout Reception (C100)
7:30 p.m. - Sanctuary Choir (S300)
Friday, May 27 (Ps. 65; Prov. 8:1-21; 2 John 1-13; Matt. 12:1-14)
9:30 a.m. - Fit After Fifty (Pickard)
8:00 p.m. - Alcoholics Anonymous (C100)
Saturday, May 28 (Ps. 98; Prov. 8:22-36; 3 John 1-15; Matt. 12:15-21)
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Drop by and say “hey” to your youth staff on
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Your Attention Please
Christian Education
Get Help with Grief
Children in Three-Year-Old Classes to Receive Story Bibles
WMPC offers occasional Grief Support Workshops to help you
name and address your grief. These workshops provide an
opportunity to learn about grief and to give and receive support in
the company of others experiencing grief. The next Grief Support
Workshop will meet on four Mondays—June 6, June 13, June 20
and June 27—from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in C203. Please register by
contacting Sarah Clapp at sclapp@whitememorial.org.
Parents of children in three-year classes are invited to gather in
Geneva Hall at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 22, during the Church
School hour. We’ll enjoy getting to know each other as we discuss
helping our children grow in the faith. Your children will be
brought to you at the end of the hour when families will receive
copies of the Children of God Storybook Bible.
Join us each Sunday at 11:00 a.m. in
Pickard Hall for OnPoint@1704, a new
intergenerational worship service. Grab a cup
of coffee and enjoy music drawn from many
genres with projected text, liturgy that is presented in an
interactive manner and the KidsPoint area for children ages six
and younger to worship with parental supervision.
Boy Scouts Fall Enrollment
Fall enrollment for Boys Scouts Troop 395 runs through
May 22. If interested, submit a completed application and
deposit check by May 22 for fall admittance. Webelos
enrollment will be handled in the fall. For details, visit
whitememorial.org or email Julian Bossong at
bossong1@yahoo.com.
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Midsummer Celebrations: August 8-11
Parents of children in second-fifth
grades (rising third-sixth grades):
the dates for this year’s Midsummer
Celebrations will be August 8-11!
This Vacation Church School
program’s theme is Four Corners
of Advent, and it will be from
6:00-8:15 p.m. at our church. It
includes fun activities, supper,
lively worship and fellowship with
children and leaders from our sister
churches on Oberlin Road. Register at
whitememorial.org/summer-programs. Questions?
Contact Lynn Springfield at 919-834-3425, ext. 232, or
lspringfield@whitememorial.org.
Save the Date for VCS 2017!
Vacation Church School 2017, directed by Ashley Silverman
and Alex Flynn, will be June 19-23. We hope you will put this
on your calendar for a wonderful week of growing in faith
together!