Announcements for 1/4/15 - Prospect Presbyterian Church

Prospect Presbyterian Church
January 4, 2015
Maplewood, New Jersey
Deacon of the Month is
Myrna Scott, 973-761-4351.
If you know of any church member in need,
please call the DOM.
Rev. Rick Boyer
will give today’s sermon entitled
“All People from the Farthest Places”
OUR MISSION:
To be a family in Christ, reaching out
to all with love, prayer and service…
through worship, education, mission and
fellowship, we experience God’s love,
forgiveness, grace and call.
Judy
Liturgist: Carolyn Berry
Greeters: Cindy Mondino & Ileana Griffiths
Ushers: Willie Mae Charles & Kathie Osborne
and Representatives from CE Ministry: Jeff
Smith &
Fellowship Hour:
Serving Communion Today: Dave & Claire
Hogenauer, Jackie & Ian Hume, Salma Jones,
Cleta McLeod, Nancy Yourkoski
Sound Ministry: Christian Pierre & Wesley
Sappington
Today’s flowers are in loving memory of
his father, Adam and his mother, Stefania,
by Bela & Judi Gajary
Readings
Jeremiah 31:7-14
John 1:1-18
Psalm 147:12-20
Ephesians 1:3-14
pg. 679
pg. 922
pg. 545
pg.1017
Hymns:
#152 What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright
#145 What Child Is This?
#127 Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
Announcements
If you missed last week’s service, there is a podcast of the children’s chat, reading and sermon on
Prospect’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/prospectchurch or the Prospect website at
www.prospectchurch.org under the Sermons tab. Video of the sermon is also available.
If you do not wish to keep today’s bulletin, kindly dispose of it in the recycling baskets located at each of
the sanctuary doors. Thank you!
Welcome to our Community of Faith! If you are new to Prospect Church, interested in finding out
more about our faith community, or just visiting, please visit us at the Newcomer’s Table in Fellowship
Hall after the service. We want to get to know you!
Due to a recent upgrade to the computer software, your giving statements are now available as an
email. Emailing the statements would save the church the cost of printing and mailing them to you. You
would then have it in your inbox if you needed to reprint it for your records. If you would like to take
advantage of this “green” option, please email lisa@prospectchurch.org from the email you would like
the statement to be sent. Include your name and envelope number if possible. The next statements go
out the first week of January and will include your 2014 totals.
Prospect’s Good Neighbor Coffee meets every Wednesday morning from 8:30 - 9:30 AM in the North
Room hallway. Get your free cup of coffee, and meet some of your neighbors!
Women’s Bible Study meets Monday, January 5 at 10:00 in the Burnett Room to continue this year’s
study of Paul with a session titled “Reconciliation and the Whole Creation” based upon 2 Corinthians
5:11-6:10. All women are welcome for this informal discussion. Monthly sessions are related but stand
alone, making it possible to attend whenever able.
Congregational Retreat to Camp Johnsonburg on February 27 & 28. The theme will be “Singing the
Faith,” led by Rick, Rita & Peter. Cost is $80 per person; children under age 4 are free. Signup during
coffee hour today.
Prospect’s intergenerational education ministry won a 2014 congregational leadership award from
Union Presbyterian Seminary, which offers annual awards for innovative ministry in a variety of areas in
addition to Christian education (outreach, ministry to people with disabilities, youth ministry, ministry with
senior adults, etc). Rita Boyer and Dr. Henry Simmons have compiled 40 stories of ministries that have
been considered for these awards in recent years and are offering these stories in a book titled Bringing
Good News: 40 Stories of Congregations and the Ministries that Transformed Them. You can read all
40 stories, including Prospect’s, for free at: http://www.pageturnpro.com/Union-PresbyterianSeminary/62528-Bringing-Good-News/index.html#1. In a few weeks, both e-book and print versions will
be available through Amazon.
Calendar for the Week of January 4, 2015
Today
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Saturday
Next Sunday
9:15 am
9:30 am
10:30 am
2:00 pm
6:00 pm
10:00 am
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 am
7:30 pm
3:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
9:00 am
9:15 am
9:30 am
10:30 am
11:30 am
1:30 pm
Sunday school
Chancel Choir
Worship
Chicken Fat Ball
Epiphany Dinner & Jazz Vespers
Women’s Bible Study
Property Mgmt.
Recovery
Good Neighbor Coffee
Wednesday Night Oasis
GS# 200232
CS Den Meetings
Chancel Choir
Deacons Undecorating
Sunday school
Chancel Choir
Worship
Greeters Ministry
Daisy Scouts
The prayers and responses for worship are reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from
Feasting on the Word Worship Companion; Book of Common Worship, and by Wood Lake Publishing from Seasons of the Spirit.
Prospect Presbyterian Church
646 Prospect Street
Maplewood, NJ 07040
973-763-2090 FAX 973-763-0950
www.prospectchurch.org
Visit us at www.facebook.com/prospectchurch
and twitter@prospect_church
Staff Directory
Pastor
X204
Director of Music
X206
Director of Christian Education
X205
Secretary
X200
Assistant/Financial Secretary
X201
Sexton X207
Prospect Co-op Pre-School
973-763-8955
Rev. Rick Boyer
rick@prospectchurch.org
Peter Ncanywa
peter@prospectchurch.org
Rita Boyer
rita@prospectchurch.org
Sandy Szydlowski
sandy@prospectchurch.org
Lisa Abdill
lisa@prospectchurch.org
James E. Cox
Betsy McCoy Geiger, Director
coopnurseryschool@prospectchurch.org