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2010 Per Capita

$34.92 per church member

FAIR TRADE COFFEE, TEA AND CHOCOLATE SALES

The Mission Team is taking over the Fair Trade Sales, look for us during fellowship hour to restock or to buy a great gift for someone.

Contact Karen Chamberlin if you have a special order or if you have any questions… 609-291-0603 or kcpix@verizon.net

Our next Bread of Life Mission Meeting:

Anne and the Mission Team are looking for people who are interested in finding out more about what we do for mission projects in our church. If you have a possible mission initiative or if you simply want to know more about what we already do, please talk to anyone on the team. We have a wonderful group that we like to call "friends of mission" that continually provide support for our programs and we'd like you to become part of what we do each month.

Our next Bread of Life Mission Meals:

Sunday, July 25, 2010, immediately following worship

Sunday, August 22, 2010, immediately following worship

Ready to distribute Mission Meals:
On a regular basis throughout the year we have visitors that come to our church asking for food because they are either transitioning to a new place to live, homeless or have found it financially impossible to feed themselves and their family. The Mission Team has been making up paper bags containing non-perishable food that can be stored and ready to be distributed. The bags consist of bottles of water, juice, cereal, soups, microwaveable meals, fruit cups, puddings and anything else that stores well and doesn’t need refrigeration. Please help us continue this important mission in our church by making up a bag now and then that can be stored at the church. You can leave your bags in the “cake room” on top of the refrigerator and label it “Mission Meal”. Thank you!

Look for a signup sheet or call Karen Chamberlin @ 609-291-0603 if you are interested in helping with this meal.
email: kcpix@verizon.net

Next Grocery Bag Mission due date:

Week of July 19-24 and August 16-21, deliver to the First Baptist Church in Bordentown.

Our church provides 50 microwaveable meals for the homeless each month. Our donation is combined with donations from other churches to provide approximately 40 grocery bags to homeless families living in local area motels. Some examples are pop-top soup cans, Chef-Boyardee pasta meals, or cans of stew. Donna Potts has left a pot in the back of the church with soup can labels for your reference. If you can donate some items for this monthly collection, please place them in this pot.

Grace and Peace from the Mission Team!

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month at 7:00 pm at The Julien House.

If you would like a book and haven’t received it, please contact Kathie Ackerman at 298-0661.

All women of the church are invited to join us.

BOOK CLUB: Join us at 7:30 pm at The Julien House (unless otherwise announced!)

All are welcome.

TO PROVIDE FLOWERS FOR WORSHIP

1. Please choose your date and fill in your name on the “Flowers for Worship” calendar located by the bulletin board in the back of the Church and advise the
office (298-1243) that flowers are being ordered.

2. The current designated Church florist is the Chesterfield Floral Company – 298-1212, and their requested minimum per order is $25.00. Your flowers will be delivered to the Church on Saturday afternoon. You may pay by personal check or credit card directly to the Chesterfield Floral Company. Orders must be pre-paid before delivery.

3. Please have the order information below ready when you place your order with the Chesterfield Floral Company at least one week in advance of your date.

a. Delivery date for flower order (delivery will be on Saturday)
b. Choose either: Standard Altar Bouquet – flower arrangement is triangular in shape, with a flat back; or Flowers arranged in a vase.
c. Please specify flower selection and colors when ordering.

Bulletin information must be received on Tuesday between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to be printed in the bulletin for Sunday. Call the church office at 298-1243 and leave a message on the answering machine; or e-mail the information to o ffice@bordentownpresbyterian.org or mail to the church office.

Indicate: (1) Whether the flowers are a memorial, in celebration of, in honor of, or a special dedication; and (2) Give the full name(s) of the person(s) being remembered
or honored.

If you are ordering from your own florist and bringing the flowers to Church: The height of the arrangement or vase of flowers should be 18 to 20 inches tall and the width of the container should be between 6" and 8". You may place your flowers on the mantle (centered in front of the cross or on either side of the cross) before the service begins.

Our congregation requests prayers for members, friends, families and all God’s creation in several ways. On Sunday mornings we share our Joys and Concerns, requesting prayers for that week. For urgent concerns we contact the deacon on call or our pastor to ask our Prayer Chain for immediate, short term support. For ongoing concerns we want the congregation to lift up until resolved, we ask our pastor or deacon on call to place the prayer request on the Long Term Prayer List, which appears in our monthly newsletter.

Commitment to our church’s prayer life is important and has been growing. To honor and nurture this commitment, we need to keep our prayer lists as accurate and meaningful as possible.

Here are some guidelines that will help us do that.

Prayer requests need only include as much information as you or the person for whom you are making the request wishes. It is important to check before you make your request. Each of us has our own privacy boundaries, especially about medical and other personal information. All concerns directed to our Prayer Chain (i.e. urgent, short-term requests) remain confidential. When requested, confidentiality for any prayer request, including those noted in the friendship folders, will be honored.
When making a prayer request, if possible and relevant, please provide the correct spelling of the individual’s or family’s name to the pastor or deacon on call. Using the friendship folder is one way to do this.
Updates on prayer requests are always welcome, as is information regarding any additional needs we might help meet.
For the Long Term Prayer List, especially, please let us know when there is no longer need for prayer. Let us know, also, when the need continues but has changed in ways you want us to be aware of as we pray.

Thank you for your assistance and commitment to the prayer life of our congregation. Our pastor and church officers continue to think about ways to enrich our communal prayer and welcome your ideas and comments.

Please review this newsletter’s Long Term Prayer List and let the pastor or deacon on call know if there have been any omissions, if there need to be any additions, and if there are any names that should be removed from the list.

Thank you for actively supporting our church’s prayer life.

We invite all children and youth, from second grade and up, to participate in worship by being an acolyte. We are looking for acolytes for all Sundays. There is a sheet in the Sign-Up Book on the back counter in the sanctuary, or you may e-mail me at seamank@pepperlaw.com or call me at 324-7252 to volunteer.

Thanks! Kathie Seaman

Volunteers Needed

Extended Care happens each Sunday during worship. Please remember that children ages three years through first grade may attend. Second graders and older remain in the Sanctuary for worship.

SNACKS FOR EXTENDED CARE:

Throughout the year we need individually wrapped snacks and juice boxes for Extended Child Care during the worship service. Some ideas for snacks are:

small bags of cookies

crackers

pretzel

fruit snacks

*No chips please!

Please leave donations in the Sunday School room above Play and Learn, or on the steps. Thanks for your help!

Volunteers are needed to help provide care, and youth may assist on any Sunday for which they have signed up.

To volunteer, please contact Simmee Darpino at 298-1796 or Elke McAteer at 324-0271. Thanks!