OOC Tidbits — July 30, 2006

 

Sunday Schedule

No Sunday School in July. Resumes August 6.

10:15 a.m. Worship

6:00 p.m.   South City Church Worship. Location at:

                 2336 Tennessee Avenue, 63104

 

Welcome to Old Orchard Church!

We welcome you to our worship, and thank you for your patience while we renovate our building. We invite you to use our child care services to infants through children in kindergarten, located at Milligan House. Please see nursery details below. Also, visit our Sunday School, offered for all ages (resumes August 6, 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings—see more below). If you would like to find out more about Old Orchard and what we are about, please fill out one of our visitor forms.

 

Overture Deadline

Overture:  Today is the deadline for the next Overture (our newsletter) which comes out on August 6. Susan O’Neal is Editor for the week. All submissions need to be signed. Please place your articles in the Overture mail slot (in the foyer).

 

LOST & Found Sunday Morning Program
Everyone is invited to join us for the four Sunday Schools in August beginning August 6. This Sunday School will be for all ages (adults and children) and it is designed to follow up our Journey To Narnia Summer Children's Program. Our hope is to meet new families and to learn, laugh, and grow together. Please join us each Sunday in August at 9 am in the church basement. If you can help with bringing snacks contact Mark Tucker.

 

School Supply Time

You are invited to bring school supplies (or make a financial donation) to help families served by Webster Rock Hill Ministries. See list on the back of this sheet. Deadline:  Sunday, August 13.

 

Arts Ministry

All artists are invited to our next Arts Ministry meeting on Tuesday, August 8 at 7 p.m. See Ron Lutjens if you have questions.

 

Next Parlor Fellowship

We will have a parlor fellowship on Sunday, August 13 after worship. We hope to actually have it in the parlor! Our hosts will be Kathy Jennings and Tami Poehlman. The menu:  12 muffins or 1 loaf of sweet bread; vegetable tray, 8 oz. Bag of nuts or trail mix and peanut butter sandwiches for the kids. Please sign up for bringing food.

 

Staff Vacation

Our Music Director, Greg Roig, is on vacation and will return August 12. Our Assistant Pastor, Mark Tucker, will be on vacation the week of August 7.

 

Old Orchard Church's

Summer Children's Program

This Week!

(Kindergarten through 6th grade)
When: August 1-5, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm
Journey To Narnia

We will need help decorating, moving things, etc. today after worship. Listen to announcements after worship. See Kelli McKie or Mark Tucker for more information.

 

Food Wanted for VBS Closing Celebration

Please sign up today to bring “parlor fellowship” type food to the closing celebration (August 5) of our Summer Children’s Program. See today’s sign up sheets.

 

Closing Celebration on August 5

All invited to the closing program, Saturday, August 5,
9-10 a.m. with refreshments, petting zoo, pony rides & activities afterwards.

 

August House Church

No House Church this week, the first Wednesday in August, due to our Summer Children’s Program. Our August House Church has been scheduled for Wednesday, August 16 and will be given over largely to a report on the Brazil Trip and prayer for the progress of the kingdom of God in Brazil.

 

“Joining & Receiving” Worship Service

Tonight, July 30, 6 p.m. at St. Luke’s, 2336 Tennessee Ave. 63104. All are invited to this special occasion of the members of Olive Branch joining with South City Church and the transfer of some members from Old Orchard to South City.                                                

 

Our Nursery

Nursery is offered for infants & children through Kindergarten age.

Infants nursery for infants — 35 months begins at 10
a.m. This nursery is presently on the first floor of Milligan House.

Preschool nursery:  Begins at 10:00 a.m. for 3 & 4 year olds and 10:45 a.m. for 5 through K. Pre-school Nursery:  children ages 3 and 4 can be in the nursery at the beginning of worship, and then the older children (5 through K) remain with their parents until 10:45 a.m. when children will be dismissed. Nursery is located on the second floor of Milligan House.

Parents:  please pick up your children from both the infant and preschool nurseries immediately after worship.

 

One Week Open To Mow Lawn

Please sign up to mow Willie Lee’s lawn (Willie is disabled & his home is located in the Webster/Rock Hill area). We have one week—September 4-10—open. See Matt Philip to sign up for this one week and for questions about Willie’s lawn. Thanks to all who have taken up this ministry!

 

The Grace & Peace Rummage Sale

You’re invited to come!

August 4, 2006   5-8 p.m. or August 5, 2006   8 a.m.-2 p.m.

All proceeds help shelter homeless women of St. Louis

at the Grace & Peace Winter Shelter.

Donations of your good junk are welcomed.

5574 Delmar Blvd. (at Clara)

July 5, 2006-August 3, 2006.

Monday through Friday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

For more information call 314-367-8959 or

 e-mail wintershelter1@sbcglobal.net.

 

Invitation to “Karoga Bonga”

South City Church (your daughter church!) invites you all to “Karoga Bonga” (Swahili for “stir food as it cooks as you talk to each other”). Invite your friends to this bi-weekly pot-luck picnic in Tower Grove Park (at the “tunica site” in the southwest quadrant of the park). It will be on Thursday evenings all summer starting at 5:30 p.m., and it will be a wonderful time to fellowship and eat and play games, etc.! Just bring a side dish or desert as hot dogs and hamburgers will be provided. August dates:  3, 17, 31.                     

                          —Jay Simmons for South City Church

 

OOC Directories

Some updated directories haven’t been picked up! Look for yours! If you need a second copy, take one of the “extra copies”. And if you need a binder, see Durinda Hood.

 

Donations of non perishable food, individual sizes welcome at Milligan House!

For the Food Pantry at Grace & Peace Fellowship.

 

 

OOC Prayer Requests

·   Pray for this week’s summer children’s program. Ask the Lord to give us several families to follow up with.

·   Joel and Jessica Rinn, PMI Missionaries (Italy). Praise that they have found an apartment near to Verona and will be moving in gradually in August. Pray for them as three of their children have chicken pox!

·   Pray for a good vacation for our Music Director, Greg Roig, and his family.

 

 

 

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We need children's ministry volunteers for this fall! God has blessed us with a very fruitful church in the area of young children and so one of our primary ministries is to them. Please prayerfully consider serving in one of the following needs. Contact Mark Tucker if you are willing.
1.) 3 teachers and 3 Assistant Teachers to serve once a month for Children's Worship.
2.) 2 Nursery leaders to serve once a month.

                                                                                                —Mark Tucker

 

School Supplies

for Kids!            

 

Old Orchard will be collecting school supplies
through August 13, 2006 for children from families

served by Webster-Rock Hill Ministries.

 

You can participate in one of two ways:

1.  purchase items from the list below and bring

         them to church

2.  donate money by dropping into the offering   plate:

         l a check to Old Orchard Church

              (put in the memo “school supplies”)

         l cash in an envelope and designate it

               “school supplies”

 

Webster–Rock Hill Ministries (WHRM) will sort the donated supplies, and distribute them to children of their client families. Funds will be spent to buy supplies.

Another item distributed at the same time as the school supplies:  Payless Shoe Gift Cards ($15)

Questions?  See Esther Dundore or Durinda Hood.

 

School Supplies Shopping List

Narrow rule filler paper                Wide rule filler paper

Scissors (Fiskars)                      Rulers  

2 ” & 3 ” ring binders                   Pencil pouches/boxes

Colored markers                        24-Count Crayons

Glue sticks                                Colored pencils

Blue, black and red pens            Spiral notebooks
Broad tip highlighters                  Hand sanitizer

Pocket folders                           Pocket dictionaries

Scientific calculators ($10 pocket style)

The Mercy Ministry of Old Orchard Church

 

He has showed you, O man, what is good.

And what does the Lord require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

(Micah 6:8)

Thanks for your help!

 

Old Orchard Church

Church Office/Milligan House/639 Amelia: 314.962.3795  Church Building/640 Amelia:  314.961.6932

Ron Lutjens’ (Home) Study:  314.962.6196

Mark Tucker’s Office:  314.680.3670

Fax:  314.962.8285

Church Office E-mail:  office@oldorchardchurch.org

Web Site:  www.oldorchardchurch.org