OOC Tidbits Û July 3, 2005
Welcome Visitors!
We invite you to fill out
one of the visitor forms from the thin books in the pews to help us get to know
you. Please place it in the offering plate. Thanks!
Please also note... Part of our gladness on the Lord’s Day is visiting
with each other! But before the service please greet each other outside or in
the parlor so that the sanctuary can remain quiet for those who want to
meditate on the Lord.
Overture Deadline
Today is the deadline for the next Overture.
Jon Easterling is Editor for
the week. Please place your articles in the Overture mail slot in the
hallway.
Sunday
Schedule:
9 a.m. Sunday School for all
ages*
10:15 a.m. Worship
6:00 pm. Worship
Bring canned food and
non-perishables: canned soup, canned
vegetables, meats: tuna, Spam, salmon,
chili, spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, canned fruit, etc.
Remember to bring individual sized containers as many recipients are on
foot. Thank you!
—Durinda Hood, for the Mercy Ministry
Lawn Mowers Wanted!
Thanks to all who have
been signing up!!
Please sign up to mow either the church’s and/or Milligan House’s lawn or
Willie Lee’s lawn this spring & summer! Thanks for your help!
Willie’s a disabled man who lives in the Webster/Rock Hill area and has
attended our morning worship.
Questions? Please contact Matt Philip
(314.276.7941/matthew_r_philip@yahoo.com) for church lawn mowing or Jon
Easterling for Willie's lawn mowing. Or you can sign up on one of the
clipboards circulating today.
Vacation Bible School
—Dates on the Calendar— Mark yours!
Tuesday, August 2 through Saturday, August 6.
Closing program Saturday morning, August 6.
The theme this year will be based on C.S. Lewis’
Narnia tale, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Please register your children for VBS using one of
the forms in the parlor;
VBS Volunteers Wanted—Updated List
See the new, updated list of
opportunities listed on the sheets in the parlor. Or talk to Kelli McKie for
the latest.
Hey, Why Don’t Come to our Family Movie Night?
Friday, July 8, 7 p.m.
All OOC families are
encouraged to bring friends from school, neighborhood, etc. to our third Family
Movie Night. This is a great way to reach out to those around us that are
hungry for truth in a broken world, as well as fellowship with each other.
Popcorn and drinks will be
provided at the show on Friday, July 8 at 7 p.m. To be shown: Toy Story. The film creates an
impressive, 3-D computer-generated world in which toys take on a life of their
own when their owners aren't looking. The result is a sweet confection for the
eyes and ears that's as wholesome as it is visually stunning.
For questions, please see
Mark Tucker, or Kelli McKie.
Photos Wanted! Help Wanted! For OOC
Photo Album
If you would like help us organize and place photos
in the church’s photo albums, please let me know. Just give me a call or e-mail
me. I’ve had one new volunteer!
Also, if
you have any photos of church events that you would be willing to donate
to the album, please get them to me. Parents, we’d like a photo of your
family on the day of your child’s baptism.
Please do not write on the back of your photos—use a
post-it note attached to the photo. Please put photos you want to donate in the
designated box.
If you have any
questions, do call me.
—Durinda Hood, 314.962.3795 or ooc@sbcglobal.net
Our Nursery
Nursery is offered for
infants and children through Kindergarten age.
The infant nursery is
available for infants—2 yrs beginning at 10 a.m.
Preschool nursery:
Today we begin our summer schedule for preschool nursery with all the
children ages 3 through K remaining with
their parents until 10:45 a.m. when children ages 3 through K will be
dismissed.
Parents: please
pick up your children from both the infant and preschool nurseries immediately
after worship.
Attention Ladies! Showers in July!
Ladies of OOC, please mark your calendars for a Shower Series!!
Please join us again for a time of fellowship, fun, prayer, and showering for:
vAshley Nickols (marrying David Simmons on August 6th!) This Bridal Shower will be this
Saturday, July 9th at 10:30 am at the Milligan House.
Ashley
is registered at Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Crate & Barrel.
However, group contributions (this time specifically going toward helping
Ashley & David purchase a washing machine) will be MUCH appreciated (please
give contributions to Alice or Valerie). Please RSVP if you can help with
brunch goodies to Valerie at 314-832-4417 or c-vbarclay@prodigy.net.
Hostesses: Valerie Barclay, Alice Tucker, and Lindsay Perkins
vAnn Stuber
Please help us celebrate the
upcoming arrival of another precious baby into our fellowship! The shower will
take place on Saturday, July 16 at 10 a.m. at the Milligan House. Please
contact Jill Wooten (wjillanita_27@yahoo.com or 314.645.6203 ) if you plan to
attend (and to let her know if you can bring a treat for the refreshment
table).
Ann
is registered at Target and Babies R Us.
If you would like to contribute to a group gift, please give your money
to Megan Philip by July 10.
Hostesses: Jill Wooten and Megan Philip.
English Conversations Class
Fridays, 4:30—6 p.m.
at Milligan House. Questions? See Hurvey or Dorothy Woodson.
Sunday School
No Sunday School today.
We’ll continue our class “Ten” next Sunday at 9:00 a.m. All invited!
July House Church
Come join us this Wednesday,
July 6, to hear Hermez Moshi, an Iraqi pastor and former member of Saddam
Hussein’s army, tell the story of his conversion to Jesus Christ from Islam and
share with us about his work here in St. Louis in an Arabic-speaking church.
A major focus of our prayer
time that night will be on Iraq and the Middle East. We will take up a love
offering for Hermez and his work.
Join us on July 6 at 6
p.m. (bring a dish of your choice to share), and hear Hermez at 7:00
p.m.
Child care will be provided
7:00—8:30 p.m.
--Ron
Lutjens
Next Parlor Fellowship
We will
have a Parlor Fellowship next Sunday, July 10. Please sign up to bring
food: “Sweet Treats” (Danish, donuts,
cookies, brownies, etc.) or “Melon Coolers” (cantaloupe, watermelon, etc.)
sliced & ready to go; or Cheese & Crackers.
Gretta
Kraft is hosting.
OOC Prayer
Requests ——–-
Pray for
the good contact with the several families from outside Old Orchard who have
come twice to our family movie nights.
Pray for Rusty
& Jennifer Milton. Rusty has been offered a position pastoring a small
church in Alabama that they are praying about.
Pray for Mark
Dawson, former intern at Old Orchard, and his wife Robin and daughters.
Mark is at Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church (PCA) just outside Washington
DC this week. The church is very seriously looking at Mark for a pastoral
position there, so pray for him and Robin as they visit and meet with the
Session this afternoon.
Give thanks
to God for the rich blessings we enjoy as Christians who live in America. Pray
for peace in Iraq and in the Middle East, and for greater justice and goodness
to be reflected in our laws here and in our citizenry.
Happy Fourth of July!
The church office will be closed
Monday, July 4.
Old Orchard Church
Office ~ 314.962.3795 ~ Fax —
314.962.8285 ~ E-mail — ooc@sbcglobal.net
Web Site
— www.oldorchardchurch.org