OOC Tidbits Û August 14, 2005

Sunday Schedule:

No Sunday School during August

10:15 a.m. Worship

6:00 p.m. South City Church worship

2336 Tennessee Avenue, 63104

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.

Today’s Parlor Fellowship

Please join us today after worship for our Parlor Fellowship. Our hostesses are Jan Rau and Sylvia Mitchell.

Please take the opportunity to say “goodbye” to Matt & Michelle Novenson and Aaron Bond as this is their last Sunday with us. The Novensons are leaving to pursue graduate studies at Princeton. Aaron, our summer Youth and Family Intern, returns to Covenant College. (If you want to contribute to an honorarium for Aaron, please put it in the offering plate or Mark Tucker’s mailbox. Designate it for Aaron Bond.)

Wish our college students well as they return to colleges, especially Clara Lee, Peter Branson and Chris Lowe.

Also, congratulate Donna Knobbe on receiving her Master of Education in Counseling.

Durinda Hood will be on vacation August 15-26 so you won’t find her in the church office during that time. If you need to get into the church building and don’t have a key, call Mark Tucker at the Milligan House (314.961.6932) to make arrangements.

Congratulations!

Owen Thomas

Born to Reid & Ann Stuber

8 lbs. 5 oz.

20 inches

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Overture Deadline & New Editor Wanted!

Today is the deadline for the next Overture. Please place your articles in the Overture mail slot in the hallway.

Susan O’Neal is editor for the week.

We still need a new editor to take turns with 3 other people to put together our newsletter, the Overture. The new editor will start in September (taking a turn approximately once every 2 months). Requirements: computer with Microsoft Word (or conversion to Word). You would also make the copies on the church's copy machine (Durinda will run your copies if the Overture is ready by Friday before publishing.) See Durinda Hood (314.962.3795) for more details when she returns from vacation in 2 weeks. Or talk to any of the current editors (Susan O’Neal, Jon Easterling, Heather Sparkman) for more about what this service involves.

Food Pantry Update—Bring Food Any Sunday

Grace & Peace’s food pantry is running out of food every week. They need canned fruit, vegetables, and soup, plus toilet paper. Remember to bring individual sized containers as many recipients are on foot. Thank you! *Look on the back of this sheet for Grace & Peace’s “This Week at the Food Pantry” report.

—Durinda Hood, for the Mercy Ministry

Lawn Mowers Wanted! Help finish the season!

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 last part of the summer! Thanks for your help!
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.

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: We’re on 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.

No Sunday School

We’re taking a break from Sunday School—no classes until Sunday, September 11 when our fall adult and children’s classes resume.

Special Foreign Missions Ministry Meeting

The Foreign Missions Ministry will meet on Sunday, August 21 after worship at Milligan House. Joel & Jessica Rinn will be our guests! Bring a bag lunch and join us!

—Hurvey Woodson

English Conversations Class

Fridays, 4:30—6 p.m. at Milligan House. Questions? See Hurvey or Dorothy Woodson.

Movie Night at Milligan House—This Friday!

Movie Night at Milligan House will be this Friday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Milligan House. “Hotel Rwanda” (PG-13) will be shown. All invited!

Movies@Milligan House are free and open to anyone (Christian or otherwise) interested in watching and discussing movies. Complimentary pizza and child care are provided. To RSVP for pizza or if you need child care, please see Matt Philip. (See announcement on back for “Back to the Future” movie offering for our teenagers.)

Providence Christian Academy now enrolling for Fall. Preparing students K-12 for a life of learning and equipping them to be leaders for the Kingdom! Kindergarten tuition reduced for Fall: $2,750 for full day. Come grow with us! 314. 842-0000. www.PCASTL.org

Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church will be hosting a 10th Anniversary Golf Tournament at The Golf Club at Pevely Farms on Friday, September 23. We would love for you to join us; cost is $89.00 per person. Register or get more information by calling 314.968.9808.

This week at the Grace & Peace Food Pantry...

We had a lively discussion of good and evil in the Bible Study. Recently our elder and associate pastor, Michael Gordon, expressed an interest in more lively discussion in the Bible study. There we were in an intense discussion of Luke 22. Jesus loves Judas when Jesus asks, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" What does it mean to be made in God's image and to struggle with sin?

Thank you for your recent donations to the food pantry. This week we totally ran out of the following.

Vegetables; Soups; Fruit

Your fellow servant, Deb Eisenbraun

for the Grace & Peace Food Pantry

Child Care Wanted

Joel & Jessica Rinn need someone to watch their children on Monday, August 22, 4:30 p.m. to about 7:30 p.m.) while the parents attend a meeting. Please call the

Barclays and leave a message. 314.835.4417

Teenagers! Late night Movies:

Back to the Future I & I & III

Friday, August 19. We will be showing the entire “Back to the Future” series in the church parlor. Pizza at 6:30 p.m. Bring your friends. (All ages—especially teens)

Questions? See Mark Tucker.

School Supplies for Kids!

Thank you for bringing school supplies for children in need to help give them a good start in the new school year. Today is the deadline, but if you forgot your supplies, talk to Mark Tucker to make arrangements with him to drop them off before they are delivered this week to Webster-Rock Hill Ministries. You can still write a check today: write it to Old Orchard Church and designate it “School Supplies.” You can drop it into the offering plate.

—Durinda Hood for the Mercy Ministry

I was just thinking about packing my bags and driving away for vacation. (Besides this space was empty.) See you later! —Durinda

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OOC Prayer Requests

Pray for a new job for Paul Stefanski, as his current one will end soon. Give thanks for an offer of a job to Ben Kraft; pray for a final agreement to be reached.

Give thanks for the birth of Owen Thomas to Reid and Ann Stuber.

Give thanks for a successful “Journey Through Narnia” children’s program. Pray for good follow-up with families who came.

Pray for Jorge and Vera Patrocinio as they have found out that Vera’s cancer has returned. Pray for healing, comfort, wisdom for doctors.

Several of us with parents who are ill:

Stacey Stefanski’s mother has Parkinson’s Disease, recovering from surgery on a broken hip and in a rehabilitation facility. Betsy Roig’s mother has Alzheimer’s Disease and has moved to a Alzheimer facility. Pray for Betsy’s mother’s adjustment to this new place. Kelli McKie’s mother has lung cancer. Janice Beekman’s mother is in hospice care.

Old Orchard Church
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