OOC Tidbits — April 9,
2006
Welcome to Old Orchard
Church!
We welcome you to our
worship, and thank you for your patience while we renovate our old building. We
invite you to use our child care services to infants through children in
kindergarten. Please see nursery details on the back page. Also, visit our Sunday
School, offered for all ages (9 a.m. on Sunday mornings). However, we
will not have Sunday School next Sunday on Easter. If you would like to
find out more about Old Orchard and what we are about, please fill out one of
our visitor forms (currently available in the foyer).
Overture Deadline
Today is the deadline for
the next Overture. (our newsletter). All submissions need to be signed.
Jon Easterling is Editor for the week. Please place your articles in the Overture
mail slot (in the foyer).
Good Friday Meals—April 14
We invite you to sign up to
attend one of the Good Friday Meals. Folks here in our fellowship have
graciously opened their homes to host these meals. Sign up on the list
posted. One name per line please.
There are two types of meals
to choose from. See below for their descriptions. Meals are to begin at 5:45
p.m. on Friday, April 14. There will be a children’s meal offered at 5:45 p.m.
at the Milligan House. Children may be brought to their meal beginning 5:30
p.m. and picked up by 7:15 p.m.
Our worship begins at 7:30
p.m. at Cornerstone. See below.
·Reciting Meal
During these meals we read
the highlights of the story of our redemption in Christ. A Bible goes around
the table, verses assigned for each person to read. As we hear of the movement
back and forth throughout history—from Genesis onward—between God’s grace and
our sin, a center candle is alternately lit and extinguished.
·Sharing Meal
During these meals we focus
on certain passages of Scripture, or songs, or meditations on the suffering of
the Lord and then there is some time for focused, individual sharing on how the
work of Christ has affected our own lives personally.
Good Friday
Worship
You are invited to a joint
worship with our brothers and sisters in Christ at Cornerstone Evangelical Free
Church (921 Edgar Road, Webster Groves) on Good Friday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Cornerstone is hosting the worship, and our Senior Pastor, Ron Lutjens, will be
preaching.
And parents, please sign up if you plan to use the nursery (age
4 & under) during the worship.
Easter Morning— Next
Sunday, April 16
Reminder: No Sunday School!
· Sunrise Service— 7:30 a.m. at Blackburn Park (led by our teenagers). Map on back of this
page.
· Hallelujah Buffet at Milligan House. 8:00—9:40 a.m. Fill out the form to sign up to
attend. Gretta Kraft, Donna Knobbe, and Lois Easterling, members of Hospitality
Ministry, are the organizers.
· Easter Egg Hunt for children beginning at 9:15 a.m. on the Milligan House lawn. Bring
a dozen decorated boiled eggs on Easter! Please get the eggs here by 8:45
a.m.
· Folk Dancing 9:40—10:00 a.m. on the lawn in front of Milligan House.
· Easter Service in the Sanctuary 10:15 a.m.
· Balloon Launch. The children (& maybe some adults!) will send off helium-filled
balloons as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection.
Thanks to Don Branson for filling the balloons &
the Reinheimers for getting the postcards ready!
· Buffet leftovers also after the service.
Flowers Wanted for Easter
Morning
Part of our tradition is to
decorate the sanctuary and parlor with spring flowers. We are looking for
people to bring flowers next Sunday, April 16. If you can help, please let
Cheryl Cook know.
OOC Church-wide 2006 Retreat
Renovating Our Lives &
Celebrating OOC’s 25th Anniversary
Brochures (with registration form) are out!
Sign up!
When: Saturday,
May 20–Sunday, May 21.
Where: Pinecrest
Retreat Camp & Conference Center located 5 miles from Fredericktown,
Missouri
(1 hr. 40 min./93 miles from OOC).
Facilities: Variety—cabins,
motel rooms, dorm rooms or tent camping. See brochure for details & costs.
Registration: Registration is required. Give your form
& payment to either Durinda Hood or Mark Tucker by May 14. (Payment at the
time of registration preferred.)
Questions? See Mark Tucker. Y’All Come!!
Photos Wanted!
We are looking for
photographs of Old Orchard Church people or events for a slide show we want to
put together for the retreat. Please get them to either Durinda Hood or Mark
Tucker by May 7. We can return photos if you want them back.
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.
Volunteer Workers Wanted
Thanks to all of the volunteers who have been
coming to help clean up after renovation work during the week and on Saturday.
If you can work during the week, please contact Chris Carter. (314.799.2522)
In addition to the Chad Anderson
prayer group who will be cleaning on Saturday, we need workers (5-10) to
do other jobs (not cleaning) this Saturday morning (4/15). Please contact Greg
Zavaglia or Ron Lutjens if you can help.
Outreach Bible Study
Offered
Old Orchard is being
stretched this year in many ways: building renovations, Brazil trip, church
plant, ambitious budget. And we have been encouraging each other to make it more
of a priority in our lives to reach out to those around us who need Jesus in
their lives, and to be more intentional in making connections with them.
Outreach will stretch us, but it is part of what we are about as a church.
So, we have begun to plan for
a Bible study that will be specifically oriented toward those who are
new to the faith or curious about it. It will last only 6 weeks and
(probably) be planned for Wednesday nights. Here is what we are asking you to
do:
1. Pray
about a person you might ask to join you in this 6 week Bible study on the life
of Jesus in the gospel of Mark.
2. Approach
Pastor Mark about your interest in inviting this person(s).
3. Be
willing to invite the person to join us. Once we get an idea who will be
involved we can plan the dates: if
there are enough interested people now, we would start it in time to be
finished before summer. But we may have to wait until fall.
We are willing to provide
childcare, if it is needed.
Talk with either one of us
if you want to know more! Let us trust
God to bless our efforts in reaching out in his name to those we care about.
Mark Tucker & Ron Lutjens
Sunrise Service
Easter morning
7:30 a.m.
at Blackburn Park
400 Edgar Road
here in Webster Groves
Meet at the Pavilion.
Led by OOC Teens
Cookies for Renovation
Workers
You are invited to bring
cookies for the workers who are renovating our building. See Ron Lutjens.
Old Orchard
Bridal Shower for Susannah Lutjens!!
Ladies,
please join us on Saturday, April 29th at 10:30 am at the Milligan House for this
Bridal Shower! Susannah will be wed to Perry Newman on June 3, 2006. Susannah
and Perry are registered
at Target and Bed Bath &
Beyond. If you would like to contribute to a group gift, please see hostesses,
Michelle Kraft, Annie Kuhn, and Kelli McKie. Brunch fare of all varieties and flavors is kindly welcomed! We look forward to your presence for this celebration of this happy time for Susannah and Perry, lifting her up before the Lord, showering her with gifts,
and fellowshipping with one another as sisters in Christ.
Leaders Meeting
The Leaders’ Meeting,
previously scheduled for April 4, will be rescheduled either April 25 or May 2
at 7:00 p.m. Ministry Coordinators and prayer group leaders, please keep these
dates open. Stay tuned!
“Bring Food Any Sunday”
Continues
At Milligan House.
Individual sizes. Canned meat, boxed meals, large & small soups, tomato
product, beans, rice or pasta, fruit, and ramen noodles.
You’re invited to bring donations. Thanks!
OOC Prayer Requests
·
Pray for Jessica
Anderson due soon (end of April).
·
Pray for our Good
Friday and Easter celebration.
·
Pray for the Lord to
bring more people to English Conversations.
·
Give thanks that Anne
Woodson is back home and is doing OK.
Old Orchard Church
Church Office/Milligan House: 314.962.3795
640 Amelia/Church Building: 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