OOC Tidbits — June 25,
2006
9:00 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
(no Sunday
School in July)
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 on the back
page. Also, visit our Sunday School, offered for all ages (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
(currently in the foyer).
Today was our last day of
our Church-wide Sunday School. No Sunday School during the month of
July.
Overture Deadline
Today, June 25, is the
deadline for the next Overture. (our newsletter). Chuck and Sandra
Kuhlman is Editor for the week. All submissions need to be signed. Please place
your articles in the Overture mail slot (in the foyer).
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.
OOC Collections This Summer!
Laundry Detergent
& (boxed) Cereal. Mike
Bohannon of Webster Rock Hill Ministries mentioned the on-going need for
laundry detergent and boxed breakfast cereal for the people they work with.
Bring these items to church over the next 2 weeks, and we’ll give them to WRHM
for distribution. (We’ve heard that Big Lots has Ajax brand laundry detergent
for $2.25 for 100 oz.)
Old Orchard Church’s
Summer Children’s Program
(Kindergarten through 6th grade)
When: August 1-5, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm
Journey To Narnia
Volunteer to serve! (see volunteer sheets)
Invite children! Register your children to attend.
(see registration forms)
See Kelli McKie or Mark Tucker for more information.
People Wanted To Mow Lawns
Please sign up to mow the
lawns of our two buildings and also Willie Lee’s lawn (Willie is disabled &
his home is located in the Webster/Rock Hill area). We especially need more
volunteers for Willie’s lawn over the next few weeks. See Jerry Taussig if you
have any questions about the church lawn mowing.
“Bring Food Any Sunday”
Container is at Milligan
House. Individual sizes. Canned meat, boxed meals, large & small soups,
tomato product, fruit, vegetables, beans, rice or pasta, and ramen
noodles. You’re invited
to bring donations. Donations
usually go to Grace & Peace Fellowship’s Food Pantry.Thanks! —Durinda Hood for the Mercy Ministry
Sunday, June 25, 6:00 p.m.
To raise funds for our trip to Brazil.
Join us tonight for a time
of food and entertainment. We still need about $2000 for ministry projects in
Brazil. Donations for entrance. —Mark
Tucker
Some items to be
auctioned: Cardinal’s Tickets, Handmade table runner, paint job by Greg Roig,
17” Computer screen, ‘priceless’ OOC heirlooms, etc. It is not too late to come, but do tell Mark Tucker
or Betsy Roig.
Car
Wash, Saturday, July 1
for
raising funds for Brazil. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location:
Crossroads Pres. Church in Maplewood (Manchester and Oakview, by Shop n Save)
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. These are the dates: July
6, 20, August 3, 17, 31.
—Jay Simmons for South City Church
“Hands & Feet” Mercy Resource
Assessment Form
If you haven’t filled one
out, please get one in. Copies are out in the parlor. This is an aid to the
deacons and the mercy ministry in matching needs with gifts and skills.
Looking for Input
Over the last month and a half or so, the Session has been brainstorming with the leadership of Old Orchard Church—with the deacons, ministry coordinators, and prayer group leaders—about “where we go from here” as a church as the renovations wind up, as we thank God for his faithfulness to us for the first 25 years of our life, and as we think about what we should be focusing on as we begin the second 25 years. This is a proper preliminary part of the pastoral evaluations we do here every 4 years. The Session has scheduled the first quarter of 2007 to do a pastoral evaluation of both me and Mark Tucker. The focus of these evaluations is always, “Do we think x is the right pastor to continue leading us, given where we believe the Lord is leading us?” So between now and the first quarter of 2007 we want to focus on the latter half of that question, and take an honest and fersh look at the life of our church as try to discern where the Lord wants to lead us.
In these conversations with the middle level leadership of the church we’ve identified some of our strengths, but also some of our weaknesses, areas that need attention. We have formed 4 committees to think through and discuss these areas: 1) Outreach (chaired by Mark Tucker): thinking about ways we can reach out as a church to more people with the truth of the gospel; 2) Bridging (chaired by Jack Easterling): thinking about ways we can make our worship service more user-friendly to visitors and seekers; 3) Discipleship (chaired by Paul Stefanski): thinking about ways to help our people grow stronger in their faith in Christ and their knowledge of Scripture—this includes thinking about adult Sunday School, ministry to women, basic discipleship-oriented Bible studies and training,etc; and 4) Prayer groups (chaired by Joel Keen): thinking about whether or not we should change our approach to our small group ministry and why or why not.
We wanted the whole fellowship to know about the work of these 4 committees so that you can pray for them and give to any of them feedback. They will be meeting a couple of times through the summer, so if you would like to join any of them, or at least give feedback to them, please contact the chairman, who will be glad to give you a voice.
The plan is to come back in the Fall and share tentative conclusions or lay out different options. The elders will then consider it all and try to discern before the Lord how to move forward. Let’s be asking him to melt us and mold us and fill us, so that he can use us to push forward his kingdom in the world.
--Ron Lutjens, for the Session
OOC Prayer Requests
· Ken and Dawn Harris, after their miscarriage and as they seek God’s leading while in New Zealand
· New Sunday School and Children’s Worship Leaders for this coming year
· Mary Carter at dance camp with a sore leg
· Wendy Jennings and Emily Roig who are in Brazil for a month
· Needed funds for our mission trip to Brazil on July 10th
·
Planning and orchestration for Narnia Summer Children’s
Program
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