OOC Tidbits — July 23, 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 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).

 

Tidbits & Overture Deadlines

Tidbits:  We will have another Tidbits next week (7/30) so get your announcements to the church office by Thursday morning, July 27 at the latest. We may shorten announcements as needed to fit into space available.

Overture:  Next Sunday (7/30) is the deadline for the next Overture (our newsletter) which comes out on August 13. Susan O’Neal is Editor for the August 13 issue of the Overture. All submissions need to be signed. Please place your articles in the Overture mail slot (in the foyer).

 

Sunday Fellowship Meal

Today is a Sunday Fellowship Meal after worship. All invited! See Chris Carter if you have questions.

 

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.

 

August House Church

No House Church 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 to pray for the progress of the kingdom of God in Brazil.

 

Bring Food Any Sunday Continues

Container is at Milligan House. Individual sizes. Canned meat, boxed meals, large & small soups, tomato products, 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!                                  —The Mercy Ministry

 

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

Invite children! This is a great time to reach out to families around you. Register on line at the church's website or see registration forms. Slots are filling up quickly. 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 of our Summer Children’s Program. See today’s sign up sheets.

 

Supplies for Decorations &

Decorating Help Wanted

for our Summer Children’s Program

Supplies:  Here are the items that we are looking for:

·Fishing nets             

·Wooden crates

·Sawhorses

·Saddle

·Ornate fabric (sari-type material)

·Sheer fabric

·Scarves

·CD boom boxes

Decorators & Heavy Lifters will be needed to help Sunday, July 30 after church and anytime on Monday, July 31.

Bring items any time before July 30 to the church or Milligan house. Talk to Margaret Wilke if you have questions.

 

OOC Moving Day—Rescheduled!

Saturday, July 29. 9:00 a.m.

Due to delays in the basement work, we had to postpone our move into the basement of the church building. Please listen to verbal announcements today to see what help is needed with the building during this week.

 

We will also need help moving the nurseries back to the church building on Saturday, July 29. If you can help, sign up to come on the sheets circulating.

 

Due to the changing nature of this end-of-the-renovations project, please listen carefully to verbal announcements today for the latest!

 

“Joining & Receiving” Worship Service

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.                                                

 

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 for questions about Willie’s lawn. Thanks to all who have taken up this ministry!

 

Directory Change

Here’s Chuck & Sandra Kuhlman’s new phone number:  636.594.5554.

 

The Grace & Peace Rummage Sale

August 4, 2006   5-8 p.m.

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.

 

Our Nursery

Nursery is offered for infants & children through Kindergarten age. Next Sunday we plan to have the nurseries back in the church basement.

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.

CHEX

(a child care exchange among parents)

Meets in the Preschool Nursery presently on the 2nd floor of Milligan House until the nursery is moved). Openings are available; see Margaret Wilke for more information. Will meet July 28, 6:00 to 8:15 p.m.

 

OOC Prayer Requests

Pray that our building would be ready for Narnia Summer Children’s Program on Aug. 1. Pray for children to come. Pray also for all the preparations.

 

 

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:

         —- a check to Old Orchard Church

              (put in the memo “school supplies”)

         —- 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/Certificates ($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