OOC Tidbits — May 13, 2007

OOC Tidbits — May 13, 2007

Welcome to Old Orchard Church!

We welcome you to our worship. If you would like to find out more about Old Orchard & what we are about, please fill out one of our visitor forms. Also, we invite you to use our child care services for infants through children in kindergarten, located in the church building’s basement.

Classes for children and adults meet Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

Adult classes are held at Milligan House:

· New Members Class is led by Ron Lutjens.

· Communicating With My Non-Christian Friends.

How do we bear witness in our time to the Bible’s teaching that truth is absolute and that Jesus Christ is the only way to God? Until May 20, the adult Sunday School class is focusing on apologetics, the art of defending the Christian faith. We’re using as a springboard a teaching video by R.C. Sproul called “Choosing My Religion: Truth, Pigs, and the House of God.” All of us should be growing in our ability to engage non-Christian friends, classmates, and co-workers in thinking about truth. This class would be an excellent refresher course for some of you, and the others a good intro to learning how to share your faith. —Ron Lutjens

CHURCHWIDE SUNDAY SCHOOL in JUNE

We want to encourage EVERYONE to join us for Sunday School in June. All ages are invited to learn, laugh, and grow together during this intergenerational Sunday School starting June 3rd. We need 3 or 4 people to help with the orchestration of this Churchwide Sunday School. Please contact Associate Pastor Mark Tucker at
314. 680-3670.

Children’s Ministries

Nursery is offered for infants & children through Kindergarten age. Our nurseries are in the church building’s basement! Infants’ & Toddlers’ nursery: Ages 0 - 35 months…Begins at 10:00 a.m.

Preschool nursery: Ages 3 & 4…Begins at 10:00 a.m.

Ages 5 – K…Begins at 10:50 a.m.

Children ages 3 and 4 can be in the nursery at the beginning of worship. The older children (5 - K) remain with their parents until 10:50 a.m., at which time they will be dismissed to join the other preschoolers already in the nursery.

Parents: Please pick up your children from the nurseries immediately after worship. Thank you!

Children’s Worship. Children grades 1-5 are dismissed at 10:50 a.m. (No Children’s Worship on the fifth Sunday of the month, however.)

Cornerstone Work Day

Saturday, June 9, 9 am – 12 noon

Mark your calendar! Cornerstone Corporation is a non-profit housing ministry associated with Grace & Peace Fellowship and provides housing for low-income recipients. Cathajane Rieger, former member of Old Orchard, is President of its board and Margaret Wilke also serves on the board.

The work day will include cleaning out basements, landscaping work, painting or cleaning—depending upon what the need is in June. We’ll know more details closer to the date.

The West County Community Group has decided to make this a group project We’ll need others to join them!

Biloxi Trip

We only got two people signed up to go to Biloxi May 3-7 so we decided to postpone it again. If after seeing and hearing Kelli’s Moment for Missions recently, you desire to go, but couldn’t May 3-7, please e-mail the church office (office@oldorchardchurch.org) and propose dates. We are surveying all those who had expressed interest and get a commitment of at least 4 people to go together on a set of dates that works for them. Then we will invite others in the congregation to join that group. We’d like to hear from everyone by the end of May.

Lunch at Milligan House

Sunday, May 20 after worship

All invited to lunch at Milligan House on next Sunday, May 20 after worship. Please sign up to come! We will be honoring our high school graduates! They are Preston Lee (graduating from Parkway West), and Taylor
Branson (graduating from Future Men School of Education). Congratulations! See Chris Carter & Mark Tucker if you have questions.

Grass Cutting Volunteers Wanted

Special Opportunity: We will be cutting Willie Lee’s lawn again this summer. Lawn mower at the home. Willie is our disabled friend in the area. See sign-up sheet or talk to Brian Curry.

Overture

The next Overture (our newsletter) will come out on the Sunday, May 20, and the deadline is today! Please put articles in the Overture box (electronic versions are welcomed but not required) or send them to the church office at office@oldorchardchurch.org. We welcome your submissions of articles, art, short essays, poetry, etc. All submissions need to be signed.
—The Overture Editors: Jim Lowe, Melissa Nelson, Susan O’Neal, Heather Sparkman

Bring Food Any Sunday

You are invited to bring non-perishable foods on any Sunday. Soups, box meals, canned foods, rice, pasta, tomato products, ramen noodles, cereal/muffin mix. Container is in the foyer. Food is given to a food pantry (often Grace & Peace’s).

—OOC Mercy Ministry

Covenant Seminary Graduation

The seminary suggests coming early to attend either of the following.

Covenant Seminary Baccalaureate

Thursday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.

Seminary’s Chapel

Covenant Seminary Commencement

Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m.

First Evangelical Free Church, 1375 Carman Road

Manchester, MO 63021

KOROGA BONGA PICNICS*

TOWER GROVE PARK

HUMBOLDT SOUTH PAVILLION

5:30 TILL DUSK

Bring Food or Beverages to Share

BBQ Meat Provided

Games for Children

Dates: Wednesday May 23, June 20, July 25, August 22

Sponsored by the Refuge of Nations ministry.

Submitted by Tim Baldwin, baldwinfam5@sbcglobal.net

*Swahili for “to talk as you stir food as it cooks”

LATIN DANCE INVITATION

What? An Introduction to Latin Dancing

(Bachata, Merenge, and Salsa)

When? Saturday, May 19, from 7-9:00 PM

Where? Refuge of Nations Office

(4900 Reber Place)

Who? Couples or Singles (no children) who desire to have a taste of Latin Culture and experience the joy of “dancing together” in community.

Cost? Free

Rewards? Relaxation, Friendship, and Joy!

Submitted by Tim Baldwin, baldwinfam5@sbcglobal.net

Extreme Backpacking Trip Update

We will now be hiking the Trace Creek section of the Ozark Trail, a 24 mile "moderate" hike. This represents a change from our previous itinerary— we found out that most of the approach trails to Taum Sauk have been flooded out and are closed or bogged down with reconstruction. This also means we'll be hiking a mere 24 miles rather than the daunting 26 we had intended to hike.

The plan is to meet at Old Orchard as early as is possible on Friday afternoon (5/25) and then drive to the Hazel Creek Campground where we'll camp that night. We will hike halfway on Saturday. Then we will proceed the rest of the way Sunday, pausing for a worship service when we stop for lunch. We will camp at the southern trail head Sunday night and drive back to St. Louis Monday morning (5/28).

For those of you concerned about carrying a pack that whole distance, I think that we can work at keeping the packs light.

If anyone needs equipment or has extras, let’s share.

Please contact me (Currie Bishop: curranb79@gmail.com or 314.605.2133) for more info.

Fund Raiser for Harambee

Golfers, get your clubs ready and mark your calendars for the afternoon of Friday, June 15 , 2007. Harambee is hosting the 5^th Annual Benefit Golf Tournament to help raise money to run this summer’s program which will reach out to 72 teenagers in the City of St. Louis. Join us for a delicious barbecue lunch and then 18 holes of play at Forest Park Golf Course. $125 for a single player, $500 for a foursome if registered by May 30. Contact Kathy Victor 314-726-2302 (Ext. 30)

Harambee is a outreach program that New City Fellowship helps to sponsor. Here’s a description from their website: “Harambee has grown incredibly over the years, enabling us to not only mentor more youth than ever through the Summer Program (73 in 2005 and 86 in 2006) but also to continue to work with up to 20 of those teens throughout the school year in the School-to-Work Program. As our ability to train more young people has increased, the opportunity has become available in the last few years to work on the homes of elderly and disadvantaged neighborhood residents for free. In addition, these longtime community residents are able to build meaningful relationships with the youth who are rebuilding their homes.”

Old Orchard Church Contact Info:

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

Church Office Fax: 314.962.8285

Church Office E-mail: office@oldorchardchurch.org

Web Site: www.oldorchardchurch.org