OOC Tidbits — May 27, 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.

CHURCHWIDE SUNDAY SCHOOL in JUNE

No Sunday School today due to Memorial Day holiday.

"LOVING PEOPLE"

9:00 a.m. at Milligan House during June

Central to our theme of Stepping Out of the Boat is the idea of Loving People. So for our Churchwide Sunday School in June we will spend the 4 Sundays talking about loving people through hospitality, mercy, justice, and evangelism.

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. —Mark Tucker

New Members’ Class will meet this Tuesday, May 29,

6 p.m. at Milligan House for supper, and then will meet until 8:30 p.m. This will be our last class together.

—Ron Lutjens

Parlor Fellowship – Art Show— Farewell

Our next Parlor Fellowship is Sunday, June 10 after worship. We will have another art show! And we will be honoring Joel & Cyndi Keen who are leaving to help plant a church in St. Charles County. This will be their last Sunday with us at OOC.
Michelle Kraft and Gretta Kraft are hosting. Please sign-up to bring food. Menu: Sweetbread/muffins; fruit tray, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, fruit juice.

The church office is closed tomorrow, Monday, May 28, for Memorial Day.

Mark’s Sabbatical

Years ago the Session granted pastors at OOC a one-month sabbatical every four years. Associate Pastor, Mark Tucker, will be taking his first one from June 12 to July 11.

Other Staff “Away” Times in June

June 6 through 15: Senior Pastor Ron Lutjens will be on vacation, then will attend General Assembly (June 12-15 in Memphis, Tennessee).

June 9 through 23: Music Director Greg Roig will be away on vacation in Maine.

Nursery Leader Needed

The Toddler Nursery (walking through age 3) is in immediate need of a regular nursery leader who would serve once a month. This involves overall supervision of the children (with two other volunteers) and facilitation of the simple morning routine of play time, story, and snack. No outside preparation time involved. Please contact Alice Tucker if interested or curious! (alice.tucker@gmail.com or 762-9716)

Cornerstone Work Day

Saturday, June 9, 9 am – 12 noon

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. Sign up to come!

The West County Community Group has decided to make this a group project You are invited to join them!

Biloxi Trip

We are still wanting to plan a trip to Biloxi to help with rebuilding efforts there. If you desire to go—even if you haven’t previously expressed interest—please e-mail the church office (office@oldorchardchurch.org) and propose dates you are available. 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! Please get this in by Wednesday!

Grass Cutting Volunteers Wanted

We are 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 to volunteer.

Thank you for signing up to mow the church lawn. The schedule is complete through the summer, but we could use substitutes. See Jerry Taussig to volunteer.

Overture

The next Overture (our newsletter) will come out on the Sunday, June 3, 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

Anniversary Picnic.

Our church’s 26th Anniversary will be celebrated on Sunday, September 30. Picnic will be after worship.

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

EXTRA! EXTRA! –

BABIES KEEP COMING AT OOC!!

Baby Shower For: Dawn Harris and Vicki Leung

Where: Milligan House

When: Saturday, June 16, 10 a.m.

Hostesses: Larisa Maristany, Lois Easterling and

Sandra Kuhlman

All OOC women are invited to a baby shower for Dawn Harris and Vicki Leung. Both are expecting their babies at the end of July. Dawn & Vicki are registered at TARGET.

Is your budget tight this month? If you wish, you can contribute to a group gift for each expectant mother. Please give your contribution to Larisa, Lois or Sandra no later than Sunday, June 10.

If you are able bring a plate of refreshments, it would be greatly appreciated.

An OOC shower is a special way to fellowship with one another and to encourage our new mothers. Come and be a blessing.

—Submitted by Michelle Kraft

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. No Children’s Worship during the summer.

Arts Ministry

The Arts Ministry meets this Tuesday, May 29 at 7:00 p.m. This time around the group will meet in the church parlor.

LAST CHANCE!

Eight children have been sponsored by people here at OOC after the Compassion Sunday presentation–praise the Lord!! There are still 2 children left who are waiting for sponsors. I will have to send the child packets back to Compassion soon, so please see me if you are interested. Remember, you can split a sponsorship with someone else!

Thank you so much for your support in prayer and deed for these precious children.

—Annie Kuhn, 645-3563

Men’s Bible Study

Meets Saturday, June 2 at 7:15 a.m. at Milligan House.See Hal Pendergrass or Ben Kraft for questions.

House Church Schedule

This summer’s House Church schedule is different due to visiting missionaries and Summer Children’s Program.

June House Church: Wednesday, June 13, the second Wednesday. We will hear from Triona Winter about her extended mission trip to India.

July House Church: Wednesday, July 18, the third Wednesday. Joel & Jessica Rinn, OOC members, will be with us sharing about their work in Italy.

August House Church: Date to be announced. Summer Children’s Program is the first week in August so we will not meet that week. Watch announcements.

SUMMER RUF is coming…

College. It’s more than just a place. It’s a stage of life. It’s a lot of fun and a load of trials, all at once. It’s a launching pad for the rest of your life. But over the summer it can be lonely and dry. Here’s something to consider: a place to find biblical challenge and encouragement at weekly large group meetings, social activities all over the place, opportunities to serve the community, and the hallowed weekly Night Ultimate Game. That place is SUMMER RUF, the Missouri Presbytery’s ministry to every college student in St. Louis. There’s a place for you at SUMMER RUF.

Summer RUF starts May 29th at 7:00 p.m. at Covenant Seminary. We'll have worship and our theme for the sermon series will be about service/mercy ministry. We would love for every college student who is in St. Louis for the summer to come. Go to www.summerruf.blogspot.com for more details. We’ll be watching for you…

OOC Prayer Requests

Pray for Jerram Barrs and Hans Bayer, on a teaching trip to Brazil.

Pray for Alice Tucker. For safe delivery of baby; due date May 30.

Pray for Joel & Cyndi Keen as they move to St. Peters to help plant a church. Thank the Lord that they sold their house, and will be moving into another one on June 15. Pray that OOC people would give a hand with moving.

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