OOC Tidbits — August 12, 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.

Sunday Morning Family Celebration

Everyone is invited to join us for Sunday School in August. This Sunday School is for all ages (adults and children) and designed to follow up our Return 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. Please prayerfully consider inviting folks from outside of the church. If you can help with bringing snacks contact Mark Tucker.

Parlor Fellowship Today

Please join us for today’s Parlor Fellowship after worship. Thanks to our hostesses are Sylvia Mitchell and Larisa Maristany!

Lunch at Milligan House

Please join us at our next Lunch at Milligan House after worship on Sunday, August 26. Please sign up for today on clipboards circulating after worship. Questions? See Chris Carter.

August-September House Church

The Session has called for a Day of Prayer and Fasting on Wednesday, August 29 on behalf of Cheryl Cook and her family. For those of you new to the fellowship, Cheryl is one of the founding members of Old Orchard Church and has been our accompanist for more years than I can remember. She was recently diagnosed with ALS or “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” as it is sometimes called. The Session believes we should be interceding in a special way on behalf of Cheryl, her husband, Bruce, and their two boys, Justin and Jesse.

The day will end with a combined August-September House Church with a light supper afterwards. —Ron Lutjens

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 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.

OOC Rebuilding Trip To Biloxi

You are invited to join with others on our team to go to Biloxi, Mississippi to help with rebuilding efforts there after Hurricane Katrina. Date: September 13 – 17. If want to join this team, please see Mark Tucker or Durinda Hood to reserve a bed. All skill levels welcomed! We are asking each household sending a person to contribute $25 deposit by September 2. Please make your checks payable to Old Orchard Church, designate it “Biloxi Trip” and get it to Durinda Hood.

Overture

The next Overture (our newsletter) will come out next Sunday on August 19, and the deadline is today! Please put articles in the Overture box (electronic versions are welcomed but not required) or e-mail them to office@oldorchardchurch.org. Heather Sparkman is our editor for the week. 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

School Supplies for Kids!

Today is the deadline for our collection of school supplies for children served by Webster-Rock Hill Ministries. If you forgot your supplies, please see Durinda Hood. If you still want to contribute funds for this, please get it in today. Checks payable to Old Orchard Church (put in the memo “school supplies”) or if cash, put in envelope marked school supplies. Thank you! Sponsored by OOC Mercy Ministry team.

Men’s Bible Study

Saturday, August 18, 7:15 a.m. at Milligan House. See Hal Pendergrass or Ben Kraft if you have questions.

Community Group Leaders to Meet.

Community Group Leaders, meet after worship on next Sunday, August 19. Please bring a bag lunch and meet on the second floor of Milligan House.

Teen Fellowship Dates

Muny—Les Miserables—Tonight, August 12 —7:15 pm—late

Lunch after worship—Sunday, August 19 ($6)

“Mystery Road Trip” – Saturday, August 25 ($6)

See Pastor Mark Tucker for more details.

You are Invited to attend

25th Anniversary Celebration and Open House

Webster-Rock Hill Ministries

Sunday, August 26, 2007, 2:00 p.m.

111 East Waymire Avenue, Webster Groves

A short program will be followed with refreshments.

Building and grounds will be on display.

Please confirm your attendance by calling
the Ministries office at 314-961-5082.

See our delegate to Webster Rock Hill Ministries,

Phil Patterson, if you have questions.

If you haven’t yet picked up your directory, they are out in the parlor.

Also, please note that on the front page of the directory where we list the elders, deacons, and staff, Jack Easterling’s former phone number got left in. Please correct it to: 636.798.2998. Thanks.

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; individual/regular sizes please. Container is in the foyer. Food is given to a food pantry (often Grace & Peace’s). Recipients also like toilet paper, peanut butter, and oil. —OOC Mercy Ministry

Church Library—the Hunt for Missing Books!

Yes, the church library is being re-established! But we need your help! Do you have any OOC library books at your home? If the answer is “yes” please return them to the box marked “return books” in the new home for the library at Milligan House—no questions asked! Its new home is in the room behind the living room on the first floor.

Second way you can help: Please do not move or take any books off the shelves, as we are not ready to open! We’ll let you know when you can check items out.

Thank you!

—Jan Rau and Gail Barker, OOC church librarians—

Can you solve the mystery of the Missing Vase??

A small pottery vase, about 6 to 7 inches high with medium purple glaze color and a small bit of green around the lip. Last seen containing stargazer lilies on Sunday morning, July 29 on the communion table. The flowers were taken out of the vase and given away, but the vase itself has disappeared. If anyone has any idea what happened it the vase, please contact Ruth Killen, 314.962.8755 or Ron Lutjens—or just leave it on the windowsill in Ron’s office at church. Thanks so much for your help.

The clipart here is the general shape of the vase—wider at the bottom, with a small lip at the top.

2007 Illiana Pres Women in the Church Retreat

Women in the congregation are invited to participate in a retreat offered by the Illiana Women in the Church. Held at Lake Sallateeska, Pinckneyville, Illinois, located about 1 hour east of the Missouri/Illinois border on I-64. September 7-8. Theme: “Delighting in His Word”; Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Nielson. Brochures with more information, registration and details of cost are in the parlor. Deadline is August 29 for registration.

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

Pastor Ron E-mail: ronlutjens@yahoo.com

Pastor Mark E-mail: maltucker@gmail.com

Web Site: www.oldorchardchurch.org