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May 23, 2007
The SPIRIT of Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
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Christianity and Other Religions
Starting Tuesday, June 5th at 7pm in the sanctuary, we will explore the relationship between Christianity and other religions. We will begin by reflecting on the reality of religious diversity and what we have to learn by studying other religions. We’ll then consider several options for how Christians might think about the possibility of “salvation” in other religions. Then we will turn to the religions themselves, with quick introductions to Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity (an “outsider” perspective), and others.
If you’ve ever wondered how the reality of religious pluralism might impact Christian faith, or if you’ve ever wanted to learn just a bit about the major religions of the world, this class is for you. Richard will lead the conversation, all starting on June 5th at 7 pm in the sanctuary. Childcare will be provided upon request. Please contact the church office.
Taize on Sunday!
On Sunday, June 24th, the scripture reading is from 1 Kings 19.9-15a, the story of Elijah on Mount Horeb meeting God—not in the fire, not in the wind, not in the earthquake, but in a gentle whisper, a sound of silence. To explore this story in a new way, our 9:30 worship service will be a service in the style of Taize. There will be short songs that we repeat until they become our prayers, there will be extended silence, and there will be prayer. Please join us for this different exploration of Elijah’s story.
Woodstock Memorial Day Parade - Monday, May 28 at 10:30 am for
The Dog Days of Summer Project for the Marines
Walt and Linda Rosquist have generously offered their red pickup truck to serve as RCLPC's "float" for The Dog Days of Summer Project for the Marines in the Woodstock Memorial Day Parade. Please join us to ride in the back of the truck and throw candy or to walk along the parade route and accept donations of sunblock SPF 30, saline eye drops, saline nose drops, anti-itch cream or powder. The Parade Committee has informed us that we should be at our designated line-up spot on Tryon Street between Calhoun and Jackson Streets by 10:30 AM. If you plan to attend the ceremony at 10 AM on the Square, you could join us as our float goes around the Square. Contact us if you have any questions. Thanks, Mary Moltmann and Ed Bennett
Are you looking for a new way to get involved?
Are you both energetic and patient, idealistic and realistic, caring and challenging? Then you might be just the person we’re looking for! The Senior High Youth Group is looking for new adult leaders. We need people with energy and ideas, people who want to have fun and also who want to learn and grow, people who can share their faith journeys and walk with us on ours, and people who want to know more about this “human battleship” game…if that might be you, please call or email Teri right away! Thanks!
Older Americans Month
The month of May has been declared Older Americans Month. In celebration, Faith in Action is providing a luncheon. We would like to invite your seniors to join us that day.
Older Americans Luncheon
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Noon – 2 PM
Hosted by the Evangelical Free Church of Crystal Lake
575 E Crystal Lake Avenue
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
Luncheon will include salads, sandwiches, beverage, and dessert. Life stories from Corrie Ten Boom will be presented by Karla Chandler. Please join us. Seating is limited, reservations are required. Please call Sharon at the Faith in Action office: 815.455.5363
Vacation Bible School - July 9 - 13, 9 am - Noon
“Lift Off: Soaring to New Heights with God!”
Make plans to join RCLPC for Vacation Bible School 2007.
July 9-13, 2007 9AM-Noon
Ages 3 (toilet trained) through 5th grade
Cost: $15.00 per child (up to 2 children),
$7.50 per child 3rd child or more
To register: Look for registration forms in the Connecting Link, or go to "What We Do & When" and then click on the link for the "registration form". Registrations are due June 22nd. Open to RCLPC members, friends, and visitors! Tell a friend! Questions? Want to volunteer? Contact Cheryl Lilly.
Calling All Gardeners
Do you love to plant flowers and produce and see your wares grow into plentiful mature plants? How about joining the SHARE THE BOUNTY program this year and sharing with others in the congregation who perhaps don’t have your green thumb???!!!
There has been a small nucleus of members who supplied all of us with a bountiful harvest in past years but who are cutting back on their gardens for various reasons. It is a wonderful program that reaps benefits for all of us as well as providing mission dollars to help our outreach agencies extend the loving hand of the Lord to those in need.
So, how about making this the best RCLPC growing year ever by sharing your bounty. Plant an extra tomato plant or extra row of ?????. Let’s provide a healthy diet for ourselves and others as well as money for the helping agencies to use to spread our Christian love even further.
Please indicate your interest in joining this once a year opportunity and then start dividing those bulbs. I know I always have some baby Red Maples to share and sometimes an Evergreen or two that is native to McHenry County. We are also hoping to re-start Panera Bread if at all possible. A Sign Up can be found in the Connecting Link to see how many people are willing to join the 2007 SHARE THE BOUNTY. Joy Martin and the Mission Outreach Ministry.
Opportunities to Study and Create
* Lectionary Study group (LSG--Get High on the Bible!).
The LSG meets every Tuesday at noon.
We invite everyone to bring a brownbag lunch and an open mind. We study the lectionary texts (the scripture readings) two months ahead of when they will be used in worship. Not only is this an opportunity for scripture study and spiritual growth, but it also helps to shape the theme for our worship.
* Worship Planning Group (WPG).
The WPG meets every Thursday at 6:30 pm.
This group takes the theme for a given Sunday and helps develop creative ways to worship for each of our services. If you have an interest in helping to plan our worship, please come on Thursday at 6:30 pm. Open to everyone!
* RCLPC Worship Blog.
Have an idea for worship but can’t make the WPG meeting? The RCLPC Worship Blog is updated every week with scripture and themes for upcoming worship services. You are invited to read the text and the theme and then share whatever comments, suggestions, or ideas you have. We will do our best to incorporate these into the planning process. The Worship Blog is at rclpcworship.blogspot.com. It is also linked on our main website from the worship page (www.rclpc.org).
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New Worship Schedule Begins Sunday, June 3rd
8:30 am (alternative worship)
9:30 am & 11:00 am
Join in the Pentecost Celebration - May 27
Sunday, May 27th is Pentecost, but what is Pentecost? It is the seventh Sunday after Easter and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples. As we prepare to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit, we are asking each of you to join in the celebration and wear red to church on that Sunday. Together in the traditional color of Pentecost, red, we will celebrate the hope that is evoked by the knowledge that God, through the Holy Spirit, is at work among God’s people.
Church Picnic - June 3rd
Join us down in our meadow (at the end of the parking lot) after the 11:00 service for a good, old-fashioned church picnic! We’ll have a bouncy-moonwalk for the kids, we’ll have traditional picnic games—fun for kids and adults alike—games like 3-legged races, tug-of-war, egg races, relays, bean-bag toss, water balloons, a piñata and more! (there may even be limbo…) Of course, there will be prizes. We’ll also have all kinds of food—pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs, veggie burgers, lemonade, and iced tea. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share, and a chair or blanket if you want to take a seat. See you there!
Sunday School Teacher Appreciation - June 10
Many thanks to all of you who helped make this year a success in the Sunday School. We want to recognize you for all you do to nurture children and youth in the life of faith. On Sunday, June 10, you’ll be recognized and honored, and there will be a light luncheon for you after the 11:00 service. Please come and let us offer our gratitude!
Summer Sunday School - Begins June 17
There will be no children’s Sunday School on May 27, June 3, or June 10. Beginning June 17, we will have Sunday School for K-5 each Sunday during the summer, so please join us at 9:30!
Teachers needed
If you would be willing to teach one Sunday of summer Sunday school, please talk to Wendy Sanders ASAP! Thanks!
Women’s Choir on Father’s Day, June 17th
Attention all women who like to sing--young and mature, singles, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, friends, etc.
We will form a Women’s choir for worship on Father’s Day, June 17th.
Practices are Sunday, June 10th, at 10:30 am, between 9:30 and 11:00 worship, and Wednesday, June 13th, at 7:00 p.m.
Questions? Contact Sherri Dees or call the church office, 815-459-1132. There will also be information at the music link on our church’s website, for you to keep informed. I look forward to some fun music making and fellowship time. Sherri Dees
Share Your Music in Worship this Summer
Summer is around the corner. If you would like to share your music in worship this summer, please sign up on the sheets posted on the bulletin board outside the music room. Please contact Sherri Dees at sherri@rclpc.org with questions or suggestions.
Youth Car Wash - June 2nd
Come to 1776 restaurant in Crystal Lake and get your car washed by some hard-working Senior High Youth on Saturday, June 2, from 9-12! All proceeds go toward our mission trip to New Orleans.
Save-the-Date - July 14
Meet-n-Eat! A new adult fellowship opportunity. Last time the weather was bad, so let’s try again! Saturday July 14, 7pm, gather for food and fellowship at Genovese’s in downtown Crystal Lake. There will be a sign-up sheet in the Connecting Link.
Blood Drive has been Rescheduled - June 24
Please contact Ken Zoerner with questions or to make an appointment.
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Donut Day – McHenry County, Illinois
The Salvation Army Donut Day
(1st Friday and Saturday in June)
Thank The Salvation Army For Your Morning Donut! The next time you dunk your favorite donut, thank The Salvation Army. While The Army may not have invented the first donut - that distinction is lost in history --it can certainly take credit for the popularity of donuts today. June 1 and 2, 2007 marks the 69th anniversary of Salvation Army 'Donut Day" in metropolitan Chicago. The tag day was established in 1938 to honor the work of Salvation Army who prepared donuts for thousands of soldiers in World War I. Their donuts and compassion are responsible, in large part, for the affection and esteem held by the American public for The Salvation Army. They also stimulated a taste in Americans for the "sinkers" which didn't exist before WWI.
As in the past, Salvation Army volunteers will again provide donors with those familiar “tag-day” paper donuts. Hoping to raise $10,000 in the two-day street solicitation, funds raised will help support Salvation Army programs and services in McHenry County including our new Emergency Food Pantry. The paper donuts may be redeemed at the local “Country Donuts” and “Dunkin Donuts” facilities for a special offer.
The Beginning...In August, 1917, fighting raged near Montiers, France, as soldiers huddled in camp - hungry, weary and drenched by 36 consecutive days of rain. In a tent near the front lines, Salvation Army lassies made donuts by filling a refuge pail with oil. made dough with left over flour and other ingredients on hand, and used a wine bottle as a rolling pin. With a baking powder tin for a cutter end a camphor-ice suck tube for making the holes, donuts were fried - seven at a time - in soldier's steel helmets on an 18-inch stove. (Later, a seven-pound shell fitted with a one-pound shell was used to cut out the donut holes.)Rain fell continuously, the water-soaked tent finally collapsed.
However, the 100 donuts made that first day were an immediate success. Soon, as many as 500 soldiers stood in muck outside the resurrected tent waiting for the sweet taste of donuts and, before long, 9,000 donuts were being made around the dock. The tent became the first 24-hour donut shop. Word spread and - although the basic recipe for making the donuts greatly varied from unit to unit - before long, Salvation Army lassies were making donuts wherever the war was being fought Donuts were taken to the front lines, and it was reported that some pilots even dropped notes asking for donuts for their troops.
Donuts Invade Home Front
Following the war, the returning 'doughboys' brought back the taste of donuts with them - the donuts that The Salvation Army lassies had fried and served for them in France. Although unknown in the states, donuts had become wartime favorites. In France, Salvation Army donut supplies were unable to keep pace with the constant demand. Once back home, returning soldiers keep asking for donuts which, initially, were virtually unknown in the states. One by one, bakeries responded and again, the donut was an instant success - only this time in America. However, the donut's identity with The Salvation Army stuck. Donuts appeared everywhere The Army did. Ever since that August day in France 81 years ago, millions of servings of "hot coffee and...' have been provided free by The Salvation Army to fireman, rescue workers, disaster victims - anyone in need. Salvation Army lassies made donuts the popular wartime food, and the donut came to symbolize the good work of The Salvation Army.
The Shadow Wolves
An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders, according to The Australian newspaper.
The Shadow Wolves unit was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Lakota Sioux and Apache. It is being sent to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pass on their ancestral sign-reading skills to local border units. In recent years the members have mainly tracked smugglers along the U.S. Border with Mexico but with the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan and the U. S. Military’s failure to hunt down Osama bin Laden, has prompted the Pentagon to requisition the Native American trackers.
The unit has earned international respect for its tracking skills in the Arizona desert. It was founded in the early 1970’s to curb the flow of marijuana into the U.S. from Mexico and has since tracked people-smugglers across hundreds of square kilometers of the Tohono O’odham Reservation southwest of Tucson. Used is the traditional Indian method of finding and following minute clues from a barren landscape. A new kind of Code Talker!!! The Native American Connection
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