Announcement 4-23
Announcements:
DEVOTIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Tongues of Fire: 40 Devotional Insights for Today’s Church from the Book of Acts The book of Acts was a thrilling time for the early church. Now you can capture the excitement and passion of the first-century Christians in this devotional Bible study designed to take you through the book of Acts. In Tongues of Fire: 40 Devotional Insights for Today’s Church from the Book of Acts, you’ll connect the biblical narrative with today’s reality in 40 easy-to-read reflections about Christian life and church.
Discover how the Spirit moved through early believers’ lives, how the Gospel spread, and what we can learn as the body of Christ today. Through forty daily devotionals, you’ll gain insights that can help guide your faith and expand your spiritual practices as you uncover how this book influences Jesus’s followers two millennia later.
Tongues of Fire challenges us to seek answers on what today’s church can learn from Jesus’s first followers and how they moved under the Holy Spirit’s power. This easy-to-read Bible study will give you forty days of devotional insights that can help you grow in your faith and discover how to celebrate the role of the Holy Spirit then and now. It will encourage you toward deeper community and an effective personal ministry. Perfect for women, men, or small groups.
HYMNS AND BEER We’ve also scheduled our next Hymns and Beer for Monday, April 24th at 7pm at Zony Mash! The brewery is child and pet-friendly, and there will be a food truck (Boils by Brad) serving up crawfish. In celebration of Earth Day, all the hymns will be nature-themed and half of the musicians’ tips will be donated to Glassroots, a New Orleans non-profit which turns glass bottles into sand for use in coastal restoration projects. See you there!
SMALL CHURCH OPTIONS: Are you concerned about church attendance, finances and community engagement? Do you want to get involved with the solutions? Do you want to know what options are available and have productive conversations with other churches experiencing the same thing? Then join us on April 26th for the Small Church Options presentation. We will enjoy delicious pastalaya and an informative presentation about what the church can do in this day and age. Presented by the Presbytery’s Committee on Ministry. Please use the RSVP insert so we know you are coming and we can have enough food.
GIVENOLA: Givenola day is May 2nd! Our New Orleans Area New Worshiping Communities: Okra Abbey, Be Well, Come Together, and Labyrinth Café are all on the list of recipients. Check it out on May 2nd at
OUR NEXT CLOTHING DRIVE: Are you taking advantage of this season to do some spring closet cleaning but don’t know where to donate your clean gently used clothes? Fear not!! Our next clothing drive is starting right now. We are collecting clothing now through May 14th to be given out at the Program of Hope in June. We will have a sorting party on May 24th from 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM. See Sue or Sharon if you are interested in joining the party.
ALL CHURCH AND COMMUNITY PICNIC: Please plan to Join us on May 21st for our next youth service followed by an all church and community Picnic to kick off the Summer. This is an all hands on deck activity so please see the insert in your Bulletin to sign up to help. We welcome all volunteers and have lots of options for before, during, and after the event. The Church will provide the main dish, hamburgers and hotdogs, please bring a dessert or picnic side to share, such as salad, fruit, a variety pack of chips, or whatever you like to eat at a picnic. Most importantly don’t forget to invite your friends and neighbors. This event is for everyone and we can’t want to fellowship together.
ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING: A Big thank you to everyone who felt called to donate to One Great Hour of Sharing this year $1630.21 has been collected as of 4/10!
EVENTS AND MEETINGS THIS WEEK:
4/23 – 11:45 AM Choir
4/24 – 6:30 PM – Hymns and Beer
4/26 – 6:30 PM – Small Church Options
4/27 – 10:00 AM – Game Day
4/30 – 9:30 AM – 5th Sunday Fun Sunday School
10:15 AM – Choir
10:30 AM – Worship Service
11:45 AM – Choir
announcements 4-16-23
Announcements:
DEVOTIONAL SPOTLIGHT: One Year of Dinner Table Devotions & Discussion Starters: 365 Opportunities to Grow Closer to God as a Family A daily serving of spiritual nourishment for your whole family. Between sports practice, music lessons, and homework, we can feel like our days pass by without ever really talking with each other about the most important matters of life and faith. This family devotional serves up a year’s worth of daily truths from God’s Word to chew on and apply to real life. Going beyond Bible stories, your whole family will enjoy discussing biblical words and themes at a level kids from 5 to 95 will understand and relate to.
SPECIAL MUSIC OFFERING: This morning we are taking up a Special Music Offering. This offering is used to supplement the music program at John Calvin Presbyterian, and has been used for things like: guest musicians, music rights, music staff development, and special arrangements. If you would like to give to this offering, please use the pink envelope, or use ‘Music Offering’ in the memo line on Venmo.
POTLUCK LUNCHEON AFTER THE CANTATA!: Join us after the service for food, Fellowship and a community in the Fellowship hall.
HYMNS AND BEER We’ve also scheduled our next Hymns and Beer for Monday, April 24th at 7pm at Zony Mash! The brewery is child and pet-friendly, and there will be a food truck (Boils by Brad) serving up crawfish. In celebration of Earth Day, all the hymns will be nature-themed and half of the musicians’ tips will be donated to Glassroots, a New Orleans non-profit which turns glass bottles into sand for use in coastal restoration projects. See you there!
OUR NEXT CLOTHING DRIVE: We are looking for prom dresses and party dresses to take to the folks we have been working with in Lake Charles. Short, long, and all sizes. We will be collecting in April. Look for a clothing rack in the Narthex for this collection.
WOR DAY: Don’t forget to sign up for workday next saturday. If we do not have enough interest we may postpone so please let me know if you plan on coming. Just place the insert in the offering tray.
EVENTS AND MEETINGS THIS WEEK:
4/16 – 11:45 AM -Potluck luncheon
4/17 – 6:30 PM – Session Meeting
4/18 – 10:00 AM – Grace Circle
4/19 – 11:00 AM – Staff Meeting
2:30 PM – EJICA meeting
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements 3-26-23
Announcements:
Devotional Spotlight: This week’s devotional is: Come, Holy Spirit : A Daily Discipleship Travel Log for Easter to Pentecost. Learning to Pray, “Come, Holy Spirit!”
When was the last time you prayed for the Holy Spirit? The person and work of the Spirit sometimes seem mysterious, if not confusing. We pray to the Father and the Son while the Spirit often remains behind the scenes, a silent partner in God’s Work in the world. But the Scriptures envision so much more.
Over the course of 40 days, this Discipleship Travel Log explores the role of the Spirit as a sculptor who shapes us to look more like Jesus. The daily Scripture readings, devotions, and prayers help you lean into the work of the Spirit in your everyday life. Custom-made Faith Experiments will help you: try something new, find the next step, and get into the groove. The Spirit is already working in your life. The Father gladly gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask. Today is a good day to pray, “Come, Holy Spirit! Help me take a small next step.”
Bigger isn’t always better: Have you been wondering why the Bulletin is getting smaller? As we continually assess our call to be good stewards of both the earth and the financial resources that God has given us, we are working on reducing our footprint. Using smaller paper, and printing less of the service is both less expensive and better for the environment. While sometimes we need to use creative spacing, nearly everything that was on the larger paper fits on this smaller version and with a font that is only .5 smaller then we were using. Also everything that is in the paper bulletin is also on the slides or available online, so you may find that you don’t even need the paper version. We will have a QR code available to scan that will take you to the online version, on our website, or you can go completely hands free and just use the slides.We will also have copies of the announcement page for those who opt out of a bulletin but still want the prayer list and announcements to take home. We will of course keep providing a printed version for those who prefer it, but the less we print the better for the earth and our budget.
Love Offering For Olga: Olga, our long-term cleaning help, is retiring this week. Her husband, who has been battling mouth cancer for the last several months, started radiation treatments last week, and then will undergo chemotherapy. She needs to retire to be able to care for him. We would like to take up a love offering for Olga in recognition of her time with us and to support her in her time of need. Please put “Love Offering” in the memo line.
Good Friday Prayer Vigil: We cannot experience the glory of Easter if we do not first experience the pain of Maundy Thursday, the loss of Good Friday and the sadness of Holy Saturday. Setting aside specific time in church to wait and pray with Jesus, to reflect on the events that led up to his death and resurrection, to speak to God and seek his guidance and listen to his heart, is essential to preparing our hearts for the Joy of Easter. To that end we would like to host a Prayer Vigil on Good Friday. This will be a time to blanket our church, our community, our parish, our state, our nation and the world in continual prayer. Please take a moment to consider what time you would like to come in and pray for yourself and our community. Our hope is to have an extended vigil with at least two people in the sanctuary throughout Good Friday. Use the sign up sheet in the Bulletin to let us know when you would like to come in and pray.
Birthdays: Beverly Ross 3/28, Tracy Wayne 4/1,
Events and Meetings this Week:
3/26 – 11:45 AM – Choir
5:00 PM – Egg Stuffing & Pizza Party
3/22 -11:00 AM – Staff Meeting
6:00 PM – Cantata Handbells
7:00 PM – Cantata Choir Rehearsal
4/1 – 9:00 AM – Noon – Easter Egg Hunt
3/26 – 9:30 AM – Sunday School
10:15 AM – Choir Rehearsal
10:30 AM- Worship Service
11:45 AM – Choir
