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April 2015
had seen him, touched him, talked with him, eaten with him,
and had been taught the Scriptures by Him after He arose . It
is because they were so convinced, they went out across the
Roman Empire and preached it and sealed their witness with
their blood.
Yet, a thoroughly-modern-Millie Bible scholar boasted unapologetically,
If you say that Jesus rose from the
dead biologically, you would have to
presuppose that a decaying corpse
which is already cold and without blood
in its braincould be made alive again.
I think that is nonsense.
Thats funny (not funny ha-ha, but funny, Whoa!) because thats exactly what the apostles concluded when they
got the initial report of Jesus resurrection. When the
women came from the empty tomb and announced that Jesus had risen, these words appeared to them as NONSENSE, and they would not believe them (Luke 24:11).
Surprise! The apostles were 1st century skeptics, which is
not the way many moderns and post-moderns think of them.
So many sophisticated 21st century skeptics think those 1st
century morons, like the apostles, expected granny to rise
from the dead every Tuesday afternoon for tea. If they had
a brain cell, these 21st century elitists suspect, it would
have died of loneliness. They werent smart enough to be a
spellchecker at an M & M factory.
But that isnt fair . . . and it isnt true! Those early faith-less
followers of Jesus didnt line up outside the tomb waiting
for Jesus to walk out alive. Their response was Scroogelike: Bah, humbug! They needed proof. Hard-core proof!
Which is what they got! To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by MANY CONVINCING
proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and
speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of
God (Acts 1:3).
Undoubtedly that's why Will Durant in his history of the
world says, "However you may explain it, those early apostles were convinced themselves that the resurrection was a
fact."
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Focus on Finance
Feb. Income
$ 45,627
Budget
$ 40,925
Parish Associate
Feb. Expense
$ 33,555
Budget
$ 34,548
Yr to date Income
$ 83,082
Budget
$ 85,550
Budget
$ 77,626
Debby DeBernardi
Director Christian Formation
Marta Ludwig
Administrative Coordinator
Debbie Fisher
Director of Music Ministry
Dorothy Parris
Pianist
Caryl Bates
Organist
Lynn Medley
Custodian
CHURCH TREASURER
Linda Lull
CHURCH SESSION
Class of 2015
John Brockelman
Helen Quigley
Terri Schmidt
Chris Young
Class of 2016
Sally Atchinson
Bob Lull
John Skewes
Arlene Stewart
Class of 2017
Mary Alice Bivens
Bonnie Hollabaugh
Aleyne Larsen-Craig
Helen Roesch
Ron Waldo
BOARD OF DEACONS
Moderator: Nancy Wulfmeier
Class of 2015
Ben Fast
Jack Morris
Ruby Pearson
Bev Watters
Class of 2016
Suzie McCready
Dorothy Rudack
Donna Sims
Nancy Wulfmeier
Class of 2017
Michele Hasley
Mary Lee Lehrich
Cynthia Linton
Linda Warren
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Respectfully,
Linda Lull, Treasurer
On the Inside:
From Ken Brown, Pastoral Associate . . . .. . . . .. .. .. .
Focus on Finance .. .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .
Holy Week Schedule .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . ..
Update on Community Straw Poll .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . . .
Mission Ministry . . . . . .. .. .. .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . .
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Presbyterian Women .. .. .. . .. . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . ..
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April, 2015
UPDATE ON
COMMUNITY
STRAW POLL
We have all invested much time in this process
over the past six months. I thank you for your
patience. The Straw Poll was more than numbers
and a simple yes or no. The total was two thirds
in favor of continuing the discussion. We also
received many thoughtful comments which we
need to prayerfully consider. Your Session is doing that and will have a report by the next In
Touch.
Thank you and please pray for our church.
John Brockelman
Clerk of Session
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November 2012
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Mission Ministry
Helping others requires an investment in time and energy. We start by
praying for them and asking the Lord
how we can help. He may have us lend
emotional support, provide spiritual
guidance, offer assistance in a physical
or financial way, or find others who
can. Standing beside these people will
encourage them, sometimes to do great
things. Look at the all the people God
has called upon in the Bible who were
Terri Schmidt, Elder
mere servants or poor people who had
little but the clothes on their backs. He called many to step
up, and lead his people out of trouble
or to protect them. That is why we, in
the Mission Ministry, try so hard to
help those less fortunate, who knows
what great things these people might
do if they just had a chance. So many
people have been asked by God to go
forth and minister to those who are in
need; that includes the word as well as
physical help with food and medical
supplies and physical labor. Please
come and join us in our journey to
help others. Here are a few of the
things we are doing.
Blankets Plus
I apologize for last months
newsletter and not having the total of
money collected for this project. This
was a slight over-sight and now (drum
roll, please) the total collected was
$3,158.00. That is almost $700.00
more than last years $2,498.00. We
think this is the most collected by our
Church to date. YEAH!!!
Food
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Mission Ministry
Please feel free to join us in our Mission work. We
are striving to bring new and different projects to the Church.
If you know of a project or would like to have us look into
one, please contact Terri Schmidt or Bonnie Hollabaugh, our
Mission Elders. We welcome all who would like to attend
our meetings. They are the 2nd Monday of the month at
4:00pm in the conference room.
Now as I close, I want to leave you with this. P is
for Praise, thanking God for what he has already accomplished through Jesus Christ. R is for Repent, confessing
your sins and shortcomings, both personally and for our Nation. A is for Asking God to reveal the truth and to turn
our hearts back to him and to bring healing. Y is for
Yielding to the Lord and recognizing that he has heard our
prayers and will answer according to his will. He will provide guidance and direction to those who ask.
Thank you to all of you who so generously give of
your time, talents and money.
Terri Schmidt
Bonnie Hollabaugh
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December 2011
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In Touch
Presbyterian Women
Presbyterian Women Coordinating Team for 2014-2015
Moderator: Maurene Gerson
Mission Coordinator: Mary Alice Bivens
Vice-Moderator : Linda Capon
Librarian: Barbara Oakeson
Secretary: Bonnie Matty
Membership/Yearbook Coordinator: Linda Warren
Treasurer: Maria Berry
Bible Study Coordinator: Evelyn Hrunek
Publicity: Sally Atchinson
Search Committee: Ilene Berg
Morning Circle Leader: Suzie McCready Evening Circle Leader: Judy Irvin
Afternoon Circle Leader: Martha Baxter
Historian: Office Angels
Hooked on Books Leader: Jan Hoff
Out n About Leader: Nancy Wulfmeier
APRIL DATES
April 2
April 7
April 9
April 11
April 15
April 20
9:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
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April, 2015
HOOKED ON BOOKS
Hooked on Books will meet on Wednesday,
April 15th. at 9:30 AM in the home of Susan
Titus.
Leanne Reynolds will review The Dovekeepers, a novel based on the Jewish resistance during the Roman siege of Masada.
Books you no longer want may be brought for
the Book Exchange.
For further information contact Jan Hoff (480836-7551).
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PW Education Grant
Provided by: P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education
Maximum Amount: $3000.00
REQUIREMENTS:
Female who is a citizen of the United States.
Will be studying and living in the US or Canada for the entire course of study.
Has had a minimum of one span, at least 24 consecutive months, in length in her adult life when not enrolled in any type of higher education programs.
Is not requesting a grant for use in a doctoral degree program.
Is accepted and/or enrolled in a certification or degree program that will lead to employment or job advancement in her chosen field.
Will be within 24 months of completing the final planned educational program at the beginning of the
term for which the grant is requested.
Grant can be used only for educational expenses such as tuition, books and supplies, childcare, etc.
Sally Atchinson
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Christian Formation
Christian Formation Opportunities:
Sundays
10:15 AM Sabbath Day Bible Study
10:15 AM Elementary Life with God
11:15 AM Blessed Beginnings Nursery
11:15 AM Preschool Life with God
Wednesdays
Pastors Brown Bag Bible Study
12:00 PM Wednesdays
The Way on Wednesdays
5:00 PM Elementary Big God Story
5:45 PM Community Meal
6:30 PM The Way (Bible Study)
Elementary KidCommunities
Elementary kids are introduced
to how to live life with God by
identifying the 6 key ways Jesus lived His life. This will offer
a balanced spirituality for the
kids who will be leading the
church! Since spiritual beliefs
are almost irrevocably formed
by age 12-13the church will
reap what is sown in childhood.
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Nonfiction
Orange is the New Black, My Year in a Womans Prison,
Piper Kerman. With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family,
Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who
delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. She is convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous federal
correctional facility. The privileged Smith College alumna is
now inmate #11187-424. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times
enraging, her story offers a rare look into the lives of women in
prisonwhy it is we lock so many away and what happens to
them when theyre there.
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Anna Quindlen. In this memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a womans life, from childhood
memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events
of her life to illuminate ours. She considers and celebrates everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith,
loss, to all the stuff in our closets, and more. Quindlen says for
us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves.
Blue Covenant, the Global Water Crisis, Maude Barlow. The
author addresses an environmental crisis that is one of the gravest
threats to our survival. She examines how water companies are
reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary
people from around the world have banded together to reclaim
the publics right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement.
The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe. During her
treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son, Will,
spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the
time, they talked about the books they were reading. An informal
book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading,
Will and Mary Anne are reminded how books can be comforting,
astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel
about and interact with the world around us.
Quiet, the Power of Introverts in a World That Cant Stop
Talking, Susan Cain. At least one-third of the people we know
are introverts. It is to introvertsRosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss,
Steve Wozniakthat we owe many of the great argues that we
dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose
in doing so. She cited many works on this topic which makes the
reading slow, but worthwhile.
The Boys in the Boat, Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest
for Gold at the 1936 Olympic, Daniel James Brown. This
book celebrates the 1936 U.S. mens Olympic eight-oar rowing
team who won the gold medal in Nazi Germany. Laborers and
sons of laborers from the American West, the boys took on and
defeated prestigious rowing teams. Finally, in an extraordinary
race in Berlin they stunned the officials of Nazi state as they
rowed for gold in front of Adolf Hitler. It also celebrates the life
of one of the rowers who at an early age was abandoned and left
to fend for himself.
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Womens Ensemble
Pearwood Recorders
Atrium in Sanctuary
Phyliss Kern
480-837-5563
480-837-6001
480-688-8392
480-292-9021
Susan Phillips
Dawn Lau
Ben Fast
480-837-1225
480-837-2607
480-837-1119
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Library Footnotes
Review of 2025 Trilogy
2025 The Guardian
2025 City of Gold
2025 The Remnant
by S.D. Burke (Sylvia)
-Sylvia Burke
Egg-stra facts
Although Easter eggs were once part of pagan spring festivals, theyre become Christian symbols of new life. A cracked-open shell also
represents Jesus empty tomb on Easter morning.
The early Christians of Mesopotamia began staining eggs red in honor of Jesus blood shed on the cross. Red eggs remain part of Greek
Orthodox celebrations today.
For Lent, some families used to give up eggs and dairy, so they prepared a pancake feast on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.
They solved the egg surplus by hard-boiling them in various broths, which led to colored eggs.
In medieval times, churches held egg-throwing festivals. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg toward the choir boys, who tossed it back and
forth. When the clock struck 12, whoever was holding the egg got to keep it.
In some European countries, children go from house to house to collect Easter eggs.
Each year, the PAAS Dye Co. sells more than 10-million egg coloring kits, which consumers use to decorate 180 million eggs.
The tallest chocolate Easter egg ever produced weighed 16,000 pounds more than an elephant!
-The Newsletter Newsletter
by Communication Resources, Inc
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April, 2015
Music Ministry
"He has risen, indeed!"
We
have musically played and sung
our way into Easter! We have
been traveling through our
Lenten journey through March,
with our Vesper Services and
reflective music offered by the
musicians in our Celebration
Ringers and Vesper Choir. They
are accompanied by Dorraine
Aggen, who also added lovely
Preludes and Postludes each
Debbie Fisher, Director of Music
week prompting the selfexamining attitude for each Vesper service throughout our
Lenten season. Then our lovely Gifts of Women Services,
and all the ladies who participated to make both of our
services a reflection of our love, praise and commitment to
God, through our Savior, Christ the Lord! Then, there was
the fabulous presentation by our Celebration Singers singing the Cantata, "Come Touch the Robe" on Palm Sunday!
Wonderful job, Singers! Just the week before our Celebration Singers represented our church by performing some
very challenging music in the FHCCA Choral fest! These
folks do what they do with true Grace, and I am blessed to
work with them.
Our second service hosted two musicians through the
month of March, which was truly fun! Jimmy Fortune and
Jeff Dayton were both a part of our service, one at the beginning of the month, one at the end. What a great experience,. And "Hilltop" really had a great time when Jimmy
Fortune jumped up there and played all our music with
TABLECLOTHSHelp please!
The tablecloths in the Fellowship Center
are slowly disappearing. We are finding it
difficult to find enough for the events we
have. Maybe some of them were stained
and had to be thrown away but if you have
taken some home to wash (by the way
thank you!) and have just forgotten you have them, please remember
to bring them back.
From now on, groups that use the tablecloths will be given a sign-out
sheet. Those who take tablecloths home should sign it and when returned, cross your name off the list. That way if you forget, we can
call you and tickle your memory. The list is to be kept on the side
counter in the kitchen on a clipboard. Thank you so much for your help
in this matter.
Helen Roesch, Fellowship Center Manager
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Hospitalized? Call the church!
If you are sick, hospitalized or home recovering from illness, we want you to call the church and let us know! In a congregation like ours where people leave in droves for extended
summer months, it is easy for the staff, elders and deacons to
assume, when we dont see someone, that they are simply
vacationing away. The truth is that some of you are sick and
we are not aware of it.
You can help us by simply letting one of the staff know of your
situation. We have an excellent support system in place due to
the diligent efforts of our deacons. Help us serve you by communicating your situation.
Part II: While we are basking in the sun here in Arizona,
others are still putting up with cold and snow...look what
we are missing.
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Matthew 25:21
Complete victory
At the cross, evil is conquered as
evil...because God turns it back upon itself. He makes
the supreme crime, the murder of the only righteous
person, the very operation that abolishes sin. The
(maneuver) is utterly unprecedented. No more complete victory could be imagined.
-Henri Blocher, Evil and the Cross
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