Announcements for March 21, 2010

TODAY- MARCH 21, 2010

WE SERVE

10:00 – 11:45 A.M. INFANT/TODDLER CARE (Preschool Wing) Barb & Perry Palumbo provide childcare today.

10:30 A.M. WORSHIP (Sanctuary) Sunday Fun Worship Activity Bags for children Pre- K – 5^th grade are on the table outside sanctuary. Take printed materials home.

GREETERS FOR SUNDAY – March 28: Joy Bissett, Rod & Martha Boydston.

FLOWERS IN THE SANCTUARY are given by Bill & June Gray in congratulations and thanks to Bill Leety for his 15 year ministry.

WE LEARN

9:15 A.M. NO ADULT FORUM - March 28 - Palm Sunday Intergenerational Event.

April 4 – No Adult Forum – Easter Sunday.

9:30 A.M. CHAPEL CLASS: March 28: Acceptance in Community – “And now, my daughter, do not be afraid, I will do for you all that you ask, for all the assembly of my people know that you are a worthy woman.” (Ruth 3:11)

10 A.M. FELLOWSHIP TIME (Narthex) Sign-up for yummies on the Narthex table.

WELCOME, VISITORS & GUESTS - Sign Friendship Pad in the pew pocket. Use a visitor nametag.

NO YOUTH FELLOWSHIP TONIGHT (Grades 6-12)

CONDOLENCES to family and friends of Betty Stillwell who died March 15 and also to family and friends of Eleanor Givens who died in Clayton, GA on March 9, 2010.

WE SERVE

COLUMBUS CANCER CLINIC offers periodic mammograms at Overbrook. Dates for 2010: March 23, April 7 & 27, and May 11. Cost is $85 billable to a patient’s insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. To make an appointment, call Columbus Cancer Clinic medical secretary at 614-263-5006, ext. 105. No walk-ins.

LISTENING ELDER FOR MARCH is Dave Dobos who will be in the Narthex today following worship to hear concerns you’d like Session to know or consider.

OPEN SHELTER LUNCHES – March 28 for the 5^th Monday are to be prepared by Finance & Christian Education Committees.

WE GATHER

LENT SERIES CONTINUES March 24. Join us for Joan Law’s Leek & Potato soup, and conversation. Soup & salad served 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. in the S. Parlor. From 7 to 7:15 evening prayer in the Parlor followed by Dr. Paul Kim’s Presentation and discussion on Isaiah 49, “Lament to Promise,” 7:15 to 8:15.

4^th NIGHT TAIZE WORSHIP – March 28, a relaxing and meditative Taize Service beginning at 6:15 p.m. in the Parlor. The Faith & Fiction Book Group will discuss Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer for Fiction, a collection of short stories entitled Olive Kitteridge.

NEW BEGINNINGS, a group for all singles, meets today in the South Parlor for potluck lunch following morning worship.

MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP CHANGE OF DATE!! Jon & Judy Siehl offer a marriage enrichment experience for members of Overbrook on Friday evening and Saturday morning, April 23-24 (instead of March 26 & 27). Couples will explore how their personality styles are similar or different by using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. We will look at and have fun with how personality preferences affect communication between couples and other aspects of our relationships.”

CONVERSATION TIME AFTER WORSHIP in the Chapel. Did something in today’s worship touch you, cause you to reflect? Did God speak in prayer, music, offering? We’ll start discussion with these questions:

People say, “I don’t remember the sermon, but I remember how I felt.” What do you remember feeling upon hearing On the Passion of Christ?
David H. Williams published On the Passion of Christ in 1955 during a golden age of choral music in American Protestant churches. Just 3 years earlier, The Revised Standard Version, the first major translation of the Bible into English since the 1611 King James, was published. Williams used the older translation, perhaps because Elizabethan English often bears a steady cadence, or because at the time The Revised Standard received mixed reviews. How did 17^th century English fall on your ear as one of the languages of worship?
Which parts of the cantata or Scriptures open you to the events of Holy Week?

WE GIVE

ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING – “Feed My Sheep.” Since 1949, Presbyterians have joined millions of other Christians contributing to One Great Hour of Sharing in order to share God’s love with people experiencing need. Gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and resettlement, and community development helping people to find safe refuge; to start new lives; and to work together to strengthen their families and communities. Recognizing that the hope we have in Christ is lived out in our hope for one another, we respond with gifts that help sisters and brothers around the world find hope for a brighter future. We make this offering on both March 28 (Palm Sunday) and April 4 (Easter Sunday). Special envelopes are in the pew racks.

WE LEARN

SUNDAY, MARCH 28 Sunday School children meet with church grown-ups from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. in Room 101 for Intergeneration Activities, learning by making—woven Easter baskets, eggs, cards for Overbrookers long distance or homebound. Because church promises to help baptized children grow up in faith, we need old hands. What on earth do lilies, lamb, ham, eggs, Easter bread and new clothes have to do with Jesus getting up from death? We’ll learn!