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Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

803-256-1654 / www.eastminsterpres.org

Volume 37 Number 19

May 19, 2013

Dear Eastminster Family, Have you ever noticed what a good job most colleges and universities do asking for money? And it works! Development staffs cultivate relationships and tell the story of those institutions, then invite people to invest to impact future students during those four years. As important as the work of colleges and universities might be, I think the work of the church of Jesus Christ is more important. And the church positively impacts lives literally from birth to death. Well, we dont have a development office. Instead, I write today to invite and even to encourage you to join Nancy and me in giving over and above your regular giving so that we can update our worship spaces, even as we will also give ten percent beyond our own facility needs. If each of us gives as God has given to us, these needs will be met, and we will share the joy of giving beyond ourselves. This Sunday, May 19, marks both Pentecost Sunday and our Toward 2020 Commitment Sunday. Pentecost is the commemoration of Gods Spirit being poured out upon Jesus early followers. Often referred to as the birthday of the church, Pentecost reminds us that the Holy Spirit continues to be at work today, drawing us to God, nudging us, encouraging us, filling us, and empowering us to be Christs body in the world. How fitting then that this Sunday also marks the day we are asked to make this three-year pledge. I am excited to share that we are well on the way to being able to make these enhancements possible, as early pledgers have committed $2,000,000 thus far. I want to thank those of you who have given generously, even as I encourage others to experience the joy of giving that God has given to you. Although each persons situation might be different, my prayer is that every one of us will join in this legacy work by giving something. Some of you are in a position to give substantial amounts from accumulated assets, and I hope you will. Others of you are on fixed salaries/incomes and can give less. The good news is that ten gifts of $3,000 each ($1,000 a year for three years) add up to the same amount as one gift of $30,000 ($10,000 a year for three years). There is no better investment of resources than in the work of Jesus Christ. I encourage you to pledge generously this Sunday. And I encourage you not because Im interested in raising money, but because Im called to help you develop as disciples of our Living Lord. An opportunity is before us. Lets grow! See you Sunday, Brad

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your old men will dream

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ACTS 2:17

Dr. Bradley D. Smith Pastor Dr. Mark E. Durrett Associate Pastor Rev. Lynn A. Grandsire Associate Pastor Rev. Jeffrey S. Smith Associate Pastor Dr. James I. St. John Parish Associate Rev. Jonathan S. Wagner Associate Pastor Mr. Croskeys Royall Director of Childrens Ministries Mrs. Fredna Lee Director of Music Ministries Mr. William L. Collins, Jr. Business Administrator
Our Missionaries: Rev. & Mrs. Donald Marsden-Virginia/Russia Steven & Natalie Hall - Alaska Sarah Snapp - Bolivia Rev. John McCall - Taiwan Steve & Kathy Amar - Virginia/Muslims in the US George & Anne Harper - Philippines

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9:00 & 11:15 a.m. - Sanctuary 11:15 a.m. Jubilee Dr. Bradley D. Smith Gods Surpassing Grace 2 Corinthians 9:10-15

SUnDaY, maY 19

DAILY CALENDAR
SUNDAY, maY 19 COmmItmEnt SUnDaY
8:00 Celebration Choir Rehearsal 9:00 Worship & Childrens Church 10:00 Sunday School S.H.I.N.E. Jubilee Band Practice Eastminster First Step 10:05 Chancel Choir Rehearsal 11:15 Worship & Childrens Church New Members Join Jubilee Worship 2:00 Girl Scout Badge Ceremony 5:00 Circle #6 5th Grade Girls Bible Study 5:30 Sr. High Mission Trip Mtg.

Summer Sunday School - Begins May 26

Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. in Adult Reception Hall

MaY 26 The Task of Theology Dr. Mark Durrett JUnE 2 The Meaning of Revelation Dr. Mark Durrett JUnE 9 The Authority of Scripture Rev. Lynn Grandsire JUnE 16 The Triune God Dr. Mark Durrett Rev. Lynn Grandsire JUnE 23 The Good Creation JUnE 30 Gods Providence & the Mystery of Evil Dr. Mark Durrett JULY 7 Humanity in the Image of God Rev. Lynn Grandsire JULY 14 The Person & Work of Jesus Christ Rev. Jeff Smith The Holy Spirit & the Christian Life Dr. Brad Smith JULY 21 JULY 28 The Body of Christ: the Church Dr. Mark Durrett AUgUst 4 Sacraments & Ministry Dr. Mark Durrett AUgUst 11 Christian Hope Dr. Mark Durrett HAVE YOU SIGNED UP????? Calling all rising 4K - 6 graders! Join us June 17-June 20 from 9:00 a.m. - noon to retrace the journey of the Apostle Paul through Asia Minor and Europe. You can register with a paper registration or on our website www.eastminsterpres.org, bUt pLEasE nOtE that wE nEED YOUr rEgIstratIOn paYmEnt bY thE mOrnIng Of JUnE 6 tO fInaLIZE YOUr rEgIstratIOn. For $17.00 your child is registered and will receive a T-Shirt. Registration deadline iS JUne 5!!! After this date, you are not guaranteed a T-shirt or a slot in VBS.

MOnDaY, maY 20

7:00 Mens Prayer Breakfast 9:00 Count Team Fifty Plus Exercise Class Program Staff Calendar Mtg. 10:00 Senior Fitness 2:00 Pastors Mtg. 2:30 Program Staff Mtg. 5:30 Yoga 6:00 Rehearsals for Scotland

TUESDAY, maY 21

8:30 EDS Graduation Rehearsal 9:00 Drop-In Nursery 9:30 Staff Meeting Adult Painting Class 10:00 Senior Fitness 11:45 Tuesday Lunch 12:00 Kerygma Leaders Mtg. Finance Committee Mtg. 12:30 Visitation 1:30 AED Training 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 5:00 Tai Chi Girls Volleyball 5:30 Zumba AED Training CLC Ministry 6:00 Handbell Rehearsal MSB Team 6:30 Congregational Care 7:00 Zumba Fitness Scottish Country Dance

Vacation Bible School June 17 - 20, 2013!!

The 2013 graduating 5th Grade Class Creed

WEDNESDAY, maY 22
8:30 9:00 9:30 12:00 6:15

Our 5th graders finished their Sunday School year by working the last few weeks on a class creed. With the support of the Sunday School teachers, Croskeys Royall, and Pastor Brad Smith, they looked at some of the historic creeds of the church and what it meant to believe something. After contributing ideas and coming up with 3 outstanding class creeds, the results were combined into the creed that was read on Sunday, May 12 during the worship servicves to the congretaion. We believe In God, who can be fierce and powerful, and loving and forgiving, and to whom we can pray to help us with what is right and what is wrong. We believe In God the Father, who created the heavens and the earth; who created and loves us enough to send his Only Son to take away our sins. We believe In God the Son, who healed people and whom we can talk to in prayer to ask forgiveness. We believe he was crucified for our sins and conquered death to return to life. We believe In God the Holy Spirit, who we look for among us and around us, and who we trust is always with us. We believe that we should share our faith with others and live with faith and trust in God.

EDS Graduation Rehearsal Fifty Plus Exercise Class Drop In Nursery Prayer Shawl Ministry EDS Chapel Communications Committee Mtg. Crossroads Career

THURSDAY, maY 23

8:30 EDS Graduation Rehearsal 9:00 Drop-In Nursery 10:00 Senior Fitness 12:00 Staff Microsoft Class 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 5:00 Yoga 5:30 Zumba 6:00 Evangelism Committee 7:00 Zumba Fitness 7:30 Jubilee Band Practice

FRIDAY, maY 24
8:30 9:00 10:30 11:00 9:00

Endowment Committee Fifty Plus Exercise Class EDS Graduation Support Staff Mfg. CHAMPS Program Orientation

SATURDAY, maY 25

Everyone is invited to a picnic on the grounds on Sunday, June 23, following the worship service. This is a casual dress Sunday, come prepared to picnic! We are asking everyone attending to bring a covered dish, large enough for your family and enough to share. We look forward to our summer fellowship!

Church Picnic - June 23

God will one day hold us accountable for all the things He created us for, but we refused to do.

CARE & CONCERN

EPC Prayer List Part of what it means to be a Family of Faith is to be in prayer for one another. Contact the church office at 256-1654 to be included on this Prayer List. EPC Special Concerns Walker Pearce, Boots Fuller, Remer Waguestack, Dr. Mary Tobin, those serving in our military, Stephen Ministers & their care receivers and all those in need of Gods special care. Hospitalized this week Molly Wood Deaths Congregational love and sympathy are extended to:

Camp Itchalot, is for children served by the Columbia Area Mental Health Center. Many of these children have social, emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric problems which are too difficult to manage in a typical summer camp environment. During the summer, their counselors provide recreational activities in a camp atmosphere which teach skills improving behavior, peer conflict resolution and self-esteem. Please use the special envelope in your offering packet or write Camp Itchalot on the memo line. The church is searching for a dependable, friendly person to greet visitors and answer the phone at the main reception desk from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays. You will receive training and lots of support! If you can give just an hour a week, please call Tricia at 2561654! The Family Shelter has a critical need for size 3 & 4 diapers. Between now and May 30, bring diapers to boxes in Thompson Hall, the CLC and the churchs main reception area. The mission of the Family Shelter is to provide emergency shelter, food, resources, and hope to homeless families with children in the Midlands area. Many of you may have noticed the church has placed a number of signs along Longleaf Dr. and Trenholm Rd. restricting parking between 8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m. from Monday - Friday. We felt this was necessary, not to inconvenience anyone, but for the safety of the children attending the day school. Mornings, lunch times and after work are very busy times with drop off and pickup of children, as well as activity all day. We are sorry if this has caused you any inconvenience, and are sure you will agree, inconvenience for the safety of child is well worth a few extra steps. Past, Present and Future of SC State Hospital Property will be the program topic for the Tuesday, May 28, meeting of Savvy Seniors. Speaker will be Dr. Woodrow (Woody) Harris, former director of the SC State Hospital at the SC Department of Mental Health. He will give a broad overview of the Bull Street propertys fabled history and comment on plans for its future use -- a topic very much in todays news. Dr. Harris worked at the State Hospital campus for more than 20 years, taking on roles of archivist and unofficial historian of the SC Department of Mental Health. Lunch will be served at noon in Thompson Hall. For reservations, call Mary Baldauf at 256-1654 no later than noon on Friday, May 24. ... Did you know that Eastminster gave over $600,000.00 to ministries beyond the church in 2012, including $3,540.05 to Oliver Gospel Mission? When you support Gods work through Eastminter, you are supporting our Lords work in the community as well. John Hudson

May 19, Special Offering Camp Itchalot

Do you have an hour a week to volunteer?

Diaper Drive benefits the Family Shelter

Teague & Bucky McQueen, on the death of her mother, Sue Andrews, May 11, 2013. Grandchildren; Guthrie & Avery McQueen.
On weekends a minister is on call. If you have a crisis which one of the ministers needs to know about, phone 256-1654 and leave a message. A minister will return your call.

New Parking Signs

State Hospital Property Is Savvy Senior Topic

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Update for May 19, 2013

SUMMER WORsHIP SCHEDULE

Serving on SundaY May 19

OFFICERS PRAYER: Elder Madison Dye DEACONS: Myles Burns, Lisa Dunbar Elder Jimmy Long (Jubilee) Elder Kim Leighton (Jubilee) UshErs: Don Helms, Milton Moore P.E.A.C.E. SErvIcE Deacon Betsy McDonald, Coke Mann Elder Hampton Oliver, Lauri Moore GREETERS: (9:00) Jane Williams, Buzz Smythe Alec & Sarah Dillard Guy & Octavia Lewis (11:15) Carol & Joe Anderson Craig Freeman Vernon & Eugenia DeHart Chris Twitty, Coke Mann INFANT ROOM - CLC 119 (9:00) Joanna & Michael Dover (11:15) Jeff & Aubrey Cartwright TODDLER ROOM - CLC 117 (9:00) Tim & Brooke Stone (11:15) Greg & Jessica Sharp 2-K ROOM - CLC 115 (9:00) Warren & Shannon Darby (11:15) James & Mary Dameron Milliken CHILDRENS CHURCH 103 - 3K (9:00) Jon & Jennifer Robinson (11:15) Betsy Roof CHILDRENS CHURCH 105 - 4K (9:00) Staff (11:15) Tommy & Missy Boggs CHILDRENS CHURCH 107 - 5K (9:00) Chad & Shannon Hopkins (11:15) Craig & Tricia Howard

Sanctuary & Jubilee Worship

9:00 A.M. - SUNDAY SCHOOL
(8:45 A. M. Gathering Fellowship)
Eastminsters pastors will rotate teaching a combined Summer Sunday School Class from 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. in the Adult Reception Hall from May 26 - August 11. It will be a Theology 101 class using the book Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology by Daniel L. Migliore as the basis for the lessons. The UPDATE will become monthly for the summer after the May 28 issue. An issue will be published monthly until weekly resumes on August 18. Deadline dates are as always, ten days before the publication date. We will remain in touch weekly over the summer with E-news.

MAY 26 - AUGUsT 11 10:00 A.M.

Newsletter Monthly During the Summer

For our loved ones . . .

In memory of Gertie Lee Crowley, given by John & Sharmin Hill, Dr. W. Payton & Kristy Patterson, Ed & Joyce Hamilton, Jonathan & Leigh Nason, Jane W. Trinkley, Dr. & Mrs. William Plyler, Susan Amick, M. Craig Garner, Mze & Dick Wilkins, Barbara & John McArthur, Floyd & Nancy Woods, Wayne & Jacquie Corley, Carol & John Benfield, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen. In memory of Ross Holcombe, given by Joe & Carol Anderson, Bartow & Betty Gilbert, John Cruser, Terry Rose, Jennifer Rowe, Cindy Marshall, Sue Donelon, Maureen & Jerry Watson, Jane Williams, Dr. & Mrs. Edward D. Hopkins, Dr. Robert Blease, Tom & Linda Bryant, . In memory of Cheryl Glazebrook, given by Abbot Carnes. In memory of Van McAlister, given by Mitzie Trotter. In honor of Alec Chaplin, given by Joni & Drew Richardson. In honor of Brad Smith, given by Joni & Drew Richardson.