Our Ministry at Countryside Lakes ALF
On the third Wednesday of each month, we celebrate residents’ birthdays at 12:00 noon in the dining facility. We average about 15 birthdays each month. Usually five or six members of New Hope join in and distribute birthday cards and roses to the celebrants. Participation is enthusiastic and New Hope enjoys a warm and loving relationship with the staff and residents. New Hope’s “official photographer,” Lou Herouart, snaps pictures which Countryside Lakes keeps in a scrapbook for the residents. During a recent month, three of the celebrants were over 100 years of age.
Bill Batchelor
Shoebox Christmas Gifts
It has become our tradition to fill shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse, a Franklin Graham ministry, each fall.
These Christmas gifts are distributed around the world. Boxes will be available next week at a cost of $1. Begin filling your box with such items as small toys, school supplies, a book, toothbrush or comb and brush. If you choose to wrap the gift, please wrap the box and lid separately. Also, a check for $7, payable to Samaritan’s Purse, should be included with the gift to cover the cost of handling. New Hope members filled 64 boxes for Christmas 2009.
Olivia McDougald
Halifax Urban Ministries
Thank you for giving as you are able. Monthly
donations to HUM may include packable school snacks and school supplies (pencils, paper, washable markers, etc.) as well as staple food items. The Wednesday night Kids Klub is joining us in bringing canned veggies and fruits as their mission effort.
Monday, September 6, 2010
LADIES BIBLE STUDY
Ladies Bible Study will meet on Sept. 7 at 7 PM. We will be studying Chapter 11, “Sharing Your Faith” in our book, Overcoming Fear. The next study book, Embracing Your Strengths, will be available at a cost of $6.59. All women of the congregation are invited to join us.
Jeanne Mathieson
LADIES LUNCH
Women of the congregation braved a stormy Tuesday last month to celebrate Lois Cox’ birthday at Aunt Catfish’s. Please note the time for future lunches has been changed to 11:45 AM. Watch the Sunday bulletin for the restaurant location for the September 28 get together.
Ladies Bible Study will meet on Sept. 7 at 7 PM. We will be studying Chapter 11, “Sharing Your Faith” in our book, Overcoming Fear. The next study book, Embracing Your Strengths, will be available at a cost of $6.59. All women of the congregation are invited to join us.
Jeanne Mathieson
LADIES LUNCH
Women of the congregation braved a stormy Tuesday last month to celebrate Lois Cox’ birthday at Aunt Catfish’s. Please note the time for future lunches has been changed to 11:45 AM. Watch the Sunday bulletin for the restaurant location for the September 28 get together.
MODERN GRANDMOTHER
My grandmother makes neither pies nor cakes,
Nor sits in a rocking chair.
She doesn’t piece quilts or prepare country meals
Or wear a blue tint on her hair.
She doesn’t look old, and she doesn’t stay cold
Like other grandmothers seem to do.
She’s not overweight, and, in fact she looks great,
And there’s nothing that she couldn’t do.
I hope and pray that when time brings the day
And I also will stand in her place,
That I too can be just as lovely as she
In spirit, in strength, and in grace.
Talana V. Jessie (Submitted by Lois Herouart)
TEACHERS SEMINAR
Adult Bible study teachers will meet on Saturday, September 18 at 10:00 AM to share what they have gleaned from their independent study of various books assigned during the summer. Elaine Hardy, S. S. Consultant, will serve as facilitator. In addition, teachers will discuss outreach and briefly review teaching methods and aids.
ARE YOU A MOVIE GOER?
The editor is in search of someone who enjoys movies for a new entertainment review column. Movies such as “The Blind Side,” “Get Low” and “Like Dandelion Dust” which deal with Christian themes such atonement and forgiveness or families living their Christian values would be good starters. The column could be extended to cover Christian artists and concerts also. If this piques your interest, please see Elaine Hardy.
My grandmother makes neither pies nor cakes,
Nor sits in a rocking chair.
She doesn’t piece quilts or prepare country meals
Or wear a blue tint on her hair.
She doesn’t look old, and she doesn’t stay cold
Like other grandmothers seem to do.
She’s not overweight, and, in fact she looks great,
And there’s nothing that she couldn’t do.
I hope and pray that when time brings the day
And I also will stand in her place,
That I too can be just as lovely as she
In spirit, in strength, and in grace.
Talana V. Jessie (Submitted by Lois Herouart)
TEACHERS SEMINAR
Adult Bible study teachers will meet on Saturday, September 18 at 10:00 AM to share what they have gleaned from their independent study of various books assigned during the summer. Elaine Hardy, S. S. Consultant, will serve as facilitator. In addition, teachers will discuss outreach and briefly review teaching methods and aids.
ARE YOU A MOVIE GOER?
The editor is in search of someone who enjoys movies for a new entertainment review column. Movies such as “The Blind Side,” “Get Low” and “Like Dandelion Dust” which deal with Christian themes such atonement and forgiveness or families living their Christian values would be good starters. The column could be extended to cover Christian artists and concerts also. If this piques your interest, please see Elaine Hardy.
MUSIC AND WORSHIP
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
“God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize His love, His compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures.”
Upon hearing a beloved Miserrere for the first time by the Papal Choir during a Holy Week, a young boy visiting the Vatican leans forward listening intently to a composition protected by Papal decree. By law, this work could not be performed elsewhere and the only manuscript of the music was closely guarded by the Vatican. Anyone attempting to copy it would be punished immediately by excommuni- cation. But following the performance, the young Mozart was able to write out from memory the entire composition he had just heard. The boy’s punishment? Instead of excommunication, he was given the coveted Cross of the Order of the Golden Spur by the Pope.
We are examining the spiritual lives of well known composers from a book written by Patrick Kavannaugh. These have included George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, and now Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Our study is limited but at least it is an overview in discovering the strong faith many composers possessed.
“Child prodigy” seems to bear a special affinity for Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. At age three he amused himself at the keyboard. At four his formal training began, and within a year he was improvising minuets. When he turned six his loving but ambitious father arranged the first of many concert tours for the delight of the courts and nobility of Europe. Mozart remained childlike throughout his short life. Carefree and confident, he loved games, dancing and masquerade balls.
For the most part, Mozart’s life reflects a moral reputation and a steadfast faith in God. Mozart’s parents were pious Catholics and their son developed a sincere, personal relationship to Christ. Mozart’s faith stayed even when he came under attack by corrupt churchmen. The most notorious example of this was the Archbishop of Salzburg who belittled Mozart, impaired his career, and one day had the musician physically tossed out of his cathedral.
Toward the end of his life, Mozart joined a Freemason lodge in Vienna. It should be noted that modern Masonic institutions have evolved considerably from those social gatherings of the eighteenth century which included such members as Samuel Wesley and George Washington. Albert Einstein, the musicologist suggested that Mozart was attracted to Masonry primarily for social reasons. His true faith was based on a private relationship between himself and Christ. At age 31, Mozart may already have had premonitions about the brevity of his own life. Just four years later, he died. His health, which had always been frail, failed him while he worked in poverty on his last great masterpiece, the Requiem. His biographer, Otto Jaun has summarized the consensus of history when he calls this work Mozart’s Requiem.
Dennis Bucher
1756-1791
“God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize His love, His compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures.”
Upon hearing a beloved Miserrere for the first time by the Papal Choir during a Holy Week, a young boy visiting the Vatican leans forward listening intently to a composition protected by Papal decree. By law, this work could not be performed elsewhere and the only manuscript of the music was closely guarded by the Vatican. Anyone attempting to copy it would be punished immediately by excommuni- cation. But following the performance, the young Mozart was able to write out from memory the entire composition he had just heard. The boy’s punishment? Instead of excommunication, he was given the coveted Cross of the Order of the Golden Spur by the Pope.
We are examining the spiritual lives of well known composers from a book written by Patrick Kavannaugh. These have included George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, and now Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Our study is limited but at least it is an overview in discovering the strong faith many composers possessed.
“Child prodigy” seems to bear a special affinity for Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. At age three he amused himself at the keyboard. At four his formal training began, and within a year he was improvising minuets. When he turned six his loving but ambitious father arranged the first of many concert tours for the delight of the courts and nobility of Europe. Mozart remained childlike throughout his short life. Carefree and confident, he loved games, dancing and masquerade balls.
For the most part, Mozart’s life reflects a moral reputation and a steadfast faith in God. Mozart’s parents were pious Catholics and their son developed a sincere, personal relationship to Christ. Mozart’s faith stayed even when he came under attack by corrupt churchmen. The most notorious example of this was the Archbishop of Salzburg who belittled Mozart, impaired his career, and one day had the musician physically tossed out of his cathedral.
Toward the end of his life, Mozart joined a Freemason lodge in Vienna. It should be noted that modern Masonic institutions have evolved considerably from those social gatherings of the eighteenth century which included such members as Samuel Wesley and George Washington. Albert Einstein, the musicologist suggested that Mozart was attracted to Masonry primarily for social reasons. His true faith was based on a private relationship between himself and Christ. At age 31, Mozart may already have had premonitions about the brevity of his own life. Just four years later, he died. His health, which had always been frail, failed him while he worked in poverty on his last great masterpiece, the Requiem. His biographer, Otto Jaun has summarized the consensus of history when he calls this work Mozart’s Requiem.
Dennis Bucher
YOUTH NEWS
Youth Retreat 2011
New Hope’s youth will be attending the Student Life Summer Youth Retreat again in July 2011 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. The Youth Support Team is gearing up to help them raise money for this retreat early in the process to ensure those who want to go can earn enough to cover their cost. The youth will have their first fundraiser starting the middle of September selling Wall Calendars with scenery and scripture verses. The price will be $ 6.00 with the youth making $3.00 per calendar sale. The calendars are very beautiful and of good quality.
Change in Wednesday Night Youth Meeting
Tim Fisher will be leading the youth, teaching them God’s word, on Wednesday evenings. David Gibbons and Andrew Rising will be co- youth leaders. I will be focusing more on the younger children Kid’s Klub / Awana’s Ministry because we are short of leaders for the younger children’s age group.
Discipleship Training for Youth
to be Offered
Youth who have made a confession of Christ in 2010 or who have recently been baptized are invited and encouraged to attend discipleship training to guide them in their relationship with Christ. This involves two separate dates of Sunday, September 12th and 19th from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Lunch will be provided.
Sunday Morning Bible Study
Led by Don & Paula Seebold
11:00 AM in the A-frame
Youth Game Night
Friday, September 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Cheryl Secunda
New Hope’s youth will be attending the Student Life Summer Youth Retreat again in July 2011 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. The Youth Support Team is gearing up to help them raise money for this retreat early in the process to ensure those who want to go can earn enough to cover their cost. The youth will have their first fundraiser starting the middle of September selling Wall Calendars with scenery and scripture verses. The price will be $ 6.00 with the youth making $3.00 per calendar sale. The calendars are very beautiful and of good quality.
Change in Wednesday Night Youth Meeting
Tim Fisher will be leading the youth, teaching them God’s word, on Wednesday evenings. David Gibbons and Andrew Rising will be co- youth leaders. I will be focusing more on the younger children Kid’s Klub / Awana’s Ministry because we are short of leaders for the younger children’s age group.
Discipleship Training for Youth
to be Offered
Youth who have made a confession of Christ in 2010 or who have recently been baptized are invited and encouraged to attend discipleship training to guide them in their relationship with Christ. This involves two separate dates of Sunday, September 12th and 19th from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Lunch will be provided.
Sunday Morning Bible Study
Led by Don & Paula Seebold
11:00 AM in the A-frame
Youth Game Night
Friday, September 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Cheryl Secunda
KIDS CONNECTION
GALACTIC BLAST
Musical Production
Kids Connection will be performing “Galactic Blast” a musical for parents and the congregation on Sunday, September 26 at 6:30 PM. Dinner will be served at 5:30 at the $ 4.00 price. There is no charge for the musical.
Discipleship Training for Younger Students
Younger students, ages 1st grade to the 6th grade, who have made a confession of Christ in 2010 or have recently been baptized are encouraged to attend discipleship training to guide them in their relationship with Christ. This involves two separate dates of Saturday September 11th and 18th from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. Lunch will be provided.
KIDS KLUB/AWANA MINISTRY
Wednesdays, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Registration for the 2010-2011 year will be on Wednesday evening, September 8th. Klub registration fee for New Sparkies (ages K-2nd grade) and Truth and Training (ages 3rd – 6th grade) is $25.00 per year, plus .50 cent weekly dues. If your child has not finished his/her book from last year and only needs a new uniform, arrangements will be made to purchase only the uniform first and then the next book level upon completion of the first book. Please see Cheryl Secunda (386-233-9003) if your child falls into this category or if you need more information.
We are short of leaders for this children’s ministry. If you would like an opportunity to be part of the Kid’s Klub we are looking for a game leader, Cubbies leader (3 & 4 year olds) and Listeners for memorization of Bible verses.
Theme Night
Wednesday, September 15th will be “Wacky T-Shirt Night.” Children will wear their favorite wacky t-shirt. Parents, please no bad symbols or wording. Also, on Theme Nights instead of the children bringing their 50 cent weekly dues they are asked to bring a canned good to donate to Halifax Urban Ministry. This will be a monthly mission project for Kids Klub. Cheryl Secunda
Musical Production
Kids Connection will be performing “Galactic Blast” a musical for parents and the congregation on Sunday, September 26 at 6:30 PM. Dinner will be served at 5:30 at the $ 4.00 price. There is no charge for the musical.
Discipleship Training for Younger Students
Younger students, ages 1st grade to the 6th grade, who have made a confession of Christ in 2010 or have recently been baptized are encouraged to attend discipleship training to guide them in their relationship with Christ. This involves two separate dates of Saturday September 11th and 18th from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. Lunch will be provided.
KIDS KLUB/AWANA MINISTRY
Wednesdays, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Registration for the 2010-2011 year will be on Wednesday evening, September 8th. Klub registration fee for New Sparkies (ages K-2nd grade) and Truth and Training (ages 3rd – 6th grade) is $25.00 per year, plus .50 cent weekly dues. If your child has not finished his/her book from last year and only needs a new uniform, arrangements will be made to purchase only the uniform first and then the next book level upon completion of the first book. Please see Cheryl Secunda (386-233-9003) if your child falls into this category or if you need more information.
We are short of leaders for this children’s ministry. If you would like an opportunity to be part of the Kid’s Klub we are looking for a game leader, Cubbies leader (3 & 4 year olds) and Listeners for memorization of Bible verses.
Theme Night
Wednesday, September 15th will be “Wacky T-Shirt Night.” Children will wear their favorite wacky t-shirt. Parents, please no bad symbols or wording. Also, on Theme Nights instead of the children bringing their 50 cent weekly dues they are asked to bring a canned good to donate to Halifax Urban Ministry. This will be a monthly mission project for Kids Klub. Cheryl Secunda
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