If anyone is interested in hosting a coffee hour during the summer, please call the church office and let us know what Sunday you would like to cover.

Worship Schedule

SUMMER SCHEDULE
One Service at 9:30 am
   

Sunday, July 5, 2009
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, died around 202
This important early church leader tried very hard to hold to the faith handed down by the apostles.
An opponent of the movement known as gnosticism, Irenaeus was one of the first to speak of the church as catholic, or linked together.


SUMMER SCHEDULE

9:30 am –Worship
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Serving this week
 
Assisting Minister: Anne Schwartz
Acolyte: Nadine Jacobson
Reader: 9:30 am – Scott Jacobson
Ushers: 9:30 am – Gene Eberenz, Bev Horstmann,
                                Mary Ann Mazzola, Richard Schwartz
Altar Guild (July 5): Laureen Jacobson
Nursery: The Wade Family
Coffee Hour:
Counters: Millie and Gene Eberenz
Transportation: Helen Wolfmeyer
   

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Weekly Calendar

Monday, July 6, 2009 –
Jan Hus, martyr, died 1415
Hus was a Bohemian (present-day Czech Republic) priest who spoke against abuses in the church, and was seen by Martin Luther as his predecessor in the reforming movement. He was found guilty of heresy by a council of the church, and burned at the stake.
         
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
             10:00 am – Quilting
                7:00 pm – SNAP meets in PH

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 –
 
Thursday, July 9, 2009 –
           
Friday, July 10, 2009 –
 
 Saturday, July 11, 2009 –
Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, died around 540
Benedict is known as the father of the Western monastic movement. Educated in Rome, he went to live as a hermit, and eventually gathered a community of monks around him. He wrote a rule for living in monasteries that is used by Benedictines and adapted by others.
  
 

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

When Amos told what he saw when God held up the plumb line of justice next to Israel—that the poor were being trampled—he was a threat to the power of priests and king. John the Baptist also spoke truth to power, and Herod had him beheaded. In Herod's fear that Jesus is John returned from the dead, we may hear hope for the oppressed: that all the prophets killed through the ages are alive in Jesus. We are called to witness to justice in company with them.
 Nathan Söderblom, Bishop of Uppsala, died 1931

A winner of the Nobel Prize for peace for his efforts to unite peoples after the First World War, Söderblom also called attention to the revival of early church worship principles, and helped to lay the groundwork for the World Council of Churches.

 
SUMMER SCHEDULE

9:30 am –WORSHIP
Sending Rite for those leaving on the Servant Trip to Slidell
and the
National Youth Assembly in New Orleans, LA
July 18 - 26

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Prayer Concerns                     
 

Please remember the following families in your prayers…
Pat and Ralph Anderson
Christian and Karin Antoni and their daughters Friederike and Charlotte
Joe and Meriette Arwady and their children Tom and Abbey
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Social Ministry Needs   
 

 
Interfaith Food Pantry Offering
for July
Baby Food and Baby Cereals (all types)
 
 
 
 
Faith Soup Kitchen
Hams and salads for the Faith Soup Kitchen are due on Tuesday, July 14th to be delivered on Wednesday, July 15th.
A sign up sheet is on the bulletin board in the narthex. Please place your contributions in the refrigerator in the Parish Hall kitchen

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Coming Up…  

 
THE GARDEN OF HOPE

The Interchurch Garden of Hope is growing as a witness to the glory of the creation and the power of what can be done when people of faith work together.  All of the produce gathered will be used at the Interfaith Food Pantry.
 Growing this garden is a community commitment and so we are each taking responsibility for tending it.
 Here at Grace we will be responsible for the garden during the weeks of August 23rd - September 5th
If you would like to help during these weeks, please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex or call the church office 973-543-7595 or email Pastor Carol at capabbey2@verizon.net <mailto:capabbey2@verizon.net>
 
 
Volunteers
Volunteers during the two weeks would be responsible for watering, weeding, checking for pests, and harvesting (if and when all these activities are necessary/appropriate).
 Two or three people would probably be enough to cover the two week period, but more than that is obviously welcome.  
 Volunteers are welcome to come to the Convent any time between 7am and 9pm any day to take care of the necessary tasks.  (There may be one or two days that would not be available – will let the necessary groups know when those dates are.) If children attend, they need to be very well supervised.
 There will be a log book at the garden. We ask all volunteers to sign in when they visit and record their activity.
 
Master Gardeners
Contact information for the Master Gardener's is listed below so that they can be contacted if questions involving gardening arise.  
 
Bill Moran
973-219-8989 THEBEAV503@aol.com
Pat Rossettie
975-543-2674 prossettie@aol.com
Lori Feehan
973-525-4611 Lorifeehan@yahoo.com
Sue Underwood
908-876-9185  suewholovesbirds@hotmail.com

Master Gardener Workshops

Over the course of the summer and early fall, the Master Gardeners will be putting on four different workshops, having to do with various aspects of gardening and harvesting.  We would like to solicit responses as to what days and times would be most suitable for these workshops, so as to maximize attendance.
 
1. Fertilizing/watering/soil amending/pest/disease management in June
 2.  Weeding/grooming/more pest disease management in July
(trellises/staking for tomatoes/propping up vines etc/pest management)
3. Harvesting in late July/early August
(when and how to manage for best yields)
4. Composting and turning the garden over for next season in late Sept.
(towards fall when the first of the crops are spent and need to be recycled)
 
 
Thank you in advance for your hard work to make this garden a success!  Again, please contact Sister Donna Martha with any questions you might have or with information regarding changing the volunteer schedule or if there are logistical problems/concerns/questions.
 
Your Garden of Hope Coordinators
 
Contact info:
Sr. Donna Martha
srdmartha@gmail.com
973-543-4641 ext. 8
214-244-7953 (cell)
 
 

                        PUT THE DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR NOW  

           Feast and Fellowship – July 18, 2009 6:00 pm at the Maynards
                              It’s always a good time!
             Don’t forget to sign up before you leave town on vacation.

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Scripture Lessons

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – Year B – 2009

 FIRST READING – Ezekiel 2:1-5   Ezekiel 2:1–5  
In 597 B.C., the priest Ezekiel was removed into exile in Babylon. While there, he received a vision of God appearing majestically on a chariot throne. Today's reading recounts God's commissioning of Ezekiel during this vision. The prophet is to speak God's word to a people unwilling to hear.

He said to me: O mortal, stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you. 2And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. 3He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day. 4The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD." 5Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
 

  SECOND READING – 2 Corinthians 12: 2-10   2 Corinthians 12:2–10  
Christians do not boast of their own accomplishments. Rather, Christian boasting focuses attention on how the power of Christ is present in our lives, especially in times of weakness and vulnerability. No matter what our circumstances in life, Christ’s grace is sufficient for us.

2I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows. 3And I know that such a person — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows — 4was caught up into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat. 5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. 6But if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me, 7even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. 8Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, 9but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
 

  GOSPEL – Mark 6:1-13   Mark 6:1–13  
At home and abroad, Jesus and his disciples encounter resistance as they seek to proclaim God's word and relieve affliction.

He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! 3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. 4Then Jesus said to them, "Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house." 5And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. 6And he was amazed at their unbelief.
 
Then he went about among the villages teaching. 7He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; 9but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 10He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. 11If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." 12So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. 13They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

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