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"When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son...to redeem. So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, though God." Gal. 4:4 & 7.
Easter is the masterful completion of a Divine strategy to love, reconcile, and redeem a world of hostility, enslavement, fear, and loneliness. Using just one strand from within the Israelite people, God wove up from the root of Jesse a child through whom world saving words would save us all. At the cross of Jesus, God's guiding plan for overcoming sin, death, and hatred was completed. In Christ's crucifixion "It is finished." In the raising of the Son on Easter morning, the quiet mysterious & hidden work of God, ongoing through many ages, was unveiled.
What a beautiful work of foresight and perfection. As we celebrate Easter, take confidence in the fact that your life has been woven into God's love. May we be used to show a world, so "deeply in need of new way beyond the darkness" (MLK) that death has died and love lives.
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 Confirmation Class
Dates for your calendar:
- Thursday, May 18, 7:00-8:30PM - meet with Session
- Sunday, May 21 - Confirmation Sunday
- 9:15 - meet for breakfast and pictures
- 11 - Confirmation in Worship
- 12 - Confirmation Brunch
RSVP for Brunch (how many people?) on SignUp Genius
HERE.
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Meet the Team - Amy Olsen
(Youth Ministry Committee)
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My name is Amy Olsen and I am a senior at Hopewell Valley Central High School. I am very involved in my school's Future Business Leaders of America Club where I compete nationally with a business project each year.
I love being outdoors and hiking. My favorite animal is a quokka and I have been to 23 out of the 59 national parks.
Next year I'll be off to Bryant University's Honors College in Smithfield, Rhode Island to major in supply chain management and double minor in global communications and statistics.
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Calendar Updates
Next Month or So:
- NO Fellowship on: 4/16 (Easter Sunday), 4/30 (Communiversity)
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4/23: Last Regular Choir Rehearsals, Last Regular Fellowship/Dinner Schedule
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4/30:
Communiversity (1-6PM) - come help raise money for ASP
We will build a Gaga Pit. Enter mayhem!
For Future Planning:
- 5/7: Off-Site Hike, 4-7pm
In lieu of regular fellowship, we will meet at the Sourland Mountain Preserve Parking Lot, 421 E Mountain Rd, Hillsborough (click link for Google Map), at 4pm, hike to the best boulders in New Jersey and picnic in a magical elven kingdom. Get picked up at 7PM.
Please:
- RSVP HERE if you want free Hoagie Haven.
- Bring a water bottle, good shoes & clothes, and a way to get home.
- 5/14: Senior Send Off @6PM
Cantorei will rehearse briefly at 5:30PM, no other choir or fellowship events scheduled
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Senior Send Off - Sunday, May 14
Senior Parents - there's still time to get into the 2017 ultimate slide show! Email Lauren Yeh ASAP!
- Number of family and friends attending.
- For the slideshow: 10-15 photos of your child (birth to graduation)
- digital format preferred
- attached, not embedded, if sending by email
Lauren (x106, lauren.yeh@nassauchurch.org)
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All-Church
Memorial Day Retreat
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Summer Trips 2017
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ASP - Registration is closed. If you missed it, talk to Mark.
Forms & payment due April 23.
Sunday, May 7th, 12:15PM - Lunch & Mandatory ASP Trip Planning Meeting - register HERE.
NorthBay - Registration is closed. If you missed it, talk to Mark. Forms & payment due April 23.
Camino - Registration is closed, airplane tickets are purchased, and hostels are being reserved. Get your shoes and wear them.
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Final Payment & Forms due on Sunday, April 23
We will host a forms and payment day between services (10:15-11AM) in the 2nd Floor Office Suite - above the kitchen. Linda Gilmore will be available to notarize forms (ASP & Camino). Please do NOT sign forms that need to be notarized until you are sitting in front of her. Also, please bring government issued photo i.d.
Additional copies of the required forms can be found on the website by clicking the "Where will you go?" button, above.
If you (or your child/college student) cannot make this date/time, please contact Lauren Yeh (
lauren.yeh@nassauchurch.org, x106) to make other arrangements for forms and payment.
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Parent Help Needed!
Thank you to all the parents for so diligently serving and being present each week. We love having you there! Sign Up now for our last dinner of the year: Senior Send Off on May 14 - we could use one or two more pairs of hands that night.
AND one person to help plan and pick up the CAKE!
(contact Lauren Yeh directly if you can take this on.)
Click on the Sign Up Genius image below to add your name to the list.
If you have questions about how this works or what is expected of a parent helper, please contact:
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