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News & Updates from Your CPC Family
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Summer Worship Service
ASP Sunday
7th Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m.
July 28, 2019
Ministers: Rev. Lori Pistor, Rev. Mitzi Lesher-Thomas
Director of Music: Ed Yasick
Guitar: Jack Henry
Scripture Reading: Romans 12:14-18; Isaiah 32:16-18;
Ecclesiastes 7:14; Philippians 4:4-9
2019 ASP Team Members
Brett Alberse, Kathryn Anderson, Alan Bancroft,
Jack Bowdish, Susan Bowdish, Mike and Laurie Callis,
John Campbell, Rachel Campbell, Valerie Campbell,
Dar Donkin, Matt Donkin, Grayson Farless, Tim Farless,
Sally Goettel, Henry Gibbs, Sarah Govert, CJ Hofmeister,
Craig Hofmeister, Jesse Hofmeister, Kayla Korkes, Katleen Lawyer, Meli Markham, Haley Pierce, Hannah Pierce,
Bailey Rathbone, Kim Riffle, Jimmy Tallett
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FairTrade Table Open This Week
Please visit the FairTrade table outside Fellowship Hall this Sunday, July 28. We will be open before and after the 10:00 a.m. worship service.
- We will have coffee (ground, whole-bean; regular, decaffeinated), tea, chocolate bars, and cocoa.
- We accept cash, checks, and debit or credit cards.
Thank you so much for your continuing support of CPC's ministry in Guatemala with Fair Trade Project donations now totaling $5,000!
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Wood Chopping and Hauling Help Needed
this Saturday, July 27,
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Chain saws and muscles needed!
Help with the removal
of the big fallen tree out back.
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Thank you from Marilyn Davidson
7-17-19
Dear CPC Family,
Sunday's tribute must have been the surprise of my life. this note is to thank those involved. I was touched by all the attention to details that made my experience so wonderful. I will treasure the prayer shawl and framed certificate that I received.
To be honored for doing what gives me joy is really special. CPC is a loving congregation that I feel privileged to work with over the years. Every moment brought me contentment. Thank you.
With love,
Marilyn
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Mid-Year Financial Update
We report with great joy and thanksgiving the following gifts received during the second quarter of 2019:
- Memorial gifts in memory of Bill Adkins, Ellen Kissiah, Bob Cleveland, Ann Kurz and David Wiseman's parents.
- Gift to Stephen Ministry in memory of Nancy Bolick (Tom Bolick's mother).
- Gift of $452 from the Presbyterian Women Shrove Tuesday pancake supper to our Guatemala missions.
- Gift of $60 to the youth space renovation.
- One Great Hour of Sharing special offering of $2,068.
- Gifts to Music & Worship in memory of Si Garber.
- Gifts to the Parish Nurse ministry, and additional gifts in memory of George Burke and Bob Cleveland.
- Gift of $30 to the Minister's Discretionary fund.
- Loose plate gift in honor of the Czika family.
- Guatemala Wall O'Missions gifts of $4,300.
- ASP stock gifts of $4,720.
As of June 30 and the end of the second quarter, we have received 55% of our planned giving. On average over the last five years, we have received 51% of our planned giving by the end of June. This wonderful financial position is a reflection of generous faithful giving, 24 pledges paid in full, and a move by many members to regular automated giving (online and auto drafts). We have also received several stock gifts and RMDs (required minimum distributions from IRA accounts).
We are truly grateful for God's generous people. All of your gifts are truly appreciated.
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A Message from the CPC Guatemala Team
On Tuesday, July 30, Medora Hix, Sherry Bradsher, Sherry's son, Tyler, and Barbara Carew leave on a one-week mission trip to Guatemala. It's a great group. Medora, Sherry and Barbara work very closely together as Esperanza board members and well as CPC members. Tyler is fluent in Spanish, especially after studying abroad in Spain for the spring semester. This trip is a little different than most of our other trips. This is a small group going, and we have several community and church meetings already scheduled. Our plans include:
- Meeting with the women of the church to discuss women's health issues. We have a Days For Girls health curriculum to discuss, and conversations about possible development/entrepreneurial projects. Any project they will do will involve sewing, so the first step is for them to learn how to sew. We're coming prepared with patterns, a supply of sewing notions, and will be purchasing 2 sewing machines in Xela to present to them.
- Hopefully, celebrate the opening of the computer lab at the Mt. Sinai church. CPC has funded the addition of the second story of the church, and this will now house the computer lab which will be open to all church members and scholarship students. The lab will include 6 workstations, 2 printers, desks and a high speed internet connection. We have a local IT consultant helping us, and he will manage the day to day issues in the lab. This is happening as we speak.
- Bringing the beginnings of a library for the church. We have several books, will be purchasing a bookcase, and setting up some very basic check out procedures. We hope to add a Scholastic Books beginner level reading program with 12 levels of fiction and non-fiction books on our October trip.
- Meeting with the Nimasac elementary school principals to discuss literacy and curriculum issues and provide school supplies. We'll be shopping for, and delivering the supplies purchased with the Alternative Gift Market proceeds and a Memorials & Endowments Grant.
- Meeting with the local water committee to discuss future possibilities and logistics for a well and clean water system. Duane Hix has done an enormous amount of legwork on this project in conjunction with the Cary and Apex Rotary Clubs and Living Waters of the World.
- Meeting with the scholarship committee to review the school year, students, and present your letters and pictures.
- Of course, there will be worship on Sunday, lots of great fellowship opportunities with the Nimasac people and fun time with the children.
We are all very excited about this trip, and hope to accomplish a lot. All of this is possible due to the wonderful generosity of this congregation! Thank you.
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Christian Faith Formation News
It starts this week! Not on Sunday Sunday School (NOSS) begins Friday, July 26, and lasts for 3 weeks!
NOSS is for younger children and parents, ages 2 to 8. Bible stories, crafts, playground time and snacks/coffee are part of this experience. The program lasts from 10:00 a.m. to noon. For more information or to register, contact Meredith Bullis, meredithmarie2001@yahoo.com.
Adult I Bible Study will continue throughout the summer;
they welcome summer attendees in the Parlor each Sunday morning at 8:45 a.m. Pop-up Bible Study has great attendance on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the Parlor. You are invited to join these.
Re-Confirmation for Adults
is taught by some of our current confirmation teachers: Emmie Brown, Medora Hix, and Robert Rackley, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 106. Childcare will be provided downstairs. The last class is this coming Sunday,
July 28: The Trinity: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer/Comforter.
The Nursery will be held in the Fellowship Hall Annex through
August 18
for convenience, due to work in the preschool wing.
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Help Support Our Neighborhood
Summer Program Families!
We are beginning to collect school supplies.
If you would like to donate some (or all) of the items listed below, that will certainly be appreciated. (Of course cash donations are always accepted too!)
The kinds of things that the children need include: composition books, notebooks, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, folders, 5-subject notebooks, backpacks, calculators, and locks.
Thank you!
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Neighborhood Summer Program (formerly FFF)
(The former Food, Friends, and Fun program, providing meals,
teaching, recreation,
and community building, primarily to our Hispanic neighbors,
is now
the Summer Program -
the name our neighbors requested.)
CPC hosts on Wednesdays until August 14,
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Neighborhood Summer Program
needs group guides, kitchen help, and other assistance
in a number of areas next week!
Each week there are leader spots open.
Thank you
to all those who have generously responded.
Why do we need so many helpers?
This year the Summer Program has exploded!
Last week we had 120 participants, not including volunteers and staff.
(For example, there are 22 youth
in the middle/high school group,
and 21 children in first and second grades alone.
Over 32 women have participated in CPC's learn-to-sew program.
Thank you again for your faithful support!
Please note that many key leaders are out the 2nd week
of August, including Jen Pierce, Stephanie Workman,
Medora Hix, and Jenn our cook! August 7 will be interesting!
We especially need kitchen help that week,
though we will also need to be fully staffed everywhere else.
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Presbys at the Pub
Wednesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Jordan Lake Brewing Company, 320 E. Durham Rd., Cary
Bring your two and four-legged friends of all ages
on the following dates:
July 31;
August 7, 14
AND ON THE SAME DATES AND TIMES....
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Youth Coffee Fellowship
Wednesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Caribou Coffee, 109 SW Maynard Rd., Cary
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Volunteering with The Power of Music
Our Parish Nurse Mandy Nester and her colleague Amber Tillman are conducting a research project for their Family Nurse Practitioner masters program through Simmons University and they need your help.
They are partnering with Dementia Alliance of North Carolina and several home care companies in the area to study the effects of personalized music listening on people living with dementia in their own home.
They are looking for volunteers to help them with 4 different areas during the weeks of 8/26/19 to 10/14/19.
1. Assessing the musical tastes of those with dementia (done via a survey)
2. Provide music testing (with already set up equipment) on those with dementia to determine their response to songs based off of their survey assessment
3. Help create playlists based on testing results for their personalized MP3 player
4. Deliver the completed music kits to the participants (ideally this would be the person that completes the music testing as they will have established a relationship with the family)
All volunteers would receive training and would be requested to help with at least 2-3 participants.
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Mindfulness Meditation Group
During the summer (until September), the group will meet in the Youth Area.
Group meetings will be on the first, third, and fourth Mondays of each month through the end of the year (except holidays).
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Kitchen Item
Pick-up Requested
The items pictured at right have been left in the kitchen and are unclaimed.
If there is something of yours that is shown, please be sure to pick it up.
Thanks!
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The CPC Church Directory is Online
Remember - the CPC Directory
is linked on the church website!
You can access our directory by clicking the Member Directory link at the top of our website home page.
Correct your info, add pictures, etc. online by following that link.
If you have not accessed the directory yet, an invitation will have to be sent to you by Servant Keeper. If you need this new invitation, email office@carypresbyterian.org with your name and an invitation will be requested for you. All invitations are good for only two weeks. (New invitations will be generated beginning July 8.)
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BE KNOWN! Wear your name tag!
Need a name tag? Need a new name tag?
You can do one of these things:
- Write "Need a name tag" next to your name in the Welcome Book
- OR sign up for a name tag at the table by the TV in the Narthex. As soon as yours is ready it will be on that same table.
Keep it where most convenient on one of the name tag racks.
THANKS!
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CPC Church Service Podcasts
CPC Service podcasts are added weekly to Soundcloud and for posting to the website
on this page. They appear with the most recent service featured at the top of the page, with the illustration from that week's bulletin as an identifier (as shown above).
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The public CPC Facebook page is a great continuing source of information about what is upcoming and what has happened at CPC. Visit it frequently for news and pictures you won't see elsewhere, and share the posts with your friends and on your own Facebook page!
Follow the links to the public page and the CPC family page below:
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Send Your News and Announcements
Bulletin and e-Link announcements
for an upcoming bulletin
or newsletter
should be received in office email
by 12:00 noon on the prior Wednesday.
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CPC Calendar for July 28
through August 4
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Did You Know?
Cary Presbyterian Church is a part of a larger family of churches comprising the New Hope Presbytery.
From Efland to the Outer Banks, spanning 33 counties, with 122 congregations representing 28,314 members, we are a Mid-Council of the Presbyterian Church (USA) serving eastern North Carolina.
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