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News & Updates from Your CPC Family
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Ordinary Time: by Marilyn Davidson
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Summer Worship Service
5th Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m.
July 14, 2019
Minister: Rev. Lori Pistor
Homily: Willing Hearts
Lori Pistor
Scripture Reading: Psalm 150; Exodus 35:4-29
Piano: Laura Minick
Please greet new and familiar friends during the reception
in the Narthex following worship.
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Christian Faith Formation News
Not on Sunday Sunday School (NOSS) is back and begins on Friday, July 26 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.
Adult I Bible Study will continue throughout the summer;
they welcome summer attendees in the Parlor each Sunday morning at 8:45 a.m.
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.
Here's the line-up for specific topics:
July 14: Worship and sacraments the Reformed way
July 21: Mission & service
July 28: The Trinity: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer/Comforter
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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 17, 24, 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
July 17, 24, 31
August 7, 14
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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 always needs group guides and kitchen help!
Each week there are leader spots open. Thank you to all those who have generously responded. What a great mission this is!
NOTE! We will NOT be at the Kirk on July 17 (this coming Wednesday)
but here at CPC.
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July 2019 Session News
- Personnel is exploring options for staffing in light of Medora's Oct 31 retirement. They are working toward bringing a proposal to Session at the August meeting.
The schedule will be reassessed next spring.
- Ministry area highlights
- The Cub Scout troop is up to eight boys with a possibility of twelve in the fall.
- Presbyterian Men needs a new leader. John Campbell is stepping down with our thanks for a job well done.
- The Alternative Gift Market is taking a hiatus this year. Instead the Missions team will provide catalogs for anyone interested in purchasing alternative gifts.
- The Adhoc Security Team has produced an emergency manual that includes procedures in case of fire, weather, medical and intruder emergencies. These manuals are available in various parts of the church and the Security Team will be providing training in the near future.
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July 2019 Diaconate News
- After considerable discussion and with approval of Session, the Diaconate is undergoing restructuring to better provide continued caregiving support to our congregation. We are beginning the rollout this month as described in the Session report above. If you feel it would be helpful to be contacted by a deacon on a regular basis please call or email Janet Robinette, Moderator of the Deacons (919-616-4697 or janet.robinette@gmail.com)
- Meal and transportation requests will continue to be an integral part of the diaconate.
- During the month of June, three meals were provided, four-transportation requests were filled, and forty phone contacts were made
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Triple F Group News
Next meeting: We will meet for brunch this coming Monday, July 15 at 9:30 a.m. at IHOP. Come join us!
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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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Thank you from the Boyd Family
Betty and I want to thank you, Cary Presbyterian Church, for your support of our family during my brother's brief illness and passing. I want to share CPC's impact on a man 800 miles away. The morning of Thursday, May 16, I heard from Jerry's husband Dennis that Jerry's condition was very serious and that Jerry wanted me in Chicago as soon as possible. This was after Jerry had been in the hospital close to three weeks.
Shortly before noon, Pastor Lori came by our home for a brief, welcome, needed pastoral visit. Her attentiveness, her just being there, was ministry. She gave me a prayer shawl to deliver to Jerry. Betty, Pastor Lori, and I prayed together. I flew to O'Hare and took a cab to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Downtown Chicago. Soon, Jerry, Dennis, and I had an end-of-life talk with the oncologist.
Friday morning at the hospital, I gave the CPC prayer shawl to Jerry and told him who it was from. Geralyn, Jerry's sister-friend, read the beautiful note accompanying the shawl. I could not blabber-blubber my way through that touching message. Jerry was alert but he could not talk much. He stroked the shawl, feeling its texture. He made it clear that he wanted the shawl with him in the ambulance as he was moved to hospice care in Michigan City, Indiana.
At that facility, Dennis, Geralyn, and I stayed with Jerry: Friday afternoon, Friday evening, into Saturday morning. Throughout the time at the hospice care facility, Jerry's hand rested on the shawl. About 4:45 Saturday morning, May 18, Jerry moved on. His transition was gentle and peaceful; almost imperceptible. Dennis held Jerry's hand. Jerry's hand remained on the shawl.
I will never forget those hours at the hospice facility. Jerry maintained his touch with that comforting shawl prayerfully and lovingly created by the Prayer Shawl Ministry. I share this story to explain why I am grateful for the active, caring ministry of Cary Presbyterian Church. The shawl is one part. The prayers of the congregation, the reaching out of the staff, the touching cards from Caregivers and other members- they have helped us so much.
Pastor Mitzi reminded me in an email that "Our church families, at their best, are life lines to grace." The hands that write notes, the hands that hug, the hands that knit, the hands clasped in prayer- these are the hands that form the life line to grace.
Love,
Mike
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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 14
through July 21
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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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