Weekly Connection

April 23, 2020

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Staying Connected

Dear Friends,

Peace be with you! Have you sent me a video recording with a greeting of peace for the PCWS community?! If not, please do! As I mentioned on Sunday, many of you have shared that you are particularly missing seeing others from our community. This makes sense! While it certainly isn’t a substitute, the greetings from one another will be such a blessing for us to share in worship. Please record your video (on your phone is fine!) and email it to me at erik@presbyws.org by tomorrow night if possible!

As I mentioned last week, we’re moving to one email a week now that we’re all settling into a more normal pattern of life. As always, you can visit the PCWS website for more information and for access to any of the online activities that we’re doing. There are also links below.

I hope that you’ll plan on joining us next Wednesday evening, April 29, for a session with Jane Strunk Anderson entitled Building Strength & Resilience in Trying Times . This will be a Zoom presentation and there’s more information available by clicking below. You’ll have a chance to see others and connect on this important topic for us all.

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday as we continue with the second of four sermons on Women of the Old Testament . This week we’ll be learning about the prophetess Huldah. Huldah’s story is full of surprises and helps us remember that God’s messages sometimes come from the sources we least expect. (Also, our livestream cut cut-off prematurely last week … so this week we’ll have a special reprise of the choral benediction from Kara and John Leslie and we’ll also have special music from Paul Banovic.)

Please send your video greetings! (And if you can’t get the video to work, you can always send a photo of where you’ve seen God’s beauty this week.)

See you Sunday!

Peace,

Pastor Erik

P.S., As a reminder, our past worship services, links to prior PCWS emails, bulletins, and other important links are all on our PCWS website by clicking here .

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Please Pray for:

Our siblings at Nueva Paz Presbyterian Church in Cuba

Our men & women serving our country in the Armed Services

The people of Syria, and especially the relatives of PCWS’ Interfaith Women’s Book Group

First responders, nurses, doctors, and others providing care to others

Betty Anderson

Betty Toft

Billye Dvorak

Brent Young, son-in-law of Larry & Becky Glasscock

Brian, f riend of the Smyers family

Cheryl Donchez, friend of Theresa & Condy Dixon

David Young, nephew of Amy Malone

Dorcas Dvorak, friend of the Merrifield family

The family of Elsie Anderson, mother of Michelle Hennessy

Gary Mirlenbrink, uncle of Lori Carsten

Holly Oliver, daughter of Mary Kae Headland

The family of Inez Martinez, friend of the Merrifield family

Jan Palmer, mother of Lori Carsten

Jessica DeFano , niece of Michelle Hennessy

John Kregg

Joshua Haberkorn, grandson of Shirley Pine

Kathleen Kircher

Laura Querry, daughter of Becky & Larry Glascock

Linda Bell, daughter of Margot Walsh

Marc Goldstein, friend of Carol Ulreich

Marc Ladene, friend of the Slezaks

Marge Sandrik

Mary Kate Miller, step-mother of Julie Garino

Mary, dear friend of Bruce Geary

Michael De Vries

Michael, friend of Jane Norman

Mike Kelly, friend of Candice Mares

Mike Slesicki, cousin of Barb Farr & Joe Benson

Nate & Joann Dardick, friends of Laurie Merrifield

Norb Mirlenbrink, Uncle of Lori Carsten

Pat McTiernan, friend of Phyllis DiFrancesco

Pat White, friend of Becky Glasscock

Paul, cousin of Elizabeth Slezak

Paulette Erickson, friend of Carol Ulreich

Peggy Mirlenbrink, aunt of Lori Carsten

Peter Wilkie

Phil Kasik

Ruth Kaduke, niece of Herb & Joyce Smyers

Teri Tuffner, aunt of Candice Mares

Terry Moore, friend of Mike Pelton

Theresa Ybanez, great niece of Laura Fruit

The family and friends of Toni Potenza Moya, daughter of Harriett Potenza & Craig Harris

Parents of Tiffany Sellman

Celebrating Birthdays:

4/23 - Brian Kohlsaat

4/23 - Becka McClintock

4/24 - Katherine Millis

4/25 - Nick Boxell

4/26 - Caroline Murray

4/27 - Stacy Restani

4/29 - Michael De Vries

4/30 - Phyllis DiFrancesco

PCWS Office Closed

The PCWS office remains closed for the immediate future. Our office staff are still working remotely and on a limited basis. If you need immediate assistance, please email Pastor Erik or leave a message for him on his church extension which he checks regularly, or call his cell - ‭(708) 505-5409‬ . Pastor Erik is checking the U.S. Mail daily. The mailbox is also now a locking box, so please feel comfortable dropping off correspondence directly (including contributions).