Deerhurst News

January 2007

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News Bulletin

January 1, 2007

What’s Going On At Deerhurst?

Jan. 7th 11:15 Teen Choir

Jan. 13 DJ’s visit Hawthorn health Multi-care Center 2:00

Jan. 14 Youth party celebrating Martin Luther King

Jan. 14 Window articles due

Jan. 21 Deerhurst Organ Celebration and concert 4:00 PM

Jan. 27 Grade K-5 youth sleep-over and Science Museum

Jan. 28 Annual Soup Sale Orders due

Feb. 4 Soup Sale Pick-up

Feb. 10 & 11 Rehearsals for Mozart Requiem

Feb. 11 Mozart Requiem Performance 4:00 PM

Worship Committee:

A huge thank you goes out to all the families that stayed after church on December 10th to decorate the sanctuary for the season of Advent. Everything looked beautiful.

A special thank you to Jonathan Adams, Jack Burr and Bill Fleischauer for their assistance in bringing up boxes, and setting up the trees on the 9^th. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Lay readers, greeters and ushers are needed. Sign up sheets are in the back of the sanctuary.

Music News From Lori:

February 11^th4:00 PM Mozart Requiem Performance. Join us to hear this great Masterwork performed right in your own church

January 21^st-50^th Anniversary of the dedication of the organ to Deerhurst.

Special Organ Concert! 4:00 PM

Church Library Report:

Our library committee has purchased several new books for your enjoyment. Take some time to browse through our selections, stay and relax or feel free to borrow the books. We have books for both adults and children! Remember, there are no meetings in the library after church so feel free to bring coffee and stay as long as you desire.

Women’s Association:

Tastefully Simple Sunday February 11, at 11:30 A.M. Tasteful and simple! That is what Tastefully Simple products give us. These convenient gourmet foods will be available to sample, purchase or order on February 11^th. Come and enjoy samples after worship service in Memorial Hall.

Deerhurst Annual Soup Sale

Sunday February 4th

Payment can be made by check (made out to Deerhurst Presbyterian Church) when placing the order or when the order is picked up. Profits support the Deerhurst Scholarship Fund

Be sure to order early as the amounts are limited. (Information: contact Karen Friend)

Order forms may be sent to the church office or put in the offering plate

Name _____________________________ Phone _______________

$4.00 per pint or two pints for $7.00

______ pints of Chicken Chowder ______ pints of Vegetarian Chili

$__________Amount enclosed _____Payment upon pick-up

Orders are due by January 28th

Deerhurst Archive Committee Monthly Report:

Did you ever hear of the Deerhurst “Mothers Club?” One of the main responsibilities of the Mothers Club was the Infants Room and the Nursery 52 weeks a year! The former Mothers Club was eventually absorbed into the Women’s Association which later became the Presbyterian Women or PW.

The objectives as mentioned in a 1963 booklet from the Mothers Club: A group of women gathering together once a month in Christian fellowship. Our goals are to do all within our power to aid in the Lord’s work pertaining to our church, the children of our church, and the children of the world. Our meetings are often, informative, entertaining and educational, and by working together, we hope to achieve a closeness among the women of our Church while accomplishing our goals.

From The Parish Nurse

Prayer Shawl Ministry News: The knitters and crocheters of Heavenly Hands have not only been busy making prayer shawls but are branching out and trying some new things. We have made and delivered about 20 knitted and crocheted blankets and quilts to the Linus Project which supplies “comfort blankets” to children in need in hospitals and through many social service agencies where children are in difficult situations. We have another dozen ready to deliver in the “new year”.

Janet Kuebler found another very worthy project that we contributed to. It is called “Caps to the Capital”. Did you know that as many as 2 million newborns born into “developing countries” die within 24 hours? A simple measure like putting a cap on a newborn’s head to prevent loss of body heat could prevent up to 70% of these deaths. Save the Children teamed up with Warm-Up America Foundation to launch Knitters and Crocheters for Newborns: Caps to the Capital. Caps received up until January 2, 2007 will be delivered to President Bush in a plea to allocate more funding toward health programs for mothers in developing countries. They will then be forwarded to those countries in need to be used with these “at risk” infants. Heavenly Hands Prayer Shawl Ministry sent 52 newborn caps to this project in early December. Thanks to all who knit the caps. They really were very cute, easy to make and made great use of yarn scraps we all had…We also continue to make prayer shawls. Thanks to Lois and Jack Nocera for their very generous yarn donation this past summer, our shawl supply is in good shape. If anyone is interested in working on the shawls, please contact me for patterns and yarn…

We are still getting together on the 3^rd Wednesday of pm.

Barbara Burr

Youth Events:

The Christian Education Director, Janine Mott, is looking for creative cooks to prepare food for youth meetings. The Deerhurst juniors meet on the third Sunday of each month and the senior high on the fourth Sunday. She would like to serve the youth something besides pizza and chicken wings! If you are interested, please contact Janine at jlm10369@yahoo.com.

Jan. 7 11:15 Teen Choir Grades 6 –12 New members are welcome Information: Lisa Nelson

Jan. 13 DJ’s visit Hawthorn Health Multi-care Center 2:00 to 4:30

Jan. 14 Sr. High & DJ’s Party celebrating Martin Luther King; pizza, wings, cake, movies

Jan. 27 Grade K-5 youth sleep-over and trip to the Science Museum

Sign up on Youth Bulletin Boards.

Social Events: Do NOT miss this one!!

The Sociables are getting together at the new home of Linda Roehner on Saturday, January 20, 2007, (beginning at 6:30 p.m.} to solve a MURDER MYSTERY. We are having a potluck supper, so bring a dish to pass BUT, be sure to rsvp to Linda at 743-2385 by January 13th so the "parts" can be distributed ahead of time! This is your opportunity to "dress for the part..." ANYONE is welcome to attend!

Deerhurst Nominating Committee

If you are interested in being either a Deacon or a member of the Deerhurst Session, or if you would like to recommend someone, the nominating committee is presently replacing those members who have completed their terms. Please contact Dennis Kenney or Rev. Steve as soon as possible.

The Deacons’ role at Deerhurst is to assist the members in many ways. If they can assist you or another member, please contact them with your request. They provide rides to Sunday services or other events, they welcome your suggestions for coffee hour, they keep contact with college students and other out-of-town members, they provide assistance to families during difficult situations, they can provide visitations and meals for your family in the case of surgery or illness, and they organize the annual church picnic/outdoor service in the Spring. Your input is necessary for the Deacons to provide their services. Please forward information on members in need of their services, or your concerns or suggestions, to Scott Peterson at petes5@adelphia.net.

Deerhurst Deacons

Nancy Fleischauer, Melissa Gara, Pat Lahti, Jim Mohr, Mary Moreland, Adam Oberkircher, Nancy Paul, Scott Peterson (moderator), Carol Reimondo, Paul Rogers, Kristen Sikorski, Judy Thielen and Julie Tyson.

The Session meets the last Monday of each month. Their role at Deerhurst is to make decisions on current issues. Please forward your opinions, suggestions and questions one week prior to the monthly meeting, to Linda Roehner at tobysmom1@verizon.net.

Deerhurst Session, Linda Adams, John Bidwell, Dave Corry, Ron Friend, Lois Frazita, Leah Hayes, Kirsten Helm, Michael Johnson, Dennis Kenney, Craig Miller, Janice Nichols, Linda Roehner (clerk) , Tom Rolle, Marilyn Ruppel, Jan Tyson, Bob Walker and Chris Zimmer

January Message From The Pastor’s Desk

A

Baby

Why a Baby?

You are God

We assume you did it exactly the way you wanted

We assume the message is sent with divine clarity

After all isn’t that what comes with being God

You get to do exactly what you want

No one to correct you

No one to tell you there is a better way

A perplexed teenager

Why that path?

Why sing your song through her?

Why announce feasts and failures through someone so

Fragile

Vulnerable

A flabbergasted fiancée

The holy drama unfolds with yet another choice

The teen says “let it be with me according to your will”

But what about Joseph

Why let one man’s willingness to not confuse vision for nightmare

Be the deciding factor

In how safely your son arrives?

Shepherds and Magi

Foreigners and hooligans

Why this cast of characters?

An unwed mother gives birth to salvation

The doubtful adoptive father chooses to believe and

The unbelievable are put in charge of announcing the breakthrough

Thank you for the beauty of it all

It looks precisely like nothing we would ever do

I guess that’s why you get to be God

And we get to

Wait

Listen

Take it all in

This season help us to arrive just in time

To see these things which are taking place

Which you continue to make known to us

The greatest in the least

Divine comedy and Holy Drama hold hands

And it unfolds without unraveling

All for us

AMEN

January Thoughts:

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle on Thursday, December 15, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighed down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line (rope) wrapped around her body -- her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

 A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her, a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

 When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around -- she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and as fortunate in the New Year----to be untangled from the things that we think are binding us.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

Jan Tyson