Eastminster Update

In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see

Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

803-256-1654 / www.eastminsterpres.org

Volume 37 Number 15

April 21, 2013

Dear Eastminster Family, You are invited to lunch. On Sunday, April 28, please stay for lunch immediately after the 11:15 a.m. worship service. The meal will be free. We will eat in the Christian Life Center. In addition to sharing fellowship, the purpose of this meal is to show a video and ask you to support our Toward 2020 capital campaign. Have you ever had the heating or air conditioning at your house stop working? Or, have you realized your system is on the downhill slide and every time you get ready to have company you worry it will simply grind to a halt. Thats where we are with the heat and air in our sanctuary. Weve been nursing it along, but its just a matter of time before it fails. And we dont want it to fail during a wedding, or funeral, or worship. Similarly, have you ever faced the dilemma of inviting someone to your home only to realize upon that persons arrival that the steps leading up to your house and their mobility limitations present a big problem? Regrettably, the many steps leading to the Eastminster sanctuary make that occurrence all too common. I saw it again this past Saturday at a funeral as a family, not knowing our campus, was preparing to carry a family member up some steps. By now you should have received a brochure explaining the opportunity that is before us: to take the wonderful facilities that have been entrusted to us and to update and upgrade them for future generations, as well as for ourselves. The big ticket items of this campaign are: 1) new heating and air conditioning; 2) a new mens restroom and a renovated womens facility; 3) an elevator for accessibility; 4) a porte-cochere (covered drop off) for inclement weather; 5) re-wiring the sanctuary for improved safety; 6) reconfiguring the sanctuary chancel; 7) enhancing Jubilee worship and; 8) tithing, giving ten-percent of the capital campaign funds for Gods work in this community and beyond. Of course, as when the heat and air has to be replaced in our homes, there is a cost. For us the estimate to accomplish what the Session has approved is $3 million. That is a great deal of money, but as one of you pointed out to me, if each of our 900 families would step up to help meet this challenge by giving at least $3,333.00 over the three years of the campaign, the need would be met. Scripture, of course, encourages us to give as we have been prospered and some of us can give more. Please come to lunch April 28 and help us plan by registering your attendance. To RSVP you can call 256-1654; email [email protected] or visit www.eastminsterpres. org and follow the instructions. Then, on May 19, Pentecost Sunday, I pray you will make a tangible commitment to join in Gods work in this place by pledging to support this effort. Please RSVP for April 28 now, before you forget! See you Sunday,

Visions
your old men will dream

dreams
ACTS 2:17

STAFF
Dr. Bradley D. Smith Pastor Dr. Mark E. Durrett Associate Pastor Rev. Lynn A. Grandsire Associate Pastor Rev. Jeffrey S. Smith Associate Pastor Dr. James I. St. John Parish Associate Rev. Jonathan S. Wagner Associate Pastor Mr. Croskeys Royall Director of Childrens Ministries Mrs. Fredna Lee Director of Music Ministries Mr. William L. Collins, Jr. Business Administrator
Our Missionaries: Rev. & Mrs. Donald Marsden-Virginia/Russia Steven & Natalie Hall - Alaska Sarah Snapp - Bolivia Rev. John McCall - Taiwan Steve & Kathy Amar - Virginia/Muslims in the US George & Anne Harper - Philippines

9:00 & 11:15 a.m. - Sanctuary 11:15 a.m. Jubilee Dr. Bradley D. Smith A Foundation for Building Ezra 7:1-10

Sunday, april 21

Brad

Daily CALENDAR 2012 Annual Review Available

SUNDAY, april 21
8:00 Celebration Choir Rehearsal 9:00 Worship & Childrens Church 10:00 Sunday School Donald Marsden S/S Jubilee Band Practice Eastminster First Step 10:05 Chancel Choir Rehearsal 11:15 Worship & Childrens Church Jubilee Worship Ethan Robert Silver Dover, Bapt. 2:00 Rehearsal for Scotland 3:00 Cub Scouts Wolf Den 4:00 Webelos 1 & 2 Cub Scout Bears, Tigers Youth Band Practice 5:30 Youth Group 5:45 Childcare 6:00 Kerygma

The Eastminster 2012 Annual Review is available at the church for pick-up or viewing on line www.eastminsterpres.org under Quick Links on the front page. Hard copies can be found in the narthex, reception area, and CLC. Please pick up your copy today or view on line!

The Christian Life Center will host a summer basketball skills camp for rising 1st - 6th grade boys and girls, June 24 - 27. This camp is conducted by The Greatest Champion. For more information, contact Bill Ketchin ([email protected] or call 256-1654) or check out their website at www.thegreatestchampion.org. Join us June 17-June 20 from 9:00 a.m. - noon for all rising 4K-6 grade! You can register with a paper registration or on our website www.eastminsterpres.org but please note, that we need your registration payment by the morning of June 6 to secure your spot. Remember, if you want to volunteer, but have children younger than the ages for VBS, we have our Drop-In open for you that week to take care of volunteer children. (As we approach the VBS dates, well be sending out additional information about: our VBS volunteer caf that is open Mon.-Wed. of that week; the VBS closing event on Thursday; and the off-site actvities the rising 5th and rising 6th graders will be partricipating in.) Registration deadline in June 5!!! After this date, you are not guaranteed a T-Shirt or a slot in VBS. Savvy Seniors have a special treat in store for their April 23 meeting. Merry Hearts, a small ensemble from the Heart of Columbia Chorus, will present the program. The Chorus, a group that sings in four-part barbershop style harmony, is a chapter of Sweet Adelines International. One member of that diverse group of women from all walks of life whose ages span seven decades, is Eastminsters own Angie Durrett. Lunch will be served at noon prior to the program in Thompson Hall. Call Mary Baldauf at 256-1654 for reservations. Parker Sparrow, Parish Nurse, will be in the Byrd Room following Savvy Seniors should you like a blood pressure check or to speak with her.

Summer Basketball Skills Camp, June 24 - 27

Vacation Bible School June 17 - 20, 2013!!

Monday, April 22

7:00 Mens Prayer Breakfast 9:00 Count Team Fifty Plus Exercise Class 10:00 Senior Fitness 2:00 Pastors Mtg. 2:30 Program Staff Mtg. 5:30 Mens Basketball League Yoga Webelos 1 7:00 Sr. High Guys Bible Study Boy Scouts Troop 10

TUESDAY, april 23

9:00 Drop-In Nursery 9:30 Staff Meeting 10:00 Senior Fitness 10:30 Bible Moderators 11:30 EPW Luncheon 11:45 Parish Nurse 11:45 Tuesday Lunch 12:00 Savvy Seniors. 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 4:30 Stewardship Committee 5:00 Tai Chi Girls Volleyball 5:30 Girls on Run Zumba Diaconate 6:00 Handbell Rehearsal Joint Mtg. 6:45 Session Mtg. 7:00 Zumba Fitness Scottish Country Dance 9:00 Fifty Plus Exercise Class Drop In Nursery 9:30 Prayer Shawl Ministry 9:30 EDS Chapel 12:00 EDS Council 5:00 Angel, Junior Choir Rehearsals 5:15 WE@EPC Dinner 5:45 Childcare 6:15 DivorceCare Crossroads Career Childrens Musical MS Youth 6:30 Childrens Spring Musical 7:15 Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Savvy Seniors to Have Special Musical Treat

WEDNESDAY, april 24

April 7, 2013 the following Confirmands joined Eastminster

THURSDAY, april 25

9:00 Drop-In Nursery 10:00 Senior Fitness 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 5:00 Yoga Girls Volleyball 5:30 Girls on the Run Zumba 7:00 Zumba Fitness HS Girls Bible Study 7:30 Jubilee Band Practice

Please welcome, Woodson Bagnal, Thomas Barr, Ellie Brown, Elizabeth Craig, Gage Davidson, Julia Derrick, Watts Eaddy, Frannie Elliott, Zim Fant, Simpson Gressette Felder, Breland Green, Cassidy Green, Andrew Hall, Nick Hudgens, Anne Jenkins, Charlie Locke, Ellerslie McCue, Emily McDaniel, Walker McDonald Jr., Clay Moise, Tinsley Moise, Frank Peacock, Anna Rayfield, McKenna Savoca, Olivia Schraibman, Grace Smith, Sarah Stormer, Caroline Strom, Katherine Thordahl, Reid Turner, Davis Ulmer, Patten Watson, Patrick Wright. We wish to thank our group leaders: Jane Brissette, Mark Rosenburg, Yolanda Courie, Beau Long, Martha Casto, Matthew Burns, Alison McGowan, Joey Cochran. Youth ministers: Jon Wagner, Jeff Smith.

FRIDAY, april 26

9:00 Fifty Plus Exercise Class 11:00 Support Staff Mtg.

6:00 Woodring & Ross Wed. Rehearsal Jesus Rocks Almost Lock-In SATURDAY, april 27 6:00 Woodring & Ross Wedding

There are still a few spots available for the trip. Please encourage your friends to sign up! Deadline for signing up and receiving fundraiser credit is April 21st. Otherwise, final deadline is May 8th. Mission trip training will be done during youth group, so make sure you are present beginning April 21st. Contact [email protected] for information or a registration form.

Senior High Summer Mission Trip - Nashville, TN - June 9-15, 2013

A farmer was showing his pastor around his well groomed farm, and the preacher commented, It is wonderful what you and God have done with this land. The farmer replied, Yes, and you should have seen it when God had it by himself.

CARE & CONCERN

EPC Prayer List Part of what it means to be a Family of Faith is to be in prayer for one another. Contact the church office at 256-1654 to be included on this Prayer List. EPC Special Concerns Walker Pearce, Boots Fuller, Remer Waguestack, Dr. Mary Tobin, those serving in our military, Stephen Ministers & their care receivers and all those in need of Gods special care. Hospitalized this week Ross Holcombe, Martha Ann McCullough Deaths Congregational love and sympathy are extended to:

WE@EPC

Each Wednesday the dinner and the program will be in Thompson Hall. Dinner beginning at 5:15 p.m. and the presentation at 6:30 p.m. April 24 - The childrens choirs, K-5 through 5th grade, will present the musical, the Story of Gods Creation, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Come for dinner in Thompson Hall at 5:15 p.m., and remain for the program in Thompson Hall.

Jesus Rocks -

The last Jesus Rocks of the year will be moving to May! Pizza! Games! Bible Study Blast! Movies! Popcorn! Midnight Basketball! Bring $3.00 for pizza and wear sneakers. Parents, we need help in shifts for this night. If you can help for the 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. shift or the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. shift, please email Susie Horger at [email protected].

Almost Lock-In

On Wednesday, May 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. the Shred 360 truck will be in the CLC parking lot accepting up to 5 boxes or bags of paper to be shredded. This event is open to the community and is a food drive for Harvest Hope Food Bank. When you come to shred, bring canned food to donate!

Shred 360 at Eastminster

Adair Crawley, on the death of his wife, Gertie Crowley, April 9, 2013. Sharon Bramlett, on the death of her mother, Gertie Crowley, April 9, 2013. Grandchildren, Adair & Coleman Bramlett. Vanessa & Jonathan Bankhead, on the death of her father, Van McAlister, April 9, 2013. Grandchildren, Boyce, Gardiner & McLaurin Bankhead. Susan & Butch Jones, on the death of her mother, JoAnn Lundquist, April 10,
On weekends a minister is on call. If you have a crisis which one of the ministers needs to know about, phone 256-1654 and leave a message. A minister will return your call.

Crossroads Career Network offers programs and opportunities for job seekers, career explorers, employers and regular church attendees to get involved. We meet most Wednesdays at 6:15 p.m. in the Christian Life Center, room C- 265. Contact Jim Hatchell for more information: [email protected]. Bring your family to the EPC Spring Carnival at St. Lawrence Place on April 27 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.! Many of our service opportunities are not suitable for children, but this is most definitely family friendly! Well share games, crafts and a bond with the folks at St. Lawrence Place, and enjoy a hot-dog lunch too! Its a great way to get to know our neighbors at St. Lawrence Place. No cost for the event, but bring a package of paper towels, toilet tissue or tissue boxes. AND, sign up in the E-News or contact Julie McDaniel ([email protected]) by April 25 so well know how many hot dogs to prepare. Got questions? Contact Julie as well. We have reserved 20 spots with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for the week of September 29-October 5, 2013 to help with Hurricane Sandy rebuilding. We will be housed at First Church in Elizabeth, NJ where we will be helping with cleanup of homes, home sites, local churches and with general home repairs and rebuilding. Cost for the trip will be approximately $380. Keep watching for additional information!

Not Employed or Under-Employed

Spring Carnival at St. Lawrence Place April 27

Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Work Trip to Elizabeth, NJ

For our loved ones . . .

In memory of Helen Stark, given by Sissy Dickerson. In memory of Cheryl Glazebrook, given by Dr. & Mrs. Jack Smith.

Dont miss out! Send your information to share with the congregation to [email protected]. Please have your information in by Wednesday, April 24, to be shared in our next newsletter on May 5, 2013.

Deadline for UPDATE

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Update for April 21, 2013

Bill Collins has joined the staff at Eastminster Presbyterian Church as the Business Administrator. For the past twenty years, he has served with the South Carolina Baptist Convention. While at the Convention, he supervised several areas of work, such as accounting, retirement and insurance, building services, information technology, and White Oak Conference Center. In addition to these duties, Bills main responsibility was managing all human resources functions of the organization. Bill feels God has used his experiences over the past twenty years to prepare him for his new role at EPC. He is grateful God has called him to serve Eastminsters members and staff. Bill is married to Jill, and they have two daughters, Casey and Jamie. You are invited to a complimentary lunch on Sunday, April 28, following the 11:15 a.m. worship service to learn about the proposed and exciting upgrades for the Eastminster Sanctuary area. There will be a conceptual presentation of some of the plans for creating a new mens restroom, making the womens restroom ADA compliant and making the building itself a friendly and accessible space for people with mobility issues, a new heating and cooling system and more! If you are unable to attend on the 28th, Wednesday, May 1, will be a make up date, with a complimentary meal from 5:30 - 6:15 p.m. and the presentation following. Sign up on the front page of our website www.eastminsterpres.org or in the E-News. Lunch will be catered by Little Pigs Barbecue, and the menu will include barbecue pork, barbecue chicken, hash and rice, along with all the fixins! Donald Marsden, our missionary in Virginia, will be at both worship services on Sunday, April 21 and in the Parenting Teens Sunday school class in the game room. Donald Marsden is an associate director of Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship. From 19972008 he and his family served as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church USA in Russia. PFFs mission is to mobilize congregations to participate with God in bringing good news of the kingdom into cultures where the church has yet to take root. PFFs vision is summarized as follows - For Every People - An Indigenous Church, For Every Church - A Mission Vision. Please greet him warmly.

Eastminster Welcomes Bill Collins

Serving on Sunday April 21

OFFICERS PRAYER: Deacon Abbot Carnes DEACONS: Jason Tompkins, Tiffany Beitz Deacon Jeff Burden (Jubilee) Deacon Matthew Burns (Jubilee) ushers: Don Helms, Milton Moore GREETERS: (9:00) David & Lynda Leopard Chuck & Hannah Stiles Stephanie Hall, Susie Horger Mitzie Trotter (11:15) Catherine Horne Bill & Jane Francis Stephen & Holley Van Horn Ross & Happy Holmes INFANT ROOM - CLC 119 (9:00) Natalie Quinn & Daniel Hall (11:15) Kelty & Matt Riddle TODDLER ROOM - CLC 117 (9:00) Anne Macon Flynn & Daniel Smith (11:15) Doug & Tracy Stursberg 2-K ROOM - CLC 115 (9:00) Kelly Galvarino (11:15) John & Melanie Alphin CHILDRENS CHURCH 103 - 3K (9:00) Michael & Mundy George (11:15) Bert & Shannon Pooser CHILDRENS CHURCH 105 - 4K (9:00) Jason & Allison Anders (11:15) Mac & Carmen Atkins CHILDRENS CHURCH 107 - 5K (9:00) Chris & Kelly Daves (11:15) Christian & Jennifer Hendricks

Congregational Meal, April 28

Welcome our Missionary