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Looking for an easy way to serve the church?We need a substitute volunteer to collect the pages from the Friendship Registers. Call coordinator Shirley Jones to sign up |
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Tutoring Program Returns for FallVolunteer to be a part of this wonderful ministry! Phyllis Singletary is keeping our tutoring program a going and growing concern. Tutoring times are 9-10 a.m. in the school’s cafeteria. Register to be a tutor in the narthex. If you would like further information, please contact Phyllis at phyllis.singletary@gmail.com |
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Adult Volunteers Needed!Parents and adults are needed to support our Middle School Youth Fellowship program. This includes cooks for the Sunday evening programs and advisors for youth activities to assist Don, Neal, Bart and Jim on a monthly basis (a female perspective would be helpful). Please contact Jim to discuss your interest. Jim Aguirre can be contacted at: jim.aguirre@cox.net or (757)596-1151 or (757) 596-4036 |
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Join our Lay ReadersThe Worship Committee is looking to add to its roll of lay readers for our 11 a.m. service. We encourage both youth and adults who may like to serve the church in this way
to call the
church office, 596-1151, to indicate your interest.
Readers will then be “trained,” and assigned to
read on a rotating basis-once a month, or once every
few months-depending on the number of volunteers.
Deborah Carr coordinates this important ministry.
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Support the Scouts!
Looking for some great movie munchies or maybe a late
night snack? Consider the delicious Trail’s End popcorn available
for purchase from Hidenwood’s own Cub Scout Pack 358. There are nine
different delicious varieties to choose from which range in price from
$8 - $50. When you make your purchase you are supporting the activities
of the pack and the important values and skills taught to boys through
scouting. If you don’t know a cub scout, please contact Lisa McKean,
this year’s Popcorn Colonel, (or is that Kernel, Lisa?) |
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Presbyterian Women’s March Project - Making a Difference in the
Congo
One of the most devastating consequences of rebel fighting in the Congo
is the many hundreds (thousands?) of Congolese orphans living on the street,
and many more housed in one of four Presbyterian centers in Kinshasa. Providing
for the needs of these children is a daunting task. We can help. It takes
$20 to feed a child in the Congo for a month. As part of an on-going project,
the women continue to raise funds for this mission. Those who would like
to “sponsor” a child, please forward a donation to our treasurer, Marsha
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Help with Habitat for Humanity RestoreThe Habitat for Humanity Restore needs volunteers who can work the same day(s) each week, or every other week, oronce a month. Call Lorraine Austin, (757) 596-5553, ext. 2. |
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Help Beat Illiteracy—Join Tutoring TeamThe Hidenwood Tutoring Excel Team will be working with 1st and 2nd graders at Hidenwood Elementary this year, stressing reading comprehension, phonemic awareness, and fluency.We tutor from 9-10 a.m. each day—You choose which day(s) you want to help. Here are some options: Work with 1 student for 1/2 hour, 2 days a week Work with 1 student for 1/2 hour, 1 day a week Work with 2 students for 1 hour, 2 days a week Work with 2 students for 1 hour, 1 day a week Many volunteers say tutoring has been the most rewarding work they have ever done! Visit our tutoring display in the narthex on Sunday to sign up, or call Tutoring Team Coordinator Audrey Arthur. Our final day to tutor will be Thursday, May 10. And our student recognition ceremony will be on Friday, May 11. We are somewhat short of substitutes. If any former tutors or substitutes can lend us a hand for the next few weeks, please call Audrey Arthur. |
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Gain Support from Our Stephen Ministers
Support: To hold in position so as to keep from
falling, sinking or slipping; To keep from failing or yielding
during stress.Support is something we all need. God gives us support through our Christian brothers and sisters. Let us all be sensitive to one another’s needs and take the time to support each other through prayers, phone calls, friendly chats after church and even visits. Please remember that we also have Stephen Ministers who are willing to give their support. For more information about Stephen Ministry, please call Peggy Smith or Alice Heldenfels, “When I said, ‘my foot is slipping,’ your love, O Lord, supports me.” (Psalm 94:18) |
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Join our Flower Guild
Community ServiceDid You Know?The Seaman's Friend House is now called the Seafarer Center. The center, located at 2901 Huntington Avenue, is a ministry which exists primarily to make a home-away-from-home for young men and women who are serving at sea from around the world. Renovation has been going on for the past six months, including new plumbing, heating and cooling systems, electrical work and landscaping. A wireless internet system has been installed and the seafarers can use computers, view television and play video games, darts and ping-pong. An open house will take place Sunday, June 26, from 2-8 p.m. Volunteer staff is needed daily between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. |
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Donate “Drive Time”The Peninsula Agency on Aging needs volunteer drivers to help senior citizens get to and from their medical appointments. For more information about how you can provide this important service, call 246-1907. What a wonderful way to serve God! |
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Donate your Used Cell Phone to TransitionsFor each cell phone we collect, Shelter Alliance, a private firm located in South Florida, will directly compensate Transitions. All proceeds from the phone collection help the agency to continue to provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, a 24-hour hotline, and a variety of support and self-sufficiency programs to victims of domestic violence on the Peninsula. Drop off used cell phones to the church office. This is an on-going project (no deadline) |
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Bread for the World“Help Make Hunger History!” Our Mission Committee has joined a nation-wide letter writing campaign to help stamp out hunger in the U.S. Through the letters the organization Bread for the World is urging Congress and President Bush to “Make Hunger History” by making a commitment to support organizations fighting hunger in U.S. communities and to cut hunger in our country by 50 percent by 2010. You can make your voice heard by writing your own letters, and urging others to write, members of Congress. A letter including the following information, but put in your own words, can help: “I urge you to co-sponsor legislation that calls on both the U.S. Congress and the president to commit to the goals of cutting U.S. food insecurity in half by 2010 and ending hunger in our country by 2015. More than 36 million people are presently threatened by hunger. Now is the time to come together to make hunger history.” - Bill Sharkey, Mission Committee
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Food Lion-Shop & Share
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Support our Outreach MinistriesClothing Closest Special Plea!Our sister church in the Congo would welcome used (or new) jeans and t-shirts in any size. If you have any to donate, please bring them to the church office before Sunday, May 7, so we will be able to send them to the Congo as part of “Check” and Regine’s luggage.What is Love? What 4-8 Year Olds Say
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.Help Stock the Food Closet.
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Stemps for the Congo
We have received a letter from PEVA thanking us for our support of the Stamps for Mission program. In 2006, PEVA churches raised $4,816 for Bibles and other Christian literature, as well as medical training and supplies for our sister churches in the Congo. Keep those stamps coming! |
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