• Open Door Sunday, Sept. 7th
  Dr. Howson to preach August 3rd.
  Bread for the Journey Publicity
  Prayer Guide for So. Africa mission trip
  

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH OFFICE...THANK YOU.

August 3rd, 2008

9:30 Communion Service
The Rev.Mary Lou Howson, Preaching

The Rev Cynthia F. Reynolds, Presiding

Child Care for the very young provided.
10:30am Fellowship Hour

About once a quarter when I’m in Washington for the Navy, I travel up to Bethesda to the hospital to visit wounded warriors. It seems like the least I can do and the young Marines, sailors and soldiers I meet there are encouraged when an admiral drops by to pray with them.

On July 22nd, I visited six wounded Marines from the war in Afghanistan. One twenty-year-old corporal, from Tennessee, showed me the injury from a land mine to the back of his foot. With his leg up I noticed a surgical scar on his thigh. He told me more shrapnel had entered there. Then he turned and pulled down his boxers to show me the large scar on his back side, also shrapnel from the mine. His mother, the other chaplain with us, the Marine and I all had a good laugh. The first time a corporal had bared his hind quarters to an admiral!

On my previous visit I visited one young National Guard soldier from Buffalo. His wounds were much more extensive, caused by an IED that hit his humvee in Iraq. Due to traumatic brain injury, he had not talked yet but the doctors thought he followed conversation. In the visit, I was overwhelmed by the level of this young man’s sacrifice and acutely aware of how little I could do. I was convinced, however, he followed our conversation because when I talked about his daughter who had been born while he was overseas, I noticed tears in his eyes. I closed the visit with prayer and then his mother and I and the other chaplain prayed the Lord’s Prayer with him. During the prayer I opened my eyes and looked down at him. His lips were moving and he was trying to say the Lord’s Prayer with us.

Ministry is not always this intense. But there are moments when I find myself at a bedside helping someone like that young man make contact with God because he cannot do it himself. I thank you for your willingness as a congregation to extend your ministry by allowing me to go far a field from Glen Ridge, to take the love of God to such fellows as those I meet in Bethesda. It is an honor to pray with such young heroes. I want you to know I am there also representing you and our Lord. ~J.D. Stinson

Have you noticed the addition to our sign out front? "All Are Welcome" was added to our sign in July.

The Newsletter will be published every other week this summer including August 11th, and August 25th.

Open Door Sunday
September 7th, 2008

Invite your neighbors new to town. Newcomers welcome, of course!

The start of fall Church School classes at 10:15am

Two Services of Worship at 8:15 and 10:15am.

Picnic on the South Lawn at 11:30am

With information tables for Pilgrim Nursery School,
children’s choirs, Church School classes and other programs of the church.

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

TIME TALENT AND TREASURES AUCTION

SAVE THE DATE: 18th October 2008
FOR: Parish Life's Oktoberfest Dinner-Dance, and Time, Talent and Treasures Silent Auction Fundraiser
WHERE: The Women's Club of Glen Ridge, 219 Ridgewood Avenue
TIME: 7 p.m. to Midnight
PROCEEDS: To benefit Parish Life's Scholarship Fund and Mission and Outreach's support to Integrity House and Heifer International.

Food and beverages will be served in the spirit of Oktoberfest, and music will encourage dancing, fellowship and fun!

Both windows on the south side are now in Pennsylvania at the studio to be cleaned and rebuilt. We expect them back before Christmas. This is the first major project of Operation Mustard Seed. We thank everyone for starting pledge payments so these projects may begin!

Going on the trip are Linda Woodbury, Jenny and Abbey Ogden, Jim and Marsha and Kerry Watson, Lisa and Michael Cinotti, Jim and Patrick O’Grady, Felicia and Christina Dolan, Laura Zelenka and Mary Anne Miller. The team departs from J.F.K on Thursday, July 31st at 5:20pm for a 15 hour flight to Johannesburg! While they are gone, you may keep up with them and pray for them by picking up a copy of the devotional booklet Cindy Reynolds developed. Copies are available by the Clark St. entrance.

We finished the Communion Series of sermons this past week. Copies of the sermons are now on the website and for pick up at the Clark St. entrance. This next Sunday Cindy Reynolds will be back but our preacher for the morning is Dr. Mary Lou Howson. Dr. Howson is our associate for pastoral care who has been helping the ministers with calling one afternoon a week. Communion will again be served.