The annual Fathers’ Breakfast will be held on Sunday, June 15 at 9:45 in the Fellowship Hall. Everyone is invited to this event. The food will be prepared by the Fellowship Committee so no need to bring anything but your appetite. Please join us as we honor the fathers in our congregation.
On Earth Peace is hiring a short-term contract position to support the 2014 Peace Day campaign. Here’s more info!
Peace Day 2014 falls on Sunday, September 21, and we’re hoping that many churches will incorporate peace prayers into their Sunday morning worship services that day. The theme for our 2014 campaign is “Visions and Dreams of Building Peace.”
POSITION LISTING:
Peace Day Campaign Organizer – Social Media/Online Focus
POSTING DATE: May 21, 2014
Application review begins May 28, with hiring ASAP thereafter
FULL POSITION LISTING ONLINE HERE
Worship Theme: “Glory is revealed” (1 Peter 4:13) as we teach and are taught
Texts: Deut. 32:1-3 and John 14:15-21
Sermon by Matt Landes
Worship Theme: The Spirit Rested on Them (Numbers 11:25) and not everyone was happy!
Texts: Numbers 11:24-30; John 7:37-39 (‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’)
Sermon: Eldad, Medad, and Moses
Theme: The Holy Spirit ordains us all into the ministry of making disciples. And as we speak the Word of life to others God is at work transforming us in the process but that doesn’t mean that everyone will be happy about that.
(When Moses was informed that Eldad and Medad were prophesying without him, he chastised the tattle-tale and said: “[I wish that] all the Lord’s people were prophets!”)
Series: The Story of Naomi and Ruth: From Famine to Full
Texts: Ruth 1 John 11:17-45
Sermon: From Famine to Full Part One: “There was a famine in the land.”
Theme: In God, the end of the line is the beginning of a story.
(Often when we feel we have come to the end of hope, the end of possibility, the end of our resources we have actually come to the beginning of a glorious new story in God’s book of life.)
Series: The Story of Naomi and Ruth: From Famine to Full
Texts: Ruth 4; John 12:1-17
Sermon: From Famine to Full, Part Two: “A son has been born to Naomi.”
Theme: In the Reign of God, life is made in the fullness of love.
(From the unexpected union of the cast-off Ruth with the hospitable Boaz, a child is born which fulfills the hope of an impoverished widow and continues the line of the King.)
Theme: Anointing for healing and wholeness, strength, forgiveness, and faith.
Texts: Luke 10:27-37 (the Good Samaritan)
Sermon: Anointed with oil and wine
(In the story of the Good Samaritan we find that “from one least expected comes the healing most needed.” Here we learn both to be the healer and to let ourselves be healed.)
July 6, Annual Conference Sunday
| June 2014 Volunteers | |||||
| Duty | 6/8/2014 | 6/15/2014 | 6/22/2014 | 6/29/2014 | |
| Preacher: | Chris Bowman | Chris Bowman | Chris Bowman | Chris Bowman | |
| Worship Leader: | Angela Finet | Colleen Eddy | Missy Burket | Shirley Roth | |
| Children’s Story | Rob Powell | Jan Burket | Mark Wilkerson | Chris Bowman | |
| Acolyte: | Sary Burket | Charlotte Kosek | Drew Seidel | Eric Finet | |
| Greeters: | Zience/Roth | Fisher Bachman/Wingert | Meadows/Wilkerson | Ferrari/Judd | |
| Organists Hymn Leader: |
Shafer/Wuhrman | Shafer/MacKinnon | Carson/Shafer/Strong | Shafer/Wuhrman | |
| Counters: | Biddle/Connolly | Kozaks | Levesques | Bowman/Ferrari | |
| Nursery: | Anne Kosek | Karen Richardson | Leah Landes | Jerry Anne Kines | |
| Nursery: | Sarah Beth Seidel | Casey Comer | Grace Bachman | Michael Biddle | |
| Nursery: | Cortland Comer | Emma Bachman | Michael Biddle | Cortland Comer | |
| Worship Activity Time Leader: | Debbie Seidel | Missy Burket | Karen Richardson | Debbie Seidel | |
| Worship Activity Time Helper: | Kennley Judd | Robyn Legge | Eric Finet | Seth Strong | |
| Sunday School Nursery: | Jan Burket | Kim Ferrari | Jake Burket | Jan Burket | |
| Nursery Toy Cleaners: | Karen Richardson | Karen Richardson | Karen Richardson | Karen Richardson | |
| Sanctuary Partners – Jacob and Missy Burket | |||||
We spent 30 hours fasting and learning about the struggles of poverty. In the picture the kids are working together to cross the Amazon on a plank to get to school like hungry kids in South America who face many obstacles to ending the cycle on poverty including hunger. We spent the night in the Heifer Global Village to simulate the housing challenges of the hungry the bamboo house is similar to a home in Thailand which is where many of the girls slept.
This year we would like to make a donation to On Earth Peace in honor of our Sunday School teachers. According to their website, “We help individuals, congregations, communities, and other groups grow in peace through powerful programs of training and accompaniment. Our professional staff and network of experienced volunteers provide skills, support, and spiritual foundations for overcoming violence with the power of love. ” If you’d like to participate, make the check out to Oakton Church of the Brethren, with “On Earth Peace” in the memo line, and put it in the offering by June 1st. Find out more about On Earth Peace at www.onearthpeace.org.