Please keep these concerns in your minds and hearts in the coming days.

 

•         We pray for those who were unable to worship with us due to their current health limitations, including: Beth Stone, Erma Petry, Fred & Lois Roop, and Raymon Eller.

•         Those Deacons we hold in prayer this week: Anne Garber, Lois Good, Ann Hartsough, Tom Hess, and Alan & Marilyn Kieffaber.

•         Anita Sautter hospitalized at Parkview. Anita is recovering from a surgery this past Monday, February 28 and a second surgery on Friday, March 4.

•         Charles and Susie Klingler on the death of their sister-in-law, Virginia Klingler, Saturday, March 5, in Lima, Ohio. Service arrangements are pending.

•         Barry Deardorff as he anticipates surgery the morning of Tuesday, March 8.

•         Jean Stone recovering at Timbercrest following a recent hospitalization.

•         Lee Smith recovering in Timbercrest Healthcare following a recent hospitalization.

•         Grace Voorheis’s daughter, Judi Sanders, who broke her leg. She had surgery Sunday, March 6, in Michigan.

•         Phyllis Pettit on the death of her sister, Delores Harms Royer, this past week. Services were Saturday, March 5, in Michigan.

•         And all those who keep their concerns close to their hearts.

•         Our sister church in El Salvador, Emanuel Baptist. We pray for Pastor Miguel and for Oscar Rodriguez as they administer Emanuel’s country-wide ministry with limited funds.

•         We pray for peace.

 

Saturday, March 26, 2011, 2-4 p.m.

Peabody Retirement Community Social Room (by the Chapel)

No presents requested, just your presence

 

The Family Life Center is open from 8 to 10 am for walking and exercise. 

 

 

9:30 am Peace Patch Preschool – FLC

10:30 am Staff Meeting

4:30 pm H.S. Soccer – FLC

5:00 pm  Weight Watchers – Room 220

7:00 pm  Witness Commission

7:30 pm  Volleyball

 

12:00 pm  Pastors’ Lunch at Timbercrest

6:00 pm   Food-Fun-Friends

 

9:30 am Peace Patch Preschool – FLC

9:30 am CBWF Relief Sewing

4:30 pm H.S. Soccer - FLC

7:00 pm Stewardship Commission 

7:30 pm Ecclesia Choir Rehearsal

 

Walkers may enter FLC door

9:30 am Peace Patch Preschool – FLC

 10:30 a.m. Fellowship Time

 10:45 a.m.   Christian Education

     7:00 p.m. Room 213 in use   

Pancake & Sausage Benefit Breakfast For Laura Jean Hilty

Saturday morning, March 12, from 7 to 11 at the Brownstone Inn, South Whitley. Free transportation provided by Verlyn Transportation 1-219-712-5456

Travis Poling: travis@travispoling.com

Sunday night college student meals continue. Thirty to forty Manchester College students join us each week. They greatly appreciate this way the church cares for them. Please contact Loyce Borgmann if you are interested in helping to provide food for a meal or are willing to help with setting tables and/or clean-up. Your support is needed.

 

Many thanks to the All Things Considered Class for hosting the Fellowship Time during March. We are also grateful to the Questers Class for taking the responsibility during April.

After Food, Fun and Friends all are welcome to the sanctuary for an observance of Ash Wednesday beginning at 7pm. This service of reflection, song, prayer and ashes sets us on the Lenten journey. This year middle school and senior high youth will be offering the service of ashes.

·                    Friday, March 18 - Mom's and youth. 6-7:30pm in the FLC

·                    Sunday, March 20 - Movie night, 5:30pm at the Sollenbergers’

·                    The balance of your NJHC/Heritage Tour registration is due the end of the month. Make checks payable to: Manchester Church of the Brethren and get to Jim Chinworth by March 31

 

Gentle Yoga classes are on Monday in the Narthex. On Wednesday, Active Yoga is in Room 220. Both classes are from 6pm to 7pm. For more information please contact Adria at (260) 774-9336.

The children who attend Manchester Early Learning Center are excited to perform for you. Join us Saturday, April 16, for a live auction of children’s artwork, a silent auction of individual pieces, and light refreshments. Please mark your calendars: our event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Manchester College Union in the Lahman Room.

If you cannot attend you are invited to partner with us by helping sponsor the evening. Our families represent all walks of life within our community. Your name will be listed in the program if you can send your gift by March 18 to Manchester Early Learning Center, 806 West South Street.

 

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life® will be held at the Manchester College Track and Field on April 29 & 30. You can form a team or walk as an individual. Volunteers are also needed to provide their time and talentto ensure the success of this year’s Relay For Life event. For more information, call 1-800-227-2345, visit RelayForLife.org, or e-mail Lisa Ulrey lkulrey@hotmail.com.

Brethren Voices is a series of programs made for television or discussion sessions which has been produced by Brethren Community TV of Portland, Oregon. Each program is 28 minutes and 30 seconds long, so it is especially useful for an hour class or discussion session. Each raises questions which are important to Brethren and explores what Brethren are doing in the United States and around the world. The programs are all available in the church library and join the collection already begun by David Waas.

Camp Mack registration and fees are due to the church office by Friday, March 11. If you are registering on-line, you can still qualify for discounts by contacting the church office. Our church sponsors first-time campers 100%. Returning campers will get half the fee sponsored by our church. In addition, there is an early registration discount of $20 if you contact the church office by March 11. Contact Laura Gable with any questions concerning this process (982-7523 or 578-0378)

 

by Robert E. Alley, Moderator

For over 250 years, Annual Conference has served a valuable role in the life of the Christian movement known as the Church of the Brethren. We have gathered to seek the mind of Christ on matters of common concern, mission, and service. Much of this history has been recorded in decisions that formed how Brethren lived out God’s presence in their families, congregations, districts, and the world. However, that history extends beyond the minutes of business to the more prayerful manner in which Brethren entered into the gathering of Conference. In 2011, how will we enter prayerfully into our gathering in Grand Rapids?

I offer to you as members, leaders, congregations, and districts of our denomination, a guide to plan for your soul preparation in these six months leading to Annual Conference. May these help us all to listen to the Holy One and to each other as we seek to discern the mind and spirit of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

 

Due to the loss of Becker Lodge, Camp Mack is looking for temporary housing for summer staff. Summer Camps use camp’s other facilities. If you have an RV, mobile home, or park model that sleeps 2-4 persons (or more), and would be willing to loan it to Camp Mack to be used for staff housing from about May 15 to the end of August, please contact the Camp as soon as possible. The Camp Management Team needs to make a decision about summer staff housing as soon as possible and will be meeting to consider options on March 8.

You may email Phyllis with a description of what you might offer or you may phone the camp.   Thank you for your continued support.

Phyllis Leininger

Phyllis@campmack.org

574-658-4831

 

 

 

The FOR and the Scout Fuller Fund will host a benefit coffeehouse on April 2 in our Narthexto support two Iraqi students studying at Manchester College. Hajer Dlame is a junior this year and Yousra Kamoona is a sophomore. Both women are studying computer science and are deeply involved in campus life at the college. The coffeehouse will feature a tribute to local FOR founder Ken Brown, Middle Eastern food, and music by Greg Clark, Paul Fry-Miller, David Hupp, Brian Kruschwitz and LuAnne Harley. We'll also offer a silent auction that includes items such as a Riverbridge Electric service call, peace pole, Jenna Oke weaving, computer service calls, and hostas from the McFadden Garden. Go to www.nmfor.org to see a list of auction items, or contact Julie Garber (982-2083) if you have quality auction items or services to contribute. Suggested contributions for the evening range from $5-$25 at the door, purchase of an auction item, or a single contribution to the FOR/Iraqi Student Project fund. Join us for an evening of music, food, and fellowship, and participate in a small way in rebuilding Iraq.

 

New Community Project offers a study tour to El Salvador July 12-21. Costs for the trip are $675 plus airfare. The Parish to Parish Committee can provide partial assistance based on need. Priority will be given to people who will visit El Salvador for the first time. Please let Joel Eikenberry, Brad Yoder, David Rogers or Julie Garber know of your interest in participating. Youth and adults are welcome.

 

The brochure for the National Older Adult Conference has arrived in the church office. Feel free to copy what you need for your decision-making. Early registration is $30 cheaper. NOAC will be September 5 – 9 at Lake Junaluska, NC again this year

  

More than 100 area high school students and their teachers will spend a day discussing the challenges and opportunities of outsourcing at the 2011 Rotary World Affairs Conference on Thursday, March 10 at Manchester College.  For more about the conference, contact Jeri Kornegay, 260-982-5285 or jskornegay@manchester.edu

1. ADVANCE NOTICE!

South/Central Indiana District is scheduled for the week of December 11-17, 2011, to do flood recovery work in Tennessee. This project started in late January after heavy rain inundated that state from Memphis to Nashville. The project includes both major repair and new builds. At this time some of both types of work have been done. We need to supply fifteen (15) volunteers who can have any skill level. If you and others from your congregation can help, contact Cliff Kindy at kindy@cpt.org or phone 260-982-2971.

 

2. In one week, March 13, another work camp leaves to assist the Haitian Church of the Brethren in the massive rebuilding program being undertaken in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake that hit that island nation just over one year ago. Though none are yet scheduled, I expect other workcamps to be available. Let me know if I can assist you in joining those efforts. If you are interested in speakers from our district who have been in Haiti with these workcamps, please contact me.

 

3) You may be thinking about a congregational contribution through your budget or a gift from an individual member of $50-100 per year to assist in travel costs for those volunteers who go to more distant projects. The district board has set up a line item in the budget for such contributions. Checks to the district office at 604 N Mill St, North Manchester, IN 46962 can be designated for Disaster Response Transportation

 

Cliff Kindy, District Disaster Coordinator    phone: 260-982-2971

 

 

 

Have you signed up for your summer work camp experience yet? Register today! The Youth and Young Adult Ministry office would like to inform you that there are still spots available in a number of our denominational work camps this summer. We have great work camps and want great participants! Download and print our flier highlighting the openings we have. Register for the open camps online at www.brethren.org/workcamps

Clara Nelson

Assistant Workcamp Coordinator

Church of the Brethren

1451 Dundee Avenue

Elgin, IL 60120

800-323-8039, ext. 281