Newsletter

October 2019

Serving People in our Community

Second Presbyterian Church had two large events in the month

of September. In one weekend we had the OSU Tailgate Party

and the multi-church service and picnic at Rotary Park. Both

events had beautiful weather and a great turnout.

Quotes from the Events:

“It was a fun time. Thanks for all your hard work” - Nancy

Leblanc in regards to the OSU tailgate party.

“brats/beer”- John Copper’s response to the Favorite Tailgate

Food Poll

“Beautiful weather and service at the park” - Judy Bell

“I really enjoyed being outside with of all God’s creations, the

sun, breeze, trees, and the great company of other churches.

Too bad we can’t do it every week!” - Cindy Hettinger

OFFICE HOURS 9 AM – 3 PM

MONDAY THRU THURSDAY

WEEKLY MONDAYS 11:00 AM - Staff Meeting TUESDAYS 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM - Food Pantry WEDNESDAYS 8:00 AM - Men’s Prayer Breakfast - Daisy’s Downtown 3:00 PM - Partnership 4:00 PM - Wired Word THURSDAYS 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM - Food Pantry SATURDAYS 8:00 AM - Men’s Bible Study- SPC Parlor SUNDAYS 9:30 am – Prayer in the Chapel 10:00 AM – Worship & Sunday School 11:30 AM - Adult Study

MONTHLY 1ST SUNDAY 10:00 AM - Communion 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Youth Group 1ST MONDAY 3:30 PM - Facilities Committee 6:00 PM - Personnel Committee 7:00 PM - Outreach Committee 2ND SUNDAY - Cake Sunday 10:00 AM - Youth School Sunday School 2:00 PM - Worship at Chapel Grove 2ND MONDAY 7:00 PM - Session 2ND TUESDAY 4:00 PM - Board of Deacons 2ND WEDNESDAY 10:00 AM - Worship at Sharonbrooke 2ND FRIDAY 6:00 PM - Fellowship Dinner 3RD MONDAY 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Staff Lunch out 4:00 PM - Community Dinner 3RD TUESDAY 4:00 PM - Education 4TH MONDAY 6:30 PM - Pres. Women CT Committee 4TH WEDNESDAY 4:00 PM - Community Dinner 7:00 PM - Worship Committee

OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS

05 - Mary Kreager

07 - Diann Priest

09 - Phaedra Abdalla

09 - Patricia Cain

09 - Jerry Krebs Jr.

11- Amy Mader

11– Addy Tracy

13- Doug Crawford

13- Janet Englefield

17- Betty Hammond

20- Ted Cobb III

24- Dorothy Harvey

28- Chelsea Gough

29- Lorianna Feightner

30- Karen Gough

30- Carolyn Myers

The Sacrament of Holy Communion:

The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be observed

on October 6. If you know a shut-in who might like to

have communion delivered to them at their home that

week, please contact the church office or a Deacon.

Sunday School Schedule for October-

10/6– Family Worship Sunday with Holy

Communion. Children stay in the sanctuary to

share in worship with their church family; there is no

separate Sunday school class. (The Nursery is

available every Sunday for children from infancy through pre-school-

age.)

10/13, 10/20, 10/27, - Elementary students dismissed to class

following the Children’s Moment.

10/13 – Middle and High School Youth dismissed to class following the

Children’s Moment.

Youth Sunday School

The Education Committee is happy to announce that our Middle School

Sunday class has been expanded this school year to include both Middle and

High School students! The class meets the 2nd Sunday of each month in the youth classroom, which is

located in the downstairs hallway leading to the Youth Center. Students will leave the sanctuary with

their teacher following the Children's Moment. All middle and high school students are encouraged to

join us!

Fellowship Activity

Do you love theater? Do you love spending time with your church family? Want to see a

Bible story come to life? Then join your church family and come see Joseph and the

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Weathervane Playhouse!

Date: October 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM

Ticket Cost: $20.00

Reserve your seat and pay for your ticket with the Church Office Mon– Thurs 9 am—3 pm

Children’s Bible Presentation

The Education Committee is delighted to be able to present a Bible to three 3rd/4th-grade

students this year! Congratulations and Good Reading to:

Juliaunna Gano

Evan Pyle

Ben Widdowson

A Note from Your Deacons

We hope you have walked through the dining room and seen the children’s

coats we have gotten so far to support the Salvation Army. That’s only a

SMALL amount of what has been collected or bought with many more still

to come ….THANKS TO YOUR GENEROSITY! Our drive ends October 15

with a small celebration being planned in church on October 13. Please

know how appreciative your Deacons are for your participation allowing us

to bring support to our community.

We continue to find opportunities to assist our members and our

community in our brain storming meetings. Deacon meetings are jovial and

productive, led by a thoughtful moderator who shall go unnamed, right Tim

Gano? Please feel free to let any deacon know if you have ideas for how we

can better care for our church and our community.

In Christ’s Love, Mike Ambrus, Ruth Cooper, Molly Frye, Tim Gano, Tom

Henry, Sue Henry-Mounts, Joan McKay, Diann Priest, Judy Tuttle

Presbyterian Women

We invite you to join PW for the….

PW Annual Fall Meeting

“Famous Salad & Dessert Smorgasbord”

Sunday October 13, 2019

SPC Dining Room at 11:30

Inviting all Ladies and “PW Auxiliary” (aka men)!

Please plan to join PW this day to dedicate the “Thank Offering”, approve the

budget and learn valuable information.

We welcome Martha Pool, our guest speaker.

Martha will present the “Be Prepared, Not Scared” program on disaster

preparedness.

Please make your reservation with Debbie Kullman or the Church office.

We look forward to seeing you there!

You Can Buy Fair Trade Coffee!

Equal Exchange has over 120 worker-owners, each with an equal stake – and an

equal vote – in the business. They are one of the largest democratic worker-owner

co-operatives in the country.

They offer good products - at a good price – for a good cause!

Our stock item is Breakfast Blend Coffee (beans, ground, or K-cups, $7 each), available during

Fellowship Time the last Sunday of each month. You can also contact Ruth or John Cooper any

time for a special delivery.

NOTE: Due to a change in selling patterns, we will no longer be carrying chocolate bars. Thank

you for your past support for this particular product.

The class that meets on

Sunday mornings

continues with the video

lecture series published

by The Great Courses

entitled The Story of the

Bible. Recent lessons

have covered how the

invention of the printing

press changed the use

and impact of the Bible,

leading to the Protestant

Reformation, new

Creeds stressing the

importance of Scripture,

and the use of Biblical

stories in art, literature,

and music. Every

fascinating detail makes

us appreciate the Bible

we have even more!

Everyone is always

welcome! You don’t

have to come every

week. Please join us

any time you can.

Sundays, 11:30 – 12:15,

Emmaus Room

Vision Statement

We, the congregation of Second

Presbyterian Church, accept that

we have been called to love,

serve and worship God and to

proclaim the good news of our

Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As a beacon of Christ serving

our community, we joyfully

pledge to use our God-given

gifts of time, talent and treasure

to meet the spiritual and physical

needs of all people. We exist by

the grace of God, and will

respond each day to His love by

loving one another with the

kindness, humility, and

gentleness of Jesus Christ.

Second Presbyterian Church

42 E Church Street,

PO Box 428

Newark, OH 43058-0428

Office 740/349-8691

Fax 740/345-0718

office@spcnewark.org

www.spcnewark.org

@SPCNewark

CHOICE FOOD

PANTRY For September we served 147

households of which there were 70 children (ages 0-17), 225 adults (ages 18-59) and

71 seniors (60+).

A TOTAL OF 366 PEOPLE

WERE SERVED!

Minus 1 day

Listen to our Sunday Worship Service on WCLT-AM 1430 or Kate FM 98.7 at 10:15 a.m. each Sunday.

Sharing our Faith

Recently in my household we have been watching the new HGTV show

A Very Brady Renovation. For this show, HGTV has purchased the house in

California that was used as the outside of the Brady’s house in the original

Brady Bunch series. The HGTV stars are working alongside the grown up

“Brady kids” to renovate the inside of the house to be a replica of the TV

home, which had previously only existed on a sounds stage. It has been

interesting to watch them try to find furniture, wallpaper, carpet, countertops,

and even appliances to match the ones that had been used on the show.

What is really interesting about this

show being a hit with my children is that neither

of them had ever watched a single episode of

the Brady Bunch but still they were fascinated

by this renovation. I decided that we needed to

remedy that and quickly discovered that the

Brady Bunch shows are actually available to

stream on Amazon Prime. So, just this last week my girls and I have started

the task of “binge-watching” the Brady Bunch series. It has been so much fun

to expose them to a show I remember watching as a child (of course they were

reruns for me too), and to see how they react to the 70s décor and clothing

choices.

I absolutely love having the chance to pass things that I enjoyed in my

childhood down to my children. Of course, my children have not found all of

those things as interesting as I did, but, when they really enjoy something I

enjoyed it brings me so much joy as it also fills me with nostalgia.

This got me thinking about how we go about passing on our faith. Just

as I cannot force my children to appreciate pieces of culture from my

childhood, we can never force someone to become a follower of Jesus. In fact,

when we try to force our faith on someone else, it most often has the reverse

effect and makes them uninterested at all. All we can do is try to share with

others the joy, peace, love, and purpose that a relationship with Jesus has

brought into our lives and hope that they too will want to have that experience.

Perhaps one of the best ways to think about this comes from the fifth

chapter of Galatians, where the Apostle Paul talks about the Fruit of the Spirit.

Remember he says that “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” When we let

our lives bear this kind of fruit, we can trust that God will use it to impact the

lives of those who encounter us. Join me this month in praying that God would

fill us anew with the fruit of the Spirit and that others will see that fruit and

know that they too are loved and called to be part of God’s great story of

redemption for the world.

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Todd