April 2018 Vol. 85, No. 4

A church dedicated to worship, spiritual nurture, peacemaking, service, and Christian unity.

THE SOWER Christian Temple (Disciples of Christ) 5820 Edmondson Avenue Baltimore, MD 21228-1929 Phone: 410-747-2041 Website: www.christiantemple.org; Email: office@christiantemple.org "Christian Temple Church" is on Facebook Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 8AM—2PM; Tues 12-4PM Reverend Richard K. Powell, Minister Mark Wilson, Director of Music & Liturgy Andy Eaker, Pastoral Resident Beau Lochte, Chancel Bell Choir Director Robin Picanso, Office Administrator Cindy Wagner, Congregational Moderator

Quilted Together to Warm the World

April 8th– May 6, 2018

A financial campaign to underwrite the ministries of Christian Temple and to support a beloved family in our community

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Click here to learn more about Keely’s story: http://

www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-

county/catonsville/ph-ca-keely-horch-meningitis-

20170816-story.html

Generosity makes everything possible and makes

our hearts sing! Please be generous in your sup-

port of Christian Temple and the community that

graciously receives our ministry.

Shalom,

Rick

This year our Every Member Commitment will

present us with two important opportunities.

OUR ANNUAL COMMITMENT, OR PLEDGE

This critically important financial promise to

Christian Temple is the engine that drives our

ministry. When our members are generous, AND

willing to say ahead of time through this pledge,

what we plan to give over the coming year, our

congregational leadership is able to gather those

promises and make ambitious, but also fiscally

responsible, plans for our ministry between July

1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

We will receive these commitments between

April 8th and May 6th. And, we will celebrate our

generosity with an after worship Cinco de Mayo

happy hour on May 6th in the gathering!

OUR GIFT TO A NEIGHBOR IN NEED

The Horch family lived around the corner from

Christian Temple for many years. We got to

know Tracy (the mom) when she brought her

kids to the play group that met in our old nursery,

and would stop on the way in and out of the

building to visit. Since then the Horches have

been active in our neighborhood.

Late last winter, Keely, the Horch’s youngest of

three kids, suffered a massive stroke after con-

tracting an aggressive bacterial infection. Thank-

fully, the stroke didn’t affect Keely’s cognitive

function. But the twelve year old girl who loves to

bake and play soccer is now a quadriplegic with

many special needs.

We know that the needs of the community are

many. But we plan to offer us all an opportunity

to make a gift to the Horch family- along with our

annual commitment-to help them defray their

enormous expenses and to make sure they know

Christian Temple still cares for them.

Rick Powell will be leading a discussion of the

book “Everything Happens for a Reason- And

Other Lies I’ve Loved” by Kate Bowler. The

book is written by a woman living with end

stage colon cancer and discusses issues

around how to offer care to ourselves and

others in the midst of life’s difficulties. It won’t

be necessary to buy the book in order to en-

joy the class but we will make copies of the

book available for those who are interested

for around $15.

Join us!

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It’s Time to Register for Vacation Bible School!

We want to invite all children from age 4 through those completing 5th grade to this year’s Vacation Bible School (VBS), called Rolling River Rampage: Experience the Ride of a Lifetime with God. Rolling River Rampage will take place from June 18-22 from 9 am to 12 noon right here at Christian Temple. Kids will experience a Bible-based good time in a camping/rafting environment as they learn the many ways they can experience God in their lives. We will have a week filled with Bible stories, music, mission projects, crafts, science, a reptile show, games, and a puppet show!

To register for VBS, go to http://rrr.cokesburyvbs.com/CTemple or pick up a registration form at church. For more information, contact Donna Goon at 410-750-1936 or at donna.goon@gmail.com. You may also contact the church office at 410-747-2041.

Vacation Bible School Needs Volunteers

We need lots of volunteers to make VBS happen, including teacher helpers. You don’t have to work the whole week—we’ll take your help any day that you can make it June 18-22. Many jobs can be done in advance of the VBS week (buying snacks or last minute supplies, prepping crafts, games and science activities to name a few), so even if you can’t be there during the week of VBS, you might be able to help! We encourage youth in high school and middle school to be part of the fun. Adults and teens who wish to volunteer can also register at our VBS website.

As You Do Your Spring Cleaning, Check for These Supplies for Vacation Bible School!

We need lots of supplies for VBS crafts, science, games and for our set. Here is a current list of things you might have around the house that you could donate or lend to us. There is a

purple box in the Gathering where you can place these items:

And finally, we continue to ask for your prayers for a successful VBS program.

• Wooden Beads

• Solar Paper

• Freezer Paper

• Washable Markers

• Kitchen sponges

• Package of Balloons

• Bird seed

• Glitter pens

• Colored feathers

• Tracing paper

• Hula Hoops

• 2 Liter Bottles with caps (empty)

• Clear packing tape

• Glue Sticks

• Bottle of white vinegar

• Empty peanut butter jars with lids

• Table tennis paddles

• Rafts

• Bottle of Cooking Oil

• Package of Cornmeal

• Paper Cups (8oz or Larger)

• Fabric scraps

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Come on Thursdays (6:15-7:15 PM)

to a Zumba party in the Fellow-ship Hall! No dance skills needed! Just the ability to move and have fun! Our experienced instructor, Maria Thomas, is full of energy and vitality. There is never a dull moment in her classes! The cost is just $5 every time you participate (no need to pay in advance). Maria will donate 50% of the nightly proceeds to the church!

APRIL BIRTHDAYS!

7 – 8:30 PM

Join us for an opportunity to talk

about the social justice issues of

the day with friends from Christian

Temple and the South Baltimore

community that surrounds

Randall Street Christian Church.

Second Sundays meets monthly

21 Dennis Cornell, Jr.

22 Dave Braddy

Steve Heishman

23 Cindy Wagner

24 Hart Guonjian-Pettit

25 Evan Gough

27 Ben Foy

29 Bobbi Harding

3 Samantha Helme

4 Nyla Ratajczak-Dickson

6 Anna Cheadle Hughes

7 Jeffrey Yamarik

8 Joshua LaVeck

James Nichols

9 Andrew Wecht

10 Wendy Tsai-Foy

Morgan Helme

11 Allan Barnes

Evan January

Samuel Redwinski

12 Lola Myers

Pamela Stehr

16 Bev Carriker

17 Mary Ann Earley

Howard Saks

18 John Earl Cheadle

Michael Stone

20 Don Berry

Vicki Cearfoss

John Oliver

BOOK CLUB

Book Club meets most months to review the latest book read. Join them in church library for some lively and fun discussions.

Upcoming Schedule:

Wed April 25, 2018

The Paris Architect by Charles

Belfoure (local author)

Wed May 30, 2018

A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor

Towles (Library copies are in great

demand--so put yourself on

the reserve list early.)

Questions? Contact Lyman Goon at goongold@aol.com

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Any who are interested in learning about the proposed

“Super” Royal Farms that is planned to be built on Ed-

mondson Avenue between Harlem Lane and the Grilled

Cheese Company is invited to attend a community meet-

ing on April 10th at 7:30 PM. Location to be determined.

http://www.academyheightsmd.org/

CYF SPAGHETTI DINNER

&

TALENT SHOW

Calling All Former CYF Members

This April 21st marks the 15th

Anniversary of

the CYF Talent Show! To make it special we

are inviting anyone who is willing/able to join us

to come back! Anyone remember No Touchy

Sumo Wrestling? Olympic Tree Climbing? Did

you have a favorite skit? Do you just like dress-

ing up and being silly? Even if your favorite part

was just being back stage…there’s a place for

you too!!! Please contact Kim Junker at

(rio_jo@yahoo.com) if you are willing to be part

of this Anniversary show. It’s going to be fun!

Community Notice

Anyone who knows where the patens that go with these chalices might be is asked to call the church office at 410-747-2041.

Thanks!

March 4, 2018

On this particular Sunday we worshipped “New Orleans” style thanks to these musicians.

A Note from Caroline Pugh...

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Brochures are available in the Gathering, but the most complete information will be found by visiting www.cccadisciples.org/camp .

NEW this year is an online Camper Registration and Payment System. Access this system by using the following link:

https://app.campdoc.com/!/home/auth/login?r=ccca

This new registration process allows campers/parents to sign up for any of the 2018 CCCA-sponsored camps and conferences, complete medical forms, enter Scholarship and other discount codes, and make payments in one sitting! Although online registration is encouraged, we are still happy to assist you with the traditional registration process if pre-ferred. Contact the church office by phone (410-747-2041) or email ( office@christiantemple.org ).

Scholarship applications are located on www.christaintemple.org , in the Gathering, and in this Sower. Please complete an application for each camper your are registering. This will allow you to receive Christian Temple’s scholarship code and a 50% discount. Please return your scholarship appli-cations to the church office by email or drop-off. (Applications are limited to one camp/conference per camper for the season.)

Participating in World Peace

When Peace on Earth today seems so far away it is not the time to give up Hope. Christian Temple just held a small exhibit introducing the Peace Pole Project that has planted tens of thousands of Peace Poles in over 180 countries within the past forty years. They all have the same prayer on each side of the six or seven foot tall vinyl poles with a choice of a different language on each side. In English it reads: May Peace Prevail on Earth.

Sponsored by the Peace Pole Society, the example shown below has been planted in Cambodia. Check-ing the internet one can find even more ways of using the theme "May Peace Prevail on Earth”, such as ending e-mails with these words. Joining this urgent message made visible on the Christian Temple property would add our Hope and Intention of such a worthy cause. Let’s Do It!

The 5K Walk for Youth will

be held on Saturday, May 5th,

2018 beginning at 9:00 am. The

Walk meanders through surrounding

residential neighborhoods and down-

town Catonsville. The primary

course is approximately 3.5 miles for the hearty hiker. Shorter

courses are available. The Walk begins and ends on the Home’s

campus at 205 Bloomsbury Avenue in Catonsville. The finish

line includes refreshments, music, activities, awards, and prizes.

We invite companies, families, organizations, neighborhoods,

faith-based groups, agencies, and individuals to participate in the

Walk as an individual, team, sponsor, or contributor.

For more information visit:

http://thechildrenshome.net/community-walk-2/

Registration available at:

https://one.bidpal.net/5kwalkforyouth

THEOLOGY ON TAP

Friday, April 27th

Location TBD

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Syrian Supper and

Cultural Exchange

St. John’s Grace invites you to enjoy an evening of fellowship and an authentic Syrian meal prepared by Madiha and Fatima, Syrian refugees whose love of cooking was passed down from their moth-

ers. Proceeds from the event will go to support Madiha’s and Fatima’s families.

Menu

Kabsa (rice and chicken)

Kibbeh (meat pies)

Yalanji (stuffed grape leaves)

Tabbouli (tabbouleh)

Knafeh Nabulsieh (cheese pastry)

Baklava (nut pastry)

Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 4 pm

St. John’s Grace Fellowship Hall Adults: $25 donation, Children 12 and under: $5 donation

Please contact Laura Prinn (prinn329@msn.com, 410-897-2534) for tickets and Leah Hayes for all other questions (lakhayes@yahoo.com).

St. John’s Grace United Church of Christ

1000 S. Rolling Road, Catonsville, MD 21228

Monday, April 9th! All Women Invited!

Join us for the Women’s Group Movie Night! Questions? Contact Jayna Powell

at jaynapowell74@gmail.com

From the Financial Secretary…

Quarterlies will be available beginning April 8th.They will include payments through March 31st, and not in-clude offerings made on

Sunday, April 1st. Please contact the office if you have any questions at office@christiantemple.org or 410-747-2041.

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Kitchen Clean-up

• Please clean up immediately following any use of the kitchen.

• All leftover food must be taken home with you. Please do not leave any leftovers in the refrigerator/freezer. They will be removed and likely need to be disposed of immediately. (The exception to this rule will be commercially packaged condiments and sealed bottles of water, juice, etc... These will be tossed out prior to their expiration date.)

• After an event, remove trash bags and place them in the outside trash containers. Remember to securely close the lids.

• Please make sure that counters are cleaned and cleared of food and debris.

• Following directions at the sink area, please wash used cooking and serving items. Do not leave dishes sitting out to air dry. Please towel dry all washed items and put them away properly.

• Please check to make sure that the oven has been turned off.

• Place unused paper products in the pantry.

Thank you for helping us to keep Christian Temple’s

kitchen clean and healthy to use!

Note: Proper food storage is critical and a requirement of the Health Department. Please let the office know if you are planning to place any food in the refrigerator or freezer prior to an event. All food items should be completely wrapped and labeled with your name and event, ingredients, and date of preparation. Unopened, prepackaged commercial food items are okay as long as they have an expiration date and ingredient listing. Please still label these items with your name and event.

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Acolyte: Wren Welch

Transportation Team: Byers (To), Griffin (Home)

Children at Worship: Kecia Johnson, Beth Wescott

Communion Bread: Pat LaFon

Communion Set-up/Clean-up: Sue Medicus, Sherry Welch,

Donna Goon, Dave Braddy

Deacons: Johnnie Fries, Joan Bosmans, Lynn Andrews, Bob

Andrews, Dave Braddy, Donna Goon, Katrina Luking, John

Dennehy

Elders: Sue Medicus (Offering), Sherry Welch (Communion)

Greeters: Jean O’Donnell

Lay Reader: Gloria Todd

Ushers: Dave Braddy, Byron Foy

Stewards: Hope Cursey, Dan Guonjian-Pettit, Luke Guonjian-

Pettit, Bradley Mills Patrick Rodriguez

Sunday, April 1 Easter Sunday!

8:00 AM Early Service

9:00 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM Easter Egg Hunt

10:30 AM Morning Worship

Monday, April 2 Office Closed

9:00 AM Counters

3:30 PM SCC/Counseling Clinic

7:30 PM AA

Tuesday, April 3

3:30 PM SCC/Counseling Clinic

7:00 PM Bell Choir Practice

7:30 PM NA

Wednesday, April 4

9:30 AM Bible Study

3:00 PM Book Club

3:30 PM SCC/Counseling Clinic

6:30 PM NAMI Family to Family Class

Thursday, April 5

3:30 PM SCC/Counseling Clinic

6:15 PM Zumba

6:15 PM The Well

7:30 PM Chancel Choir Practice

Friday, April 6

7:30 AM Men’s Breakfast

9:30 AM VBS Planning Meeting

3:30 PM SCC/Counseling Clinic

7:00 PM AA

8:00 PM Al Anon

Saturday, April 7

9:00 AM Performing Arts Program

Please note that this may not be a complete listing of all the activities taking place at Christian Temple during any given week. If you have any questions, please contact the event's coordinator or the church office for the most up to date information. Thank you!

Life at Christian Temple!

April 1, 2017

EASTER SUNDAY

8:00 AM

EARLY WORSHIP IN THE COURTYARD

9:00 AM

BREAKFAST

9:30 AM

EASTER EGG HUNT IN THE COURTYARD

10:30 AM

MORNING WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR THE PASSION OF THE CROSS AND THE

GLORY OF THE CROWN!!!

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"This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of

human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all." -Anne Lamott

Thanks to your gifts, Week of Compassion is always about the work of Easter - every day, around the world!

We know that, indeed, all life is sacred and so we seek to help folks recover from natural disaster, to help our

brothers and sisters who live in poverty seek better lives through Fair Trade and sustainable agricultural

practices, and to assist in the empowering women around the globe to lives of greater dignity and hope.

Easter means that not even the worst that the world can do will ever defeat the love of God! And Easter

therefore is our call to follow God's lead in not letting the "powers and principalities" defeat our hope, and to do

all we can to witness to the possibility of resurrection and of new life. It sometimes seems, again Christian

writer Anne Lamott says, that "we are an Easter people living in a Good Friday world," for pain, suffering, and

injustice are too much a part of too many lives. But God's call to us is to indeed live as Easter peoples,

knowing that every effort we make to alleviate that pain and suffering and injustice is a sign of resurrection

and new and renewed life.

These efforts would be far less possible without your prayers and your gifts to Week of Compassion. Thank

you, thank you. "Be," Lamott says, "a resurrection story"! Together we shall continue to write new chapters of

that story, every day, around the world. www.weekofcompassion.org/our-impact/

An Invitation to Join the Christian Temple Youth on in Cleaning the Church Building and Grounds

For the past several years, through the leadership of Jim Junker,

Katrina Luking, and Valeria Sipes the youth at Christian Temple

have given their one of their spring Saturday mornings cleaning up

the flowerbeds in front of our church building. Please join us on

Saturday, April 8th at 9 AM to help clean the Gathering, Kitchenette,

and Sanctuary, as well

as clean the flowerbeds

- weeding and mulching

so we can have our

church building and

grounds ready for Palm

Sunday and Easter Sunday worship. If you plan on working on

the flowerbeds, please bring garden tools, kneepads, and gloves.

A light breakfast and refreshments will be available. For more

information, please contact Jim Junker or Vaughn Ouellette.

Always About the Work of Easter

March 27, 2018

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April 2018 April 1 April 8 April 15 April 22 April 29

Acolyte Wren Welch Lola Myers Marissa Stewart Silas Welch TBD

Annette Joehnk Byers (to)

Griffin (home)

Cearfoss

Woodard

Preisinger

Pence

Goon

Moore

Wagner

Stansbery

CAW:

Kecia Johnson

Beth Wescott

Sonja Scott

Brook Scott

Andra Broadwater

Brad Sweet-Laughlin

Matt Bloedorn

Erin Fisher

Rebekah Cerame

Matt Cerame

Church Closer NA NA NA NA NA

Communion

Bread Baker Pat LaFon Pat LaFon Pat LaFon Pat LaFon Pat LaFon

Communion:

Set up/Clean up

Sue Medicus Sherry Welch Donna Goon Dave Braddy

Bob Andrews

Lynn Andrews

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon

Joan Bosmans

Dave Braddy

Bob & Lynn Andrews

(set-up)

Fries & Bosmans (clean-up)

Deacons

*Team Leader

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon*

Lynn Andrews

Bob Andrews

Joan Bosmans

Dave Braddy

Katrina Luking

John Dennehy

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon*

Lynn Andrews

Bob Andrews

Joan Bosmans

Dave Braddy

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon*

Lynn Andrews

Bob Andrews

Bobbi McIntyre

Dave Braddy

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon*

Lynn Andrews

Bob Andrews

Joan Bosmans

Dave Braddy

Johnnie Fries

Donna Goon*

Lynn Andrews

Bob Andrews

Joan Bosmans

Dave Braddy

Elders:

Offering

Communion

Sue Medicus

Sherry Welch

Joe Pettit

Jayna Powell

Glenn Helme

Kim Junker

P.E. Sherry Welch Wade Hannum John Caldwell

Bruce Nichols

Sue Medicus

Fellowship Hour NA Caring Team Ministry

Elders Legacy Society Men’s Group

Greeters Jean O’Donnell Jean O’Donnell Jean O’Donnell Jean O’Donnell Jean O’Donnell

Lay Readers Gloria Todd Kari Barnes Beth Wescott Katie Manger Sue Safford

Ushers Dave Braddy

Byron Foy

Wayne & Cheryl

Storie

Wayne & Cheryl

Storie TBD TBD

Stewards

Hope Cursey

Dan Guonjian-Pettit

Luke Guonjian-Pettit

Bradley Mills

Patrick Rodriguez

Hope Cursey

Dan Guonjian-Pettit

Luke Guonjian-Pettit

Bradley Mills

Patrick Rodriguez

Hope Cursey

Dan Guonjian-Pettit

Luke Guonjian-Pettit

Bradley Mills

Patrick Rodriguez

Hope Cursey

Dan Guonjian-Pettit

Luke Guonjian-Pettit

Bradley Mills

Patrick Rodriguez

Hope Cursey

Dan Guonjian-Pettit

Luke Guonjian-Pettit

Bradley Mills

Patrick Rodriguez

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CHRISTIAN TEMPLE (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) 5820 EDMONDSON AVENUE BALTIMORE, MD 21228-1929

Welcome Statement

Christian Temple is an Open and Affirming congregation of the Christian Church

(Disciples of Christ). For us, this means that we cherish all God’s children and welcome

everyone to Christ’s table of grace as we ourselves have been welcomed. We are

especially intent on deepening our congregational welcome to anyone for whom church

has not felt like a safe place.

Our community of faith includes members of the LGBTQ community and ranges widely

in age, physical and mental abilities, family and economic situations, marital status,

gender, skin color, ethnicity, and political convictions.

Join us as we seek to embody the realm of God through our diversity, celebrate the

grace of God through our worship, and share the love and justice of God from our

doorsteps to the ends of the earth.