November 2017 HARVEST DINNER. Marcellus First Presbyterian Church Saturday, November 11th 4-7 pm in Shinaman Hall. NOVEMBER 5th.

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1 Newsletter of the Marcellus First Presbyterian Church Main & North Streets, Marcellus, NY November 2017 HARVEST DINNER Marcellus First Presbyterian Church Saturday, November 11th 4-7 pm in Shinaman Hall Enjoy a home cooked meal including: Turkey Mashed potatoes Dressing Gravy Squash Cabbage Salad Cranberry sauce Rolls Beverages Homemade pie ADULTS $10.00 CHILDREN 5-12 $5.00 CHILDREN UNDER 5 ARE FREE Church Families: Please bring in your homemade pie(s) to the church anytime before 3:00 pm on Saturday, November 11th. Anyone interested in helping with preparation, serving or clean up please contact the church office at NOVEMBER 5th All Saints Celebration will be Sunday, November 5th. We will celebrate the lives of those who have passed away during the past year. If you would like someone special to be remembered that day, please contact Pastor Pam. Inside This Issue Harvest Dinner Gnagy News Calendar Caring Ministry Church Updates Finance Committee Outreach Prayer Circle Seeking Wisdom Coloring Activity Christian Education Presbyterian Women Apartment for Rent Food Pantry Hours: Tuesday 11AM-12PM and 6:30PM - 7:30PM November 2017 Page 1

2 Gnagy News November brings us several celebrations! The Harvest Dinner on November 11; Thanksgiving celebrations in church and home; and the closing of the liturgical year in the church celebrating Christ the King. I keep thinking of psalms of praise, such as Psalm 96: O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless God s name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare God s glory among the nations, his marvelous works among the peoples. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. God is the creator of all the good things for which we give thanks at this time of year. Let us give thanks to God! I would like to give thanks to God especially here for the music in our church and the ways in which our members are so willing to share their gifts in order to praise and worship God. When we learned that Tom Witkowski was no longer able to continue as our accompanist, we prayed for him in his new endeavors, and gave thanks for the music he has shared with us. Now we give thanks that Colin Arnett and Marion Smith have stepped up to share accompanist responsibilities during our worship services. They are both very talented and we are glad to have them. I also give thanks that we are able to balance having Colin share his musical gifts in worship and still continue participating in the Youth Group, since Marion has agreed to play for the portions of the service that take place during that time. We also give thanks for Alan Beyel and the many ways in which his musical gifts are involved in our worship service. The music he writes and selects for the choir is beautiful and inspirational, and he is wonderful in the ways in which he works with the choir, accompanists and pastor to make music an integral part of worship and help encourage us as we sing to the Lord and bless God s name! How are you giving thanks to God during this season of Thanksgiving? Take a moment to think of the blessings you have experienced, and give thanks for them! Grace and peace, Pastor Pam **** We have an opportunity to give thanks to God at the Ecumenical Thanksgiving service and potluck supper on November 19, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. We will gather at the Methodist church at 5:00 p.m. for a brief service of thanksgiving with our friends from all the Marcellus churches, and have the opportunity to enjoy a delicious meal. I am certain it will be delicious because I think Marcellus has the best cooks and bakers around! ** Contacting us: the church office is open Monday-Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pastor Pam has Open Office hours on Tuesday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and is happy to meet other times just contact me! Leave a voice mail in the office for Sandy or leave it on Pastor Pam s voice mail it will be forwarded to me. My cell phone is and is p.gnagy@marcelluspc.com. November 2017 Page 2

3 November 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 All Saints Day am Zumba 8 pm AA Meeting 7:30 pm Choir Rehearsal 5 Communion All Saints Sunday 10:00 am Worship 10:30 am Church School 6 7 pm Mission Interpretation Meeting am Noon Open Office Hours 8 11:30 am PW Luncheon 8 pm AA Meeting 9 Harvest Dinner Preparation 7:30 pm Choir Rehearsal 10 Harvest Dinner Preparation :30 am Seeking Wisdom 4-7 pm Harvest Dinner :00 am Worship 10:30 am Church School 7 pm Deacons Meeting 7 pm Building & Grounds Meeting 10 am Noon Open Office Hours 8 pm AA Meeting 7:30 pm Choir Rehearsal 9 am Zumba :00 am Worship 10:30 am Church School 10 am Noon Open Office Hours Happy Thanskgiving Office Closed Office Closed 9 am Zumba 5 pm Ecumenical Thanksgiving Gathering at the Methodist Church 7 pm Fellowship and Outreach Meeting 8 pm AA Meeting 26 Christ the King Sunday 10:00 am Worship with Ginny Smith 10:30 am Church School 27 7 pm Session Meeting am Noon Open Office Hours 29 8 pm AA Meeting 30 7:30 pm Choir Rehearsal November 2017 Page 3

4 Caring Ministry Communion To Shut-Ins IN OUR PRAYERS The Deacons coordinate the offering of the Sacrament of Holy Communion to the homebound on Sundays that we celebrate the Sacrament in worship. The next opportunity for them to deliver Communion will be on November 5. If you are homebound and would like to receive Communion, please call the Church Office, , or Deb Swankey, Moderator of the Deacons, at CONNECTIONS Connections is published the first of each month by the Marcellus First Presbyterian Church. Deadline for materials is the 23th of the month preceding the month of publication. Submit materials and address changes to Church Office. Marcellus First Presbyterian Church PO Box 147, 1 East Main St. Marcellus, NY Phone: office@marcelluspc.com website: Worship: Church School 10:00 AM 10:30 AM Views expressed are those of the authors and not official positions of the Session, unless noted. Food Pantry Hours Tuesdays 11 am - 12 noon & 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm...family of Wesley Holden...Julie Becker...Harriet Stalker...Gwenn Rice...Lynn Rice...Tom Brown...Hank Bartholomew and family...betty Olley...Jan Linderman...Roger Hakes...Mike Caster...Shirley Marble Jean Reichard...Vicky Clark...Tobey Casler...June Gnagy...Victims of all disasters...our Armed forces worldwide...our friends & loved ones in need The Deacons Worship Attendance October 1 October 8 October 15 October 22 October Happy Birthday... Robert Snyder Zack Barner Geneva Hayden Maryilyn Lautenslager Jerry Czarny Betty Black Linda Czarny Allene Grossman Thomas Heil Diana Marocco Amy English Gladys Nelson Jane Amidon Carolyn Rice 11/01 11/05 11/07 11/08 11/08 11/10 11/11 11/12 11/21 11/21 11/23 11/27 11/27 11/30 November 2017 Page 4

5 UPDATES Food Bank Sunday Thank you to everyone who participated in our Wear Orange for the Food Bank of CNY Sunday. We collected an amazing $333.00! With our 2 to 1 match, that means the Food Bank of CNY will receive $ to help their mission to eliminate hunger through nutritious food distribution. The latest total for the Alzheimer s Walk is $214, Thank you to everyone who walked or sponsored us, we couldn t do it without you! Thank you, Jamie Johnston Finance Committee Summary of September Financials: Year to date as of end of September we are in a deficient of ($9,354) against our overall budget. September pledges received total $11,287, which are ($3,326) below monthly budget of $13,333. Year to date pledges total $103,879, which are ($16,118) below YTD budget of $119,997. Total Current Assets (checking $22,826 and savings $116,018) equal $138,844. As your Chairman of Finance and Stewardship, my hope is the next month s contributions will reduce this deficient. We will do so with the help from each of us and our Lord Jesus Christ whom I have faith will always be there for us. Karl Barner Chairman of Finance and Stewardship November 2017 Page 5

6 Outreach Thanksgiving Turkeys for the Food Pantry A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store for Thanksgiving Day, but couldn t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, Do these turkeys get any bigger? The stock boy replied: No, ma am. They re dead. Tom the Turkey will be visiting worship on November 12th to remind everyone to bring in Turkeys for the Marcellus Food Pantry on Sunday, November 19th. Turkeys are distributed with all of fixings for a Thanksgiving meal to families who regularly use the food pantry on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Christmas Angels The Angels from the Kirk Park After-School program will be here the first Sunday in Advent. The gift is pajamas. All pajamas should be placed in a shirt-sized box and wrapped with the child s name clearly printed on the outside. No bows or extra items please. Men s Union Club Weekly Dinner Meetings for Recovering Alcoholics 5:30 on Wednesdays at the Inn of the Seasons 4311 West Seneca Turnpike, Onondaga Hill. First meeting on November 15th For more information, call Jim LeGro, (315) Prayer Circle We have a group of folks who are members of a prayer circle. We receive prayer requests and pray for two weeks concerning that request. We respect people s privacy in that we do not need details about the situation / person we are praying for. If you wish for us to pray after two weeks, simply let us know. Presently, the following are in this circle. We welcome new members the process is simple. One of us receives the request, and we simply sebd it on to the next prayer member on our phone list. We will gladly supply the details of how our phone chaibn works when you oin us. Patrick Hetrick (315) phetrick@twcny.rr.com Cathy Roberts (315) carob49@aol.com Jan Linderman (315) ejanlinderman@yahoo.com Mary Heil (315) mheil@twcny.rr.com Carol Goodno home: (315) ggoodno8@gmail.com Mobile:(315) November 2017 Page 6

7 Seeking Wisdom We Make the Road By Walking A Gathering for Those Seeking to Deepen Their Relationship with God And Find Out More About Being a Jesus Follower Saturday, November 11, :00-11:30 AM - Fireside Room Led by Dr. Ginny Smith As we gather on November 11, Veterans Day, we ll be joining Mary Magdalene as she tells us about the Jesus, the tradesman from Nazareth, she knows. In chapter 26 of Brian D. McLaren's book entitled We Make the Road by Walking, she ll help us gain insight into Making It Real, as we explore Mark 2:1-19, Hebrews 11:1-8, and I John 1:1-2:6 and discuss how we can make a difference in our church and community by being Jesus Followers. If we truly trust him, we will follow him on the road, imitate him, learn from his example, live by his way. Because his message was and is so radical on so many levels, believing and following can t be treated lightly. They are costly. They require us to rethink everything. They change the course of our lives.... If we believe, we will make it real. In looking ahead, the dates for our future gatherings are December 9, A New Path to Aliveness; January 13, Your Secret Life; February 10, Why We Worry, Why We Judge; March 10, The Choice Is Yours; April 7, Palm Sunday Peace March; May 12, The Uprising Begins; and June 9, The Uprising of Fellowship. Hope to see you on November 11. PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME. November 2017 Page 7

8 Christian Education Harvest Dinner Volunteers All youth are asked to plan to be available to volunteer for the Harvest Dinner at church on November 11th. This even is always a busy one and every set of helping hands makes a huge difference. Unless you have a conflict that you can not reschedule, please make every effort to be there to help make this year s Harvest Dinner a successful one! Pageant Preparations Beginning Soon Although it is barely November, we will be thinking about Christmas Pageant preparations quite soon. The pageant is set for December 10th during the regular church service. Anyone who is interested in volunteering to help is welcome to do so. Just talk to Brian Ray to let him know of your interest. We would love to have the help and fresh involvement! December Movie Event In case you hadn t heard, there is a new Star Wars movie being released in December, and requests to make this our youth group Movie Tavern outing for the year have been numerous. So mark your calendars for Saturday, December 16th!! We have tickets to the 6:20pm showing at the Movie Tavern in Camillus, and have a block of seats reserved. If you haven t already been in touch with Allison Ray to claim your seat, please be in touch as soon as possible. All youth group kids are invited to go and there are a few extra seats for interested parents. Gifts for our Neighbors in Uganda Our package of goodies for Joan and her fellow residents at Children of the Father s House was met with great surprise and joy! Laura, the CFH director, arrived in Uganda in early October and stayed for over two weeks. She was able to send several pictures and a lovely video of Joan during her time there. We look forward to maintaining regular contact with Joan through Laura and her codirector, Eric, and hearing about the progress Joan is making in school. We will be sending her pictures and letters regularly, too, so if you are ever moved to write to her or send a little something for her, please let Allison Ray know and she will make that happen for you. November 2017 Page 8

9 Christian Education Christian Education Committee This is a friendly reminder that the Christian Education Committee is always looking for new members. You do not have to have children in the program to be a part of the Committee. We meet on the first Sunday of each month (unless an announcement is made indicating otherwise), in the Gathering Space off of the front of the sanctuary right after the youth group meeting has ended. Please drop by if you are interested. You are more than welcome! Annual Apple Pie Sale Thank you for your support of the annual apple pie sale in October! After a trip to Navarino Orchard to pick several bags of apples (and enjoy some delicious cider doughnuts!), the youth and their parents returned to church to prepare and assemble 40 pies. We were able to sell all of the pies and turn a profit of over $200, which will be deposited in the youth activity fund that helps pay for our activities throughout the year. Thank you very much for your enthusiasm and willingness to purchase the pies to support youth programming!! And many thanks to the parents who drove the kids to the orchard and help out with all of the preparations! November 2017 Page 9

10 Presbyterian Women P.W. will meet on November 8th at 11:30 am in the Fireside Room. Bring your lunch. A beverage will be provided. We will be receiving our Thank offering. Jackie Davis MARCELLUS FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH P.O. Box 147 Marcellus, NY Address Service Requested Apartment for Rent: Second floor, 2 bedroom apartment with eat-in kitchen, living room, plenty of closet & storage space and cable ready. Recent updates made to the bathroom and flooring. The apartment has 2 entrances and 2 staircases. No pets allowed. Monthly rent is $800 with a $300 security deposit required upon lease signing. Heat and electricity is included as part of the monthly rent. Contact the Marcellus Presbyterian Church office: November 2017 Page 10