March Newsle,er Celebrating God s Presence In Our Lives

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1 March Newsle,er Celebrating God s Presence In Our Lives 2017 Our Vision Growing spiritually together in an open dialogue. Living our dual denomina7onal tradi7ons and making new tradi7ons. Energizing with a variety of dynamic worship services. Welcoming and including all and ac7vely involving inter-genera7onal members. Engaging our youth and growing side-byside with them. Leveraging our talents to benefit others. Follow Us On Social Media! Lenten reflec1on The Greek word Εκκλησία (Ekklesia) has as its simple meaning; church, assembly or community. IHC is our Ecclesia, our community of believers that resides in the Church as a whole. Every congrega1on represents the whole Church. Like the parables of Jesus, which are illustra1ons of the Kingdom of heaven, Jesus asks, here is the Kingdom of Heaven, can you see it? Like the parables, we have different lenses in which we view community. As Chris1ans, our community centers on the love, life, and teachings of Jesus. When we are assembled as the Ekklesia on Sunday mornings we represent a part of the whole that makes up what we call The Church. It is us and the Catholics, Methodists, Pentecostals, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and all the rest that assemble to become the Body of Christ. We have our differences, but what family does not? We squabble, but always unite beneath the Cross. This is what makes us different. This is what makes us unique. No secular community can compare. In this we are called to live both in the world and more importantly in Christ. In the good ole days we had a be,er understanding of this dichotomy of living. We were no less busy, we worked hard, par1cipated in sports, semifinals and finals were played, we had piano lessons and dance troupe, we had co1llion, we had studies and debate team, we had mortgages, car payments, bills and myriad other distrac1ons to keep us fully occupied. While we had all these things ea1ng up our precious 1me we most importantly had the Church. It was the Church that occupied the apex of our being, and no worldly distrac1on could keep us from it. Back in the good ole days a coach that suggested a Sunday prac1ce or game would be fired, tarred, and feathered and run out of town on a rail. What happened? How did our Ecclesia, our community, become second or third 1er in our hierarchy of needs? Has the Church lost its credibility to remain the apex of our being? Have we put God on hold while we live our busy lives? We hold that tradi1on is important to us. The Church is our tradi1on and Church is important to us because it was important to our parents, grandparents and beyond. As we begin our journey of Lent prayerfully consider these ques1ons. As we march towards the cross of Good Friday let our thoughts be of metanoia and recompense. Let us resolve to live, move, and have our being in the person of Christ and in His community, and remember we are only as strong as our weakest point guard. Peace and all good, George+

2 Youth & Family Events Thursday Morning Book Group 9:00 9:15 AM Fellowship 9:15 10:15 AM Book Discussion New Study Begins Thursday, March 2 High School Dive Deeper March 19 ; 5:00 6:30 Youth Center ; Chipotle Dinner Cleats for Kids : Collec7on March 5 April 9 Donate your new or gently used spor7ng goods/equipment/shoes for all sports and in all sizes in specially marked blue Ohio C4K dona7on bins located in Narthex and Guild Hall Ohio Cleats for Kids collects, recycles and distributes new and gently used spor7ng equipment and athle7c shoes and gives them to kids in need in our own city! Our mission is to empower kids in need to live healthier lifestyles and learn important life lessons through sports by providing spor7ng goods! Children s Musical Sunday, March 5 Childcare for preschool and nursery age children in the nursery. No Sunday School. All children are invited to watch the musical during the 10:30 worship service! Acolyte Training Friday, March 3 5:00 PM Saturday, March 4, 5:30 PM PYOCA Camp in Indiana Bowling Party at Madison Bowl Sunday, March 12 Third-Sixth Grades 11:30 2:00 PM Lunch at Madison Bowl & bowl two games. Friends welcome! Seventh-Twelbh Grades 5:00 7:00 PM Dinner and Bowling at Madison Bowl Drop off and Pick up at church. All Children in Third Grade and older are invited to learn how to be an acolyte! March 5, 12 and 19 ; 15 minutes each week aber church Teen and Family Service Event - Saturday, April 22 OTR Recrea7on Center Republic Street, Cincinna7, Ohio :00AM 2:00PM (Drop off/pick up at church for teens 7-12th grade without a parent present) 9:30AM 1:30PM (For younger children families that volunteer together and meet at the Over the Rhine Recrea7on Center) Saturday hoops is faith-based program that works through basketball, art, food, dance, reading, and posi7ve role-modeling via the volunteers and weekly speakers for children and teens in Over the Rhine. Save the Date: Sunday, April 9 aber church Teen and Family Service Event Make a card, bake cookies and arrange flowers. Deliver homemade items to elderly, ill and recovering members of our church Sunday, March 5 Pizza Dinner, popcorn, movie theater candy and a movie in Guild Hall 7th 12th Grade 5:00 7:00 PM

3 Bits of Information Open Enrollment! School Year For more informa7on: Book Bible Study The purpose of this study group will be to compare thema7c similari7es between the NYT bestseller, Hillbilly Elegyby, wrijen by J.D. Vance, and the biblical book of Genesis. We will meet weekly for four weeks. If interested, please sign up by the front office and indicate the best 7me for your par7cipa7on. The Rev. Sherrill, who is leading this discussion, will try to select a 7me that best fits the needs of everyone. Women s Book Study Thursday Mornings - Library Starts March 2 ; 9:00-10:15 AM We will read and discuss one chapter per week of The 5 Love Languages of Children Reading not required to ajend. Men s Fellowship Group We gather at Bob Evans in Kenwood once a month on Wednesday for fellowship, breakfast and a discussion of future plans for the group. The next gathering will be on March 22, 7:30-9:00 AM. All Men are welcome! Ushers Needed Interested in volunteering at the church, but don t have a ton of 7me or want to meet other church members? Become an Usher! Contact Dan Meyer: Did you know? IHC is telecoiled enabled! Our church is equipped with telecoil technology which allows our congrega7on members with compatable hearing aids to directly stream our services into their devices. To the parishioners of Indian Hill Church George and I want to thank everyone for the lovely welcome recep7on held for us on December 10, 2016 at the Lijle Red School House. We d like to give thanks for those who worked behind the scenes preparing food and drink, and the search commijee whose many hours of labor remain uncounted. Your warm individual gree7ngs and hospitality have truly made us feel at home. While we have many new faces and names to learn, we know we are amidst friends and are grateful for each and every one of you who has shepherded us into this body of Christ. We look forward to our place among you at Indian Hill. Our prayer is that God will con7nue to bless you this season with the light of Christ burning brightly in your hearts! In Christ s abundance, George & Karen

4 March 2017 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8:00 AM Episcopal Holy 10:30 Presbyterian & Children s Musical (No Sunday School) 5:00-7:00PM Youth Group Pizza & Risen Movie ASH WEDNESDAY 7:00 AM Presbyterian 12:00 PM Monthly Staff 4:00 PM Childrens Musical Rehearsal 4:00 PM Pastoral Care 7:00 PM Episcopal Holy - Chapter 1 6:00 PM IHC Nursery School Wine Without The Whine Fundraiser - Guild Hall 5:00 PM 3/3-5:30 PM 3/4 PYOCA Confirma7on Retreat PYOCA Confirma7on Retreat - Ends 5:30 PM :30 AM - 1:30 PM IHCNS Parent- Teacher Conferences 5:15 PM Personnel 5:30 PM Advisory 8:00 AM Finance - Chapter 2 DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME 8:00 AM Presbyterian 10:30 AM Episcopal Holy 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM Bowling Party (3-6 Grade) 5:00-7:00 PM Youth Group Bowling (7-12 Grade) 8:00 AM Episcopal Holy 10:30 AM Presbyterian 5:00-6:30 PM Youth Group (HS) Dive Deeper & Chipotle Dinner 8:00 AM Presbyterian 10:30 AM Episcopal Holy - No Sunday School No Youth Group :00 PM Chris7an Educa7on - Chapter 3 12:00 PM Newslejer Submission Deadline 4:30 PM Worship ST. PATRICKS DAY! :00 PM Church & Community 7:00 PM Vestry Session 7:30 AM Mens Fellowship Breakfast - Chapter :30 AM Linn Jones Funeral Music 11:00 AM Linn Jones Funeral 11:45 AM Linn Jones Funeral Recep7on

5 Adult Forum March Infrastructure is extremely cri7cal to our economic growth and yet America s aging US transporta7on system suffers from insufficient investment. Building transporta7on infrastructure isn t usually poli7cally controversial. It puts people to work in both white and blue-collar jobs. It lays the founda7on for economic development and reduces the poten7al for calami7es such as bridge collapses and everyday problems like airport conges7on. Yet, if this is so, why is it so hard to reach a consensus and move forward? This forum will look at Cincinna7 s issues from a city perspec7ve and the region s need for coopera7on. March 5 James Pilcher, inves7ga7ve reporter for the Cincinna7 Enquirer will examine the Brent Spence Bridge. He will outline the problems and tackle why it has taken so long to get any resolu7on. March 12 Adam Kressler Sr Manager at the Greater Cincinna7/Northern Kentucky Interna7onal Airport. In the Spring of 2016 the Airport embarked on a strategic plan to guide decisions and push the airport forward. The plan iden7fies specific goals that will define success. Adam will discuss progress being made at CVG to reach those goals and share what the airport is doing to con7nue elevate the service it provides our community. March 19 John Schneider Managing Member of First Valley Holdings LLC and was a board member of Downtown Cincinna7 Inc. Known to many as Mr. Streetcar John will address our streetcar, rail transit and walkable ci7es. March 26 Eric Thomas of Benchmark River and Rail Terminals and Execu7ve Director of CORBA. Eric will discuss the transporta7on system of the Ohio River. Come and learn how freight moves up and down our majes7c waterway. Sunday Worship Schedule - March 2017 Date Preacher 8:00 AM 10:30 AM March 1 Both (Ash Wednesday) Presbyterian Worship (7:00AM) Episcopal Holy (7:00PM) March 5 The Rev. George Sherrill Episcopal Holy Presbyterian Worship March 12 The Rev. Dr. Stephen Caine Presbyterian Worship Episcopal Holy March 19 The Rev. George Sherrill Episcopal Holy Presbyterian Worship March 26 The Rev. Dr. Stephen Caine Presbyterian Worship Episcopal Holy