HILLSBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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1 HILLSBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 102 West Tryon Street Post Office Box 717 Hillsborough, NC (919) (Office) (919) Dr. Robert Brizendine, Pastor Dear Friends, The Church Mouse June, 2017 June has been a special month for me for a number of reasons. I was born on June 5. I graduated from high school in June. I was ordained as a Minister on June 6, 1976, and now I will be honorably retired on June 30. In 41 years I have probably preached close to 2,000 sermons, officiated at around 200 weddings, and participated in 300 funerals. It has been an honor and a privilege to be part of people's lives at the most sacred moments. A lot of people have asked me recently, Are you counting the days? The answer is no. I enjoy what I do, so I am not rejoicing that I only have four more sermons to preach at HPC. I also choose not to view this approaching retirement with sadness. Instead of thinking, I have only four more sermons here, I approach this month with gratitude, rejoicing that I get to add four more sermons to the approximately 666 sermons I have already preached here. This month will be full of meaningful events. On June 4, two days before the 41 st anniversary of my Ordination, and one day before my 66 th birthday, we will celebrate Pentecost Sunday. We will celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper together as a community of faith. In recent months I have had the privilege of leading a Confirmation Class with Celeste Clay, and she will renew her baptismal vows on that Sunday. It is always a joy to see young people confirm and own the faith that we give them early in life. When a young child is baptized, we all vow that we will take responsibility for that child and help nurture them in the faith. On June 5, I get to continue a tradition started a few years ago, and teach the final lesson for the year when Circle #1 meets. On June 25, my final Sunday, we get to celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism for Skyler Francis Eisen. The Triangle Tuba Quartet will enhance our music that day, and I am confident that Scott and our HPC Choir will do their usual great job! Following the worship service, we will have a lunch together in our newly renovated and expanded Studwick Hall and kitchen. As I conclude 14 and a half years as your Pastor, I want to say once again, Thank you. I want to assure you that Mae Lee and I will be OK. I want to also assure you that you will be OK. Part of my joy in serving on the Exams and Transfers Commission for New Hope Presbytery is seeing all the gifted and wonderful women and men who are seeking ordination to ministry or transferring into New Hope Presbytery, seeking places to serve. God continues to call people to serve through the church. Our deliberate process as Presbyterians may seem slow at times, but it serves us well in the long run. Be patient with the process, and pray for both your Interim Pastor Search Committee, and later on, your Pastor Search Committee. In the meantime, remember that you are the church. God has gifted each of us with unique gifts and we are called to share those to build up the Body of Christ and serve our community. Especially during this period of transition, your gifts and involvement are vitally important. We have seven Commissions that organize the work of our church. Find a place that your gifts can contribute, and get involved! You will always be in my heart and in our prayers. - Bob and Mae Lee

2 FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS CELEBRATION OF BOB & MAE LEE Please come join the whole church family in sending Bob and Mae Lee off into retirement in grand style! We will all gather to celebrate their new journey and our fond memories on Sunday, June 25 in Strudwick Hall after Bob's final sermon...make it a good one Bob! This will be a potluck event (but Bob is not allowed to bring anything)!! If you would like to contribute to a retirement gift you may drop it in the office or place it in an envelope in the collection plate. Please write "Bob's retirement" on the envelope or check. SMILING HAPPY PEOPLE! June 30 th Last Friday - Free scoops of ice cream, the fun Triangle Tuba Quartet and a fabulous place to meet friends or cool off in the ac in the education wing. Sign up with Judy Brown and lets show our town smiling happy faces. Questions? See Lisa Flinn. YOU RE INVITED! Circle #1 invites the women of the church to join us at 11:00 on Monday, June 5 th in Strudwick Hall. Bob will lead this final lesson of our study year, followed at 12:00 by our annual June potluck luncheon. We ll be celebrating Bob s birthday, too! Questions? Call Robin Bedingfield. UPDATES FOR HPC DIRECTORY We are collecting updates for our HPC Directory. If you have any changes to your family s page in our pictorial notebook drop a quick note to the church office by Sunday, June 11 th and we ll get this updated (hpchurch@hillsboroughpres.org). If you need a new photo for your page or if you re a new member let us know and we will schedule a date for additional photos. WEDDING SHOWER Come celebrate the wedding of Kirsten Talley and Mariah Cosand with a wedding shower on Tuesday, June 27 th at 7pm in Strudwick Hall. Kirsten and Mariah are getting married in Oregon earlier in June. They are registered at amazon.com, zola.com, and westelm.com. HEALTHY WALKS ON RIVERWALK Join us on Tuesdays, for our Healthy Walks on Riverwalk at 5:30 PM at the Riverwalk entrance at the end of Nash and Kollock Street beyond Weaver Street Market. -- Jane Gaede SERMON SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 6/4 Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise (I Corinthians 3:16-4:2) 6/11 Our Call (Matthew 28:16-20) 6/18 Strangers With a Word from God (Genesis 18:1-15) 6/25 Goodbye, Farewell, Amen (II Kings 2:1-15) PENTECOST SUNDAY June 4 is Pentecost Sunday. You are encouraged to wear red! We will celebrate Communion as well as the Confirmation of Celeste Clay. Remember the Pentecost Offering!

3 FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS HPC BOOK CLUB Join us at 7 PM for our two June meetings! June 4 th we will meet to discuss When Sleeping Women Awake, Mountains Will Move by Barbara Mosley De Souza Rev. de Souza shares the stories of women she taught and worked with during her 40 years of service in Brazil, 14 as a social worker for the local Catholic church, 8 with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), and 18 with Global Ministries. She provided health education to empower women in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. With her students, she designed and published the curriculum for a Community Health Educators Training Course and proved that knowledge builds self-esteem, thus empowering her students to become multipliers, encouraging more women to change their own lives and the lives of others. June 25 th we will discuss Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly This New York Times Bestseller was inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine. - New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline s world is forever changed when Hitler s army invades Poland in September 1939 and then sets its sights on France. - An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. - For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a maledominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. Book Club meets at 7:00 on a Sunday evening most months at the church. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served. LEMONADE ON THE LAWN From April 2 through September, congregation members offer light refreshment after the 11:00am service each Sunday. The 2017 Lemonade on the Lawn signup sheet is located on the bulletin board in Room #204. Please sign up to celebrate your own special day, or just for the joy of sharing with others! A Brush With kindness (ABWK) Projects Our Church has committed to doing 2 ABWK projects this year. The first will be the weekends of June 17/18 and June 24/25 involving exterior cleaning and minor repair and constructing small front porches and steps on two mobile homes in the Fairview community. At this time we are looking for looking for three teams for the June projects. One team will pressure wash two homes and repair the underpinning. We believe this will take one day. Team two will build a porch on the first home on June 17 th and 18 th. Team three will build a porch on a second home on June 24 th and 25 th. Mission has been asked to do more local projects this year and this is a great opportunity to work locally to assist our neighbors. There will be a ABWK sign-up sheet sent to HPC members. Please consider working on these local projects. Questions? See Joe Crane or Hervey McIver.

4 FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS HAPPY JUNE BIRTHDAY TO: 02 Marc Fowler 04 Bill Flinn 04 Michael Strayhorn 05 Bob Brizendine 06 Cheryl Maxey 06 Gabe Erdosy 07 Gustav Bernard 11 Ben McKelvey 16 Josh Summers 16 Audrey McGregor 17 Zach Drill 20 Angela Erdosy 23 Ken Stephenson 29 Shari Latta To update the Birthday List or Anniversary List please contact JoAnn in the church office ( ) or hpchurch@hillsboroughpres.org). JUNE LECTIONARY READINGS 4 Acts 2:1-21; Numbers 11:24-30; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Acts 2:1-21; I Corinthians 12:3b-12; John 20:19-23 or John 7: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; II Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28: Genesis 18:1-15 (21:1-7); Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19; Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23) 25 Genesis 21:8-21; Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17; Romans 6:1b-11; Matthew 10:24-39 Green Notes! Wherever possible, replace disposable products with reusable ones (i.e., razor, food storage, batteries, coffee filters, furnace or air conditioner filters, etc.). (Green Notes are provided by PCUSA s Environmental Ministries and your Stewardship Commission.) VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE June 4 Pentecost Sunday Liturgist: Linda Jaubert Children s Sermon: Eric Cathey Acolyte: Jaiden Lytle Flowers: Susan and Tom Waldrop Lemonade on Lawn: Cake in Strudwick Hall for Pentecost Sunday Nursery: Robin Barnhill, Rich Erdosy Youth Meal (6/7): TBD June 11 Liturgist: Rosie Summers Children s Sermon: Rosie Summers Acolyte: TBD Lemonade on Lawn: Sara Clay Flowers: TBD Nursery: Lisa Flinn, Kim Kim Bryant June 18 Liturgist : Sam Nesbit Children s Sermon: Bob Brizendine Acolyte: Angela Erdosy Lemonade on Lawn: Rich Erdosy Flowers: TBD Nursery: Ann Sebesan, Sara Clay June 25 Liturgist: Jim Summers Children s Sermon: Barbara Younger: Acolyte: Josiah Richmond Flowers: Bob and Mae Lee Brizendine Lemonade on Lawn: David and Kathy Remington Nursery: Rich Erdosy, Stephanie Morgan The 2017 Flower Chart is on the bulletin board outside the church office. Sign up and share with your Church the joy of an anniversary or other occasion, or memorialize or honor someone important to you!

5 June, 2017 SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT Pentecost Sunday: Communion and Confirmation 4 12:15 PM Birthday Cake for Pentecost Sunday in Strudwick Hall 7:00 PM HPC Book Club (#204) 11 12:15 PM Lemonade on the Lawn 18 12:15 PM Lemonade on the Lawn 12:30 PM Mission 6:30 PM Session Triangle Tuba Quartet 25 Baptism Skyler Francis Eisen 12:15 PM Lemonade on the Lawn 12:30 PM Potluck Lunch 7:00 PM HPC Book Club (#204) 5 Circle #1 Bible Study and Potluck 11:00 AM (Strudwick Hall) Deadline for HPC Newsletter 1:00 PM Join us on Sunday mornings! Sunday School for Adults/Youth at 9:45 AM Childcare/Nursery for Children at 9:45 AM Traditional Worship at 11:00 AM Sunday School for Children during Worship Wedding Shower Kirsten Talley & Mariah Cosand 7:00 PM (Strudwick) Youth Group 5:00 PM 7 Justice United 7:00 8:30 PM (Strudwick Hall) Bob away 5/21 6/3/ Why Jesus? Group Picnic - 6:00 PM (Ayr Mount) 30 Men s Fellowship Grilling 6 PM (James Watts) Last Fridays 6:30 8:30 PM (Triangle Tuba Quartet) A Brush With Kindness June 17/ A Brush With Kindness June 24/25 NOTE: If you have any July calendar dates or articles that you would like included in the newsletter just send an (hpchurch@hillsboroughpres.org) or call the church office ( ) by 1:00 PM on the 19 th of June!

6 VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: July 14-15, 2017 HPC children ages 4 year-old to rising 6 th graders are invited to have an adventure at Camp Out VBS - Getting S more of Jesus this summer. At Camp Out, our children will discover an important truth that Jesus is the light. Our children will experience God s word in surprising and unforgettable ways! Each day one simple Bible lesson will be taught to explore how Jesus is our true light of the world. Come join in our VBS as we trek through an outdoor experience-minus the bug spray to kindle friendships and experience God s word in surprising and unforgettable ways! Registration letters and the Camp Out schedules for July 14 th and 15 th will be mailed to families with children 4 year-old - 2 nd grade. Please return the completed registration to HPC by June 30 th. If you have questions please contact Cynthia Latta or Stephanie Morgan. WHY JESUS? GROUP You are invited to join us for a picnic and small group study on Friday evening June 16 at 6 pm at Ayr Mount. Come early to enjoy the Poet s Walk and the grounds, if you d like. Bring a potluck dish to share and a camp chair, if you have one. We will join together for our picnic and then divide into small groups to discuss the book: Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine. We will be discussing Chapter 8: The Widow and the Judge, facilitated by Jane Gaede. Please come join us, even if you have not attended previous sessions. We will meet near the brick patio behind the house. Let Carolyn or Marc Fowler know if you plan to come, have questions, or need more information. *************************************************************************************************** Hillsborough Presbyterian Church 102 West Tryon Street Post Office Box 717 Hillsborough, NC (919) HPChurch@hillsboroughpres.org Web page: SUNDAY WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday School 9:45 AM (for youth and adults!) Childcare/Nursery 9:45 AM (for children) Traditional Worship 11:00 AM (A nursery is provided for children 5 and under in Room #205; following the Conversation with Children in Worship Children will go to Sunday School )