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COM Church Events April 2 Maundy Thursday Service 5 Sunrise Service / Breakfast Maundy

Communion, and finishing with the stripping of the church.

will gather with our brother and sisters at All Saints Catholic Church for the

Easter Sunday, April 5 7:00 am Sunrise service, outside weather permitting.

1 Bridgeport Presbyterian Church NEWSLETTER OF BRIDGEPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH APRIL 2015 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 4 Church Events April 2 Maundy Thursday Service 5 Sunrise Service / Breakfast Maundy Thursday April 2, 7:00 pm Will take place in the Sanctuary, with the Sacrament of Holy Communion, and finishing with the stripping of the church. 6 Christian Ed 7 Stephen Ministry 8 Blankets for Ruby Good Friday April 3, 12 noon We will gather with our brother and sisters at All Saints Catholic Church for the community Good Friday Service. Pastor Robin will be participating in the service. Easter Sunday, April 5 7:00 am Sunrise service, outside weather permitting. Breakfast immediately following the service in Fellowship Hall. Please sign up on the bulletin board if youwill be attending. The conclusion of Encounters Before the Dawn. 13 PW Bible Study 15 Men s Breakfast 20 PW Bible Study 21 Session 27- Congregational Life 10:00 am Worship in the Sanctuary, led by music from our choir, and the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Men s Breakfast The Men s Breakfast Group will meet at 7:00 AM on Wednesday, March 15th, at Eat n Park.

Mark your calendars for May 17 th as the youth lead us in Worship and we honor our senior Ty Wickline.

As always, you are encouraged to invite a friend or neighbor to join with us for a time of Christian fellowship.

2 Men s Breakfast The Men s Breakfast Group will meet at 7:00 AM on Wednesday, March 15th, at Eat n Park. Bring a friend along and join us. Mark your calendars for May 17 th as the youth lead us in Worship and we honor our senior Ty Wickline. Congratulations to Ty for being awarded the National Presbyterian Scholarship-well done! As always, you are encouraged to invite a friend or neighbor to join with us for a time of Christian fellowship. Anyone with an idea for a program may contact Dave Davis, who has graciously stepped up to the plate to organize the group this year. April Birthdays 2 Devin Hamner 11 William Whaley 3 Hannah Armentrout 13 Debbie Smith 3 Annie Davis 19 David Hoyle 8 Kristen Trickett 24 Naomi Burkhammer 9 Margaret Hinerman 27 Matthew Johnson 9 Wanda Kile 29 Danielle Hamner 9 Linda Williams 29 Gabrielle Hamner 11 Mike Jeffers 29 Jessica Leech April Anniversaries 2 Pam & Joseph Pinti 4 Marlene & Bob Graeber 3 Emily & Philip Martin 18 Annabel & Joseph Timms 4 Roxanne & Steven Loar

Congregational Life Thank you to all who have joined us on Thursday nights and prepared food, served and cleaned up.

A special thank you to Betty Jo Jones and the many hours she puts in with the Children s Health Pantry.

A special thank you to all the volunteers who helped out with the clean-up at the church and who helped make our Easter

3 Congregational Life Thank you to all who have joined us on Thursday nights and prepared food, served and cleaned up. Congregational Life really appreciates everyone s help! A special thank you to Betty Jo Jones and the many hours she puts in with the Children s Health Pantry. The children in Harrison County and beyond are blessed by her service. A special thank you to all the volunteers who helped out with the clean-up at the church and who helped make our Easter celebration with the children so special! The annual Women of Faith Luncheon will be held on Saturday, April 25 at the All Saints Catholic Church Social Hall. If you want to go, please contact Barb Judy and she can give you more details and turn in your reservation. Cost of the luncheon is $16.00 per person.

4 How do we nourish our children with spiritual food? Well, the simple answer is that we teach them the basic spiritual disciplines. These include prayer, reading the Bible, and participating in a community of faith that worships God and carries out Jesus ministry. This month try to focus on prayer and reading the Bible. Both of these activities are actually simple things that do not have to take much time from our day. The discipline part is making a small amount of time every day for these things, and maybe even more than once a day. The point is to make it a habit, something that children learn to be part of their routine. When we wake in the morning, we say a brief prayer of thanks for the new day, and maybe a prayer for guidance for our planned activities. When we have a meal, whether at the dining table or in the car on the way to sports activities, we take a few seconds to give thanks for the blessing of food. When we settle down in the evening and prepare for sleep, we give thanks for the blessings of the day, pray for others we know are in need, and ask forgiveness and grace for our own lives. Including Scripture readings can be just as simple. We do not need to read whole chapters and try to distill the great mysteries of faith. Rather, we can ask for guidance from the Holy Spirit, and read one or two verses from the Psalms, or Proverbs, to help us focus on God s living Word in our lives. Nourishing our children with spiritual food means we are also feeding ourselves, and what parent couldn t use a little more strength and grace from God?! I believe being a parent is the greatest challenge God ever calls us to, and we can use all the help we can get! This summer you will get a chance to grow with your children as we build on the success of Burgers and Bibles. Mark your calendars beginning on Wednesday, June 24 for six weeks as we will gather for a meal followed by a lesson afterwards. The children will have their own program of a bible story, craft, games, music and a service projects. Look for more information in the coming months! Dear Friends, We are entering the most holy time of the year, a week that begins with a scandalous parade, includes betraying an innocent man for a few pieces of silver, and ends with the light having gone out of the world. Shouts of Hosanna are replaced by cries of Crucify him! and few people seem to grasp the enormity of what is taking place. The depth of sin is eclipsed only by the depth of God s love, which will not allow death to have the final word. The resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, is the basis of our faith. It testifies to the power of God, a power that is unrivaled. The more one studies the scriptures and comes to know the grace of God made most evident and clear to us in the person of Jesus Christ the more one is humbled, the more one bows in awe before God. Life is too beautiful and intricate to be happenstance. Life is too fragile to be taken for granted. Life is too difficult to be lived without a strength greater than our own to nurture and sustain us, to grant us peace and give us hope. As people created and loved by God, we gather to worship in joy and thanksgiving and in witness to the resurrection of Jesus the Christ! Death is no match for God. God s love has no end, and God s love is for us all. Thanks be to God! Grace and peace, Robin

She has two older brothers, one who lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife, son and two pups. And her other brother who lives in Columbus, Ohio with his two kids and one pup!

5 Meet Our New Members Our newest members to our congregation are Brittany Glover, Eric and Anna Winans, Fred and Karen Evans, and Ben and Jacy Woods. Brittany Glover was born and raised in Bridgeport, Ohio. (a slight coincidence) Her parents still reside there. She has two older brothers, one who lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife, son and two pups. And her other brother who lives in Columbus, Ohio with his two kids and one pup! She says she has furbabies of her own. They are mutts she rescued from a shelter back in Their names are Addie & Jo. Brittany works for Harrison Rural Electric full-time, and serves at the Mountaineer Grille part-time. Like her friend Jacy, she sells pampered chef as a hobby. Brittany said My dear best friend and church member Jacy Woods brought me to the church, but the congregation has kept me coming back. She moved to Clarksburg, WV in September Moving was one of the best decisions she could have made for myself. She saidm I packed up my girls (pups) and moved here to start a new life on my own! Jacy had asked me to join her at church one Sunday and I resisted at first, but then I gave in and attended one Sunday. I've been hooked ever since. The people at the church are amazing, I feel like I have an extended family here now, since none of my immediate family members are nearby. I'm looking forward to being a member of this church and taking part in the congregation! Eric and Anna Winans are rejoining our church after a brief hiatus while they lived and went to church in Clarksburg Eric is the youngest in his family with one brother and two sisters. For those who may not know, Anna is the daughter of Lois Withrow and the late Joe Withrow, both longtime members of this church along with Anna s brother Jason. They are the proud parents of two children: Nigel Connor (8) who attends Emmanuel Christian School and Eliza Victoria (2). Eric has worked at the Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center for 13 years while Anna has worked as the assistant manager of the Randolph Terrace Apartments in Salem for about 6 years. Anna is an elder in the Presbyterian church and both are (and have been) very active with the church and church choir. Eric indicates that he is very glad to be back and feels like he is home again. They do have a pet cat and turtle who share the house.

Fred and Karen Evans are the proud parents of Scott Thomas Evans (24) and Katherine Grace Evans (22). They currently live with a cat, Artemis and parakeet, Limey in Bridgeport.

Fred was raised in the Christian Church Disciples of Christ and Karen in the Baptist Church.

6 Fred and Karen Evans are the proud parents of Scott Thomas Evans (24) and Katherine Grace Evans (22). They currently live with a cat, Artemis and parakeet, Limey in Bridgeport. Fred is a bio-tech for Fresenius Medical Care and Karen works for the Bridgeport Public Library. He is a dedicated bookworm and she crochets. Fred was raised in the Christian Church Disciples of Christ and Karen in the Baptist Church. They were married in the First Baptist Church of Winchester and both their children were raised in that church. Fred and Karen sang in the choir and Fred was a Deacon. They are joining our church for the feeling warm of welcome here and God's call in their lives. Ben and Jacy Woods are our next new couple. Ben was born and raised in Stonewood where he attended WI Middle School. He transferred to Bridgeport for High School and graduated in He immediately went into the job force and is now working for the Plumber Pipefitter Union, Local 152 since Ben says, I married my beautiful wife, of whom you all know, Jacy on July 30, 2011 after she graduated college. Jacy joined me in West Virginia and we own a home in Quiet Dell. He says that they have two dumb dogs, Dexter and Dixon. He likes to think of them more as "Jacy's dogs". He attended Clarksburg Temple United Methodist Church and Horizons growing up and is excited to join the family here at Bridgeport Presbyterian. For fun, he love to golfs and volunteers as a Fire Fighter at the Stonewood Fire Department. For those who may not know, Jacy Carter Woods is one of our family from a while ago. She and her sister Alyssa and brother Jack and their parents were active in the church. Jacy s famiy moved to Ohio at the beginning of her junior year in high school with tears from Jacy who didn t want to leave Bridgeport. Jacy attended Ohio University, graduating with a degree in speech therapy and then joined Ben and moved right back here. While Ben s family is local, they enjoy traveling to see Jacy s family as well as other friends.

7 Palm Sunday The parade begins in the balcony! Everyone loves to make Ruth s pretzle s

8 Craft Time S T O R T I M E Y Time to hunt for eggs,

10 Bridgeport Presbyterian Church The Church Office is open Monday-Friday 9:30am 12:30pm Pastor Robin Ray Office Website: Pastor Robin Ray Clerk of Session Ruth Allen Treasurer Rocky Loar Choir Director Beth Armentrout Presbyterian Women Penny Ranson Janitorial Support Sharon Salate Bookkeeper Janice Oldaker Bridgeport Presbyterian Church 1 John Calvin Drive Bridgeport WV 26330

Bridgeport Presbyterian Church

Bridgeport Presbyterian Church NEWSLETTER OF BRIDGEPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SEPTEMBER 2015 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 9 WWW.BRIDGEPORTPRESBYTERIAN.COM Church Events September 1 Resource Management 5 Mission Dinner