Save the Date! Sunday, February 10th The Elvis Mass - A Worship Service Honoring the Music of the King of Rock to Worship the King of Kings

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1 Sunday Worship Services Traditional at 8:30 am Contemporary at 10:30 am Website: mviewpc.org Office Hours 9a-5p M-Th, 9a-1p Fri Phone: Save the Date! Sunday, February 10th The Elvis Mass - A Worship Service Honoring the Music of the King of Rock to Worship the King of Kings Come join us for an amazing worship opportunity as MVPC presents Travis Allen, Las Vegas' Number 1 Elvis Presley performer! "If I Can Dream" will be the theme of the worship service! Come and sing along as Elvis will sing many crowd favorites as we worship the King of Kings through the music of Elvis. The order of worship will follow that of a traditional Mass. Expect great music. Poetic prayers. Inspirational preaching based on Biblical themes found in the lyrics of Elvis. Don't be hound dog and be caught in the jailhouse rock! For that would cause a lot of crying in the chapel as well as in the ghetto. Save the date! It's now or never! See you Sunday, February 10th! How great thou Art! 8:30 am and 10:30 am Mountain View Presbyterian Church 8601 Del Webb Blvd. Las Vegas, NV Pastor Rev. David W. Dendy PastorDavid@mviewpc.org Director of Family Ministries Chris Kirschman chris@mviewpc.org Director of Music Dr. Mark Wherry mark@mviewpc.org Worship Leader Bridgette Foster bridgette@mviewpc.org Administrative Assistant Shane Jensen shane@mviewpc.org Parish Nurse Launa Ismail launa@mviewpc.org Tech Assistant Tracy Vanderwerf tracy@mviewpc.org Church Accountant Nancy Lee nancy@mviewpc.org Ministry Coordinator Tami Samek tami@mviewpc.org Facilities Maintenance Manager Mark Washburn markfmm@mviewpc.org Handbell Director Louis Syrovy louis@mviewpc.org

2 Wow! What a week I spent in the Holy Land! Thank you MVPC for allowing me the joy and privilege of partaking in this most amazing excursion into the Holy Land of which I have written about, preached, studied and read about my whole life, but never had the privilege of stepping first hand into the footsteps of Jesus and many other Biblical characters until now! My heart and mind are overwhelmed with the beauty, history, culture and emotions of the trip. In keeping true to my New Year s resolution I will share with you this Sunday the ONE thing I learned about Christianity from my trip to Israel! The Travel Group I went with is called Collette. They provided an incredible service to the forty of us on the trip. Several of their key representatives were on the trip and we got to talking So here s the deal! If there is enough interest at MVPC, Collette and I have set aside the dates of November 4-12, 2019 for a tour of Israel. Here are the details Israel: Journey of Faith When: November 4 th -12 th, 2019 Price: $3,999 double or $4,699 single Deposit Due ($500 per person): May 4 th, 2019 Final Payment: September 4 th, 2019 Highlights: Jaffa Caesarea Nazareth Cana Tiberias Sea of Galilee Mount of Beatitudes Capernaum Golan Heights Caesarea Philippi Tel Megiddo Bethlehem Jerusalem Mount of Olives Mount Zion Ein Karem Via Dolorosa Western Wall Garden Tomb Dead Sea Masada Qumran The price includes air travel from Las Vegas to Tel Aviv (and return flight!) 9 Days 15 Meals: 7 Breakfasts 1 Lunch 7 Dinners Flyers will be available on Sunday morning See you Sunday! I have missed you! Grace and Peace, Laugh often and Fear not! David!

3 Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, l Have a Dream, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

4 Deacon Sunday will be held on February 17, 2019 after each service. This event will provide an opportunity for MVPC members to meet their assigned Deacons. A warm and blessed welcome to the newly elected Deacons: Class 2019 Kathryn Lewis Marge Redman Class 2020 Al Youmans Class 2021 Ruth Dodrill Sarah Pierson Georgia Purpura Teresa Schrotberger Pat Youmans Bruce Lewis (Renew) Miriam Malfara (Renew) Barbara Mickelson (Renew) Lynn Palmer (Renew) The Church office will be closed on Monday, Jan. 21 st in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will re-open for regular business hours on Tuesday.

5 MVPC MISSION COMMITTEE JOY OFFERING During the holiday season MVPC members gave $10,531 to the Presbyterian Giving Catalogue, including $2,500 from the Mission Committee s budget. Your generosity supported a community farm bundle: enough livestock, tools and training to support a larger farm that can support an entire community, including chickens, goats, piglets, cows, oxen, a plow and other equipment. It also provided sewing machines that can help to launch a business; a bag of moringa tree seeds that will grow into trees whose leaves can be ground and added to food to provide protein; a container garden for a family to grow food in a small space; a water filter for places like Flint, Michigan to provide safe water and reduce the use of plastic water bottles; an urban farm to provide fresh produce to city dwellers living in a food desert; emergency assistance grants; and many other projects. This was the first year of using the Giving Catalogue to help members spend holiday money to help others; we ll be doing it again next November. FOOD PANTRY The Westminster Food Pantry, on West Lake Mead Boulevard near Rancho Drive, is open for federal employees who have been furloughed and/or are working unpaid during the shutdown. A federal ID is required. The Pantry is open Tuesday and Friday after 4 and Saturday mornings. Please let any friends, neighbors and others know that this support is available. FEEDING CHILDREN EVERYWHERE Join other volunteers at the Bellagio on February 13 to pack 150,000 meals for children in the local community. Details are available at feedingchildreneverywhere.com/horizon-pharma-support-team. If you are interested, let the church office or one of the Mission Committee members know, so that we can carpool. COMMITTEE MEMBER NEEDED The Mission Committee is looking for someone willing to coordinate MVPC activities with Project 150. If you are interested, let the church office know. The next committee meeting is February 6 at 6:00 pm. Anyone is welcome to attend any meeting. SAVE THE DATE! The MVPC Annual Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday, February 3rd immediately after the 2nd service. Dinner for Six Dinner for Six kicks off this month with 8 groups meeting for the first time. Congratulations to all for getting this new ministry off to a great start! Should you have any questions, please contact the church office. Serve

6 SESSION Welcome to the New Elders recently elected by the congregation: 2019 Beverly Stokes The Vine Gathering will be on Jan. 19 at 10:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Come to meet the new Board and learn about exciting new programs in store for the Women s Ministry at MVPC. Tickets will be on sale in the Fellowship Hall following Services John Bull Dian Ward Kevin Klingenberg Susan Paddock Scott Whittemore Congratulations and Thank you! Ordination and Installation will be this Sunday, Jan. 20 th. Stephen from the Bible was chosen by the disciples to devote his life tending to the widows, the poor, hungry, and needy he was called the first deacon. He was there to serve, not expecting to be served. What can be more important in our lives than to serve others as Stephen did? Someone recently said that we are given the gift of love when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. It is this gift of love that is impossible to keep just for ourselves. It is the gift that keeps on giving. CAN YOU GIVE THE GIFT OF YOURSELF AS A STEPHEN MINISTER?? Someone needs you! Contact Stephen Leader Dian Ward at and say, I want to be a Stephen Minister!!! Also, call Dian or your Deacon if you want visitations with a Stephen Minister.

7 Nancy Thomas- Jan. 19 Anniversaries Audrey Krikorian- Jan. 20 Harold and Carol Hoyt Jan. 21 Evelyn Mahar- Jan. 21 Bob and Peg Albrecht Jan. 24 Kacie Walther- Jan. 21 Lynn Kuzminski- Jan. 22 We have several items in the Lost and Found. There will be a table located in the Narthex near the Welcome on Sunday Jan. 20 th with these items on it. If the items are not claimed they will be donated. Mommies Meetup: Come meet other moms and discuss Chapter 1 of Hettie Brittz's book, Growing Kids with Character (available on Amazon). Tues., Jan.22, 9:30-11:15 in Rm 212. Free child-care. There will be a Memorial Service for Beverly Dickerson on Thurs, Mar. 28 th at 11 a.m. Beverly was a member of MPVC for over 20 years. Recently she moved to Ohio to be closer to family during her final years. She will be missed by the congregation. Love God Know God Serve God Our Vision Love People Know People Serve People It s What We Do!! Love to hear the bells play, interested in learning how to play? Louis Syrovy, Handbell Choir Director is offering a "Learn to Play Handbells" class starting this Sunday (1/20/19) at Noon in the Chapel. No musical experience required, all are welcome.

8 MVPC Ladies Lunch and a Movie. The movie this month will be "On the Basis of Sex", the Ruth Bader Ginsberg movie. The Date is Tuesday, January 29. We will meet at the buffet at the Santa Fe Casino at 12:30 and the movie begins at 1:55. Come to both or just the movie or just lunch. As always, feel free to bring a friend (s). The Vine Book Club Leaf will meet Friday, January 25th, at 10:30 a.m. to discuss Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy. We ll meet in the Fellowship Hall, unless it is busy, in which case we ll meet upstairs in the Esther room. The book we ll discuss in February is Of Windmills and War by Diane Moody. We welcome anyone interested Men's Ministry will start up on January 20th at 6:00 p.m. We will be continuing the Authentic Manhood series with Vol. 2 "A Man and His Story". Six-week course, study guide cost is $ Sign up today at the SERVE Counter! Our next Concert Series event will be on Jan. 27 th at 4 p.m. This recital will feature students from the studio of Dr. Michelle Latour. Singers will range in age from 8 years old to professional. There will be a wide variety of music performed including Classical, Broadway and Pop music. This should be a wonderful event to support established and growing performers. Get our church app MVPC-Las Vegas from Google Play Store or Apple itunes On Sunday mornings, check in with Facebook and tell your friends you re here. Watch our Facebook Live Stream on Sundays at 8:30 and 10:30

9 Sun., Jan. 20 8:30 a.m. Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Fellowship Hour, FH 9:45 a.m. Adult Sunday School, Esther 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Hour, FH 12:00 p.m. Learn to Play Bells, CH 4:30 p.m. Youth Group, GR Mon., Jan. 21 Office Closed, Martin Luther King Jr Day 7:00 p.m. Gamblers Anon., CH Tues., Jan. 22 9:30 a.m. Mommies Meetup, Luke 10:00 a.m. Crochet Class, FH 10:00 a.m. Staff Meeting, CH 1:00 p.m. Dominoes, FH 7:00 p.m. Contemplative Prayer, CH Wed., Jan :00 a.m. Bible Basics, FH 12:00 p.m. Sign Language Class, Esther 1:00 p.m. Bridge, FH 5:30 p.m. Bells Rehearsal, SC 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Night Live, GR 6:00 p.m. Bible Basics, FH 7:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal, SC 7:00 p.m. Session, GR Thurs., Jan. 24 5:00 p.m. Praise Team Rehearsal, SC 6:00 p.m. AHG, FH Fri., Jan :30 a.m. Vine Book Club, Esther 2:00 p.m. Knitting Class, FH Sat., Jan :00 a.m. Stephen Ministry, CH 1:00 p.m. AHG Badge Meeting, FH 5:00 p.m. AA Meeting, CH Have you ever wanted to learn how to Crochet? The church will be offering a Crochet class beginning this Tuesday, Jan. 22 nd at 10 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. This class will be taught be Sarah Pierson. All are welcome to attend. Pastor David's "Bible Basics" class starts this Wed. (1/23) at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. 6-week class, sign up on line. He will be using the book "A Guide to Bible Basics", by Tyler D. Mayfield cost $ The Contemplative Prayer class begins this week on Tuesday, Jan. 22 nd 7 p.m. The 10 a.m. class will start on Jan. 29 th in the Chapel. We will be using the text, Guarding the Heart by Michael Connell. Books may be purchased in the Church Office. Mountain View Presbyterian Church 8601 Del Webb Blvd Las Vegas, NV