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June 13, 14, and 15, 2008



6 - 8 pm on Friday the 13th
6 - 8 pm on Saturday the 14th
9:30 - noon on Sunday morning
6 - 7:30 Sunday evening

Relay for Life Picture

Many thanks to these members and friends (and others who are not photographed) for coming out and supporting our efforts to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

You may click on the picture (or maybe a double click) for a much bigger version.

The Templeton Foundation -- Asking the big questions and other links for May 18

The John Templeton Foundation has a wonderful series on the web. The latest question asks: Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete? Click Here.

Here is another interesting site by scientists who are Christians and Jews. It is called Counterbalance Forum.

This is the link to Ben Stein's movie, Expelled.

Praying Until General Assembly

The Presbyterian Church (USA)'s General Assembly will be June 21 - 28 in San Jose, California. Please start praying now for the assembly commissioner and our denomination.

Information about the assembly, and prayer for it, can be found if you click here. The bottom article on that page is the most helpful.

References for this week's sermon

On May 11 (Pentecost) I will quote Dr. Lamin Sammenh of Yale Divinity School. Here is a link to that article in Theology Today (1988).

And here is Dr. Sammeh's biography.

I may also quote from Jurgen Moltmann's book The Church in the Power of the Spirit.

Pentecost

This Sunday is Pentecost and Mother's Day. For the former please wear red to church on May 11. We'll fill the church with a sea of red to remind us of the tongues of fire that lapped on the disciples on Pentecost (see Acts 2).

A link to thoughts about Memorial Day on this blog can be found by clicking here.

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter was almost fifty days ago, but here are Easter Egg Hunt pictures taken by Laura Mackey.

Thanks Laura!



That's the pastor in green reading a pop-up book of the Biblical Easter story to the children while the youth bunnies do their work hiding eggs.






A great picnic followed the event. See ya here next year on Palm Sunday!

Two more pics of Easter Egg Hunt and Picnic

One video from Church Camp

In the next blog post are pictures of our church's camping experience at Dogwood Acres. We had a great weekend at the presbytery's camp in Vernon, Florida. Here we are doing the chicken dance.

You may need to click on the arrow at the bottom left of the box to make it play.

(Thanks T. and E., this technology is FUN!)

Family Camp 2008 pics

Members and friends of Northminster had a great weekend at Dogwood Acres two weeks ago. Here are but a few of the fun activities. We're grateful to Stephen McFarren who came with his guitar to wow us in show and song.











The final group picture was taken after most of the participants left. I'm so sorry we forgot to take on with everyone there. However, with the smiles on everyone's faces one can see it was a great weekend.