1:00 p.m. Bible Study
Girl Scouts
7:30 p.m.
Choir Rehearsal / 3 / 4 / 5
6
10:30 Worship
Communion
Minute for Mission
Barbara Keller / 7
Cub Scouts / 8
Boy Scouts / 9
1:00 p.m. Bible Study
Girl Scouts
7:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal / 10 / 11
Boy Scout
Pasta Fagioli
Dinner
4 to 7:30 p.m. / 12
13
10:30 Worship
New Members Received
OGHS Offering dedication
Palm Sunday / 14
Cub Scouts / 15
Boy Scouts
Session
7:15 p.m. in
Chapel / 16
1:00 p.m. Bible Study
Girl Scouts
7:30 p.m.
Choir Rehearsal / 17
7:30 p.m.
Maundy
Thursday Tenebrae and Communion Service
/ / 19
20
10:30 Worship
Easter Sunday / 21
Cub Scouts
/ 22
Boy Scouts
Earth Day / 23
Girl Scouts
7:30 Choir Rehearsal / 24 / 25 / 26
27
10:30 Worship
Rev. James Marsh,
leads worship / 28
Cub Scouts / 29
Boy Scouts / 30
Girl Scouts
7:30
Choir Rehearsal
7 - Jenna Kimmerle 8 – Nicole Cantarella
12 – Gianna Frank
14 – Jean Biggar
Jacqui Bowan
18 – Georgie Levy
Jack Solsman
27 – Ami Sohns
29 - Eleanor Metzgar
30 – Joan Cross
Pastor Ken and Bonnie will be on vacation beginning April 21st thru April 27th.
Why Be Green?
In ”Green Like God (Faith Words),” Jonathan Merritt insists that caring for the planet isn’t a “right-left” issue but a “moral-immoral” issue. When Christians find common ground about being stewards of creation, he says, we fulfill God’s divine plan and encounter him more easily.
Merritt writes: “One of the reasons God is so protective of the earth and one of the reasons he charged us with keeping and caring for it is because he is singing through it …. That alone should produce in us a deep appreciation for the creation and a passionate worship for the One who made it.”
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.
Boy Scout Troop 66 will hold their “41st Annual Pasta Fagioli Dinner”on Friday, April 11, from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. in our fellowship hall. Dinner is take-out or eat in and tickets are $8.00 per person. Complete details are on the bulletin board. For tickets contact: Kevin Conforti at 570-237-5214
SESSION
CLASS OF 2014 CLASS OF 2015 CLASS OF 2016
Sue Cantarella Barbara Keller Everett Fitch
Ralph Metzgar John Frank Nancy Walsh
Jean Biggar Dick Loessy Don Williams
President: Everett Fitch Financial Secretary: Dick Loessy Treasurer: Sue Cantarella Clerk of Session: Sue Canarella
Treasurer of Endowments: Jack Cross
COMMITTEES
Christian Education: Nancy Walsh, chair Bonnie Forbes, Georgie Levy, Sue Cantarella
Finance Committee: Dick Loessy, chair
Bev Solsman, Jack Cross, Sue Cantarella
Personnel: Don Williams, chair Linda Muracco, Myrna Watkins, Dick Loessy
Property Committee: Everett Fitch, chair John Frank, Ralph Metzgar, Jack Solsman
Worship Committee: Jean Biggar, chair Betty Fitch, Bonnie Forbes, Linda Muracco
Outreach Committee: Barbara Keller, chair Jean Biggar, Linda Bourbeau, Sue Cantarella, Georgie Levy, John Frank
Commissioner to Presbytery: John Frank
2014 Auditors: Barbara Keller, Nancy Walsh
The next Session meeting will be on Tuesday, April 15,
at 7:15 p.m. in the chapel.
BOARD OF DEACONS
Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2016
Debbie Kimmerle Mary Grace Donati Georgie Levy
Betty Lamm Bonnie Forbes Lisa Price
Connie Richards Myrna Watkins Betty Skorec
Moderator: Myrna Watkins Vice Moderator: Betty Lamm
Secretary: Debbie Kimmerle Treasurer: Bonnie Forbes
The Board of Deacons continues to collect canned goods and non-perishable food items for the Safety Net in Scranton. These items may be brought in at any time and left in the baskets in the vestibule or in the church office.
Monday thru Friday 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. Pastor Forbes is normally in the office Tuesday thru Thursday mornings.
Please contact Sue in the church office should you pastoral care for any reason during the time Pastor Ken is away. After office hours call: 570-383-9298 or 570-954-5846. Church website: dunmorepresby.org
Church email: Pastor Ken: The office will be closed, Monday, April 21st, if you have a pastoral concern or need anything, contact Sue at 570-95-5846.
JOIN OUR PRAYER CHAIN IT IS JUST ONE PHONE CALL BE ONE MORE LINK TO MAKE
OUR CHAIN STRONGER
If you have any type of prayer need request for a friend or family member, please contact Pastor Ken at 570-344-3145, Sue Cantarella at 570-343-6807 (or after hours) 570-383-9298 or let a prayer chain member know. Our chain: Bonnie Forbes Danny Clark
Betty & Evertt Fitch Betty Lamm
Liz Hamborsky Norma Mecca
Nancy Walsh Eleanor Metzgar Doris Keller
Unanswered Prayer
When prayers go unanswered, we may ask if God hears. Is he listening? Is he even there? If he hears, why is he silent? Does he really love me? Does he care?
We may ask such questions in moments of desperation and discouragement. But let us consider an alternative possibility, a truth supported throughout Scripture: No prayer goes unanswered.
As William Arthur said, “To someone who prays in faith, unanswered prayers are simply the evidence that the answer is much closer.”
Palm Sunday, April 13,
10:30 a.m. Worship
Maundy Thursday, April 17,
Tenebrae and Communion
7:30 p.m.
Easter Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m.
On Sunday, April 27th Rev. James Marsh will lead our worship service and Patricia Koch will be organist/choir director.
"The Gentle Gardener"
I’d like to sow the barren spots
with all the flowers of earth,
To leave a path where those who come should find but gentle mirth;
And when at last I’m called upon
to join the heavenly throng
I’d like to feel along my way
I’d left no sign of wrong. —Edgar A. Guest
Thank You! to the Outreach Committee and all of our volunteers who helped with the planning, preparation and all that is involved in the Clam Chowder and Bread Sale.
Thanks also, to all who supported the event.
Clothing and Shoe Drive sponsored by
The Mission Committee of Providence United Presbyterian Church
APRIL 4-MAY 2: Clothing and shoes drop-off donation boxes at Providence UPC, Scranton, to benefit Bread Basket Emergency Food Assistance Program.
The Presbytery of Lackawanna is holding spring Cluster Meetings and the cluster for our area will be held at: FUPC Lackawanna Valley in Peckville on May 7th at 7:00 PM
Anyone interested in attending is asked to let Sue know. The meetings let people gather and share thoughts and ideas with those of other congregations.
MESSAGE
John’s Gospel, the fourth Gospel, doesn’t mention the Lord’s Supper on the Thursday night before Jesus’ death. Instead, John says in John 13, that Jesus gets up in the middle of the supper, trades his robe for a knotted towel and washes his disciples feet. This action involves no bread, no wine, just feet – twenty-four of them at least, with terrible toenails, blisters, yellow corns where the hand-me-down sandals rub and thick calluses are uderneath the feet. When Jesus finishes washing them, he leans close to dry them, since his only towel is around his waist. Trust me, that towel is not something you want near your food, when the foot washing is over.
On the next to last day in his life, Jesus gives his disciples this example to follow once he is gone, the lesson that he hopes will continue to teach them forever. This lesson is not in words either. It is a lesson in bodies, which the church of Jesus Christ has always cut a wide belt around.
On the whole, we prefer ceremonies with inanimate objects: a nice loaf of bread that doesn’t move, a cup of wine or grape juice that will not talk back. These things are much easier to spiritualize than a bunch of smelly feet, each one attached to a single human being with warmth, real dirt, real faith, real doubts. Jesus understood how it worked. You cannot take a foot in your hands without getting real close to another person; once that happens, God’s Word becomes flesh.
Whether or not we celebrate this ceremony, it is there to remind us that Jesus Christ does not live inside a cross, a loaf of bread, or a cup.
Until we recognize him in one another, Christ is not here. Once we meet him in one another, there is no place he is not. This is my message as we head toward Easter.
Faithfully Yours,
Pastor Ken
Prayers and Concerns of our Church Family
Thoughts are with those of our church family in need whether it be a physical or other daily struggle.
To those who have been recently been hosptalized, but are now at home:
Florence Gillespie Brown Everett Ftich
We extend our christian sympathies to those who have losted family and loved ones recently:
Barbara Soden, on the passing of her cousin, Scott.
Sara Martinelli’s sister-in-law, Phyllis Tenti .
Barbara Keller, who lost a close friend, Joanne.
Bob Shoener, a dear friend and part of our church family, passed away on March 26, 2014. A memorial service was held at the church on Saturday, March 30, at 11:00 a.m. Please keep Bob, his closest friend, Betty Lamm, and Bob’s family in your thoughts and prayers.
Patricia Alyce Bowan became the newest member of The Bowan family on Thursday, March 6, 2014.
We offer our congratulations and best wishes to Jacqui, Jason and to big brother Clark! Their home mailing address is: 36 Westview Drive, Scott Township, PA, 18411
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
The men of the congregation will prepare a Mother’s Day Breakfast on
Sunday, May 11, at 9:00 a.m.
In order for food preparation, please sign the sheet when posted on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall.
The Church Women United will hold its May Tea at our church on Friday, May2, from 12:oo to 2:00 p.m. May 2 is May Friendship Day and a program will be presented, along with refreshments.
All women are invited to attend.
The Presbyterian Women will hold a meeting following coffee hour on Sunday, April 6th. All women of all ages are welcome to join and share ideas to help keep this group active in our church as well as throughout our community and in missions.
The Presbyterian Women will be publishing a Mother’s Day Booklet supporting the Healthy Women Healthy Familiesin honor or in memory ofmothers.
If you would like to remember your mother, grandmother, aunt, sister or any special women in your life, please give your gift (in any amount)along with the form below to Sue Cantarella by May 4th.
Given By:
In memory of:
In honor of:
The Perks Of Giving National Volunteer Week April 6 – 12
It is a time to celebrate people doing extraordinary things through service. Established in 1974, National Volunteer Week focuses national attention on the impact and power of volunteerism and service as an integral aspect of our civic leadership. The week draws the support and endorsement of the president and Congress, governors, mayors and municipal leaders, as well as corporate and community groups across the country.
Every week thousands of volunteers help people in need. As volunteers can attest, sharing one’s time and talents leads to many intangible benefits.
New research shows that volunteering and giving also provide physical and emotional advantages. Givers report an improved sense of well-being, lower stress levels, better physical health, an enriched sense of purpose in life and increased happiness.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself.”
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
—Leo Buscaglia