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JUNE 2019

2434 Wilmington Road New Castle, PA 16105www.npcnc.org [email protected] 724-658-9051

STAFF:

Rev. Dr. Jordan Rimmer, Pastor

Kris Miller, Secretary

Maureen Jaklic, Director of Music Ministries

Dawn Kosior, Child Care

Northminster Presbyterian Church

VBSJuly 14 – 18

Calling all children Pre-K to 6th gradeYou are invited to join us from 6:00-8:00pm for a week of

music, Bible lessons, crafts, snacks & games and so much more.You won’t want to miss it!!!!!!!!

Register online or pick up a form at the church.

Summer of Stories – Sundays in June, July, AugustPastor Jordan will be preaching on popular Bible stories during Sunday worship this summer.

Join us at 10:00am each week!

Future Church Symposium Highlights/Takeaways We need to Carpe Manana. Seize tomorrow. Seize the future. You can choose your furniture, but you cannot choose your moment. God chose us for this moment The first thing a missionary does is learn the language of the culture. If the culture is our mission field, then

we have to learn to speak their language The language of this culture is story and symbol with a soundtrack We have been woefully resistant and stubborn as we have said to the culture that it has to learn our language There are no silver bullets on what to do as a church. Jesus is our silver bullet. If he is lifted up, he will draw

people to himself (Jn 12:32). A key word for the church is Terroir. It comes from wine and cheese world and means that you can taste the

soil and context in the wine or cheese. Jesus loved a city enough to cry over it. Do you love your zip code enough to cry over it? Don’t hear Len calling us to be relevant. Relevant and recency are not the same. Some of the most relevant

stuff is the most ancient. Don’t do something new. Do something old in a new way. We grew up learning about the Bell Curve. All nature distributes in this pattern, and in the old world culture

did too. Now, we live in a Well Curve world. The extremes are growing and the middle is dropping out. In this world, the middle is exactly where you don’t want to be. You ride the middle of the road, you will be roadkill.

Another key symbol for the church is the Mandorla or the Almond. An almond shape is two circles coming together, and the overlap is the almond shape. We don’t want to make compromises or synthesis. We need to learn to bring opposites together.

Church ought to be a place where we enjoy what we enjoy and everyone likes what they like, but we also need to lay it down. Show Len what in your church budget you don’t like.

The 5 technologies shaping the future- GRAIN: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Info Technology, Nano Technology.

Len believes secularization is an academic host. Our culture makes everything sacred: sports, identity, gender, ethnicity, celebrities, political parties…

Another key word for the church of tomorrow is Ostranenie. This is a Russian word meaning “to make the familiar strange.” If you want to make something fresh you have to make it strange. You have to defamiliarize it. Jesus did this when he said, “You have heard it said, but I say to you…”

Above all else, we must have eyes like the Ostrich watching where they laid their eggs. But our eyes must be

set on Jesus.

From the Pastor

Christian Fellowship

Northminster has purchased a new Simplicity tractor to help maintain our church property. If you would like to help offset the cost, please make a check payable to the church and mark “tractor” in the memo or on the envelope.

Thank you, Corp. Affairs

Lay Leaders:2 – Dave Wilson9 – Pentecost16 – Jan Sumner23 – David Reynolds30 – Kip Haas

Glorifying God by reaching out, and building up for Christ.

Committee MeetingsAll begin at 7:00 pm

Bequest will meet Sunday June 2nd after church

Worship will meet on Tues, June 4th

ALL other Committees will be meeting onWed., June 5th (Christian Ed, Corp. Affairs, Fellowship, Media, Mission)

Session will meet on Wed, June 12th

Deacons will meet on Wed, June 26th

Nancy Stoner; Sydney Angelo; Janet Artz; Greg Bartley; Joe DeCarlo; Kosey Fennick; Anne Kaufman; Barb Kunselman; Bob Peters; Nancy Stoner; Phil Vargo; Soldiers & families; New Zealand; Sudan; Victims of Natural disasters; Home-bound people.

Ushers2 – Joe & Pat Hixenbaugh, Bill & Nancy Lockhart9 – Jean Ann Bradley, Carrol Robinson16 – Grantley & Esther Richardson,

Jerry & Kay Stiffler23 – Charlene Daytner, Shelly DePaolo,

John Leslie, Ken Thomas30 - Hudaks

Annual Book Sale – June 6, 7 & 8Thurs & Fri 10–7 and Sat 10–2We will have THOUSANDS of books to

choose from – all genres!!

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