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From Here to Zehr

This last week, one of our best Sunday School teachers retired.  Fred Blaesing has taught a Sunday School Class at Florence Christina Church for the last 10 years. He did it the way not too many folks do. Monday he would read the lesson. Tuesday he would get out all his commentaries and atlases and study aids and see what they had to say about the topic he was teaching that coming Sunday. Wednesday he would go over it again and so forth until Sunday morning when he would teach, challenge, encourage his class to do their best in living faithfully.

His class was very loyal to him and on that last Sunday we had a small get together to tell ‘Fred’ stories and tell him how much we appreciated him.

Indeed we are so honored that he taught all those years and we say, “Thanks, Fred for a job, (a joy), well done.” We will be recognizing Fred officially on June 1 during Teacher Recognition Sunday.

Blessings,
Rev. Diane

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Worship at FCC in May

May 4th is Consecration Day. Our worship theme will help us to answer the question, “Is ‘Good’ Good Enough?” We will bring our “Estimate of Giving” cards and consecrate our offerings of time, talent and treasure as we seek to do great things for God as individuals and as a congregation.

May 11th is Mother’s Day. We will have a special time of worship honoring the women in our lives and our church. There will be a special gift for all of the women who come to worship, so bring Mom or that very special woman in your life to our worship celebration.

May 18th will be our Pentecost Celebration day. Our theme for this day will be “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” as we consider how the wind of God’s Holy Spirit lifts our spirits and helps us to soar in our lives and in our witness for Christ.

May 25th will be a service of Memorial Remembrance. We will celebrate the lives of those in our families and our church who have brought significance to our experience of God and who now join the great cloud of witnesses.

See you at The Lord’s Table as we celebrate and remember together.

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Music Ministry @ FCC

Our thoughts are beginning to turn to the warmer and longer days of summer, morning walks and evenings by the pool, baseball games, hotdogs and peanuts. Our music ministry may relax a little bit, but we don’t take a complete vacation during the summer. Praise Teams will continue to rehearse and lead worship on Sunday mornings. The Chancel Choir will go to a half schedule during June, July and August, singing about half the Sundays, and rehearsing on Thursday nights before we sing. It’s a great time to “try out” the music ministry. If you’d like to join the choir during the summer months, please give me a call (Rev. Bob at church – 647-5000 x 554).

May Rehearsals:
Harmony Praise Team – Sunday mornings, 8:15am at Harmony Place
Main Street Praise Team – Thursday evenings, 6:30pm in the Sanctuary
Chancel Choir – Thursday evenings, 7:30pm in the Music Room downstairs
Child care is available upon request.

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Youth Ministry Notes for May

May AT THE FAITH ZONE!

FAITH ZONE is the name for our Children’s education programs. It is a time for children and youth to grow in their faith and knowledge of God.

SUNDAY Schedule on the Main Street Campus
9:45 AM: Preschool-K and 1st & 2nd grades classes – Atrium
3rd – 5th grades Alternative Activity
(Worship & Wonder for 3rd – 5th grades coming June 1!)
11:00 AM: 3rd – 5th grades class - Atrium
6th -8th grades class – A.C.
9th – 12th grades class – A.C.
Worship and Wonder for 3yr-2nd grade - Atrium

CHILDREN’S THEMES
MAIN STREET CAMPUS:
THEME: “Road Trip: From Resurrection to Pentecost”

MAY 4 - 9:45 & 11:00 – ART WORKSHOP
MAY 11 - 9:45 & 11:00 - MOTHER’S DAY
MAY 18 - 9:45 & 11:00 - PENTECOST WORKSHOP
MAY 25 - 9:45 & 11:00 - VIDEO

PRESCHOOL CLASS – 3,4, & 5 year olds
9:45 – Come and have lots of fun with Debbie Cinque. We are learning about God through the “Bible Zone Live” curriculum. There are lots of hands-on activities!

HARMONY PLACE CAMPUS:
The Harmony Place campus will be learning about the days after the Easter story thru Pentecost during April & May. This campus is using the curriculum: Exploring Faith-God’s Word for God’s Children. All children, ages 4-8th grade meet upstairs after the Worship Service at 10:45 PM.

Worship & Wonder (for 3 years old-3rd grade) will be offered during the Worship Service beginning May 1st !

YOUTH ZONE FELLOWSHIP GROUPS NEWS

CHILDREN’S FELLOWSHIP (CCF-5 yr-2nd grade)
MAY 4 -- NOON We will meet today, make something for our college buddies, hear a story and play a game Theme: “Light”

JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP (CJF-3-5 grades)
MAY 4 - NOON Outreach Project
MAY 11 – Mother’s Day – No Meeting
MAY 18 - NOON Family Celebration Lunch
MAY 25 - No Meeting

MIDDLE SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP (CHI RHO-6-8 grade)
MAY 4 - NOON Outreach Project
MAY 11 – Mother’s Day – No Meeting
MAY 18 - NOON Family Celebration Lunch
MAY 25 - No Meeting

HIGH SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP (CYF-9-12 grades)
MAY 4 - NOON “Our view on Controversial Topics”
MAY 11 – Mother’s Day – No Meeting
MAY 18 - NOON Family Celebration Lunch
MAY 25 - No Meeting

PARENT SCHEDULE FOR PROVIDING LUNCH FOR YOUTH GROUPS:
MAY 4 – Andy & Lynelle Johnson
MAY 11 – No Meeting
MAY 18 – Family Celebration Lunch,
Meat provided by Pat & Gail McDaniel
All families bring a side dish and/or dessert
MAY 25 – Memorial Weekend- No Meeting

MAY 18TH will be a special day for our 2nd graders and 8th graders. We will be presenting age appropriate Bibles to these children and youth as they prepare to move into the next grade levels. If you have a child or youth in this age range, please plan to be present in Worship on this Sunday.

CAMP REGISTRATIONS

The Early Registration Deadline is May 1. After that date, please add the difference of the cost to your half of the registration fee. At the printing of this Newsletter, Camp 101a and Sailing Camp were close to full. Don’t delay, get those forms in today!

FAMILY CELEBRATION LUNCH – MAY 18th – NOON
On Sunday, May 18th we invite families with children and youth to join us in the Activity Center. We will celebrate the year we are almost through and we will look toward the Summer months and special activities available to our families.
Pat & Gail McDaniel will provide the meat/main dish. Everyone else is asked to bring a side dish and/or a dessert. [We expect to have 50+ so plan your portions accordingly.]
Since this is the last “official” meeting of this school year, we will celebrate the hard work of our children and youth, and “promote” them to the next grade/level at this time. (There will also be special presentations in the Worship Services to those who are moving from 2nd to 3rd grade and from 8th to 9th grade)
[Graduating Seniors will be honored on Sunday, June 8]

VBS 2008 – June 16-20 -SAVE THESE DATES!
Make plans now to join us for our second year of Family-style Vacation Bible School. Parents/Grandparents enroll with their children and participate right along side of them. [If it is not possible for a parent to attend, we will have “adopted” adults who will work with your children] This year we are taking a cruise around the World. We will be visiting 4 Neighborhoods: God’s Neighborhood (creation), Beatrice’s Neighborhood (Uganda, Africa), Nadja’s Neighborhood (Bosnia), and the Neighborhood of Love. Registrations will be available near the end of May.

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Newcomer Ministries

 

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Fellowship Opportunities

LADIES... MARK YOUR CALENDARS

5/18 CWM Bake Sale (Theme: Red for Pentecost)
5/12 CWM Exec. Mtg., 5:30 pm, Max & Erma’s
5/19 Deborah Group, 6:30 pm at Harmony Place
Mary Group, 7:00 pm in the Well
6/8 Coming to God’s Table Tea - Well

MAX & ERMA’S DAY – MAY 12TH
You have to eat, right?! Well, you can feed your family and support the Christian Women’s Ministries (CWM) at the Crestview Hills Max & Erma’s on Monday, May 12th. The more you eat, the more money we raise as 20% of each check is donated back to CWM! The fundraiser is all day long. If you have friends, family and co-workers that want to have lunch, dinner or carryout, send them in with a copy of the flyer that can be picked up at the Information Center in the Narthex. DON’T FORGET THE FLYER!! We won’t be able to get the credit of 20%. Many thanks in advance from CWM for your support and for dining at Max & Erma’s on May 12th.
 

Are you ready for Summer Book Club?

It is almost time to take a summer break, sit around the pool or on the deck or in your back yard and read a good book. The only thing that makes that better is to share your thoughts on what you are reading with some friends who are reading the same book.

I know our first book of the summer to talk about is going to be Eat, Pray and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. A Best Seller, it is one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia.

We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am. From June 18th to July 30th. If you let me know you need childcare we can arrange it.

Questions? Call Reverend Diane at 647-5000 or email diane.zehr@fuse.net

The Lunch Bunch will meet on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11:30 am in the Well at the Main Street campus. This is a wonderful group of warm and fun-loving people of all ages, that get together to share a covered dish luncheon extravaganza. Would you like to join us? OK, then... bring a covered dish to share with others. It’s a casual dress event and a super way to meet new friends. The more the merrier, so join us on the 21st. For more information about this group, please call Myrtle Schafer at: 371-6949.

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Mission Opportunities

Pentecost Offering for New Churches - A church of the frontier!

This year we celebrate the 207th Anniversary of the Cane Ridge meeting. That huge evangelistic gathering, on what was then the American frontier, is regarded by many as the place where the very roots of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) were planted.

Through the years, the Disciples have been leaders in building educational institutions and in building programs that push the frontiers of caring. Disciples have been leaders in preaching, teaching, social programs and more. Wherever the frontier, our church has been there.

Today, we’re among the leaders in the mainline denominations in planting new churches.
The “frontier” today may be in the inner city or the suburbs. It may be peopled by retirees needing a church; or first-generation Americans from a variety of nations; or young families concerned about bringing up children with care and values. Wherever that new frontier is, our gifts to the Pentecost Offering help bring new churches there, and help spread the ministry of the Disciples of Christ to new people and places. Since 2001, in response to the call in the 2020 Vision of the church, we have planted more than 530 new churches. That’s nearly 40,000 new Christians. This year, through the Pentecost Offering, we are asked to join together and “Share the Chalice” to continue that work. Through the Pentecost Offering, we support the New Church Ministry of the Disciples, throughout the nation, and right here in our region. We “Share the Chalice,” and multiply the love.

Hearts and Hands Ministry
Our grocery collection for our Senior Center residents at Arcadia Park is coming along nicely. Hat’s off to our Scouts for their generous donation of over 50 bags of non-perishable food items. Let’s keep it going! We are also collecting personal hygiene items for the Women’s Crisis Center on Main Street. It is our prayer always that the Lord will continue to “prosper the work of our hands!”
Thanks to all who are supporting us financially. Your gifts are greatly appreciated.
Stay tuned for upcoming projects and ways that you can help us help each other!
 

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Day Care & Adventure Zone Updates

Spring in the Zone has been an eventful and fun time! We have been sprucing up our classrooms and doing some spring cleaning, creating paper flowers as well as planting some real ones. We have vegetables growing and a worm farm (this I assure you is not a favorite of Rev. Diane’s) but what fun, and it brings so much excitement to our children. Our babies are enjoying taking walks outside in the Bye-Bye buggy and we are all just so grateful that winter is finally over and we are blessed with a beautiful weather.

Adventure Zone is gearing up for Summer Camp. We are busy planning field trips and activities for the children. We have received 65 free tickets to a Cincinnati Reds game in July, a trip to the Zoo is in the works, Boone County Parks and Recreation is developing special weekly events exclusively for the children of Adventure Zone and we also have other adventurous activities in the works. If you are interested in registering please contact me ASAP as space is limited.

Harmony Place is having an adventurous time. April 17, 2008 was Firefighter Appreciation Day. Our three and four year olds walked across the yard to the Union Firehouse and delivered special treats and songs to the Firefighters. They were surprised and excited for our visit.

Julie Mondary-Linville
Executive Director, The Zone
859-647-5000 (ext. 600)

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In the Life of our Faith Community

Prayers & Concerns: Please remember Leroy Gerhardt in Rockcastle Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Ky., Thelma Castellini in Gateway Rehab Center, Lucille Souther in Oaklawn Rehabilitation Center in Louisville, KY, and Jerry Ott and Mandy Race at home.

May Birthdays

1st Stephanie Proffitt, Donna Murphy
3rd Hope Fryman
4th Walter Menke, Brad Bentle
5th Kristine Bird
6th Sierra Stansel, Paul Householder, Justin Conley
7th Liz Cunningham
8th Heather Rachford, Rosemary Newberry, Bonnetta Cooke, Freddie Clements
10th Donna Yeager, Ellen Neale, Greg Hamilton
11th Jane Moore, Gary Bentle
13th Nick Combs
14th Sharon Menke, Pete Martin, Janet Gerhardt
15th Jeff Nelson, Kim Jackson, Kevin Cunningham
16th Steve Penrose, Holly Mayerchak
17th Robert White, Evelyn Smith, Tina Carroll
18th Carol Hiatt
19th Jerry Zehr, Leroy Gerhardt
20th Jessica Edwards
22nd Emma Wright, Brenda Sparks, Linda Kraft
23rd Timothy Ferguson
24th Sandra Goshorn
25th Nancy Newberry
27th Steven Kiser
28th Lucille Turner
29th Fannie Endres
30th Helen Godman, Evan Dearborn
31st Caleb Isley, Barbra Ferguson

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May Newsletter Contents:

From Here to Zehr

Worship at FCC

Music Ministry

Youth Ministry

Newcomer Ministries

Fellowship Opportunities

Mission Opportunities

Daycare & Adventure Zone  Updates

In the Life of our Faith Community