Week of May 17, 2015 - Church of the Apostles UCC

Food Bank
The food bank will be closed on May 18th and May 25th.

Welcome Rev. Nora Smith
Rev. Nora Smith was ordained at Church of the Apostles in September 1981 and joined the ministry team with Rev. Glen Rader and Rev. Nevin Schellenberger as the Minister of Education. Nora then served First Congregational UCC in Boulder Colorado as their associate minister for ten years before moving from parish ministry into the hospital setting, where she directed spiritual care programs in two downtown Denver hospitals and supervised chaplains in a hospice program in Boulder Colorado. She completed a Merrill Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School, has a certificate in Buddhist studies from Naropa University and is presently in the Inaugural Class of the Living School, an alternative orthodoxy Christian wisdom tradition program with Fr. Richard Rohr, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, and James Finely, Phd. In retirement, Nora is adjunct faculty at Naropa Univeristy in Boulder, CO and teaches pastoral care in the Masters of Divinity program.

LCCC Food Hub Grand Opening
Lancaster County Council of Churches will be celebrating the grand opening of the Community Food & Resource Distribution Center at 812 North Queen Street on Tuesday, May 19th. The day will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. and a dessert reception at 6:30 p.m. Sweets will be served at the evening event, including Miesse Candies and various flavors of ice cream courtesy of Carmen and David’s. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to jmiller@lcchurches.org to advise which event(s) you will be attending.

Garden Helpers Needed
The garden is growing and so are the weeds! Please stop by anytime between 8-10 a.m. to help remove weeds; someone will be there to garden with you.

Grocery Cards
Please remember that today is the last Sunday this month to order grocery cards for next month.

Play Ball!
Our baseball team will be playing on our field Tuesday, May 19th and Thursday, May 21st at 6 p.m. Thursday will even be a double-header. Please come support our team and bring a lawn chair…you can even picnic while you watch.

Volunteers Needed—Furniture Donation to Honduras
Penn Manor School District has donated the furnishings of Pequea Elementary School for use in Honduras through the direction of Central American Relief Efforts. Volunteers are needed! We expect to fill two shipping containers. Church of the Apostles has been a loyal supporter of education in Honduras—please help as you are able.

On Saturday, June 13 at 8:30 a.m., we will need to disassemble desks for space saving in their container. There will also be tables that will need legs removed for shipping. We will work until everything is ready for loading. Phillips head and Allen wrench bits will be needed.

On Saturday, June 20th at 8:30 a.m., the containers on site will need to be loaded; this work is more strenuous as lifting in required. There will also be a need for some volunteers to keep inventory as we load.

The only way we’ll be able to send this shipment to Honduras is if we can recruit enough volunteers for each Saturday. About 20-25 volunteers will be needed each weekend. Volunteers are being recruited from a variety of groups and Church of the Apostles’ presence has been significant in past efforts. If you can help either or both weekends, please contact Andy Appel at (717) 490-0093 or andyappel@epix.net and specify the day(s) and time(s) you are available. If you have friends or family who may be willing to help, they will be more than welcome! We will be meeting at Pequea Elementary School, which is located at 802 Millwood Road, Willow Street, PA 17584.