January 15, 2017 North Kent Presbyterian News

Per Capita time.  The Presbyterian Church supports its organizational structure (Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly) with a Per Capita assessment on each member of the PCUSA congregations.  The charge is made in January and this year we must pay $26.75 per member of NKPC.  You can again help as in years past by making a special donation to the church for each family member.  Please use your “Initial Offering” envelope for this purposes.   Thank you for helping cover this special expense.
 
Directory Update.  Please let the church office know of any updates/changes to the information for the 2017 Directory.  All known changes communicated as of this week have been incorporated.   Please advise by, Thursday, January 19, 2017.
 
Presbyterian Women will meet after church services on Sunday, January 22, in the sanctuary.  We will look at how to distribute funds for mission from our treasury, which has approximately $1500.  Any other items you would like to bring for discussion are welcome.  All women of the church are invited to participate.
 
Annual Reports It is time to prepare for our annual congregational meeting.  Please have your annual report into the church office by Tuesday, January 17.  The reports should be emailed as an attachment using size 12 font and type face of Calibri.  Please do not use special characters, bullet pointers, etc. just plain text and paragraphs as the individual reports will be combined with the others into a single document for printing.
 
The meeting date will be set by Session at its next meeting.
 
Children.  All children ages 4 to 10 are invited to join the Sunday school class following the Object Lesson. The topic is “John Baptizes Jesus” Matthew 3:13-17.   Discusses how to celebrate the grace of God through baptism.
 
Giving Statements for 2016 are available on the table in the narthex.  Please pick up your copy to save us the postage expense.
 
 
Field Trip Bible Scholar Opportunity. The Royal Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on the Cross. Jan 24th, the world renowned theologian N.T. Wright will be speaking at the January Series at Calvin College. The Tuesday Joy Bible Study is coordinating a field trip. 
 
Pastor Karen' email is Pastor.nkpc@gmail.com    Her office hours are Monday - Wednesday 9:30 - 3 pm.  Contact her for lunch or coffee.
 
 
ANNUAL MEETING January 29th 2017:  Hear ye, hear ye!  This is your official notice that our congregation will have our annual meeting in two weeks. Members, please plan on spending a little time right after worship to meet that day to elect your elders and deacons and vote on other official church business.  Thank you!
 
 
Youth Crew Sledding!  We have rescheduled our January sledding for Sunday afternoon January 29th.  Hope to see you there!
 
Camp Greenwood registration is now open!  As a partnering church with the Greenwood Ministries Association, all campers from our church get 10 % off their registration fee. Email Pastor Karen for a coupon code.  Register by March 15th to get an extra $15 dollars off!
 
 
Missing Figures? Has anyone seen the missing “Children in Worship” figures?  The C.E. for children is looking for them.
 

This Week of January 15, 2017through January 22, 2017
 
DAY                                TIME                         EVENT

Sunday 15                       9:30 am                    Discussion Group "Living the Questions"
                                       10:00 am                   Choir Rehearsal
                                       10:45 am                   Worship Service

Monday 16                     10:30 am                   Moms and Munchkins (free play group)
                                        7:00 pm                   Boy Scouts
                                        7:00 pm                   Session
 

Tuesday 17                      7:30 am                    Men's Breakfast (Mr. Burger, 5181 Northland Dr.)
                                       1:15 pm                      JOY Bible Study
                                        5:00 pm                   Marketing Team
                                        7:00 pm                   Women's AA
   
Wednesday 18                8:00 am                   Women's Breakfast (Russ's, 3966 Plainfield Ave.)
                                       7:00 pm                   AA
  

Thursday 19


Friday 20                       9:00 am                    Morning AA


Saturday 21


Next Sunday 22            9:30 am                      Discussion Group "Living the Questions"
                                     10:00 am                     Choir Rehearsal
                                     10:45 am                     Worship Service