This Sunday at 9:30 will be Family Worship.  Our Sunday School youth will be leading us with special music, readings and drama.  Ester Bhatti will be baptized during our 11:00 worship. 

Pastor will be speaking from Revelation 7:9-17.

The Bhatti family invites everyone to a celebration luncheon in Madden Hall following the 11:00 worship service.

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Don’t forget to sign-up in Madden Hall for your portrait sitting for our new picture directory.  Sign-ups will continue through May 9, but “prime” slots are going fast.  Any questions on sign-ups can be directed to Kris Jenoriki (748-1214).

Friday, May 21 – 2:00-9:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 22 – 9:30 a.m.-5:20 p.m.

Tuesday, June 8 – 2:00-9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 9 – 2:00-9:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 24 – 2:00-9:30 p.m. 

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Tickets will be on sale Sunday for our Mother/Daughter/Friend Dinner to be held Sunday, May 23, at 5:00 p.m.  Dinner will be boneless chicken prepared by Melvin Washington and helpers and served by members of the Doug Jablonski Men’s Fellowship.  The program will feature the music of The Holland Family.  Cost is $10-adults/$5 children 12 & under.  See a member of the Men’s Fellowship.

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The May Good News will be mailed Monday.  For a sneak peek check out our website and follow the links to the Good News and the Calendar.

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Evergreens will meet next Wednesday at noon.  Artist Bonnie Cavalier from the Galloway Cultural Art Center will be sharing her talent and teaching some of the basics of acrylic painting.  Bring a sandwich and a friend! 

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There will be a meeting of the Visioning Team Monday at 6:30 p.m.

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Please remember in prayer ~

Eddie Haldeman – still in Philadelphia

Tammy Suarez – home from hospital

Frank Loeb

Bret Castle

Edna Brown

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An Inheritance of Faith – Read Deuteronomy 6:1-9

"I wish we had heirlooms in our family," my daughter said, after telling me about some furniture and other possessions that had been passed down through several generations of a family she knew. Our family has not saved things in this way. Many of our ancestors were quite poor and owned little that would long outlast them. Others were the sort who got rid of everything they were not immediately using.

But our family does have one precious heritage: the Christian faith. We try to pass this on to our children and grandchildren. I remember the small rural churches where my grandparents worshiped. They passed on their faith to my father, who taught a Sunday school class, and to my mother, who encouraged family worship. All three of their children, living in widely different parts of the world, have been active members of Christian congregations. As one of my daughters prepares to join the church and another tells me about her Bible study group, and when I hear my grandchildren singing Bible songs, I know that they have a heritage that "neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal" (Matthew 6:19).

Jewell Willhite from The Upper Room, April 1, 2002

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This Week in Our Church . . .

Sunday            Baptism Sunday                     

              8:45 Breakfast

              9:30 Family Worship

            10:45 Refreshments

            11:00 Worship & A2J

            12:00 Celebration Luncheon

Monday

              1:30 Bible Study

              6:30 Visioning Team

Tuesday

              7:00 Fellowship

              7:00 Property

Wednesday

            12:00 Evergreens       

Thursday        

              7:00 Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Friday

Saturday

              8:30 Doug Jablonski Men’s Fellowship

            10:00 Deacons

              6:00 Prime-Timers

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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - I Corinthians 13:7

 

The Presbyterian Church at Absecon
208 New Jersey Avenue
Absecon, New Jersey 08201