Eastertide is the period of fifty days

from Easter Sunday (which, of course,

was March 27th) to Pentecost Sunday

(which is on May 15th, this year).

Each Sunday of the season is treated

as a Sunday of Easter, and, after the

Sunday of the Resurrection, they are

named Second Sunday of Easter,

Third Sunday of Easter, etc. up to the

Seventh Sunday of Easter, with

Pentecost Sunday following that day.

Pentecost, of course, is the celebration

of the “arrival of the Holy

Spirit” (according to the Luke-Acts

storyline) and the birth of the church

(Acts 2:1-13).

So, here’s what we’re going

to be doing for the next six weeks

during our worship hour together on

Sunday morning: We’re going to be

Surfing Eastertide

Special points of

interest:

Celebrating Jenna

and Patrick

Wednesday Night

Dinner

Trivia Night

CDC—News

In this issue:

Joel’s Message

1

Church News 2-4

CDC 5

Birthdays and

Anniversaries/

Schedules

6

Calendar 7

Prayer Requests 8

April 2016

Volume 16, Issue 4

From the Desk of

Reverend Joel Weible

Co rnerSto ne

P e w e e V a l l e y

P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h

journeying with the apostles as they

begin to share the Christ experience

that was theirs on that first Easter

morning as they returned from the

tomb. Their declarations turned very

quickly to demonstrations as they began

to teach and preach at the Temple in

Jerusalem and as they moved beyond

that city. They came up against many

who were opposed to their message,

who were fearful, enraged, indifferent,

and confused. They also encountered

those who were moved, even to

conversion, because of the message they

shared.

We will follow these first

century apostles and the formation of

the early church through the Seventh

Sunday of Easter so that we may make an

informed decision for ourselves on

Pentecost Sunday this year: Are we

going to turn our own words and beliefs

about God in Christ Jesus into action?

Are we going to demonstrate Christ in

the way we live and the way we love?

And what does a demonstration of such

a life and love “look like?”

These questions and more will

guide us as we Surf Eastertide together

this year. And you know where it all

starts …

See you in church,

Pastor Joel

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CELEBATING AND SENDING JENNA AND PATRICK

Our beloved Director of Youth Ministry for the past two and a half years and her husband Patrick are following their call

to upstate New York and their last Sunday with us will be April 10th . We have a few events planned so that as many of

you as possible can celebrate then and thank Jenna for her ministry to us. More details will follow in the weeks ahead, but

do mark your calendars for this special day.

Sunday, April 10th immediately after Worship

Our Congregational Care Team will host a reception in the Gathering Room for Jenna and Patrick. Please plan to stop by

for a few moments for some punch and cake and to share your love and good wishes to them in all that lies ahead.

Sunday, April 10th from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

On behalf of the Youth Ministry Team, Youth Parents, and all our Youth, Mitch and Jenny Williams are hosting a potluck

dinner at their house for ALL WHO ARE ABLE TO COME. This is not just for the Youth!! Please bring a dish that

would serve you family, plus four!

OLDHAM/JEFFERSON COUN-

TY PUBLIC SCHOOL SPRING

BREAK!! April 4th through April 8th

Though this week typically keeps our

families in short supply on the Sunday

before (April 3rd) and the Sunday after

(April 10th), we are still planning on FULL

ministry opportunities for ALL ages.

Hope to see you, if you stay “in town!”

SECOND WEDNESDAY IN APRIL Wednesday Evening – April 13, 5:45 to 6:55 p.m.

After Dinner: Time with Austin Wicks

In partial fulfillment of his Field Education, but also (and mostly)

for fun, our Seminary Student Minister, Austin Wicks, will lead

us in this time together after dinner.

Please plan to join us for the only Lenten Meal we will

share here this Season.

Call the church office for a dinner reservation: 241-4326.

As part of our 150th Anniversary Celebration:

YOU CHOOSE THE HYMNS!

For Pentecost Sunday, May 15th

On Pentecost Sunday, May 15th, the worship service will feature the congregation’s favorite hymns of all time! This is

your chance to select the hymns that will be included in our Pentecost Sunday Worship Service that will celebrate the

Music of our Ages:

HOW IT WORKS:

Make sure you’re here every Sunday in April! Each Sunday you will get a “ballot” in your bulletin (see

below) that includes 5 chances to vote. Perfect attendance on all four Sunday mornings in April will give you twenty

(20) votes!

Vote for your favorite hymns! This can be ANY hymn that you desire. It doesn’t have to be in our cur-

rent hymnal, it can be from a hymnal in the past. And it doesn’t have to be from a Presbyterian Hymnal – this is an

Interdenominational event. You can vote for five different hymns each Sunday, or you can boost your favorites by vot-

ing multiple times for the same hymn.

Be here on Pentecost Sunday, May 15th! All the ballots submitted during the worship services in April

will be tallied and the hymns receiving the most amount of votes will be sung during worship!

REEMBER: YOU HAVE TO COME TO WORSHIP TO GET A BALLOT AND VOTE!

See you in church…

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LIVESTRONG—OLDHAM COUNTY YMCA

Nearly every person in our community knows someone who is battling or has battled cancer. The Oldham County

YMCA would like to come along side them on their cancer journey and walk with them with support to help them

take the next step, whatever that may be.

The YMCA of Greater Louisville has partnered with LIVESTRONG to create a health and wellness program for can-

cer patients and survivors. The participant and one care giver will be given a 12 week FREE association wide mem-

bership to the YMCA. The group will meet twice a week for 12 weeks with a LIVESTRONG trained staff member.

The importance for those who battle cancer to work out and support one another is great. They have seen their

fighters maintain higher energy levels, greater strength and mobility simply by coming to our program and doing the

best that they can.

Not every branch has an active LIVESTRONG group, but Oldham County YMCA does. In May 2015 they officially

launched their program and last year they serviced 10 members of the Oldham County community. This year they

are striving to double that number. To register, participants simply need to stop by the Oldham County YMCA

branch to fill out medical history paperwork and have their doctor sign off (page #2) indicating if there are re-

strictions or not in terms of workouts.

If you have questions you may contact the Oldham County YMCA at (502) 222-9358.

Calling all keepers of trivial facts and tidbits!...

It’s PVPC's 3rd Annual TRIVIA EVENT!

Sunday, April 24th, 2016 from 5-7:30pm

The Member Development Team is planning another Fun Trivia Evening for all!

Our Trivia questions will challenge the skills of all different ages and will cover many different topics:

history, sports, entertainment, etc.

> A light dinner will be provided: sandwich fixings, sides, drinks, etc.

> Child Care for small folk (Preschool and Elementary age) will be provided.

*Please R.S.V.P. to Kathi in the church office (tel. 241-4326; email: pvpcoffice@bluegrass.net) so that we may have a

head count for dinner planning and preparations.

(Walk-ins welcome too!)

MISSION COLLECTION AT PVPC Presbyterian Disaster Relief Project : Mid-Kentucky Presbytery

PCUSA churches in Mid Kentucky Presbytery have committed to packing 500 “Disaster Relief Hygiene Kits” for the

Mayor of Louisville’s “Week of Service,” and PVPC wants to help! We want to put together 25 kits and send them in by

April 18th.

Each PDA Hygiene Kit will fit into a one gallon zip lock bag and your Mission Team is asking that you bring in the fol-

lowing items in the month of March and put them in the Gathering Room donation bin:

1 Hand towel (16”x28” – no bath towels!)

1 wash cloth

1 wide tooth comb

1nail clipper

1 bar of soap (bath size in wrapper)

1 toothbrush in original wrapping

6 Band-aids or other adhesive bandage strips

The PCUSA Disaster Assistance office will cover the cost of shipping the hygiene kits to the distribution warehouse in

Arkansas.

Other ways that Churches are participating is by …

1. Praying for the people struggling to survive a disaster.

2. Volunteering to assemble more kits on April 23 at Strathmoor PC. Children welcome!

3. Donate and drop off supplies on April 18.

4. Contribute money to buy needed items.

Thank you for your commitment and love. Call the church office for more information!

February 2016 Financial

Current Month Current Month

Budget

Year To Date Year To Date

Budget

Member Contributions $13,327.00 $20,707.00 $46,293.00 $41,415.00

Loose Plate Offerings $85.00 $333.00 $468.00 $667.00

CDC Contributions $8,110.00 $8,110.00 $16,220.00 $16,220.00

All Other Income $1,467.00 $1,707.00 $3,669.00 $3,414.00

Expenses $23,146.00 $32,190.00 $51,844.00 $62,784.00

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CHAPEL SERVICE WITH

THE CHILD DEVELOP-

MENT CENTER

10:00 a. m. Wednesday, April 13 and

Tuesday, April 26

We have two chapel services a month,

every month, for the children in our

care five days week! Any and all who

are able are welcome and encouraged

to come! Our time together usually

lasts about twenty minutes and in-

cludes songs, prayers, a sharing from

scripture by Pastor Joel and a celebra-

tion of the month’s birthdays. Love to

see you in our sanctuary with the chil-

dren!

CDC NEWS Happy April Everyone! Have you stopped for a moment to take in all

of God’s beauty that’s taking place this Spring? I was driving some-

where the other day and there was a solid line of pear trees all spar-

kling and white mixed in with the fresh green of budding plants and it

was simply breathtaking. My daughter asked me what my favorite sea-

son is and for that I simply don’t have an answer (not winter – defi-

nitely not winter!). There is beauty in all of the seasons.

The weather we’ve been having has me already excited about getting

outside and planting things. But I know the rule well around these

parts – no planting until after Derby. Coincidentally, our theme this

week happens to be seeds and planting and all of the classes are work-

ing on growing things inside for the raised garden that the CDC is go-

ing to have here this summer. We would love to grow a variety of

things and would love some advice on tried and true gardening tips. If

you have any suggestions about neat things to grow or the best way to

grow something, please share it with us in the CDC office. We also

hope you’ll check out our garden once we get it up and growing.

April seems to be a rather quiet month as activities go. We’ll have

Chapel on the 13th and the 26th, Spring pictures on the 19, 20 & 21 of

the month (see inside the newsletter for more details) and we’ll have

lots of recycling activities the week of April 18. This all leads us up to

the month of May which is almost as busy as Christmas time!

This is your monthly reminder – please designate us (the Pewee Valley

Presbyterian Church) as your Kroger Community Rewards recipient.

This past quarter we grew from 18 participating families to 21 and

we’d love to have even more. The extra money we earn from partici-

pating goes a long way to help with different themes and events at the

CDC. If you have any questions about this program please call the

CDC office at 241-0177 and we’ll be glad to help you!

God Bless,

Sharon Davis

Director

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April Birthdays

01 Rock Thompson

06 Betty Deibel

08 Mike McCarson

10 Earl Orr

11 Fred Tolsdorf

12 Crain Gardiner

12 Eric Russell

13 Andrew Herdt, Jr.

13 Peggy Morris

15 Rod Culver

15 Robert Janke

16 August Kingsley

20 Zachary Corcoran

20 Eric Wiser

23 David Ellis

23 Nick Taylor

24 Betty Stoess

25 Matt Killion

29 Tyler New

29 Kaelyn Wiser

April Anniversaries

29 James and Regina Bates

Refreshments

April

03 Bob and Lois Hicks

10 Holly Clark

17 Tom and Betty Deibel

24 Andre and Anna Faul

Worship Attendance

03/06/16 10:30 81

03/13/16 10:30 62

03/20/16 10:30 111

03/27/16 8:30 78

11:00 131

Ushers for April

04/03/16 Larry & Connie Vice, Ron and Carol Warren

04/10/16 Carol Culver, Vivien Reinhardt

04/17/16 Zack and Carole Logan

04/24/16 Bob and Lois Hicks

Children’s Sermon

April

03 Joel Weible

10 Jenna Heery

17 Austin Wicks

24 Mark Lane

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

2

8:00 AA Meeting

3

11:45 Worship Team

11:45 Youth Group

4 Spring Break 6:30-8:30 Starz VB

7:00 Member Devel-

opment Team

5

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

6

6:15 Bell Choir

6:30 Boys VB

7:00 Chancel Choir

7

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

8 9

8:00 AA Meeting

10

11:45 CE Team

11:45 Youth Group

11

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

7:00 Session Meeting

12

5:30 Finance Team

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

138:30 CDC

Advisory Board 10:00

Chapel

5:45 Dinner

6:15 Bell Choir

6:30 Program

7:15 Boys VB

7:00 Chancel Choir

14

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

7:00 Dyslexia Group

15 16

8:00 AA Meeting

17

11:45 Mission Team

11:45 Youth Group

18

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

19

CDC Spring Pictures

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

20

CDC Spring Pictures

6:15 Bell Choir

6:30 Boys VB

7:00 Chancel Choir

21

CDC Spring Pictures

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

22 23

8:00 AA Meeting

24

11:45 Music Team

11:45 Youth Team

5-6:30 The Bridge

25

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

26

10:00 CDC—Chapel

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

27

6:15 Bell Choir

6:30 Boys VB

7:00 Chancel Choir

28

6:30-8:30 Starz VB

29 30

8:00 AA Meeting

April 2016

Prayers and Concerns

Lynn Wilkinson

Wayne Hartigan

Hunter Powell

Sarah Copley

Rebecca Byford

Gary Stoess

Friends and Family

Vicki Liles (friend of Jan Beaverson)

The Family of Larry Sheets

Rosie Gehlbach (friend of John and D.D. Hendrickson)

Amber Willetts (great niece of Richard Ray)

Keni Debbens (friend of Sally Bunnell)

Beverly Cunningham (friend of Jim Trimpe)

Ashley Jasin (niece of Wendy Wilt)

Bob Brent, Bill Hirtzel and Nancy Sinclair (friends of John and

D.D. Hendrickson)

Steve de Witt (family friend of Rock and Debbie Thompson)

John Heleringer

Reed Francis (son of friends of Dan and Laura Kinnicutt)

Andrew Love (nephew of Mark Lane)

Linda Beaverson (sister of Jerry and Jan Beaverson)

Matt and Vickie Rogers (husband of a co-worker of Clare Grant)

Fred Miller and Peggy Walhgren (friends the Hendricksons)

John Hendrickson

Phillip Parks (friend of Alex Pappas)

Adam O’Daniel (friend of Ann Weingardt)

Jeff Myer (husband of co-worker of Connie Vice)

Gabriel Kinderman and Family (friends of the Hendricksons)

Helen Schuck and Cecilia Billingsley (aunt and cousin of Kim

Pappas)

Lizzie Klehr (friend of Hailey Age)

Andrea Ansman (cousin of Myles and Pam Scott)

Mary Louise Boone-Abraham

Charles and Irene Littrell

Celeste New

Charlene Staats

Tommy Boone

Zachary Corcoran

Members

Betty Miller (mother of Sharon Davis)

Francis Fox (mother of Gale Fox)

Zola Skaggs (daughter of a friend of Sharon Davis)

Norma Sheets (sister or Wilma Wayne)

Jay Bowman (friend of Kim Pappas)

Mason Wilt

Kimmy White (friend of Wendy Wilts’s daughter)

Jane Anna (cousin of Lee Goss)

Jim Stoien (friend of Ann Finney)

Ardeth Pappas (mother of Kim Pappas)

Peggy Edmonson (friend of Virginia Baumann)

Rhonda Raley (friend of David Clark)

David M. Ellis (nephew of David B. Ellis, John and D.D. Hen-

drickson)

Pat and Debbie Handlson (former pastor)

Kay Harrod (sister-in-law of Betty Deibel)

Allyson Powlus (sister of Rick Fletcher)

Bobbie Holihan (friend of Virginia Baumann)

Jeff McGee (friend of Sharon Davis)

Doug Germond (husband of Kathy Germond in the CDC)

Bob and Diana Polsgrove (friends of D.D. Hendrickson)

Monte Farmer (brother-in-law of Margaret Hill)

Linda Mahoney (sister of Gale Fox)

Aiden Johnson (son of a co-worker of Maria McCarson)

Jean Dugger (co-worker and friend of Regina Bates)

Kristen Hall (CDC parent)

Karen Bennett (cousin of Melody Lindsey)

Don and Camilla Crowder (cousins of Melody Lindsey)

Sara Hardin (sister of Mark Lane)

Stu Basore (brother-in-law of Jan Beaverson)

Ralph Haskell (cousin of Ann Finney)

Michelle M. Hendrickson (daughter of John and D.D. Hen-

drickson)

Ed Stoess (son of Jim and Ann Stoess)

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We’re on the Web!

Peweevalleypresbyterian.org

119 Central Avenue

P.O. Box 365

Pewee Valley, KY 40056

Tel: 502-241-4326

Fax: 502-241-0876

E-mail: pvpcoffice@bluegrass.net

Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church

Big News From the Little Valley!

Address Service Requested

Jenna Heery

Youth Director

Sunday 8:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday

8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

Kathi Richards

Administrative Assistant

Monday-Friday

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Marie Fledderman

Bookkeeper

Monday-Tuesday

8:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.