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Fellowship .............................. 2

CE/Youth ............................ 3,4

Mission ................................ 5-6

Birthdays/Milestones.............. 7

A Publication of The Presbyterian Church, Fredericksburg, Virginia Lamp

Led by the Holy Spirit, we glorify, nurture, witness.

March 2015

The Choir

will present

Mozart’s Requiem

for a Vespers Service

on March 29

at 5:00 p.m.

in the Sanctuary.

Thanks and Congratulations!

Since December of 2013 Brittany Harvey has served as our Interim

Director of Youth Ministry. She has led our Youth fellowship

programs for Middle and High School students, working closely with

our able team of volunteers from the congregation.

Her enthusiasm and care for our youth were a blessing and joy for

the youth and advisors. She worked in a part-time capacity to design,

lead and support our young people in their discipleship and faith

journeys.

Brittany and her husband Russ Morris have now received a

particular joy and blessing into their home in the birth of their first

child, a son Oliver Guthrie Morris. He was born on January 15, 2105.

As she had planned for a number of months, Brittany concluded her

work on staff with the birth of their son. Thank you Brittany for your

leadership and service in our Youth Ministry program. Session and

the entire congregation join in expressing our appreciation in bidding

her every good wish in the new chapter and adventure of life she and

Russ have begun as parents.

Thanks and Congratulations to Brittany for her work in our midst!

We are grateful for her time as a member of our staff team.

A search for a new director has begun, and our Coordinator of

Education and the Education Committee have assumed the

responsibilities of leadership in the meantime.

Well done!

See you in worship.

Warmly,

*(Several other families have welcomed first-born babies into their

lives in 2015. We rejoice with each one! See inside for details.)

The Lamp The Presbyter ian Church

Presbyterian Women Circles

Never-ending Circle Sun., Mar. 1, 1:30pm, Donna Hughes’ home

Leader, Trudy McNatt - 373-2852.

Circle of Joy Mon., Mar. 2, 10am, Church Parlor Leader: Kathryn Hower - 361-7435,

Leader: Gale Kehoe, 371-4570.

Faith Circle Mon., Mar. 9, 1pm, Church Parlor Leader: Susie Kuliasha, 370-1710.

Circle of Prayer Tues., Mar. 10, 12:15pm, Church Parlor, Leader: Jeanne Ramsburg, 710-5891.

Friendship Circle Tues., Mar. 10, 11:30am, Chancellor’s Village Leader: Paula Kallay, 898-6169.

Congregational Retreat Please mark your calendar for the Congregational Retreat on Saturday, March

14, and Sunday, March 15, at Camp Hanover in Mechanicsville, VA. The Retreat

Planning Committee has great activities planned that everyone will enjoy and will

help us explore this year’s theme, “What is the Church?” During the Saturday

evening activities there will be a special activity for children 4-years old and

younger. Participants are asked to bring pictures/newspapers articles/other

examples that tell “What is the Church?” to them. Come for the day or stay for

the night. The retreat truly is fun for all ages.

Sign up for the retreat before or after church or complete the registration form

on the back page of this newsletter. If you have any questions or ideas, please

speak with a member of the Retreat Planning Committee: Rachel Talmadge,

McCray Fidler, Hannah Porter, Julie Young, Brian Liska, Roxanne Nance, Tom

Wimberly, Sallie Nowacek, Matt Bohmke, and Bruce Harvey.

See you at Camp Hanover!

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Lunch at Bravo’s for the Prime Timers Fellowship Group The Prime Timers will meet at Bravo’s Restaurant (1 Towne Center Blvd. behind

the mall) on Wednesday, March 11, at 11:45 a.m. We will order from the menu

and have individual tickets. Please call Gary or Fidelia Boshears at 412-2393 by

March 8, for a reservation.

NYC Trip Update Participants for the three day/two

night trip to New York City, May 5-7,

are reminded the total $530 is due by

the end of March. Please make checks

payable to the church. We will have a

meeting in April to go over the details

for the trip.

Hunt for Easter Eggs All children up through the 5th grade are invited to participate in the Easter Egg

Hunt on the church grounds on Sunday, March 29, at 3:00 p.m. We will meet in the

Middle House 1st floor. Please bring a bag or basket for your eggs. Our Middle

School Youth Group will host this activity.

Forever Young Lunch The Forever Young Fellowship group

will meet at a local restaurant on

Tuesday, March 25, at 11:30 a.m., at

O’Charley’s (1791 Carl D. Silver Park-

way). Please call Bruce Harvey at 373-

7057 by March 17, for a reservation.

Community Lenten Services Each Wednesday during Lent, the downtown area churches host a Community

Lenten Worship Service. Services begin at noon and last approximately 30 minutes,

followed by a light luncheon.

Mar. 4: Christ Lutheran Church Methodist Church

Mar. 11: Fredericksburg United

Mar. 18: St. George’s Episcopal Church

Mar. 25: Fredericksburg Baptist Church


2015 Confirmation Journey Please continue to pray for our 2015 Confirmation Journey. In March the group

will look at the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of the Apostles’ Creed, explore the meaning

of the Lord’s Supper and do a mission project at Camp Hanover during the

Congregational Retreat.

The explorers are: Caroline Bowling, Sydney Coffman, Guy Gormley, Sam

Harrison, Sam Horn, Libby Humes, Nils Pedersen, Claire Rehm, Will Rowe, Reid

Schattgen and Rachel Talmadge.

Attention Youth - Summer Trips Please let Bruce know if you want to go and/or need more information, 373-7057,

([email protected]) about any of the summer trips.

Middle School Conference at Massanetta Springs Conference Center near

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Cost: $300

Dates: June 23-26

For current 6th-7th graders

Senior High Mission Trip to upper New York state near the 1000 Islands

Cost: $150

Dates: June 20-27

For rising 9th-12th graders & graduates

Tasks: repairing homes

Senior High Montreat Youth Conference at Montreat Conference Center in

Montreat, North Carolina.

Cost: $400

Dates: July 25-August 1

For rising 9th-12th graders

Scholarships are available for all the trips. Adults interested in going on the trips

should talk to Bruce.

Youth Group in March The Senior Highs during the month of March will have discussions on the

Liturgical Year and the debate over Evolution & Creationism, make care packages

for our military, go to a movie and do a Rebuilding Together special project.

Our Middle School Youth will do a craft for the community dinner, organize and

carry out the Easter Egg Hunt on March 29, and much more.

Please stay tuned for details. Any questions/comments please contact Bruce at

373-7057 ([email protected]).

Looking ahead to School Dressing Days The set up days will be

August 12-13, and the event

for the parents and children

will be August 14-15, at the

Church of the Latter Day

Saints on Bragg Road. For

more information contact

Becky Paul, 373-2294,

([email protected]).

We are also looking for a

volunteer to serve with Becky

Paul on the Interfaith Council

that meets about 4 times a

year. If interested, please

contact Becky.

mailto:[email protected]


New in the Belk Memorial Library (located in the rear of the Church Parlor)

Note: The books in the church library are arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.

The Friendship Circle of The Presbyterian Church recently honored two of their

circle members by donating the following books by Marva J. Dawn to the Belk

Memorial Library.

Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting (263.3)

was donated in honor of Marjorie Glassco. This book reminds us that by focusing on

beauty, worship, and rest on one day, we can be more aware and faithful on the other

six days of the week.

In the Beginning, God, Creation, Culture and the Spiritual Life (222.1107) was

donated in memory of Thelma Fisher. With the grace and insight, Marva Dawn

shows how the opening pages of the book of Genesis rivet our attention on God, call-

ing us to worship and to praise. The repeated words, phrases, and actions themselves

beckon us into a rhythm of worship which touches our very souls.

Marva J. Dawn (Ph.D., Notre Dame) is an internationally renowned theologian,

author, and educator. She served as Teaching Fellow in Spiritual Theology at Regent

College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Under Christians Equipped for Ministry (CEM),

she has preached and taught at seminaries, clergy conferences, churches, assemblies,

and universities throughout the world. A scholar with four masters degrees and a

Ph.D. in “Christian Ethics and the Scriptures” from the University of Notre Dame,

Dr. Dawn has also been a popular preacher and speaker for people of all ages. She

is the author of numerous articles and over 20 books, several of which have won

awards and\or been translated into Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and other

languages.

Other books by Marva Dawn in the Belk Memorial Library include

I'm Lonely, Lord -- How Long?: Meditations on the Psalms (242.5)

Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society (261)

A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being

Church for the World (264)

Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the

Turn-of-the-Century Culture (264.001)

“A great benefit of Sabbath keep-ing is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.”

Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embrac-ing, Feasting -Marva J. Dawn

Palm/Passion Sunday

March 29 - Worship - 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Church School - 9:45 a.m.

Vespers Service - 5:00 p.m.

Maundy Thursday

April 2 - Worship - 7:00 p.m.

Good Friday

April 3 - Worship - 7:00 p.m.

Easter

April 5 - Dawn Service - 6:30 a.m.

Worship - 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Church School - 9:45 a.m.

Holy Week Schedule


2015 Adult Mission Trip The 2015 Adult Mission trip is April 5-11. This year the group will go to

repair and refurbish homes in Hampden, West Virginia. They will stay in a

church, sleeping on cots. Clarke Newlin will prepare the dinner meals. There is

no cost. If you are interested in going, please contact the church office at

373-7057, or Bruce at [email protected].

The Cold Weather Shelter has been open since November, and volunteers from our

church have gone each Wednesday evening to help check-in the guests, make beds and

lend assistance in other ways. The shelter will close sometime in March.

We thank our volunteers who have been present at the shelter: Margaret & Pete

Beattie, Bill & Jacqui Nix, Samson family - Dave, Krista, Lydia and Helena,-

Zac Cunningham, Steve Davis, John Statler, Elizabeth Saunders Morris, DJ Hole, Jenny

Major, Bill Stewart, Dick Balch, Rod Hughes, Sammy Merrill, Dave Techlin, Dick &

Mary Szymanski, Mike Fariss, Gaye Copley, Kurt & Laura Chewning, Porter & Linda

Blakemore, Mike & Brad Harrison, Bart Sprankle, and substitutes Al & Jan Erkert,

Diane Peterson, Maggie Walker, George Cralle, Richard Harrison, Leif Johnston and

Jason & Meaghan Thomas.

Operation Serve International Team in Mexico City By David and Doris Johnson

David and Doris Johnson are going on a Mercy Mission Team to Mexico City March

21 to March 28, with Operation Serve International (OSI) to serve in the clinics. Doris,

a CNM/NP will be helping in the Medical Area (women’s health, pediatrics and primary

care). David will serve in the Optical Area doing vision checks and fitting glasses.

Other services include dental, hair care and children’s activities.

OSI was established in 1983 as a non-denominational mission organization. The

vision of OSI is to motivate and to mobilize concerned Christians to reach the poor in

places that are under-served and to strengthen existing ministries in their own presenta-

tion of the Gospel. The ministry of OSI is concerned for all people, those who know

Christ and those who do not.

Clinics used to be held in a number of Garbage Dumps as well as Community Centers

and churches. All the Garbage Dumps have been closed in Mexico City, and the focus

has been on partnering with churches for 2-to 3-day clinics. This has been a great

benefit to neighborhoods in getting to know the church, its members and ministries as

well as providing health care. The churches are telling of growth in numbers and

changed lives due to the presence of the clinics.

Please pray for health, safety in travel, unity among team members and positive

experiences with the people.

Call us, David and Doris, at 218-590-5115 or e-mail [email protected] for

more information or if you’d like to volunteer for a team (Mexico City) in the future!




OGHS The One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering is the 2nd of the

four Presbyterian Church(USA) special offerings. We take the

offering on both Palm/Passion Sunday and Easter Day. You may also

give to the offering using the envelope you will find in your box of

offering envelopes or the special envelopes found in the pew before

these two Sundays. All of the OGHS offering goes to our Presbytery

and General Assembly to assist with the following three ministries:

The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) is a ministry of the PC(USA) working

with congregations and partners around the globe to alleviate hunger and eliminate its

causes. Nationally and internationally, our many programs and partnerships

complement each other in this work. Our work to alleviate the struggles of our brothers

and sisters around the world supports God’s vision of a community where all people

have sufficient, healthy, and culturally appropriate food.

The 5-cents-a-meal offering we collect in the sand buckets the last Sunday of each

month also supports PHP with 25% remaining local to help the hungry in our

community.

Self-Development of People (SDOP) is a ministry that affirms God’s concern for

humankind. We are Presbyterians and ecumenical partners dissatisfied with poverty and

oppression, united in faith and action through sharing, confronting, and enabling by

participating in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged

people, seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression and

injustice.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is a ministry that offers help to children,

youth and adults caught in the middle of the destruction caused by natural disasters and/

or conflicts in our nation and around the world. Some of the recent places where PDA

has been present are in Haiti as this country continues to try to recover from the earth-

quake; the border crisis between our country and Mexico; the shooting and aftermath in

Ferguson, Missouri; the flooding in Malawi and Colorado; and the tornadoes that struck

many parts of the mid-west last year. Our adult mission trip stayed at a PDA site in

New Jersey last year, and we will go to Hampden, West Virginia, April 5-11 to work at

another PDA site.

Please be in prayer for the One Great Hour of Sharing offering as we can reach out to

help many people and areas in our global world. We also ask that you consider making

an offering to OGHS. It will touch lives.

Hometown Nazareth ~ VBS 2015 Vacation Bible School is coming July 19-23. We will have a

marketplace with a number of shops for children and adults to visit each day.

Hear the story from Mary each day. If you would like to help, please contact

Michele Coffman, 538-9492 ([email protected]).

March 8



Elders

Rachel Ball

Gene Bingham

Dave Bohmke

Karen Boyles

Joan Darby

Tristin Fidler

Wayne Hibbeler

Doug Horstman

Donna Hughes

Rod Hughes

Robin Joel

Leif Johnston

Susie Kuliasha

Amy McCullough

Allen Polk

Hannah Porter

Tom Wimberly

Sarah Wright

Adam Zimmerman

2014-2015 Session

Moderator – Rev. Allen H. Fisher, Jr., Pastor

Clerk of Session - Patty Toler

Milestones Capsule of Concern: Rick Brehm,

Sara Broyles, Nancy Brandon, Jim

Caelock, Joan Eck, Macon Fino,

Michael Hynden, Virginia Lynch,

Ray McAfoose, Andrew McCullough,

Charlotte Mims, Ruth Moreau, Phyllis

Muir, Kristina Palangi, Ron Rebman,

Judy Schulken, Bob Snow

Continued Prayers: Lou Garrison,

Marjorie Glassco, Ruth Moffitt, Jeanne Waite

Birth: Asher Ephraim Almeida, born February 8, 2015. His

parents are Cory and Jami Judge Almeida.

Riley Christopher Eland, born February 12, 2015. Riley is

the son of Bryan and Heather Eland. He is the grandson of

John and Barbara Howe and the nephew of Ashley and

Jacob Kave.

Heartfelt Christian love and sympathies are extended to

Tim Duffy and family on the death of his father, who died

on January 27, 2015.

1. Rachel Hancock, Megan Sullivan, Sarah Wright

2. Wayne Hibbeler, James Jaworski, Gary Boshears

4. Diane Peterson, Margaret Roberson, Barbara Katrina

Nance, Bailey Nance, George Nowacek, Donna Ridge

5. Becca Fisher, Helena Sidebotham

6. Laurie Watkins, Tiffany Newell, Mason Theado,

Joan Gaston

7. Johanna Dowling, Cindy Watson, Donna Brehm,

Mary Raye Cox

8. Marjorie Glassco, Sean Garrison

9. Emma Manuel, Anne Zimmerman, Brett Peterson,

Ashley Gehrts

10. Bill Baer, Jacquie Raymond, Cindy King,

Steven Kuiper, Lincoln Stevens

11. Daniel Kunkler, McAlister Leimbach

12. Nancy Seale, Lou Silvey, Roxanne Nance

13. Maya Schattgen, Carolilne Raska, Emma Marcotte

14. Beth Huber, Jacqui Nix

15. Sophie Sweet, Xander Umble, Lindsay Dingman

16. Don Kenneweg, Helen Estell

17. Jo Anne Kinnamon, Betty Beemiller, Jim Pates,

Paul Travis

18. Mike Medsker

19. Janet Dowling, Will Harrison, Suzi Ashby,

Carol Rebman, Ed Foresman, McCray Fidler

20. Aaron Shirk, Chip Ellis, Ashley Raska

21. Jen Rowe, Pam Werner, Sean Kinkead

22. Jean Walker, Georgia Lee Strentz, Allyson Travis

23. Andrew Horne, Debbie Eckel

24. Larry Casey, Richard Harrison, Christopher Werner

25. Evan Foresman, Michelle Gibson, Mike Fritz,

Robert Gloyd

26. Patty Toler, Carrie Lyman, Nicole Wilder

27. Julie Hamlett, Ann Monroe Jacobs, Delia Rabatin,

Travis Early

28. Walton Mahon

29. Gary Vaughn, Jeb Brough, Garrett Green,

Doc Godshall, Sarah Moser, Chris Mallory,

Amanda Hild

30. Jacob Wright, Aaron Story

31. Stephenie Fellinger, Charles Pickett,

Emma Kinnamon, Darlene Ochsenknecht,

Kirsten Allen

NON PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE

PAID Fredericksburg

VA PERMIT NO. 193

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

810 Princess Anne Street

Princess Anne and George Streets

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

The Sacrament of

Communion will be celebrated in worship on:

April 2, 2015

April 12, 2015

2015 Congregational Retreat Registration Name(s) of all attending

Tel # ___________________________ Email

Staying Overnight* #___ $32 for 12 & over # ___ $15 for ages 4-11 Total $ _____

Saturday only #___ $22 for 12 & over #___ $11 for ages 4-11 Total $ _______

Sunday only #___ $15 for 12 & over #___ $10 for ages 4-11 Total $ _______

____check if need financial assistance – (will be kept in confidence)

* Family max - $99, children 3 and under are free

Dietary Restrictions (e.g., peanut butter) __________________________________

☐ I need assistance getting to/from Camp Hanover. ☐ I am interested in helping with an activity.

Please make checks payable to the Presbyterian Church with “Congregational Retreat” in notation.

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