Foundations News:
1. This weekend during Sunday School, our class will be having a time of extended fellowship followed by a time of corporate prayer. We will fellowship until a few minutes after 10:00 and pray as a class (individuals praying as they feel led) for the remainder of our time together. In keeping with the teaching topic of parenting that we have covered the last few weeks, a suggestion would be that the class consider prayer for our children and families (ie: discipline, health, peer pressure, Christian guidance, etc.)to be a primary topic (along with recent prayer requests of the class); however, the overall goal is for the hearts of our class to be revealed and knit together in Christ, so the class members should pray for anything that is on our hearts. Our similar prayer time in January was a very special time for our class.
2. See below for Covenant Chronicles
Have a great week everyone!
From: Danny Giffen [mailto:dgiffen@covpres.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:48 PM
To: Danny Giffen
Subject: Covenant Chronicles
Summer is fast approaching and many are trying to get through the baseball playoffs, final exams and last minute vacation planning right now. We also hope that you are looking forward to many of the opportunities that lie ahead here at Covenant Presbyterian this summer which I will lay out here below.
First I do want to apologize if you were in the 8:30 am service this past week. During the announcements portion an ill-timed and inappropriate joke was made referencing "Episcopalians, worship and charges". What was communicated was not representative of either the thinking or the posture of our church's leadership. We ask for your forgiveness to said comments and pray to see restoration of strained relationships through the power of the gospel in Jesus Christ here at Covenant.
I also wanted to allow everyone to listen to Dr. Mike Honeycutt's sermon from Presbytery last week. He preached on John 17 regarding unity in the body of Christ. I highly recommend it: http://www.covpres.com/dlgMediaPlayer.aspx?id=668
What's Happening:
1. One Worship Service – From Memorial Day Weekend (May 27) - Labor Day Weekend (Sept 2) we will have one worship service on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. Sunday School hour will be at 9 am with fellowship time just before that. However May 27 and Sept 2 we will have NO Sunday School only worship.
2. June Sunday School Shuffle – for the 6th year in a row, we are offering 5 unique classes for you to choose from:
A. Marriage (Room S100) taught by Dr's Gordon Bals & Bill White from Daymark Counseling.
B. Theology of Worship (Room S104) taught by Rev's Tom Cannon & Joe Dentici
C. The Westminster Assembly (Room S101) taught by Dr. John Halsey Wood
D. A Study on Proverbs (Room E201/03) taught by the pastoral staff
E. The Audacity of Gospel Hope—A Woman's study (Room E204) taught by Heather Hagins
3. Vesper Services – Beginning June 3 we will be adding a new service for the summer (June 3 – Aug 5). The purpose of this service is to provide an evening gathering that will be an extension of the morning worship. Typically the one preaching the morning will be preaching that evening with additional exposition of the morning text. The service will be much more casual. The first Sunday of each month, we will also have a cook-out in the Pit area. Services will be at 5:30 and last approximately 45 minutes.
4. Scroll Down to see our very own: http://blog.renttherunway.com/tag/mothers-day/#.T61gHxyPTzY.email
5. Rain for Roots – Many of you love Sally Lloyd-Jones and we also welcomed Katy Bowser on RUF Sunday in Worship. They have collaborated to create a children's worship CD based on The Jesus Storybook Bible. You can download it here: http://rainforroots.bandcamp.com/
Practical Theology
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