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August 1st, 4 p.m. CONTEMPORARY SERVICE
at Saint Andrew's Sanctuary
Please save the date in your calendar!
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NEW CHOIR CHAIRS
How grateful I am for the ongoing response to our fund raising toward the purchase of new choir chairs. We are at the halfway point and continue to pray for your generosity. $100 per choir chair (goal is 60 chairs) and $45 per upholstered folding chair (goal is 40 folding chairs). Take a moment and look at our sample chair located outside the music room.
Many thanks, Rita Hughes, Music Director
FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR JERRY Dear Church Family:
Sometimes my friends send me really good material over the internet. The writer of this article is not your pastor but a “being” from cyberspace. Funny how a $10.00 bill looks so big when you take it to church, but so small when you go to the mall.
Funny how big and hour serving God looks, yet 60 minutes seems so short when hanging with friends. Funny how long a couple of hours spent at church are, but how short they are when watching a movie. Funny how we get thrilled when a football game goes into overtime, but we complain when a sermon is longer than the regular time. Funny how laborious it is to read a chapter of the Bible, yet so easy to read 200-300 pages of a best-selling novel. Funny how we believe what newspapers say, but we question what the Bible says. Funny how people scramble to get a front seat at any game, yet they scramble to get a back seat at church service. Funny how we need 2 or 3 weeks to fit a church event into our schedule, but we can adjust it for a social event at the last minute. Funny how difficult it is for people to learn scripture and explain it to another, when it is so simple for them to understand and share gossip. Funny how we draw a blank at prayer time, but we don’t have any difficulty thinking of things to talk about with a friend. Funny, isn’t it? Funny how we are so quick to take direction from a total stranger when we are lost, but we are hesitant to take God’s direction to be found. Funny how people are so consumed with what others think about them rather than what God thinks about them. Funny how so many churchgoers sing “standing on the Promises” but all they do is sit on the premises. Funny how people think they can get more accomplished in a lifetime without God than in an hour with Him. Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they don’t have to believe, or to think, or to say, or to do anything.
Funny how this was a reality check for me. I hope it helps you put life back in perspective and make God a priority.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Jerry
PARISH NURSING “To Extend the Healing Ministry of Our Lord.”
As we begin the summer, our thoughts drift to lazy and quiet days with plenty of opportunity for out door activities. It also is a time when our insects multiply, especially bees and wasps.
There are certainly a lot of home remedies for soothing a sting, as anyone who has been stung at a family picnic can attest. A few examples include applying a wet aspirin to the sting, aloe vera, paste from baking soda or a commercial meat tenderizer. These home remedies and others may have some merit, but the simplest and probably the best way to treat a bee sting involves these three steps:
- Remove the stinger as soon as possible. You can do this by scraping the stinger out with a straight-edged object such as a credit card. - Wash the sting area with soap and water. - Put a cold pack or cloth filled with ice on the sting area. Topical products containing benzocaine are very effective at relieving pain. Hydrocortisone cream or calamine lotion help relieve the persistent itching.
If you have any questions, please feel free to stop by my office.
In Christian Love,
Carol Liedberg, RN, Parish Nurse
FROM YOUR MUSIC MINISTRY
PRE-SERVICE HYMN SING
Once again during the months of June, July, August and the first Sunday of September, St. Andrew will enjoy their pre-service hymn sing starting promptly at 9:15 a.m. This gives our congregation the opportunity to sing well-known favorites and be introduced to the occasional not-so-well-known hymn, and for the most part coming from our pew hymnal. This includes what some would call ‘contemporary’ hymns and choruses. Actually the most popular of these worship choruses have been in use for many years and a good many of our younger retirees have enjoyed these songs of praise for some time. I understand the concern of some who are cautious about anything new, but with our organist, Robert Winslow, and singing leadership there will always be something every Sunday morning that you will find familiar. And from all of our St. Andrew Presbyterian Church Music Ministry, have a blessed and safe summer!
Our Chancel Choir will return to their weekly rehearsals on the second Thursday of September (September 9th), 3 - 4:30 p.m. During the summer we will be blessed by a variety of soloists. We look for you every Sunday whenever you are here in Sun City Center. By the way, this is a great time to bring your visiting family and friends to St. Andrew. They will enjoy our worship services and the warm fellowship of our people.
God’s blessing on each of you, Rita Hughes, Music Director.
MEDIA CENTER/LIBRARY
Book Review:
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
Same Kind of Different as Me, a book that is factual but could just as easily be fiction, tells the unlikely story of the unlikeliest of friends--Ron Hall and Denver Moore. Told in two voices, the book alternates between telling the story from the perspective of Ron and Denver.
Ron Hall is a wealthy international art dealer who travels the world buying and selling rare and expensive works of art. He has grown rich but has also grown selfish and has grown away from his family. When Ron Hall reluctantly volunteers at a homeless shelter (at the urging of his wife) he soon comes into contact with Denver, a man his wife is convinced is going to change the city. Denver grew up as a sharecropper in Louisiana, living a life that seemed little different from the life of his ancestors one hundred years before. He eventually walked away from the cotton fields and found that, while life on the streets of Fort Worth was difficult, it was easier than being a sharecropper. It was there, in a homeless shelter, that the two men met, one serving food and the other being a reluctant recipient of this charity.
At first unable to crack Denver's stony personality, Hall eventually prevails and strikes up a friendship with a man worlds apart. They become fast friends who endure a tragedy together and who soon grow in their love, respect and admiration of each other. Each man teaches the other about life and faith. The story of the relationship between these two men is fascinating and inspiring. It offers a glimpse into two worlds that are nearly opposite and shows what happens when these worlds come into contact with each other.
The book showcases a fun sense of humor, and there is plenty of heart. It is recommended for a stirring and unforgettable story, and for the pure joy of reading it. You’ll enjoy every minute of it.
Books, CDs and Magazines can be found in our Library. For a preview click on Media Center on our web site.
Reading Suggestions
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