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Blood Drive Final Results!
Our 6/30 blood drive collected 23 units of blood for the Red Cross. They tell me this is a good number for a first time drive, so give yourselves a hand. I would like to especially thank for the following folks for their assistance with setting up, working the drive, and tearing down: Randy and Jeri Henderson, Walt and Elijah Floyd-Pickard, Mark Fleming, Caroline Joyce, Phyllis Calvert, and Kate Scherer-Jones, and Christian McIvor. And of course the biggest thanks to everyone who donated…you helped make the world a better place with a simple action. – Keith Burkhead
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FaithAction Food Pantry – Update
There is an immediate need for assorted canned meats, such as chicken, beef, tuna, fish, salmon etc. They also need canned fruits, pasta noodles, cooking oils—vegetable & olive, hearty soups. NO VEGETABLES ARE NEEDED. Drop off items in the marked container in the CP parking lot foyer. Questions? Contact Betty Ruffin 336-508-0968.
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2016/2017 School Year BackPack Ministry Recap
As part of its Ministry Program, College Park partners with BackPack Beginnings to help with food distribution to needy students at Peck Elementary during the school year. There are two groups of volunteers that help with this: the runners who pick-up and deliver the food to the school on Thursdays, and the classroom distributors that help on Fridays. In 39 deliveries, our volunteers delivered 3967 bags to Peck, and increase of 378 over the prior year! A huge thank you to runners John Eagles, Jerry Elkins, Jeri and Randy Henderson, Leslie Hicks, Stephanie Kretz, Tim and Les Lowrance, Kevin Shortt, and Michael Usey, and classroom distributors Beth Hoagland, John Eagles, Jeri…
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Green Flamingos – Eco-Justice Challenge
College Park is committed to promoting and maintaining environmentally friendly practices in our church and community. We believe that environmental stewardship is a religious value and a moral responsibility This month’s eco-justice challenge is to reduce our water usage. Water is a finite resource, and reducing our “water footprint” is necessary for a healthy planet. Consider this: about 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four. Think about ways in which you can reduce your water footprint this month. Take a shorter shower, don’t pre-wash dishes before the dishwasher, install a low-flush toilet in your home. Maybe you could even purchase or make a…
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Green Flamingos Eco–Justice Challenge
College Park is committed to promoting and maintaining environmentally friendly practices in our church and community. We believe that environmental stewardship is a religious value and a moral responsibility. This month’s eco-justice challenge is: Create your own green cleaners! Spring is officially here, and with that comes the often dreaded spring cleaning. This year, instead of using cleaners that leach toxic chemicals into our water and soil, try making your own cleaners. They are easy to make, cheaper, and better for you and the environment! Here’s a really easy all-purpose spray recipe: 2 cups water 1 cup hydrogen peroxide ¼ cup lemon juice Find more recipes from this website: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/20-diy-green-cleaning-recipes-141129…
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2017 College Park Ministry Committees
Here are the College Park Ministry Committees for 2017: Deacons (3 Yr) – Chair: Matt Lojko 2017 Wayne Jones Matt Lojko Ed Morgan Kate Scherer 2018 Lauren Sandifer Amy Lowrance Darcie Thompson Margaret Bell 2019 Caroline Joyce Sarah Nelson Laurey Solomon Roland Estwick Bereavement (1 Yr), Chair: Darcie Thompson This team provides assistance to families in grief. Such assistance might include delivering a “travel bag” (coffeepot, cups, creamer, etc.), snacks, or meals to families receiving visitors following a death. A meal for the family on the day of the funeral will be provided if the family wishes. Jeff…
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What are Values of the Two-Year Higher education.
Innovative schooling during this country is fast turning into a necessity around the business enterprise group as a substitute for an extravagance. During the earlier the folks who had a secondary school coaching nonetheless had the chance to manufacture a outstanding community for by themselves as well as their family members. Individuals days are easily turning into a new dieing coal from the previous. Within the off possibility that you wish to have significant acquiring probable amid your life time you could be thoroughly limited by your grasping future as well as the degree of instruction you’ve got gotten. The uplifting information is you you should not must have a…
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Out of the Garden Project – Hearts of Hope
Join other College Park-ers on September 24th at Hearts for Hope, the annual fundraiser for Out of the Garden Project. Help them provide 1.6 million meals to hungry children and their families this year in Guilford County. The fun evening kicks off at 6:30 PM with a beer and wine reception, followed by dinner, program and dessert bar by The Fresh Market. Plus, enjoy music by Carolina Brass. Read more and sign up by Sept 16th at www.outofthegardenproject.org/hearts . See David Soyars, Mark File or founder Kristy Milholin for info.
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“Like a Prayer” – Sermon by Marnie Fisher-Ingram
Like a Prayer – Luke 11:1-13 July 24, 2016 I come here today after finishing up an intense summer of camp; I have spent the past 15 months planning a program for over 3500 teenagers. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, or as they say…. prayer. I spend my days praying for direction. That what I hear one day will still be relevant in 9 months during the camp season. I pray that we find the right qualified and gifted staffers to fill our teams so that children and youth may then hear the voice of God through them, or in-spite of them. It can be exhausting and…
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10 Things You Need to Know about NC HB2
Ten things you need to know about North Carolina’s extraordinarily harsh anti-LGBT law – HB2 that was passed on March 23, 2016: 1) The law eliminates existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and prevents such provisions from being passed by cities in the future. This means that only statewide non-discrimination laws are allowed, and the law passed doesn’t include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. 2) The law forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity. Additionally, access to facilities in all government agencies must be based on biological sex as well. That includes public universities. 3) North Carolina…
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Three Nickels Campaign 2016
College Park’s Three Nickels program began in 2009 for two reasons: College Park members agreed with Michael Usey that we should do more to help people living and dying in extreme poverty around the world. We believed that our congregation could be a witness to Greensboro that all of us can do a little more. The yearly goal of our Three Nickels fund is to have 100 College Park families or individuals pledge to give at least $1 per week, which equals 15¢ (three nickels) per day. The money donated is then given to ministries that operate outside North America, have been suggested by church members, and College Park’s Missions Committee…
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Advent Devotional – December 25
Advent Week 4: Love December 25 1 John 3.1-2, NRSV See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when God is revealed, we will be like God, for we will see God as God is. They got it on tape, the quintessential moment where I am clearly my mother’s daughter. 24 Christmases ago, I was 3 and still the star…
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Advent Devotional – December 24
Advent Week 4: Love December 24 Luke 2.15-20, NRSV When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising…
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Advent Devotional – December 23
Advent Week 4: Love December 23 Matthew 19:14-15, NRSV Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’ And he laid his hands on them and went on his way. Children are exhausting. I spend a lot of my time trying to keep my daughter corralled when in public. I’m self-conscious about letting this giant energy suck that I live with drain the life forces of innocent bystanders, so I say a lot of “stay over heres” and “get out of theres” and “please stand by mes”. I would no doubt have…
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Advent Devotional – December 22
Advent Week 4: Love December 22 Deuteronomy 30. 15-18 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you…
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Advent Devotional – December 21
Advent Week 4: Love December 21 Matthew 22. 34-38, NRSV When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. I have always understood Jesus’ answer to this lawyer’s question to be the answer that the lawyer expected. Jesus gave the same answer that any first century Jew would have given to…
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Advent Devotional – December 20
Advent Week 4: Love December 20 John 13.34-35, NRSV I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’ At this point in the season, how many items are left on your to-do list for the holidays? Mine is still missing quite a few check marks, to be certain. I’m a list-maker, and proud of it. I’m pretty sure it’s a genetically inherited trait, as I come from a healthy line of list-lovers. Packing lists for trips, shopping lists, work…
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Advent Devotional – December 19
Advent Week 3: Joy December 19 Psalm 131, NRSV A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvellous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time on and for evermore. I love Christmas! I love the giving and the receiving! I love sharing good surprises with family and friends. There is no better time each year than the week of Christmas.…
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Advent Devotional – December 18
Advent Week 3: Joy December 18 Mark 10:23-27, NRSV Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, ‘Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ They were greatly astounded and said to one another, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible,…
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Advent Devotional – December 17
Advent Week 3: Joy December 17 1 Corinthians 1.20-25 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness…
