The title of Pastor John Oerter’s sermon for the week of November 24, 2013 is Coherence or Chaos based on scriptures from Luke 23: 33 – 43 and Colossians 1: 11-20.  The hymns for Sunday are Sing to the Lord of Harvest and All, Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name!

Worship begins at 9:45 am, followed by education and fellowship at 11:00 a.m.  Our church provides a Nursery during worship service.  First Presbyterian Church is located at 919 E. Tenth Street in Rolla.  Our website is www.rollapresby.org.

Preschool and the church office will be closed on November 28, and 29^th for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The deacons are preparing care packages for college and secondary students and those serving our country overseas.  Please contact Cheryl Koederitz with information.  Deadline is December 2.

The Presbyterian Women’s cookie walk/bake sale will be Saturday, December 7 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

The all church Christmas dinner will follow worship/Cantata on December 15 at about 11:15 a.m. Put this on your calendar and come ready to feast and have fun.

The title of Pastor John Oerter’s sermon for the week of November 17, 2013 is Living in a World on Fire based on scriptures from Luke 21: 5-19.  The hymns for Sunday are My Hope is Built on Nothing Less and This I Know.

Worship begins at 9:45 am, followed by education and fellowship.  Our church provides a Nursery during worship service.  First Presbyterian Church is located at 919 E. Tenth Street in Rolla.  Our website is www.rollapresby.org.

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and the office being closed on November 28 and 29, please have your December Newsletter articles to Betti Jo by Monday, November 25, 2013.

Life Touch portraits for Darryl Alofs, James Drewniak, Adele Heller, Tricia Lewis, and Ray Evans are in the office available for pickup.  Office hours are Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

The church is seeking a Nursery assistant to work with Dawn each week.  The hours would be Sunday mornings from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. and occasional special service times.  You must submit to a background check, get certified for CPR/First Aide and have a current TB test.  Experience with children preferred.  Position available immediately.  If interested, please contact Betti Jo in the office at 573-364-3852 or by email at presby1@fidnet.com.

Deacon’s Care Packages:  If you have a college student or any secondary education student, please give your student’s name, address, phone number, and/or email address to Cheryl Koederitz (email: koe@mst.edu.  The deacons would love to send them a care package of goodies.  We would also like to do this for anyone serving our country overseas.  The deadline for this is no later than Monday, December 2.

Please take time to look at the Heritage Map outside the office.  Find your set of two name tags and use one or both to indicate where your original forbears came from  If you are Native American, obviously select the USA area.  Otherwise there should be another country to select.  150th is doing this project to put us in touch with our roots, like those folks from 150 years ago.  I think it will also show how our church has been embraced by more nationalities other than the original Scottish Presbyterians.

THANK YOU for all your prayers and support.  Please continue to keep me and Chuck’s family in your prayers, Carol Bennett.

Our goal to refurbish the bells has been reached.  Thank you to everyone who contributed.

A letter was received from the Manor today asking those who would like to be a Secret Santa  to call or stop by the Manor to receive their resident wish list.  It should be available November 18th. They ask that the gifts per resident not exceed $40, since Santa treats all residents equally.  Deliver your gift to the Manor by December 16, 2013 and Santa’s elves will wrap each present to deliver to the residents on Christmas morning.  If you have any questions please contact Santa’s head elf, Joelle Freeland, at the  Manor at 573-364-7336.

Troop 83 Cub Scouts will be doing some service work at the church cleaning up the flower beds in the coming weeks.

The church is seeking a nursery assistant to work with Dawn each week.  The hours would be Sunday mornings from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.  You must submit to a background check, get certified for CPR/First Aide and have a TB test.  Experience with children preferred.  Position available immediately.

If interested, please contact Betti Jo in the office at 573-364-3852 or by email at presby1@fidnet.com.

The title of Pastor John Oerter’s sermon for the week of November 10, 2013 is Not the Former Glory based on scriptures from Haggai 1: 15b-2:9.  The hymns for Sunday are How Great Thou Art and See Ye First.  The Bell Choir will also be playing this Sunday.

We will have a special time during the service to honor our Veterans.

Worship begins at 9:45 am, followed by education and fellowship.  Our church provides a Nursery during worship service.  First Presbyterian Church is located at 919 E. Tenth Street in Rolla.  Our website is www.rollapresby.org.

We are now collecting food for Thanksgiving baskets for local families.  Sign-up board is outside the office.  Please drop your donations off in the Fellowship Hall by Tuesday, November 19, 2013.

Deacons are now gathering names and information for the Care Packages to be sent to our students and families serving overseas.  Please get in touch with Cheryl Koederitz, email: koe@mst.edu if you have any questions.  Deadline is Monday, December 2.

The Preschool only will be closed Monday, November 11, in observance of Veteran’s Day.

The church will host a Hunter’s Breakfast on Saturday, November 16 from 8 a.m. to noon in the Fellowship Hall.  Everyone is welcome to join in the fellowship.

We are in need of people to host fellowship each week.  If this is something you would like to do, please sign up on the bulletin board outside the church office.

Our ceremony honoring Armed Service and community protection workers is this Sunday, November 10. Please bring any memorabilia, photos etc. We will have tables for display. Remember  the wearing of any and all service uniforms is encouraged. Marked carnations will be distributed by reading of names, so be prepared to come forward and receive the flower for your designee if you are able. Extra flowers will be available if there is a need. Carnations not picked up during the service will stay in the office one week and after may be disposed or delivered to the Veterans home.

I have gotten a couple reports of someone being omitted from the 25 year list or the date of death was incorrect.  Please check the list and if you have someone who needs to be added or a correction made, please let the office know and it will be corrected.

Thank you.

If you are planning to attend the retreat on Saturday, please let the office know asap so we can get a tentative headcount for lunch.  It will start at 10:00 a.m. and end by 3:00 p.m.

Thank you,