This Week in Worship Saturday, May 4 5:00 p.m. & Sunday, May 5 10:00 a.m. The Sacrament of Communion Scriptures: Acts 9:1-20, Psalm 30, Revelation 5:11-14, John 21:1-19 “Food for Thought” Rev. Linda Owens preaching The Adult Choir “Feed My Lambs” “The Prayer” Tracey Haskell, Tim Walton; soloists “This Joyful Eastertide” Pastor Nominating Committee Invites You to the May Presbytery Meeting The Pastor Nominating Committee invites mem- bers of the congregation to attend the Presbytery Meeting on Saturday, May 11 to show support for our recommendation to establish Pastor Linda Owens’ eligibility to be called as our Pastor. The meeting will be held at Hopewell Presbyterian Church and the expected time this will be taken up is 12:45 pm. The vote by Presbytery must be three-fourths of eligible voters present and BBPC will be allocated five votes. Your presence will demonstrate the support by our congregation of this proposal. Please join us to show your support for Linda! Sal Lalama, Pastor Nominating Committee BBPC Weekly BUZZ May 3, 2019 Easter Flowers
Transcript
This Week in Worship Saturday, May 4
5:00 p.m.
&
Sunday, May 5
10:00 a.m.
The Sacrament of Communion
Scriptures:
Acts 9:1-20, Psalm 30,
Revelation 5:11-14, John 21:1-19
“Food for Thought”
Rev. Linda Owens preaching
The Adult Choir
“Feed My Lambs”
“The Prayer” Tracey Haskell, Tim Walton; soloists
“This Joyful Eastertide”
Pastor Nominating Committee
Invites You to the May
Presbytery Meeting The Pastor Nominating Committee invites mem-bers of the congregation to attend the Presbytery Meeting on Saturday, May 11 to show support for our recommendation to establish Pastor Linda Owens’ eligibility to be called as our Pastor. The meeting will be held at Hopewell Presbyterian Church and the expected time this will be taken up is 12:45 pm. The vote by Presbytery must be three-fourths of eligible voters present and BBPC will be allocated five votes. Your presence will demonstrate the support by our congregation of this proposal. Please join us to show your support for Linda!
Sal Lalama, Pastor Nominating Committee
December 7, 2018
BBPC Weekly BUZZ
May 3, 2019
Easter Flowers
Appalachia Service Project 2019 TRICKY TRAY benefitting ASP will be Friday,
May 3 (see flyer on page 7), at the Manville
VFW, with doors opening at 5:30pm. This is the
major fundraiser for our Appalachia Service Project
(ASP) Summer trip.
Destination: Leslie County, Kentucky
June 29th - July 7th
Registration forms can be found on the BBPC
Website http://www.bbpc.org/asp or outside
Linda's office. For more information, please contact
Thanks for your consideration and continued support of the ASP program!
Elder - Issues and Answers: Elder
Issues and answers was blessed by Dr. Susan Slater sharing with us about fall prevention, strength and health maintenance and recovery at our meeting on April 24. We gather next May 8 to plan for presentations on the Aid in Dying law, elder law, Rewire don’t Retire, and a host of other issues. Join us at 10 am in the Reception Area.
Wednesday Night Supper &
Sabbath: Once a month on Wednesdays we will come together at 6:30 PM in the reception area for a lite supper followed by worship and conversation related to devotional living. Please sign up in the reception area, or by calling the church office if you plan to join us for dinner, otherwise join us at 7:15 for worship & conversation. * May 8: Supper at 6:30PM & Worship & Conversation at 7:15PM
* June 12: Gathering offsite followed by a trip to a local labyrinth (weather permitting)
to Visit PEB Schools Each year in November the Presbyterian Education Board sponsors a trip to Lahore, Pakistan, to meet the teachers and students in many of the schools. This year the trip will take place from November 14-25, and the Mission Commission would love to send a group to participate.
This promises to be an exciting opportunity to be welcomed into an extension of our Bound Brook family in a welcoming culture. Anyone who would like to explore joining this trip is welcome to learn more on May 12 after church or contact Carol Wilson ([email protected]).
BBPC Youth
Youth Group This Sunday join me after church to watch my favorite Marvel Film…
May 5: 11:30-2:00 Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 May 12: 11:30-1 in the Cave May 19: 11:30-1 in the Cave May 26: Memorial Day Weekend: No Youth Group
Spark Sunday School This Sunday, we'll start with our next Bible story, Jesus Feeds 5,000. May 5: Bible Games and Skills with Ms. Sally May 12: Cooking with Mr. Keith May 19: Science with Ms. Rhonda May 26: Art with Ms. Barb
Camp Johnsonburg Interested in summer camp for your kid(s)? Camp Johnsonburg is the place be. BBPC has had a long history of sending our children to Camp J’burg, a Presbyterian camp in Allamuchy, NJ. Check out their summer offerings in their camp brochure located outside Pastor Linda’s office or on their website: https://www.campjburg.org/
More Easter
Sunday Readers Children and youth are encouraged to lead the Call to Worship. Please email Sally to sign up at: [email protected]
Scholarship! All active members of the church who will be attending junior college, college, university, seminary, or other post-high school educational institution this fall are encouraged to apply for a grant from The Church Scholarship Fund. This fund was established in 1989 and was made possible in part by a gift from the estate of Ruth H. Born, in memory of her parents, Edwin & Christina Legge. The Mission and Outreach Commission, which currently administers the fund, is accepting applications for scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year.
Scholarship applications are available at the following link:https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.cloversites.com/53/53d3a6ba-f220-46dd-a5bd-6e1669b4c671/documents/BornLeggeScholarship_Fund_Application_Form_2019.pdf Or you may email the church office to request a copy. Finally, there are hard copy applications outside of Linda’s office.
Completed forms need to be submitted to the church office no later than June 1, 2019. Please email all forms, if possible, to the church office ([email protected]).
If you have any questions regarding the Fund or application, please contact the church office by email or phone 732-356-3575
First Friday Men’s Group First Friday, the Men’s Group, will next meet on Fri-day, May 17th at 6:30 at Dave Oliver’s, for the An-nual Hot Dogs, Kielbasa, beverages and sides food fest. Please let Dave know via email: [email protected] or at 732-469-0981 by Monday, May 13th if you plan to attend and what you might bring to share. Thanks. Remember - Friday, May 17th.
Thank You! Thank you to everyone who donated for the Chemo Comfort Bags which were stuffed by Paige D’Aloisio’s Girl Scout Troop 61242. A special thank you also to the Compassion Knits who knit prayer squares for each and every bag. Almost 80 bags were delivered to St. Peter’s University Hospital’s Cancer Institute’s Pediatric Unit.
Save the Date: Strawberry Festival: Friday, June 7
New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus concert at BBPC, May 5, 4:00. Visit njgmc.org for more information
Chair Yoga Class—Join us! Monday at 9:00-10:00 am and/or Wednesday at 12:00-1:00 pm in the preschool classroom. Cost: $40 for 8 weeks per class.
Flower chart: The 2019 Flower chart is posted outside the office.
Please send articles for the Buzz to Sharon: [email protected] with a copy to Martha: [email protected] Buzz articles are due by Thursday at 3:00. Thank you
Session took the following actions:
As part of the conversation about hiring for the new Adminis-trative Assistant Position, it was decided by session vote that the church will not consider church members as candidates for the position. Personnel is working on a volunteer list for phone coverage for May through mid-June, when Sharon Dougherty will return to cover the office in the summer months. This will give us time to finalize the job description and hire a new Ad-ministrative Assistant.
The Christian Education Commission was granted permission to set aside a parking space behind the PFC for a Sunday School teacher on Sunday mornings.
Session received an updated report from those in conversation with members of the Trinity United Church. Conversation continues around possible points of shared ministry that we could do to-gether. No decisions or commitments have been made on our behalf, nor can they until the question of our Head of Staff is settled and we are ready to develop a job description for a pro-gram staff person.
The Stewardship Campaign in conversation with Buildings & Grounds reported the following up-dates:
Capital Campaign Pledge & Payment Update. The 2018 Annual Report listed the 2018 capital campaign pledge/gifts of $432,670. In late December an addition gift of $10,000 was received but was not included in the annual report. The updated total for 2018 cap-ital campaign pledges and gifts is $442,670. Combined with the stained glass window fund from prior years and the deacon’s donation yields a total of $477,804 (91% of $525,000 goal). Total payments toward the 2018 capital campaign pledges was $216,907 (49% of the 2018 pledge) as of March 27,2019.
Project Updates:
Kitchen Repairs and Upgrade. This project has been completed. We are awaiting final inspections. Thanks to John A and the B&G team.
Church HVAC. This project is complete (except for cosmetic repairs to the re-ception bathroom.
Bell Tower. Engineering design work completed on the support design for the bell platform.
Stained Glass Window Restoration. The committee met w ith a consultant from Associated Crafts to detail work to be done in order to create an updated pro-posal. A walkthrough inspection of all windows was completed with the consultant.
Weekly Calendar
Friday 5:30 p.m. Tricky Tray 7:00 p.m. BBP Railroad Club 8:30 p.m. AA
Saturday 5:00 p.m. Worship
Sunday 10:00 a.m. Worship, Church School 11:15 a.m. Children’s Choir 3:30 p.m. Confirmation Class 4:00 p.m. NJ Gay Men’s Chorus Concert 5:00 p.m. Youth Group
Monday 9:00 a.m. Chair Yoga 8:30 p.m. AA
Tuesday No Adult choir rehearsal 7:00 p.m. Building & Grounds, Personnel, Membership 7:30 p.m. Mission, Fellowship 8:00 p.m. AA
