Ben was slated this Wednesday to start buying airline tickets as he received assurances from various Crescent Hill folks of their interest in the spring break trip. On the definite list already are: Ben, Jane, Luke, and Perry. We’re awaiting more Yes responses from folks this Sunday and $400 first installment payments from all. Instability in ticket prices (from $500 up to $700 and then back down to $500, all in the past couple of days) helped push Ben to buy now.
We also learned this week that Crescent Hill church Youth Group alumna Leslie McClure and Nashville recording act Leslie McClure (Marian’s niece- pictured above) has offered to perform in a benefit concert at which she will also be unveiling her new CD Back Home to You for Louisville area audiences. The church’s Outreach Council has approved this concert as a Guatemala mission fund-raiser. Soni has offered to help organize the concert and has been considering some dates in March. (The Council also proposed this be an outreach event for the neighborhood.) Others will need to step up to help this event succeed.
Click here to find out more about Leslie: http://www.lesliemcclure.net/
We also learned this week from Pastor Gerardo – via Pastor Carlos – that the Estoreño Izabal presbytery executive committee has been studying the same Philippians passage (2:1-11) that two of our Sunday school classes studied, that women in the presbytery are forming a presbytery-wide Presbyterian Women network, and that starting this week the presbytery is holding weekly vigils to pray for us at Crescent Hill and for the Presbyterian Women network. Development of the women’s network follows in the footsteps of the presbytery youth network, which began formation this fall.
We ask that you too to pray for the Estoreño Izabal presbytery women organizing the women’s network and for the victims (and their families) of recent landslides in an area of Guatemala north of Izabal. Please listen for a message in church later this month from one of the participants in the November trip. Please also invite your friends and neighbors to the Leslie McClure concert (date to be announced).
A final thought for you to consider:
We don’t have enough communications to have the entire church involved in this relationship with Guatemala.
An elder or deacon participating in this past weekend’s church officer retreat wrote this down as one of the gaps in Crescent Hill church’s Partnering in Mission emphasis. Do you think that’s true? How could we improve or transform Guatemala mission communication between Estoreño Izabel presbytery folks and us and within our congregation?
Talk about this with or e-mail past or present Guatemala mission trip participants such as Ellen, Stephanie, Ben, Jane, Luke, or Perry and post your thoughts on comments on this blog.
-- Perry
We also learned this week that Crescent Hill church Youth Group alumna Leslie McClure and Nashville recording act Leslie McClure (Marian’s niece- pictured above) has offered to perform in a benefit concert at which she will also be unveiling her new CD Back Home to You for Louisville area audiences. The church’s Outreach Council has approved this concert as a Guatemala mission fund-raiser. Soni has offered to help organize the concert and has been considering some dates in March. (The Council also proposed this be an outreach event for the neighborhood.) Others will need to step up to help this event succeed.
Click here to find out more about Leslie: http://www.lesliemcclure.net/
We also learned this week from Pastor Gerardo – via Pastor Carlos – that the Estoreño Izabal presbytery executive committee has been studying the same Philippians passage (2:1-11) that two of our Sunday school classes studied, that women in the presbytery are forming a presbytery-wide Presbyterian Women network, and that starting this week the presbytery is holding weekly vigils to pray for us at Crescent Hill and for the Presbyterian Women network. Development of the women’s network follows in the footsteps of the presbytery youth network, which began formation this fall.
We ask that you too to pray for the Estoreño Izabal presbytery women organizing the women’s network and for the victims (and their families) of recent landslides in an area of Guatemala north of Izabal. Please listen for a message in church later this month from one of the participants in the November trip. Please also invite your friends and neighbors to the Leslie McClure concert (date to be announced).
A final thought for you to consider:
We don’t have enough communications to have the entire church involved in this relationship with Guatemala.
An elder or deacon participating in this past weekend’s church officer retreat wrote this down as one of the gaps in Crescent Hill church’s Partnering in Mission emphasis. Do you think that’s true? How could we improve or transform Guatemala mission communication between Estoreño Izabel presbytery folks and us and within our congregation?
Talk about this with or e-mail past or present Guatemala mission trip participants such as Ellen, Stephanie, Ben, Jane, Luke, or Perry and post your thoughts on comments on this blog.
-- Perry
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