After 9 months of classes, field trips, retreats, lock-ins, and homework, the day is finally near. Join us on May 18 at the 11:00 service, and at a reception afterward, as we celebrate these youth claiming their Christian faith and welcome them as full members of our church family.
We only have a couple more weeks of exploring Wednesday Evening AVEnues! We will continue to share dinner, adult education, and choir rehearsal through May 7th, and then we’ll break for the summer. On April 30th, Taufiq Ahmad and some friends will be in the sanctuary during the Adult Education Hour to take your questions—a whole hour dedicated to answering your questions about Islam. On May 7th we will have a celebration of this exciting ministry’s first year—come for food, fun, fellowship, and sharing of our stories and ideas. We are hoping to celebrate with all ages!
Friday May 9 at 6pm all high schoolers are invited to come to the church to watch and talk about the excellent movie Dogma. We’ll have dinner and popcorn, of course! Feel free to bring a friend.
By popular demand, another lock-in! All students in 6th-8th grade are invited to join us for a year-end lock-in at the church on Friday May 2—7pm to 9am! Bring your sleeping bag, your favorite snack to share and a beverage to share. We’ll have games and movies and breakfast for you!
Supplies are low in some key items such as crackers, juice boxes, snacks, canned corn, coffee, tea, cereal and cocoa. If you can help, please put the food items in the bin for the pantry (located under the stairwell by the Connecting Link). Things will improve greatly after the Post Office Food Drive on Saturday, May 10th. We need help sorting tons of food from 2 – 5:30pm. If you would bring your children (they are great at this) and stop by the Algonquin Township garage on Rt 14 just east of Crystal Lake for an hour or two that Saturday afternoon, it would be a tremendous help.
For more information, call Nancy Vazzano. Thank you.
There is nothing that can describe the enormity of the comforting arms of our church when there is the need for them. I can’t begin to tell you what it meant to me when I came home from Michigan to a stack of cards on the counter, not just one day, but many and still the cards and calls are coming. The first Sunday we returned to church I was overwhelmed by the hugs and words of comfort provided by just about everyone I passed. I have to say it feels good to have such strong arms wrapped around my family providing us with love and support. God is alive in the hearts of you all. The idea behind Hospice is to make the road less lonely and RCLPC has done that for us.
Thank you so much. Love, Melanie, Phil, Carl, Dale and Elliott Wesa
Thanks to all of you who came to Fellowship Hall last month to send Easter greetings to our troops, and thanks to all of you for donating cookies. Members and friends of RCLPC, employees of McHenry County College, and Huntley Girl Scout Junior Troop #789 and Huntley Girl Scout Brownie Troop #788 (Emma Hiddings is a member) contributed a total of 278 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for RCLPC's troops. Ryan Atkinson (friend of the Stipatis, Charles Gay (friend of Karla Koenig), and Andrew Pohl (nephew of the Baumans and Pohls) each received over 90 boxes of cookies - yum! Thanks to Marge Hansen for paying the postage. If you have a loved one serving in the military in the Middle East, please contact me. ~ Mary Moltmann
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Summer is around the corner. If you would like to share your music in worship this summer, please sign up on the sheets posted on the bulletin board outside the music room. Please contact Sherri Dees with questions or suggestions.
Vacation Bible School: Surfin’ Through the Scriptures will be held Mon. - Fri., June 23rd – 27th, 9am - Noon We would love all Kids from age 3 – 5th grade to attend. See you there!!!
If you are interested in helping with VBS in any capacity, please contact Denise Sokoloski or Jodi Iddings.
This summer we will have one mixed class for preschool to 5th grade and there will be a sign up sheet on the bulletin board in the Connecting Link. Anyone interested can teach.
We’ll have hamburgers and hotdogs (and veggie ones too) and all kinds of fun for all ages (the moonwalk and piñata are both returning features!). Bring a salad, side dish, or dessert to share. Watch for more info coming soon...
We have printed up some new phone directories. If you would like to receive a copy, please call the church office and we will put one together for you.
All church work day coming Saturday, May 17th 8am to 12 noon. Last Fall we had a terrific turnout making light work and fun for all as we cleaned up around here. Please, please plan on coming for whatever time you have available. Can't make it that day but still want to do your part, contact Wayne Prindiville to get matched with a job of your choice on a day of your choice.
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All of a sudden, gardening season is upon us! This is a perfect time to divide your perennials and bring them to church for our earliest Share the Bounty tables. It would be helpful if you included tags that note your plants’ names, whether they prefer sun or shade, what height they’ll reach, and what color the blooms will be.
You can pick up perennials and fresh produce as it becomes available on Sunday mornings at the Share the Bounty table in the Connecting Link. Look for rhubarb and asparagus any time now. Help yourself to our bounty, then place a donation in the basket to support those in need in the community. This season’s donations will be used to provide lunches for PADS clients next winter.
If you’re a gardener, please bring whatever extra plants and garden produce you have. You are also invited to help by spending a couple hours with Dorothy Vick, assisting in dividing perennials. Please contact her. We need volunteers to clean up the table at noon each Sunday, May through October. Add your name to the list on the table if you can help.
Whether you bring plants and produce, or purchase them, you share beyond the church’s walls with those in need. ~ Mission Outreach Ministry
Students and community members at Red Cloud Indian School celebrated with a number of activities on Pine Ridge Reservation this year including the Stations of the Cross and a Passion Play.
In Lakota philosophy the way of life of the common people is spiritual: As the sun travels along the annual path through constellations in the sky, its location alerts the Lakota to perform particular ceremonies and when to travel to specific sites around the Black Hills of South Dakota. For example, during the Spring Equinox when the sun is in the Big Dipper (the Dried Red Willow), the Lakota know it is time to travel to Harney Peak.
At the center of the Black Hills, Lakota hike to the top of the peak and conduct a traditional ceremony “welcoming back the thunder”. This ceremony symbolically begins their season of renewal. Red Cloud High School students conducted such a prayer ceremony with six spiritual formation classes, a fitting blending of Indian and non-Indian cultures. On some past trips to Rosebud and Pine Ridge, RCLPC members have visited Red Cloud Indian School with its serene Chapel built in an unending circle and providing a sense of peace to all who enter. We hope to have this opportunity on our return trip on June 22-27th this year. ~ THE NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTION.
Alice Rothchild is a Boston based physican, co-chair of the Boston Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, and has made several trips to Israel and the West Bank with the Boston JVP's Health and Human Services Project which sets up and operates mobile health clinics in the West Bank to provide much needed medical services. This book recounts her experiences as she grapples with the reality of life in Israel, and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Please contact Alice Haznedl or email her if you would like more information about attending an event.
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