Eastminster Update

In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see

Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

803-256-1654 / www.eastminsterpres.org

Volume 37 Number 13

April 7, 2013

Dear Eastminster Family, Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Death has been defeated, and sin has been destroyed. God has called us out of darkness to live a new life in His marvelous light. As we continue to celebrate these truths this week after Easter, we will also be celebrating the ways in which the risen Christ is still at work, calling new disciples to live in the light of the resurrection and to follow Him to the glory of God the Father. This Sunday, April 7, during our 11:15 a.m. sanctuary worship service, we will welcome our 2012-2013 confirmation class into the fellowship and membership of the church, as they stand before God and the congregation and confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. This will mark the culmination of a yearlong confirmation process, in which the students have devoted themselves to learning about their faith and their role in the church. Since the confirmation process was completely revamped two years ago, moving the confirmation year from the eighth grade to the ninth grade and changing the format from a Sunday Schoolbased process to a retreat-based process, this will be the first class to be confirmed under the new process. In addition to participating in several intense retreat weekends, each student has participated in a mission project and regularly attended Sunday school and Sunday evening youth fellowship. In these ways, the confirmands have had opportunities to grow in their faith and understand what it means to be a committed member in the church of Jesus Christ. They have also been nurtured in their relationships with each other and adult leaders through small groups known as covenant families. All of this has taken place to lead our students to affirm the baptismal vows taken by their parents and the church, so that they may now stand on their own and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord of their own lives. As they make this profession, they will push back against a world that tries to convince them that their identity is found in what they do, what they own, and what others say about them. Through this profession, they will claim their identity that has not been won or earned by any effort of their own but has been given to them by the grace of God. Although the confirmation year is coming to an end this Sunday for our confirmands, confirmation is not an ending. It is the beginning; the first step in an ongoing journey of faith lived in Christ. Sunday will mark a first step of putting ones faith and trust in Gods saving grace and committing ones life to live in obedience to the God, who was obedient to the point of death on a cross for our sins. We hope you will join us this Sunday as we worship the risen Christ and celebrate His work in the lives of these young people. Although we come to worship the Lord this Sunday, we too, along with the confirmands, come to reaffirm what we believe that Jesus is the Christ! We look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday! In Christ,

Visions
your old men will dream

dreams
ACTS 2:17

STAFF
Dr. Bradley D. Smith Pastor Dr. Mark E. Durrett Associate Pastor Rev. Lynn A. Grandsire Associate Pastor Rev. Jeffrey S. Smith Associate Pastor Dr. James I. St. John Parish Associate Rev. Jonathan S. Wagner Associate Pastor Mr. Croskeys Royall Director of Childrens Ministries Mrs. Fredna Lee Director of Music Ministries
Our Missionaries: Rev. & Mrs. Donald Marsden-Virginia/Russia Steven & Natalie Hall - Alaska Sarah Snapp - Bolivia Rev. John McCall - Taiwan Steve & Kathy Amar - Virginia/Muslims in the US George & Anne Harper - Philippines

9:00 & 11:15 a.m. - Sanctuary 11:15 a.m. Jubilee Rev. Jeffrey S. Smith When God Speaks 1 Samuel 3:1-11; Luke 5:1-11

Sunday, april 7

Jon <><

Daily CALENDAR
SUNDAY, april 7
8:00 Celebration Choir Rehearsal 9:00 Worship & Childrens Church 10:00 Sunday School Pastors Class Jubilee Band Practice Eastminster First Step Confirmation Breakfast 10:05 Chancel Choir Rehearsal 11:15 Worship & Childrens Church Jubilee Worship 3:00 Cub Scouts Wolf Den 4:00 Webelos 1 & 2 Cub Scout Bears, Tigers Youth Band Practice 5:30 Youth Group 5:45 Childcare 6:00 Kerygma

The Christian Life Center will host a summer basketball skills camp for rising 1st - 6th grade boys and girls, June 24 - 27. This camp is conducted by The Greatest Champion. For more information, contact Bill Ketchin (bketchin@eastminsterpres.org or call 256-1654) or check out their website at www.thegreatestchampion.org. The Magnum Volley spring youth league will begin on April 8. The spring league is specifically for girls grades 1 through 6, and is a training league designed to help younger girls learn and practice the fundamentals of the sport. The spring league session runs for 8 weeks with practice each week and 3 scheduled game dates. Cost is $80. For more information and to register, contact Eric Schick (803-730-6100 or magnumyouthvolleyball@ gmail.com.) A special Womens Self Defense class will meet in the Christian Life Center on Saturday, April 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in room 271/273. The class is sponsored by STS of the Midlands and will be conducted by the community education team of the Richland County Sheriffs Department. This class will be especially beneficial to young women going away to school next fall. There is no fee for this class. For more information or to register, contact Bill Ketchin (256-1654 or bketchin@eastminsterpres.org.) Hold the date for the 2013 Annual Sportsmans Banquet! It will be held on Thursday, May 16, beginning at 5:00 p.m. in Thompson Hall. This years guest speaker is baseball great, and Sumter native, Bobby Richardson. Keep watching for the details! Eastminsters Lost & Found has a variety of articles that folks have left at the church. Are you missing any of these items? prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, dishes (from Joy Gift Tea), childs pink coat (size 4), womans navy blazer (size 10), womans beige coat (size 12), womans black scarf, assorted umbrellas, boys blue wallet with sports balls on itand more! Please drop by Mary Baldaufs office in the Administration Building to claim your long-lost belongings! Unclaimed items will be donated to charity. Out of respect for fellow worshipers, please do not enter the sanctuary if a pastor is speaking to the congregation. Please remain in the narthex and enter during the opening hymn, or if the hymn has concluded, please wait and enter during the Gloria Patri. You will be able to hear the worship service in the narthex as you wait. Thank you. If you have attended the Pastors Class, join us for a party at the home of Mike and Robin Gorman, 3 Governors Hill, 29201. We will begin gathering between 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. We are asking you to bring either an entre, side dish, drinks, a salad, rolls, or a dessert. Please RSVP to the Gormans at 803-765-9817 or email rgorman@sc.rr.com or Peter Zornow 803-5427071, or email zornowpd@juno.com. This will help in our planning. EDS has added an additional classroom for the four year old class and school age children for this summer. If you are interested in enrolling your child at EDS during the summer, please stop by the Day School or call us at 771-1512. Summer registration packets are outside of the Day School office on the table.

Summer Basketball Skills Camp, June 24 - 27

EPC Offers Girls Volleyball

Monday, April 8

7:00 Mens Prayer Breakfast 9:00 Count Team Fifty Plus Exercise Class 10:00 Circle #1, Circle #3 Senior Fitness 10:30 Circle #2 12:00 Worship & Music Meeting 2:00 Pastors Mtg. 2:30 Program Staff Mtg. 5:30 Mens Basketball League Yoga Webelos 1 Fellowship Committee Stephen Ministry Leaders 6:00 Rehearsals for Scotland Stephen Ministry Mtg. 7:00 Sr. High Guys Bible Study Boy Scouts Troop 10 Senior High Guys Bible Study

Womens Self Defense

TUESDAY, april 9

9:30 Staff Meeting Drop-In Nursery 10:00 Senior Fitness 11:45 Tuesday Lunch 12:00 NED Mtg. Property Committee Mtg. 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 5:00 Tai Chi Girls Volleyball CHAMPS Steering Committee 5:30 Girls on Run Zumba 6:00 Handbell Rehearsal Called Session Mtg. 6:30 Circle #8 Troop Committee 7:00 Zumba Fitness Scottish Country Dance 9:00 Fifty Plus Exercise Class Drop In Nursery 9:30 Prayer Shawl Ministry 9:30 EDS Chapel 5:00 Angel, Junior Choir Rehearsals 5:15 WE@EPC Dinner 5:45 Childcare 6:15 DivorceCare Crossroads Career WE@EPC MS Youth 7:15 Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Sportsmans Banquet

Have you lost something that we have found?

WEDNESDAY, april 10

Worship Etiquette

THURSDAY, april 11

7:00 Jr. High Prayer Breakfast 9:00 Drop-In Nursery 10:00 Senior Fitness 10:30 SS Teacher Recruitment 4:00 CHAMPS Tutoring 5:00 Yoga Girls Volleyball 5:30 Girls on the Run Zumba Endowment Committee 7:00 Zumba Fitness HS Girls Bible Study 7:30 Jubilee Band Practice

Pastors Class Party - April 14

FRIDAY, april 12

9:00 Fifty Plus Exercise Class 11:00 Support Staff Mtg. 5:00 Glazebrook/Trippe Wedding Rehearsal

Day School Summer Registration

SATURDAY, april 13

10:00 CHAMPS - Discovery Place 10:30 Glazebrook/Trippe Wedding

God grades on the cross, not the curve. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. The word of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.

CARE & CONCERN

EPC Prayer List Part of what it means to be a Family of Faith is to be in prayer for one another. Contact the church office at 256-1654 to be included on this Prayer List. EPC Special Concerns Walker Pearce, Boots Fuller, Remer Waguestack, those serving in our military, Stephen Ministers & their care receivers and all those in need of Gods special care. Deaths Congregational love and sympathy are extended to:

WE@EPC . . . Special Offerings

Each Wednesday the dinner and the program will be in Thompson Hall. Dinner beginning at 5:15 p.m. and the presentation at 6:30 p.m. April 10 - Roy Paschal will create a pastel drawing of Christ in conjunction with the nights lesson. Roy is an artist who understands the importance of spirit and personal vision in the creation of art. Roy works from his studio in West Columbia, and his subject art varies from portraits and still lifes to landscapes. Roy, a native South Carolinian, is particularly appreciative of the states diversity and natural beauty. April 17 - An evening of sharing, as we receive the final report from the Visdion 20/20 small groups, and hear the vision for our Capital Campaign. April 24 - The childrens choirs, K-5 through 5th grade, will present the musical, the Story of Gods Creation, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Come for dinner in Thompson Hall at 5:15 p.m., and remain for the program in Thompson Hall.

Family & friends, on the death of, Margaret Zeigler, March 26, 2013. Family & friends, on the death of, John Preston, March 29, 2013.
On weekends a minister is on call. If you have a crisis which one of the ministers needs to know about, phone 256-1654 and leave a message. A minister will return your call.

A brief congregational meeting will be held in the sanctuary immediately after the 11:15 a.m. worship service on Sunday, April 14. The purpose of the congregational meeting will be to approve the Terms of Call for 2013 for our pastors, receive the Annual Report, and elect the Officer Nominating Committee for 2013. This committee is tasked with nominating persons to serve as Deacons and Elders for the class of 2016 and to fill any vacancies on the Diaconate or Session. The Nominating Committee slate includes: Elder Bill McDow, Chair; Elder Pam Halligan, Vice-Chair; John Hart, Laura Long, Julia Markley, Barry Mattox, Johnnie Pearce, Kit Pound, March Seabrook and Laura Self. The EPW Sisters in Christ Luncheon will be Tuesday, April 16, at 11:30 a.m. in Thompson Hall. The speaker is Todd McClinton, Assistant Headmaster at Jubilee Academy, a school for disadvantaged youth. Please come hear how this school is changing young lives right here in Columbia. Soup, salad and dessert will be served for $5.00. Please call Mary at the church for reservations, 256-1654 or mbaldauf@eastminsterpres.org.

Congregation Meeting to Elect Nominating Committee - April 14

Presbyterian Womens Luncheon

The last Jesus Rocks of the year will be from 6:00-10:00 p.m., April 26. Pizza! Games! Bible Study Blast! Movies! Popcorn! Midnight Basketball! Bring $3.00 for pizza and wear sneakers. Parents, we need help in shifts for this night. If you can help for the 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. shift or the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. shift, please email Susie Horger at shorger@richlandone.org.

Jesus Rocks -

Almost Lock-In - April 26

Shred 360 at Eastminster

On Wednesday, May 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the Shred 360 truck will be in the CLC parking lot accepting up to 5 boxes or bags of paper to be shredded. This event is open to the community and is a food drive for Harvest Hope Food Bank. When you come to shred, bring canned food to donate!

Dont miss out! Send your information to share with the congregation to updates@eastminsterpres.org. Please have your information in by Wednesday, April 3, to be shared in our next newsletter on April 14, 2013.

Deadline for UPDATE

Eastminster Presbyterian Church 3200 Trenholm Road Columbia, South Carolina 29204

Nonprofit Org. US POSTAGE PAID Columbia, SC PERMIT No. 27

Update for April 7, 2013

You are invited to a complimentary lunch on Sunday, April 28, following the 11:15 a.m. worship service to hear about the proposed and exciting upgrades for the Eastminster Sanctuary area. There will be a conceptual presentation of some of the plans for creating a new mens restroom, making the womens restroom ADA compliant and the building itself a friendly and accessible space for people with mobility issues, a new heating and cooling system and more! If you are unable to attend on the 28th, Wednesday, May 1, will be a make up date, with a complimentary meal from 5:30 - 6:16 p.m. and the presentation following. Check your calendar and Save the date!!! One of our greatest privileges and responsibilities at Eastminster is the election of church officers. Your input is an essential and critical part of the process by which the Nominating Team puts forth its recommendations to the congregation. It is time to prayerfully consider people you feel can be entrusted with the leadership decisions of Eastminster Presbyterian Church. Consider people who love the Lord, have encouraging spirits, mature faith, Bible knowledge, and hearts for service and gifts for ministry. Our rich heritage as Presbyterians has given us a representative form of government. The Book of Order states that church officers should be persons of strong faith, dedicated discipleship, and love of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Their manner of life should be a demonstration of the Christian gospel in the church and in the world. Please submit names by using an Officer Nomination Form. If you have not received one of these in the mail, email Carol (csutton@eastminsterpres.org) and she will send you one, or pick one up when you are at the church. Please return your forms to Carol Sutton by April 16. You may submit as many names as you would like. Put June 17th-June 20th from 9:00 a.m. - noon on your calendar. VBS is for rising 4K-rising 6th grade. (Rising 5th and rising 6th graders will have their own track for the week that will include some off-site activities) Registration starts soon! Want to help? E-mail Harper James harperajames@yahoo.com.

Congregational Meal, April 28

Serving on Sunday April 7

OFFICERS PRAYER: Elder Myles Burns DEACONS: Peggy Spann, Hagood Tighe Elder Jane Brissette (Jubilee) Elder Charlie Weston (Jubilee) ushers: Bill Coggins & Randy Liggitt GREETERS: (9:00) Justin & Laura Self Laura & Charlie Irick Janet Katz, Lloyd Hendricks Harvey & Martha Studstill (11:15) Mike Gorman Patrick & Jennifer Rayfield Margo Orlandini, Mary Frances Jowers Charles & Caroline Jenkins INFANT ROOM - CLC 119 (9:00) Jessica & Greg Sharp (11:15) Will & Alice Whiteside TODDLER ROOM - CLC 117 (9:00) Matt & Ashley Jeffords (11:15) Virginia & Nate Henderson 2-K ROOM - CLC 115 (9:00) Jim & Jennifer Bowie (11:15) Drew & Taylor Babcock CHILDRENS CHURCH 103 - 3K (9:00) John & Shay Lansche (11:15) Coke & Anne Mann CHILDRENS CHURCH 105 - 4K (9:00) Joe & Ashley Sitton (11:15) Rodney & Marcy Swan CHILDRENS CHURCH 107 - 5K (9:00) David & Tiffany Beitz (11:15) Myles & Olivia Burns

Officer Nominations for 2016

Vacation Bible School 2013 is coming!!!