In This
Issue
Adult
Education
Kid's
Night Out
Youth
News
on Stage at Madison Square
Help Make the World a Better Place in Just 21 Days
Wills
and Bequests
MSPC
Book Group
The
Presbyterian Foundation
September
Birthdays
Important Dates
SUNDAY, September 2
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Worship/Communion 10:50 a.m.
Monday,
September 3
Church Office Closed - in Observance of Labor Day
Wednesday, September 5
5:30 p.m. Bible Study
6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Bell Choir
7:15 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
SUNDAY, September 9
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Worship/Communion 10:50 a.m.
12:15 p.m. Called Congregational Meeting
Tuesday, September
11
Dorcas Sewing Circle 9 a.m.
Art Series 12:05 a.m.
Rebecca/Sarah Circle 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September
12
5:30 p.m. Bible Study
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
SUNDAY, September 16
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Worship 10:50 a.m.
Wednesday, September 19
5:30 p.m. Bible Study
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
SUNDAY,
September 23
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Worship 10:50 a.m.
Wednesday, September
26
5:30 p.m. Bible Study
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, September 30
Sunday School, 9:30 am
Worship 10:50 am
Elder Training 4:00 pm
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Adult Education: Sunday School – 9:30 am – 10:30 am in church parlor
Listening For God:
Contemporary Literature And The Life
Of Faith, Vol. 1
Where do you listen for God?
Each volume of Listening for God includes excerpts from the works
of eight contemporary authors, supplemented by author profiles and reflection
questions.
Listening for God is a resource intended to help readers investigate
how life and faith merge in surprising ways and places. Contemporary American
literature
may not be the most predictable place to listen for God, but it may well turn
out to be among the most rewarding Table of Contents for Volume 1:
1. Flannery O'Connor
Revelation
2. Frederick Buechner
The
Dwarves in the Stable
3. Patricia Hampl
Chapter
6 from Virgin Time
4. Raymond Carver
A
Small Good Thing
5. Annie Dillard
The
Deer at Providencia
A
Field of Silence
6. Alice Walker
The
Welcome Table
7. Garrison Keillor
Exiles
Aprille
8. Richard Rodriguez
Credo
Class begins: September 9th
Books can be purchased for $15 in the
church office.
For more information on Adult, Youth and
Children’s Sunday School, click Education
on the home page.
Saturday, September 15
6:30-10 p.m.
School is back in swing and so is Kid's Night
Out!
Children 3 and up are invited to come hang out
at the church, while parent's take the night off
on us! We serve dinner, sing, play games and watch
movies! We have a great time!
Contact us to let us know you are coming or if
you have any questions:
226.6254 or kennyd@msqpc.org
Youth Group Meets after Church
September 9 - for Pizza and Planning – 12:00
-3:00 p.m.
September 21-23 - Main Event at John Knox
Storytelling with Noa Baum
Tuesday,September 11, 2007
12:05 p.m.
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
319 Camden, San Antonio TX 78215
(210) 226-6254 or www.msqpc.org
Lunch will be available after the performance—$5 per person
Upcoming Events:
October 9: Tim Altenhoff, tenor
November 13: Peter
Gross, keyboardist
On Stage is supported
in part by a grant from the Music Performance Fund.
Dear friends, our government is bringing over
20 Afghani students for one month, 10/20 to 11/21,
to expose them to the hospitality and heart of
America.
This is the LINC program, “Linking individuals, knowledge and cultures”
I am looking for host families for these high
school students. As a host family, you would
be asked to provide a bed for your student, provide
3 meals a day, and help ensure your student takes
part in all scheduled activities. We are
hoping host families can provide carpool one day
a week each of those 4 weeks. Let me know
if you’d be interested in this experience.
Thanks! Rebecca
Wills
and Bequests
Had it not been for the care and generosity
of some members of Madison Square Presbyterian
Church, whose wills provided for our on-going
needs, a lot of what we pretty much take for
granted now, we wouldn’t have. Now
it’s our turn to provide as much care as
we can for the future generations of this wonderful
church we call “home.” On Sunday,
September 16, 2007, two people will be present
to help us.
Ann
Earnest, who lives in Houston, represents the
Presbyterian Foundation, the entity of our denomination
which holds and does a fabulous job of managing
the money Madison Square has in savings. She
has a lot of good and really practical suggestions
about how you can help future generations of
members.
Bill Goodman is a San Antonio attorney,
whom many of you already know, whose professional
focus is on wills and bequests. One of
his areas of special expertise has to do with
the wills of same-sex partners. And, by
the way, if you have some friends who are in
same-sex relationships and would like help with
their wills, please invite them – they
don’t have to be church members.
We’ll have lunch together, then
time with Ann And Bill.
MSPC
Book Group
Book Group Reading List
for 2007
Sept. 7: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, D. K.
Goodwin
Hosting: Richard McLean
Oct. 5: My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
Hosting: Thelma Nungesser
Nov. 2: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Hosting: Katsy Murphy
Dec. 7: A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
Hosting: Betty Lynn Allen
THE
PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION
The stewardship of giving is an endless celebration
of the unlimited blessings bestowed upon us. It
is that spirit that gave life to the Presbyterian
Foundation in 1799. The
Foundation was created to serve Christ through the accumulated resources of individuals,
churches and institutions. The Foundation does not compete with local churches
or
institutions for charitable donations, we strengthen the church by developing
gifts and managing funds on their behalf. Over $1.9B are under management
by the Presbyterian
Foundation and during 2006 more that $76 M was distributed to a vast array of
Presbyterian ministries as determined by our donors.
The Foundation established a national trust bank
in 1998 – New Covenant Trust Company, N.A.,
a wholly-owned, taxable subsidiary of the Presbyterian
Foundation. New
Covenant Trust Company can act as trustee, serve as investment manager, and
provide trust agency services for individuals and institutions throughout the
United States.
New Covenant Trust Company, through its NCF Investment
Department, also serves as the advisor to New Covenant
Funds, a family of mutual funds sponsored by the
Foundation and invested in accordance with the social witness principles of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The local representative for the Presbyterian Foundation
is Ann Earnest, Development Officer, located in Houston
at 866-746-6730.
1 – Valerie Johnson
3 – Alice Yantis
4 – George Ann Smith, Caleb Louis Reznicek
5 – Donna Upfold
8 – Todd Winn, Christine Smith & Maria
Garcia
9 – Robert Greenup
11 – Kathy Hilliard, Kitty deVoogd & Rey Menchaca
13 – Stan deVoogd, Steve Reznicek & Richard
Nelson
14 – Andy Crowder-Schaefer, Barbara Stoddard
15 – Sarah Wagner
16 – Tim Lytle, Neille Jackson & Glenna
McCord
17 – Florence Bauer
19 – Amy Alires
20 – Olivia Wade
21 – Noland Harper
22 – Sherry Palmer
23 – Helen Pape, Teri Stronach
24 – James Pingree
25 – Camille Boyd
28 – Tammy Griswold & Bill Ross
29 – Elene Hugman & Samantha Carnahan
30 – Steve Stanphill |
