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| January - February 2008 | Volume 57, Issue 1 |
- Hurricane Katrina Relief
Happenings at Olivet ASH WEDNESDAY
February 6, 2008
Worship Service 7:00 PM The 2008 Lenten/Easter season this year is very early. The calendar tell us It has five Sundays, plus Palm Sunday on March 16 and Easter Sunday. March 23.ADULT BIBLE CLASS Olivet's Sunday Adult Bible Class meets each week at 9:00 AM.
Currently the study material is the Gospel of Mark, the shortest of the Gospels and most likely the first written.
Feel free to attend when you can, and bring friends. Just show up at class. Contact Pastor Bob with your questions.SEDER DINNER
Rabbi Mark L. Shrader of the B'nai Abraham Synogogue is again assisting Olivet with the dinner scheduled for February 24.
Rabbi Shrader will lead us through the dinner which will be enjoyable and interesting. Dorothy Ward will assist Rabbi Shrager.
Please use the sign up sheet to make a reservation and join us in a warm and exciting evening.check out the online calendar for more dates to note - Ladies News
- Daffodil Days
- Nursery Care Volunteers
- Rummage Sale
- From the Pastor's Desk: You Matter to God
- Finding Meaning in Lent
- Advent and Christmas Musings
- What is Olivet Youth?
- OYEA!! Happenings
- A Gift That Keeps Giving
- Thank you Thank you!
Workers Needed for the Long Beach, Mississippi Work Trip
Lehigh Presbytery Helping Hands (Katrina Task Group) is going to Mississippi to help the people of the Gulf Coast who were affected by Hurricane Katrina, and are in need of help. Workers will be staying in the facilities of the Long Beach Presbyterian Church, and sleeping in bunks. Showers and bathrooms are available on site. Potable water is available on site as well.
Food is purchased and meals prepared by members of the work group. A few meals will be eaten at nearby restaurants.
Adults ages 18 years and older are encouraged to join the group, going to Long Beach, and help provide hope to others in need.
No specific skills of experience are required to work on reconstruction projects on damaged homes.
Skills such as plumbing, electrical, roofing and dry wall installation are helpful. Assignments can range from greeting volunteers to hard physical labor. Those interested are asked to be prepared to BE FLEXIBLE, and give whatever help is needed.
Rented vans will take workers to the Mississippi work- site, and will stay overnight with members of the Farragut, TN Presbyterian Church.
The cost for each participant is a total of $150. It includes registration plus en-route cost of meals and incidental expenses ($100 of the registration fee will go to the Mississippi Presbytery for supplies).
Registration deadline is based on housing availability in Mississippi. Spaces are limited and will be filled first come, first served.
In order to finance the work-trip, donation checks can be sent to Lehigh Presbytery, 710 Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA 18104-3494. Please put "Helping Hands-Katrina" on check memo line.
For questions on registration, contact Nancy Hawkins, trip registrar, at 610-317-8212 or email at nlhawk@enter.net.
Editor's Note: Do you remember Hurricane Katrina? It was two and a half years ago. The need for Katrina Relief is something most of us are no longer thinking about. We're thinking surely the work has been completed by now. Not so. Though the length of time since the storm gives us a feeling of projects finished and families reunited, just last week photos on TV news gave us a reality check when we saw the very many inhabitable homes and learned families are still separated.
This work trip hopefully will help many people. Families together again in renovated homes must be put on the top of the list of important pending projects.
