St. Philip Presbyterian Church

Hurst, Texas www.stphil.org

(817) 282-9181 (817) 282-6690 (fax)

Rev. Dr. Greg Garis, Pastor

Rev. Elizabeth Dick, Interim Assoc. Pastor

Rev. Dr. Charles Teykl, Parish Associate

VOL. 44 June 6, 2012 No. 10

REMEMBER IN PRAYER: The Family of Helena Fair, sister of John Juengerman, who passed away June 4th Services are Saturday, June 9th in Sherman, TX...Randy Welch is in HEB undergoing tests...Norma Graves, sister of Tom Nelson...The Family of Charles Van Noy, brother of Raymond, who passed away last week. Also, Raymond’s brother Ralph, who is very ill…Shih-Fe Wu, daughter-in-law of Doris Clark…Lynette Mercer… Gene Zimmerman...We welcome new members, Afiwa, Christian, Essi and Godwin Senagbe; and also our Confirmation Class, Marissa Andrade, Brian Ellis, Laura Gatch, Travis Perez and Audrey Whitehead…CONTINUE IN PRAYER FOR: Kay Bookout…Earl Zelt…Rob Rippe…Ed Wellman…Morris Beauford…Jim Toler…Jennifer Hunter…Julie Griffith...Mary Jo Wood…John Juengerman…Linda Elliott…Sallye Wied…Johnny Wallace…Charlie Wied…Phil Fairhead...Gerry Cozby…Glenn Reid...Sharon Curry…Mary Lou Singer…Russ MacGregor…Lidia McFarland…Ellis Rogers…Mertie Martin…Carolyn Jester…Lu and Sarah Brewer…Elma Lee Mulkey…Brenda and Roy Petersen….Ben Cross…David Moore…Danell Walker...Charles Sutton ...Colby Steddum…Carabel Chankaya...Sally Starr...Dave Zanot…Val Sanders…Bobbie Berry…PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE MILITARY: Zach Saunders, Tom and Lynette Mercer’s son...John Calhoun Miller, Mac and Ruth Calhoun’s grandson and Elaine Stokes’ nephew…Matt Kiser and David Kiser, sons of Helene Kiser… Josh Peck, son of Sherri Siler…Brandon and Ryan Burt, grandsons of Cindy Burt…Jennifer Reynolds, daughter of Margaret Reynolds...Matt and Cosmo Romo, great-nephews of Liz Hailey…Andrew Norman, grandson of Stella and Bob Urban…Sarah Willett, granddaughter in law of Bob and Stella Urban...PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING RECIPIENTS OF SPPC FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN MAY: Edith, Stacy, Donna, Eric, Tiffany, Bonnie, Gina, Jesus, Ruby, Chris, George, JB and Alysea...BE IN PRAYER FOR OUR FRIENDS FROM COOK CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER: ALEJANDRA, 5 years. Neuroblastoma, pray she will recover quickly; ANA, 2 months. Pray she will recover from her surgery; ANDREW, 2 weeks. Pray for his lungs, kidneys, staph infection, to gain weight and come home; ANGEL, 1 year. Pray he would survive more than one year with Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome;

Friday at Phil’s

June 15

July 6

July 20

August 3

August 17

8:00 PM in the Youth Hall

Special guest musician on June 15

High Five Family

Spread the word, invite your friends

Refreshments will be served

FREE – ($10.00 suggested donation)

St. Philip Presbyterian Women

We appreciate all of you who have participated in our activities this year. Thank You! Thank You!

Circles will resume on September 11th. We hope you will choose to participate and we encourage you to invite a neighbor or a friend.

Enjoy your summer.

Note: Please continue to bring non-perishable food items (canned goods and dry goods) throughout the year and place them in the NEED bin on the Oak Terrace. Thank you.

Potluck Breakfast June 24th during Sunday School!

The Evangelism Team invites all adults of SPPC and friends to a potluck breakfast on June 24th during the Sunday School hour.

The program will include some wonderful testimonies from church members who have grown in their faith and prayer life through the Prayer Partners program introduced in our Unbinding Series.

We will be explaining how Prayer Partners works, and giving all Saint Philip folks a chance to sign up for new, or additional prayer partners. In addition to matching regular members up with a prayer friend, we will take volunteers who would like to be prayer partners with homebound members, newcomers, and visitors as requested. You don't have to sign up if God isn't calling you right now just because you come eat with us!! We will be doing this the third Sunday of the 3rd month of every quarter, and commitment is only for praying together once a week for 3 months. At the end of three months you will chose to continue with your partner, change partners, add a partner, or take time off.

We hope this brings us all closer to God in our walk with Him; and helps us minister to each other. We want everyone to feel the warmth of the Spirit moving among us as we reach out to the folks around us with the hungry souls.

For questions, ask any e-team member. Sherri Siler, Greg Garis, Wendy and Robert Thompson, Christian Senagbe, Cecile and Robert Lemmon, Marilyn Matthews, Randy and Bitsie Welch, Jeannine Van Noy

BEARS + YOU = A HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ON JUNE 17TH

Presbyterian Women’s semi-annual bear drive for the ill children at Cook’s Children’s Medical Center will be held on June 17th. Bears have been scarce recently so to make it easy for you to find them, we will have cuddly bears available to purchase for only $3 each in the Oak Terrace on June 3rd and 10th. Please, will you purchase one/some for us to make ill children feel better at Cook’s? Parents, children and nurses thank you.

Dear St. Philip Friends,

Thanks to all of you for the many cards, calls, prayers and visits while I was in the hospital and rehab following my ladder misadventure this month. I was overwhelmed and humbled by all of your love and support. You are truly a great church. I have a ways to go before I am back on my feet. However, I am headed in that right direction. Thank you for all your support.

Rob Rippe

*********************************************** Dear St. Philip Friends,

Thank you so much for your expressions of sympathy in the passing of my mother. I am very grateful for your loving friendship and support. Blessings, Mary Gyarfas

Thank you just does not seem adequate to express our gratitude for your prayers, cards, and other expressions of support during this time of sorrow for our family.

All of you have been a great source of strength during these trying days, we have felt God’s grace and presence, and we have been blessed by each and every one of you.

Thank you, Cindy Burt, and the entire family member of Warren Burt

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 8:00 a.m. Sr. Highs Depart for Mo TLC 8:30 a.m. Worship Sanctuary 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship Sanctuary 12:00 p.m. Parish Nurse Sacristy 12:30 p.m. Childhood Education Room A 4:30 p.m. Library Committee Library 5:00 p.m. Finance Committee Room A 6:00 p.m. Prayer Gathering Parlor 6:30 p.m. Brazilian Church Choir Room MONDAY, JUNE 11 5:30 p.m. Administration Committee Office 6:30 p.m. Boy Scouts Crew Youth Hall 7:00 p.m. Boy Scouts Fellowship Hall TUESDAY, JUNE 12 6:30 p.m. Girl Scouts Youth Hall WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 8:00 a.m. Men’s Fellowship Hour Parlor 10:00 a.m. Polity Committee Parlor 7:30 p.m. Chancel Choir Choir Room FRIDAY, JUNE 15 8:45 a.m. TOPS Room A 6:00 p.m. Wedding Rehearsal Sanctuary 8:00 p.m. Summer Concert Youth Hall SATURDAY, JUNE 16 10:00 a.m. VBS Setup 6:00 p.m. Mariners (new location) Youth Hall 6:00 p.m. Davis/Hansen Wedding Sanctuary

ST. PHILIP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 745 W PIPELINE ROAD

HURST, TEXAS 76053-4999 JUNE 6, 2012

MAY 20 SUNDAY AT ST. PHILIP: 8:30 SERVICE: 74 11:00 SERVICE: 159 ; TOTAL: 233 MAY 27 SUNDAY AT ST. PHILIP: 8:30 SERVICE:64 11:00 SERVICE: 187 ; TOTAL: 251 JUNE 3 SUNDAY AT ST. PHILIP: 8:30 SERVICE: 75 11:00 SERVICE: 160 ; TOTAL: 245 FIRST-TIME VISITORS: BESSEM; JOE AND PAUL FLORES; DAISY RODRIQUEZ; TRAYCE ALLEN; BARBARA AND ROBERT WHITE; NANCY AND KEITH MARTIN; STEVE AND PAM SMITH; GABI OPIDINSK; ALEXI ELSWORTH; KAREN, JOHN AND GRETCHEN CLARK RETURNING VISITORS: ROBERT MCGEE; KEITH AVERETTE; CHARLES CLAYTON; ETHAN ELDER; CINDY AND AUTUMN CORBIN; DEREK, PAISLEY AND JENNIFER SHANE; LINDA CLARK; JULIE AND NICHOLE CROUCH; JUANITA ADAM OUT OF TOWN VISITORS: GLENN AND ELAINE LARANCE (IOLA, TX); DATHA PARRISH (FORNEY, TX)

The FOOTPRINTS Service for the month of June will be Sunday, June 24th

6:45 p.m. Fellowship Hall

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 8:30 a.m. Worship Sanctuary 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship Sanctuary 6:00 p.m. Session Bible Study Parlor 6:30 p.m. Session Meeting Parlor 6:30 p.m. Brazilian Church Choir Room

Parish Health Ministry

Next Blood Pressure and Health consultation date is

June 10th 12:00 p.m.

Bonnie Skodak and Donna Koenig nurse@stphil.org

We can be contacted through the church office.

June 7 6:30 PM THYNG Game Night IT’Z Family Fun Center JrH, SrH, & Sponsors

10 8:00 AM TLC Group Leaves Church Parking Lot TLC Participants & Sponsor

16 10:00 AM VBS Set Up SPPC EVERYONE!!!

21 12:00 PM THYNG Lunch Bunch In & Out Burger JrH, SrH, & Sponsors

24 8:00 AM Celebration Group Leaves Church Parking Lot Celebration Participants & Sponsors

Mo TLC June 10-15 Mo Ranch

Senior High Celebration June 24-29 Mo Ranch

Junior High Jubilee July 1-5 Mo Ranch

Mission Trip July 15-20 Heifer Ranch

Synod Youth Workshop July 22-28 University of Tulsa

ATTENTION ALL SUMMER CAMP & CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS!! We will be leaving from the church parking lot at 8:00 for ALL Mo Ranch Trips. Please be on time so that we can get on the road to fun!! Thanks!

Do you need someTHYNG to do in the summer? Every other Thursday, there will be fun activities for you to do (June to August). The first THYNG of the summer will be on June 7th at 6:30 PM. We’ll be meeting at IT’Z Family Fun Center. Please bring money for your Game Play card!

We are currently seeking volunteers to help out

with Children’s and Youth programming. If

you’d be interested in teaching Sunday School,

shepherding Children’s Church or sponsoring

Youth Group, please contact Katie in the church

office!

Are you ready to go Overboard?!?! Vacation Bible School is

right around the corner. St. Philip’s VBS is for children age 3

to 5th grade and will run Monday (June 18) to Thursday (June

21). Dinner will be served at 5:30 each night and the fun will

go to 9:00 PM. Please register your child to participate on our

VBS website, http://overboard.cokesburyvbs.com/SPPC ,

or pick up a form from the Oak Terrace or one of the VBS

bulletin boards and bring it with you on Monday, June 18!

The Youth Group is going out to Lunch!

We’ll be Lunch-Bunching on June 21 at noon.

Meet us at In & Out Burger for good food,

good times, and fun! See you there! Please

bring money for your lunch!

St. Philip will be pausing its Children’s Church

program for the summer. At the 11 o’clock

service, after the Time for Young Christians,

all children will return to their seats. The

Worship Bags will have plenty of fun and

exciting items to help keep children engaged in

the worship

service!

The Elementary Sunday

School Children will be

learning what it means to be a

part of God’s family this

summer. If you are interested

in teaching or shepherding,

please contact Katie in the

church office.

Note of the Week………………

I know that summer has arrived, children and youth are out of school, and vacations are in the works for families. The Chancel Choir, as well, is on “vacation” for the month of July and there is no “children’s church” for the summer. The Praise Band has finished, and the Philippians are taking a well-deserved “July” break. So………….it seems nothing is happening this summer…….Wrong! I would like to tell you about some exciting things that are going on! Quietly last Friday evening in the youth hall, a new ministry began in our church……a young adult coffee house with contemporary Christian music! Now I didn’t attend (because I was at the opera), but I wish that I had! Two young artists sang very well I heard and a seed was planted. Now, I’m very far from being a “young adult”, but I hope that we, as the church, will get behind this ministry and nurture it and support it. I plan on attending. How about you? (Look for dates and times in this newsletter.) Another new program “in the works” is something called the “Welcoming Music Ministry.” To welcome our visitors and members as they come in the church doors on Sunday morning, we will provide contemporary Christian music in Fellowship Hall. Everyone will be welcome to sing along or just listen before they attend worship. There will be more information about this program later, but don’t be surprised to hear joyful tunes as you walk in one Sunday morning! This Sunday the Chancel Choir is singing “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee” by Gordon Young. The words are familiar—Jesus, the very thought of Thee with sweetness fills my breast; But sweeter far Thy face to see And in Thy presence rest.—but this a cappella anthem has been set by the composer in a contemporary style. The results are a refreshing setting to an enduring hymn tune. See you in church on Sunday.

Joyfully Singing in Christ, Pam Cochrane

Katie’s Comments

It’s that time of year again. You know the one. The time where the mercury in the thermometer rises, the kids are home from school, and the thought of a hot meal can make your stomach turn. Yes, it’s summertime. This is the time when families make pilgrimages to beaches, amusement parks, the mountains, national monuments, state parks, and grandma’s house. Popsicles, ice cream, and snow cones become daily staples to help keep cool. Air Conditioners run at full blast around the clock and time spent in the pool is always quality time.

I love this time of year. I love the sunshine and the heat; but mostly I love the activities that the summer

has in store for me. I love going to Mo Ranch, Mission Trip, and Synod Youth Workshop with the Youth Group. I love watching all of the volunteers come together to make VBS a success (and also watching the children engage in all of the fun and learning a little bit more about God). I love getting to spend some fun fellowship time with my Youth Group friends at THYNG (THursday Youth Night Group). I love the easy pace and relaxed attitude of the summer.

However you choose to spend your summer, I hope you have a happy, healthy, relaxed time with friends

and family.

Happy Summer! Katie

A volunteer is being sought to prepare a special PowerPoint program for the announcements displayed on the TV in the entryway of the church. If you are interested in helping with this computer run presentation, please contact Rev. Garis at Gregg@stphil.org or call him at the church office at (817) 282-9181.

Oak firewood is available by the dumpster for anyone to take.

Help Wanted: to stand at the Connection Point Table The connection point table in the entryway of the church is designed for visitors and newcomers to connect with the church. Church members may also go the connection point table to learn to ask questions about the ministry and mission of the church. If you are willing to help the Nurture

committee by standing at the connection point table to help visitors and church members please contact Gail Anderson at (817) 540-1281.

2012 Vacation Bible School! Operation Overboard

Dare to Go Deep with God Monday June 18th—Thursday June 21st

5:30 Family Supper—9:00 Dismissal

TIME TO REGISTER! For children 3 years—5th grade. Please register at: http://overboard.cokesburyvbs.com/SPPC Or complete the following form and drop it in the collection plate or take it to the Church Office. Child’s Name:___________________________________ Date of Birth:_______ Age: ____ Grade Completed: ____

Special Needs/Allergies: _________________________________________________________________________________

Child’s Name:___________________________________ Date of Birth:_______ Age: ____ Grade Completed: ____

Special Needs/Allergies: _________________________________________________________________________________

Child’s Name:___________________________________ Date of Birth:_______ Age: ____ Grade Completed: ____

Special Needs/Allergies: _________________________________________________________________________________

Parent’s Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Home Phone: ______________________________________ Cell Phone: _________________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________________

Email: _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Emergency Contact Name: ______________________________________________________________________________

Home Phone: ______________________________________ Cell Phone: _________________________________________

Person Responsible for Pick-Up After VBS: _________________________________________________________________

Cell Phone: _______________________________________ Relationship to Child(ren):____________________________

Please select a security password to be used to pick up your child(ren) each evening: _______________________________

Church Affiliation: _______________________________________Home Church: __________________________________

How did you hear about St. Philip’s VBS program? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Children are placed in groups based on their age/grade level. If you would like your child to be in the same group as

another child, please indicate that here. We will make a reasonable attempt at fulfilling this request.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photo Release: In exchange for consideration received, I hereby give permission to St. Philip and any photographer

working on SPPC's behalf to use my child's name and photographic likeness in all forms and media use in its website, in

any publication or bulletin board and for any other lawful purposes. Please indicate by checking □ Yes or □ No.

Register now for the

2012-2013 School Year!!

For more info:

www.stphil/org/preschool

817-282-0557