First Sunday of Christmas at Old South Haven Church

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

December 26, 2021- 10:30 a.m.

First Sunday of Christmas

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

Our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service was lovely.  And now I am inviting you to join us on Sunday, December 26, 2021, at 10:30 AM, for a live and virtual service.  The details for joining the Zoom service are below.

Pastor Glorya is on vacation for the next two Sundays and Elder Jason Neal will be preaching, both tomorrow and January 2nd.

So, please join us!

The Bulletin for tomorrow's service is attached.

Merry Christmas!

Linda

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CHRISTMAS EVE at Old South Haven Church

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

December 26, 2021- 10:30 a.m.

First Sunday of Christmas

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

Our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service was lovely.  And now I am inviting you to join us on Sunday, December 26, 2021, at 10:30 AM, for a live and virtual service.  The details for joining the Zoom service are below.

Pastor Glorya is on vacation for the next two Sundays and Elder Jason Neal will be preaching, both tomorrow and January 2nd.

So, please join us!

The Bulletin for tomorrow's service is attached.

Merry Christmas!

Linda

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Time: Dec 26, 2021 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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CHRISTMAS EVE at Old South Haven Church

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

December 24, 2021- 10:30 a.m.

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

Christmas is finally here!   Please join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service on Friday, December 24, 2021, at 11:00 PM,   It will be our traditional readings and carols service.   It will be a live and a virtual service.  The Bulletin and Hymns are attached as well as the list of Prayers and Concerns.  The details for joining the service are below.

Merry Christmas!

Linda

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The Christmas Joy Offering will be received Christmas Eve at the 11PM service.

Presbyterian Disaster Relief (PDA) needs our help in the face of the devastating tornadoes that hit five states last Friday night.

The news has focused on Mayfield and Dawson Creek, Kentucky because they were in the direct storm path. While many homes and businesses were shown there was also a picture of First Presbyterian Church in Mayfield. 

Contributions to PDA may be made through OSH church by indicating "Disaster Relief" on your check or envelope.

This Week at Old South Haven Church - Presbyterian Disaster Relief

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

December 19, 2021- 10:30 a.m.

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

Please join us this coming Sunday, December 19, 2021, at 10:30 AM, for the fourth Advent Sunday Church Service--the Love Sunday.  We will be meeting live and by Zoom.  The Bulletin, List of Joys and Concerns, and Advent Devotions are attached.  The details for joining the Zoom Service are below.

The church looks beautiful and a big "Thank You! to those who helped decorate the church and the tree.

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday,

Love and Peace,

Presbyterian Disaster Relief (PDA) needs our help in the face of the devastating tornadoes that hit five states last Friday night.

The news has focused on Mayfield and Dawson Creek, Kentucky because they were in the direct storm path. While many homes and businesses were shown there was also a picture of First Presbyterian Church in Mayfield. 

Attached is an article from a recent Presbytery of Long Island email. Contributions to PDA may be made through OSH church by indicating "Disaster Relief" on your check or envelope.

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Thiis Week at Old South Haven Church

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

December 5, 2021- 10:30 a.m.

Second Sunday of Advent

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

This coming Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent--the Peace Sunday--and I invite you to join us at our live and Zoom Church Service this Sunday, December 5, 2-21, at 10:30 AM.

The details for joining the Zoom service  are below.  .Attached, you will find the Bulletin, the List of Joys and Concerns, Pastor Glorya's Letter and the Advent readings of the week.

We look forward to seeing you this coming Sunday!

Peace and Love,

Linda

Hello all

Advent is well underway and we have a tree to trim!  Let's get together (distanced, of course*) and trim it this Sunday after church.  After no tree and no Christmas time sanctuary services last year it will be warm and wonderful to see a beautiful tree in our beautiful church.  Thank you to Richard for getting the tree and already starting Christmastime decor.

We'll have a simple lunch - also distanced but together - afterward.  Bring your loud voice so we can talk and share.  Please respond here if you think you can stay so we know roughly how many to plan for.  I know some on this list will not be able to attend, but you will be with us in spirit!

Much love to all,

Darcy

*oxymoron of 2020-2021.  We can do it!

Dear Old South Haven Family,

I offer to you the following "Minute for Mission" from the PCUSA on the topic of the Christmas Joy Offering. This offering is received during Advent. As it states, it is focused on Presbyterian-related schools and colleges as well as church workers. I know you're bombarded with many requests for donations, not to mention our own stewardship campaign. So, I thank you for your consideration of this meaningful offering. Giving envelopes will be placed by the collection plate in the Narthex.

Glorya

A Gift Opens Doors — Proverbs 18:16

The Perfect Gift

In the story of God, as we tell it, there is a barrier that exists between the Created world and its Creator. A wall. Sin, we say, separates us from God, and separation from God is unbearable.

And our story goes on to say that God, seeing that we had no hope in ourselves of getting over, or through or around what separates us, offered us a gift in Jesus Christ who opens a door — a door we could not open ourselves.

What a gift!

But the story goes on to say that Jesus is the perfect gift; not only opening a door but coming through it. Our story says God is with us.

In Jesus, God joined with humanity, pointing the way to the end of our separation. And in his life, death and resurrection, so our story of God goes, Jesus is the door, now standing open. The giving continues because God is with us, still — and always.

Because being with us is part of God's story, being with others is part of our call.

The Christmas Joy Offering opens doors of opportunity for the leaders who are shaped and supported through our gifts — doors that lead to hopeful futures for young people at Presbyterian-related schools and colleges equipping communities of color. Our gifts open doors that lead to relief for church workers and their families when emergency needs arise.

Proverbs, a book of wisdom sayings, states that it's a person's gift that opens doors. As we give generously to the Christmas Joy Offering, we seek to not only meet needs, but to meet people, to come through the door that generosity opens. We open the door to celebrate "God with us!" We open the door with each and every student who will soon inspire and lead the world. We open the door with each and every church worker who helps us share God's story with the world.

The story of God, as we tell it, is not about a barrier, but about a gift. It's not about the separation, but about the gift of "being with." Please give generously to the Christmas Joy Offering, in celebration of God's perfect gift to us. Give because it brings us together, to open doors of relief and opportunity and to relationships that are part of God's story, a part of God's perfect gift to us.

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James Howell Post Memorial Chandelier Work Completed

 

 

From: Richard Thomas
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 5:37 PM
Subject: James Howell Post Memorial Chandelier Work Completed

 

Hi,

        Thank you to Ken Asselta, Kappy Tilney, Judi Bird, and Deborah Mayo for work on lowering and raising the chandelier, cleaning it, and replacing the bulbs.

        The chandelier has three tiers, with 5 bulbs in the top tier, 10 in the middle tier, and 20 in the bottom tier.

        Twelve of the 35 bulbs were no longer turning on.

        Here are “Before” and “After” photos:

                                                Before, 29 Nov 2021, 10 am

 

                                                After, 29 Nov 2021, 1 pm

 

       Ken, Lowering the Chandelier, being careful that the

                              crank doesn’t slip out of his hand,

                    (and that he doesn’t fall through the ceiling).

                   Judi, Watching the Chandelier Descend

                      and making sure the support is

           properly positioned for the chandelier to make

                                       a safe landing.

                     Kappy watched the other side.

(I don’t know why the circular opening in the ceiling is huge—only the small center part of the chandelier has to go through the ceiling—but it does give people in the attic a better view. I think there was a recessed light fixture in the center that was replaced by the opening for the chandelier in 1961.)

            Deborah, Kappy, and Judi Dusting Off the Chandelier

        After getting the chandelier down, the bulbs were removed and tested, and replaced if no longer working, and the “glass shades” were all cleaned.

                                                                  Finally, All Thirty-Five Bulbs Are Working—now to get the glass shades back on.

        Then began the long procedure of getting each of the 35 glass shades, 35 cylindrical socket covers, and 35 bulbs all back in place in a way that didn’t make a bulb stop working.

        (It’s harder than it looks. If the thick-cardboard socket cover can’t be pushed down to the bottom of the glass shade, the bulb can’t be firmly seated in its socket---and the diameters of some of the socket covers made them a very tight fit inside the base of the glass shades. It took a lot of pushing and wiggling, which, unfortunately, resulted in fingerprints all over the newly cleaned glass shades.)

        After that, it was back up to the attic again, where Ken did a lot more cranking to get the chandelier back up to the ceiling.

        I slid in the bar through the eye on the chandelier and plugged it back in. Then, except for getting ourselves back down out of the attic, we were nearly done.

         Bar through Eye of Chandelier to Hold It Up

       (even if the steel cable is released or breaks)

Richard

 

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ADDENDUM: This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

November 28,2021 - 10:30 a.m.

First Sunday of Advent

This week's attached Advent Devotions from Presbyterian Outlook arrived just a few minutes after the This Week… email was sent

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Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

November 28,2021 - 10:30 a.m.

First Sunday of Advent

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and are now preparing for the Christmas Season.

Please join us this coming Sunday, November 28, 2021, at 10:30 AM, for our live and Zoom 

church service.  The details for joining the Zoom service are below.

Please see the attached Bulletin*, List of Joys and Concerns and Pastor Glorya,s Advent Letter.

Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Love.

Linda

Today, we will be receiving your Pledge/Anticipated Giving Cards. Letters

were sent out this past week. If you did not receive one, blanks have

been placed in the Narthex near the collection plate.

Readers needed for Advent wreath on Dec. 12th and 19th. Speak to Pastor Glorya if your family or you and a friend would like to participate.

Devotions for Advent published by the Presbyterian Outlook: usually I email these out weekly to people but the craziness of going from PDF to Word or Word to PDF just slows me down. Therefore, if one isn't in your bulletin, look for it out in the Narthex. The readings begin each Sunday.

* Attached Bulletins: One of the attached PDF files of the bulletin is meant for reading on a display rather than being printed out. (Each hymn appears near where it is sung, so you don't have to scroll down.)

        The other PDF file of the bulletin is for printing as a booklet—by printing the two sheets on both sides, flipping on the short edge, then folding them to make a booklet. -- Richard

November 23, 2021

Dear Friends,

I don't know how to say this any other way…..let the roller coaster ride begin.

Sometimes I think our lives during Advent go up and down like a roller coaster or like the weather. We keep getting overwhelmed by the events and activities of the secular season. A party here and there. Shopping at the nearest toy store or mall/shopping center. It's so interesting that our liturgical season of Advent, our season marked by waiting, is accompanied by a frenzy of busyness. Our cultural events and expectations invade our lives and cause us to trip over our church rituals tempting us to forget that we Christians are, in fact, preparing for Jesus' birth and Christ's return. We just plain lose sight of the holy in our midst forgetting what the season is supposed to entail.

Jill Duffield, former Editor of the Presbyterian Outlook, last year wrote something that caused me to pause. She wrote, "Imagine if disciples of Jesus Christ entered Advent with a hope and anticipation of seeing the divine at work all around and within us. Imagine if Christians took Advent as an invitation to slow down, rather than speed up, to ponder instead of purchase, to look for God in all things even as we wait for the Word made flesh to appear." I too raise my hand and plead guilty and also promise to try to slow down.

As I wrote in the announcement page this week, each year I've emailed out weekly Advent Devotions from the Presbyterian Outlook. Perhaps I'll get more techie savvy later but for the time being the devotions will either be in your bulletin or in the Narthex. Each new devotional week begins on Sunday. Now if you who are Zoomers want to assist me in converting PDF to Word or Word to PDF, I have open ears!! I will be trying to get these out to you too.

In the meantime, may this Advent season be one where your anticipation of Jesus' birth and your expectation of Christ's return allow you to see God all around you and in all times.

Shalom,

Glorya

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Christ the King

This statue is found on the island of Maderia off Portugal.

Old South Haven Presbyterian Church

November 21,2021 - 10:30 a.m.

Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday

Dear Members and Friends of Old South Haven Church,

Please join us tomorrow, Sunday, November 21, 2021, at 10:30 AM,  for our weekly church service, which is both live and virtual.  The Bulletin and List of Joys and Concerns are attached and the link for joining the Zoom service is below.

I hope to see you tomorrow!

Linda

Looking Ahead:

    -Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Brookhaven Clergy will

have a Thanksgiving service at the park by "the dock" where the 9-11

service was held. If you plan on attending, please bring a chair.

-Sunday, November 28th will be Stewardship Sunday we will

receive your Pledge/Anticipated Giving Cards on that date. Letters

were sent out this past week.

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Re: Correction: If link address did not work: Sunday's Worship Service now available on Vimeo.

Much thanks to you as well. 

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:38 PM John Deitz <deitzj@optonline.net> wrote:

 

 

From: John Deitz <deitzj@optonline.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2021 8:28 PM
To: Deboraht Neal<deborah9580@gmail.com <deborah9580@gmail.com>; Linda Majowka (lindabps@aol.com) <lindabps@aol.com>
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Subject: Sunday's Worship Service now available on Vimeo.

 

 

Hi Deboraht, Linda and others–

Sunday's worship service is now available on Vimeo.

Thank you Deboraht, Linda, and Richard for your excellent production skills. Your work is much appreciated!

John

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Deboraht Neal.