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Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

Eastminster Update
803-256-1654 / www.eastminsterpres.org

Volume 38 Number 34

October 12, 2014

Dear Eastminster Family,

SHARING HIS LIGHT

1 COR. 12

STAFF
Dr. Bradley D. Smith
Pastor
Dr. Mark E. Durrett
Associate Pastor
Rev. Lynn A. Grandsire
Associate Pastor

What better time than now as we ready ourselves to return to the sanctuary than
to take a step back and give thanks to God. As individuals, as a church family, and
as the Body of Christ, God has blessed us. Tapped on the shoulder by God through
the call of the Spirit, our Lord has equipped and charged every last one of us to be
His ambassadors, His witnesses, to love HIM and to love the people of the world.
We regularly talk of being blessed so that we will bless others. I encourage you to reflect,
ponder, and pray about how God has positioned and equipped you to be a blessing to others.
Then do it. Take a step forward. And, yes, one important way we can join in Christs work is
by giving the first fruits of that which has been given to us. As we move back into the sanctuary, lets take a step forward in ministry and in mission, including our giving. Giving generously is a way of giving thanks to God, it helps us grow as individuals, and the funds make an
impact for the Kingdom.
In joy,
Brad
19

Dr. James I. St. John

Parish Associate

$1,500.01& above

Mr. Croskeys Royall

Director of Childrens Ministries

Mrs. Fredna Lee

Director of Music Ministries

$1250.0117
$1,500
$1000.01$1,250

# of giving units
amount per month

Mrs. Lucy Corley and

Mrs. Anita Poole
EDS Co-Directors

23
38

Mr. William L. Collins, Jr.

Business Manager
Ms. Julie McDaniel
Member Involvement Coordinator

71
103

Sermon
Sunday, October 12
9:00 & 11:15 a.m. - Sanctuary
11:15 a.m. - Jubilee
Dr. Bradley D. Smith
Let There Be Awe!
Acts 2:38-47
(First Sunday Back in Sanctuary)

82
78
187
431

$150.01$250
86
$100.01$150

31
$800.01$1,000

$600.01$800

$450.0154
$600
$350.01$450

$250.01$350

Take a step forward in

your giving.

$50.01$100

$25.01$50

$1-$25

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See you in the SANCTUARY this Sunday!

Daily CALENDAR
SUNDAY, October 12

7:45 Officer Breakfast

8:00 Celebration Choir Rehearsal
9:00 Worship & Childrens Church
10:00 Jubilee Band Practice

Combined Adult Sunday School

Eastminster First Step

Generation Change

Wee Rock
10:05 Chancel Choir Rehearsal
11:15 Jubilee Worship

Worship & Childrens Church
3:00 Cub Scouts
5:00 Sunday@5 Classes

Sr. High & Middle School Youth

Cub Scouts

PEACE Service
6:00 Youth Meal

Monday, OCTOBER 13

7:00 Mens Prayer Breakfast

7:30 Property Committee
9:00 Count Team

Fifty Plus Exercise Class
10:00 Senior Fitness

Circle #1, Circle #3
10:30 Circle #2
11:30 Worship Ministry Mtg.
1:30 Pastors Mtg.
2:30 Program Staff Mtg.
3:10 Staff Mtg.

CHAMPS Tutoring
5:30 Yoga

Stephen Ministry Leaders Mtg.
6:00 Stephen Ministry Mtg.
Adult choir Rehearsal
6:30 BSF Fellowship

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

9:00 Drop-In Nursery

Youth Council
10:00 Senior Fitness

EPW Bible Study
11:45 Tuesday Lunch
12:00 NED Mtg.
12:30 Bradley Lunch Buddies
1:00 Footcare Ministry
3:00 Exercising for Arthritis
5:00 Tai Chi

CHAMPS Steering Comm.
5:30 Zumba Fitness
6:00 Handbell Rehearsal
7:00 Girls Sr. High Small Group

Guys Sr. High Small Group

Scottish Country Dancing

Zumba Fitness

WEDNESDAY, October 15

9:00 Drop-In Nursery

Fifty Plus Exercise Class
9:25 EDS Chapel
9:30 Prayer Shawl Ministry
11:00 Journeys to Heaven

EDS Ministry Team
5:15 WE@EPC Dinner

Angel Choir

Junior Choir
Officer Training
5:45 Child Care
6:15 WE@EPC Classes

Resurrection Hope Grief Group
Officer Training
7:15 Chancel Choir

THURSDAY, October 16

9:00 Drop-In Nursery

10:00 Senior Fitness
2:00 Sanctuary Move-In Mtg.
3:00 Exercising for Arthritis
4:30 Transitions
5:00 Yoga
5:30 EDS Fall Festival
7:00 Zumba Fitness

Eagle Board of Review
7:30 Jubilee Band Practice

FRIDAY, October 17
9:00
9:15
11:00
2:00

Fifty Plus Exercise Class

Praying Moms Bible Study
Support Staff Mtg.
Flora Football Team

SATURDAY, October 18
6:30
9:00

BSF Leaders Mtg.

CHAMPS Mtg.

Attention Hearing Aid Users!

Our renovated sanctuary will be equipped with a Hearing Loop system on the ground floor
of the sanctuary. When we resume worship in our new sanctuary, folks using hearing aids
and cochlear implants should be able to pick up a clear speech signal without background
noise. In order to access this technology, though, you will need to contact your audiologist to
make sure your hearing aids or cochlear implant have a t-coil option for a loop system and
that it has been turned on. Pam Halligan may be contacted via pamhalligan@att.net or 803782-6532 with questions.

Trinity Presbytery Senior High School Retreat

High Schoolers, please join us November 7-9 at White Oak Conference Center in Winnsboro, SC. Our theme this year is Be the Miracle. Keynote speaker will be Rev. Chris Lee,
Associate Pastor for Youth and Families at Avondale Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC,
and Rev. Mason Todd, who served in Trinity Presbytery as the youth director and worship
band member at New Kirk Presbyterian for seven years. Cost for this retreat is $175.00 per
person due by Friday, October 24. (We will also be taking an EPC bus up on Saturday morning, November 8, as five of our youth will help lead the Trinity Presbytery Retreat.) Contact Tricia,
(tmccormick@eastminsterpres.org) for information or to register.

Senior High Advent Retreat

Join us at the Blue Ridge Assembly from December 5-7. They will gather to talk about how
to put words on our faith and spread the Good News right here in Columbia. God will use
the youth of Eastminster to change this Columbia community if we let Him!!! Parents sign
your children up for this retreat! Register with Tricia (tmccormick@eastminsterpres.org.)
Do not have a form? Ask Tricia.

2014 Advent Retreat December 5 - 7

Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, NC

We invite you to join us this year at Eastminsters annual Advent Retreat as we wrestle
with the whys and hows of Shouting It from the Mountain Top! Well discover some fresh ways to dare to share the love of Christ with many around us: with family
members, with co-workers, and with our friends from down the street. If this peaks your
interest, pick-up a brochure at church, download a brochure from the E-News or check us
out online. You may register with Mary at 256-1654 or mbaldauf@eastminsterpres.org.

Old Hymnals FREE to Good Homes

If you were not in attendance at the gym worship on Sunday, October 5, members were
told they could take one of our old blue hymnals with them. If you missed out and would like
one of the hymnals, please stop by the 2nd floor lobby adjacent to the reception area and pick
up a hymnal there.

For our loved ones . . .

In memory of Peggy Seigler, given by Ben Hornsby.

In memory of Marjory Walker Pearce, given by Betty & Jay McKay.

The Body at Work

Your time, talent, and treasure at work in Gods Kingdom

This year, we at Eastminster have registered 325 new members of the community who use the Christian Life Center for various activities including
playing basketball, using the workout equipment, taking exercise classes, and
walking the track.

Combined Adult Sunday School Class October 12

All adults are invited to the gym for a combined Sunday school class on October
12. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Bill Bouknight, who recently led the Officers
Retreat and our worship services on Sunday, September 28. Please join us at 10:00
a.m. in the gym and come early for doughnuts, coffee and fellowship!!

Rededication Sunday Congregational Meal

You are invited to a congregational meal on Sunday, October 26, following the
11:15 a.m. service in the gym, for fried/baked chicken and sides. Please RSVP to
Mary (256-1654 or mbaldauf@eastminsterpres.org) for the meal. Adults $6.00,
children 8 and under $3.00, household cap $25.00.

Diaper Drive for Family Shelter

The Family Shelter has a critical need for diapers sizes 3, 4 and 5, AND wipes.
Between now and October 19, bring diapers to boxes in Thompson Hall, the CLC
and the churchs main reception area. The mission of the Family Shelter is to
provide emergency shelter, food, resources, and hope to homeless families with
children in the Midlands area.

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
Remer Waguespack, Bill McInnis, Dave
Steven, and those serving in our military,
Stephen Ministers and their care receivers,
and all those in need of Gods special care.
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.

Daytime Bible Study

EPW Daytime Study is The Best Yes, by Lysa Terkeurst. This six-week DVD
series will be facilitated by Hannah Stiles, and will help us to make wise decisions.
This study considers our two most important words, yes and no. It is for those
of us who feel overwhelmed with all that we are doing, and desire to serve God
where He wants us to serve Him. Do these phrases, Im drowning in the regrets
of too many commitments, and I dread saying yes, but feel powerless to say no,
and I hope theres more to life than my to-do list, and Im a little overwhelmed
and a lot worn out! sound like your life? If so, this Bible study is for you. It will
be Tuesdays at 10 a.m. The class began on October 7, but it is not too late to join.
Sign up on the web or with Mary Baldauf at mbaldauf@eastminsterpres.org or
256-1654. Class meets in room E-351.

JESUS ROCKS

EPC Paint Team

Did you know Eastminster had a paint team? Have you noticed the hall between
the day school and the administration building, or how nice the stair railings in
some areas are looking? The team has been painting their way through different
areas of the building and making it look great. The team consists of Tom Griffin, Lewis Fowler, Ken Carey, Jim Evatt, Leigh Pound, Parks Small and leader, Bill
Coggins. If you like to paint and want to help spruce up Eastminster, contact Bill
at bcoggins@sc.rr.com.

Stewardship Packet in the Mail . . .

Each of you should have received your stewardship commitment package by the
time you receive this newsletter. If you have not, please call Maria at 256-1654 or
email her at mharvin@eastminsterpres.org. She will make sure you receive one.
Stewardship Sunday will be October 26. Please prayerfully consider what portion
you will share with the church of what God has entrusted to you.

PEACE Service October 12

The PEACE Service offers you a place to come away and be quiet before the
Lord. It is a service where we pray for all kinds of needs and celebrate the Lords
Supper together. If you desire a quiet place of worship, join us at 5:00 p.m. in the
Adult Reception Hall. A nursery is available in the Drop-In nursery rooms in the
CLC.

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
Cindy Correll - Port au Prince, Haiti
Dr. John and Gwenda Fletcher - Congo

Deadline for UPDATE

Dont miss out! Send your information to

share with the congregation to tcarter@eastminsterpres.org.
Please have your information in by Wednesday,
October 22, to be shared in our next newsletter
on November 2, 2014.

Eastminster Presbyterian Church

3200 Trenholm Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29204

Nonprofit Org.
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Update for October 12, 2014

Sermon Schedule for the Coming Weeks

October 12
Acts 2:38-47
Let There Be Awe!
Dr. Bradley D. Smith Preaching
(First Sunday Back in Sanctuary)

October 19
1 Cor. 12:12-20
Your Part Matters
Dr. Bradley D. Smith Preaching
(Thank Contractors & Sub-Contractors, AC
Flora Football Team Worships in Jubilee)

October 26
Nehemiah 12:27-47(selected verses)
Will The Joy of Eastminster Be Known?
Dr. Bradley D. Smith Preaching
Rededication Sunday: Rededicating
Ourselves and Gods Sanctuary
November 2
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Remember...
Dr. Jim St. John Preaching
All Saints Day

Christmas Tree Fundraiser

Many of you purchased your Christmas trees from the youth last year and
were very pleased! The youth will be selling Fraser Fir Christmas trees and
wreaths again this year. The sale of all trees and wreaths will help offset the cost
of youth mission trips in 2015. Sales have begun and will run through November 23, with pick-up from December 2-4 from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. in the upper
parking lot. You will be able to purchase trees from a youth on Sundays. Look
for the tables in the breezeway or pick-up an order form and return it with your
check to the church. Costs range from $35.00 for 4-5 ft. trees to $118.00 for
9-10 ft. trees. You may order on line at www.eastminsterpres.org and look under Quick Links! Please make your checks payable to Eastminster Presbyterian
Church and include on the memo line Youth Christmas Tree Fundraiser. (Mail
your check to Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3200 Trenholm Road, Columbia 29204 attn: Youth Office, or drop by the church.)

Haiti Mission Trip

Our trip to Leoganne, Haiti, is scheduled for November 2-8, and will cost approximately $1,000 per person (includes air, lodging in the hospital, and meals
daily). We need folks with light construction skills (painting, some woodwork,
etc.), nurses and doctors of every specialty, dentists, and folks with general
office/computer skills. We will plan another trip early in 2015 so come now
and learn more about our work in Haiti! Scholarship assistance up to $500 per
person is available; please contact Julie McDaniel (jmcdaniel@eastminsterpres.
org) for the scholarship application.

Serving on Sunday
October 12
OFFICERS PRAYER:
Deacon Field Wardlaw
DEACONS: Becky Smythe & Simpson Fant
Elder Jane Brissette (Jubilee)
Deacon Lisa Dunbar (Jubilee)
PEACE SERVICE:
Elders Michael Schraibman & Steve Searcy
Deacons Alec Chaplin & Lisa Dunbar
Ushers: Steve Searcy & John McCabe
GREETERS:
(9:00) Buzz Smythe
Jeff & Kami Thordahl
Parks & Judy Small
Chuck & Hannah Stiles
(11:15) Marilyn Stradtman
Joe & Jane Anderson
Steve & Sharon Bryant
Vernon & Eugenia DeHart
INFANT ROOM - CLC 115
(9:00) Mandy & Will Brawley
(11:15) Joan & Brian Boyer
TODDLER ROOM - CLC 117
(9:00) Staff
(11:15) Jeff & Aubrey Cartwright
2-K ROOM - CLC 119
(9:00) Amy & Kit Williams
(11:15) Charity & Josh Ards
CHILDRENS CHURCH 102 - 3K
(9:00) Ned & Kerry Boykin
(11:15) Brad & Jennie Bradley
CHILDRENS CHURCH 104 - 4K
(9:00) Michael & Carter Scott
(11:15) Nick & Beverly Steinhaus
CHILDRENS CHURCH 106 - 5K
(9:00) Shannon Foley
(11:15) Brian & Ashley Fitzgerald

VISION 2020 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

Sanctuary Building Updates/Upgrades

-- Asbestos removed from ceiling with new ceiling texture applied

-- Asbestos tile removed from floor and replaced with slate tile
-- Chancel reconfigured and slate tile installed
-- Central stained glass window face of Jesus replaced
-- Lighting replaced and upgraded throughout sanctuary chancel and nave (wiring, too)
-- Organ raised to chancel level to permit greater flexibility
-- Audio visual capacity added to the sanctuary
-- New communion table that will be placed closer to the congregation
-- Sanctuary walls painted
-- Pews refurbished and pew cushions replaced
-- Pews re-spaced. Good news is more knee room in every pew. Bad news is loss of space at rear of sanctuary.
-- Stained glass windows repaired and cleaned
-- New heat and air including all duct work, chillers, air handlers, etc., for entire sanctuary building
-- Replacement of sanctuary basement window units with built in, but individual room controlled -- HVAC units in
six rooms
-- Replacement of old windows with energy efficient double-pane windows in sanctuary basement
-- Enclosed breezeway from Sanctuary to Administration Building, including replacement of old steps with new steps
constructed with safer, more navigable rise over run
-- Added an ADA accessible mens restroom
-- Remodeled womens restroom to be updated and made ADA accessible
-- Installed slate tile in narthex
-- Installed elevator allowing access from sanctuary level to Thompson Hall breezeway/Memorial Garden level and to
sanctuary basement level
-- Replaced steep steps going from narthex to Thompson Hall breezeway with new steps constructed with safer, more
navigable rise over run
-- Constructed porte-cochere for inclement weather drop-off/access
-- Added a new on-grade entrance from the senior parking lot to the rear of the
sanctuary
-- Rebuilt and repaved senior parking lot
-- Rebuilt Chancel Choir rehearsal room
-- Re-carpeted, painted, and replaced ceiling tiles throughout sanctuary basement
-- Completely renovated mens restroom in basement
-- Purchased new choir chairs and choir robes
-- New hymnals from member campaign

Other Components of Vision 2020 Capital Campaign

-- Purchase of one new bus and one used bus completed in June
-- Purchase of new chairs for the Jubilee Worship service
-- Tithe (10%) totaling roughly $380,000 for missions and ministry beyond EPC.
(Includes a three-year commitment and partnership with Thornwells Building
Families Program. A Thornwell-managed social worker, to be based at Eastminster, will help at-risk families in Columbia build better parent-child relationships by
teaching parenting, communication, and discipline skills.)

Remaining to be done

-- Thompson Hall Enhancement $55,000

-- Improve exterior and interior signage $25,000

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Where do I park?
1. There are 25 spaces in the paved parking lot off Medway Road for those with mobility challenges. Due to newer code
restrictions, the Medway parking lot ramps had to be relocated. One wheelchair accessible ramp is under the porte-cochre
and the other is located closer to the administration building.
2. The Carolina Childrens Home field across Trenholm Road has been lined, and there will be parking assistance on Sunday mornings as well as a traffic officer to insure your safety as you cross Trenholm Road.
3. The parking lot off Longleaf Road and the lined parking spaces along Longleaf, Daly and in front of the church are available also.

What else is new?

1. We have wheel chair access into the Nelle Gunter Room and access into the Atrium (Connector between Administration
Building and Narthex) where the new mens and remodeled womens restrooms are located.

Parking

Wheelchair
Access

Hawks Eye View of Parking

Wheelchair
Access

Wheelchair
Access

Parking

Parking

2. We now have exterior and interior elevator access. You may enter the elevator for access to the basement choir area and
the sanctuary area from the breezeway.
Elevator
Access

Elevator room beside parlor

in the narthex

Wheelchair
Access

Breezeway Entrance

Sanctuary Entrance from

Administration Building
Ladies room

Mens room