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Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

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

Volume 39 Number 14

April 12, 2015

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
Dr. James I. St. John
Parish Associate
Mr. Croskeys Royall
Director of Childrens Ministries
Mrs. Fredna Lee
Director of Music Ministries
Mrs. Lucy Corley and
Mrs. Anita Poole
EDS Co-Directors
Mr. William L. Collins, Jr.
Business Manager
Ms. Julie McDaniel
Member Involvement Coordinator

I write this Tuesday morning, and the glow of our risen Lord continues to shine. The lively
chirping of birds and the stretching of colorful new blooms are just outside my window. The
richness of Sundays worship declaring Christ is Risen and the warmth of people gathered to
share the Good News is still echoing in my heart and mind. Christ is Risen indeed!
But today, tomorrow, and all the days after will each pose their own question for us. Will
we live the Jesus way, the resurrection life, day by day, or will we leave Easter behind? You see,
rightly understood, Easter is not merely a day, but a way of living. Rather than giving in to
what Eugene Peterson calls the culture of death where the daily news beats the drumbeat of
despair, Gods victory over sin and death beckons and emboldens us to respond by intentionally giving our lives to the One who has given his life for us.
Years ago I remember hearing that the light of Christ is not like a spotlight fixed at a certain
place, but a lamp we carry that illuminates our paths wherever we may be. The 5th century
missionary known as St. Patrick, after being imprisoned for six years, wrote:
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
In Jesus the Christ, God gives us The Light of the world. Walk in him. Today. And all
your todays.
Resurrection Blessings,

Brad

Sermon
Sunday, April 12
Confirmation Sunday
9:00 & 11:15 a.m. - Sanctuary
11:15 a.m. - Jubilee
Dr. Bradley D. Smith
Welcome to the Salvation Army
Sunrise Service

Courtyard Celebration

Daily CALENDAR
SUNDAY, April 12

8:00 Celebration Rehearsal

9:00 Worship & Childrens Church

Phillips Lancaster McWilliams Bapt.
10:00 Jubilee Band Practice

Eastminster First Step

Confirmation Breakfast

Sunday School
10:05 Chancel choir Rehearsal
11:15 Jubilee Worship

Worship & Childrens Church
4:00 Small Group
4:30 Small Group
5:00 Kerygma

Senior High Youth

MS Youth

Small Groups

PEACE Service

Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet

Circle 6
6:00 Youth Meal
6:30 APNC

Monday, April 13

7:00 Mens Prayer Breakfast

9:00 Count Team

Fifty Plus Exercise Class
10:00 Circle 1

Circle 3
10:30 Circle 2
11:00 Small Group
12:00 Small Groups

Worship Ministry
1:30 Pastors Mtg.
2:30 Program Staff
5:00 Small Group
5:30 Yoga

CABL B/B

Fellowship Committee

Stephen Ministry Leaders
6:00 Stephen Ministry Mtg.
6:30 Small Group
BSF
7:00 Troop 10
7:30 Balthazor/Moss Small Group

TUESDAY, April 14

9:00 Drop-In Nursery

Small Group
10:00 Senior Fitness

Small Groups
11:45 Tuesday Lunch
12:00 Small Groups
Property
12:30 Bradley Lunch Buddies
1:00 Footcare Ministry
3:00 Exercising for Arthritis
5:00 CHAMPS Steering
5:30 CABL Basketball

Sportsmen Banquet
6:00 Handbells

Small Groups
6:30 Troop Committee Mtg.
7:00 Scottish Country Dancing

Girls Senior High Small Group

Guys Senior High Small Group

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

7:00
9:00

9:25
9:30
10:00

12:00
4:00
5:15
5:30
6:00
6:15
6:30
7:15

Lowrey/Fuller Small Group

Fifty Plus Exercise Class
Drop-In Nursery
edS Chapel
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Fairey/McCants Small Group
Curtis/Seabrook Small Group
EDS Ministry Team
Helfer/Cox Small Group
Angel, Junior Choirs
Henderson Small Group
Small Group
Burns/Burden Small Group
Reynolds Small Group
Chancel Choir

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

9:00 Drop-In Nursery

10:00 Senior Fitness

Buyck/Daye Small Group

Bennett Small Group
12:00 Small Group
12:15 Communications Comm.
3:00 Exercising for Arthritis
4:30 Transitions
5:30 Yoga
6:00 Magnum Volleyball
7:00 Eagle Board of Review
7:30 Jubilee Band Practice

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

9:00 Fifty Plus Exercise Class

11:00 Support Staff Mtg.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

6:30 BSF Leader Mtg.

Hometown Nazareth: Where Jesus Was a Kid

Experience a day at Hometown Nazareth. Each day is filled
with stations where kids and adults are transported to Jesus
hometown! Kids meet Mary and see firsthand Gods Word
at work in a persons life. Gods Word comes alive through
engaging interaction with Bible history! Join us the week of
June 22 - 25, as we focus on Jesus as a child. We will have
VBS T-shirts for children on sale, and a closing ceremony on
Thursday evening, June 25. Registration is now open and runs through June 5. Look for
sign-up tables on Sundays or register on the church website, www.eastminsterpres.org.
Volunteers are needed! To volunteer to help with VBS this summer, e-mail Ashley, ashleylidikay@gmail.com. Worried about child care? The drop-in is open at no cost to VBS volunteers.

Summer Basketball Skills Camp, June 15 - 18

The Christian Life Center will host a summer basketball skills camp
for rising 1st - 6th grade boys and girls, Monday - Thursday, June 15 - 18.
Combined Camp times are from 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. The camp conducted by
The Greatest Champion will incorporate a new parable each day. The cost
is $95.00, and space is limited to 50. For more information, contact Jimmy
Easterby (jimmyeasterby@gmail.com) or call 803-543-9456 or register on
their website at www.thegreatestchampion.org. On the basketball page select the Eastminster
location. Invite your friends!

Sportsmens Banquet, April 14

Join us on April 14 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Each year the guests are treated to a delicious
meal of Wild Game and not so wild game with all the fixins! The event will be held in the
gym, with guest speaker, Jack Easterby, Chaplain for The New England Patriots (2015 Super
Bowl Winners). His website, The Greatest Champion, encourages viewers to accept the
greatest champion of all Jesus Christ who hung on the cross and was resurrected from
the dead. Tickets are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for age 8 and under. Come to not only enjoy
the food but a wonderful inspirational program! Tickets may be purchased on the Eastminster website under quick links Sportsmen, or from Kit Pound (kitpound@att.net).

For our loved ones . . .

In memory of Harriet Fairey, given by Mitzie Trotter.
In honor of Marilyn Stradtman, given by M/M W. W. Johnson.
In honor of Fredna Lee, given by Dot Tringali.

EPC Welcomes Father Michelin on April 19

All Adult Sunday school classes are invited to hear Father Michelin, Director of Hospital
Ste. Croix (HSC), on Sunday, April 19, during the Sunday School Hour in the Adult Reception
Hall. Father Michelin is priest of the Episcopal church in Haiti. Eastminster members who
participated in the last mission trip to Haiti had the privilege of working with Father Michelin in Haiti, who works with the Medical Benevolence Foundation.

Front Desk Volunteer Needed

If you are available from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. on Fridays and would like to volunteer at
the church to greet visitors and answer the phone, contact Tricia at 256-1654 or tmccormick@eastminsterpres.org. Training is provided!

Feeding Children Everywhere

Church-Wide Service Project
April 19, 4:00-5:00 p.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Eastminster Presbyterian Church and Feeding
Children Everywhere are partnering together for
the Eastminster Presbyterian Hunger Project. This
one-day, church-wide service project will be held on
Sunday, April 19, in the CLC Gym. Participants will be
hand-packaging a goal of 40,000 meals that will be distributed to hungry children
in Haiti. There will be great music, good fun and the chance to make a tangible
difference in the life of a hungry child. Currently, 842 million people struggle with
hunger every single day. Through this Hunger Project, YOU are helping feed those
hungry bellies. Two one-hour shifts are available: 4:00-5:00 p.m. and 5:30-6:30
p.m. Children ages 6 and older can help package food at the event; child care will
be provided to children 5 and younger. To sign up for a one-hour shift, go to
www.eastminsterpres.org.

PEACE Service April 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.

EPC Run for God Running Group

Have you ever wanted to run in a 5K race? Well now is your
chance! Eastminster is starting a new program called Run for God.
It is a devotional Bible study combined with a running exercise plan.
The program is designed to strengthen you spiritually and physically, with the end challenge being for all to participate and finish a 5K
race as an EPC Team. We will be meeting on Sunday afternoons/
evenings at the CLC and are looking forward to a fun and enriching experience.
Hope to see you there.
If you are interested, please contact Beau Long (at blong@keenansuggs.com or
803-960-2402) to be added to the e-mail list. More information will follow.

Need Help, Moms?

To moms looking for help: Dont forget that the Drop-In Nursery is open
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to help with your
childcare! Tell your friends about the EPC Drop-In! . If you have any questions,
contact Francine Barry at 256-1654 ext. 161.

The Body at Work

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

This winter, we at Eastminster hosted more than

335 youth basketball players, and more than 60
adult coaches and assistants, who participated in 35
Eastminster basketball teams.

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, Dave Steven, and
those serving in our military, Stephen
Ministers and their care receivers, and all
those in need of Gods special care.
Hospitals
Sue McCutcheon
Deaths
Congregational Care and Concern:
Bowen & Susie Horger, on the death of his
grandmother, Mary Catherine Horger,
March 29, 2015. Great granddaughters,
Cate & Mims Horger.

Will & Ashley Cope Yarbrough, on the

death of her grandmother, Mary Belle
Bland Pound, March 29, 2015. Great
granddaughters, Ayers & Mary.
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.

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,
April 15, to be shared in our next newsletter
on April 26, 2015.

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Update for April 12, 2015

Sisters in Christ Luncheon

All Eastminster ladies (non-members as well as members) are invited to attend

the Sisters in Christ luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Thompson Hall, with Speaker, Jasmine Lipscomb, Family Specialist with Thornwell
Home in Clinton, SC. For lunch reservations, contact Shelli (sknapp@eastminsterpres.org).

April Circle Meetings

Circle #1 - April 13 at 10 a.m. in the Parlor.

Circle #2 April 13 at 10:30 a.m. off site.
Circle #3 April 13 at 10:00 a.m. at the home of Doris Stapel.
Circle #6 April 12 at 5:00 p.m. in room E-352.

Check out our Librarys newest reads!

Before Amen by Max Lucado

Max Lucados Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer leads you on a journey
that will help you experience a heart connection with God and calm the chaos of
your world by embracing a prayer life that brings peace and rest. This is a practical yet inspirational book with a Study Guide included in the back - for either
individuals or small groups.
Come check out these newest books and others in EPCs Lynn Temple Jones Library! If you have questions about any of our available resources, contact Librarian Caroline Bennett, cbennett@eastminsterpres.org.

Jesus Rocks - Almost Lock-In - May 8

The last Jesus Rocks of the year will be from 6:00-10:00 p.m. May 8. Pizza!
Games! Bible Study Blast! Movies! Popcorn! Midnight Basketball! Bring $3.00
for pizza and wear sneakers. Parents, we need help in shifts for this night. If
you can help for the 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. shift or the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. shift, please
email Croskeys at croyall@eastminsterpres.org.

Sr. High Charleston Mission Trip

Dont forget to register for the Sr. High Summer Mission Trip to Charleston,
SC. The mission trip will be from June 14-19, 2015, and costs $250 which includes
fees, lodging, transportation, and most meals for the week! Please have your registration and $100 deposit in by April 15, 2015. We do have scholarships available
upon request!

Serving on Sunday
APRIL 12
OFFICERS PRAYER:
Elder Steve Searcy
DEACONS: Justin Self & Jeff Casto
Deacon Sharon Besley (Jubilee)
Deacon Pete Balthazor (Jubilee)
peace service:
Deacons Caroline Bennett, Brian Blackwelder
Elders John Leighton, Billy Newsome
Ushers: Steve Searcy & John McCabe
GREETERS:
(9:00) Ginger Foster
Simpson & Kathy Fant
Buddy & Paulette Freeman
Alex & Sarah Dillard
(11:15) Pat Fuller
Mike Gorman
Elizabeth Helmboldt & Coke Mann
Don & Darla Helms
INFANT ROOM - CLC 115
(9:00) Staff
(11:15) Kristen & Jenkins Williamson
TODDLER ROOM - CLC 117
(9:00) Erin & Brad Dampier
(11:15) Sara & David Ellison
2-K ROOM - CLC 119
(9:00) Kalen & Richard Klosky
(11:15) Kim & John Leighton
CHILDRENS CHURCH 102 - 3K
(9:00) Jonathan & Kelly Barbrey
(11:15) Trippett & Lindsay Boineau
CHILDRENS CHURCH 104 - 4K
(9:00) Will & Ashley Yarbrough
(11:15) Stuart & Rebecca Arrington
CHILDRENS CHURCH 106 - 5K
(9:00) Liza & Steve Sansbury
(11:15) Cam & Carrie Smith