Faith Pres Family News
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Updated: 2:44 PM 4/27/2008
Holy Week a Wholly Busy Week
Holy Week started with a special Palm Sunday service with 70 people attending, when we received five new members into the church family.
There were 29 people who attended the Tenebrae service, with communion, on Maundy Thursday evening.
On Saturday, we hosted the traditional community-wide Easter Egg Hunt. Forty-one children and twenty-nine adults from the neighborhood came to the egg hunt and party.
The Easter sunrise service in the chapel attracted 48 early risers who took communion outside in the patio area.
After the sunrise service, nearly 70 people had breakfast in the Social Hall, and then 118 people attended the Easter Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. It all climaxed with the congregation and the choir joining in a spirited, raucous, but joyful singing of the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messaiah by Handel.
Praise the risen Lord!
Faith Pres Reduces Its Carbon Emissions Footprint
The tree project finally reached fruition, and fourteen trees were delivered by the LADWP, and a dozen of them are already planted around our church campus.
It all started when our church was used as a workshop by the city to inform the neighborhood home owners that there were free trees which they could get from the city in order to beautify and improve the air quality in our neighborhoods.
David Morehouse, who had received trees for his own home, undertook the responsibility to coordinate the tree planting project together with a committee of interested church members. They worked with property manager Gene Fox to choose campus locations and types of trees to be placed around the church grounds.
Participating in the tree planting were project coordinator David Morehouse, Maureen Morehouse, Wade “Magic” Lewis; Jay, Debbie, and Rachel Sloat; Kurt and Julianna Leier, and Christine Tutak.
Also participating were members of Cub Scout Pack 219 of Burbank: Theo Leier, Matthias Leier, Jake Micioni, Joel Micioni, and Raul Perez. Kurt Leier is their Cub Master. Also present were Hans Leier from Boy Scout troop 139, and Candy Perez and Michael McPherson who helped. Thank you all!
One can now truly breathe the extra oxygen that is hovering around our greener campus.
Cheaper By the Dozen
Twelve New Members Join Faith Pres in 2007
On November 4th, four more new members were received into the family of Faith Pres church. They are David Morehouse, Allan Rascoe, Jay Sloat, and Van Snowden. These four bring up to a full dozen the number of new members joining Faith Pres since Rev. Kim Strutt became our Stated Supply Pastor. (See story below for the names of the other eight new members.)
Allan, a voice teacher, has been singing in the choir for more than a year, David and his wife Maureen have been attending for nearly two years, Van came to our church last Easter, and Jay, his wife Debbie, and daughter Rachel have been active participants in the life of the congregation for several years. Last Palm Sunday, Debbie joined the church while Rachel was baptized by Pastor Strutt.
We welcome our new brothers and sisters to the Faith Pres family. We are richly blessed by their presence among us and by the gifts they each contribute to the body of Christ.
Faith Pres Woman of the Year is Jill McNulty
On May 13, Mother’s Day, as it has been the annual tradition at Faith Pres, we honored one woman who best epitomizes the qualities of faithful Christian discipleship and service.
The recipient of the honor is chosen by the church’s Presbyterian Women’s Association, the Mary & Martha Circle.
The name of the honoree was kept under wraps until the proper time in the worship service when after citing her many years of service to the congregation in many capacities, Wilma Bailey called Jill McNulty to come forward to receive the honor plaque from her, and a Presbyterian Women’s pin from Miriam Skarin; both are previous honorees.
Flanked by her daughters Brynna and Erin, a surprised Jill heard Wilma recall when she came to this church because she and her late husband Barney wanted the girls to attend Sunday school and develop friendships with church going families. They all liked the church and eventually became members, the girls becoming part of the core group of girls who made the Sunday school and the all girls choir.
Wilma recited the variety of committees that Jill has served on: Finance, Evangelism, Board of Deacons, and for many years has had the difficult job of Church Treasurer.
Jill and Debbie Sloat have enjoyed beautifying the church by putting new flower beds, getting the Fellowship Hall and new kitchen ready for use. Jill, Bruce Bailey, and property manager Gene Fox, have kept the office working smoothly while keeping Pastor Kim on the straight and narrow. With her friend Rosemarie Fox, Jill has served on the PTA of their daughters schools and raised money for their programs.
Wilma concluded by saying that Jill is a fine example of a woman of faith who through her hard work, dedication, and love of friends and family has shown her devotion to her Lord, Jesus Christ. Well done good and faithful servant!
Faith Pres Family Welcomes New Members
On Palm Sunday, the congregation joyfully welcomed several new members into the Faith Pres family and also witnessed the baptism of two of our Sunday school students.
This was the largest group of new members in recent memory ever to join the church on one Sunday. Meta King, Julianna and Kurt Leier and their son Hans, Debbie Sloat, and Christine Tutak were received as members, and Sunday school students Hans Leier and Rachel Sloat were baptized.
Meta has been singing in the choir since arriving here and both Julianna and Christine, Julianna’s mother and Hans’ grandmother, have begun teaching Sunday school.
On Easter morning, Julie Strutt and Christopher Poole also became members. Chris has been in this church since he was a toddler and has grown to be a leader among the Sunday school students. We welcome these new members to the family, praise God for leading them to us, and we thank Him for the talents and gifts that they each contribute to the life of Faith Pres.