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The Trumpet February 2014 Volume 31 Issue 2 Firelands Presbyterian Church 2626 East Harbor Road Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 419-734-6211 Fax 419-734-5411 www.firelandschurch.org Reverend Jeanne Gay, Pastor Susan Larcey and Kay McIntosh, Musicians William Umlauf, Treasurer Dave Moore, Clerk of Session Rachel Johnson, Preschool Director Janine Dress, Administrative Assistant Mark Owen, Custodian Table of Contents Firelands Family Dinners, Preschool News, Lectionary Texts & Thank You’s............... 2 Pastor’s Page: ...................................... 3 Session Highlights ................................. 5 2014 Session Organization, Prayer List ... 6 Birthdays, Anniversaries, Calendar .......... 7 Ministry Schedule .................................. 8 Musical Arts 2013-2014 Schedule............ 9 MAS Concert: Baldwin Wallace Women’s Choir The Baldwin Wallace University Women’s Choir will perform for the Musical Arts Series at Firelands on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM. A wide variety of musical styles will be performed at this “Excellence from Bach to Broadway” concert. (Please note that this will be a Saturday afternoon concert!) This concert is sponsored by Roth & Bacon Attorneys at Law with accommodations by Our Guest Inn. Following the concert, the Greater Port Clinton Area Art Council will host a reception for the audience to meet the artists. Tickets are available at the door for $15 ($12 for Firelands members); students are admitted free of charge. Oops! Please Pay Per Capita Last year in January we asked all our members to contribute an extra $30 toward both their “per capita”—the amount we pay for each member to support the Presbyterian Church (USA) on the regional and national levels—and the cost of offering envelopes. Many of you did so, which was an enormous help toward our 2013 budget. This year we meant to ask the same thing in January, but somehow we missed doing so. So … would you please add $30 to your offering one of these next few weeks and mark it as “Per Capita”? You may want to use the buff-colored envelope in your box marked Initial Offering Envelope. Thank you! Online Bible Study See the Pastor’s Page to learn about this new program. What a great way to keep up in touch while so many of us are scattered around the country!

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The Trumpet February 2014 Volume 31 Issue 2

Firelands Presbyterian Church

2626 East Harbor Road

Port Clinton, Ohio 43452

419-734-6211

Fax 419-734-5411

www.firelandschurch.org

Reverend Jeanne Gay, Pastor

Susan Larcey and Kay McIntosh, Musicians

William Umlauf, Treasurer

Dave Moore, Clerk of Session

Rachel Johnson,

Preschool Director

Janine Dress,

Administrative Assistant

Mark Owen, Custodian

Table of Contents

Firelands Family Dinners, Preschool News, Lectionary Texts & Thank You’s ............... 2

Pastor’s Page: ...................................... 3

Session Highlights ................................. 5

2014 Session Organization, Prayer List ... 6

Birthdays, Anniversaries, Calendar .......... 7

Ministry Schedule .................................. 8

Musical Arts 2013-2014 Schedule ............ 9

MAS Concert: Baldwin Wallace Women’s

Choir The Baldwin Wallace University Women’s Choir will perform for

the Musical Arts Series at Firelands on Saturday, March 1, 2014

at 4:00 PM. A wide variety of musical styles will be performed at

this “Excellence from Bach to Broadway” concert. (Please note that

this will be a Saturday afternoon concert!)

This concert is sponsored by Roth & Bacon Attorneys at Law with

accommodations by Our Guest Inn. Following the concert, the

Greater Port Clinton Area Art Council will host a reception for the

audience to meet the artists. Tickets are available at the door for

$15 ($12 for Firelands members); students are admitted free of

charge.

Oops! Please Pay Per Capita Last year in January we asked all our members to contribute an

extra $30 toward both their “per capita”—the amount we pay for

each member to support the Presbyterian Church (USA) on the

regional and national levels—and the cost of offering envelopes.

Many of you did so, which was an enormous help toward our

2013 budget.

This year we meant to ask the same thing in January, but

somehow we missed doing so. So … would you please add $30 to

your offering one of these next few weeks and mark it as “Per

Capita”? You may want to use the buff-colored envelope in your

box marked Initial Offering Envelope.

Thank you!

Online Bible Study See the Pastor’s Page to learn about this new program. What a

great way to keep up in touch while so many of us are scattered

around the country!

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Firelands Family Dinner February 14, at 6 PM at Catawba Island Club

Please sign up to go to dinner with your friends at

Firelands. You also may invite your friends to join us;

everyone is welcome. Harold and Dottie Douglass are

the hosts for the meal—contact them at 419-635-4404

with questions. The sign-up sheet is on the gathering

table.

The rest of the 2014 Family Dinners are as follows:

• Fri., March 14: Connie & Darrell Brand, planners—

restaurant to be determined

• Fri., April 11: Joyce DellaSantina, planner—

restaurant to be determined

There will a sign-up sheet for each month.

Thank You Thank You all for your prayers, cards and visits during

the passing of my mother. I am so blessed to be

working for good friends.

Janine

Educational Opportunity: Shingles Vaccine Information

Otterbein North Shore is holding a Shingles Vaccine

Information Seminar. It will be Wednesday, February

19,, 6:30 -7:30 PM. The Otterbein North Shore Senior

Lifestyle Community is located at 9400 North Shore

Blvd. Marblehead. For questions call Kirsten Trammell

at 479-798-8250. Shingles in the short term can be

painful and disfiguring. One can also suffer long term

nerve damage which can cause excruciating and

unrelenting pain for months and even years. It can

attack any part of your body on the outside or inside.

Lectionary Texts for February

February 2 – Epiphany 3

� Isaiah 9:1-4

� Psalm 27:1, 4-9

� 1 Corinthians 1:10-18

� Matthew 4:12-23

February 9 – Epiphany 4

� Micah 6:1-6

� Psalm 15

� 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

� Matthew 5:1-12

February 16 – Epiphany 5

� Isaiah 58:1-9a(9b-12)

� Psalm 112:1-9(10)

� 1 Corinthians 2:1-12(13-16)

� Matthew 5:13-20

February 23 – Epiphany 6

� Deuteronomy 30:15-20

� Psalm 119:1-8

� 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

� Matthew 5:21-37

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PASTOR’S PAGE

Winter, Sermon on the Mount, and Albuquerque

What a winter we’ve had thus far in Port Clinton! Snow, ice,

wind, cold. The poor school children have missed more

days since the beginning of the year than they’ve attended,

and we even canceled worship last week. Here’s hoping

February and March won’t be as brutal!

Looking ahead to February, though, we know that an awful

lot of our folks will be Somewhere Warmer for at least that

one month. We’ve taken chairs out of the back of the

sanctuary to make things seem cozier, and we’ve cut back

on meetings since so many folks aren’t around. The reality

is that we are working on how to be church for the fewer

than 30 families who remain in town.

One of the things we do in the winter is hold our Friday

Firelands Family dinners once a month. Getting together in

a local restaurant gets all of us out of the house and gives

us a chance to “hang out” together as friends.

Another thing we’d like to do this winter is try an online

Bible Study, which will be available for people in town

(who may be stuck in their homes more than they’d like)

and for people who are Away. Since we have four weeks of

Sermon on the Mount lectionary texts, we’re going to study

those passages.

What will this involve? You’ll read a short article that I’ve

written. Maybe you’ll follow some of the links that will be

included … and maybe you won’t. Then you’ll answer a

question or two, or respond to someone else’s answer, and

we’ll see where it goes. You can come in and out as you

please any time during the four weeks or so we keep this

Bible Study going.

We’re working on getting this set up on our website and

hope to have it there by the middle of next week (February

4 or 5). You’ll need to sign in and be approved: that way

we shouldn’t be over-run with scammers and trolls! If you

want to extend an invitation to join in to any of your

friends, just let me know so I can approve them.

Albuquerque

In the meantime, a number of you have asked about

my trip last week to Albuquerque last week, where I

worked with two churches as part of the PC(USA)’s

New Beginnings program. In response I’ll just say

that I thoroughly enjoyed being there and was glad I

took a day just to enjoy the area. Here are a couple

of pictures I took: one of the San Felipe de Neri

church in the city’s Old Town and the other from a

hiking trail in the Sandia foothills. Oh, the sky!

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Stated Session Meeting Highlights for January 14, 2014 The meeting was opened with distribution of prayer

cards and sharing of prayer requests.

Clerk David Moore reported receiving a mission pledge

card from Maumee Valley Presbytery for our church and

referred it to Joyce Jagucki, Mission Committee chair.

Treasurer’s Report: Bill Umlauf, Treasurer, reported

that for December 2013, the General Fund Income

minus GF Expense resulted in a gain of $5858.94

Total 2013 GF income of $144,900.75 ($1900.75 over

budget) minus total 2013 GF expenses of $138,199.95

($4700.10 under budget) resulted in a 2013 gain of

$6700.80.

The 2013 Pre-school Income minus Expenses results in

a year end gain of $5645.99.

Connie Brand, John Madison and Ernie McCullough were

approved as Communion Celebrants by a majority of

Session.

Financial Stewardship – Mary Caracci. We now have

34 pledges totaling $99,734.00. We indeed have a very

generous congregation.

Outreach – Karen Coffin. Programs that reached out to

the community in December were the preschool

Christmas program and the Service of the Longest

Night.

Since our reorganization of Session duties, some

Deacon responsibilities report to the Outreach

committee. Under the “fellowship” leadership of Anne

O’Malley, the Deacons were busy, as usual: in addition

to helping with the Sunday morning service each week,

in December the deacons provided cookies for the

evening preschool program and helped with reception

after the program.

Property Management – Jack Combs reported that our

propane supplier has agreed to last year’s price for this

year. The post by the door has been repaired thanks to

Jim Wagnitz and Bill O’Malley; final painting will follow

in the spring. Committee is checking into solar-

powered lights strong enough to solve our outdoor

lighting concerns.

Worship & Music – Kay McIntosh. Mark and Jeanne

have moved some chairs out of the sanctuary for the

winter. The setup feels more comfortable and intimate.

The Service of the Longest Night was meaningful and

beautiful. Pastor Jeanne reported that nearly 40 people

attended. Most were not from our congregation.

The Christmas Eve service was lovely as well. The

(small) choir surprised themselves with their ability to

lead in worship. The ending of the service featured the

congregants with candles moving around the sanctuary

by the stained glass windows.

Karen Coffin led in worship the Sunday after

Christmas, supported by Mary Braymeier playing the

piano.

The new Hymnals continue to add greatly to our

worship.

Susan Larcey is looking into the possibility of finding a

new light for the piano. She would also like to be able

to involve other musicians in worship whenever

possible.

Session Re-organization: Alison Falls posed the

question “Is the size of our Session appropriate for the

size of our congregation?” She will follow up on with

Session members on this.

Discussion: Pastor Jeanne led a discussion on

“Stressors on our Congregation.”

Pastor’s Report – Pastor Jeanne Gay. Jan. 8-10 I

participated in a presbytery-led retreat for pastors who

have not been in their churches very long. It was

excellent, as a source of both new ideas and terrific

feedback and suggestions from other pastors. I am

excited to say that the small group of us are

covenanting to continue meeting every other month

into the summer. This is a great opportunity for me to

develop skills in church leadership and in personal

development.

Session expressed a special heart-felt thank you to

Karen Coffin for preaching on December 29. We

appreciate all of the hard work that went into her

sermon.

There will be no February Session meeting. Next meeting

will be March 11.

Prayer concerns were voiced and Pastor Jeanne closed

the meeting with prayer.

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Preschool News The month of January came and went very

quickly. With all of the snow and cold

weather we were only in school for 14

days!! Even with all the days we missed,

we were able to squeeze in two visits with

“Mrs. D” (Joyce Dellasantina) and story

hour with Mrs. Winkie from Ida Rupp

Library. This month’s topics were all about

the cold winter weather. We did lots of fun

snowmen activities, grew our own

snowflake, and learned about penguins

and polar bears. The kids and teachers are

starting to get cabin fever so we are really

hoping the groundhog does not see his

shadow!

Rachel Johnson

Firelands Preschool

Program Director and Teacher

Ongoing Prayer Concerns For those receiving medical treatment or therapy, or undergoing medical tests:

Debbie Ballinger, Roseanne Barker, Jenatha Boose, Donald Boudinet, Joyce Brown, Brent, Harold Cooly,

Chase Cortez, Tom Gahris, John Gibson IV, Grant, Harold, Cathy Hill, Kim Hudson, Craig Kaiser,

Arlene Kakareka, Stephen Kessler, Lydia, Betty Layton, Angjuli Lele, Jill Madison, Mandy, Dale Mercer, Simon Mercurio, Michael, Carol Miller, Karen Miller, Jordan Moore, Jill Petty Bryant, Julie Quayle,

John Rick, Ricky, Tammy Robinson, Tom Roush, Sara, Sarah, Jack Schmidt, Sue, Anne Wagnitz, Justin Waugh,

Phil Wierzba, Taylor Whilhite, Beth Z.

For those facing the infirmities of age:

Phyllis Dress, Clara Maag, Shirley Ohles, Betty Rodwancy, Bob Rodwancy, Peg Starcher, Helen Thivener,

Gordan Wahlers, Irene Wilson and Opal Woodruff

For those seeking freedom, security, and hope:

Ann Marie, Bobby, Lisa, Justin, Misty, Tina, Val

For those in the service of our country:

Steven Coffin, FBI; Brant Crandall, USA; Carl Cruse, USMC; Cole Daniel, USCG; Matt Devries, USAF; Reece Elliott,

USA; Ashley Geisert, USCG; Stu Gliwa, USMC; Aaron Haynes, USA; Ted Livingstine, USMC; Sanju Shinde, USMC;

Michael Stockhausen, USN;

For those in mission for our Lord:

Our missionaries in the Middle East; Phillip and Elizabeth Prasad in India; The National Presbyterian Church of

Mexico, Berea Presbytery; The Rev. Hazael Compuzano and our sister congregation, Dios es Amor, Mexico City; The

Monte Sinai Mexican Mission in our Presbytery

To add or delete someone from this list, please contact Janine Dress in the church office.

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February Celebrations

Birthdays

Richard Coffin 10 John Vardyan 22

Jay Viery 18 Jim Dale 26

Clay Montgomery 21 Kara Gogolek 27

Joyce Jagucki 22

February 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

2

9:15 Sunday School

10:30 Worship

3 4 5

Church of the Nazarene Dinner

6 7 1/8

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9:15 Sunday School

10:30 Worship

10

4:30 MAS Committee

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12 13

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6:00 Family Dinner @ CIC

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16

9:15 Sunday School

10:30 Worship

17 18 19 20 21 22

23

9:15 Sunday School

10:30 Worship

24 25 26 27 28

Is your birthday or anniversary missing or incorrect?

Contact the office so we can make the changes to the list!

Janine in Florida

Janine in Florida

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Don’t Forget Your Time to Serve!

Ministry Names

Monthly Deacon of the Month Lori Madison

Communion Steward Lori Madison

Feb 2 Greeter(s) Wahlers

Refreshments Lori Madison

Reader Susan Rogers

Communion Assistant Nila McCullough

Servers Marilyn Umlauf, Heather Stouffer, Ernie McCullough, Bob Black

Acolyte Nic Stouffer

Nursery Volunteer

Feb 9 Greeter(s) O’Malleys

Refreshments

Reader Ernie McCullough

Communion Assistant Heather

Servers Alison Falls, Jay Viery, Lori Madison, Susan Rogers

Acolyte Merissa Jagucki

Nursery Volunteer Janet Gray-Moore

Feb 16 Greeter(s) Douglass’

Refreshments

Reader Connie Brand

Communion Assistant Ernie McCullough

Servers Joyce Jagucki, Nila McCullough, Dave Moore, Karen Vardyan

Acolyte Merissa Jagucki

Nursery Volunteer Susan Rogers

Feb 23 Greeter(s) Brands

Refreshments

Reader Shirley Stary

Communion Assistant Bob Black

Servers John Madison, Marilyn Umlauf, Susan Rogers, Bob Reynolds

Acolyte Merissa Jagucki

Nursery Volunteer Nila McCullough

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The Musical Arts Series At Firelands

* 2013-2014 CONCERT SERIES *

Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

JAMES D’LEON

Exciting pianism that dazzles with powerful emotion

Sponsored by Shumaker Loop & Kendrick and Jack Hilbert

Friday, December 8, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

JOHN AND NANCY SHUFFLE

Highly experienced duo showcases Broadway and opera

through outstanding vocal & acting talents

Sponsored by Bassett’s Market

Saturday, Febuary18, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

ROBERT GRUCA, GUITARIST

Exquisite technique offering solo, chamber and concerto repertoire

Sponsored by Dubbert’s Outdrive Service

Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.

BALDWIN WALLACE WOMEN’S CHOIR

Musical selections celebrating the cyclical nature of life, love and faith

through early chant and polyphony, world cultures and Broadway

Sponsored by Roth & Bacon Attorneys at Law

Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

ARIANNA STRING QUARTET

Firmly established as one of America’s finest chamber ensembles

Sponsored by Arby’s and Neidecker, LeVeck & Crosser

Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.

The Earl E. Warnke Memorial Concert

TOLEDO SYMPHANY BRASS QUINTET

The brilliance of two trumpets, French horn, tuba and trombone

Sponsored by Crown Battery

Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

SIXTH EDITION

Memorable jazz favorites in a close blend of vocal and instrumental harmonies

Sponsored by Frederick Agency and Miller Ferries to Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island

All performances will be given at Firelands Presbyterian Church

2626 East Harbor Road, Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 419-734-6211 www.firelandschurch.org

Tickets $15.00 at the door; children and students admitted free.