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Sunday 8:30 Traditional Worship/Sanctuary 9:30 Informal Communion/Chapel

Coffee Fellowship/FH 9:45 Sunday School for All Ages

Redemption College Class/021 10:45 Informal Communion/Chapel 11:00 Traditional Worship/Sanctuary

Contemporary Worship/MPR Kairos/119

12:15 8th Grade Confirmation/001 4:00 Momentum & Empower/001 5:00 Youth Choir Rehearsal/202 Monday 9:30 Preschool Open Gym/MPR

Hospitalizations: Cox: Michael Higgins

Mercy Orthopedic Hospital: Mary Lynn Holmes, Susie Dollar

Sympathy to Loren Bergmann on the passing of his brother.

Pray For Our Homebound Friends in...

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Tuesday 9:00 Ladies Bible Study/020 10:00 Esther Circle/026 12:30 Mary Martha Circle/020 1:00 Double F & C Knitters/Library 1:30 Priscilla Circle/115 6:30 Session/020 6:30 Men’s Bible Study/015

Wednesday 6:45 Men’s Prayer Breakfast/FH 9:30 Amazing Collection Bible/015 11:00 Open Prayer Time/Chapel 1:00 Abigail Circle/114 5:00 The Table/FH Caring People Small Group/026 5:30 Jesus in the Gospels Bible/115

5:45 Faith 4 Life Gathering Time/225 6:00 Joyful Singers/304 Junior Choir/202 Jubilate Ringers/303 6:15 All About Passover and Seder/020 6:40 Faith 4 Life Children’s Bible Study 7:15 Chancel Choir Rehearsal/202 8:15 Camerata Rehearsal/202 Thursday 9:00 Quilters/FH 9:30 Disciple Bible Study/116 Preschool Open Gym/MPR Friday 9:00 Scrapbooking/020 Saturday

10:00-11:30 Family Easter Celebration

Volume 85, No. 11 March 22, 2015

REVIEW

820 E. CHERRY SPRINGFIELD, MO 65806 (417) 862-5068

Preaching Schedule: March 22 Traditional Services: Cal LeMon

Contemporary Service: Andrew Chaney

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

Chicken legs and breasts, corn, mixed vegetables, salad, fresh fruit, rolls, ice cream and cookies

Children - Faith4Life: Choir and Bible Study

Youth: Recreation and Bible Study Adult: All About Passover and the Seder at 6:15p.m.—Dr. Chaney

March 20 Jake Mauk Recital - 7:00 p.m. in the North Atrium 28 First and Calvary Family Easter Celebration! 10:00 -

11:30 am on the Church Lawn and in the North Atri-um.

Includes Easter crafts, Egg hunts, Cookie decorating, and lots of activities. No admission and all are wel-come!

29 A Palm Sunday Parade in all three Worship Services.

The Drury Singers on the Musical Offerings Series at 2:30 p.m. in the North Atrium

April 2 The Passover Seder Meal 5:30 p.m. in the MPR - Reservations required - See article, page 2

3 Good Friday Worship at noon in the Sanctuary 5 Easter Sunday Worship at 8:30, 9:45, & 11:00 am in

the Sanctuary and 11:00 am in the MPR. Children’s Joint Sunday School at 9:45

Easter Lily Order Form

Donated by ____________________________________________________________ In Memory of In Honor of ________________________________________________________

(check one) $______ Total amount submitted (Plants are $10 each)

Please deliver to homebound members I will pick up plant(s) after last Easter Service

Complete the form and submit to the office or drop in the depository with your check paya-ble to First & Calvary Flower Fund no later than March 22.

All the Way From England Gideon’s President to Preach at First & Calvary

Most hotel rooms have a Bible in the nightstand drawer that was provided by the Gideons. It is estimated that one hotel room Bible will reach 2,300 people in its six-year life span. Not everyone reads a Bible in their hotel room, but the Gideons reported hotel research that showed 25% of travelers do read the Bible. The Gideons are also able to supply a New Testament free to eve-ryone that serves in the military. My brother, a Navy Chaplain, gives their Bibles to countless soldiers and their families. Also, Bibles go to prisons, hospitals, and schools. Charles Shaw, the local Gideon church ministry chairman, says about being a Gide-on:

Our sole purpose is reaching the lost with God’s word in over 190 countries. We print in over 90 languages. Sometime within 2015 we will have distributed 2 billion Scriptures. 75% of our funding comes from Christians in America so that people world-wide will have God’s Word.

We are honored to have Dr. William Thomas, the International President of the Gideons, as our guest preacher on Palm Sunday, March 29, 2015. Dr. Thomas comes from Sheffield, England to speak at the 110th Gideons State Convention in Missouri, and we are so blessed that he will grace our pulpit in all three worship services. He is an acclaimed worldwide lectur-er, the Consulting Surgeon, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and past Senior Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Please take a look at the church website for the list of the many honors he has received. He and his wife Grace have five children and six grandchildren.

By bringing Dr. Thomas here, First and Calvary makes a huge statement about our

commitment to helping get God’s Word out into the world. The worldwide evange-

lism the Gideons faithfully pursue challenges our own evangelism efforts. We will be

invigorated, refreshed, and reminded of our true purpose as the Body of Christ. I am

so pleased that this year’s Palm Sunday will be inspirational and inevitably the be-

ginning of an evangelism renewal for each of us. We must be better evangelists. The

Gideons have saved countless lives and brought such light into the darkness. It’s

time for us to join them and shine for the Kingdom of God, so don’t wait to be in-

spired to share your faith, feel free to invite a friend to hear this special witness so

that being an evangelist will be a tangible part of your Lenten journey this year.

Blessed in Christ, Andrew

CHILDREN

Sunday School—March 22—9:45 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Adults

PRESCHOOL ROOMS, TEACHERS, & LESSON ELEMENTARY ROOMS, TEACHERS, & LESSON

2s: Room 121 Hannah Correll & Tamara de Wild

3s: Room 214 Chip & Cathy Potts, Becky & Eddie Tims

4/PreK5s: Room 215 Ron & Kristin Butler

Kindergarten: Room 216 Ann Collard, Krissie Stewart, Wayne & Marcia Hlavacek

Grades 1 & 2: Room 219 Chuck Hallam, Julie Peebles, David Shaw,

Craig Young, & Christine Chaney Grades 3 & 4: Room 220

David & Kim Hess, Jim & Janet Weld Grade 5: Room 221

David & Katie Moore, Robin & Jill Trotman

HANDS ON LESSON (3s) In the Garden - Luke 22:39-53

FAITHWEAVER LESSON (All other ages) Jesus Notices a Widow’s Giving - Mark 12:41-44

YOUTH @ 9:41 A.M. IN THE STUDENT LOUNGE

The Story of Jesus Branches/014 - Madeline Brown

Faith and Science McClung/026 - Charlie Lyons

Telling God’s Story March Fellowship/015 - Phill Burgess

The Gospel of John Practices/114 - Leadership Team

Radical Hospitality Crossways/016 - Brenda Bauer

Fear of Death Forty-Niners/115 - Tom DenOuden

Keeping Holy Time Little-Bacon/020 - John Skillings

Receive the Holy Spirit Hardin/116 - Neil Stenger

REDEMPTION - COLLEGE GATHERING - 021

The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be offered each Sunday during the Lenten Season March 22 & 29:

In the Contemporary Worship Service in the MPR Informal Communion (as well as quiet time for med-

itation & prayer) in the Chapel (Room 223) between 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. and between 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Members of the Session are in the process of researching an-swers to the questions sub-mitted after the two congrega-tional forums in February. This “ad hoc committee” is meeting weekly to compile the requested information. We will provide written documentation for the full Ses-sion's review and approval. The information will then be provided to the congregation. Session encourages church members to register for a log-in on the church website (www.firstandcalvary.org). Un-der the Resources tab, click on Registration Tutorial for help. The questions from the congregational forums and the information posted online by the Denomination Committee can only be accessed by members after they have logged into the site. Copies of online documents are also available in the church office.

55 & Over - St. Louis Day Trip Make your reservation now to join First & Calvary’s “55 and Over” group for a day trip to St. Louis on Thursday, April 16! $50 per person covers transportation, driver gra-tuity, Italian buffet lunch on “The Hill,” a short stop at Pu-rina Farms for a show, and an afternoon at the Missouri Botanical Gardens! Only 55 seats are available and dead-line for registration is April 1! Complete a registration form that you’ll find outside of Sheila’s office in the South atrium, add your check payable to “First & Calvary” for $50, and slide it under Sheila’s door. Don’t miss this op-portunity to enjoy a day of fun with your church friends!

Egg hunts for preschool and ele-mentary children

Easter crafts & activities Cookie decorating No admission charged.

All are welcome!

Please fill out and turn in a sign-up form or sign up online if you are willing to donate your time or items to

Mission Matters! The FEINSTEIN FOUNDATION has decided not to have the $1M Challenge at this time. Due to this, we would like to focus on supporting C0rosslines especially during March. Find out about Crosslines and how you can help at the special Crosslines table in the atrium. Binnie Clements Guild Fundraisers: On Sunday, March 22 the Guild is going to have at least 50 pans of cinnamon rolls for sale. Knowing how

fast the rolls sell out, they are also going to take some additional pre-orders. Contact Dalene Doman at (417)823-9880 or dalenekay@sbcglobal.net to reserve your rolls today.

The Guild has also begun to take their spring orders for geraniums. Look for their table in the South Atrium to order your geraniums.

Join us in the north atrium on Sunday afternoon, March 29 at 2:30p.m., as we enjoy the Drury Singers from Drury University in concert! The singers are di-rected by Dr. Allin Sorenson and are preparing for a Scandinavian Tour in late May. This talented ensemble will present a wonderful variety of music that will delight their audience. This concert is free and everyone is welcome.

Children of all ages are invited to participate in a Palm

Sunday Parade at any of the 3 worship services on Palm

Sunday. Children will have the opportunity to open

worship by waving palm branches during the first hymn

or praise song of the service. What a great way to cap-

ture the excitement of Jesus entering Jerusalem! If your

child(ren) would like to participate, please meet in the

choir room at 8:15 or 10:45 to parade in the traditional

service or at 10:45 in the hallway outside the MPR to

parade in the contemporary service.

Feeding the hungry, helping people build up their own livelihoods, responding to disasters—these are the

ways that your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing are changing lives, changing communities, and chang-

ing the world. When we give this year, we give in faith—knowing that during One Great Hour of Sharing

we will be responding in Christ’s name to the cries of our sisters and brothers through the next year.

Children who are participating in “fish bank” collection should plan to return theirs to

their Sunday School teachers on Palm Sunday, March 29.

Dear First & Calvary Congregation,

Many of you know that I taught College for 17 years be-fore moving back to Springfield to be closer to my par-ents. My last teaching position was at New Orleans Bap-tist Theological Seminary, and while teaching there, I began working part time on a Master’s Degree in Theol-ogy and World Religions. Over Christmas break, God blessed me with a full time faculty position in the Hu-manities Department at Ozarks Technical College. Alt-hough I thought I could continue to work at First & Cal-vary part time, I have found over the past eight weeks that it is too much.

I have been blessed to work at First & Calvary for the past year and ten months and to get to know the great people that make up the body of believers. Thank you for the opportunity to make my ministry a part of your ministry and your ministry a part of mine. You will still see me in church and at events, but as of last Friday, I will no longer be working in the office or typing the Review and Bulletins. I pray God’s continued blessings on you!

In Christ, Kristine Harris

In preparation for the Maundy Thursday Passover Seder Meal, Dr. Chaney will be teaching a lesson entitled “All About Passover and the Seder.” It will be a time to ask questions about the Passover and the Seder as we prepare for this unique Holy Week experience. Reminder: this will be the final night of The Table this semester.