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Upcoming Community Conversations

June 4, 6:30-8:30 PM, Fellowship Hall

I Don’t Believe the News Media!

Fake news. NYT and Washington Post breaking huge news stories based on anonymous sources. A president and governor attacking individual reporters. What's going on? Come check out this community forum on June 4th at Springdale Presbyterian Church.

"I DON'T BELIEVE THE NEWS MEDIA! Why a free and credible press is a cornerstone of democracy" - that's what we'll be talking about at a Community Conversation hosted by Springdale Presbyterian Church on Sunday, June 4 at 6:30 PM. Joel Christopher, executive editor of the Courier-Journal, Stephen George, executive editor of Louisville Public Media and Renee Murphy, news anchor for WHAS-TV will discuss and answer questions about Americans' increasing lack of faith in public institutions, including news media, and why good journalism is important. Mark Hebert, former investigative and political reporter for WHAS-TV, will moderate the public forum. The conversation will take place in fellowship hall. Invite your neighbors!

Renee Murphy Joel Christopher Steven George News Anchor Executive Editor Executive Editor WHAS-TV Courier-Journal Louisville Public Media

June 18, 6:30-8:30 pm, Klein Chapel

A Screening of the Film: From the Ashes We are excited to for the opportunity to host an advance screening of the new documentary film, From the Ashes produced by RadicalMedia in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies on June 18 at 6:30 PM in advance of the National Geographic global broadcast premiere June 25. From the Ashes captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future could be under the current administration.

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From Appalachia to the West’s Powder River Basin, the film goes beyond the rhetoric of the “war on coal” to present compelling and often heartbreaking stories about what’s at stake for our economy, health, and climate. From the Ashes invites audiences to learn more about an industry on the edge and what it means for their lives. Learn more: https://www.fromtheashesfilm.com/

HOT TOPIC BOOK CLUB The Hot Topic Book Club will meet Tuesday, June 20 at 1:00 PM. The book to be discussed will be Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth.

July’s book will be chosen by the group following the group discussion in June. Feel free to join us as we express different views of issues in todays world which are on fire!

stated session meeting May 25, 2017

Session heard the faith statements of four confirmands and agreed to receive the following young people into membership Pentecost Sunday, June 4: Nina Coomes, Sarah Davis, Claire Martin and Ethan Revell. Session approved a request from the confirmands that the youth will enter into the ABC Promise Partnership with Green Tree Plastics, LLC (a project that recycles caps collected from plastic bottles into park benches.) Session approved a recommendation that the Lord’s Supper be celebrated through the summer at the discretion of the Worship Ministry Team. In June the Lord’s Supper will be celebrated June 4 and 18. The next stated session meeting will be at 7 PM Thursday, June 22, 2017 in the Gathering Area.

SESSION NOTES

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Men’s Breakfast will meet at

8 AM Saturday, June 3, in the fellowship hall for discussion on “According to John” All men are invited to attend. PW Day Circle will meet at

in June at the home of Susan Revell for a potluck lunch. The date is pending and will be announced by email and in the bulletin. PW Evening Circle will meet

at 5:30 PM Monday, June 12, at the home of Pam Brashear for fellowship and Bible study. Bring a sandwich. All women are welcome. Mature Men’s group will meet

at 11:30 AM on Thursday, June 8, at Olive Garden off Hwy. 22. RSVP to Allan Podbelsek at 245-6248 if you plan to attend and/or need a ride.

Bridge group will meet at 6:30 PM

Friday, June 9, in fellowship hall. The day group will meet at 1 PM Friday, June 23, at the church.

FOSSIL Club - for ANYONE

age 60+ - will meet at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, June 20. The club will meet at Sullivan’s Tap Room. Please RSVP to Don or Susan Revell at 502-425-5586 or dsrevell@att.net

Classy Seniors will meet at 1 PM

Tuesday, June 27, at Longhorn Steakhouse. Please RSVP to Rae Guernsey at 502-749-4020

Church groups meet

The deadline for the July 2017 issue of roofLINES is June 15, 2017

LITTLE FREE LIBRARY The stewards of the Little Free Library hosted two community events in May -- our annual preschool field trip and the Rambler Garden Club plant sale. Karen Butke, Karen Miller, Hester Haick, and Eddie & Judy Riddle welcomed the children who enjoyed a snack and story then traded books. The Rambler Garden Club sold approximately $1,300 of plants and will make a donation to Springdale's youth group and Botanica. LFL stewards Hester Haick, Debbie Bunger, Jane Jones, and Donna Sheffer of-fered customers free gardening books and maga-zines. The youth served refreshments and helped carry plants to cars. Springdale members donated plants for the sale. Garden Club members expressed their appreciation to Springdale for its hospitality. The 2018 Mother's Day Plant Sale will be on Satur-day, May 12, from 9 AM to noon. The Little Free Library recently gave surplus books to the Family Scholar House. One of our little free library doors needs to be replaced. Call Diane Kirkpatrick at 493-6270 if you have the skills and tools to build one. Thanks.

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NOW “HIRING” - COMMUNION PREPARERS There is a need for 4 to 6 people to be a part of the Communion Preparation Team. You would begin in August and serve in this position 4 to 5 times a year. Please prayerfully consider serving. You may contact Angela Nickels by email angelmarieii@aol.com or call her at 502-640-6831.

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called into community Thank You, Danke, Thank You, Merci, Thank You, Thanks to all who have kept my one year old great granddaughter Makynzie Vickery in your prayers! She is recovering from a ten-hour surgery to remove the fast growing cancer infecting her tiny liver which had become entangled with her aortic artery. She is at home and recovering, thanks be to God! Praise the Lord! Barbara McClain Dear SPC Family, Many thanks to you-all for the prayers, calls and cards following my most recent surgery. Your support was very encouraging and appreciated as I began recovery and therapy. Peace in Christ, Linda Heideman Dear Springdale Friends, My family and I are so grateful for all of the many ways you've shown your Christian compassion and love to us, and our extended family, during the loss of Glenn. You have helped to "bear us up". Thank you. Pam Brashear and Family Dear Springdale Family, Thank you for all of the cherished comments of support, notes and cards that you have shared with me during my time of grieving over the loss of my mother. She lived to be 91 and I truly celebrate those many great years! Thanks again, Greg

Springdale Financial News

Springdale Financials - April 2017 Year to Date

Actual Budget Difference

General Offering $ 154,540 $ 155,160 $ (620)

Other Income 15,634 13,502 2,132

Total Income 170,174 168,662 $ 1,512

Total Expenses $ 174,159 $ 171,215 $ 2,944

Net Difference $ (3,985) $ (2,553) $ (1,432)

Please refer any questions to George Sherrard, chair of the Finance Ministry team, or Bernie Backert

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nourished in the faith Learn one new thing about the environment this summer

Creation Care Summer Reading List Read a book or two this summer that will renew your appreciation for the intricacies of nature and/or explore the issues of climate change. Getting informed is our first step towards action. Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis Patricia K. Tull (2013) This is the book that the Creation Care Team read as a small group study and later met with its author to hear how congregations are acting on behalf of creation. Tull, professor emerita of Old Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, lives in Jeffersonville, IN and blogs about environmentalism at workingpreacher.org.

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope (2017) Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without agreeing on every point, they share a belief that cities, businesses, and citizens can lead – and win – the battle against climate change.

Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia Erik Reece (2006) A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it. A native Kentuckian and son of a coal worker, Reece makes it clear that this is neither a concern nor a radical contention, but a mainstream crisis.

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder Edited by Chad Wriglesworth (2015) “As poets and essayists…both writers have advocated a stance of gratitude toward the world, a way of seeing it as a gift.” —Commonweal

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, Richard A. Houser (Illustrator) (2007) Chronicle of a family’s struggles and triumphs as they rooted themselves to their Appalachian farm and adopted a locally-produced diet. In its 10th anniversary, newly released edition, the family contributes new chapters that take stock of the last decade.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan (2007) Pollan’s revolutionary examination changed the way Americans think about food and agriculture, and the profound effects that even the simplest everyday food choices have on ourselves and the natural world.

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate— Discoveries From a Secret World Peter Wohlleben, trans. from the German by Jane Billinghurst (2016) Wohlleben, who manages a beech forest in Germany, has gathered research from scientists examining how trees communicate and interact with one another.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) As a botanist, Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.

Silent Spring Rachel Carson (1962) The classic that launched the environmental movement. More than 50 years ago, Carson warned against the overuse of synthetic pesticides, arguing that they not only killed bugs but also made their way up the food chain to threaten bird and fish populations and could eventually sicken children. Her clarion call ignited the public to question the government about what it allowed others to put into the environment.

Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light As a member congregation of Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, we also recommend this list of resources. http://www.kentuckyipl.org/resources/recommended-reading

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Simply Give to Eastern Area Community Ministries

The hallmark of the Meijer hunger relief efforts is its Simply Give program, which has helped neighborhood food pantries keep their shelves stocked since November 2008. This signature program has generated more than $26 million, thanks to the continued generosity and support of Meijer customers, team members and food pantry partners who are committed to helping feed hungry families. How to Give During this Simply Give campaign (May 14 through June 28) at the Springhurst Meijer, customers are encouraged to purchase a $10 Simply Give donation card upon checkout. Once purchased, the donation is converted into a Meijer Food-Only* Gift Card and donated directly to Eastern Area Community Ministries.

Where Your Donation Goes Your $10 donation helps a neighbor make ends meet. Instead of determining what food to donate to EACM, the Simply Give program allows EACM the flexibility to choose the grocery items best suited for the families they serve in our community. And, *this includes baby food, formula, diapers and wipes.

PENTECOST OFFERING “For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all.” —Acts 2:39 Each year on Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church. Acts 2 tells the story of the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples as tongues of fire, and casts them from their place of contemplation and fear, out into the streets, preaching in languages they couldn’t understand for the benefit of all the people gathered there. They told the story of Jesus and taught the people what it meant. This was the beginning of faith formation, meant

to inspire and encourage all who gathered into a lifetime of faith. Then as today, the Holy Spirit empowers anyone who will receive to change their lives, to radically share, to gather across lines of difference, to join in communities of compassion and care. On Sunday, June 4, when we gather, we will receive the Pentecost Offering. Gifts to the Pentecost Offering celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit and support our congregation’s efforts of faith formation in the first third of life, from childhood through young adulthood. Our congregation will retain 40 percent to be used for ministry with youth in our congregation. The remaining 60 will be sent to the Presbyterian Mission Agency to support national initiatives of our denomination focused on helping children, youth, and young adults develop their life of faith through supportive communities, caring mentors, and faith-related nurture and service. The Pentecost Offering makes a difference for the life of the whole church and for congregations like ours.

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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7P Congregational Care

7P Worship

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3 8A Men’s Breakfast

8:30A Rabbouni Community Meeting

5P Rabbouni

Catholic Mass

4 Pentecost Sun.

10A Outdoor Wor-ship w/Communion,

Confirmation and Picnic at Beckley Creek Park

3:00P Trumpet-Piano Recital

5:30P Rabbouni

Catholic Mass

6:30P Community Conversation

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9A ESL

7:00P Belles & Beaux Handbells

7:30P Spring Valley Meeting

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7:00P Praise Team

7

9A ESL

9:45A Pastoral Care Team

10:30A Staff Mtg.

6P AA

7P Adult Choir

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11:30A Mature Men

5:30P Growth & Communication

7:00P Mission

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6:30P Evening Bridge

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5P Rabbouni Catholic Mass

11 Trinity Sunday

10A Worship

5:30P Rabbouni Catholic Mass

12

9A ESL

1:30P Creation Care

5:30P PW Evening Circle at Pam Brashear’s

7P Belles & Beaux

13

1P Knitters

7P Praise Team

14

9A ESL

9:45A Pastoral Care Team

10:30A Staff Mtg.

6P AA

7P Adult Choir

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6:30P Finance

7P Personnel

July Newsletter Deadline

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5P Rabbouni

Catholic Mass

18 Cents-Ability

10A Worship with Communion

5:30P Rabbouni Catholic Mass

6:30P Community Conversation - screening of movie

“From the Ashes” and discussion

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9A ESL

7:30P Barbourmead Council

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1:00P Hot Topic Book Club

6:30P FOSSIL Club

21

9A ESL

9:45A Pastoral Care Team

10:30A Staff Mtg.

6P AA

22

7P Session

23

1P Bridge Group

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8A Buckman Family Reunion

5P Rabbouni

Catholic Mass

25

10A Worship

12:15P PYC

5:30P Rabbouni Catholic Mass

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9A ESL

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1P Classy Seniors

28

9A ESL

9:45A Pastoral Care Team

10:30A Staff Mtg.

6P AA

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7:00P All-In Meeting

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KEY

AA: Alcoholics Anonymous

ESL: English as a Second Language

PW: Presbyterian Women

PYC: Presbyterian Youth Connection

HIGH SCHOOL TO MONTREAT

SPRINGDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

7812 Brownsboro Road Louisville, KY 40241

(502) 425-1760

Fax: (502) 425-3825

info@springdalechurch.org

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SUMMER WORSHIP

Sunday mornings at 10:00AM

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MINISTRY STAFF

Dwain Lee Pastor

dlee@springdalechurch.org

MB McCandless Coordinator for Spiritual Nurture

mb@springdalechurch.org

Denise Whittington Director of Music

denise@springdalechurch.org

Michelle Jablonski Administrative Assistant

mjablonski@springdalechurch.org

Wayne Willis, Parish Associate

Allan Podbelsek, Parish Visitor

Barbara McClain, Parish Visitor

Anita Perez Child Care Coordinator

Office Hours: Monday - Friday

9 AM - 2 PM

REMINDER:

This Sunday, June 4 at 10 AM

PENTECOST SUNDAY & CONFIRMATION

Outdoor Worship at the Pavilion at Beckley Creek Park

go to www.springdalechurch.org/pavilion

for maps and additional information