April 7 – Jenna Kimmerle 8 – Nicole Cantarella 12 – Gianna Frank 14 – Jean Biggar Jacqui Bowan 18 – Georgie Levy Jack Solsman 27 – Ami Sohns 29 – Eleanor Metzgar 30 – Joan Cross

Special Dates

MaundyThursday, April 2,

Good Friday, April 3, Holy Saturday, April 4, Easter Sunday, April 5, Earth Day, April 22

A P R I L1Girl Scouts

6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:30 PM Choir

2 7:30 PMMaundy

ThursdayTenebrae

Communion Service

3 4

510:30 Worship

Easter Sunday

6ChurchOffice Closed

7Boy Scouts

8 Girl Scouts 6:30 PM

9 10 11

1210:00 WorshipSharon Telban, worship leader

Patricia Koch, guest organist

13

Cub Scouts

14

Boy Scouts

15Girl Scouts

6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:30 PM Choir

16 17 18

19

10:30 Worship

20

Cub Scouts

21Boy Scouts

7:15 p.m. Session meeting

22Girl Scouts

6:30 PM Outreach Committee 7:30 PM Choir

23

7:00 PMWorship

CommitteeMeets

24 25Women’s

Spring Tea and

Craft Day12:00 – 4:00 PM

2610:30 Worship

27CubScouts

28Boy Scouts

29Girl Scouts

6:30 PMBell Choir7:30 PM Choir

30

Pastor Ken and Bonnie will be on vacation from April 6th -- 12th

New Englanders were hopeful the end of February would mean an end to the onslaught of heavy snow and freezing temperatures. But hopes continued to be dashed the first week of March with more snow and more problems for the churches and businesses in the region. The cost of snow removal and the closing of many businesses have put many communities in a critical state.  Presbyterian Church leaders say they’ve begun losing track of how many churches are dealing with leaking ceilings, extraordinary bills for snow removal, and limited financial resources due to little or no offerings in the past month.  At least two congregations have had to request emergency assistance ahead of the receipt of PDA funds simply because they could not wait. 

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance responded to the Synod of the Northeast’s request for disaster support services in the emergency relief and long-term recovery efforts in the affected presbyteries. Support is going toward snow removal, expenses, and support for pastors and congregations. 

PDA National Response Team members will visit Boston to meet with synod and other church leaders to assess the financial and ministerial needs.

Our One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be collected on Easter Sunday. A portion of the offering goes directly to Disaster Assistance.

Your offerings may be placed in the collection plate in provided envelopes or use your own and mark OGHS on it.

SESSION CLASS OF 2015 CLASS OF 2016 CLASS OF 2017 Barbara Keller Nancy Walsh Linda Bourbeau John Frank Don Williams Connie Richards Dick Loessy Linda Muracco Frank Stieler

Clerk of Session: Linda BourbeauFinancial Secretary: Connie Richards Treasurer andSecretary: Sue CantarellaTreasurer of Endowments: Richard Loessy

The next Session meeting will be Tuesday, April 21, at 7:15 p.m. in the

chapel.

MAY 12 - Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Lackawanna, 2:30 PM, Hickory Street

PC, Scranton

The Presbytery of Lackawanna has an opening for the volunteer position of Treasurer. Anyone interested should please contact Ken Forbes at pastorkf@verizon.net or 570-344-3145 by April 20.

BOARD OF DEACONS Class of 2015 Class of 2016 Class of 2017Mary Grace Donati Georgie Levy Danny Clark Bonnie Forbes Lisa Price Bobbie GoldbergMyrna Watkins Howard Miller

The Board of Deacons continues to collect canned goods and non-perishable food items for the Safety

Net in Scranton.

Monday thru Friday 9:00 to 12:00 Office phone: 570-343-6807

Pastor Forbes is in the office Tuesday thru Thursday most weeks.

Church email: dunmorepresb@verizon.net dpcsecretary1@verizon.net

Pastor Ken: pastorkf@verizon.net

Pastor Ken and Bonnie will be on vacation beginning Monday, April 6th thru April 12th. If pastoral if needed during this time, please contact Sue during office hours or after hours at: 570-954-5846

Please update our church directory and birthday calendar and give the information to Sue. Newer members it is important that we have correct contact information and we like to share birthdays. If anyone has missing or incorrect information, please fill out below and return.Name: Email: Phone: Anniversary:

Birthday:

JOIN OUR PRAYER CHAINIT IS JUST ONE PHONE CALL BE ONE MORE LINK TO MAKE OUR CHAIN STRONGER

If you have any type of prayer need request for a friend or family member, please contact Pastor Ken at 570-344-3145, Sue Cantarella at 570-343-6807 (or after hours) 570-383-9298 or let a prayer chain member know.

Our chain: Georgie Levy Danny ClarkBetty & Everett Fitch Betty LammLisa Price Norma MeccaJean Biggar Eleanor MetzgarNancy Walsh Doris Keller

We would like to reorganize our prayer chain so it remains a strong way to give support to those of our church family and friends in need. If you would like to become another link in our chain, please let Sue know and you will be added to the chain.

If you have a prayer concern for any family member or friend, please call any prayer chain member, Pastor Ken or Sue.

LET’S BE!!!

National Volunteer Week

National Volunteer Week, April 12-18, 2015, is about inspiring, recognizing and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in their communities. National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.

National Volunteer Week, a program of Points of Light, was established in 1974 and has grown exponentially each year, with thousands of volunteer projects and special events scheduled throughout the week.

Our congregation has many that have and still volunteer numerous hours in and outside of our church, working in community organizatons, in scouting, in our area hospitals and care facilities. Thank you for all that you do!

JUNE 14-AUGUST 1 Staff Training and Summer Program

at Camp Lackawanna,

www.presbycamplackawanna.org for applications and registrations,

pbylackcamp@aol.com for more information.The complete schedule of camps offered this summer can be found on the bulletin board in Fellowship Hall.

APRIL 11 - Camp Lackawanna WORKDAY, 1:00-4:00 PM, yard and grounds maintenance workers needed.Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes year-round environmental citizenship and action, worldwide. Earth Day Network is a driving force, steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact and impact their communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global policies. EDN's international network reaches over 22,000 organizations in 192 countries, while the domestic program assists over 30,000 educators, coordinating thousands of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year.

On Easter Sunday, the stone is not where it should be. The entrance into the tomb is open and Jesus is not in it; rumors

start to swirl. He has only seemed to be dead. His body has been stolen. He has been raised by God. Then he apprears to some, but not to all, so having faith matters more than ever. What can be believed depends on whom can be trusted, and not even Jesus’ disciples all believed the same thing.

By the time of Peter’s preaching months later, which he did on a regular basis, two schools of thought existed about what it meant to follow Jesus. According to one, it meant keeping the same covenant that Jesus had kept with continuing reliance on the Torah, as the revealed Word of God. According to the other, it meant entering a new form of the covenant, with reliance on Jesus as the Living Word of God.

Peter started out in the former school, but ended up in the later, as God opened his eyes to just how big Easter really was. God’s presence in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ was not a gift to one

nation, but to every nation, Peter said. God shows no partiality. Anyone changed by those events in Christ’s life was acceptable to God, whether she or he said thank-you in Hebrew, Latin, or Greek. To believe in the possibility of asking God’s forgiveness in Jesus’ name was to receive it! Easter was that huge an event, as huge as God.

Within a few centruies, it grew smaller as Christians worked out complex systems of belief. Easter was only for those who believed in the Virgin birth, the Trinity, and the Nicene Creed.

It belonged only to baptized members of the Chrisitan church who believed in God’s partiality toward them. What would Peter have said? He is risen? Believe that – trust that and the rest will take care of itself. Everytime we think we have you cornered God, we trust You to escape.

Love and Peace,

Pastor Ken

The Presbyterian Church of Dunmore137 Chestnut StreetDunmore, PA 18512Rev. Kenneth Forbes, Pastor

Egg-stra facts • Although Easter eggs were once part of pagan spring festivals, they’ve become Christian symbols of new life. A cracked-open shell also represents Jesus’ empty tomb on Easter morning.

• The early Christians of Mesopotamia began staining eggs red in honor of Jesus’ blood shed on the cross. Red eggs remain part of Greek Orthodox celebrations today.

• For Lent, some families used to give up eggs and dairy, so they prepared a pancake feast on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. They solved the egg surplus by hard-boiling them in various broths, which led to colored eggs.

• In medieval times, churches held “egg-throwing” festivals. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg toward the choir boys, who tossed it back and forth. When the clock struck 12, whoever was holding the egg got to keep it.

• In some European countries, children go from house to house to collect Easter eggs.

Prayers and Concerns of our Church Family Please remember our church family and friends in your daily thoughts and prayers. We add extra prayers for:Liz Hamborsky who has been moved to: Mountain View Care Center, 2309 Stafford Ave.,Scranton, PA 18505, room 829. Betty Fitch recently had a fall at home and she continues to heal and recuperate at home.

Please keep in prayer Lisa and Michael Price and their family following the death of Michaels brother, Allison M. Price, of

Factoryville.

We extend our sympathies to Joan Cross and her family, following the passing of Jack on Sunday, March 15, after a lengthy illness. Jack was a faithful and dedicated member of our church family. He served as treasurer for the Dunmore Presbyterian Church for many years, along with being a choir member, serving as elder, on session, a part of our past pulpit search committee, Adult Fellowship Class member, always an ice cream scooper and helper with clean up in the kitchen. We have missed Jack and will continue to feel his loss.

Women’s Spring TeaSaturday, April 25th

12:00 to 1:00 PMand a craft

1:00 to 4:00 PM Craft: Painting on glass ware

-- Your choice of either water/ice tea glasses or wine glasses

Fee for craft is: $35.00 which includes a set of 4 of either of the glass sets, paint and all supplies A portion of this will return to the church as a fundraiser. Bring your friends and family.A sign up sheet is posted in the Fellowship Hall and deadline is April 19th.

Eleanor Metzgar willCelebrate her 90th birthday

on April 29th.

Egg-stra facts • Although Easter eggs were once part of pagan spring festivals, they’ve become Christian symbols of new life. A cracked-open shell also represents Jesus’ empty tomb on Easter morning.

• The early Christians of Mesopotamia began staining eggs red in honor of Jesus’ blood shed on the cross. Red eggs remain part of Greek Orthodox celebrations today.

• For Lent, some families used to give up eggs and dairy, so they prepared a pancake feast on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. They solved the egg surplus by hard-boiling them in various broths, which led to colored eggs.

• In medieval times, churches held “egg-throwing” festivals. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg toward the choir boys, who tossed it back and forth. When the clock struck 12, whoever was holding the egg got to keep it.

• In some European countries, children go from house to house to collect Easter eggs.

We wish Eleanor the very happiest of birthdays with many blessings on her very special day!

LIFEA little laughter, a little song, a little teardrop.

when things go wrong.A little calm and a little strife, a little loving and

that is called life. Helen Steiner Rice

OLD TIME FIDDLERS

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 AT 8:00 P.M.

DUNMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH137 CHESTNUT STREETDUNMORE, PA 18512

Donation: $10.00 at the doorA night of great music and fellowship.

Light refreshments will be available for purchase.

The Old Time Fiddlers are a local group of musicians that play a variety of music such as: Irish, Scottish, bluegrass, Texas swing, and just some good old-time

tunes. Mark your calendar now and come out to enjoy some great entertainment and a good time with friends and

family.

Jean Biggar invites everyone to a Friendly’s FUNraising event to support the Friends of the Arc of NEPA on Friday, April 10 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Arc supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in 6 northeastern Pennsylvania counties. Please take a certificate from the bulletin board if you are planning to attend.