2018 Issue 5 Summer - Fall Issue · 09-08-2019 · Dan Commerford - Why Theology Matters Straight...

2018 Issue 5 Summer - Fall Issue August - September 2018

First Presbyterian Church 482 Tequesta Drive Tequesta, FL 33469

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Description Dan Commerford - Why Theology Matters Straight Talk from the Finance Committee Preschool VBS Family Ministries Happenings Youth Presbyterian Women Session Report Great Banquets Music Fellowship and Special Events Men’s Breakfast, Prayer Chain and new books in library Confirmation Sunday - Parker Cone and Brenna O’Neill Birthdays

UPCOMING EVENTS: Friday - August 3 Sunday - August 5 Tuesday - August 7 Thursday - August 16 Sunday - August 19 Saturday - Aug 25 to Sun. - Sept 2 Friday - Sept 7 to Sun. - Sept 9 Sunday - Sept 16 Thursday - Sept 20 Sunday - Sept 30 Thursday - Oct 18 thru 21 Thursday - Nov 1 thru 4

Youth Group Lock-in Backpack Mission Presbyterian Women Circle Chancel Choir rehearsals begin Catch the wave of human hope - human trafficking presentation Hosting Family Promise Families Youth at Rock the Universe Rally Day Worship Component Beacon Deadline - Last day to submit articles for Oct - Nov Beacon Church Picnic and Rally Day Celebration Men’s Great Banquet Weekend Women’s Great Banquet Weekend

In This Issue

2018 - Our 58th Year

The First Presbyterian Church, Tequesta, Florida

Why Theology Matters

Earlier this summer, our congregation was blessed to grow when we received our confirmands, Parker Cone and Brenna O’Neill, as members of the church. Their journey began almost a year ago when they committed to be-gin the confirma-tion process. For the past year,

they have spent time learning about God, what it means to be a disciple of Christ, how to lis-ten to and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and how to be a faithful member of a Presbyterian church. Throughout the year, they listened, learned, asked tough questions, and began to discern what their faith meant to them. If you happen to have any questions in your own faith about anything they covered, I suggest asking them because they know their stuff! Their confirmation journey culminated in late July when both Parker and Brenna crafted their faith statements and shared them with the congregation on Confirmation Sunday. Words cannot express how proud I am of them for their accomplishment! Their faith statements (just like their faith in Christ) were genuine, thoughtful, articulate, honest, and most impor-tantly, unfinished. Parker and Brenna shared

what they currently believe about God who has become known to us in Jesus Christ, and how that impacts the way they see them-selves and the world around them. They also expressed ways they hope to continue to grow in their faith as well as ways to share Christ’s love with others, both through means of evangelization and mission work. If you were not able to be there that Sunday, I encourage you to check out the video on our website because both Parker and Brenna were truly spectacular. In essence, our confirmands provided a wonderful example of how to bring theology to life. In its driest sense, theology is defined as “The study of the nature of God and reli-gious belief.” But when applied to real life, theology becomes something much more vi-brant. Our theology forms our sense of iden-tity, impacting the way we measure our self-worth. Our theology guides our relation-ships, impacting the way we treat others, both those who are familiar and unfamiliar (and especially those who are vulnerable in our society). Our theology establishes our priorities, impacting the way we spend our time and set our budget. Our theology gives us purpose, impacting our hopes and dreams for the future. If we take our faith seriously, we will see that our theology serves as the foundation for every facet of our lives. That’s why theology matters! It helps us frame our beliefs in God, which then helps us frame the way we live in pursuit of God. Hearing our confirmands share their faith statements inspired me to reexamine my own theology and reflect on how I am living it out. My prayer is that all of us take time to do the same. As we do so, I guarantee that

Daniel Commerford, Pastor

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we will not find all the answers. But the jour-ney will bring us closer to God and, hope-fully, closer to one another. Karl Barth once wrote, “Theology is not a private subject for theologians only…Nor is it a private subject for professors… Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors… Theology is a matter for the Church.” God gave us the gift of our brains as well as our hearts so that we can articulate, profess, and then live out our

faith in Christ. May we all follow Parker and Brenna’s example and bring our theol-ogy to life. (See page 22 for pictures from Confirmation Sunday.) See you in Worship!

August - September 2018

Adult Sunday School

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“The adult Sunday School class will resume September 9. We will be studying the book of Acts using the following materials:

Acts for Everyone N T Wright

The Acts of the Apostles William Barclay

The Faith and the Power James Snyder

The class will be centered on what it took to be an apostle with the ever-changing, ofttimes hos-tile, surrounding environment.

Class will be from 9:00 to 9:40 am”

from Ken Sloan

STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE

In a powerful way, the apostles told everyone that the Lord Jesus was now alive.

God greatly blessed his followers, and no one went in need of anything. Acts 4.33-34 Will our church face a financial shortage at the end of 2018 year? This question is pondered monthly by the Fi-nance committee. The committee is always looking ahead to coming months so that we can estimate how the financial year will close. Covering a short fall at the end of the year means withdrawing money from a reserve account. In other words, “Robbing Peter to pay Paul”. This is never a sound solution. In the coming months Finance Committee will pro-vide a series of articles dealing with reasons why the church may experience an end of the year short fall. Our goal is to reduce a shortfall as much as possible. However, to be successful we need your help. The first area that we look at is the progress on Per Capita collections. In 2018 our church owed the National Presbyterian Church USA $9,516 for the active members in our church. We are currently half way through the year and received a total of $2800 from members to cover this bill. This leaves us with $6716 to collect from the members before December 31. We try to reduce this deficit to the general fund by writing articles and providing information that will help people understand how important it is to Tequesta Presbyterian Church to pay some or all of their per capita commitment. We are not alone in our struggle to collect per capita funds. Many churches struggle to collect per capita from their members. These churches also struggle with low income families who need daily survival resources from the church. Our Church is not in that situation. We should be able to collect all of our per capita from our members. Per Capita giving is, “the tie that binds” and unites us nationally and internation-ally. “Is the Per Capita payment a requirement of Churches or of individuals”? Different denomina-tions have different ways of collecting revenue.

Some receive a “head tax” of as much as $50 per member. Others receive a certain percentage of a congregation’s receipts (up to 25%). However, in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. your per capita payment is not a tax or an assessment that imposes financial obligation. Rather, it is religious and moral commitment made by individuals and churches. It establishes a minimum level of finan-cial participation in the vital work of our connec-tional church as the Body of Christ. If they are able, churches traditionally pay the entire Per Capita payment in January. Receiving these funds in January gives the local Presbytery a head start on the year. This is both helpful and greatly appreciated. In January 2018 a check was send from Tequesta First Presbyterian Church to the Tropical Presbytery for $9,515.94. Our church “floats” the amount through its general fund pray-ing that members will remember to pay their share of per capita and thus, help repay the amount. When particular churches do not contribute, a greater burden is placed on sister churches in a Presbytery. This means that the Presbytery must rely on funds normally reserved for mission. Sadly, it means less money for mission work. Whenever there is a shortfall in any budget line, it directly impacts our ability to support our mutual mission goals. In the 2017 “Be Part of The Story” Stewardship Campaign we suggested several ways a family could handle the Per Capita contribution without it being a burden to the household budget. We em-phasized that a family could pay their per capita giving with less than a dollar a week. It could also be attached to the family’s pledge amount. Fi-nally, we provided new Per Capita envelopes available in all the pews. If you are a family that cannot pay your Per Capita contribution this year we ask that you con-sider paying a percentage of it. We have a few church members who have volunteered to pay for a family that cannot contribute this year. We are grateful for their bold generosity and for their commitment to the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.


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In closing, this Finance Committee pledges our faithful commitment that capital and human assets will always be managed to the glory of God. The fruits of your past generosity and opportunities for future min-istry work are apparent throughout our church. Growing in Faith Together,

Finance Committee Members

Gail Jordan, Dennis Kelly Co-Chairs, Rev. Dave Thomas, John Walker, George Glevis, Scott Rippe Treasurer, Rev. Dan Commerford, Pastor by Gail Jordan


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Preschool News

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We had a wonderful time this summer at our pre-school summer camp! We had 6 weeks of fun with various activities! We had soccer, tennis, gymnastics, football and a fitness week along with a craft week and VBS of course. Everyone stayed safe and had a wonderful time! We are looking forward to beginning the school year with many of our friends returning as well as lots of new families. We are excited to wear our new logo on our uniforms and are very pleased with how they turned out. School will begin on Tuesday Sep-tember 4th and we can't wait! We will get to know everyone at our annual Ice Cream Social on Wednes-day September 12th at 6:30 p.m. I hope your summer was as fun as ours.

See you soon!

Penny Rogers Preschool Director

Family Ministries

Every summer I look forward to seeing all the children and teenagers who come to Vacation Bible School. Many of them re-turn each year, and it is such fun to see how every-one changes within the span of another school year. This year our theme was Shipwrecked and we learned all about how Jesus rescues us in times of trou-ble. Throughout the week the children were asked to keep an eye out for differ-

ent ways they saw God working in their lives and here at our church. One of our decorations was a raft that had a tattered, shipwrecked sail. Every day we patched the sail with “God sightings”. I was so impressed by everyone’s contributions. We placed the God sightings raft with the mended sail in the narthex during the month of July for our congregation to witness how our children were touched by God during the week. Here were just a few of the responses the children came up with:

“Making friends, all the volunteers, lots of kids were cleaning up, kindness, Donnie was a great counselor, family, seeing friends having fun, helping one another, the sunrise.”

We had such a fun week learning all about Jesus and be-ing with our friends! Some of the highlights of the week were playing games against the counselors, time with our morning Bible buddies, water balloons, awesome snacks, theater time, cool music, and really creative and interactive ways of learning Bible stories.

We had such an amazing group of volunteers this year. The adults and the youth who came out every day and gave their love and attention so our kids would have a memorable summer really went over and above. Great job, everyone!

Blessings,

Crystal Botha Director of Family

Ministries

Shipwrecked VBS


Bill Butdorf works to construct the raft

After VBS, the raft has many postings of “God sightings”

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Family Ministries VBS continued

Working to Construct the Tiki Hut

The completed tiki hut

Arts and Crafts Leaders

Diane Beach leads activity

Leader Bethany Conner

Leader Loretta Glevis



Crystal Botha is Shipwrecked

Jane Speak - Kitchen duty

Some of the youth volunteers with Pastor Dan

Youth Volunteers



Castaway Celebration and Silly Faces


Family Ministries Happenings


June was a very busy month for the Youth Group. We started the summer with the Youth Group Summer Kick-off Party at the Botha house. Everyone had a wonderful time relaxing, eating delicious food, and playing in the pool. Thank you so much, Clive and Crystal!

In the middle of the month, six youth, Fred Cone, and I drove to Daytona Beach for our 2018 mission trip. During the week, we were paired with another Youth

Group from New Port Richey, Florida. We all spent the week working with community children. In the mornings, we went to a charter school that is unique and I have never heard of any other like it. The mission of the school is “to combine a community of support and guidance for pregnant and parenting students with the goal of attaining a high school diploma, which will empower them to be-come independent and responsible citizens.” The school is not just for pregnant or parenting teens from grades 6 – 12; it is also for their babies ages 3 weeks to 3 years. This

allows the new moms to breast feed - something encouraged by the school - and it gives them peace that their children are taken care of while they continue their education. The school offers computer-based curriculum, parenting classes and on-site child care. During the summer when the older children are not in ses-sion, young children from a local summer camp go to the school library to learn to read, and that is what our group helped with all week. It was amazing to watch how the young children flocked to our group and how much fun everyone had reading and acting out the books with puppets and sounds.

In the afternoons, we visited two different recreation centers, playing games and working on arts and crafts with the chil-dren. Again, each time we walked into the buildings, the chil-dren’s faces lit up. They would flock to us and many of the girls loved braiding the hair of our youth group members.

Youth Group August - September 2018

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The children we met during the week were loving and trusting, many immediately grabbing our hands and walking with us wherever they needed to go. They were kind, imaginative, funny, and energetic. Our group had so much fun teaching them and learning from them and it is an experience we will always remember. We had devotions each morning and Bible study each evening. They called these Bible study times “The Gath-ering.” We also sang worship songs and listened to the testimonies of the Youth Works staff members. On Wednesday night, we attended worship service at the Episcopal church we were housed at during the week. I had never been to this type of worship before, so it was interesting to see how we worship the same and differ-ently. During the times we were not at our service sites, we were blessed enough to be able to pack in a lot of fun and amazing activities. We visited the beach, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, a chocolate factory, a science museum, and 2 different ice cream shops. On the last evening, we had a cookout and a dance party. The week was full of so much energy and fun and the kids made so many friends that I know they will stay in touch with for years to come. Each year I include my thoughts of the trip, but this year I wanted to include what the rest of the group thought as well: Fred - I was so glad to be able to go on our Mission Trip to Daytona. These young people are so important and their willingness to serve is an inspiration for us all. They inspired the kids we were helping learn to read, The Littles. They inspire each other by their interactions, sharing and getting out of those comfort zones. They inspire the older people with their honesty and love. As I reflect on what the trip meant to me I have settled on a simple analogy. Our lives can be like an air mattress (our sleeping conditions at the host church). A full mat-tress is best for sleeping and support. We need to keep that support filled with good things for a good life and a good night's sleep. If the mattress becomes deflated a relatively small movement can cause trouble and poten-tially throw you overboard. There are many things in life

that try to poke holes in your mattress and some will get you. Compared to a blowout, a slow leak may be the worst thing that can happen. Bit by bit we let things creep in, bad habits, bad ways of thinking. It takes an active life of faith and with keeping the good things, re-jecting the bad, we can help each other. Build up, not tear down. This trip was a great opportunity to top off my mattress with good stuff and love. Thanks for your support and prayers.

Brenna – When we first got to the facility we were stay-ing at, we had no idea where we were going to be serv-ing. Then we found out we were going to be working with kids the entire day. I was not very excited for that because children make me a little uncomfortable. But when we started working with them at the Chiles Acad-emy, where we were helping them with a reading pro-gram, it went better than I had expected, and I could tell that this was beneficial to all the kids in the program. We also went to two rec centers in the afternoons and helped with the kids there. Overall, everything was enjoyable and felt as if we were actually helping someone.

Simone – When I heard we were going to Daytona Beach for our mission trip and that we had to sleep on air mat-tresses, I was very hesitant to go, but it turns out this was the best mission trip I’ve ever been to. I made so many new friends and we helped small kids love reading as our mission work. The Youth Works teachers were so great. This was one of the best trips ever!

Liani – This mission trip was by far the best we’ve ever been on. We helped kids read and had fun with them. I loved seeing the smiles on their faces every time we came and how excited they were to see us. I can’t wait to go back!

Parker – The mission trip to Daytona really spoke to me. Not only did we help the youth in the community at vari-ous rec centers, we also helped incoming students strengthen their reading ability. Also, back at the church that we stayed at, we had devotions in the morning and Gatherings in the evening to strengthen our relations with God. Overall, it was a great experience of being the hands and feet of Christ in the community.

Keira - When I went on the mission trip it was fun, hard and emotional. The mission trip was fun because you get to play with the kids and read to them. We also played


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cards a lot. It was hard because you didn't know what the kids liked and on the first day we had to do lots of yard work. It was very emotional because we were praising the Lord as a family.

Casey - I had so much fun on the mission trip to Day-tona. I met so many nice people and it was fun working with the kids. I didn’t even want to come home! One of the most memorable moments was when we did a foot washing. I really felt God’s presence and it made a big impression on me. It was a really good experience help-ing people. One thing that I learned about God on this trip is that He helped others even though it can be diffi-cult. One surprising thing on this trip was when two kids were fighting. One of them looked at me and wanted to hold my hand, even though he didn’t know me. I had never really seen that happen before, at least not to me. Helping others is tiring, but it makes you feel rewarded and feel good in the end. I’m so glad I got to go on this trip!

Thank you everyone for your insight and input about our trip. There were so many amazing moments during the week, but the most powerful for me was the foot washing cere-mony. I have done foot washing with our group before, but it was nothing like this. We were all moved by the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Youth Works staff washed Fred’s feet and my feet and prayed with us. Then Fred and I washed our youths’ feet and prayed with them. The first person I prayed with was Parker and as soon as I said his name, I immediately started crying because I could feel the presence of the Lord with us. It was over-whelming and so full of joy. By the end, we were all cry-ing and moved by the power of the ceremony. I felt such an overwhelming amount of love for our group and the Lord’s overwhelming love for all of us. This was an amazing week. We all agree that we cannot wait to go back next year and that this was the best trip we have ever taken, even beating out Night of Joy at Dis-ney World. It was wonderful being the hands and feet of Christ and being able to fellowship with each other as well as other youth groups from around the state. It was both spiritually and emotionally powerful and over-

whelming and we all grew closer to the Lord during the week. Our Youth group members are so giving of themselves throughout the year when it comes to helping others and seeing them with the children we helped that week just reinforced in me the love they have for our amaz-ing God! Thank you so much to our congregational family for the love, support, and prayers you gave our group while we were away, and for all the support you give us all year long!

After we returned home, we traveled to Forgotten Sol-dier’s Outreach in Lake Worth. This organization “supports America’s deployed military service mem-bers to ensure they are not forgotten.” We packed care packages with more items than you would ever think could fit into a box. All the items are donated, and they are sent to soldiers who receive little or no support from home. I personally think the best thing that goes into the boxes are the Girl Scout cookies. When you give a Girl Scout money for Cookies for the Military, this is where the cookies go so they can be put into each package that is sent overseas. This is an organization that I admire greatly. As an Army Reserve military police officer, I was deployed for Desert Shield/Storm in 1990. Receiving a care


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package from home was so important to all of us to help with morale and to get necessary items we needed. I was blessed to have family who could send me these, but there are many service women and men who do not have family and this organization takes care of them. To learn more about them or to submit a name of a serviceman or woman who could use support, please visit their website at https://www.forgottensoldiers.org. Many of the Youth Group members helped with Vaca-tion Bible School. This is also such an amazing time for us. We love spending time with the children who attend, helping them learn more about our Lord. It was a great week and we had lots of fun. On Friday, I took them to lunch at Chick-fil-a in the mall to thank them for all their hard work. We grew in our friendship through fel-lowship, prayer, and laughter and gained some new members into our group who had volunteered for the week. July was a little slower for our group. We went to lunch on July 1st and went to see the movie Hotel Transylvania 3 on Friday the 13th. On Friday, August 3rd, we will have our annual Back-to-School Lock- in. We will meet in the afternoon for a fun activity, like ice skating or indoor trampolining. After-ward, we will go to dinner, then “lock-in” at the church for the evening, where we will have a devotion, play games, sing, dance, and watch movies. On Sunday, August 5th, we will be packing the back-packs we received from the Presbytery with the supplies we collected from our congregational family and VBS families. If you would like to participate, please join us in the Youth Room after worship. Knowledge is power, even if sometimes the things we

need to be knowledgeable about are horrible. On Sun-

day, August 19th at 5 pm., we are having a presentation

by the organization Catch the Wave of Hope about abol-

ishing human trafficking. This presentation is for every-

one middle school and older. They make sure to present

it in a way that is educational and appropriate for youth.

We are inviting everyone we can think of: youth, par-

ents, grandparents, the community, the police depart-

ment, and other churches from the Presbytery. If you

would like more information or to RSVP for dinner,

please let me know.

There are pictures from many of the Youth Group and

church’s events on our website, tequestapres.org. Once

there, hover over the What’s Happening tab then click

on the What’s Been Happening tab.

Though summer is busy for our group, it is also a time

of relaxing and having fun. We continue to feel blessed

as we travel this path of learning about our wonderful

Lord and all the amazing wonders of being a Christian

and helping others. This group of young men and

women are amazing, and I cannot express the love I feel

for them and for the position I have been given to be

able to guide them and learn from them on our journey

to grow closer to the Lord.

God is good!

f{tÇÇÉÇ Shannon Trevino Director of Youth

Ministries


The Presbyterian Women

2018-19 Tequesta PWC Officers

Co-Moderator Gail Jordan (561-745-1836) / [email protected]

Co-moderator Kenly Drummond (561-746-6488) / [email protected]

Treasurer Vivian Carney (561-308-9732) / [email protected]

Secretary and Search Committee Chair Jane Speak (561-746-0386) / [email protected]

Calendar of Events

August 13th and September 10th: Ladies’ Lunch Bunch dines at 11:30 AM at Jim’s Place, 901 W. Indian-town Road, Jupiter in the Pennock Square shopping center on the northwest corner of Pennock Lane and Indi-antown Road. No reservations needed. CASH ONLY.

September 4: 7:00 PM – PW Deborah Circle evening fellowship meets in the Harrington Parlor. Join us for devotions, “The No-Homework Women’s Bible Study: Group Hug,” fellowship and a snack. Questions? Call Lynn Donley at 561-529-3981. No reservations!

October 8: 11:00 AM PW business meeting in the Harrington Parlor.

12:30 PM Ladies’ Lunch Bunch – check the Sunday bulletin for location.

Would you like to begin this day with a 10 AM Bible Study before our meeting? If so, please let Kenly or Gail know, so they can plan accordingly.

Women with a Purpose


Christian Women’s Connection

Friday, October 12, 11:30 AM.

Turtle Creek Club, 2 SE Club Circle, Tequesta

Honoring: Edna Runner for 30 years of service to the Tutorial Center.

Music: Treasure Coast Community Singers Quartet

Speaker: Sara Im, survivor of a Cambodian forced labor camp. “Find hope in the midst of adversity.”

$28 includes lunch and programs. Reserve or cancel by October 8th. RSVP 561-744-8703 or

[email protected]

Finance and Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer Scott Rippe reported that year-to-date general income is below budget by $37,800 with pledges and plate be-low projections by $31,396. Preschool year-to-date is net income is above budget. General church year-to-date expenses are $9,309 above budget largely due to Building and Grounds. (More on this issue later in this report). Overall, after five months, we are currently $37,556 worse than budget and $2,027 better than at this point last year. Building and grounds was over budget due to re-pairs:

To the A/Cs, of which we have a few; they need cleaning, some need repair and some need to be replaced.

There is water intrusion leaks in both kitch-ens and will be repaired as weather permits.

The Harrington parlor and Shaffer Hall roof is leaking and the problem is being ad-dressed.

The new ice maker is temperamental and we are working with their warranty service to remedy.

New gutter and leaf guard elements are being re-searched for the north end of the narthex/music an-nex. Evangelism and Mission:

We just finished a week of hosting Family Promise and celebrated a successful family who graduated out of the program while they were with us.

Food for Families is taking a break for the summer and will begin again in the fall. You can still bring donations, as long as the dona-tions are non-perishable.

Membership has been reduced by one death (Rupert Barnes). There are 280 members and 28 affiliates for a total of 308.

Pastor Dan announced his scheduled vacation this year will be August 27 to September 2.

That’s it from Session, have a safe and cool summer,

Session Report

Lynn Weidman Clerk of Session

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You are invited to the next Great Banquets... Dates for the Fall: Men - October 18 - 21, 2018 Women - November 1 - 4, 2018

To learn more or to register, please contact Tim or Jocelyn O'Neill, [email protected], 561-352-0377 or 561-889-6185

The registration WEB site is www.tinyurl.com/trgbguest

Come - for all is now ready...


Greetings from your music department. Many musicians have been serving up some wonderfully in-spiring music for our worship in June and July, with more in August and into the beginning of Septem-ber. Some of those folks appear in the pictures ac-companying this article. Many others include: a George Sullivan/Lynne Spotts vocal duet; the Hand Bell choir; Rob Jacoby, solo; Lynne Spotts, solo; Bob Paraska, solo Hand Bells; Nadene Watson/Marilyn Mote/Lynne Spotts as a women's trio with Ian Wilkerson accompanying on violin, as well as provid-ing adjunct music selections; Men's chorus; Lynne Donley, solo; and a mixed group offering selections the first Sunday in September. Chancel Choir resumes rehearsals the end of Au-gust and will lead in worship again beginning Septem-ber 9. We trust that each of you have been enjoying these warmer months wherever your lives have taken you. If you have been away, we hope your travels have been eye-opening, enriching and fabulous. If you have been at 1st Pres each Sunday, we hope that you have been blessed by the music and by comrade-rie with fellow worshipers.

Special note: The Hand Bell Choir is sincerely seek-ing two more players to fill spots vacated by members moving away. Please consider joining this group for a fun way to contribute to our wonderful music pro-gram. As we say: "If you can count to four, you can play hand bells!" God's richest blessings enfold you, and remember to keep a song in your heart!

Pictures of some of the special music contributors are shown on the next page

Marlyce and George

Marlyce Pedersen Music Director and

Music Report

God bless you.

George Sullivan Choral Director


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Lynn Donley and Allison Sullivan sang Saint-Saens' "Ave Maria" on June 24

Guest Violinist - Ian Wilkinson

Quartet - Jake Westbrook, John Rich, George Sullivan and Ken Sloan sang "Soon and Very

Soon" and "I believe" on July 8

Vocal Duet: George Sullivan

and Lynne Spotts

The "Red Shoes" band played Prelude, Of-fertory and Postlude for worship on July

15. Members are James Belsky (founder, lead guitear and vocals), Galen Rowe (banjo,

rhythm guitar) and Tom Rowe (bass) Not pictured: John Rich (percussion)

Following their last performance for the regular season, the Hand Bell Choir and guests were treated to lunch at Shipwreck Diner. Members and guests pictured are Dan Petrescu (guest), Debbie Bosic, Emily London, Galen Rowe, Tom Rowe, Marlyce Pedersen, John Rich, James Belsky, Robin Sykes-Rowe, Diane Beach, Bob Paraska and Don Shultzaberger (guest)


Fellowship and Special Events After hosting the Ladies Lunch-eon in May, plans have been in pro-gress for the next events hosted by the Fellowship Committee.

On July 29th, we served ice cream after worship for the Ice Cream So-cial, which is co-sponsored by the Family Ministries Committee. We celebrated the 2018 Confirmation Class. Our committee has also been pre-paring for the church picnic coming up in the fall. For this event, we will again co-sponsor with Family Minis-tries, in connection with Rally Day.

The event will be held at the church, and there will be lots of deli-cious food, fun and fellowship for everyone. Watch for the announce-ment in the bulletin, or check out our church website for the final date in late September.

Until then, we look forward to seeing you in church, and wish you a safe summer. God be with you.

Marilyn Mote and Joani Thomas

Elders and committee co-chair

Respectfully submitted by: Marilyn Mote Co Chairperson, Fellowship and Special Events.

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The Beacon Highlights...

New books in the library: Paradise Valley by CJ Box Unsub by Meg Gardiner Look for Me by Lisa Gardner The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks Night Moves by Jonathan Kellerman No One Can Know by Lucy Kerr The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda Dark in Death by JD Robb Home Sweet Home by April Smith Secrets of Cavendon by Barbara Taylor Bradford The Burial Place by Larry Enmon Duel to the Death by JA Jance The Third Victim by Phillip Morgolin Glass Houses by Louise Penny The Elizas by Sara Shepard

Prayer Chain?

As Christians, it is our

privilege and responsibility to pray

for others. To join the prayer

chain, contact Bette Walker at

(561) 744-5904 or [email protected].

Prayer requests may be received

by phone or email.

THE MEN’S BREAKFAST meets on Wednesdays at 8:00 a.m. at the Corner Café and Brewery, 289 S. US Hwy One, Tequesta, in Village Square. Come join us for good food and fellowship.

Men’s breakfast In addition to guest speakers, the Men’s breakfast sponsors birthday parties for the kids at Real Life Chil-dren’s Ranch and they also schedule trips to interest-ing places and museums.

The group is getting a little smaller as several “regulars” have gone north for the summer



On July 29th, Parker Cone and Brenna O'Neill shared their statement of faith with the congregation. They were supported by a wonderful group of teachers, mentors, and fam-ily members. Everyone enjoyed an ice cream social and cake reception following the ser-vice.

Confirmation Sunday

Cake and ice cream were served at the reception following worship

Happy Birthday !!! August 2018 September 2018


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The Beacon The First Presbyterian Church

482 Tequesta Drive Tequesta, Florida 33469

Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid West Palm Beach, FL Permit No. 1894

Rev. Dan Commerford, Pastor Crystal Botha, Director of Family Ministries Penny Rogers, Preschool Director Marlyce Pedersen, Music Director and Organist George Sullivan, Choral Director Shannon Trevino, Director of Youth Ministries Jim Scalf, Beacon Editor Church office 561-746-5161 FAX 561-746-7709 Email : [email protected]

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