Pesticides are designed to be harmful, and have been linked to many severe illnesses in both humans and wildlife (Beyond Pesticides). Children are especially susceptible to these chemicals since they are frequently touching surfaces, and they breathe more air per pound of body weight than adults. Search for the least toxic methods for controlling pests in your home: www.beyondpesticides.org/alternatives/factsheets Eco-tip provided by GreenFaith: www.greenfaith.org.
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February 12th - Annual congregational meeting - We will gather as a congregation February 12th immediately following worship for the purpose of receiving 2011 ministry reports, approving the 2012 budget, and terms of Pastor Susan Rack's call, electing church officers and conducting other necessary business.
Plan to stay for brunch. Bring a vegetarian dish to share. Beverages and dessert provided.
We will gather as a Committee of the Whole to be introduced to the Jeremiah Journey Christ Presbyterian Church will be embarking on together.
Please plan to join in this launch into Christ Presbyterian Church's future. All friends of the CPC community welcome and encouraged to attend.
January 25th (Wednesday) Taize Worship - This candlelit service of prayer, silence, scripture and song will start at 7:30pm at the church.
Dear Friends in Christ,
Our community of faith has been working earnestly to continue the ministry God has entrusted to us for over 40 years. There have been times when we have grown tired and discouraged. And there have been high times like reinventing our community around our Covenant of Commitment in 2008. We will soon embark on the Jeremiah Journey Parish Development program to reinvigorate the journey we began as a covenanting community. As a reflection on the flow of our journey of faith as a congregation, I offer the following for your consideration:
God gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:29-31
Still, let us wait for the Lord. It is by bare trust in him, that we renew our strength, put forth wings like eagles, run and not weary, walk and not faint.
Put forth wings-- run-- walk! Is the order correct? Hope swerves from the edge of so descending a promise, which seems only to repeat the falling course of mature--that droop, we all know, from short ambitions, through temporary impulsiveness, to the old commonplace and routine. Soaring, running, walking- and is not the next stage, a cynic might ask, standing still?
On the contrary, it is a natural and true climax, rising from the easier to the more difficult, from the ideal to the real, from dream to duty, from what can only be the rare occasions of life to what must be life's usual and abiding experience.
Let hope rejoice in a promise, which does not go off into the air, but leaves us upon slid earth; and let us hold to a religion, which, while it exults in being the secret of enthusiasm and the inspiration of heroism, is daring and divine enough to find its climax in the commonplace.
George Adam Smith
The Book of Isaiah, vol. 2
Carol-Ann Krueger
Administrative Assistant
Christ Presbyterian Church
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Martinsville, NJ 08836
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