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January 28, 2009
Pilgrims on the Journey:
1. This Sunday in worship we will celebrate the Lord's Supper, and after worship we will gather for our monthly buffet lunch in the Fellowship Hall. Minister for Spiritual Formation Ashley Goff will be leading worship, while I am away for a week of continuing education.
2. We continue this week with our Epiphany theme, "Letting Our Light Shine," sharing "Stories of Light" on living out the light of Christ in our daily lives. Today, our story is from Melissa Rosenblatt, who shares from her experience working with Community Bridges http://www.communitybridges-md.org/gallery.html |
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I have served on the board of Community Bridges, a nonprofit organization that provides multicultural empowerment and leadership programs for young, at-risk girls in the Silver Spring, Maryland, community, since 2004. When I was invited to join the board, I was looking for a way to give back that did not involve direct service. I had spent many years as a Big Sister to a young girl—an experience both rewarding and frustrating. I was burned out and needed a break, but still wanted to serve in some way. So, when this opportunity came about it seemed like it was exactly what I was looking for.
Over the last few years, I have learned that being away from direct service has its pitfalls. Too often, I get bogged down in the details of board work: approving budgets, raising money, preparing for board meetings. I often lose sight of the girls themselves. Every once and a while, though, there are experiences that bring them forward in my mind and remind me why I created fundraising materials or spent hours in strategic planning meetings. Reading reports from our executive director about how the girls are making more rapid gains now that they are in program two afternoons week, instead of one—a result of that strategic plan. Or attending an event where the girls are present and seeing the pride in their eyes when they are listened to and their ideas are validated—an event made possible by board fundraising.
When I tell others about our work and ask for their support, I am reminded that the fundraising packet is not just a folder with information but is an act of service itself. These moments remind me that God is often found in the details and the unexciting but necessary actions of life. And I’ve noticed that these moments have a way of happening during the times I feel most disconnected from the girls when the work is most tedious. These small series of epiphanies reinforce my commitment and reenergize my efforts on behalf of the 150 girls who, due to participation in our programs, are better able to deal with the challenges that they unfortunately face far too often, including pressure to join gangs; sexual harassment; and the stigma associated with doing well in school. And they remind me that God’s call is often found in the every day work of a board member.
You can read other Epiphany stories on our webpage: http://www.churchofthepilgrims.org/epiphanystories.html
3. We have two remaining "Epiphany Service Days: Letting Our Light Shine," special opportunities for a group of five Pilgrims to serve at various non-profits that work with the homeless and working poor of D.C..It is still possible to sign-up for remaining projects:
February 14th: Capital Area Food Bank, 9am until 1pm
February 17th: Dinner Program for Homeless Women, serving dinner from 4:30-8:30pm.
RSVP ASAP to Ashley Goff, ashley.goff@verizon.net.
4. Two New Adult Classes begin this Sunday, February 1:
Aging, Spirituality and Creativity
Led by Margee Iddings, Upstairs in the Education Room
It is a fact … we are all aging!
We wonder if everyone ages in the same way.
We question the process and sometimes fight against it.
We want to find a way to be resilient in our own aging.
Two recent research studies give interesting information about the role of creativity in the aging process. In this class we will look at the results of these studies and explore the role that creativity plays in deepening our spiritual roots as we age. A vibrant spirituality is a worthy goal as we mature into the elder years. What can we as individuals and organizations do to encourage such vibrancy?
Week #1: Focus on Aging
Week #2: Focus on Creativity and Spirituality
Week #3: Focus on the Intersections
Food Deserts: Healthy Food Access Issues for Low Income and Vulnerable Populations
Led by Shelly Ver Ploeg, Downstairs in the Bird Room
Some studies suggest that geographical areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets, but with higher concentrations of fast-food restaurants have higher rates of overweight and obesity. Such areas are of concern because it is believed that the lack of healthy food alternatives may result in poor diets and subsequent diet-related health problems. Is the lack of access to healthy foods a problem in some areas of the U.S. or is the market simply responding to individual’s preferences for relatively cheap, convenient, tasty and often high-calorie/low-nutrient foods. Do some people have limited access to foods they need for healthy diets and if so, how extensive is the problem and what policy alternatives may be most effective in mitigating the problem of limited access? We will consider each of these questions in a 4-week session on what some have termed “food deserts”.
Session 1: Defining and scoping the problem
Session 2: Public health implications
Session 3: Policy alternatives
Session 4: Putting our faith into practice—outreach opportunities
5. Explorer's Class: This Saturday, January 31, from 9am through lunch, I will lead an "Explorer's Class" for those who are new to our community to faith and would like to explore more deeply what it might mean to be member. Together we will answer questions, share a little bit of history, and reflect on what it means to participate in a community of faith. If you would like to join us, or would like more information, please send me a note.
6. 17th Annual Sing Out for Shelter (SOS) Concert, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
Benefiting Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place, Christ House, and Metropolitan House.
Support homeless services in NW DC at a fun family night concert event, featuring A Capella groups Yale Whim ‘n Rhythm, the Augmented Eight, and Top of the Seventh. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Avenue NW, Washington DC. Tickets $10-$40, children under 12 free, available in advance or at the door. For information and tickets, please contact: Julie Butner at CCHFP 202-364-1419 x19 or John Symington of the Augmented Eight at 202-244-5707
7. Prayer Concerns:
- Newcomer Leeza Miheikin asks your prayers of support as she prepares to take the bar exam at the end of the month.
Peace,
Jeff Krehbiel, Pastor
Church of the Pilgrims
Washington, DC
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January 21, 2009
Pilgrims on the Journey:
1. Along with, well, about 2 million of you, my daughter Andrea and I braved the cold yesterday to witness history being made before our eyes. We got tickets though my best friend from First Pres. in Ann Arbor "Senior High Youth Group," Ken Brock, who now serves as Chief of Staff for Congressman Mark Schauer (MI-7). Ken and I went on two mission trips together back in high school, one to the Yucatan, and one to Cow Creek, Kentucky (church member and Ann Arbor native Betty Rudolph was also with us on that trip). Those were life-changing experiences for me. How cool to be with him for one more experience of a life-time 30 years later! |
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2. The activities on the Mall were not the only excitement in DC this weekend. We also had a rocking "Disability Awareness" service on Sunday, where we dedicated the new ADA entrance and bathroom on our first floor. Thanks so much to Nancy Lee Head, Marilyn Lutter, and Martin Benton, who shared their own stories of living with disabilities in the service; to Gerry Hendershot, Jan Benton and Ashley Goff who helped lead worship (along with our Choral Readers!); and to Gerry, Ashley, and Marilyn who helped plan the service. And a special thank you, as Ashley reminded us during the "blessing" at the close of worship, to the workers to did the labor: Koji Hirota, our architect; Dan Dellinger and Chamberlain Construction, who got the job done; and of course, our own Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Rolando Quintanilla, who kept a sharp eye on all the work.
3. Keeping with the inaugural theme, this Sunday, January 25, during worship we will ordain Karen Garrett as an elder, and install her, along with Melissa Rosenblatt and Jean Stewart, to serve on the Session (our governing body) in the Class of 2011. Plan to be with us for this special service!
4. Our "Epiphany Service Days: Letting Our Light Shine," special opportunities for a group of five Pilgrims to serve at various non-profits that work with the homeless and working poor of D.C., continue this week. It is still possible to sign-up for remaining projects:
January 24th: Community of Hope, working in their transitional apartments in SE from 9am until 1pm.
February 14th: Capital Area Food Bank, 9am until 1pm
February 17th: Dinner Program for Homeless Women, serving dinner from 4:30-8:30pm.
RSVP ASAP to Ashley Goff, ashley.goff@verizon.net.
5. Our Two Adult Classes Conclude this Sunday, January 25:
"Setting New Year Intentions"
Led by Ashley Goff, upstairs in the Youth Education Room
What values or intentions need our highest priority in 2009? Come to reflect on 2008 and to set your own personal intentions so you can live more fully in the moment in 2009.
"Becoming an Accessible Congregation"
Led by Marilyn Lutter and Gerry Hendershot, downstairs in the Bird Room
6. Coming Up:
- On Saturday, January 24, 9am to noon, at the National Presbyterian Church, The Reformed Institute will hold its annual convocation, featuring David Kelsey, professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, lecturing on the topic, "Beyond Calvin? The Future of the Reformed Tradition." See http://www.reformedinstitute.org/news/2009-convocation.html
- On Saturday, January 31, from 9am through lunch, will lead an "Explorer's Class" for those who are new to our community to faith and would like to explore more deeply what it might mean to be member. Together we will answer questions, share a little bit of history, and reflect on what it means to participate in a community of faith. If you would like to join us, or would like more information, please send me a note.
7. Unless you braved the crowds on Sunday as well, you didn't hear Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer on Sunday, opening the concert at the Lincoln Memorial (HBO did not include it in their broadcast). I include it here:
O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will…
Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.
Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic “answers” we’ve preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future.
Bless us with patience – and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be “fixed” anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah.
Bless us with humility – open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world.
Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance – replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger.
Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion’s God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world.
And God, we give you thanks for your child Barack, as he assumes the office of President of the United States.
Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln’s reconciling leadership style, President Kennedy’s ability to enlist our best efforts, and Dr. King’s dream of a nation for ALL the people.
Give him a quiet heart, for our Ship of State needs a steady, calm captain in these times.
Give him stirring words, for we will need to be inspired and motivated to make the personal and common sacrifices necessary to facing the challenges ahead.
Make him color-blind, reminding him of his own words that under his leadership, there will be neither red nor blue states, but the United States.
Help him remember his own oppression as a minority, drawing on that experience of discrimination, that he might seek to change the lives of those who are still its victims.
Give him the strength to find family time and privacy, and help him remember that even though he is president, a father only gets one shot at his daughters’ childhoods.
And please, God, keep him safe. We know we ask too much of our presidents, and we’re asking FAR too much of this one. We know the risk he and his wife are taking for all of us, and we implore you, O good and great God, to keep him safe. Hold him in the palm of your hand – that he might do the work we have called him to do, that he might find joy in this impossible calling, and that in the end, he might lead us as a nation to a place of integrity, prosperity and peace.
AMEN.
Peace,
Jeff Krehbiel, Pastor
Church of the Pilgrims
Washington, DC
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January 14, 2009
Pilgrims on the Journey:
1. The hallway outside my office is swarming with construction workers installing the automatic doors from the playground entrance to our building, part of the accessibility improvements to our first floor, including a now-completed ADA bathroom, and newly renovated men's and women's rooms (these were purely aesthetic, not to improve accessibility.) All this to finish by the weekend when we will celebrate "Disability Awareness Sunday" and dedicate the completed improvements. It will be a festive day with special guests and special worship-- a great Sunday to bring a friend!
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2. We continue this week with our Epiphany theme, "Letting Our Light Shine," sharing Stories of Light" on living out the light of Christ in our daily lives. Today, our story is from our Director of Music Rob Passow's father, Bob Passow, a lay leader in the Episcopal Church in State College PA.
All my married life I have attended church, been involved in worship services as a choir member, serving as a vestry member, etc. But, I never built up the courage to speak out on church or community related issues. Most of my life I had difficulties expressing myself in public so it seemed almost unthinkable that I would ever volunteer to be an advocate speaking out on any key issue.
Then, in the late 1970’s my wife Barbara and I realized that our son Rob was gay. We never wavered in giving our unconditional love to both him and his friends. However, we kept on living our lives in a normal manner and never attempted to do anything that would help LGBT persons be more welcomed in our church and community.
In late 1998 our State College Area School District announced that it planned to introduce “diversity training” for their professional staff and to add “sexual orientation” to the policy listing personal characteristics that warrant explicit protection from oppressive actions by others. This brought forth a surge of letters to the editor of our local newspaper. Many letters objected to the school district’s program but a few were supportive of the program. One supporting letter was from St Andrew’s Episcopal Church Committee to Combat Prejudice. I had not been fully aware that for some time my own church had become a strong advocate supporting the LGBT community. I read those letters several times and thought back about Rob’s years in high school and college, having to cope with problems for which, at that time, there was little if any support.
It was at that time the Holy Spirit pushed me in to action urging me to get involved and stand up and be counted regarding my beliefs. I picked up the phone, called the committee chairperson and asked to be included as a member of the Committee to Combat Prejudice. The moment of light occurred when I made that telephone call. The call marked the beginning of a long involvement in the Episcopal Church and the Community, taking positive and vocal action to gain a more universal acceptance of LGBT persons.
Meeting the challenge to become involved and to ultimately serve as a panelist speaking out on these sensitive issues at forums held in my own church, the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and a number local State College churches did not happen over night. But, it is my firm belief that it happened because of the love I have for my son Rob, the love and support from my wife Barbara, and the guidance from the Holy Spirit giving me a better insight in to my faith as expressed in The Baptismal Covenant:
“ ..... proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ ......seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as your self...... strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being.” (Episcopal Book of Common Prayer pg. 305)
3. Our "Epiphany Service Days: Letting Our Light Shine," special opportunities for a group of five Pilgrims to serve at various non-profits that work with the homeless and working poor of D.C., are now underway. It is still possible to sign-up for remaining projects:
January 24th: Community of Hope, working in their transitional apartments in SE from 9am until 1pm.
February 14th: Capital Area Food Bank, 9am until 1pm
February 17th: Dinner Program for Homeless Women, serving dinner from 4:30-8:30pm.
RSVP ASAP to Ashley Goff, ashley.goff@verizon.net.
4. Our Two Adult Classes Continue this Sunday, January 18:
"Setting New Year Intentions"
Led by Ashley Goff, upstairs in the Youth Education Room
What values or intentions need our highest priority in 2009? Come to reflect on 2008 and to set your own personal intentions so you can live more fully in the moment in 2009.
"Becoming an Accessible Congregation"
Led by Marilyn Lutter and Gerry Hendershot, downstairs in the Bird Room
On January 18 we will focus on disability etiquette in interactions between people with and without disabilities. We will view portions of a popular training video, "The X Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities," and hear first-hand from a panel of disability experts, including Marilyn Lutter, Martin Benton, and Jan Benton. Jan is the Executive Director of the Catholic Partnership on Disability; she and Martin are married. Here's link to a vignette like those we'll be viewing on January 18: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwm9R3WqUiM
5. Covenant Group Re-Forming: Jean Stewart's covenant group, meeting monthly and focusing on different ways to pray, is reforming for the New Year. Their next meeting will be Monday, January 26, 7 p.m. in the Bird Room. If you are interested in joining her group, send Jean a note: jean.stewart@rcn.com
6. Hexagon is Coming: This year’s HEXAGON show, Washington’s original political, satirical, musical comedy revue, will run from March 5 through April 4 at a brand-new venue: The Burke Theatre in the Navy Memorial Building, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, directly across from the National Archives. Proceeds from the show, entitled "What So Proudly We Bailed," will benefit the Washington, DC, nonprofit "Rebuilding Together."
A number of Pilgrims have attended the show in years past, usually on a Friday night, and we often get together for dinner beforehand. All performances are $30, and the Friday dates are March 6, 13, 20, 27, and April 3.
If you would like to join us for this year’s show, let Jeanne Mayer know by Sunday, January 24th, how many tickets you wish to purchase, jeanne.mayer@mail.house.gov. <mailto:jeanne.mayer@mail.house.gov.> If you have a previous commitment for any of the five Fridays, please provide that information as well, so she can choose the Friday date that is most convenient for everyone.
It’s a great evening, together, on the town!
7. Coming Up:
- One way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to support President-Elect Obama's call for service is to attend the Darfur Interfaith Network (DIN) vigil on Sunday, January 18, 1-2 pm at the Chinese Embassy. Please join us in our efforts to publicize the ongoing genocide in Darfur and make it a presidential priority
- On Saturday, January 24, 9am to noon, at the National Presbyterian Church, The Reformed Institute will hold its annual convocation, featuring David Kelsey, professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, lecturing on the topic, "Beyond Calvin? The Future of the Reformed Tradition."
Peace,
Jeff Krehbiel, Pastor
Church of the Pilgrims
Washington, DC
www.churchofthepilgrims.org <http://www.churchofthepilgrims.org>
January 7, 2009
Pilgrims on the Journey:
1. With Christmas and New Year now behind us, this week we return to our regular Sunday schedule, with Sunday School and Adult Education at 9:30 a.m., followed by worship at 11:00.
This Sunday we will have a Called Meeting of the Congregation immediately following worship to consider changes to the "Pastor's Terms of Call." (This is Presbyterian jargon for saying the congregation is going to vote on what to pay me in 2009.) All members are encouraged to attend, and all friends and newcomers are invited to stay and watch Presbyterian democracy in action.
2. For the season of Epiphany, we are focusing on the theme "Letting Our Light Shine," sharing how we live out the light of Christ in our daily lives. To deepen our reflection, we are sharing "Stories of Light" in worship and in my Updates. Today, our first story is from Greta Pike, who is finishing up her studies at Ohio State University.
When Ashley asked me to write something for Updates and Invitations, I doubt she knew that my own personal epiphany would involve her and her oldest child, Sam…
It was about five years ago and I was a senior in high school, getting ready for college but not knowing quite where I wanted to go once there. I knew I wanted to do something with medicine and kids. Initially I thought being a pediatrician was the obvious choice but as I thought about it, I realized that there was a lot more administrative work involved in that and so a bit less patient contact than I desired. So next on my list was exploring the option of being a pediatric nurse. Not as many years of school and a lot of patient interaction sounded OK to me. Well, one day I was going to be babysitting for 2 year old Sam but first, I accompanied Ashley on taking him to his physical therapy appointment. We walked in and as soon as I saw the therapist sit Sam down and start to play, I had my “A-ha!” moment. This was it for me. I wanted to be a pediatric physical therapist.
Being a pediatric physical therapist would mean I could play with kids all day while making a dramatic impact on their lives. I would be able to help kids learn how to walk! Many children meet with their therapists for an hour at least once or twice a week, and continue to do so for years in some cases. The personal relationships would be so gratifying!
A summer after my “A-ha!” moment, I volunteered at the HSC Pediatric Center in NE DC under the head PT there. Every day we would help treat children who had a range of diagnoses, from cerebral palsy, to premature infants, to outpatients coming in to help strengthen a previous injury. Every day I left feeling like I had done something great that day, not only for those children, but for myself. God had lead me to something that would help heal children while helping heal my own heart as I yearned to bring aide to others in a way I couldn’t to my own family. My own parents needed so much help that I just wasn’t able to give after a point, but here was a chance for me to help these children.
After my parents passed and I was no longer able to help them in any capacity, and after my brother left for boarding school, and after I retired from my position as a resident advisor at Ohio State, this yearning to help others became even stronger as I felt like I no longer had anyone to help. Working at a day care center for mentally retarded and developmentally delayed children on my campus has definitely given me a way to show the world the essence of God. Until, that is, I’m Dr. Pike and able to work on my own as a pediatric PT, making children, and myself, a little bit better one therapy session at a time.
3. It's not too late to sign-up to participate in our "Epiphany Service Days: Letting Our Light Shine," special opportunities for a group of five Pilgrims to serve at various non-profits that work with the homeless and working poor of D.C. Each group of will have a designated “key leader” who will gather the Pilgrim group on-site before serving to connect and offer a brief prayer. The Pilgrim group will serve then take an hour at a coffee shop or restaurant after serving to debrief and reflect on the experience (this hour is already included in the serving times listed below).
Here is the line-up:
January 8th: N Street Village, serving dinner from 6-9pm.
January 10th: SOME (So Others Might Eat), serving breakfast from 7-10am.
January 24th: Community of Hope, working in their transitional apartments in SE from 9am until 1pm.
February 14th: Capital Area Food Bank, 9am until 1pm
February 17th: Dinner Program for Homeless Women, serving dinner from 4:30-8:30pm.
If you are interested in serving on one of the Epiphany Service Days, please RSVP ASAP to Ashley Goff, ashley.goff@verizon.net. Our groups are intentionally small and it’s first-come, first-serve for RSVP’s! This is also a great opportunity to invite a friend who might be interested in church life to experience and connect with Pilgrims.
4. Two New Adult Classes Begin this Sunday, January 11:
"Setting New Year Intentions"
January 11th, 18th and 25th
Led by Ashley Goff, upstairs in the Youth Education Room
The New Year is traditionally a time to set resolutions or goals. Goal making is a valuable tool; it involves envisioning a future outcome in your world or in your behavior. One plans, applies discipline, and works hard to achieve New Year goals. Setting intentions is somewhat different. Setting intentions is not oriented toward a future outcome but, instead, it is a path or practice that is focused on how you are “being” in the present moment. Intentions call your attention to the “now.” You set your intentions based on what matters the most to you and make a commitment to align your actions with your inner values. You live your intentions every day. This popular, three week series will call us to set New Year intentions. What values do we want to see blossom in our lives this year? What values or intentions need our highest priority in 2009? Come to reflect on 2008 and to set your own personal intentions so you can live more fully in the moment in 2009.
"Becoming an Accessible Congregation"
January 11, 18, and 25th
Led by Marilyn Lutter and Gerry Hendershot, downstairs in the Bird Room
In 2001 the Church of the Pilgrims was certified as an “Accessible Congregation” by the National Organization on Disability. The Certificate noted that Pilgrims’ values people with disabilities, seeing in them the image of God, and that the congregation was trying to remove architectural barriers to accessibility. It’s taken nearly eight years, but on January 18, Pilgrims will dedicate architectural changes that dramatically improve the accessibility of the rear building entrance and first floor bathroom. In conjunction with that event, an adult education series on disability will be held, featuring a visit by Judy Heumann, internationally known leader of the disability rights movement, who has held high offices in the Department of Education and the World Bank, and is now Director of the DC Division of Disability Services.
On January 11 we will discuss the theology and culture of disability—how, if at all, is God’s Way revealed through people with disabilities? We begin with the story of Nick Vujicic, a 26-year old Australian born with no arms and no legs. Growing up, Nick and his parents asked “When God made Nick Vujicic, what was God thinking?” For a preview of Nick’s story, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Of0JlUstk.
5. Coming Up:
- Next Sunday, January 18, we have designated "Disability Sunday," and we will dedicate our ADA improvements to the first floor of our building.
- On Monday, January 12, from 6-9:30 p.m., at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, The Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) will lead a workshop on the Financial and Economic Crisis, exploring its origins and possible solutions, with a special focus on organizing in a time of diminishing budgetary resources. Dinner is included. Please send me a note if you would like to attend.
- On Saturday, January 24, 9am to noon, at the National Presbyterian Church, The Reformed Institute will hold its annual convocation, featuring David Kelsey, professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, lecturing on the topic, "Beyond Calvin? The Future of the Reformed Tradition."
6. Travel Opportunity to South Africa: Former Presbyterian Mission Co-Worker Bob Schminkey, (and husband to former Pilgrim intern Sara Holben), will be leading a trip to Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Kruger National Park August 5-17. Estimated cost is $5,950, with first deposit due Feb. 13. For more information, contact Bob at bobschminkey@verizon.net
7. As most of you know by now, we are losing our second floor tenant in the "Old Manse," and so desperately searching for a new tenant. If you know of any prospective non-profits out there looking for office space, please send them the following:
Nonprofit Office Rental: Three-room, 1688 sq.ft office suite available for justice-seeking nonprofit in church-related townhouse in west Dupont Circle for $2,400 a month. Includes kitchenette, four closets, two bathrooms, and two parking spaces. Available February 1, 2009. Contact jeff.krehbiel@verizon.net or call 202-387-6612.
8. Prayer Concerns:
- Many of you know that Bart Oosterveld was stricken with a mysterious pain behind his left ear just before the New Year that laid him up for the better part of a week. It has now been diagnosed as occipital neuralgia, a pain caused by an inflammation of the occipital nerve in the back of the head. He has now been successfully treated and is no longer in pain. Both he and Diana thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.
Peace,
Jeff Krehbiel, Pastor
Church of the Pilgrims
Washington, DC
www.churchofthepilgrims.org <http://www.churchofthepilgrims.org>
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