And Jesus said to them,

“Follow me and I will make

you fish for people.” Mark 1: 17

*4020 Hodges Street, Lake Charles, LA 70605

*Office Phone: 477-6166 *Office Fax: 477-6002

Office Email: standrewpres@suddenlinkmail.com

Website: http://www.standrewpres.com

Presbyterian Campus Fellowship Email: pcfmcneese@yahoo.com

Volume XXVII July/August 2017

Anita Duhon, Secretary/Newsletter Editor Nanette Cagney, Pastor

Music Department Team: Music Director-Emily Lancon

Assistant Music Director-Bryce Louviere Pianists-Benjamin LaBuff

REGIONAL PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S MEETING

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church will be hosting a meeting of the Presbyterian Women of

South Louisiana on August 5. In the morning meeting, the 2017/18 Presbyterian Women's

Horizons Bible Study will be introduced. It is called “Cloud of Witnesses - The Community of

Christ in Hebrew” by Melissa Bane Sevier. There will be a luncheon after the morning

meeting. There is a registration fee. More information will be forthcoming. Presbyterian Women (PW) is an independent organization within the Presbyterian Church

(U.S.A.) of more than 300,000 women. The programming and resource options for the

organization offer a variety of ways for women to live out their faith in an inclusive, caring

community. PW groups can choose to support the PW Purpose in any way, so PW groups may

look very different from one synod to the next . . . or even one circle to the next within the same

congregation! From http://pma.pcusa.org/ministries/pw/about/

Affiliations

In addition to supporting the affiliations and ecumenical partnerships of the Presbyterian

Church (U.S.A.), Presbyterian Women works in partnership with various secular and faith-

based organizations on issues of faith and social justice. Agricultural Missions An ecumenical organization that supports and accompanies rural communities in their efforts to end poverty and address the root causes of injustice, poverty, oppression and exclusion with a strong commitment to gender justice. Bread for the World A nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world’s hungry people by lobbying our nation’s decision makers. Children’s Defense Fund A nonprofit organization that advocates for children’s rights, including education, healthcare, economic security and other social justice issues. Heifer International An organization that works with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

Church Women United A Christian women’s movement that celebrates unity in diversity and works for a world of justice and peace, particularly through World Day of Prayer. Ecumenical Women at the United Nations An international coalition of church denominations and ecumenical organizations which have status with the Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. Grounded in our faith and commitment to global justice, Ecumenical Women trains and empowers our expanding network to advocate for gender equality at the United Nations. One Campaign A campaign in the United States that encourages Americans to be aware of the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty and to lobby decision-makers on behalf of solving these problems.

Pastor’s Ponderings I am reading an interesting book

called Searching for Sunday by

Rachel Held Evans. As the

church has changed and is

continuing to change, we find ourselves

wondering what the coming generations will

expect from us. Searching for Sunday is written

by a millennial who, like millions of her peers,

didn’t want to go to church anymore. What she

perceived as a church full of hypocrisy, politics,

gargantuan building budgets, and scandals

seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite

her cynicism and misgivings, something kept

drawing her back to Church. And so she set out

on a journey to understand Church and to find

her place in it. Her search process reveals the

heart of a generation that many of us seek to

understand. If you have the time, read this

book. I'd love to know your thoughts.

We are well into the heat of our south

Louisiana summer and while we want to shut

ourselves in, our work continues. The next big

thing on our calendar is the Back to School

party on July 29 from 10 A.M.-1 P.M. Please

mark your calendars. Bring your children,

grandchildren and neighbors. We'll grill

hotdogs and hamburgers and we'll have the

water slides that are so loved by our children.

Then, on August 5, the Presbyterian Women

will be hosting a conference for the women of

southwest Louisiana at St. Andrew. This event

usually involves a luncheon, workshops and

worship with communion. We'll be providing

more details as they become available.

Anita, our church secretary will be having

surgery and will be out of the office most of

July. I will be in and out and will check emails

and the phone, but if there is something that

needs immediate attention, please call my cell

794-6197.

Nanette

BACK-TO-SCHOOL CELEBRATION

Our annual Back-to-School

Party will be Saturday, July

29, from 10 AM-1 PM. We'll have water

slides for the young ones, grilled burgers,

and hotdogs. A tent will be set up for shade,

and of course our older folks will have the

A/C in the fellowship hall! Come & bring

your families and

friends.

enjamin LaBuff, our pianist for the past

few months, will be leaving for the

University of Southern California’s

(USC) Thornton School of Music in the

early part of August. His last day with St.

Andrew will be July 30th.

While living in the residential dorm on the

USC campus, Benjamin will be 2 miles from

downtown Los Angeles. A recipient of

numerous musical awards in Louisiana, both at

the district and state level, his degree emphasis

at USC will be on Popular Music.

Outstanding in both music and football

while at Kinder High School, Benjamin has

chosen a musical path for his college career.

All of us at St. Andrew wish him the best,

and hope that he will return to see us from time

to time. Our keyboards will always be open to

his visiting and playing. Thank you, Benjamin!!

And, thanks to his parents, Tee and Terry, for

allowing the time he spent with us.

Birthdays (July & August) 7/01 Cathy Hoffpauir

7/06 Edna Breaux

Amy Dunn

7/07 Anita Duhon

Darby Swoboda

7/11 Jody Flanagan

Charlene Aguillard

7/15 Danté Breaux

7/19 Madison Marcantel

7/29 Kathy Jaramillo

8/02 Carolyn Colter

8/04 Terri Estes

8/13 Jennifer Couvillion

8/16 Joe Dye

8/17 Diana Lewis

Shane Harris

8/18 Layken Kral

8/20 Jerry Burke

8/21 Betty Breaux

Anniversaries (July & August) 7/05 Linda & Jim Latour

7/17 Ginger & Charles Keenan

8/05 Judy & Mike Davidson

8/07 Courtney & Ronnie Fountain

8/12 Cindy & Ray Miller

he Joy Group will be taking a

summer break. They will meet

again in late September to start a

new year.

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Prayers and Concerns We offer prayers of thanksgiving for those who visited this past month. Also, remember in your prayers the many members and friends in need of support during the trying times of their lives: Darrius Breaux; Margy Clawson; Carolyn Colter; Nancy Crncic; Anita Duhon; Dora Dyer; Jody Flanagan; Carolyn Chingo; Cullen Nolan; Rev. Rudy Pace; Ted Roeling; Sarah Marshall; and Thomas Schwab; Serve Williams (Lisa Gurley’s cousin). Prayers for those serving in the military. When you are ready to be taken off the list, please call the church office.

A note of appreciation from Gamblers

Anonymous and Gam-Anon groups meeting at

St. Andrew.

1001 New Worshiping Communities

(Excerpts from https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/okra-abbey-cultivating-community-new-orleans-

pigeon-town-neighborhood/ and https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/1001-2/)

What is this initiative all about?

1001 new worshiping communities is a movement happening in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Across

the PC (USA), God is raising up leaders in churches and presbyteries who are creating new worshiping

communities. They are taking on new and varied forms of church for our changing culture. Primarily they are

seeking to make and form new disciples of Jesus Christ, to change and transform the world.

In June 2012, the 220th General Assembly declared a commitment to a church wide movement that

results in the creation of 1,001 worshiping communities over the next 10 years. At a grassroots level, hundreds

of diverse new worshiping communities have already formed across the nation. The Presbyterian Mission

Agency is coming alongside to fan the flames of this movement, to inspire and equip the wider church to

participate in the creation of 1,001 new worshiping communities in the next 10 years.

Why is Presbytery doing this? Why is it necessary?

New worshiping communities will help the PC (USA) make the shift from an inward-focused, membership-

maintenance model of church to a more outward, creative, and disciple-making expression of church.

One New Worshipping Community is Okra Abbey, located in the Pigeon Town neighborhood of New Orleans.

Layne and Crawford Brubaker, together with a ministry colleague, Vincent Grossi, are more than just blooming

where they’re planted—they’re cultivating community by growing not only vegetables, but also by nurturing

faith and trust among their diverse neighbors.

We started in September by offering one meal on Wednesdays at noon called “Grace & Greens,” said Crawford

Brubaker. “Sometimes up to 20 people come from a 6-block radius from around the garden.”

The Okra Abbey sees itself as an “urban abbey,” unlike more conventional abbeys that are set far apart from the

people.

“But still in abbeys, you picture the monks doing work all day, and their work is part of their worship,”

Crawford Brubaker said. “So when people ask us, ‘When do you guys have worship,’ we say every day—when

we’re moving the dirt in wheelbarrows and when we’re planting the seeds and picking the weeds, this is all

worship, as we start our day with prayer and we end our day with prayer.”

“We chose to call it Okra Abbey because okra is a beloved vegetable in New Orleans,” he continued. “It serves

as the base of gumbo and thus in the title of our worshiping community is a nod to the particularities of our

context. If we were in Nebraska, we’d probably be ‘Corn Cloister.’”

July Calendar Elders on Duty for July:

Craig Long & Debbie Scritchfield

To see the newsletter in color go to

http://www.standrewpres.com

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Fellowship

Hall rented

2

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

3

6:30pm Fresh Start GA &

Gam-Anon

4

6:00pm

Into Action

open AA

5 6

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

7

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

8

9

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Communion

Worship Service

5:00pm

Stated Session

10

6:30pm Fresh Start GA &

Gam-Anon

11

6:00pm

Into Action

AA (open mtg)

12

13

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

14

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

15

8:00am

Men’s

Breakfast

16

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

17

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA &

Gam-Anon

18

6pm

Into Action

AA mtg (open)

6:30pm

“Soul

Feast”Study,

location TBA

19

20

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

21

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

22

23

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

24

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA

& Gam-Anon

25

6pm

Into Action

AA mtg (open)

26 27

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

28 1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

29

10am-1pm

Back to

School Party

30

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

in Fellowship Hall

Fellowship

Luncheon

24

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA

& Gam-Anon

August Calendar

Elders on Duty for August: Courtney Fountain & Ronnie Fountain

To see the newsletter in color go to

http://www.standrewpres.com

From Edwards, C (1999). “Test Your Bible IQ.” Barnes & Noble, Inc.

*Who received the following command to “March around the city once with all the armed men.

Do this for six days…On the seventh day, march around the city seven times.”

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

6:00pm

Into Action

AA (open mtg

2

3

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

4

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

5

8:00am

Presbyterian

Women’s

Regional

Meeting at St.

Andrew

6

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Communion

Worship Service

5:00pm

Stated Session

7

6:30pm Fresh Start GA &

Gam-Anon

8

6:00pm

Into Action

AA (open mtg)

9

10

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

11

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

12

13

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

5:00pm

Stated Session

14

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA &

Gam-Anon

15

6pm

Into Action

AA mtg (open)

6:30pm

Soul Feast

Study

Location TBA

16

17

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

18

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

Fellowship

Hall rented

19

8:00am

Men’s

Breakfast

Tackett/

Benge

Wedding in

Fellowship

Hall

20

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

21

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA

& Gam-Anon

22

6pm

Into Action

AA mtg (open)

23 24

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA

25

1:30pm

Mission

Stitchers

26

27

9:30am Adult Bible Study

10:45am

Worship Service

In Fellowship

Hall/Luncheon

28

6:30pm

Fresh Start GA

& Gam-Anon

29

6pm

Into Action

AA mtg (open

30 31

5:45pm

Renewal Group

6:30pm

Choir Practice

6:30pm

New Hope GA