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Southminster Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Missouri, is called by God to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, to minister in love to the needs of members of the congregation

and residents of the community, and to promote peace and justice in the world.

April 5th is Easter Sunday, a celebration for the church, a celebration of a new covenant through

Jesus Christ. That first Easter morning brought new hope to a group of people who had

thought their Savior had died. That day, sorrow and grieving gave way to joy and

celebration. Jesus was ALIVE! That hope and excitement continues to live in Christians

every day. We know that Jesus is alive and that because of him, our lives will never be

the same. While our celebrations may include Easter egg hunts for the children and

breakfast, the focus is still on our Savior who rose from the dead that first Easter

morning. Thanks be to God for the gift of God’s Son, risen from the dead, and alive in

each of us.

Susan

The Rev. Susan Rosenbaum will be serving Southminster for three months beginning on Easter Sunday as a bridge pastor (short term pastor between called pastors). Pastor Susan grew up in Springfield and she and her family were members of Southminster. She and her husband, Randy, were married at Southminster and moved to Denver, Colorado, where Randy served in the Air Force. Their two daughters, Amy and Melissa, were born while they were in Denver. Pastor Susan was called into the ministry as a second career and attended seminary in Dubuque, Iowa while her two girls were in college. Both daughters are now married and are parents of five children, three boys and two girls. Pastor Susan has served six different churches in John Calvin Presbytery and is presently Pastoral Presbyter for the Presbytery.

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The One Great Hour of Sharing special offering will be collected on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015. Envelopes will be provided. Please

prayerfully consider your gift. "When you give, you're changing lives."

2 April 2015

B I R T H D A Y S :

3rd - David Cottril l

4th - Vera Goodall

5th - Alex Kinloch

14th - Rich Bogue

17th - Alexis Fidell

19th - Jerry Burghout

29th - Maxine Graves

A N N I V E R S A R I E S :

6th - Curt & Rosemary Finney

13th - Michael & Tami Lyons

18th - Don & DeAnn Holt

HEALTH CONCERNS

Doug Palmer

Grant Hayden

Randy Randall

Rosemary Bone

MEMBERS WITH ONGOING CONCERNS

Lea Barcomb at Home

Mary Brunner at Elfindale Manor

Vera Goodall at Sonshine Manor

Dale McDonald at Mount Vernon

Sharol Neely at Home

Roberta Nicholson at Home

Margaret Randall at Woodland Manor

Maxine Graves at Home

Jean Stokke at Home

FRIENDS & FAMILY

Charles Bess, father of Jeff Bess

Mike & Bonnie Crain, Barbara Crain’s

brother-in-law & wife

Carolyn Fay, mother of Felicia Whitaker

Jerry Holt, brother of Don Holt

Sherrie Burton, daughter of a friend of Rose Mary Owen

Linda Ice; Deidre, sister & niece of Nancy Robinett

Cameron Marshall, son of Denise Moll

Randy Randall, son of Margaret

Maria Nelson’s parents

Doug Palmer, son of Steve & Patsy Palmer

Faith, granddaughter of Steve & Patsy Palmer

Jack Shuler, grandson of Gondy Shuler

Grant & Cece (Lumpe) Hayden

Jan (John), Rich Marsh’s friend

Louise Davis, Denise Moll’s mother

Rhonda Estep, Maxine Owens’ caretaker

IN THE SERVICE

SPC Kathryn (Newton)

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CROSSLINES is accepting 2015 calendars and any kind of greeting card. So if you have any that you don’t want, you can either take them to Crosslines or to Southminster and Barbara Crain will be glad to take them to Crosslines. Thanks!

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Southminster Presbyterian Members,

Thank you for the many lovely cards I received from you on my 100th birthday. They were so pretty and I enjoyed them so much.

God Bless All of You.

Much Love, Maxine Owens

Fishin’ for Crosslines The Peacemaking group is responding to the request from Crosslines asking churches to collect canned protein during Lent and donate it to Crosslines.

SO, the fishing boat is out in the Narthex. Actually, Crosslines gave us a 55 gallon barrel to fill so the boat is a small representation of what needs to be collected. The “fish” can be canned tuna, mackerel, salmon, or sardines. This is a BIG project and we need as many cans as possible. So please, put out your fishing lines when shopping and reel in some BIG catches of canned fish. This is a huge challenge, but Southminster responds well to big challenges. Let’s do our part and help Crosslines restock their shelves with canned fish. We need to fill the boat every Sunday. So don’t forget to “go fishing.”

We will be collecting the fish throughout Lent, ending on April 2.

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PRESBYTERIANS TODAY Last call for New or Renewed Subscription

This is a very informative magazine with many interesting stories about what is going on in our denomination today. So if you haven’t been subscribing, please consider subscribing this year. For those of you who already subscribe to Presbyterians Today, it’s time to renew our subscriptions. Assuming we can get at least 15 subscribers like we had last year, the cost for

each of us will be $15.00. So please give your cash or check payable to Southminster to DeAnn Holt by April 12. If you have questions you can call DeAnn at 417-881-5231. Thanks for your support of our denomination through your subscription to this informative magazine.

Property has planned a Spring Cleaning and repair day. Please try to come help with well needed projects at the church, March 27th and 28th, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Property is also looking for willing individuals to participate on the Committee to discuss property for business for the church property.

Thanks, Michael Lyons, Property Chair

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Maundy Thursday will be a joint service and held here at Southminster on April 2nd beginning at 6:30 p.m. The title of this service is “The Sheep Will Be Scattered” written by Don Wiltfong. The service is a re-enactment of the Last Supper in which we are introduced to each disciple and then we witness how each one falls away just as Jesus predicted: “You will all become deserters, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.’”

Spring Gathering Luncheon Covenant Presbyterian is hosting the Spring Gathering of the Presbyterian Women of John Calvin Presbytery on Saturday, April 25th from 9:00-1:30. Lunch is $6.50. Please register with Ann in the Covenant Presbyterian church office with a check made to Covenant for your lunch fee. Registration is due by April 15th. Come for the entire program or just the morning worship service or for lunch. The designated mission effort for this meeting is Rare Breed, a local organization sponsored by The Kitchen, Inc., which serves homeless teens in Springfield. They have requested hygiene items, single serving food items such as granola bars, fruit cups, water bottles plus diapers and baby wipes for those young women with babies.

Encouragement and best wishes before finals will be given to our college students in the form of a $15 gift card. There will be cards for the congregation to sign on April 26th and May 3rd. We have a total of 10 college students from our congregation.

Donations of candy for

the egg hunt would be

appreciated! Please

drop off at church

Sunday, March 29, or

next week until

Friday, April 3 at the

church office.

Annual Easter egg hunt! for the young and "young at heart" on

Easter Sunday, April 5, at 9:30, after the annual Easter breakfast

which will be served from 8:45am until 9:30am.

Spring Salad Luncheon! The Annual Presbyterian Women’s Spring luncheon is scheduled for Saturday, April 18 at 12:00 p.m.

in the narthex. This is a salad potluck with a $1.00 charge per person for the main dish. Please call Phyllis Feyh for

more information.

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April 5 April 12 April 19 April 26

Liturgist Liturgist Liturgist Liturgist

Brenda Stone Phyllis Feyh Rosemary Finney Jim Moore

Head Usher Head Usher Head Usher Head Usher

Nora Burgess Nora Burgess Nora Burgess Nora Burgess

Ushers Ushers Ushers Ushers

Jim Moore

Dee Diehl

DeAnn Holt

Carolyn Mitchell

Gene & Martha

Charles

Michael and Mike

Lyons

Greeters Greeters Greeters Greeters

Jim & Gladys Jester

Kay Vergien

Kathy Miller

Roberta Nicholson

Jackie Finney

Jeanette Wotherspoon

Bill Crighton

Barbara Crain

Head Counter Head Counter Head Counter Head Counter

Don Holt Todd Morriss Rich Marsh Don Holt

Counter Counter Counter Counter

Ted Scott Jim Anderson Charles Newton Ted Scott

Child Care Worker Child Care Worker Child Care Worker Child Care Worker

Dee Diehl Dee Diehl Phyllis Feyh Phyllis Feyh

6 April 2015

SOUTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Session Highlights

March 8, 2015 meeting

All Session members were present for the March meeting.

Moderator: Reverend Mary E. Wright opened the meeting with prayer about 4:45pm

Agenda: The agenda was approved as revised

Minutes: The minutes of the Session meeting of February 8, 2015 and the Congregational Meeting of

February 22, 2015 were approved as distributed.

Follow up on Annual Congregational meeting of February 22

Nominating Committee: Mike Lyons, Chair; Jane Bogue; Charles Newton; Denise Moll,

and Brenda Stone

Endowment Committee: Returning: Jim Moore, Frances Smith. New: Charles Newton,

Phyllis Feyh

Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC): Dotty Thomas--Session; Kathy Morriss; Bonnie Hunter.

We discussed who else might be willing to serve on the PNC. The Session offered suggestions for possible

members to Mike Lyons and Jane Bogue. Mike will get the Nomination Committee together as soon as he

gets back from a week vacation in Colorado.

Treasurer’s Report:

Income for February: $11,429.01 YTD: $20,502.52

Expenses for February: $8,489.40 YTD: $18,154.30

Treasurer’s Report was approved for filing.

Clerk’s Report

Rich Marsh recommends that we add a couple more people with access to the Safety Deposit Box. Todd

Morriss and Dotty Thomas volunteered. That will be done next week.

Correspondence: None

Narrative: None

Committee Reports:

Administration and Personnel Todd Morriss

No report

Christian Education Dotty Thomas

C.E. is planning a Pot luck dinner on March 18. Guests will be members of Bethany Evangelical Church

that meets in our building 5 times a week.

Congregational Care Lou Howard

No report

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Session Highlights (continued)

Mission Jane Bogue

Served 56 families and 123 people at Crosslines in Feb

Gave IPA gift certificates to Holland School teachers for the rest of the year

Property Mike Lyons

No report

Stewardship Ted Scott

No report

Worship Nora Burgess

No report

Organization Reports:

Endowment

Peacemaking

Presbyterian Women: Recommend getting rid of couches outside sanctuary and replacing with some of

the high back arm chairs. Mike said he could load them in his truck and haul them to the dump for

about $25. He will take care of it.

Seekers

Other Business:

[Review Presbytery Commissioners:]

February 28, Branson - Sharon Marsh

May 21, Iola, KS - Ted Scott

August 3, Monett - Ted Scott Ted will find a replacement

November 7, Hillcrest - Jane Bogue

Terms of Call for Susan Rosenbaum were reviewed and approved as presented.

Meeting was adjourned with prayer by Reverend Mary E Wright.

Next meeting: April 12, 5:30pm in the Southard Room

Todd Morriss

Clerk of Session

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International Peacemakers

and NOROC In the fall of 2008 International Peacemaker Petru Solca came to Southwest Missouri. The International Peacemaker is just one part of the Peacemaking Program administered by PCUSA

and is supported by your donations to One Great Hour of Sharing. In addition to introducing us to his native Romania, Petru made us aware of New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children or NOROC. This marvelous Romanian charity which he helped to establish has the following mission statement. NOROC’s mission is to offer new opportunities for spiritual, physical, educational and emotional growth so that at-risk Romanian institutionalized children may escape cycles of poverty, dependency and abuse, and may become independent adults who can nurture meaningful relationships and contribute to their communities. A Brief History Lession: When communism fell in Romania in the December of 1989, tens of thousands of children were left abandoned in Romanian orphanages. Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had made it a goal to greatly increase the Romanian population with hopes that a larger work force would create a more powerful economy. Ceausescu attempted to achieve this goal by requiring families to have at least 5 children. Due to extreme poverty many families were unable to care for these children and were forced to place them in state institutions. NOROC: As the world became aware of this problem, people flocked to Romania to adopt these abandoned children. NOROC was originally designed to aid American couples seeking to adopt children from Romania. Over time NOROC developed volunteer programs to address many of the needs of the institutionalized children. Their volunteers provide a nurturing touch to infants; tutoring, educational enrichment classes; and even college scholarships to these forgotten and neglected children. Find out more about this organization at http://www.noroc.org. Southminster will collect the offering for One Great Hour of Sharing on Easter Sunday. Please give generously so that we can continue to meet International Peacemakers like Petru Solca and learn of their efforts to bring peace and new hope to their part of our world.

Todd Morriss

Spring is in the air and the early flowers are in full bloom. Lilacs are my favorite flower of the spring. I have loved them since I was a kid. The fragrance of a bunch of lilacs is, in my opinion, heavenly. The most fragrant lilacs I have ever had were actually white lilacs. The bush was given to me by a Parish Nurse in Lost Nation, Iowa when I completed my internship there. For a long time, it did not bloom, but when it finally did, you sure knew it. Even though it was a small bush, the fragrance overpowered the larger purple one next to it. I really hated to leave it behind when we moved from Pittsburg, but I know that the new owners of our house enjoy it as much as I did. Enjoying fragrance of lilacs is short lived. They are spring flowers and so it is important to savor them while you can. I used to make the most of my lilacs by cutting new bunches of blooms every week or so until they were gone. That gave me time to appreciate what I had for the short time it was available. Life is a lot like that. We have to appreciate what we have for the time that we have it. Speaking of short-term, I will begin a short-term (3 months) call with Southminster Presbyterian Church in Springfield, MO on Easter Sunday. This will be in addition to my call as the Pastoral Presbyter of JCP. During this time, I will not be available for pulpit supply on Sunday mornings. I am already starting to appreciate the discipline of preaching every Sunday because it causes me to think more about the Word of God. I also will appreciate getting to know a lot more people in the church and in the community. I believe it will be a wonderful time for all of us. While I look forward to the change, I continue to be excited about serving JCP. The traveling Presbytery office is really fun. We have come up with a few things to make it more connectional so I encourage you to come and visit when it is in your area. A schedule can be found on our website. Have a wonderful Easter. Rev. Susan Rosenbaum Pastoral Presbyter John Calvin Presbytery P.O. Box 787 Shell Knob, MO 65747 620-674-1844 - cell

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20 1 5 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 5:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 6:30 PM - Choir

2 Maundy Thursday 5:30 PM - Debtor’s Anonymous 6:30 PM - Maundy Thursday service with Westminster 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

3 7:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

4 8:00 AM - New Freedom Group 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 12:00 PM - Overeater’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Church

5 Easter Sunday 8:45 AM - Easter breakfast 9:30 AM - Annual Easter egg hunt 10:00 AM - Worship Service 11:00 AM - Blood pressure checks after worship 12:30 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church

6 10:30 AM - Bible Study (Westminster) 6:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Church 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

7 9:30 AM - PWCT Meeting 6:00 PM - Overeaters Anonymous 6:30 PM - New Freedom Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

8 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 1:30 PM - Congregational Care Meeting 5:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 6:30 PM - Choir

9 5:30 PM - Debtor’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

10 7:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

11 8:00 AM - New Freedom Group 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 12:00 PM - Overeater’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Church

12 9:00 AM - Sunday School 10:00 AM - Worship Service 11:00 AM - Coffee sales after worship 12:30 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church

13 10:30 AM - Bible Study (Westminster) 4:30 PM - Mission Committee 6:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Church 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

14 9:30 AM - Morning PW Circle 1:30 PM - Afternoon PW Circle 6:00 PM - Overeaters Anonymous 6:30 PM - New Freedom Group 7:00 PM - Evening PW Circle 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

15 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 5:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 6:30 PM - Choir

16 5:30 PM - Debtor’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

17 7:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

18 8:00 AM - New Freedom Group 12:00 PM - PW Spring Luncheon 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 12:00 PM - Overeater’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Church

19 9:00 AM - Sunday School 10:00 AM - Worship Service 11:00 AM - Blood pressure checks after worship 12:30 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church

20 10:30 AM - Bible Study (Westminster) 6:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Church 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

21 6:00 PM - Overeaters Anonymous 6:30 PM - New Freedom Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

22 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 5:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 6:30 PM - Choir

23 5:30 PM - Debtor’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

24 7:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

25 8:00 AM - New Freedom Group 9:30 AM - Covenant Spring Gathering 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 12:00 PM - Overeater’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Church

26 9:00 AM - Sunday School 10:00 AM - Worship Service 12:30 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church

27 10:30 AM - Bible Study (Westminster) 6:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 7:00 PM - Bethany Church 7:00 PM - New Beginnings Al-Anon Alateen Family Group

28 6:00 PM - Overeaters Anonymous 6:30 PM - New Freedom Group 7:00 PM - Evening PW Circle 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group

29 12:00 PM - Free Lunch, No Questions 5:00 PM - Parkcrest AA Group 6:30 PM - Choir

30 5:30 PM - Debtor’s Anonymous 7:00 PM - Bethany Evangelical Church 7:30 PM - New Freedom Group