Monthly Memo June 2011

The Parshall Family

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to greet, support and hear from the Parshall Family while they are home on furlough. They will be with us on Sunday, June 5^th and are tentatively planning to be part of our Thursday night prayer meeting on June 2^nd. Please take the opportunity to welcome, greet and love these wonderful missionaries for the short time they will be with us.

Vacation Bible School

The timing of this year’s VBS is different than we’ve ever done before. This year we will host SonSurf Beach Bash on our church property during the first week of August (8/1-8/5). As you can tell by the theme, it will be a wet and wild VBS. By August, the weather should cooperate and be hot and dry around here.

It doesn’t hurt to start telling parents and children you know about our dates for VBS. We will soon be developing some promotional material that you can pass out to your friends, family and neighbors. As always, VBS is a Herculean effort, and can only be accomplished by the cooperation of our entire church family. Please volunteer to help us because “many hands makes light work”.

Greeters/Nursery

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Cooleys (greeters) and the Sonntags (nursery) for taking the bull by the horn and shoring up these 2 important ministries. Without their leadership, this never could have happened. We would also like to thank the many volunteers that have agreed to staff these areas.

We want to support the Cooleys and the Sonntags anyway we can. Please thank them and ask if you can be of assistance to their efforts. Also, if you have volunteered to help as a greeter or as a nursery worker, please be prepared to fulfill your assignment or find someone who can.

Constitution

The latest draft of The Orchard Church Constitution was submitted to 2 independent groups for peer review. We are awaiting feedback from The Christian Law Association and the EFCA Constitution Committee. Once we have heard from them, we will make the necessary modifications and submit it to the congregation for review and approval. We thank you for your patience throughout this tedious effort.

Capital Campaign

We are in the process of building our Capital Campaign leadership team. We are recruiting teams to administer the entire process, to communicate our progress throughout, to work with leadership to make advance commitments, to under gird the effort with prayer, to provide the congregation with stewardship education and to plan a celebratory event.

This campaign will be a church-wide endeavor. If you are asked to help in some small way, we would appreciate your assistance. We want as many people as possible to participate in this important process.