Silver Lake Presbyterian Church

Announcement

The second Sunday of each month is Food Pantry Sunday. Please bring in your canned goods and other long lasting foods to help in our community's food pantry. There is a big box in the coffee room on the clothes rack. Lorna Everitt or the Burbidges will take the food after the service and take it to Roselyn Perlick who heads the food pantry for our area.
Please remember those who need our help and place food items on the table in the fellowship room. Also please remember the Assistance Fund that we use to help those in our community with special needs. Just place the words "Deacon's Fund" on your check or envelope.
The Wycliffe Bible Translators is in need of our used stamps for Andy and Katy Ring. Please bring in your used stamps and give them to Sue M.
The Lions Club is collecting new and good used books for the Susquehannna Country Libary's Outreach Program. Books for Preschoolers through 6th grade are needed to be distributed to needy children throughout the country. The library has had a 38% reduction in operating funds which affects the Outreach programs. Give books to Nancy L.
Every Sunday service we have coffee and pastries in the back room. Stop by and get to know everyone better. Carol E. is coordinating the Coffee Room. Contact her if you are bringing a cake in honor of someone, etc.
If you would like to join our choir, we'd love to have you sing with us. 9:15 am on Sunday morning is when we practice.
Gretchen S. is in charge of flowers to decorate our church for services. If you would like to have flowers placed in the church to honor or memorialize someone, please contact her. If you have a plant or flowers to share with us on a Sunday, please bring them. The more flowers we have the nicer the church looks.
Our deacons are sending out cards and so if you have any "thinking of you" or "Get Well" cards, especially if they have a spiritual theme, it would save us money if you brought them to the church so we could use them. If you want to donate a box of cards like these, that would also be great.
Youth Group: The teens recycle cans and bottles. If you bring your cans and bottles on Sunday mornings and leave them by the shed that is between the cottage we just bought and the church. The youth thank you for helping them raise money for projects and to cover costs.

Don't forget that we tape our services and if you would like to listen or take the tape to someone, please do. They are kept in the church office, in a rack on the wall near the copy machine.
The Historical cook books are still here and are beautiful. Only $10 a copy. Check you birthday, anniversary, graduation, and holiday giving lists and see Sue or Ben Margolius to get your copies in the coffee room after church.
We have cards and envelopes available to send to folks to encourage them through illnesses, etc. They can be found in the coffee room.
The film Holy Land Experience is available for loan. It is well worth the viewing. Let Pastor Ken know if you would like to view it at home and he will put you on the list to borrow it.
We will do repairs to our church building before adding to the coffee room. The cost will be $40,000 or more. We have established a fund to help pay for this work (which currently has just under 12,000 in it). We have paid out about 25 thousand dollars for the work done so far. The rest of the funds have come from our savings. If you want to make a donation, please mark your check clearly or the envelope your donation is in. We want to make sure all donations are recorded properly.
Our restoration project of the outside of our church has begun. Contractor Don Hohn and his crew have started on the Cemetery side of the building. Elder Horace Dyer is the chairman of the building and grounds committee and has been at work with Bill Luce, Hank Soth, Richard Stork, John Frederick and Todd Everitt at strengthening our windows, scraping and painting them and working on the wrought iron railings on the front of the church. A big thank you to everyone who helps our church in so many ways.
Take a look at the additional railing on our front 'porch'.
Ben Margolius introduced us to a worthwhile local community project. "Ziggy's Quick Quilters" is a group of 9-13 ladies who have come together in Endicott under the leadership of Judy Zigenhagen.
The mission of this organization is to help wounded servicemen and women who are hospitalized in Iraq and Germany by providing each one with a warm one-of-a-kind patriotic quilt, a clothing packet, and a bag of personal comfort items. So far, Ziggy's has shipped 562 personal bags, 128 quilts, and 227 pieces of clothing. The quilting group is looking for anyone who wishes to make a quilt top or a complete quilt, and/or donate specific items per the attached list below. The group has also been asked to support a 30 man platoon in a remote location in Iraq who do not have access to PX facilities. If anyone has questions, they can contact Sue Margolius directly. There is also a camouflage box in the coffee room to hold donated items. Monetary donations are also needed for item purchases and to cover packing and shipping costs.
A big thank you to our moderator, H. Chase Page, who came on Sunday to assist us in installing our newly elected Elders and Deacons. Horace Dyer, Shelley Hohn, Hank Soth, Joan Webster and Janet DePue (in abstensia)

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