Celebrate 304 Years of Ministry at our Friends & Family Dinner
Prime Rib Dinner
We invite you to help celebrate 304 years of mission and ministry at Cold Spring Presbyterian Church. Our Anniversary Family & Friends Christmas Dinner is Saturday, December 8, at 5 p.m. in our newly renovated Price Hall, at the corner of Seashore and Academy Roads. As a result of recent year’s enthusiastic, sold-out response, we suggest that you purchase your tickets soon. Limited seating!
Menu: You may choose either our main entrée, Prime Rib, or the alternate, Roasted Chicken.
Tickets are $20.00 each. Purchase online, following worship, or at the church office. Consider purchasing a few extra tickets for unexpected guests. Invite neighbors to join you! Anniversary Dinner tickets make a perfect gift, too!
You will enjoy bringing your favorite beverage, if you like (wine glasses provided).
To join the event team or for more information, contact Chef Kevin Beare: campus@coldspringchurch.com.
304 years, and we’re just getting started!
304 years is a long time. Cold Spring Church is just getting started! Check out our events including our interactive worship experience Sunday mornings in the Worship Center (red brick church building). Our holiday activities for the entire family will energize your spirits and transform lives! Thank you for your support.
RSVP for our no-cost annual Gingerbread House interactive Christmas holiday community event for children!
Build Your Own
“GINGERBREAD HOUSE”
Saturday, December 1, 2017
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, Price Hall
780 Seashore Road, at the corner of Academy Road
Your neighbors at Cold Spring Church are delighted to welcome you and your children to our annual Gingerbread House Building Event! For more than 300 years, we have shown God’s love through worship and special events like this one, giving you and your family a place to experience joy-filled energy and hope!
There is no charge for this event. Registration RSVP is encouraged as seating is limited to forty children. Please provide the information below to better serve you.
Children ages 4 to 12 are invited to come and build their own “Gingerbread House.” Refreshments will be provided by the Deacons at Cold Spring Church in addition to a surprise visit and gift from Santa!
An adult must accompany child! RSVP below because seating limited to the first 40 children.
Register online below. Call 609-884-4065 for more information.
Cold Spring Church offers holiday events for the entire family. Join us Christmas Eve at 5:00 p.m. for our Annual Candlelight Christmas Eve service in our Worship Center. More information at www.coldspringchurch.com
Sunday, 11/4, after worship, let’s gather at the Back Bay Bistro!
Hungry for some great conversation? Are you looking for another way to get to know others you meet at Cold Spring Church? Sunday, November 4, after worship, stop by the Back Bay Bistro, 1891 Bayshore Rd, Villas. Purchase the beverage or meal of you choice and share in the lunchtime conversation!
Let’s build a sense of community, in the community!
Lenore Bowne will be available after church today to take your reservation. You may also contact her 609-898-6159 or at lenorec2@comcast.net. Deadline for reservations is Friday, November 2nd. Thank you.
See you at Back Bay Bistro!
The Nominating Committee will be meeting in the Taylor Room at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday November 30, 2018.
Remember growing up with the Sears Christmas Wish Book? I do. Flipping through pages filled with toys and gift ideas delighted kids of all ages as they marked their favorite items, hoping mom and dad noticed in time for Christmas. What did you wish for?
Beginning in 1886, 22-year-olds Richard Sears and Alveh Roebuck did more than wish for a brighter future when they started a retail business that sold, well, anything. Whatever you wanted, watches, clothes, furniture, chances were that Sears, Roebuck, and Co., could deliver it to your door. In fact, they could deliver the door, too, attached to the pre-fabricated house you purchased out of the catalogue! The business seemed to peak in 1969, ironically as it built what was then the “largest skyscraper in the world” in Chicago.
Diversifying into other product lines from brokerage, insurance, and pre-internet services failed to improve the company’s health, and by the 1990’s, Walmart, and later internet companies like Amazon, made the Sears and the Christmas Wish Book obsolete. Desperate attempts to stay afloat couldn’t save the struggling retailer, which listed $6.9 billion in assets and $11.3 billion in liabilities. An economist explained the retailer’s demise: “Sears and Kmart simply trudged along and thought that was good enough.” Good enough is rarely good enough, and on October 15, the Sears Holdings Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after 132 years in business. While sad, there’s more for us to learn from the wish book story.
What do you want? Jesus asked this question of his good friends, James and John, and you wouldn’t have guessed what was on their wish list! This Sunday, let’s get our wish lists out for Jesus to examine. We will also take a look at Job’s wish list, too, and we’ll discover that God delivered more than Job bargained for!
What do you need when you go trick or treating? Candy, right? What’s you favorite? Sure. Twist. Snickers. Skittles! But, what do you need? Not candy! How about faith? Jesus said that if you have faith even a small as this mustard seed, you can move mountains! Here is a mustard seed. Can you even see it? It’s super small. It’s one of the very smallest of the seeds, yet it grows and produces a great plant. You probably don’t need more candy, and guess what? You don’t need more faith, either. All you need to do is trust in God and know that God loves you more than you could possibly know, and wants your very best and has given you all you truly need in Jesus Christ. So this Halloween, as you fill your bag with candy, fill your life with faith and see what God will do!
What do you want for halloween? Candy?
What do you need for Halloween? Faith!
Jesus said, “I have come that you might have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). The word abundantly could also be translated ultimately. Jesus sails our life can be an ultimate life, a life experience beyond our greatest hopes or soaring imaginations! This week, we will find out how to live an ultimate life as we consider three related Bible texts about integrity, living our lives with a coherent sense of truth, respect, and character (Job 1:1ff; Hebrews 1:1-2ff; and Mark 10:2-16.) We will also learns few lessons from the Frisbee!
More than sixty years ago, the Frisbee flying disk was created by Walter Morrison and Warren Franscioni, in part inspired by the Roswell flying saucer sensation and originally called the Pluto Platter. Frisbee’s now famous name is a spin-off from a defunct Connecticut bakery, Frisbie Pie Company. New England college students often tossed empty pie tins around for fun, a habit that led them to refer to the Pluto Platter as a “frisbie.” Recently, the Frisbee is earning an even greater recognition than being one of the most well-known and well-loved flying toys of all time. The International Olympic Committee is considering adding competitive Ultimate Frisbee to the official sports line-up. (Ultimate will be the only sport not to have one of these _____. Can you guess? Listen for the correct answer!) This week at Cold Spring Church, find out how Jesus’ words and Ultimate Frisbee can inspire you to lead the Ultimate Life!
What are some rules you remember? No running down the hallway? Sitting quietly in class. Hands and feet to yourself! Sure. Rules are necessary so that everyone can be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We live our best life when we follow the right rules. You know, the game of Frisbee has rules, too. Here’s a Frisbee for you. Our game is to toss the Frisbee to the pew and the rule is throw it just hard enough so that it doesn’t end up in rear of the sanctuary! And it has to land on the bench. O.K. Play! Great. So each of you played the game and you followed the rules. God has given us some rules, too. We find them in God’s love letter to us we call the Bible. In the Bible we learn about how Jesus lived his life and how to make our life look more and more like his! They guide us. They remind us. And when we have Jesus in our heart, we can learn and grow to follow the rules on our own. Whether in games or in life, following the rules helps us to treat others with dignity and respect, and also have a lot of fun as we live our very best selves. Enjoy the Frisbees!