The Link
The Weekly E-Newsletter of Disciples Christian Church
March 26, 2009
In This Issue
- Rev. Nordyke to Be Introduced
on Palm Sunday
- New Home for the Nordykes
- Updated Prayer Requests
- Right Naborly
- Comb Your Hair and Say
“Cheese”
- Men’s Bible Study
- DCC Workday
- DCC Board Meeting
- BBPS Advisory Board Meeting
- General Assembly Update
- Easter Lilies
- Services for Holy Week and
Easter
- Spiritual Life Retreat 2009
- BBPS Spring Rummage Sale
- Cyber Safety & Drug
Awareness Seminar
- Summer 2009 Camps &
Conferences
- From The TechnoManor
- Music Notes
Rev. Nordyke to Be Introduced on Palm Sunday
New
pastor, Rev. David Nordyke, and his family will be introduced to the
congregation at the beginning of worship on April 5. Although his first full Sunday will be
Easter, Rev. Nordyke will be a participant in the Palm Sunday Worship Service
and in the Good Friday Service.
Plan to be
here on Palm Sunday and bring friends to greet DCC’s new pastor. Even more importantly, plan to be present to
celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into
New Home for the Nordykes
Rev. David
Nordyke and family will be moving into their new residence on Friday,
April 3. Their address will be
Updated
Prayer Requests
- Rev. Diane Clark’s knees are healing well and she is walking
easily with the help of a walker. She
has been in the hospital while doctors are working on getting her pain
meds straightened out. They hope
she will be able to come home this weekend. Diane and Galen are thankful for family
members who are close enough to be able to help out.
- Gena Hurst’s brother, Brian, who has cancer, received a
fairly good report recently. He
will get a second opinion on April 6 to decide the next treatment.
- Oran Nabors will have surgery on his back on Tuesday, March 31.
The prayer requests in The Link each week are recent
updates. A list of ongoing prayer requests appears in our worship bulletin each
Sunday.
Right Naborly
Disciples Christian Church has
called a new pastor, one with a fresh passion to serve God. He has been the minister of a congregation he
loves but must leave. He and Kristina
believe that he must continue his preparation for the Lord’s service by getting
a seminary degree.
As
your new pastor learns, stretches and tries on new
understandings through his seminary education, Disciples Christian Church will
benefit. As you nurture David and
provide a supportive learning environment for him, David will benefit. What a gift God has given you both. What a formative time you will share
together. Cherish it
On Palm Sunday Rev. David Nordyke
will be introduced to the congregation, along with his wife, Kristina and their
daughter Kyleigh. How very
exciting!! I am certain you will encourage
and guide David and that you will support and pray for his whole family. I
trust you will offer constructive comments, value his strengths and volunteer
not only information but also your help.
I expect you will give him and the church your wisdom, your time, your
commitment and your love. God bless you,
David and Disciples, as you move together into this important new time in your
lives.
Comb Your Hair and Say “Cheese”
Get ready to have your picture made this Sunday after worship. The illustrious photographers of “Olan Halls” (otherwise known as Fred and Nancy) will be taking pictures of church members, in family groupings where possible. These pictures will be labeled and passed on to David and Kristina Nordyke so that they might get to know you more quickly.
Men’s Bible Study
Calling
all men! Come join us at IHOP (
DCC
Workday
by
This Saturday, March 28, there will be a church
workday beginning at 8:30 a.m. Come
and help us as we spend a little bit of time sprucing up the church and grounds
to be ready for Easter and our new pastor, Rev. Nordyke! Please bring your own work tools. Saturday, April 4, will be the rain date.
DCC Board Meeting
All board members are encouraged
to attend the next board meeting scheduled for THIS Sunday, March 29
at 7 pm in the Atrium.
BBPS Advisory Board Meeting
There will be a BBPS Advisory
Board Meeting on Tuesday, March 31. The
executive session will meet at 6:30 pm; the general session will begin at 7 pm.
General Assembly Update
At the Indianapolis 500 Race,
quickness counts. Moving quickly over the next week will help you take
advantage of special spring registration discounts for the upcoming General Assembly
that will be held in
Easter Lilies
Order
envelopes for Easter lilies are available on the Welcome Table in the Atrium
and on the table in the narthex area outside the sanctuary. If you are interested in ordering a lily,
please put the envelope in the offering plate or
on Jan’s desk in the church office. Deadline for ordering lilies is Sunday, April
5.
Services for Holy Week and Easter
Palm Sunday, April 5
10:30 a.m. Palm Sunday Worship
Introduction of Rev. Nordyke to the congregation
Sermon: “Palms, Parades or Passion”
Procession of Palms Music: “Antiphonal Hosanna”
Special Music by the bell
choir: “Ride on, King Jesus”
Maundy Thursday, April 9
7:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday observance at
First Christian Church
A Living Last
Supper Drama and communion.
Child Care available
Good
Friday, April 10
7:30 p.m. Service of Darkness
Meditation: The Execution Reader
Choral Anthem: “My Lord, Why Does He Have to Die”
Child
Care available
Easter Sunday,
April 12
9:00 a.m. Resurrection Service
Communion
Music: “In Christ Alone”
A joint celebration of the Risen
Christ with Disciples Christian
Church and First Chinese Christian
Church -- Rev. Nordyke,
Rev.
Jiang, and leaders from the two congregations will participate.
9:45 a.m. Easter Potluck Brunch in
the Atrium; bring a dish to share
Easter
Egg Hunt for the children
10:30 a.m. Worship in Celebration of the Risen Lord
Adorning the cross with fresh
flowers
Special music: “Alleluia, Christ Is Risen!”
Rev. Nordyke’s first Sunday
Spiritual
Life Retreat 2009
The NTA-DWM
20096 Spiritual Life Retreat will take place at Disciples Crossing in
BBPS Spring Rummage Sale
This spring BBPS will be renting “parking spaces” at BBPS
where you can hold your own “garage sale”. This is a fundraiser benefiting
Bright Beginnings Preschool. Everyone is welcome with priority given to
returning participants. We will close registration at 38 spaces, with a
maximum of 4 spaces per seller. Please register and mail your rental
fees ASAP as our sale fills up quickly!
PARKING SPACE
RENTAL FEES
1 space $12 each
2 spaces $11 each
3 spaces $10 each
4 spaces $9 each
*Rectangular tables available for
rental at $7.00 each*
For your parking
space fee you get:
Exposure
to
marquee
and web advertising
Use
of our City of
Use
of our parking lot, not your own garage
Free
haul-off of all your unsold items
All your proceeds from your items sold
You must
be responsible for:
Providing
your own volunteers
Seed
money or change
Handling
and security of funds collected
Display
and merchandising
Delivery,
unloading and set-up
Tear
down and clean-up
Parking
across the street at Plano Senior High
Your
children as there will be No childcare available.
BBPS will arrange for pick-up of
all remaining items—donated to charity.
WHEN: Saturday,
April 25, 2009 (Rain date: May 2nd)
WHERE:
Disciples Christian Church Parking Lot
TIME: 6:00am-7:00am
Arrive and Set-up
7:00am-1:00pm Rummage Sale
1:00pm-2:00pm Tear-Down
Deadline for RSVPs and payments:
Wednesday, April 1st
Please make your checks payable to Bright Beginnings Preschool
Mail to: Laura White,
For more information, please
contact:
Laura at 972-964-1141 home or whitehousefullofboys@verizon.net
Cyber Safety & Drug Awareness Seminar
A Cyber
Safety (internet) and Drug Awareness Seminar for parents is
scheduled for Saturday, April 25. It will be at the Area
Office in
Summer 2009 Camps & Conferences
Information about the Tri-Area
summer camps and conferences is now available.
Copies of the flier are available on the Welcome Table in the Atrium
which includes camp dates and pricing.
From
The TechnoManor
Last
Sunday, during the Offering Meditation, Sonny talked about sending email to jesus@god.god.
At least that’s what I thought he said.
It gave me an idea for this week’s article.
When we
send email or use the Web, we use names like google.com, dccplano.com,
or noaa.gov. But what do those names mean and how do they
get you where you want to go?
In order
for information to reach a computer on the Internet, each computer is assigned
an address, much like your house address.
This address is composed of 4 blocks of numbers and looks like this:
74.125.159.104
That set
of numbers looks pretty meaningless, right?
Yet it’s the unique address assigned to Google.
This set
of numbers is called an Internet Protocol
address or IP address for
short. You might see this address when
you’re dealing with your own Internet connection, or a customer support person
tells you to enter something like http://192.168.1.1.
Each
computer that connects to the Internet, including yours, has a unique IP address. No two computers can have the same IP
address. That’s one of the rules of the
game. Here are a few other rules:
- There
are a finite number of IP addresses.
Yes, we’re running out. In
the next few years, IP addresses will be longer and look a little
different to handle the shortage.
- An
IP address can be static (it
never changes), or dynamic (it
changes periodically). You have to
lease a Static IP address from your Internet service provider (the church
has one). A Dynamic IP address
changes each time your computer connects to the Internet. Most computers typically have Dynamic IP
addresses.
- There
are a handful of special IP address ranges that cannot appear on the
global Internet. These are used for
private networks (such as your home, business, or an enterprise). You
might see an IP address in one of these ranges from time to time. Those ranges are:
10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255
To keep
our eyes from crossing and make the Internet usable, a technology called domain names was developed. Domain Names are human-readable names
translated into IP addresses. The
translation is done automatically by your computer.
How does
this happen? (I promise to be
brief.) When your computer first powers
up and connects to the Internet, it typically receives the IP addresses for two
Domain Name System (or DNS) Servers. These are special computers that know where
to find other computers on the Internet that can translate domain names to IP
addresses. Why two? So that at least one is
available. You must have access
to a DNS server or else you can’t effectively use the Internet.
When you
type http://www.dccplano.com into
your Web browser, your computer looks inside and says, “OK, I need to contact
the computer at 68.238.112.12 to tell me where www.dccplano.com lives.”
(68.238.112.12 is the IP address for a DNS server operated by
Verizon. This number may be different on
your computer). Your computer contacts
the DNS server at 68.238.112.12.
The DNS
server figures out the answer by asking a few other computer friends (the
Domain Name System is a whole hierarchy of computers on the Internet). It then sends the answer back to your
computer saying, “You can find www.dccplano.com
at IP address 204.15.176.7.”
Your
computer then sends a message to 204.15.176.7 asking, “Please send me the home
page for your Web site.” The computer
server at 204.15.176.7 sends back the church’s starting Web page and your Web
browser displays it.
Let’s see
if a picture helps.
Every time
you use a domain name, this translation process occurs. That could be in a Web browser, in email, or
in other tools that use the Internet. In
addition, every Web page that you view has references inside that use domain
names. This same translation process is
occurring for those references, too. The
translation process is designed to happen in a fraction of a second. However, if a domain name doesn’t exist, you
might see this message:
Where do
domain names come from? Anybody who
wants to be reached on the Internet can get one. The church has one (dccplano.com), I have one (frenchygrey.thatip.com). You can have one, too! But you only rent domain names, and that’s
another topic. However, if you’re
interesting in getting a domain name, you might want to visit these Web sites
to learn about prices and terms:
www.dotster.com (The
church uses this site.)
www.godaddy.com
www.networksolutions.com
www.thatip.com (I
use this site.)
And what
happens if you try to reach jesus@god.god? Well, I tried to check on the domain name
using the simple ping network
command:
C:\>ping god.god
I guess
God hasn’t rented a domain name. Gotta
try “kneelmail” like Sonny suggested.
Got a
technical question that’s been bugging you?
Send me email at:
I’ll
answer one each week in The Link. If I don’t get questions, I have to make
things up. And you don’t know who I’ll
pick on!
Dave
Gillen
Music
Notes
by Laura Young
SPRING MUSIC DEPARTMENT SCHEDULE:
Chancel
Choir
March 29 (Sun.) Chancel Choir warms up 9-9:25 a.m. in the sanctuary
April 1 (Wed.) Chancel Choir rehearses 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary
April 5 (Palm Sunday) Chancel Choir rehearses processional/introit
9:00 a.m. in the sanctuary (Handbell Choir warm-up 8:30-9)
April 8 (Wed.) Chancel Choir rehearses 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary
April 10 (Good Friday) Choir warm-up is 6:45-7:15 p.m.
April 12 (Easter Sunday) Choir
warm-up 8:30 am (8:15 for Enno, Julie, Laura)
April 15 (Wed.) No choir tonight You
worked hard last week. Call it a tax break.
April 19 (Sun.) Special music, no Chancel Choir today
April 22 (Wed.) Chancel Choir rehearses 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the
sanctuary
April 26(Sun.) Chancel Choir warms up 9-9:25 a.m. in the sanctuary
April 29 (Wed.) Chancel Choir rehearses 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the
sanctuary
Handbell Choir
March 29 (Sun.) Handbell rehearsal immediately after worship. (Final rehearsal for Palm Sunday.)
April 5 (Palm Sunday) 8:30-9:00 a.m. bell warm-up before choir. Ringing "Ride On, King
Jesus" today -- no rehearsal after
church today.
April
12 (Easter
Sunday) No bells today
April
19 (Sun.) Handbell
rehearsal immediately after worship
April
26 (Sun.) Handbell
rehearsal immediately after worship
UPCOMING
CONCERTS:
The Plano Civic Chorus and Temple Emanu-El Choir invite you
to "A Celebration of Harmony." This concert will be presented on
Saturday, March 28th at 8 p.m. at
The
Richardson Community Band will present a children's concert on Sunday, March
29th, at 2 p.m. at the
Orpheus
Chamber Singers invite you to "
If you are
interested in knowing more about joining one of the musical groups at
Disciples, or know of upcoming music and arts events you wish to have included
in the Link, please contact Laura Young, DCC Music Director. Thank you!
The
In order to follow Jesus and worship God, we will serve our neighbors. We will minister to our fellow Christians. We will live and tell the good news of Jesus
Christ in all we do.
Disciples Christian Church Staff
Dr. Charlotte Nabors, Transitional Pastor
Laura Young, Music Director
Linda Gulick, Preschool Director
Julie Chen, Pianist
Jan Carter, Administrative Assistant
Dave Gillen, Webmaster frenchygrey@gmail.com
Stacie Doss, Nursery Attendant
email: theoffice@dccplano.com
phone: 972-398-2240