The Link
The Weekly E-Newsletter of Disciples Christian Church
April 2, 2009
In This Issue
- Rev. Nordyke to Be Introduced
on Palm Sunday
- New Home for the Nordykes
- Updated Prayer Requests
- Right Naborly
- Men’s Bible Study
- DCC Workday
- Easter Lilies
- Services for Holy Week and
Easter
- Spiritual Life Retreat 2009
- Relief Nursery of
- BBPS Spring Rummage Sale
- Cyber Safety & Drug
Awareness Seminar
- Summer 2009 Camps &
Conferences
- From The Techno Manor
- 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 this Sunday, 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 TOMORROW, 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.
- Ean Sullivan’s brother-in-law passed away last week.
- Agnes Pieper’s brother, Herman Kroger passed away last week.
- Oran Nabors had successful surgery on his back on Tuesday, March
31 for a ruptured disc. He will be
in the hospital recovering for four or five days then possibly rehab.
- Rosie Lewallen is having surgery today, April 2, to have gall stones
removed.
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
This
Sunday the Search Committee will introduce Rev. David Nordyke to the
congregation and he will share in the worship service. No doubt you are eager to be here and meet
this one whom God has been preparing to lead DCC into the future. After worship, you will have an opportunity
to welcome David and his family in the Atrium.
That will
also be time for me to say goodbye but not say goodbye. I won’t really say goodbye for two
reasons. The first is that I am
committed to be with you through Holy Week.
I’ll be with you as you attend the Maundy Thursday Service at FCC,
Blessings,
Charlotte
Men’s Bible Study
Calling
all men! Come join us at IHOP (
DCC
Workday
By
This Saturday, April 4 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.
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 this 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: “The Crucifixion Mourner”
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
Relief Nursery of
Dear Friends,
The Relief Nursery of Collin County is ready
to open our second classroom! We need
two volunteers daily (with two teachers) to ensure that our classroom
adult-to-child ratio allows maximum therapeutic benefit to the children. Volunteers are highly valued and respected
members of our classroom teams. Background
check/interview required. Men and women
ages 16 through retirement are invited to apply. Experience with young children is a plus. One 3.5 to 4-hour commitment per week for
10-12 weeks allows us to staff a room for a season. Class times are Mon./Wed.
and Tues./ Thurs. 9:30-a.m.-12:30 p.m. Benefits
include making a difference in children's lives, helping provide parents with a
needed break and enjoying the laughter, play, and logic of young children. Experience at RNCC can help you update your
resumes or future job applications in teaching or social services fields and
can count as service hours for students and scouts. Interested in joining us? Please call the Relief Nursery of Collin
County at 972-665-0298, or visit us on the web at reliefnurserycc.org. Thank you!
Laura Young,
Early Childhood Specialist,
Relief Nursery of
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
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Last Christmas, I received an interesting card in my
stocking: |
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My gift showed up during the first week of March. I was preoccupied with the Irish Festival to
do anything with it (which made my wife antsy).
So, have you heard of the Kindle?
It’s an electronic
book reader (sometimes called “e-book” reader). The Kindle is
created and sold by amazon.com. It’s a
device about the size of a big greeting card or small booklet. The Kindle can hold hundreds of books,
magazines, and newspapers in digital form.
So, what’s wrong with paper? Well, nothing, really…until you try to store
it, stack it, or retrieve it. That’s where the Kindle comes in handy. I prepared a little table (below) with the
pros and cons of the Kindle.
I have a Kindle because my wife was in
I've been playing with it for the last few weeks. I've even toted it to the Friday morning
Men's Bible Study.
So how does this thing work? How do you get books on it? What does it look like? All good questions. Let’s talk with pictures.
A DVD, a Kindle, and a thin book
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The Kindle has a wireless connection that uses Sprint’s
wireless data network. This is the
same network used by Sprint’s mobile phones.
You use this connection to visit the Kindle Store. That’s where you buy stuff. The first thing I actually bought was an electronic
Bible. I searched the store for the
word bible and got back 2996 matches. Hmmm, hard to choose. So, I went for cheap…dirt cheap. I found a World English Bible for 99 cents! When you buy something from the Kindle Store, it is
charged to your amazon.com account, which is charged to your credit
card. When you click the Buy button,
your account is charged and the book is immediately downloaded into your
Kindle. |
The Kindle Store |
The book is yours to read in a matter of minutes.
There are a number of newspapers that you can subscribe to
as well. They are downloaded in the
middle of the night into your Kindle so you can read in the morning (with your
cup of coffee).
You can visit www.amazon.com,
search for Kindle Store, and then
see what books magazines, and newspapers are available for the Kindle. The Kindle versions are typically cheaper
than the print versions. (I bought my
wife a Kindle version of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers
for her birthday. Kindle price: $9.99.
Print price: $15.39)
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And reading stuff on the Kindle? The Kindle doesn’t use an LCD display like most
computers. It uses something called
the E-Ink electronic paper display. It is visually more like newsprint with
black letters on a white background.
It looks better in bright light (don’t expect it to glow in the dark). I find it very easy to read. We’re looking at Genesis 1:1 in the picture at right from
my el cheapo copy of the Bible. No
frills on this one. Maybe I should
spring for a $4.99 version. |
Genesis 1:1 from 99 cent World English Bible |
Here’s my table of pros and cons, giving more details about
the Kindle.
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Pros |
Cons |
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It’s small and lightweight. I
typically will stick it in my, uh, man bag (men don’t carry purses.). |
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The price. The Kindle costs
$359.00. Let’s be up front – the
Kindle isn’t cheap. Luckily, mine was a gift. |
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The cost is a one-time fee.
After that, all you pay for are the books and magazine/newspaper
subscriptions. |
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You can only get it from amazon.com. |
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Cost of individual books is cheaper than the print version. (However, you would have to be a very avid
reader to recoup the cost of the Kindle.) |
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You have to get used to a different presentation from print. This may not work for some people. |
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You own the copies of the books you buy. Even if you erase the Kindle, you can
re-download them for free. |
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If you enjoy the physical feel of a book, or
of a newspaper in the morning, the Kindle isn’t the same. |
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You can download a bunch of books to the Kindle. The specs say it will hold over 1500. I doubt if I’ll reach that limit. |
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You can adjust the size of the text!
I find this very useful for my eyes.
Forget the reading glasses! |
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The Kindle can speak the text to you.
It’s not bad, but clearly not human.
Sounds a lot like NOAA Weather Radio.
This may be useful in the car or if you know someone who is visually
impaired. |
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Ok, I think you get the idea. Is the Kindle a fad or the future? I think the Kindle itself will have a limited
audience, until the price comes down and people get used to it. I believe that electronic books, in whatever
form, are one of the futures for how we read newspapers and books. Witness the demise of many printed newspapers
and closing of bookstores. In addition,
some of the Kindle’s features make it easier for us to continue reading as our
eyesight declines.
Anyway, if you want to see the Kindle close up, let me
know. I often have it with me!
Yes, I’ve been dying to talk about my Kindle, since
Christmas. However, I am exhausting my
supply of electronic toys, so I need some of your questions. As always, please send them to
I’ll answer one each week in The Link.
Dave
Gillen
Music
Notes
By Laura Young
MUSIC DEPARTMENT SPRINGSCHEDULE:
Chancel
Choir
April 5 (Palm Sunday) Chancel Choir rehearses processional/introit
9:00 a.m. in the sanctuary 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
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
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