The Link
The Weekly E-Newsletter of Disciples Christian Church
April 9, 2009
In This Issue
- Updated Prayer Requests
- A Message from Rev. David
- Right Naborly
- Men’s Bible Study
- 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
Updated
Prayer Requests
- Rev. Diane Clark is home from the hospital and getting around
pretty well with her “new” knees.
- Oran Nabors had successful surgery on his back on Tuesday, March
31 for a ruptured disc. He is home
recovering.
- Rosie Lewallen did not have surgery as anticipated. Doctors are waiting for her blood
chemistry to be corrected.
The prayer requests in The Link each week are recent
updates. A list of ongoing prayer requests appears in our worship bulletin each
Sunday.
A Message from Rev. David
Wow, it’s
hard to believe that this day is here.
It’s kind of a surreal experience, I mean, sitting in the pastor’s
office of Disciples Christian Church looking out the window and seeing a world
of new possibilities and dreams. A year
ago the only thing I knew for sure was that
A special
thanks to all who helped make this transition possible from the search
committee and members of the congregation, to your transitional ministers and
their words of encouragement and direction to those assisting with securing our
apartment, unloading the moving truck and making sure our bellies were full
through the process and to everyone for giving my family and me such a warm
welcome.
Thanks,
In Christ
David,
Kristina and family
On a side
note, my office hours will be Monday through Thursday 9-3 unless I’m visiting
with someone or away at a meeting or in Labor and Delivery with Kristina and
Kyleigh. These hours should be constant
through the summer until the fall semester at Brite begins at which time I will
post new office hours. Please feel free
to call or come by anytime.
Right Naborly
Dear
friends at DCC,
It was my
privilege to be back serving you again as interim minister, even for a short
time. What a joy it has been to renew
connections with you dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Thank you for your many kindnesses. Thank you, thank you, too, for the wonderful
“goodbye” basket of fruit and goodies and the lovely card. We are enjoying the treats and smiling as we
think of you.
Let me
take one more opportunity to encourage you to attend the Living Last Supper at
First Christian Plano tonight (April 9) at 7:30 p.m. and then the Good Friday
Service tomorrow (April 10) at 7:30 in our sanctuary. Rev. Nordyke and I are sharing leadership in
that service. It will include the very meaningful
extinguishing of candles as we hear the Passion Account in the Gospel of Mark.
Finally, I
want to be sure you know you have a wonderful staff. Take every opportunity to thank them for
their ministries. I wish every church
could have an administrative assistant as delightful, efficient, dedicated and
Christ-centered as Jan Carter; she keeps the church going and gets things done
with great graciousness. Laura Young
loves serving God through music and it shows.
She spends a great deal of time, energy and creativity preparing for
worship, working with the various vocal and instrumental musicians. What dedication! It can be easy to overlook the important work
of the organist/pianist for a worship service.
In fact, their preparation is essential in carrying the worship service
and Julie Chen knows that. She has a
gracious spirit and is ready to do whatever is needed. Linda Gulick is amazing with her gifts for
teaching children and organizing a pre-school program. DCC should be proud of
You have a
great staff, which now includes Rev. David Nordyke. I expect to hear that Disciples is thriving
and dynamic and doing great things for God.
Blessings,
Men’s Bible Study
Calling
all men! Come join us at IHOP (
Services for Holy Week and Easter
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 Crucifixion Mourner
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 sermon: “He’s Alive!”
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 Techno Manor
I was talking with Rev. Nordyke before worship last
Sunday. He mentioned that he had brought
some needed files with him on a jump drive. I had to think for a moment about that
phrase, but I realized what it was. I
simply hadn't heard that term in a while.
So, what is a jump drive, a thumb drive, a key
drive, a USB drive, a flash drive, or a USB flash drive?
There are probably other names that I'm missing.
These are all names for small widgets, about the size of
your thumb, that you plug into your computer to store files. They're the successor to floppy disks as a
way to move files around. They work on
all flavors of computer. All your
computer needs to use them is a USB port.
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Here's an example of a USB drive: |
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I'm going to use the phrase USB drive for the
remainder of this article.
So what are USB drives good for? Well, here's a sampling:
- You can put files on them from one computer, then pull the files off on another computer. That's how we put the PowerPoint slide
show on the AV computer in the Sanctuary.
Jan Carter puts the slide show on a small, silver USB drive using
her computer. We copy it to the AV
computer on Sunday morning.
- You can put important programs on it and use
those programs on many computers. I
have a software “toolkit” on one.
When I visit clients and need a certain tool, I plug in my trusty
USB drive and voila!
- You can back up your important files on
one. (You do back up your files,
right?)
- You can put MP3 files on them and play them on
your computer or certain MP3 players.
At this year's Irish Festival, one of the performers was selling
his music on USB drives instead of CDs.
Quite clever.
Where do you get USB drives and how much do they cost?
You can buy them at the usual suspects for
electronics: Fry's, Radio Shack, Best
Buy,
They cost anywhere from free to $150.00 for the largest
ones (64 GB). Typical prices are about
$10.00 for a 2 GB model.
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Cross-eyed alert: If your eyes are
glazing over when I say “2 GB”, check out Dave’s
Anti-TechnoBabble Table in my 2/5/2009 article. |
We’re looking at 2 of these things: |
Here's some things you should know about
USB drives:
- They do wear out! By that I mean, if you use them over and
over again, they start to “forget” the information on them. Typically were talking several
years. In technical terms, each
memory location has a limited number of “write cycles” (in the 10,000 to
100,000 range). So, use a USB drive
for several years, then replace it.
- They're great carriers of viruses and
spyware. Be cautious if you're
receiving a gift USB drive or using one from someone you don't know well.
- They can contain programs that automatically
run. This is a
follow-on to the last item. Be mindful if you plug in your USB
drive and see a dialog box similar to the following:
Always click Take no action then OK. Don't run the program unless you are very
familiar with what it's doing. The entry
- They can easily be lost or stolen. So, whatever you store on a USB drive,
be sure it isn't something crucial to your life.
- If you have a USB drive on your key chain (some
people do), remember to remove it from your key chain before turning your
keys over to someone else (such as a technician at your favorite car
repair shop). The car techs are
known to read USB drives and copy the contents!
So consider adding a USB drive to your collection of stuff
to make your computer experience less painful.
And did I mention they’re good for backing up your files?!?
As always, please send me your technical questions at:
I’ll answer one each week in The Link. As you see, if I
don’t get questions, any conversation might be material for one of my articles!
Dave
Gillen
Music
Notes
By Laura Young
MUSIC DEPARTMENT SPRING SCHEDULE:
Chancel
Choir
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
12 (Easter
Sunday) No bells today
April
19 (Sun.) Handbell
rehearsal immediately after worship
April
26 (Sun.) Handbell
rehearsal immediately after worship
(We will
ring in worship on Mother's Day, May 10th)
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