The Link
The Weekly E-Newsletter of Disciples Christian Church
May 21, 2009
In This Issue
- Updated Prayer Requests
- We’re Having
a Party!
- Pentecost Offering
- Young at Heart – TONIGHT!
- Memorial Day
- DCC Board Meeting
- Disciple Women’s Ministry of
DCC
- Men’s Bible Study
- Summer Reading Group
- From the TechnoManor
- Music Notes
Updated
Prayer Requests
- Jeni Brown, administrative assistant at the Ozark Lakes Area
- Rev. Diane Clark is scheduled to have surgery this Tuesday, May 26, to remove a tumor on a kidney doctors suspect is
malignant.
- Prayers for David, Kristina and family as they
prepare for the arrival of their baby.
- Agnes Pieper is home recuperating after successful surgery last
week for a blocked artery.
The prayer requests in The Link each week are recent
updates. A list of ongoing prayer requests appears in our worship bulletin each
Sunday.
We’re Having a Party!
You’re Invited to a Birthday Party!
Who: All DCC & FCCC members and friends
For: Pentecost, often
thought to be the birth of the Christian Church
Where: Disciples Christian Church
When: Sunday, May 31 following worship
What: Cake, punch and fellowship will be served as
we celebrate Pentecost. Everyone is
asked to bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to the
Pentecost
Offering—May 24 and 31
Expanding
the Table is this year’s theme for the Pentecost Offering. As the Christian
Church (Disciples of the Christ), we welcome and embrace with the love of
Christ, all who will come to the table. And our Christian table is constantly
expanding and reaching beyond social and economic boundaries to extend our
witness. New Church Ministry seeks to continue to expand the table to reach new
mission fields, journey to new frontiers and touch more lives. Support for this
special day offering is more crucial than ever.
New
Direction, La Roca, Trees of Righteousness, and Coolwater Christian Church are
a few of the churches that were started as a result of the New Church Movement.
Today, New Church Ministry can proudly claim that 598 new churches have been
formed since 2001. This is good news worth celebrating! Through these churches,
this movement is reaching more than 40,000 Disciples and the list continues to
grow. What is our goal? Disciples hope to start 1,000 new churches by 2020. By supporting
the Pentecost Offering you are expanding the efforts of the New Church
Movement.
Each year,
the New Church Movement is supported primarily by funds raised by the annual
Pentecost Offering. This special-day offering provides support for new church
planter training, coaching, grants, meetings and additional services to support
the New Church Movement of the Christian Church.
Importantly,
half of the money collected through the Pentecost Offering remains in YOUR
REGION. The other half represents New Church Ministry to benefit the wider
church for recruitment, training and coaching of new church planters. Please help New Church Ministry to continue
expanding the table to reach more people by bringing God’s message to new
places and new communities. By Expanding the Table, we share the witness of Christ. This year,
Pentecost Offering will be on Sunday, May 24 and Sunday, May 31.
Young at Heart – TONIGHT!
Young at
Heart, the fellowship group for active seniors will have their
May dinner tonight Thursday, May 21 at 6:30 pm. Dinner will be at Love and War in Texas on
972-964-0527 or email to
genahurst@yahoo.com.
Memorial
Day
The DCC office and Bright Beginnings Preschool will be closed on Monday, May 25
in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday.
DCC
Board Meeting
All DCC Board members and
committee chairpersons should please plan on attending a board meeting which
will be held on Sunday, June 7 at 7 pm.
Please come prepared with your committee reports. If you have any questions, please contact
Rick Boyer, board chair.
There will be an organizational
meeting on Sunday, June 7 to discuss this year’s VBS. Please RSVP to the
church office (theoffice@dccplano.com)
if you will be attending. We can use
everybody’s talents and prayers as we prepare for this!
Disciple
Women’s Ministry at DCC
The
Disciple Women's group met on Tuesday, May 5, in the atrium at the
church for a salad supper and fellowship. Several projects and plans
for the fall were discussed. Watch for more details about upcoming
events and opportunities for ministry sponsored by the Disciple Women of DCC.
Men’s
Bible Study
Calling
all men! Come join us at IHOP (
Summer
Reading Group
The Disciple Women are sponsoring a Summer Reading Group
open to all members of the church. The first gathering will be on Tuesday, June 16, 7:00 pm at the church.
Our first reading selection will be The Shack by William P. Young.
From
the TechnoManor
“Coming
soon…to a computer near you…Windows 7!”
Ok, you
may not see this as a headline. However,
beginning this Christmas Season (and maybe even this fall), new Windows PCs
will include something called Windows 7.
What is
it?
Windows 7
is Microsoft’s replacement operating system for Windows Vista on most PCs. If you’re a Mac user, this won’t apply to you
(you’ll be watching for MacOS 10.6, aka, Snow
Leopard.)
I’ve been
testing Windows 7 since February.
Microsoft offered two test versions (called the Beta and Release Candidate)
for free to anyone who wanted to download and install them on a computer. The drawbacks to doing this: some things may not work, and these test
versions will stop working in 2010 (so, don’t install them on your regular
computer).
However,
running the test versions of Windows 7 has been very educational.
My overall opinion? I like it.
Microsoft
learned many (painful) lessons from Windows Vista. In Windows 7: they have simplified things,
made it easier to find programs and options, and actually sped up how the
computer responds. In short, Windows 7
just works.
I
installed both test versions on my test computer: a vintage 2003 Dell laptop. Windows 7 responds remarkably well. It breathed life into my old Dell. In some of my recent articles, when I needed
to figure out how
If you’ve
gotten used to using Windows Vista, you will be comfortable using Windows 7.
Should you
rush out and buy Windows 7 when it appears on amazon.com? Nope.
Unless
you’re a “gear head” like me, you should only buy a new operating system with a
new computer. Upgrading a computer from
an older operating system is possible, but life is to
short to deal with such things. Besides,
if your current computer is satisfying your technical needs, stick with it.
Having said that, if you’re in the market for a new computer, you might
want to wait until later in the year to buy.
Retailers will be reducing prices to get rid of computers with Windows
Vista installed, making room for computers with Windows 7. Or you may want one of those shiny new computers
with Windows 7!
And if you
buy a new computer now, will you be entitled to a free upgrade to Windows
7? Probably not. However, it doesn’t hurt to ask. You might get the retailer to shave a few
dollars off the price because you know a new operating system is coming.
I’ll be
ending my From the TechnoManor
articles in a few weeks. So, if you have
been holding back any technical things that have been puzzling you, time is
running out! Send them to:
I’ll
answer one each week in The Link.
Dave
Gillen
Music
Notes
By Laura Young
Summer specials:
If you are
interested in singing, playing or even signing a summer special, please give
Laura Young a call at 972-744-9941. I am setting up the June through mid-August
specials, and looking forward to hearing more of many of you!
Chancel
Choir
May 24 (Sun.) Chancel Choir warms up
9-9:25 a.m. in the sanctuary ("Be Still and Know")
May 27 (Wed.) Chancel Choir rehearses 6:30
- 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary
May 31 (Pentecost
Sun.) Chancel
Choir warms up 9-9:25 a.m. in the sanctuary ("Every Time I Feel the
Spirit")
Handbell
Choir is on
summer break. Thanks for a great year! By the way, if we expanded from our current
eight members up to twelve, we could ring the full three octaves of bells at
DCC! Just a thought
for those DCC members who might be considering trying out ringing.
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
Rev. David Nordyke, Senior Pastor
Laura Young, Music Director
Linda Gulick, Preschool Director
Julie Chen, Pianist
Jan Carter, Administrative Assistant
Dave Gillen, Webmaster frenchygrey@gmail.com
Email: theoffice@dccplano.com
Phone: 972-398-2240