News & Announcements
In order to better meet the needs of caregivers at Covenant Presbyterian Church and in our community, Adult Education invites you to join our caregivers support group. All CPC members and the general public who are caregivers for elderly/senior loved ones are welcome!
The CPC Caregivers Support Group, facilitated by Linda Butler, MSW, ACSW, LISW-S, meets on the 4th Tuesday every month from 12-1:30 in Room 213 at CPC. Typically, the group has a light lunch followed by a speaker from 12:45 to 1:30PM. We offer caregiver respite for your loved one if requested by the Friday before the group by calling L. Butler.
Upcoming speakers are as follows:
• May 22nd- Frank Lewis, Owner of Jackson, Lytle and Lewis Funeral Homes- "Senior Scams and Senior Dream Center"
• June 26th- Carrie Sapiro, First Light Home Care- Overview of 1st Light Programs
• July 24th- Anne Finnecom, Area Agency on Aging- Overview of AAA Programs
• August 28th- TBD
• September 25th- TBD
• October 23rd- TBD
• November 27th- TBD
• December- NO GROUP
On Pentecost, Sunday, May 27, we will receive the Pentecost Offering. The Pentecost Offering provides a way to directly meet the needs of children at risk, youth and young adult volunteers. The Pentecost offering supports mission with children at risk, youth and young adults through the following ministries:
- Congregational Ministries on behalf of children at risk (40%)
- General Assembly ministries with youth and young adults (25%)
- Advocacy at the denominational level on behalf of children at risk (10%)
- PC (USA) Young Adult Volunteer opportunities (25%)
Mark your calendar!
Highlights:
1 p.m. Registration for volunteers
2 p.m. Opening Ceremonies, Survivor Walk with reception following
9 p.m. Luminaries: Candle Lighting Ceremony
10 p.m. 5K Race (for those who really want to move)
Midnight - Dawn Midnight Madness
6 a.m. Sunrise Church Service & Closing Ceremonies
Books and More meets the first Saturday of each month at 9:00AM at Perkins on North Limestone. New members are always welcome--even if you haven't read the book!
May 5 - Virion by M.J. Groves
This e-book was written by Covenant member, Mary Jo Groves, and she will be joining us for our discussion. If you have a Kindle, you can purchase it from Amazon. If youwould like a download to your computer, check with Alice Tenney. ther are different links for PCs and Macs. There are no published paper copies of this book.
Coffee Hour Hosts Needed:
Volunteer to be The "Family of the Week"
It's Great to have so many new members at Covenant! Now we just need ways to get to know each other better. To help us do this, we are asking that each family who is able sponsor coffee hour for just one Sunday this year. Coffee and tea are provided. What we need you to do is bring in goodies and symbols of what is important to your family (or family of friends) outside of church. Soccer? Genealogy? Music? Whatever will help us get to know you better! It can be something as simple as a few pictures of your activities, or those grown children we don't see much anymore. But what you choose to do is limited only by your imagination! A schedule and more specific information is on the sign-up table in the office hallway. Questions? Talk to Alice Tenney.
If you have been in the kitchen and fellowship hall lately, you realize what a total transformation it has undergone.
With new cabinets, countertops, appliances and a new fellowship hall floor, it is both functional and beautiful. However, the chairs and tables certainly do not meet those standards. Many of the chairs mismatch and are dangerous because of unstable aqnd broken legs. The generosity of the congregation to the capital campaign allowed us to do this renovation. Now, on a volunteer basis, we hope you will consider joining our "Adopt a Chair" program. You may purchase any number of chairs or make a general donation to the chair and table fund. The cost of each chair is $31, eight-foot rectangular tables $84, and round tables $120. Be sure to come down to the fellowship hall if you have not already seen the new look.
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The new kitchen has two convection ovens (stacked), a 6-burner electric stove with a regular oven underneath, a 36-inch griddle, A Bunn coffee-maker with hot water, individual steamer units, some open wire shelving as well as some new cabinets and countertops, a 3-bowl sink for washing dishes, several stainless steel work surfaces and hopefully a new commercial dishwasher. All current sinks were saved and have been moved to make them more useable.
We started with the room that now has the ice machine. This area is organized to ease the Deacon functions of preparing for communion and taking flowers to our shut-in and ill members. The shelves have been cleaned and painted and now hold all the Deacons' vases as well as some kitchen items. The old 2-bowl sink and one of the old moveable work surfaces have been moved into this room. Space is provided to allow the communion service to be stored here in lockable cupboards.
Other work that has been completed:
1. scrubbing of the two short dividers between the kitchen and Fellowship Hall and the two full length dividers between the dish room and the kitchen;
2. inventory of the flatware which showed that we now have only enough to serve about 100 people;
3. inventory of the dishes which showed we have enough place settings for approximately 300 people;
4. emptying of shelves which will need to be removed to allow the new equipment to be installed;
5. removal of all food from the large refrigerators into the small ones in the ice machine room.
6. removal of old refrigerators, cook top, griddle and pizza ovens
7. removal of ceiling pads, ceiling tiles and old lights
8. removal of some cabinets
9. reconstruction of two sections of the south wall that had deteriorated (thanks to Mike and Terry of Habitat)
10. cleaned all drains
11. installed flush mounted lighting fixtures
12. received new refrigerator, freezer, cook top with oven, 36 inch griddle, two convection ovens, and 3 bowl sink.
13. cleaned and sealed floor
14. removed bottom of cabinets to accomodate convention ovens on east wall of kitchen
15. cut off and rehung these cabinet doors; the middle door will hide oven vents
16. have done a lot of painting and have begun to reorganize the utensils
17. refrigerator and freezer working, three bowl sink installed, range and griddle hooked up
18. ceiling tiles installed
19. all dishes, utensils, cupboards, racks and shelves cleaned.
20. August 23, 2010: Celebrated Phase 1 completion with a pancake breakfast.
The committee's goal is to make this kitchen very user-friendly and efficient but the timetable for completion is dependent on financial considerations. We are not spending any money which we don't already have in the kitchen account, which means that we do not have money at this time for a new dishwasher, counters, cabinets, tables, smaller equipment, utensils and the purchase of flatware which will be needed to feed a group of more than about 100 people.
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