MADISON AVENUE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
921 Madison Ave.
(At E. 73rd St.)
NY, NY 10021
T: (212) 288 8920
F: (212) 249 1466
(At E. 73rd St.)
NY, NY 10021
T: (212) 288 8920
F: (212) 249 1466
The Session has called the Annual Meeting of the Congregation/Corporation of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church for Sunday, January 29, 2006, immediately following the 11:15 am worship service. The agenda for the meeting will include: annual reports from the Session, Deacons and Trustees as well as the Pastor; election of new officers to those three boards; the presentation of the 2005 Financial Report and the 2006 Budget as approved by Session; and votes on changes to the terms of call for the pastors. There will also be a progress report from the Building Steering Committee regarding the renovations to the Church House. All active members are urged to make a special effort to attend this important meeting in the life of the church.
At the forthcoming annual meeting of the congregation on Sunday, January 29, 2006, in the Sanctuary, immediately following the 11:15 am service, the 2005 Congregational Nominating Committee will place the following names in nomination for election:
Elder, Class of 2009
Deacon, Class of 2009
Trustee, Class of 2008
Members-at-large, 2006 Congregational Nominating Committee:
Sharon Davison, Vera Gordon, Dick Iverson, Julian Schroeder and Denise Welsh.
The Building Steering Committee will make a report to the congregation at the January 29 annual meeting concerning renovations that have been taking place in 2005, as well as those planned for the next four years. In addition, there will be an initial report on plans for the forthcoming capital campaign necessary to pay for these renovations. Please mark your calendars and plan to be present for the meeting in the sanctuary, immediately following the 11:15 am service.
Several of our members and friends have informed us that they suddenly stopped receiving email announcements and the weekly Pastors’ Letter. If you are in this group and have not yet advised the Church Office of your subscription’s termination, please let us know by sending an email to update@mapc.com. If you have never subscribed, you may do so by pointing your browser to the church’s home page, www.mapc.com, and clicking the Sign-up link on the lower right of the page, under “New and Noteworthy.”
(or you may simply follow this link: http://www.mapc.com/html/email-signup.htm).
After submitting the brief form, you should receive an “immediate” confirmation email from the service that distributes our mailings. While that’s what should happen, it sometimes does not, and that is the purpose of this article.
The church uses an email service provider called Topica for both the Pastors’ Letter and special announcements. The provider sends out the email, not the church. In recent months, many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and domain hosting services have installed strong filters and blocking devices to guard against spam and virus threats. While these filters are quite effective, they also create issues regarding the receipt of messages from legitimate mailing services. With the changing atmosphere of the Internet, an increasing number of ISPs are requiring that users confirm their subscriptions in order to receive messages from email service providers. We will therefore be sending confirmation messages to all of our present subscribers in the near future. We hope that everyone who wishes to receive our mailings will reply to the confirmation (even if you’ve already done that in the past).
Neither the church nor the mailing service ever cancels a subscription unless specifically asked to do so. If you have stopped receiving our emails, it may be due to filtering imposed by your ISP or by a security application installed on your computer that doesn’t recognize the provider’s address as “friendly.” We know that there are issues with Verizon.net, and if you have a Verizon account that is blocking us, you may want to consider subscribing under a free email service like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. until the Verizon issue is resolved. Earthlink subscribers can go to the SpamBlocker interface, locate any Topica email that was blocked, and instruct it to “add the contact.”
I am working with Topica.com toward the resolution of these issues, and we regret any inconvenience.
Michael Bart
Communications Director
& Systems Administrator
Families with Young Children will meet on Saturday morning, February 11, beginning at 10 am on the Fifth Floor. Families with children ages 5 and under are invited to join in this time of play, crafts, stories, and conversation. A light breakfast of bagels, fruit, snacks, coffee, tea, and juice will be available. This is a wonderful way to get to know other families in the church. RSVP to Margaret Williamson at the church, 212-288-8920 x271 or mew@mapc.com.
The 20s/30s group will meet for Bible Study on Sundays, January 22 and February 5 & 26 on the fifth floor at 1 pm. A light lunch will be available. The annual Super Bowl Party will be February 5. Details of the location will be available at the Bible Studies. Mark your calendars for the special lecture on March 5 (see separate “Coming Attractions” announcement) and a March 11 trip to the American Museum of Natural History at 2 pm. If you have further questions about 20s/30s events, please contact Beverly Bartlett at the church, 212-288-8920 x247, or bab@mapc.com.
Please join us for the February Seniors Unlimited gathering. Stay tuned. . . . Program to be announced! There will be a time of conversation and refreshments following the program. Please let us know if you are coming so we will have plenty of cookies! RSVP to Margaret Williamson, 212-288-8920 or mew@mapc.com.
The MAPC knitters meet on the third Tuesday morning of the month, 10:30 - noon, in the Hood Library. All knitters and crocheters are welcome, from novices to experts. Come work on a project of your own, scarves and hats for the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, or baby items for the residents of Inwood House. If you need help gathering supplies, call Margaret Williamson at the church, and she will put you in touch with the group’s facilitator.
On March 5 the 20s/30s group invites the congregation to join them for a special guest lecture by Professor Jeremy M. Hutton on the subject of peace and war within the prophetic literature. Professor Hutton’s lecture is entitled, “Words to the People on the Wall: The Prophetic Response to the Assyrian Empire.” A time for discussion will follow the lecture. Prof. Hutton is an Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Seminary. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in June 2005 in the field of Hebrew Bible. Lunch will be served, so RSVP to Margaret Williamson at the church office, 212-288-8920 x271, or email her at mew@mapc.com. Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating talk and discussion.
Look and See. That’s what Library Awareness Sunday is all about. If you have never visited the Hood Library or you have never checked out a book, you are missing out on a great resource! So on January 22, during the Coffee Hour, you will have a chance to look, handle and select a book of your choice to borrow.
The Hood librarians will make it easy for you to browse through a large assortment of books displayed on tables in the Church House lobby. Books will be among the newest and most popular in the library’s collection. So while you are enjoying coffee and fellowship, do take time to look and see.
Also feel free to wander into the library. You’ll find hundreds of other books: novels, biographies, histories, psychology and, as you might expect, many books on religious topics. In fact, the library has an excellent collection of books in its Religion section where you could explore a question you’ve wondered about for a long time.
All church members and friends are invited and encouraged to look and see if there is at least one book you can’t resist. Books are on loan for 2 weeks except for the hefty ones, which are available for 3 weeks. Using the library on Sunday mornings can be easier than making a trip to the public library!
May we add: A word to the wise is enough! Essayists R. Steele and J. Addison remind us that “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
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The Healing and Wholeness services are held on the first Wednesday of the month. This service of Word and Sacrament includes prayers for healing, and anointing and laying on of hands for those who would like to come forward to receive prayers for themselves or on behalf of others.
MAPC member Rose Chan has been called as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Shortsville, NY and will be ordained at MAPC on February 5 during the 7:30 pm worship service. Dr. Anderson will be preaching, and a reception will follow the service. Please join in this special service and celebrate with Rose as the Presbytery of New York City ordains her to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament!
Sunday Worship Services:
http://www.mapc.com/html/03_worship/03a_worship-home.htm
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