New Members

This Sunday was quite a celebration.  First of all, it was the last Sunday that Nick Kung was with us before heading off to college.  He played a flute duet with Elisabeth and then shared a few "words of wisdom" as part of the sermon.  He quoted the verse from the Proverbs, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."  He thanked his family and church for training him for life.  Our closing hymn for the day was his favorite, "Eternal Father Strong to Save."  As the organist (guest Dorothy Beach) started to play the hymn he turned to his mom and said, "What a coincidence!"  Little did he know that she and I had plotted to include it as part of the Summer Hymn Sing.
The other big event of the day was welcoming two new families into our church after worship.  Paul and Jessie Mignone and baby Celeste have been attending our church for several months.  We look forward to another baptism soon.  Paul is an opthamologist in Southern Westchester and Jessie is a former assistant to actor Robert DeNiro! We also welcomed Dr. Raymond Mutter and his wife Mary into our church family.  Dr. Mutter retired from an internal medicine practice in the Ossining/Tarrytown area.  Mary maintains membership ties to the Episcopal Church, but will be a full participant in the life of our church.  We look forward to getting to know these interesting people and benefiting from their gifts and experience.
During the coffee mingle Lit Anderson and Dave Dobson began a great fundraiser for the up-coming Haiti trip.  Dave has made a scale model of the houses we will be building.  Lit made bricks to fill in the walls.  The bricks sell for $10 each.
Finally, I'm looking forward to sharing the pulpit over the next two Sundays as we continue our Hebrew Poetry theme in August.  Our youth director, Sarah Lucas will share on the 19th and Rev. Tom Hughart (retired) will preach on the 26th.  They will focus on the poetry of Ecclesiastes and Job respectively.
Summer is going by so quickly!  Soon it will be back to Sunday School and our Fall Family Festival on September 9th.  Watch your mailbox for more information and plan to invite a friend!