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Just Around the Corner - June 2017
Pastor’s Pen
Last month I promised to share a bit more about Montreat and the youth conference that Aliyah Brooks, Sara, and I will be attending June 11-17, along with friends from First Presbyterian.
Montreat Conference Center is located in the small mountain village of Montreat, North Carolina, just a bit outside of Asheville. “The Montreat Conference Center is one of the largest conference centers affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The conference center is under the management of the Mountain Retreat Association, which formed in 1905 and is a church-related institute. For over 100 years, it has been a place set apart for those who journey here seeking a closer relationship with their Creator.” Each year over 5,000 young people attend one of the six youth conferences. Thousands more make their way to Montreat for pastor’s retreats, conferences on worship and music, Road Scholar Programs, spiritual formation, and private getaways. Those are the facts and figures, but that’s not what would first come to mind for anyone who has spent a week there.
Montreat, especially during the Youth Conference weeks, is a ‘mountain-top experience’; it is a thin place where it becomes difficult to distinguish where earth ends and heaven begins. Partly due to the natural beauty surrounding the center but more owing to the wonder of seeing a sea of teenagers forming relationships with one another and with God through worship, small groups, and recreation, Montreat is a place where God is known and faith comes alive!
The experiences and memories that I have taken away from Montreat in the eight Youth Conferences I have attended, both as a youth and an adult, have been invaluable to my love of Christ, my call to ministry, and my deep desire to see the Church be a voice of hope, justice, and peace in a broken world. It may sound too good to be true, but I am sincere in my belief that Montreat changes lives, and introduces youth to Christ in ways they have never before experienced.
Our week at the Youth Conference will be a safe space for all youth to be heard by modeling a loving, nurturing, and supportive community as the body of Christ where all feel affirmed and included. It will be an environment where participants form and deepen relationships with leaders and their peers by engaging the issues of the world and dreaming about ways to change the church. It’s gonna be a great week and we can’t wait to tell you all about it when we get back!
Be Blessed and Be a Blessing,
Rev. Will
Will@shadygrovepres.org
269-512-2018
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Festival Concert Series
MONDAY JUNE 5th, 7PM - THE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER
Travel around the world with us! We will explore sounds from Argentina, England, France, and Russia all in one evening,with a short stop back home in the States. This years festival celebrates female composers and composers of color. Rebecca Clark is first in line with her trio "Dumka" that brings Slavic melancholic flavors, and African-American composer George Walker brings us soothing sounds that reminds of Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings. Woodwinds end the evening with bravura in music by Glinka and Saiint-Saens!
THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH, 7PM - TOP BRASS
Our brightly shining brass faculty will serve up a polished mix of music that will be sure to impress. Francis Poulenc stays true to his style of rapid changes from lyrical to quite silly in his sonata for three brass instruments, and Ewazen brings unabashed American romanticism in a piece that quickly becomes everyone's favorite. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, a romantic-era Afro-European composer, creates a fantastic soundscape with woodwinds and strings in his Nonet from 1894.
FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH, 7PM - RAFF-RIFFS AND OTHER TUNES
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- German composers abound in this evening's lineup. Blacher's Divertimento for trumpet, trombone and piano is a 7 mini-movement work full of surpirses. True to PRIZM's style of learning by-doing, students and faculty play side-by-side in movements from Mendelssohn's octet and Raff's Sinfonietta. Student groups also perform in one of their festival groups, showing off what they have learned during the week. It promises to be an unforgettable evening.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 7PM - SWEDISH BEAUTIES AND CZECH BEASTS
The grand finale begins with our talented festival participants showcasing their new skills, followed by Lans-Erik Larsson's exciting Concertino featuring Metropolitian Opera Orchestra acting principal trombonist Weston Sprott. Swedish Native Larsson wrote a Concertino for all the orchestral instruments, but the one for the trombone became the most poplar- for obvious reasons! PRIZM Festival Orchestra gives you a taste of Dvorak's grandiose New World Symphony, and shows us all how beautiful the world can be when we come together in peace and harmony.
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Community
Pentacost Offering
The offering will take place this Sunday, June 4. Please look for a brochure and envelope in your bulletin. 40% stays with SGPC to develop programs for our youth, 25% supports Young Adult Volunteers, 25% goes to Ministries with Youth and 10% advocates for at-risk children. Please give generously.
Pentecost Event
The Mid-South Presbytery's next Pentecost Event: Many Voices, One Spirit will be held Sunday, June 4, beginning at 3:30 pm at Rhodes College.
Join a Team
Team meetings are Sunday, June 4th after church.
Qigong Meditation
Cynthia and Bill Mealer are offering Qigong, a mind body exercise similar to tai chi, each Sunday at 10:00 am in the fellowship hall. If there are questions, Cynthia can be reached at: 833-1746.
PRIZM Music Festival
Beginning Monday, June 5 through Saturday, June 10, our Shady Grove campus will be filled with students and teachers for the annual PRIZM Music Festival. Please join us for one of the many evening concerts that will be held here at the church.
Session Meeting
The session will meet Monday, June 5, at 6:00pm following the PRIZM potluck dinner.
Presbyterian Women
The PW Day Circle will meet Tuesday, June 6, at 10am in room 13 here at the church. Rev. Will will lead the discussion on Lesson 9.
Birthday Lunch
The church birthday luncheon will be Wednesday, June 14, 11:30, at Napa Café. Honorees are Peggy Robinson, Peggy Wilson, and Elaine Williams.
Saturday Supper
On Saturday, June 17th, come serve at St. Luke's United Methodist Church on Highland @ Mynders. Plan to stay from about 3:00 pm to about 5:30 pm. Call Susan Baldwin with questions 605-7704.
Book and Movie Club
The Book and Movie Group will meet Thursday, June 29, at 7:00 pm, to decide what to read and watch next year. All suggestions are welcome.
Mustard Seed
The store will be open June 1, 3, 4, 11 and 15.
Knitting Prayer Shawls
We will take a break for the summer and resume meeting in September.
Choir Practice
We will resume meeting the Wednesday after Labor Day.
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SHADY GROVE PRAYER LIST
Rev. Don Wilson & Mary Ann Wilson (Curt & Peggy Wilson)
Mary Fischer (Henry & Janet Bartosch)
Sandy Smith (Ned & Sandra Smith)
Cathy Maddux (Sharon Harrison)
Sherry Morrison (Pam Hinds)
Chuck Campbell (Sonny & Avalon Robinson)
Agnes Sanders (Avalon Robinson)
Frank and Patrick Duncan (Corey Epps)
Diane Boutte (Rachel Boutte)
Bob and Kathy Farmer (Sarah Strong)
Polly Heimberg
Harriet "Pinky" Knight (Don & Charlotte Haynes)
Mike Hastings (Jeanine Akers)
Adam Cruthirds (Connie Cruthirds)
Kevin McDevitt (Meghan McDevitt-Murphy)
Maria Julia Garcia-Brake (Mary Alice Brake)
Ruth Ingram and Family
Okan Demirmen (Elizabeth McFadden)
Oliver Pace (Ann Miller)
Connor Boyd (Elizabeth Boyd)
Juliana Judge (Carolyn King)
Leigh Rhodes (Mary Jane Adams)
Patrick Herrington and family (Kay & Anna Ericksen)
Lynn Douglas (Shelley Gray)
The Family of Jere Morris (Bob Isgren)
Elizabeth Boyd
Avalon and Sonny Robinson
Frierson Graves
Garland Smith
Helen Wofford & Family (Kay Ericksen)
Ned and Sandra Smith
Matthew May (Frank & Margaret Sousoulas)
Nancy Gray and Family
Marie Johnson and Family
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