Inreach Board
The mission of the Inreach Board (IB) is to serve and support the church family, welcome and foster visitors and new members, deepen relationships and encourage spiritual growth through worship, music and fellowship.
The board is responsible for Sunday coffee hours and monthly birthday cakes, and includes a Membership Committee, a Congregational Concerns Committee, and a Sunshine Committee to minister to those who are ill or recently home from the hospital. The music program also falls under the Inreach Board.
The Congregational Concerns Committee keeps in touch with our members in retirement and nursing homes. A member of the committee goes to see them at least once a month. Homebound people are also contacted in the same way, as well as those with special needs. This group also delivers flowers; any Sunday that the donor of the flowers for the altar chooses to leave them, the flowers are delivered to someone recently returned home from the hospital or who is homebound. After memorial services, the committee arranges and, occasionally, serves refreshments.
July Birthdays
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...
2 Neil Faller & Connie Kitchen
3 Marilyn Bush, Henriette Jockin, & Dorothy Kratz
5 Jenna Romano & Joan Wright
6 Marjorie Brown & Adeline Vanderpool
7 Scott Vershay
8 Blythe Kaczmarczyk & Jesse Rieman
9 Camila Eskew & Thomas Ohki
15 Warren Thomas
16 Robin Pack
17 David Grabowski, Samantha Daniels, & Shirley Conner
19 Jack Kloberdanz
20 Sara Leiser & Diana Parkes
21 Erica O'Brien
23 Bill Elliott, Charles Fotheringham, Lois Weaver, & Ashley Franczyk
24 Heather Okoro
28 Jennifer Hettler, Michael Hettler, Judith Kratz, Gregory Pigeon, & Charles Ritter Jr.
31 Henry Kaczmarczyk & Liane Pfetsch
Amherst Community Church
Inreach Notes
The Fellowship Hour sign- up sheet is looking for you! There are quite a few openings for someone to host the Fellowship Hour on Sunday. While many groups sign up for a month at a time, you certainly do not have to do that. Please feel free to ask questions of Steve or Shelley Coppola, Shirley Lam or Sharon Klepfer if you have any concerns about what to do in the kitchen.
The 2010 flower chart is up and has lots of opportunities for you to provide altar flowers. After worship, you can either take the flowers home with you, or someone from the Congregational Concerns Committee will deliver them to a person who has been ill, or in the hospital, or even just homebound. The cost is $30, and checks can be made payable to the Women’s Association of Amherst Community Church.
Would you be interested in ushering on any given Sunday? We are looking to find some people who would be willing to be head usher for a month at a time. It isn’t a difficult job, and there are always a lot of people willing to help you. We have an information sheet available if you are wondering what is involved in the job. You can contact Nancy Elliott or any member of the Inreach Board for information: Shelley Coppola, Wendy Creech, Jean Haller, Sharon Klepfer and Jane Sorensen.
Have you noticed the new chairs in the narthex? How about the new arrangement of the furniture in there? You can thank Wendy and Alan Creech for doing the work. Alan refinished the drop-leaf table, and Wendy did the shopping for the chairs and the lamp. The funds to make these purchases came out of the Memorial Fund. Be sure to thank them for their hard work.