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PENTECOST SUNDAY
SUNDAY -
May 11
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Confirmation Sunday - May 18
Join us
for the culmination of our 2 year confirmation program in this special
worship service on May 18. Come and welcome the newest members of our
congregation!
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 Cokie
Roberts speaks about her newest book,
Ladies of Liberty:The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Tuesday, May 20
n7PM
nWCC
Sanctuary
Admission free with a book purchase; additional tickets $5.
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Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news
analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson
co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week.
In
addition to broadcasting, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V.
Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country
by United Media. Both are also contributing editors to USA Weekend,
and together they wrote From This Day Forward, an account of their
now more than forty-year marriage and other marriages in American history.
The book immediately went onto the New York Times best-seller list,
following a six-month run on the list by Roberts’s first book on women on
American history, We Are Our Mother’s Daughters. Roberts is also the
author of the bestselling Founding Mothers, the companion volume to
Ladies of Liberty. A mother of two and grandmother of six, she lives
with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland. |
In
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the women who helped
establish our nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling
author and renowned political commentator-praised in USA Today as a
“custodian of time-honored values”--continues the story of early America’s
influential women with Ladies of Liberty. In her “delightfully intimate and
confiding” style (Publisher Weekly),
Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and
behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women’s public roles and private
responsibilities.
Recounted with the insight and humor of an expert storyteller and drawing on
personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many
of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary
accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.
Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a
woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this
exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha
Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza
Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert,
Sacajawea, and others. In a much-needed addition to the shelves of Founding
Father literature, Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines,
reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, giving these ladies
of liberty the recognition they so greatly deserve.
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Upcoming Care
and Calling Events!
Sunday, May 11~10
am.
WCC
honors Long Term Members with a festive service and fellowship. If you joined
WCC in 1968 or prior, you should have received an invitation. If you did not
receive an invitation in the mail to attend on May 11, please call Mary Tondi at
the church office (847-441-3400, ext. 10). This year we are enclosing a
questionnaire to call forth memories of WCC from years gone by; we hope you will
participate in recalling our church’s history.
Monday, May 19
The Care and Calling team
is hosting a viewing of the PBS presentation of “The Forgetting” on the topic of
Alzheimer’s at 1:30 pm in the Centennial Room. This is a 2-hour video. The first
60-minutes feature several patients and their families, followed by a 60-minute
panel discussion led by David Hyde Pierce. All are welcome!
Home Sweet
Home
practical resources for Seniors, Individuals with Disabilities and their
Families
Monday,
May 12, 2008
8:30 am to Noon
Winnetka Women’s Club
485 Maple Street,
Winnetka
If you
are a senior who wants to maintain an independent lifestyle in your own home, or
if you have a family member with a disability who is living at home, this free
conference is perfect for you.
Keynote
speaker: State Rep. Beth Coulson
To pre-register, call: North Shore Senior Center 847.784.6030;
New Trier Township
847.446.8203
 Church
School Event:
WCC Children at Presbyterian Homes
Some of
our WCC children, youth and friends headed down to share their musical talents
with the senior residents of Presbyterian Homes in Evanston, IL on Sunday, May
4. Thank you Clara and Sam Geraghty, Maia Law, Amanda and Kaitlyn Shoewe,
Catherine and Elizabeth Woodburn, Isabel and William Dube, Jill Lerner, and Ella
Hackett for sharing
your gifts!
Taizé Service
Thursday, May 15 from 7:00 to 8:00pm. Join us in Little Chapel for this
beautiful service filled with music, meditation, and scripture readings. This is
an especially good opportunity for Rummage workers to come and find a little
prayer and quiet after their busy work.
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CRITICAL NEED
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WCC has
partnered with the Good News Community Kitchen for over a decade to provide
a hot, nutritious meal to those who need it. Members of our congregation
always enjoy volunteering - whether providing food or serving the meal
itself. We have had some difficulty lately getting enough volunteers to
manage this commitment. Please consider volunteering this summer. The dates
are: June 2, July 7 and August 4. Check your calendars and contact Laurie
Peterson at 847-251-7240 or
bpete12392@aol.com. |
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The Woman’s Society cordially invites you to a very special luncheon and program
at 12:00 on Wednesday, May 14, in Tolman Hall.
Dr.
Robert Harris, our own Director of Music/Choirmaster, will present a very
special program, entitled “Composing Music for the Church.”
Dr.
Harris received his doctorate degree in composition and theory from Michigan
State University and was a member of the faculty there for seven years prior to
coming to Northwestern University in 1977, where he presently holds the position
of Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Organizations as a member of
the faculty of the NU School of Music.
As a
published composer, Robert has been the recipient of numerous commissions from
various schools, churches and musical organizations and his works are in the
catalogues of some of the world’s leading publishers. He has served as a guest
professor at Wayne State University, the University of Texas (Austin) and the
University of South Africa in Pretoria. He has served as a guest conductor and
choral clinician throughout the United States as well as in Europe, South Korea,
the Republic of China, Hong Kong, South Africa and in Argentina.
Church
music has always been an important part of his life and Dr. Harris has held
several positions at various churches wherever he has lived. His most recent,
prior to joining us at WCC, was at the Trinity United Methodist Church in
Wilmette, where he served as choirmaster from 1978 until 2004.
You
won’t want to miss this wonderful program by Dr. Harris! Come and share the
warmth of good friends and beautiful music, and don’t forget to bring a friend
with you! Please call Eileen Baumgarten, 847-446-3442, or e-mail her at
randeileen@aol.com, by Monday, May 12, with reservations. Luncheon cost
is $13.00. Let Eileen know if you need a ride or child care for this or any of
our programs, as we are happy to arrange this free of charge for those who need
it. Also, please notify Eileen by Monday if you need to cancel your reservation.
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
MAY
11-Morgan Funke, Joanna DePorter, Christopher Cochrane, Caroline Gordon
12-Bonnie Olsen, Nicholas Schoewe, Dirk Vander Wilt, Emma Eldring
13-Grace Young, Steve Volkodav, Paula Darr, Scott Jackson, Axelle Faulkner, Emma
Tigerman
14-Susan Waite, Rodney Watt, Liliana Lyons, Hugh Gluckman
15-Bob Barnes, Eric Jacobs, Robert Sprowl, William Fuller, John Garabedian,
Weston Hannon-Bogosh
16-Dan Frohling, Eric Nanninga, Emeric Koller
17-Sarah Barnes, Jennifer Mackey
PARISH Calendar
William
Mueller is on call May 9-11
Sunday, May 11 Long-Term Member Sunday
9:00 am
Child care:
Nursery
9:00 am Peer Study: CR
9:00 am Choir Rehearsal: S
10:00 am WORSHIP: S
10:15 am Church School: EW
11:00 am Fellowship: TFH
11:15 am Spelunkers: LL1
Monday, May 12
4:00 pm
Prayer Group: CR
6:30 pm Servants: LL1
7:00 pm Faith Statements: CR
8:00 pm Servants Singers: MR
Wednesday, May 14
10:30
am Woman’s Society Board: CR
Noon WS Luncheon & Program: TFH
6:00 pm Bell Choir: LL2
7:00 pm Chancel Choir: MR
Thursday, May 15
7:00
pm Taize: LC
Saturday, May 17
6:00
pm Saturday Night Supper: TFH
Sunday, May 18
Confirmation Sunday
9:00 am
Child care:
Nursery
9:00 am Peer Study: CR
9:00 am Choir Rehearsal: S
10:00 am WORSHIP: S
10:15 am Church School (last): EW
11:00 am Confirmation Brunch: TFH
11:00 am Fellowship: NN
11:15 am Spelunkers: LL1
SUNDAY BIBLE READINGS
MAY 11
Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 7:37-39
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