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Directions: Melt marshmallows and butter in the microwave (3 minutes give or take) Stir in noodles quickly until coated. They may seem too dry, but its really not, and theyll set up fine. Butter your hands and place noodles into a muffin tin and indent with fingers into a nest-like shape. (if your hands arent buttery - it will stick like crazy!) Transfer them to parchment paper to harden. Once cooled, place 2 or 3 candy eggs into the center.
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December 2013
by Rebecca Swan
This program was started in February 2000, in memory of our first daughter, Johanna, who died in April 1999 at age 14 months. The program is part of a national non-profit organization, Reach Out and Read, which partners with medical providers to promote early literacy and school readiness. Research supports the efficacy of this program: more reading by parents, increases in language scores, better school outcomes. This program is entirely funded by donations. The program is based in the clinic where I work and has two components. One involves volunteer readers in the Vanderbilt Pediatric Primary Care Clinic waiting room, reading to the children and serving as role models for their parents or caregivers. The second part involves each infant or child receiving a new, age-appropriate book at each of their well-child visits from age 6 months to 5 years. The physician or nurse practitioner encourages the parents to read and offers age-appropriate tips. Resources for illiterate adults are also made available. Our clinic serves a majority of lower socioeconomic patients, including a large number of immigrant and refugee children. We provide books in a variety of languages, including Spanish and Arabic. For many inner-city families, the cost of a new book is often insurmountable and the need to read to their children is not a priority. By providing these children a library of their own, we are giving them a better start in school and aiming to foster a love for reading. It is a fitting memorial to a little girl who loved her books.
Tim Gmeiner
Church Organist Minister of Discipleship Director of Music Ministry Child Care Coordinator Financial Administrator Director of Creative Care 615.665.0148 | hpcnashville.org caroline@hpcnashville.org
All of our Sunday School classes are open to anyone looking to join.
Bible Class (Teacher: Debbie Holley) Location: Room 111 Friendship Class for youth and adults with disabilities (Teachers: Scott Brunette, Pat Fiete, Russ Phillippi) Location: Room 105 Kerygma Class (Teacher: David Gregory) Location: Parish House Dining Room Narrative Lectionary Class (Teacher: Hudson Neely) Location: Fellowship Hall Out of the Box Class (Teachers: Kerry & Lynne McCalla) Location: Parish House Chapel Truth Seekers Class (Teachers: Lee & Tom Limbird) Location: Parish House Parlor
Cynthia White
Whats The HAPS Hil sboro youth Activities, Programs & Such
By Vicki Allen
A HUGE thank you to all who provided pies and helped with the Pi Day Celebration!! We had a great time reciting pideriving pieating piegetting pied CAT (Christ Action Team) Retreat is April 4 & 5 at the Allens. This youth leadership team is open to all high schoolers interested in helping plan and implement Studio 100 programming. Watch your inbox for more info.
Pi Day
We will celebrate our high school graduates on April 27 with youth leadership in worship and a churchwide luncheon following the service. We also want to acknowledge our college and CCC graduates. Please submit names and achievements to Vicki at vickiballen@gmail.com so we can make sure all are included.
Vicki Allen
Do you sing? Dance? Play? Tell jokes? (They dont have to be good) Can you be ridiculously silly? (Im looking at you, Sam Davis) Then we need you for the Studio 100 Talent Show and Silent Auction, Sunday evening, May 4! This is a churchwide fundraiser for summer youth activities. The evening will include dinner, a showcase of HPC talent hosted by Kayley Adams and Sam Albert, silent and live auctions of goods and services and a bake sale. We want this to be our only fundraiser this year and well need lots of help. If you or someone you know can donate goods or services of any nature, please let Vicki know. Were looking for everythinga couple of hours of babysitting, original artwork, gift baskets, gift cards, private lessons/concerts/gourmet mealsif someone would buy it, we want to sell it. We need help planning and organizing and well need lots of hands on assistance that evening, so be thinking about how you can join the effort. Its gonna be fun for the whole family!
Nursery News
by Alice Page ODwyer
Exciting things are happening in the Church Nursery and we was you to take part in this wonderful ministry. We are currently looking to increase our list of volunteers. We use a curriculum called Baby Beginnings that is designed to guide our little ones as they take their first steps to learn about Jesus and Gods love. Come help us as we make our nurturing loving childcare intentional and help to teach our babies and toddlers Gods word as we start them on a lifetime journey of faith. If you feel like volunteering in our nursery is a ministry that you would like to participate in, we would love to have you. To find out more details and how to sign up, please contact Childcare Coordinator, Alice Page ODwyer at (615.812.6193) or stop by the nursery. Thank you!
Womens Lounge
Thank You From The Millers
Sally and Charlie Miller would like to thank all of those who sent get well wishes to Charlie while they were in Florida. It meant a great deal to them both!
Make sure to check out the updates made to the Womens Lounge located in the upstairs womens restroom!
Palm Sunday
Families are invited to help kick off our Holy Week experience by participating in the Palm Sunday Processional at the beginning of the 11:15 service on Sunday, April 13th. Children, youth and adults will gather in the Fellowship Hall at 11:00 to receive instructions and their palm branches. Each year we purchase our palms through an organization called Eco-Palms that supplies our palms from Guatemala. Here is excerpt from the PCUSA concerning this organization: More than 300 million palm fronds are harvested each year for U.S. consumption alone most of them for Palm Sunday, but also for floral displays for church-related events. Our congregations commitment to purchase eco-palms plays an important role in protecting forests, local jobs and sustainable livelihoods in the harvesting communities. Eco-palms are purchased directly from the communities at five to six times the normal payment per frond. Families are able to depend on a more stable source of income and benefit from additional value-added processing that takes place within the community. Purchasing eco-palms for our congregation helps ensure a market for the palms, which in turn means communities can depend on fair and stable wages and the forests can be protected.
On Thursday, April 17th children 3 years-5th grade will share a meal together in The Well at 5:43 pm and participate in programs that help guide them through the events of Holy Week. The night will include music, story and art.
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
On Friday, April 18th at 6:30 pm our children are invited to their very own Good Friday service in the childrens wing. 1st-5th graders will gather in The Well (Room 112) to retrace the steps Jesus took through Jerusalem as he made his way to the cross. This is a wonderful way to draw them into a deeper understanding of the depth of Jesus love for them. They help him carry his cross with their prayers. It gives us an expectancy of the miracle of Easter morning and joy in celebrating the Resurrection. Children 3 years-Kindergarten will meet in Room 109 to continue their Holy Week experience with story, music and art.
Join the Whole Church Family for our Unity Sunday School on Easter Morning!
We are thrilled to once again offer a Unity Sunday School Celebration on Easter morning, April 20th from 10:15-11:00 am. Your Fellowship and Discipleship (Christian Ed.) teams have joined together to create a truly intergenerational Easter celebration that will include refreshments in the Fellowship Hall, music by Cass Kennedy, a devotion time, an Easter Egg Hunt for children and much more! Whether you plan to attend the early or late worship service that morning we truly hope that you will make plans to attend this event! Make sure children bring along their Easter basket for our Egg Hunt. Our Easter Eggs were purchased from an organization called Sunny Bunny Easter Eggs that has employed adults with disabilities to stuff the Easter Eggs for thousands of children each year since 1966. Children are encouraged to take the eggs and treats home with them. Remember your cameras as our whole church gathers together to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. Plan on inviting neighbors and friends to this celebration! This event will be held rain or shine. Please contact Amy Dillon for more information (665-0148 ex. 11 or amy@hpcnashville.org).
The Prayer Vigil is the last step in our Lenten journey that began on Ash Wednesday. Its in the final hours of Jesus earthly life that He asked His friends to watch and pray for one hour. Our Vigil begins immediately following the Good Friday service and continues for 36 hours. There will be security throughout the late-night hours. What time will you watch and pray? If an hour seems daunting, commit to a time and stay as long as you can. The sign-up board allows you to record your commitment. It will be in the Foyer on Sundays: March 30, April 6 and April 13. Prayerfully determine the sacrificial time of your Vigil. You will honor Jesus request as you anoint our church, our community and the world.
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BANK BALANCES: Checking and Money Market Account Less: Designated Accounts Net Cash Available for Operations Benevolence Account
Although the contributions were less than plan, they were still ahead of the prior year. Part of the shortfall can be attributed to the inclement weather as the March contributions have shown signs of an increase over the weekly average in the first two months. Team members have been diligent again this year of the need to carefully monitor the spending. The Benevolence expense was below budget as the quarterly contributions to the various missions were not made until March.
Zimbabwe Update
Hillsboro House Workday Saturday, April 26
A NEW DAY! At Village Hope, the reality of going to university will no longer be a distant hope
Big News From Paddington I can finally lay good things bare, before your eyes to behold, and your ears to hear. Just as the Bible says, What the ear has not heard and what the eye has not seen is what God has prepared for those who love him. Indeed the Almighty Father has favoured us and we are witnesses of His love and never ending care. I am pleased to advise that George and Tapiwa, our two senior boys have been accepted into university. This is marvelous and beautiful in our days. Behind all our tiresome efforts, hard work and massive toil was the need to see transformed lives in the young and innocent but less privileged children in our society. That light at the end of the tunnel is finally here and it marks the beginning of a new era in the Village Hope family. Tangible results have always been our objective in all our endeavors and we are happy that today we stand with our shoulders high that the tiny seed has become a mighty tree. Who shall despise the day of small things?
Mark your calendars for our workday at the Hillsboro House (618 N. Second Street) with Spruce Street Baptist Church on Saturday, April 26. Lunch will be served! START time 9:00 Am Many volunteers needed Need some folks to bring Continental Breakfast as well + Coffee + Juice MATERIALS/EQUIPMENT needed from volunteers Ladders that extend to the roof of a one story house Rollers and roller trays A power washer HPC VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to work on these PROJECTS:
George and Tapiwa will be starting their way into Repair trim around roofline to prevent squirrels from getting into the attic university at the end of February 2014. This new development will send a positive signal to all our children who are part of this family, that the reality Power wash the back porch and front porch of going to university will no longer be a distant hope. The lives of George and Tapiwa will serve as Indoor painting- living area [ paint is already there ] icons for the other children and an ever present possibility of what they can do in our midst. Garden work need mulch
Dearest Friend, This journey we share, has been one of many twists and turns. Each time weve said yes to taking in a new child, or starting some impossibly expensive project weve stepped out in faith, without knowing what the results might be. The good news which comes to us today, is for each of you who has ever given a dollar or said a prayer for this work and it is amazing news: Two pitiful little boys, destined to beg and perhaps starve on some dirty city street, are today, proud university students. Along with Paddington and Alice, lets claim this great joy! Together we have come so far and who knows what God has waiting for us ahead .
by amy dillon
Parenting Workshop
Education is a foundation that is stable and secure. The United Nations in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focuses on poverty eradication, and it identifies education as one of the pathways that can used to attain the objective. In a small way you join us at Village Hope, as we do our part to achieve this global objective. I ask you to join the family in prayer as we commit the lives of the boys in the hands of the Almighty Father. Once again we fall short of words to express our heartfelt gratitude to each of you in far off America. Were it not for each of your efforts, we would not have arrived at this point. We know that the Almighty Father, in His wisdom, will surely remember your names. With Love, Paddington
There is still time to register for our first Parent Workshop of 2014 scheduled for Saturday, April 5th from 10:00am1:00pm. We are so happy to have Molly Henry, the Human Growth & Development and Parent Program Coordinator at Abintra Montessori School, leading parents through some of the basics of Positive Discipline. Positive Discipline is for parents who are looking for long-term parenting skills that will encourage their children to think for themselves, become more responsible, and develop problem-solving abilities. Disciplining children can be done with respect, firmness, and love. Positive Discipline includes parenting tools that incorporate both firmness and kindness, help parents get to the core of their childs misbehavior, and bring more joy into the home. The cost to attend the workshop is $25 per family and includes lunch. We will have childcare available for children nursery age-5th grade. Please contact Amy Dillon to register (665-0148 ex. 11 or amy@hpcnashville.org).
*Keep a look out for more on the recent trip to Zimbabwe in next months issue of The Good News!
By Bob Turner
conGRADulations!
On Sunday, April 27, we will recognize all our church graduates. If someone in your family is graduating from preschool, kindergarten, high school or beyond, send us their name and school so we can include them in our list of 2014 Graduates. Following the 10:00 Unity Service on the 27th, there will be a FREE Churchwide luncheon to honor our High School graduates. Please email Amy Dillon (amy@hpcnashville.org) to make your reservations.
Mike Swan and I were greeting each other in first service last Sunday. After the usual conversation, he asked about the recent Guatemala trip. Without even thinking, I remarked that Third World 12-year-old kids were going to change the world. We agreed item by item for the next couple of minutes. Whats going on? Firstly, when our group went to visit five villages in rural Guatemala, we were not visiting backward people waiting on our spiritual talents of conversion. It was Christians visiting Christians. It was perhaps rural Christians visited by urban Christians, or maybe highly spirit-filled Christians visited by occasionally tentative Christians. Nonetheless, I always come back with a better connection to Christ and creation than the connection I had before leaving. This is pretty much the case for all of us. There was a lot of activity in just eight short days. Sharon had not been to Guatemala; however, she has been to Indonesia, and she grew up in South Georgia and treated Native Americans in Oklahoma. Theres rural life and theres broken poverty. She knows the difference, and connected immediately with the people. Heart to heart. Shes also a bit short at the moment, like them, which helped. We were able to see all of the kids. There were shy little ones, giggling girls and testing-you-out boys. There were also the hard-working adults. Almost all of the adults do manual labor in the villages or in the fields, but a strong desire exists for their children to have a better life. We, meaning HPC mission travelers, pastors, donors, prayer warriors and friends, have been involved in Guatemala for some time now. A few mission changes and not-best projects have ended up with us helping these kids recieve and complete a decent education. Its a very valuable focus. Some of the girls and boys who played with visitors from our church on previous trips are now older and very different.They are speaking Spanish, are standing up straight, confident, looking you in the eyes, doing the math and speaking easily and well from a podium or pulpit. They are new, changed and leaving manual labor behind. It is actually miraculous. Rural Guatemala has changed from my previous trips. Now there is electrical service, water lines, cell phone access, computers and better roads (with motor bikes aplenty) to many areas, even to many of our villages.These changes mean that there is no choice between modernization and remaining traditionally the same. Our kids are ready to be clerks, mechanics, nurses, teachers, book keepers and have dreams of higher professional training. Our Third World 12-year-olds are leaving the corn, cane and palm fields behind. So, what kind of trip? It was a well planned, well conducted, safe, perfect weather, a warmly bonded group and totally eye-opening trip! I believe our recent group has been witness to God at work through the many hands that reached out to our Guatemalan villagers. Not hand outs, but hand ups (trite but true). We personally witnessed the gathering of twenty-seven students at Las Camelias, our lead village. What a wonderful and potential-filled group. These former 12 year olds are going to change the world, class by class. Thanks be to God.
The church is no longer using the PO Box to send mail. Please send all mail to the street address (5820 Hillsboro Pike Nashville,TN 37215). Also, make sure that any automatic payments use the street address as well.