“You Are Our Branches” “You Are Our Branches” “You Are Our Branches” “You Are Our Branches” Woodside Village Church celebratescelebratescelebratescelebrates God's love in both worship and music,

proclaimsproclaimsproclaimsproclaims the Gospel in words and deeds, and reachesreachesreachesreaches out to meet the needs of our members, our community and our world.”

Easter People

On Easter Sunday the world is born anew. Death has lost its sting because for those who believe, Christ has won the victory over sin and death. Alleluia! In the first few centuries following Christ’s death and resurrection, Easter was the entry point into the church for new Christians. Following intense preparation through the 40 days of Lent, new believers would be baptized just before dawn and welcomed into God’s family on Easter morning by sharing in the Eucharistic meal at worship. Whether we have been Christians all of our lives or for just a few hours, as Easter People, we can share in that same sense of renewal. As God promises us this gift of new life, he also en-courages us to share this gift of love with all those we meet. Make this Easter Sunday a time to invite your friends and family to join us as we cele-brate our Risen Lord. Following the celebration service, a special reception in Guild Hall, and an Easter Egg hunt for the children will be provided. May the good news of Christ’s resurrection strengthen and empower each of us so that we might indeed make disciples of all for the Glory of God. Alleluia!!

See you in Church! Pastor Mike

March 2013

PRAYERS OF CONCERN AND COMFORT…

Veva Wheaton, health issues, Natalie Friend, rehabilitation care, and Mark Degnan, surgery Friends and Family members:

Joe Harvey, health issues, father of Pastor Mike, Rick Rogers, health issues, friend of Karlene

Harvey, Law Family, health/family issues, friend of Sue Alvarez, Tish Showen, health issues,

friend of Kristie Rice, Wendy Coonley, cancer, friend of Cindy Murphy and Richard Pedersen,

cancer, brother of Eric Pedersen.

Please check the names on the prayer list. After one month they will

automatically be removed and if need be, replaced at your request. PM

NEXT WEEK’S SCHEDULE

Sunday - 3 8 a.m. Breakfast - Carolyn Van Cise 9:30 a.m. Worship Service + Sunday School 11 a.m. Personnel Committee

Tuesday - 5 6:30 p.m. Lenten Soup Supper 7:15 p.m. Circle Maker Study

Wednesday - 6 11 a.m. Sermon Scripture Study

Thursday - 7 7 p.m. Choir

Sunday - 10 9:30 a.m. Worship Service + Sunday School 11 a.m. Worship Ministry 11 a.m. Service Ministry 11 a.m. Long Range Planning Committee

Thursday - 6 4:30 p.m. Wedding Rehearsal - Sanctuary

Saturday - 9 4:30 p.m. Wedding - Sanctuary

MODERATOR’S CORNERMODERATOR’S CORNERMODERATOR’S CORNERMODERATOR’S CORNER "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.""For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.""For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.""For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18: 20)

One of the main themes coming from our recent Leadership Conference was the heartfelt desire of many to experience loving relationships as brothers and sisters at WVC. Our ministry teams are a wonderful opportunity to do just that! If you see someone you would like to know better, or see a friend you would like to spend more time with, or you see an interest of yours that fits with the team’s mission, just come to their next team meeting! You will be very welcome!

George Norbeck, Moderator

NEXT UP: 11 AM Sunday, March 10 NEXT UP: 11 AM Sunday, March 10 NEXT UP: 11 AM Sunday, March 10 NEXT UP: 11 AM Sunday, March 10 – Church Council task force to launch a long-range planning up-date.

ALL ALL ALL ALL are welcome to join us in the conference room Jerry Straks

Look who’s helping to forward our church’s mission!

Join us!

Growth Ministry Team:

Karlene Harvey, Diane Griffiths, Julie Pedersen

and Ashley Pedersen

Not pictured: Jodie and Paul Hackworth

Board of Service Ministry Team: Ed

Moore, Judy Rice,

Doris Willbanks, Dee Carlson

(Clerk), Marie Delucchi (Team Leader),

Andrea Schramm, Carolyn Van Cise

(Council Representa,ve), and Kristy Rice

Worship Ministry Team:

Mary Norbeck, Sharon Aissa, Dolores

Degnan, Barbara Tagg, Jennifer Lind-

berg (Team Leader), Becky

Rudd, Marcela Del Alcazar and Bar-

bara Schmidt (clerk).

Not pictured, but present: Dorothy

Straks, Pastor Mike, Chet Yee, and

Terry Stoker

Excused: Cindy Murphy

Admin./Finance Ministry Team:

Linn Winterbotham, Bob Burn, Jerry Straks (Co-Chair), John Carson and Sandie Pugh

Not pictured: Barry Willbanks( Clerk), Betsy Hobson and Mark Dickey (Co-Chair).

BE ABE ABE ABE A

CIRCLE MAKERCIRCLE MAKERCIRCLE MAKERCIRCLE MAKER

According to Pastor Mark Batterson in his book, The Circle Maker,

“Drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn't just a mechanism whereby we accomplish great things for God. It's a mechanism whereby

God accomplishes great things in us.”

Do you ever sense that there's far more to prayer, and to God's vision for your life, than what you're experiencing? It's time you learned from the legend of Honi the Circle Maker---a man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from inside it until God answered his prayers for his people. What impossibly big dream is God calling you to draw a prayer circle around? Sharing inspiring stories from his own experiences as a circle maker, Mark Batterson will help you uncover your heart's deepest desires and God-given dreams and unleash them through the kind of audacious prayer that God delights to answer. For the next several weeks, Pastor Mike will continue to draw his sermons and his sermon study class materials from this inspirational book. Please join the class and learn about the faith and commitment necessary to pray – and dream – as big as God calls us to do.

Sunday, March 3rd & Tuesday, March 5th - Pray Hard: Persistence Quotient

Sunday, March 10th & Tuesday, March 12th - Pray Hard: Think Long

Tuesday, March 19th - Soup Supper and Prayer Service in Chapel

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Lent is a great opportunity

for us to invite friends, neighbors, and family to “Come and see!” � Our Lenten Series continues on Tuesday evenings through March 19th

� Our evenings together will begin with a Soup Supper beginning at 6:30 p.m. followed by the Circle Maker series at 7:15 p.m. � The series concludes with a soup supper and a reenactment of the ‘Last Supper’ in Guild Hall on Maundy Thursday, March 28th. This year’s Lenten Sunday Sermon series will also focus on `Be a Circle Maker’. This will be a teaching style sermon, so please bring your Bible!

May your Lenten Journey be a journey of spiritual reflection and renewal and draw you into a closer relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Messiah!

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Reminder… LENTEN SOUP SUPPER HOST SCHEDULE:

AND: EASTER MORNING COFFEE CAKES will be needed—See Doris Willbanks!

March 5 6:30 p.m. Choir

March 12 6:30 p.m. Service Ministry

March 19 6:30 p.m. Growth Ministry

March 28 7:30 p.m. Last Supper re-enactment/Maundy Thursday

Holy week and Easter service schedule:

Lent is a great opportunity for us to invite friends, neighbors, and family to “Come and see!”

� Our Lenten Series continues on Tuesday evenings

through March 19th

� Our evenings together will begin with a Soup Supper beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Circle Maker series at 7:15 pm.

Holy Week: March 24 - Palm Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

March 28 - Maundy Thursday 7:30 p.m.

a reenactment of the ‘Last Supper’

March 29 - Good Friday Service at 7:30 p.m.

March 31 - Easter Celebration Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

Reception and Easter Egg Hunt

Memorial Easter Flowers Memorial Easter Flowers Memorial Easter Flowers Memorial Easter Flowers may be purchased through the office may be purchased through the office may be purchased through the office may be purchased through the office

or on the signor on the signor on the signor on the sign----up sheet in the Narthex.up sheet in the Narthex.up sheet in the Narthex.up sheet in the Narthex.

Don’t forget about our annual Easter Egg Hunt!

Make this Easter Sunday a time to invite your friends

& family & children to join us as we celebrate our

Risen Lord. Following the service, a special reception

will be provided in Guild Hall and an Easter Egg Hunt

on the patio for children.

"The Bible" is an epic five-week, 10 - hour television mini-series premiering at 8:00 pm on March 3rd on the History Channel from Emmy-Award winning husband and wife team, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. For two hours each Sunday night, millions of viewers will see the Bible come to life in a way never before seen. The final episode of the series will air on Easter Sunday and will feature the death and resurrec-tion of Jesus. To help ensure the accuracy of the miniseries, many Christian scholars served as advisors and hundreds of Christian leaders have given their endorsement. The 10-hour, five-part docudrama will span the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, presenting some of its best-known stories, including Noah's Ark, the Exodus, Daniel in the lions' den and the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Former Touched By An Angel star Roma Downey, Burnett's wife and fellow executive produc-er, heads a large international cast in the role of Mother Mary. Keith David, an Emmy winner for voice-over performances, will narrate with a musical score by Oscar-and - Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer. Since the entire Bible can't be covered in 10 hours, the miniseries, which was filmed in Morocco, focuses on a select group of stories and features such compelling figures as Abraham, Moses and Da-vid. Some stories had to be compressed for artistic purposes. This mini-series does not begin until March 3rd but this will give all of us a chance to tell as many people as possible about this series. Let's use this series to reach as many people as possible.

BEGINNING MARCH 3RD AT 8:00PM ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL

a 10-hour TV miniseries from executive producers Husband and wife team

Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) and Mark Burnett (Survivor, and Shark Tank)

Special Music for the season Special Music for the season Special Music for the season Special Music for the season from

Masterworks Chorale and Ragazzi Boys Chorus

Masterworks Chorale joins with Ragazzi Boys Chorus to present John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, an uplifting work by one of the world’s most popular composers. Full of gentleness, deep feeling and joy, it combines the voices of children, adults, and soprano and baritone soloists singing English and Latin texts. Masterworks and Ragazzi will also be featured separately in other works, including Ticheli’s “There Will Be Rest”, a serenely beautiful piece on a poem by Teasdale, as well as Mendelssohn’s “Laudate Pueri” for treble choir, the vibrant American folk song “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal”, Moses Hogan’s exciting arrangement of the spiritual “Didn’t My

Lord Deliver Daniel?” and an arrangement of “Greensleeves” by Jameson Marvin of the Harvard Glee Club. Don’t miss this beautiful and inspiring musical event!

Saturday, March 23 8:00 PM Sunday, March 24 4:00 PM Carlmont Performing Arts Center

1400 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont

Tickets: $20 Advance Purchase $25 at the door $10 with Student ID Call or click today!

www.masterworks.org 650-574-6210

ARE YOU READY FOR :

OUR BOUTIQUE BONANZA

Contemporary and Antique Furniture Thursday, March 21, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Friday, March 22, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

GUILD HALL

WOODSIDE LIBRARY EVENTS

MONTH: March

CONTACT PERSON: Karen Yamashita PHONE: 650-851-0147

ADULT PROGRAMS:

An Afternoon with Author Donia Bijan

Saturday, March 2 at 2 pm

Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American

Kitchen, speaks of family, cooking and customs surrounding the Persian New Year

(March 19, 2013.) We may even get to taste a few Persian treats as we listen to her

wonderfully recounted stories.

Adult Book Club

Monday, March 4 at 1:00 pm

We’re discussing Alexandra Fuller’s sharp-voiced memoir of growing up white in

1970s Africa. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight delves into race, politics, history,

home and loss with humor and compassion.

Online Job Search computer class

Saturday, March 9 at 9:30 am

Learn how to conduct effective searches, develop the right keywords and search

strategy, and locate and use the available online job market information, career out-

look projections, vocational training resources and local job fair and employment

listings on the web.

SPECIAL ART EXHIBIT

March 1 to March 28, 2013

Woodside School art teacher Bev Iverson shows the talents of 25 students from our

neighborhood K-8 public school. We’re so pleased to debut the work of our student

artists that we’re having an opening with cookies and lemonade for students and their

admiring families; please join us on Friday, March 1, 2013 from 3:15 to 4 pm.

Serving Our Lord

Date Deacons

March 3 Chet Yee + Nancy Riewerts

March 10 Chet Yee + TBA

March 17 TBA

March 24 Palm Sunday Mark Dickey, Nancy Riewerts, Chet Yee

March 31 EASTER Chet Yee + Mark Dickey

Readers

March 3 Terry Stoker

March 10 Sue Alvarez

March 17 David Bean

March 24 Palm Sunday Ashley Pedersen

March 31 EASTER Paul Hackworth

Greeters

March 3 Carolyn Van Cise + Julie Pedersen

March 10 Vic and Karl Frederick

March 17 Jim Degnan and David Bean

March 24 Palm Sunday Ashley Pedersen + Spencer Riewerts

Sunday Breakfast

March 3 Carolyn Van Cise

Communion Assistants

March 3 Ellen Schillig

March 10 Carolyn Van Cise

March 17 Karlene Harvey

March 24 Palm Sunday Jennifer Lindberg

Coffee Hour Volunteers - Barbara Tagg & Marie Delucchi

March 3 Service Board

March 10 Service Board

March 17 Boutique Set-up

March 24 Palm Sunday Marie Delucchi + Margaret Helton

March 31 EASTER Jodi and Paul Hackworth

March 31 EASTER Karlene Harvey

March 31 EASTER Easter Coffee cakes - Doris Willbanks

March 29 Good Friday TBA