St. Andrew’s Shield

“...above all taking the Shield of Faith ...” Ephesians 6:16

Volume 52, Number 7 April 11, 2007

From the Pastor’s Heart

My heart is still singing! What a glorious Holy Week and Easter we experienced! We had opportunities to walk through “the valley of the shadow of death” almost as if we had been there – from the Seder at Southminster on Wednesday, through the Maundy Thursday service here, to the Good Friday joint service at John Calvin, into the joy of Easter morning services.

Some of the sources of our joy this Easter have included activities with members of both St. Giles and Southminster. Little by little, step by step, we are becoming acquainted. Not that we were strangers – many of us were already friends with one or two or three, and are discovering even greater commonalities than we previously knew.

As the future unfolded for the first disciples, they saw Jesus at work among them, bringing them comfort in their distress, telling them what they needed to do, being present with them. We can be assured this same Jesus will be among us, too, as we work together to follow Him.

Following the Risen Christ together!

Pastor Ann

St. Andrew’s Serving Schedule
Greeters:
April 15	Beverly Clark
April 22	Chuck and Karen Kriner
Children’s Church
April 15	Diana Henderson
April 22	Stacy Morehead
Acolyte:
April 15	Mickey Ross
April 22	Will Baird
Ushers:
April 15	Rob and Mari Turley
April 22	Leslie Talbott and Candace Baird
Refreshments:
April 15	Betty Harris and Betty Harper
April 22	Jimmy and Donna Lee

NEWS from the PEWS!

Diana Henderson just returned from 7 days in Hawaii (Kaua'i and Oahu islands) with her sister, 15 year old niece, and friend, David. The only negative of the trip was the unrelenting restriction that there are only 24 hours in a day. Diana got to snorkel at one of the beaches that are now sporting "beach-chairs", water-proof wheelchairs with balloon tires which can be easily pushed over the sand and into the water. The others went scuba diving and had surfing lessons on Kaua'i and got to "swim with the dolphins" at Oahu's Sea Life Park.

Pat Smith was recently able to fulfill a lifelong dream to visit the renowned Galapagos Islands off the South American coast. Along with 15-20 others, she was able to see many of the unique animals for which the islands are known including the Galapagos Turtles, sea lions and the only penguins found north of Antarctica.

“MARINERS NEWS”

Mariners will be attending the long-running melo-drama, "The Drunkard" on April 21. We need a head-count, so contact Emile Tucker or Diana Henderson if you would like to join us!

EARLY LEARNING CENTER

The Early Learning Center is now enrolling for the summer. It will start on June 12 and end on August 2. We are expecting a fun and successful summer. If you are interested, please contact the director at 627-9600.

The Spring Concert and Graduation for ELC will be May 17^th beginning at 9:45 a.m. in the sanctuary.

Spring Break begins on May 24 with the summer program resuming on June 12.

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN

The Presbyterian Women Spring Gathering will be Saturday, April 21, 2007 at Tulsa First Presbyterian Church at 9:30 a.m.

Registration and ($5.00) lunch money must be in by April 14, 2007. Please contact Beverly if you are planning to attend.

DIRECTORY UPDATES

For current directory updates, contact the church office.

CALLING ALL GRADUATES…

We need to know if you are graduating from High School

or College this May. We need your full name – first, middle and last.

Please call the church office.

Report of Exploratory Committee Retreat on March 31, 2007

As the congregations of Southminster, St. Giles and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churches explore their future together, there will be periodic updates from "The Exploratory Group" made up of representatives of all three congregations. Here are the notes from the Retreat on March 31.

Update: St. Andrews has accepted the offer to sell their property. Details and timeline to be worked out. Spirit high, confident that we can seize the chance of a lifetime to create a new vision and do ministry in support of that vision.

	what did we do/how far did we go?
	working on a common vision
	identified each congregation’s strengths, goals, values
	shared questions (baggage)
	each group brought questions from “people in the pews”

NEXT STEPS:

1. clarify and write vision

2. then plan structure

3. in the meantime, engage in some joint worship, programs, and activities together

4. Exploratory Committee will meet again on April 15 at 1 p.m. at Southminster

If you have questions and/or concerns you want to make certain are addressed, please give them in writing (with your name, in case clarification is needed) to one of our members of the Exploratory Committee:

Gary Griffith

Diana Henderson

Anne Spitzmiller

Lew Sullivan

Leslie Talbott

Rob Turley

If you have to miss worship on any given Sunday, you can find both the bulletin and the sermon on the web. Webmaster, Emerson Parker, adds them to our website each week, and adds The Shield on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Our address is www.standrewstulsa.org

St. Andrew’s Special Prayers and Concerns…

Please call the Church office if you know of someone who needs to be added to or removed from our Prayers and Concerns list.

Presbytery Prayer List

Please remember these friends in your daily and weekly prayers…

April 15 - 21, 2007

Committee Day at John Knox, Tulsa and John Calvin Church in Tulsa along with Asia and the Pacific, Republics of Central Asia, Pakistan and India.

April 22 – 28, 2007

Racial Ethnic Parish Councils and the First Church in Pawhuska as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand.

LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

Please make a note of these future events…

April 15 9:00a.m. Sunday School

9:15a.m. Parents’ Class

10:00a.m. Worship Service

11:00a.m. Fellowship Time

4:00p.m. St. Andrew’s Singers

5:00p.m. Youth Group

April 18 7:15p.m. Sanctuary Choir

April 19 9:30a.m. PW Morning Circle

12:00p.m. PW Afternoon Circle

April 21 Committee Day at John Knox Presbyterian Church

9:30a.m. Presbyterian Women Spring Gathering at Tulsa First Presbyterian Church

7:45p.m. Mariners Outing to “The Drunkard”

April 22 9:00a.m. Sunday School

9:15a.m. Parents’ Class

10:00a.m. Worship Service

11:00a.m. Fellowship Time

4:00p.m. St. Andrew’s Singers

5:00p.m. Youth Group

April 23 5:30p.m. Homeless Feeding

April 24 7:00p.m. Bunko

April 25 Shield Published

7:15p.m. Sanctuary Choir