2013 New Year’s Resolutions

There are a lot of facts about how well people stick to New Year’s Resolutions. Instead of making New Year’s Resolutions you already know you won’t keep, consider contributing to or joining some of the following:

 

Interfaith Works provides shelter, food, and clothing to
         low-income and homeless neighbors.

Upcoming Event: Companies Caring Breakfast 2013

Join 300 corporate leaders, public officials, foundations, community partners, and friends from the faith community on March 1, 2013 to celebrate our partnership to help those in need.

www.iworksmc.org

 

Gaithersburg HELP is a year-round food pantry serving the Gaithersburg community since 1968.

Donation by credit card: More Information

Alternate Giving: More Information

Volunteers Critically needed: More Information

www.gaithersburghelp.org/

 

The Dwelling Place, founded 21 years ago, is a housing program that provides transitional housing and support services in Montgomery County, helping families transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency.

Upcoming Event: Carnival of Chocolates in the Spring of 2013 - details to be announced

Upcoming Event: Community Breakfast in the Summer of 2013 - details to be announced

Upcoming Event: 25th Anniversary Dinner - Fall of 2013 - details to be announced

www.dwellingplaceinc.org/

 

Memory Lane - Do You Remember Major Mudd?

101 ways you know you're from Boston:
      #55. You remember Major Mudd.
 
Ed McDonnell (AKA Major Mudd) was the host of The Major Mudd Show, the long-running New England kids show (1961-1975) on WNAC-TV, Channel 7, in Boston, featuring cartoons and Three Stooges shorts. He passed away in 1976.

My brother Frank and I had our picture taken at Zayre's in Revere Massachusetts with Major Mudd! He was the first real live celebrity we ever met. Of course, I had on my best red hat!

How You Can Make A Difference - Read On

Being behind in my devotional reading, I am always amazed at how God points me to just the right reading for the day at hand. Today it is Our Daily Bread's 5/11/12 devotional entitled "A Sense Of Concern" by Bill Crowder (http://odb.org/2012/05/11/a-sense-of-concern/). He cites fearsome statistics which to most Americans seem unbelievable - " Every year 15 million people die from hunger." "In 2008, nearly 9 million children died before their fifth birthday, with a third of those deaths related to hunger."

Mr. Crowder lists a number of practical things that can be done to help others: "volunteering at a soup kitchen, assisting in a job search, financially supporting the drilling of wells in places in need of fresh water, distributing food in poverty-stricken regions, teaching a trade, or providing lunches for school children."

The Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church Youth program will be embarking on an international trip this summer to Guatemala to assist those less fortunate. At the bottom of my landing page is a letter describing how you can help by helping the helpers.

Please prayerfully read on. 

1)     Mail or take your check to:

            Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church

            Attn: Calvin Park / Guatemala          
            610 S. Frederick Ave.
           Gaithersburg, MD 20877

 

2)     Include:

Donor's Name and Address. [1]

            Name of participant you are supporting (if known).

NB:
To receive your tax deduction in 2012, GPC must receive your donation by December 31^st.

[1] A receipt for your tax-deductible gift will be mailed to the Donor’s address given.

Thought For The Day - Habakkuk 3:1

At one of my Bible study classes, the instructor handed out a devotional by Charles Spurgeon. Few things in my life impacted me the way these Morning and Evening devotions did.

This fall has been a challenge and the past 10 days in particular. So, today's devotion based on Habakkuk 3:6 hit home:

He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low. (NRSV)

 

Spurgeon’s observation is:

"Human action is frequently the hasty result of passion, or fear, and is followed by regret and alteration; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise, or happen otherwise than he has foreseen." (CHS, Morning, December 12).