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SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE IN THIS ISSUE: Through August 8th • BIRTHDAYS

• ANNIVERSARIES

• PRESCHOOL

• MISSION

• HEALTH

• EDUCATION

• FELLOWSHIP

The Mission and CE Committees is hosting our annual School Supplies Drive and accepting donations through August 8th. Supplies will be distributed to food pantry guests August 8th and 15th. Supplies can be delivered to the church office Monday-Thursday or you can bring them Sundays and leave in our donation box in the Narthex. BIRTHDAYS Annette White August 1st Jeffrey Scott August 2nd Edith Friend August 2nd Cathy Metcalf August 2nd Paula Clement August 5th Nancy Blake August 6th Darlene Johnson August 11th Walter Khazoyan August 13th Rumpy Benak August 13th Dave Karaffa August 14th Mary Saucerman August 16th Lynn Winn August 19th Lyra Kimball August 20th Ann Wells August 20th Richard Clement August 21st Ezekiel Diaz August 22nd Grace Kim August 29th Laura Hapke August 30th ANNIVERSARIES

Brockton & Jean Wagner August 4th, 1989 Dave & Robbie Lamondy August 14th, 1993 David & Ann MacMath August 16th, 1947 William & Rumpy Benak August 18th, 2008 OUR CHURCH FAMILY Jim & Joyce Geisert August 19th, 1972 Paul & Carol Blackwell August 26th, 1989 Tom & Karen Godfrey August 27th, 1960 David & Karen Fuchs August 30th, 1997

COMPASSION & PRAYERS

Brian Bush & Family, Jim Blume, Nicholas Rogers, Steve & Tracy High, Tom Khazoyan & Family, John Kenis- ton, Beta, Jenny Dickens & all Health Care Workers, April Taylor, Judi McCoy, DJ Moxley, Laura Hapke, Martha Moyers, Pam Munoz, Aileen Marsile, Susan Butcher, Tom Godfrey, Joe Woollett, Darlene Johnson, Terry Pastor Winston travelled to the Bruce & Karen Scott welcomed & Jean Ann Duckworth, Pat Gunder- east coast during July to visit with their granddaughter, Bowie man, Alayne Campbell, Kate Berg & Zeteo Missions, Lyn his daughter and her family. The James Scott, who was born on (Bush) Reynolds-Johnson, Priscilla Groot, Dave & Rob- trip included a wonderful ceremo- May 27th to their son Jeff and bie Lamondy, Fred Baja, Walt & Barbara Khazoyan, The ny of baptism for his granddaugh- his wife, Jordan. Bowie was 5lbs. Steele Family, Andi Zanca, Cliff & Doris Nelson, Bob Mitchell, Steve & DJ Hill, Larry Mamchur, Teala Wilson, ter - Hailey Blake O’Connor - in 10oz and 19” long. Cape May, N.J. Winston is pic- Debbie Green, Bill & Ann Teachout, Carol Culbert, Amy tured with son-in-law, John, and & Rick Wilson, Karen Scott, Dave White, Barbara Robi- daughter Layna (and Hailey of son, Ted Browning, Ellie Schilder, Gail Telkamp, Valerie course!). and Matt Furcron, The McAulay Family, and all serving military personnel. Note: Prayer list is current at time of publication. 2 PASTOR’S LETTER Dear Church,

Generally, it is a “No-No” to include family members in a Pastor’s remarks. Howev- er...but...with exception...until now. I just returned from a week with Hailey - our 2 year old granddaughter. Of course, her mother and father were there, but admittedly they knew they were not the big attraction! Hailey was! I came home changed and not simply confirmed in my thoughts that grand-parenting is the best!

Parents-to-be read all the “what-to-expect” books on pregnancy and a mother’s changing body and emotions. Parents read the growth books and school themselves on the learning curves of a child’s development. How should the child be doing at this age or what should the child be saying or when should the child start playing with these toys. Grandparents roll up our sleeves (or pants’ legs) and wade deep into what- ever the child is doing like we are kids all over again! Literally, I sat in a tiny pink house on the floor. All 66 years of aching joints and bones. It was worth it.

Pop and granddaughter explored the world as if it was the biggest and newest crea- tion since...well, since the world was first created. Every leaf was new. Every bug a recent discovery. The sound of wind in the tree leaves got an excited finger pointing upward. Did you know that water can be “splashed” and “kicked.” Grasshoppers can be caught and examined. A firefly lighting two inches of darkness becomes a shining light the size of a moon in a child’s eyes. “Look!”

I saw all of this again, as if for the first time. I am grateful. In our/my world of haste and routine production the newness is tar- nished. Creation seems like an opaque background where the news of the day is focused. The crust of living covers our/my eyes. We plod and stomp and care not what’s actually under our feet. Hailey stopped all of this for me, if but for a week. I am grateful.

Part of this is the natural reminiscence of an older man re-joining some of his own childhood enthusiasm and mischief. We get older, even if we refuse to grow up, entirely. But we do grow up and as Paul says, “give up foolish and childish ways.” Looking at our grandchildren, if we are fortunate, or any child reminds us of a circle of life. It begins on a carousel and moves to a high- er Ferris Wheel and then car wheels through the town. “And the seasons change. They go round and round. We’re caught in a carousel of time.” (I wish I had written this, but borrowed it from a song from Ian and Sylvia.) Cannot get off the carousel of time. We age. We get older. Truth told, we cannot even hold onto our youth, live it once more through our children, the young. Nope. We can hold them up in our arms and glimpse a mere tiny self, but the adult looking back in the mirror is grown. He/She will not fit in the PJs of the past.

But...but...the carousel doesn’t have to spin us beyond the once held newness and gratitude for being alive and the wonder of it all. The bugs are still there. The grass still moves mysteriously. You can catch a rain drop on your tongue. Mystery can poke through the crusty pessimism of the same-old-same-old which often feels like a left turn on a racetrack at a NASCAR event.

“Look!” begins a page in a child’s learning or a map to a journey or a discovery of a sign, like a star, leads to a birth of love from God...for all of us on this carousel of time. God isn’t in the wind or the bug or the “splash” of water. God wasn’t in the star, either. The star led somewhere. And we can be assured in every bug we pick up or scoop from a pool, whether we have a child’s eye or not, that God is behind it all. God’s love is there holding us like any proud grand-parent...the grandest of them all. Each of us so special… just look. See what love God has for us that we can be called God’s children. And we are!

SANCTUARY LIGHTING

The Sanctuary lighting has received a makeover with a number of new LED bulbs and fixtures for the track lighting that covers the chancel area. Together with the addition of the new cloth covering for the organ pipes, these upgrades have really lifted the general appear- ance of the Sanctuary and Chancel area. Thank you to Bruce Scott, Pastor Winston and Dale Sollee for their

work on this project.

3 FELLOWSHIP & EVENTS ONLINE WORSHIP IS BRIDGE Wed • July 28th / Aug. 25th • 1 pm • Flippen Chapel NOW ON YOUTUBE Our 4th Wednesday card session is Our return to in-person worship includes a hybrid service that is resuming. Join your fellow gamers also simultaneously broadcast live on our new YouTube channel for fun, dessert and refreshments. each week. YouTube will make for a more seamless viewing expe- $2. Friends, neighbors and relatives rience and there will be no necessity to log in or avoid prompts to welcome! do so. If you are reading the newsletter on your computer you can click the link below to visit our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/ BOOK CLUB UC2qn5IWUH4yNGmS_2eWEzNg Wed • August 25th • 11:30 am • Flippen Chapel

We recommend that you bookmark the page on your web browser For August, we are reading and dis- so that you can easily visit again. Alternatively, be sure and sign up cussing The Library Book by Susan to our email list by contacting the church office to be added to our Orleans, based on a true story: weekly e-press bulletins, which will tell you everything you need to know: [email protected] / 714 538 2341. Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling homage to a be- loved institution – our libraries. On the morning of April 29th, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Ange- les Public Library. Raging through the stacks, the fire reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. It was the largest library fire in the history of the United States: it destroyed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more, and shut the library down for seven years. The mystery remains: did someone purposefully set fire to the library - and if so, who? Weaving her life-long love of books and reading with the fascinating history of libraries COMMUNION DATES 2021 and the sometimes eccentric characters who run them, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling The Session and its Worship Committee invite you to participate author Orlean presents a mesmerizing and uniquely com- in the Sacrament of Holy Communion. As we also continue to pelling story. With her signature wit, insight, compassion worship online, if you wish to participate please plan to have bread and talent for deep research, she investigates the legend- and wine/grape juice available at home. Remaining Communion ary Los Angeles Public Library fire to showcase the larger, dates in 2021 include: crucial role that libraries play in our lives, and reveals how July 4th, August 8th, October 3rd, November 21st, these buildings provide much more than just books, and December 19th are needed now more than ever.

Please join us with a sack lunch as we discuss this very interesting story. If you have any questions, please call Lynda Stewart at (714) 639-5076.

4 GREAT SCOTS!

When my mother, Andrew Smith Hallidie was the Scot Patricia, first moved responsible for implementing and pro- to London from her moting the San Francisco Cable Car Scottish hometown system. Using his patented wire cable of Dundee, it was for and the engineering skills of William a civil service job in Eppelsheimer, they created a grip sys- the health depart- tem that the tram cars could use to latch ment. One of the on and off the moving underground first things that she cables to propel the cars along. did when she came Mairi Chisholm, at just 18 years of age, travelled to Pervyse in to live in London Belgium to establish a First Aid post on the front lines of the was to join the con- First World War. With her friend, Elsie Knocker, they gregation of St. worked tirelessly and in harm’s way, to look after the allied Columba’s – one of soldiers – often carrying two Scottish congre- the wounded on their gations in the city. backs from No Man’s St. Columba’s is the younger of the congregations, the older Land. They provided being that of Crown Court Church which was formed around hot drinks and soup as 1711 and soon moved a short distance to the location that you well as medical services can find it today in well-known Covent Garden. Crown Court and driving ambulances. Church has a number of interesting features: a baptismal font Many will know of An- made from the last pieces of marble to be quarried on the Isle drew Carnegie – the of Iona. The stained-glass windows - which include a number Scottish-American steel- of panels designed by Michael Farrar-Bell of Clayton & Bell, m a g n a t e - t u r n e d - who produced stained glass that can be found in churches philanthropist who pro- across the world. vided funds for so many St. Columba’s church was consecrated much later, in 1884, on educational and cultural the corner of Pont St. in Knightsbridge. The original church resources; including es- building was destroyed by an incendiary bomb during the Blitz tablishing Carnegie of 1941 and rebuilt - with the current church completed in Technical School (now Carnegie-Mellon University), 2,500 1955. The church is named for St. Columba – an Irish monk libraries, and of course the world-famous Carnegie Hall in and missionary who in 563 founded a monastery on the island New York City. He was born in Dunfermline and immigrated of Iona and began the spread of Christianity throughout Scot- to the US in 1848 aged 13, settling in Pittsburgh with his fami- land. ly.

Rather longer before Mum came to London though, the pres- ence of Scots in the city can be traced back to 1603 when James VI, King of Scotland, became King James I of England. There is evidence that a number of his courtiers followed him south to the greater London region and worshipped in a chap- el on a site that would later come to be known as ‘Scotland Yard’ - the original headquarters of Sir Robert Peel’s Metro- politan Police.

And there are many Scots who have migrated and contributed to our world. James Braidwood, an elder and Sunday School teacher at Crown Court Church, founded the first organized municipal fire brigade with the Edinburgh Fire Engine Establishment, before he accepted a job as head of the Lon- Photos (from beginning): St. Columba’s church, London; don Fire Brigade. He is widely James Braidwood; Andrew Smith Hallidie; Mairi Chisholm; credited amongst fire services and Andrew Carnegie. bureaus throughout the world. 5

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6 Violet Fenton - Director of Childcare

August News July was a month full of water play, walks to Chapman University, Jungle exploration and more! It was a blast!

August will be our last month of summer camp and the theme for the month is Under the Big Top. Our students will get to join their very own circus as they explore just what happens under the Big Top! There will definitely be circus tents, clowns, popcorn, cotton candy, elephants, circus trains and more! We even have some special circus performers coming mid-August!

We will also kick off the first week of August with Move Up Week ! During this week, all of our students will move into their new classrooms for the 2021/2022 school year.

Our enrichment activities for the month of August include Yoga, Music & Movement, Movie Mondays, Water Play, Face Painting, Popsicles, Walks to Chapman and of course, Art & Science!

7 EDUCATION WORD & WINE KID’S COVE Wednesdays • 5:30 pm • via Facebook Sundays • 10:00 am • Kid’s Cove / Courtyard

Pastor Winston is now offering his weekly Word & Wine As our in-person worship services have re- class as a Facebook broadcast. Why not pour yourself a glass sumed, so too has the opportunity for your and settle in on the sofa? kids to participate in our weekly Kid’s Cove group! The program includes all of the things www.facebook.com/firstpresorange that adults do in church…and more! We sing, You do not need to be logged into Facebook to watch as we we learn about the Bible, we make stuff, we have a public page - you just need an internet connection! play crazy games, we draw, we laugh, we pray, Every week Pastor Winston offers a behind the scenes look at and we have a great time doing it! Your kids will want to come the upcoming lectionary passage that will be used in the ser- back again and again! mon. Contact him to join our Word email list: rwin- [email protected]. MESSY SUNDAY 4th Sundays • August 22nd • 10:00 am • Courtyard

Our in-person activities for kids on the fourth Sundays continue! Reading, planting seeds, art projects and com- munity service are just some of the activities we have in store. The fun happens out- side and lasts 45 mins-1 hour. The theme for August is Under the Big Top. Children and families that participate will need to wear masks and practice social distancing. Contact Violet Fenton for more information: 714 538 2341 x.112

FAITH & PRACTICE: THE WIRED WORD Sunday • 11:00 am • Flippen Chapel

Our studies come from our popular series covering con- temporary issues of the day. FPCO SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS Class materials will be emailed to participants during the week First Presbyterian Church of Or- prior. Please contact Pastor ange is pleased to offer scholar- Winston if you would like to ships to those planning on contin- be added to the mailing list for uing their education. Applications this: [email protected]. are being accepted now through August 15th. If you are looking to Faith & Practice is our Sunday morning Christian Education gain additional qualifications we hope that you will consider class for adults following our Worship service. Led by Pastor this opportunity. Contact the church office for an application Winston Presnall (and occasional guest speakers), all are invit- form, which can be returned to the church office. ed to participate in, and explore a variety of topics and themes that we can all relate to and apply to our own lives in faith. Come and see what these thought-provoking sessions are all about!

8 FINANCIALS

HEALTH MINISTRY WELCOME CHASE!

August is Summer Sun Safety Month. Ac- The newest addi- cording to the American Cancer Society, tion to the Cota- most Skin cancers come from too much Robles clan is exposure to UV rays. UV rays are strong- Chase Cota-Robles, est between 10am and 4 pm, can get born to Marc and through clouds, and can also reflect off of Jasmine on June surfaces like water, sand or pavement. 21st. He was 9+ lbs There are five simple steps to limit your exposure to UV rays: 1) and 21 inches long. Avoid being in direct sunlight too long. If your shadow is shorter than you are the sun’s rays are the strongest and you should protect your- self. 2) Protect your skin with clothing. If you can see light through a fabric UV rays can get through too. 3) Use sunscreen. Sunscreens with broad spectrum protection and a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30 or higher are recommended. If you use a sunscreen with a SPF of 30, you get the equivalent of 1 minute of UVB for every 30 minutes in the sun. Also check the expiration date. Most sunscreens are good for at least 2 to 3 years. 4) Wear a hat with a 2-to-3-inch brim at least. 5) Wear sun- glasses that block UV rays. Be careful, but enjoy the outdoors! 9 191 N. Orange Street Orange, CA. 92866

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The First Presbyterian is the newsletter of First Presbyterian Church of Orange. The deadline for announcements and articles is the 10th day of each month prior to publication.

Church Staff Ruling Elders Deacons

Liz Calvo Laura Compton R. Winston Presnall, Pastor Margaret Carson Karen Godfrey [email protected], extension 109 Doug Compton Jennifer Grissom

Caitlin Giusta, Director of Music Rick Cota-Robles Pat Gunderman Joyce Geisert Lyra Kimball [email protected], extension 104 Bruce Scott Chelsea Pickens-Tonick

Violet Fenton, Director of Childcare Lynda Stewart Barbara Yusko [email protected], extension 112 John Von Szeliski Keith Yusko

Lynn Winn, Business & Finance Administrator

[email protected], extension 108

James Keniston, Director of Communications [email protected], extension 106

Bruce Scott, Facilities Manager SUNDAY WORSHIP SCHEDULE:

[email protected] 10:00 am

Teresa Bernal, Site Supervisor - OP Preschool In-Person [email protected], extension 112 On YouTube

Grace Kim, Organist [email protected] Visit us on the web at: www.firstpresorange.org Follow us on Social Media: @firstpresorange