Happy New Year! Your January 2013 Chimes Page 1 of 3 Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Friend us! Jan. 2013 Rev. In This Issue Kistler New Senior Minister To Be Installed Jan. 20 Budget Meeting & Installed Potluck Jan. 27 Volunteer to Spruce Up the Church 3 PM See Our Advent Photos Purge with the Preschool On Sunday, Jan. 27, 3 PM, our congregation Honor MLK will celebrate the installation of Rev. Darryl Kistler as our senior minister. A potluck From dinner/reception will follow in Lander Hall. Pastor Darryl A friend and colleague of Pastor Darryl's, Rabbi Allen Secher will offer the installation Read message.The Southern Association of the Pastor United Church of Christ conference to which Darryl's we belong, will officiate and a potluck dinner Divine will follow the service. Comedy Rabbi Secher will Learn more about this celebration. deliver installation message . Quick Links Jan. 20 Budget Meeting & Potluck Youth Group Schedule We will gather in Lander Hall after 10 AM worship for an all church meeting on Jan. 20. Learn about our five year plan, Prayers & Celebrations the budget, pledges, and our progress in reducing the operating deficit. Bring a dish to share (A - E Appetizers; F - K Main Dishes; L - P Salads, Veggies; Q - Z Sweets and Fruits). Ministry News Need a pledge card? Call the office at 619.284.1129 or email our office administrator at Seven Embark on [email protected] ) Or sign up for a recuring gift Confirmation Journey online under Give at www.kensingtonucc.com . https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1111913 ... 12/ 27/ 2012 Happy New Year! Your January 2013 Chimes Page 2 of 3 Dancing Brooms & Whirling Brushes: Join us Jan. 12 for our Volunteer Work Day Ready to paint? Organize? Clean and decorate? We need Here's How We Changed your help to spruce up our church home. We will paint the World in Advent hallways and classrooms, organize storage areas, and straighten up the conference room.Sign up in Lander Hall. January Worship Themes Take It In You May Have Our Advent Photo Gallery Noticed...The Chimes Our Advent season was full of Shop Local: KCC Reaps Rewards at Green Butterfly vibrant sights, sounds and smells. Tickle your senses, perusing our photos of the Third Annual Las Posadas in Kensington and the Coming in February Children's Christmas program. New Member Classes Want to upload your photos to our Save the Date Picasa Gallery? Contact Marg for Ash Wednesday the user name and password at Service, Feb. 13, [email protected] . Details to Come Purge! Drop Off for Preschool Rummage Sale Make the preschool part of your post-holiday purge! Drop off items in Lander Hall for the Kensington Preschool Parents Association rummage sale Jan. 28 - Feb. 1. Drop in and peruse at the Feb. 2 sale, 8 AM to Noon, Lander Hall. Honor Martin Luther King Jr. with Service & Sermon from a Freedom Rider Rabbi Allen Secher, a Freedom Rider, will share his memories of King and of the civil rights movement at 10 AM Sunday, Jan. 27. Our Partnership churches will again host a day of service -- this year on Monday, Jan. 21. Gather at 10 AM at Mission Hills UCC, 4070 Jackdaw Street, 92103, to assemble lunch and care packages for homeless and needy residents of Alpha Project's Winter Shelter. (We will need donations of 250 disposable razors and 250 individual hand wipes for the care packages. Please bring your donations to Lander Hall.) The Youth Group will carpool over, meeting at KCC at 9:40 AM and will return after serving lunch at the shelter. BELIEVE. BELONG. BECOME. An Open and Affirming Congregation Kensington Community Church | 619.284.1129 | [email protected] https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1111913 ... 12/ 27/ 2012 Happy New Year! Your January 2013 Chimes Page 3 of 3 http://www.kensingtonucc.com 4773 Marlborough Drive San Diego, CA 92116 Please submit your articles and photos by the 12th of the month to Marg Stark at [email protected] Chimes Team Editor: Marg Stark Production: Donna Hanson, Millie Medigovich and Beverly Patch 8:30 Half-hour Informal Worship 10 AM Worship, Sunday School & Nursery Forward this email This email was sent to [email protected] by [email protected] | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ™ | Privacy Policy . Kensington Community Church | 4773 Marlborough Drive | San Diego | CA | 92116 https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1111913 ... 12/ 27/ 2012 Join us for KCC Annual Budget Meeting January 20, 2013 Make plans to attend KCC’s annual, potluck budget meeting after the 10 a.m. service on Sunday, January 20 – all congregation members are needed for a review and vote to approve the church’s 2013 budget. Please bring main dishes (casseroles, sandwich trays, etc.), side dishes (salads, vegetables, appetizers) or desserts to share. The 2013 proposed budget will be available for review in advance of and at the meeting. The budget will include estimates of KCC’s revenue and operating expenses, as well as the projected deficit. The budget that is presented will be a proposed budget that has been recommended by the Church Council, based on budget requests and information provided by each of KCC’s ministries. We look forward to seeing everyone and hearing everyone’s input at the annual budget meeting! KCC Youth Embark on Confirmation Journey Our Confirmation journey is well underway, as seven of our youth began classes this fall with Rev. Darryl Kistler and Re- ligious Education Director Marg Stark. Our confirmands are Liam Clark, Zion Dyson, Katie Loomis, Teia Shannon, Eddie Warner, Maddy Warner and Grace Winn. Confirmation is a rite of passage in our church in which we prepare young people, sixth grade and older, to lead their own faith journey. In the twice monthly classes, they are challenged to consider what is important to them, and how faith might fit into their priorities in life. The students perform acts of service, including serving dinner to the home- less at the Alpha Project winter shelter in January. Over the next several months, they also will attend two or more “alternative “ worship services, such as the Shabbat service at Temple Emanuel in Del Cerro and prayers at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Our confirmands are shepherded throughout the process by adult mentors including Russ Havens (Liam); Martha Fuller (Zion); Bonnie McCarthy (Katie); Allison Clegg (Teia); Scott Gentry (Eddie); and Dean Hansen- Tarbox (Maddy). The mentors will join our confirmands for service work, at the alternative worship services, for retreats and for Lenten worship. In the spring, the confirmands will discern whether they want to join the church, sharing covenants with the congregation on Pentecost Sunday.. Take a moment to ask these young people about their experiences. Thanks to parents, mentors and all supporting them at this crossroad in their lives. The Divine Comedy Every year, I make three New Year’s resolutions. Why three you ask? Because if you make three resolutions, and are able to keep one of them, then that one out of three. We’re talking a .333 batting average, which is darn good on the major league level – that can win a batting title some years. And if you go one out of three for an entire career, then you’re heading to the Hall of Fame. Two years ago, I went one out of three, keeping a resolution to not eat fried food for the entire year. Not a single French fry touch my lips, nor a buffalo wing. I gave into the no profanity and I’ll walk the dogs every day, rain or shine, resolutions pretty early into the year. In Montana, in January, it can still be zero degrees, and the dog didn’t get walked because it was d*&# cold outside. Last year, I was resolved to keep my checkbook balanced, drink a my pro- scribed allotment of water a day, and stop chewing my fingernails. I went 0-for-3. This year . don’t call it a come back . I’m resolved to bat my .333 or higher. I’m going to learn conversational Spanish, I’m resolved to be at work on time, and I’m going to be the same weight I was when I graduated high school for when I attend my 20 year reunion in June. I’m intrigued, though, by this myth of the New Year’s Resolutions to remake our- selves. Maybe it’s waking from the sleepiness of the holiday season, or that mystical belief in the power of the numeral ONE, the start, the alpha, the beginning. But so many of us see the New Year as our chance to make things right again, still, maybe for the first time. This myth to start fresh is not just a western idea. Many people in the world do not gear up for January 1, but rather celebrate Chinese New Years. And though resolutions are not made for Chinese New Years, it is customary to evoke the power of your ancestors to give a person new good luck for the New Year – in other words, a chance to start anew. I like that idea, evoking our ancestors for help and luck. Looking to our past mentors and sages to guide us toward a glorious new day. As a pastor in the Christian Church, I seek out the words of the Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Micah, Jesus, and Paul to add depth and wisdom to my own voice. As a citizen of the United States, I peer into the American collective consciousness to hear what Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Franklin Roosevelt, Woody Guthrie, Susan B.