1 – Barbara Soden5 – Brayden ThomasRoberts7 – Joseph Price 9 – Betty Skorec Matthew Tomcykoski10 – Jason Bowen17 – Norma Frank Barbara Metzgar23 – Lisa Metzgar25 – Eric Sohns

Jan 18 – Jack & Bev Solsman

Special DatesNew Year’s Day, Jan. 1,

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10:30 Worshipwith Communion

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Cub Scouts

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Boy Scouts

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Greens

12:00 Worship Committee

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Eagle Scout Ceremony at

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Scout Pinewood Derby

Epiphany, January 6, Baptism of the Lord, January 11, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,

Jan. 18-25, --to all who provided boxes that were delivered to the Clarks Summit State Hospital to be given to residents, who might not have received any gift.

The Head Start of Dunmore sent thank your cards from each child who received a gift from our church. Thirty-six children got a gift pack of books and crayons.Special thanks to the Secret Santa that helped with these gifts.

Both Joseph Price and Natalie Cantarella have sent Thank Yous! for the care package of goodies received to help through final exam time. Joseph is a student at Arcadia University and Natalie at Keystone College.

Resolutions American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) became focused on his life’s purpose at age 19. The result was 70

resolutions, or commitments, he wrote down and then read every week for 35 years until his death. Some of those resolutions include: • To live with all my might while I do live.• To study the Scriptures … steadily, constantly

and frequently.• Never to lose one moment of time.• Never to do anything which I should despise or think meanly of in another.

• Never to do anything out of revenge.• To let there be something of benevolence in all that I speak.• Never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the

last hour of my life.

SESSION

CLASS OF 2015 CLASS OF 2016 CLASS OF 2017 Barbara Keller Linda Muracco Linda Bourbeau John Frank Nancy Walsh Connie Richards Dick Loessy Don Williams Frank Stieler

Financial Secretary: Connie Richards Treasurer: Sue Cantarella Clerk of Session: Sue CantarellaTreasurer of Endowments: Richard Loessy

The next session meeting will be held onTuesday, January 20, 2015 at 7:15 p.m. in the

chapel.

The next stated meeting of the Lackawanna Presbytery is:

January 31, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at The UPC of Lackawanna Valley, Peckville,

BOARD OF DEACONS Bonnie Forbes Georgie Levy Danny ClarkMyrna Watkins Lisa Price Bobbi GoldbergMary Grace Donati Betty Skorec

Howard Miller

The next Board of Deacons meeting is: Saturday, February 21, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.

The Board of Deacons continue to collect non-perishable food items that are taken to the Safety Net in Scranton. Items may be left in the church vesitbule or leave them in the church office.

Tne Annual Congregational and Corporation meeting will be Sunday, January 18, 2015,

following worship. All reports should be into the church office by January 11th.

Please continue to keep Betty Skorec and her family in your ongoing thoughts and prayers.Betty will celebrate her birthday on January 9th.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Sarah Palermo and Cataldo Pinto following the recent death of their

brother Joe Pinto. Joe had done work throughout the church in past years and we remember his family at this time.

A group of carolers visited our shut-ins and delivered Christmas gifts from the Presbyterian Women and the Board of Deacons. Many thank you notes have been received for their visit and gifts and they have been placed on our bulletin board.

Helen Biggar thanks the Deacons, Presbyterian Women, and members of the congregation for their cards, gifts, and visits during the holidays. 

A special thank you goes to all the carolers who came to Green Ridge to share the scripture and carols with the other residents and me--I appreciated your taking the time on a busy Saturday afternoon to continue this tradition.  With my best wishes for a Happy and Healthy 2015!

The Prayer Shawl group continues to be busy and have made 20 shawls for our shut-ins and friends and family of our congregation in need of prayers for healing. If anyone is interested in joining the group and making a shawl, please let

Barbara Keller know.

The Outreach Committee will meet on Wednesday, January 14th at 7:00 p.m. Anyone that is interested in joining the committee is welcome to attend.

Volunteers are needed to help remove the Christmas decorations from the church are asked to meet on Saturday, January 10, at 10:00 a.m.

The Worship Committee will meet at 12:00 noon on Saturday, January 10, 2015.

Prayer Concerns and Events of ourChurch Family

The new edition of the large print “Our Daily Bread” is now available. These are in a limited quantity and can be found in the vestibule or in the Fellowship

Hall. The next regular print edition will begin in March.

Openness to the unexpected is the key to spirited vitality. The wise men in Matthew 2, which is about the baby Jesus, came from modern-day Iran. They ably grasp that God’s revelation is

coming to a different religious and ethnic group than their own. Do they know that the royal child they will worship will be born into economic circumstances far beneath theirs? Not likely. Others might have said, “There must be some mistake here! But undeterred, the magi bow in obedience and offer their gifts to this baby – Jesus.The great spiritual writer, Henri J. M. Nouwen, in his early book. “The Wounded Healer” expressed an important spiritual insight – that the person who seems most in need of healing may himself or herself be a healer. But his insight acquired a new and transformational personal reality for him, when he came to know

Adam Arnett. When Henri moved to L’Arche a community for Special Needs people, one of his tasks was to help Adam get ready in the morning. Adam would not talk and had many physical needs; he was as slow as Henri was fast in walking and talking. But Adam, radiated a deep peacefulness. Bathing and dressing Adam fixing his breakfast, and sitting with him as he awkwardly ate it, Henri, whose brilliant inner being was driven by a constant anguish and sense of urgency, was opened up to discover Adam as his healer and teacher in a more centered and profoundly life-giving way of being.Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschal wrote in an essay, “No Religion is an Island” these powerful words: “To meet a human being is a major challenge to the mind and heart for another human being. It is also a disclosure of the Godly. “ Sometimes God’s self-disclosure comes not in a form we desire, let alone expect; but it is always gracious and life-giving--- like how God came in the form of an infant, the baby Jesus!Help us loving God, to be open to the unexpected in life, to treasure moments of

revelation by God, and to live out of the energy and insight they gives us.

Happy New Year ! Faithfully,

Pastor KenJanuary 18 to 25th

is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has a history of over

100 years . . . , in which Christians around the world have taken part in an octave of prayer for visible Christian unity.   By annually observing the WPCU, Christians move toward the fulfillment of Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper "that they all may be one."  (cf. John 17:21) An Ecumenical Celebration of God’s Word will be celebrated on Friday, January 24, 2014, at 12:10 p.m. in the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Scranton.

The Reverend Clinton A. Randall will be installed as pastor of The Hickory Street United Presbyterian Church, Scranton, on Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.

Our Church received a plaque from the Clarks Summit State Hospital in recognition of our volunteer service in 2014 by providing the Christmas gift boxes for the residents. We again were able to provide this service this year. This plaque is currently hanging the

church Fellowship Hall.Those who have any type of prayer need request for a friend or family member, please contact: Pastor Ken at 570-344-3145, Sue Cantarella at 570-343-6807 or let a

prayer chain member know. Our chain:Bonnie Forbes Danny ClarkBetty & Everett Fitch Betty LammGeorgie Levy Norma MeccaLisa Price Eleanor MetzgarNancy Walsh Doris Keller Liz Hamborsky

Monday thru Friday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Church Office: 570-343-6807 Pastor Ken is in the office Tuesday thru

Thursday mornings most weeks. Should anyone need pastoral care for any reason please contact Pastor at home: 570-344-3145

or when Pastor Ken is away, please contact Sue during office hours or after hours –

Her home: 570- 383-9298 or Cell: 570-954-5846

Church website: dunmorepresby.org Pastor Ken: pastorkf@verizon.net

Church email: dunmorepresb@verizon.net

dpcsecretary1@verizon.net

The Presbyterian Church of Dunmore137 Chestnut StreetDunmore, PA 18512Rev. Kenneth Forbes, Pastordunmorepresby.org

Ordinary People With Extraordinary Gifts Author: Catherine Pulsifer

You may through the course of a lifetime find inspirational people in your life who are not famous, are not authors, nor are they motivational speakers. These can be what might be termed ordinary people with an extraordinary gift to inspire those around them. These special inspiring people may be someone you meet at work and that person could be a co-worker, or a supervisor who excels at leading people through example, through skilled coaching sessions, and one who always sees the solution instead of the problem.

It could also be a person that you meet at church, or in a bowling league, or a schoolteacher or a minister, or the neighbor next door. It doesn't matter who the person is or isn't in terms of a position of importance; the real matter is that they are inspiring and uplifting.

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

A Well-Balanced Church The owner of a new puppy got a good laugh when the little dog, out for a walk, had an itch. The trouble was that the itchy spot was accessible only to a hind leg. So, while still walking, the pup tried to scratch and tumbled over, rolling a couple of times before coming to rest.

In several places throughout Scripture, the apostle Paul writes about the church as the body of Christ, and of the importance of each member. Just as the dog needed each leg to stay balanced while walking, so the church needs all the different God-given gifts of its members: preachers and elders and deacons, friendly visitors, generous givers, musicians and singers, wise parents and imaginative youth, greeters, ushers, people to help produce newsletters, repair something when broken, and on and on.

When we start thinking that some part of Christ’s body isn’t necessary, we risk taking quite a tumble!

The Faith Journey

Faith is better understood as a verb than a noun, as a process than as a possession.

It is on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all. Faith is not being sure where you’re going, but going

anyway. A journey without maps. —Frederick Buechner

Get ready for Epiphany Many Christian denominations celebrate Epiphany each

year on or near January 6. “Epiphany,” which means “showing forth,” celebrates the visit of the magi, or wise

men, to the baby Jesus. These men, also known as kings, saw the star that led them to Bethlehem.

The fact that these wise men were Gentiles, not Jews, teaches us an important theological lesson: Their

search for the Savior shows that Jesus came for all people.

In 1875, Philip Bliss wrote the hymn “The Light of the World Is Jesus.” The first stanza captures the

meaning of Epiphany, a season of light: The whole world was lost

In the darkness of sin,The Light of the world is Jesus!

Like sunshine at noonday,His glory shone in.

The Light of the world is Jesus!

The Presbyterian Women are now selling 2015 calendars and sets of greeting cards and they can be purchased during coffee hour.

Prices are: Wall calendar $ 7.00 Pocket calendar $ 6.00

Set of 12 blank greeting cards $ 7.00

Blanket Sunday was held in November and $390.00 was received to provided blankets for those in need through Church World Service.

GIVEN BY: IN MEMORY OF:

Don Becker & Linda Muracco Lois A. BeckerHelen & Jean Biggar Loved OnesPaula Costanzo Loved OnesCynthia Dagger Ralph and Mary JenkinMary Grace Donati Orlando & Mary

DiGennariBetty & Everett Fitch Mr. & Mrs. E.V. Fitch

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene McLaughlin

Donna Jenkins and Brenda Gallagher Ronald MartinelliMary Rudolfi

Wesley & Barbara Keller Grandma Tur,,Uncle Domenick,Florence G. Brown

Richard Loessy Harold & Lois LoessyRev. & Mrs. James Marsh Loved OnesNorma Mecca Loved OnesEleanor Metzgar William H. MetzgarConnie Richards & Family Florence Gillespie

BrownLisa Simrell & Rick Phaler Fred PhalerBev & Jack Solsman ParentsNancy Walsh George J. HamborskyMyrna Watkins & Georgie Levy Gwen and Dick Walters

Ruth Davies

Given By: In Honor Of:Mary Grace Donati Ryan EvansRev. Ken & Bonnie Forbes Eugene & Lorraine

Sterner