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The Corner StoneThe Corner Stone Stone Church ~ The Church on the Green

The purpose of Stone Church is to be an inviting, spiritual community of Christ, engaging in worship that inspires and challenges us to learn and grow

as we reach out in caring and service, trusting in the love of God.

March 2012March 2012

WORSHIP IN MARCH AT STONE CHURCH

Thursday, March 1, 2012 Thursday, March 1, 2012 –– A Service of Healing and Wholeness A Service of Healing and Wholeness

This brief service of prayer, silence, anointing and candlelight will be held

in the Norton Room and is open to the public. Those who are struggling

with any disease, infirmity or challenge to health and well-being are

welcome, along with those who have family and friends with physical or

mental health issues.

March 4, 2012 March 4, 2012 –– Second Sunday in Lent Second Sunday in Lent –– The Lord’s Supper The Lord’s Supper

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Abraham and Sarah

Psalm 22:23-31 All the earth shall remember you.

Romans 4:13-25 God’s promise is realized through faith.

Mark 8:31-38 Jesus foretells his suffering and death.

Sermon Promises, Promises

March 11, 2012 March 11, 2012 –– Third Sunday in Lent Third Sunday in Lent

Exodus 20:1-17 The Ten Commandments Psalm

19 The heavens tell the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Liberty is not license.

John 2:13-22 Jesus raises a ruckus in the temple.

Sermon Creative Destruction

March 18, 2012 March 18, 2012 –– Fourth Sunday in Lent Fourth Sunday in Lent

Numbers 21:4-9 God protects the wandering people.

Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 a thanksgiving for deliverance

Ephesians 2:1-10 By grace we have been saved.

John 3:14-21 Jesus talks with Nicodemus.

Sermon You Have Been Saved

Thursday, March 22, 2012 Thursday, March 22, 2012 –– A 7:00 p.m. Service of Healing and Wholeness A 7:00 p.m. Service of Healing and Wholeness

(See above, March 1) March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 –– Fifth Sunday in Lent Fifth Sunday in Lent

Jeremiah 31:31-34 The covenant will be written on the heart.

Psalm 51:1-12 a psalm of penitence

Hebrews 5:5-10 Christ is our great high priest.

John 12:20-33 Some Greeks ask to see Jesus.

Sermon Connecting the Dots

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - Taizé

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Why Am I a Presbyterian?

Researchers confirm what our own experience has known for a long time: that Denominational loyalty is pretty much a thing of the past. People join churches for many different reasons, but denominational preference is low on the list! But for some of us it’s not like picking an ice cream flavor or deciding on a brand of automobile. For some of us it makes sense to be a member of the body of Christ in that part of the body called “Presbyterian.” Over the next several editions of The Corner Stone I’d like to take this “Pastor’s Corner” space to tell you about my journey of faith as it relates to being a Presbyterian and how I have come to appreciate this tradition—even as I have engaged in a prolonged “lovers’ quarrel” with it over more than three decades. And it’s quite a story. I grew up in the Methodist Church, which became the United Methodist Church in the 1960s after a merger. From as early a time as I could remember, my father was my pastor. The American Protestant church between 1950 and 1970 was a cultural phenomenon. Everyone went to church. It was the era of “civil religion.” I sup-pose I mostly “osmosed” the faith in the routines of “going to church.” I don’t think I learned much of sub-stance about the Bible. I mostly remembered from Sunday School the songs, the games, the crafts and the flan-nel board. My father was an excellent preacher: an articulate and engaging speaker, whose sermons tended to-ward the rhetorically affective, aimed at the heart. Methodists moved around a lot, so the sermons I heard were sometimes recycled. While other children played cowboys and Indians, my six siblings and I played church: setting up rows of chairs in the living room. And as a “child of the parsonage” (and I had to train myself in the early years of my Presbyterian experience to say “manse”), I was also keenly aware of the underbelly of church life: the politics and chicanery of being church and the pain it caused. I suppose that my early exposure to all things ecclesiastical predisposed me toward pondering the great theo-logical questions. I was always curious about God, religion, spirituality and this thing called “the Bible.” My freshman year at Hartwick College I declared a dual major in religion/philosophy, but I dropped the religion part early in the first semester. I was becoming increasingly certain that I did not want to spend my life in the church, and absolutely certain that I did not want to “follow in my father’s footsteps.” It was important to me that I find my own path. That path led through prolonged periods of doubt and skepticism about all things re-lated to religion. Still there was a draw. My senior year of college and the first year after graduation, I was hired as the part time choir director at First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta. The church was without a pastor much of that time, and the pulpit was supplied by one of the religion professors from the college—a Lutheran whose preaching seem to me somewhat abstruse. I was never really sure what it was that these Presbyterians stood for, but it seemed to this 22-year-old in the choir loft largely antique and irrelevant. This was 1970-1972. The whole world was changing. The church wasn’t much. It was during this time that my wife, who had been my high school sweetheart, and I broke up. I was 20 and she was 18 when we were married in 1969. Though we were married only for a short time, the break-up was more painful than anything else I had experienced at that point in my young life. During those early, hard weeks, it was my former music professor and college choir director (whose influence in the church had pro-cured for me the choir director’s job) who came to call on me. He was an elder in the church. He came as a former teacher, but he also came representing the church in my time of need. I never forgot that. Though I did not know what a “session” was, I knew that it must have something to do with caring that one of its “elders” could reach out in this way.

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My teaching career zigzagged next to Rochester. It was there that I got hooked up with the Unitarians. The people in the congregation were wonderful, gentle, neurotic, creative types. The pastor of the church was an agnostic. I have told the story in sermons about how, one Easter Sunday, we all stood to sing to the tune of the Easter hymn, “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today,” some words like, “See the little flowers blooming, tra-lalalala, lalalalala.” I point to that moment as my “conversion,” the moment when I affirmed that I was, indeed, a Christian—whatever that meant! My next teaching position brought me to Madison, New York, and I rented an apartment in nearby Waterville. The few times that I managed to get up early enough on Sunday to haul myself out to the service at the United Methodist Church in Waterville, I found the experience less than satisfying. On a whim one Sunday in 1974, remembering the kindness shown me by the professor/elder from Oneonta some years before, I decided to try the Presbyterian Church up the street. I was welcomed and greeted warmly as a guest. One charming and gra-cious middle-aged couple in particular made me feel at home and invited me to join their mid-week Bible study group. The preacher, a young man fairly recently graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and before that with a BA in philosophy from Dartmouth College, preached in a way that woke up my theologi-cally sleepy brain. I knew I would come back, and I knew that I would attend that Bible study with that lovely couple whom, as the mysterious ways of God would have it, I would four years later come to call my in-laws.

TO BE CONTINUED Deepeace,

Why Am I a Presbyterian? (continued from page 2)

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Highlights of the February 13 Session/Deacons Joint Meeting ♦ Elders and Deacons discussed a handout on church

leadership. ♦ Deacons plan to reorganize their board to reflect a

reduction in size. ♦ A Manual of Operations and updated Bylaws are

works still in progress. ♦ A request to use the sanctuary for the Arts and Mu-

sic Festival in August was discussed. ♦ The clerk is completing the annual statistical sur-

vey due on February 23. ♦ Pat Joseph presented checks to the Presbyterian

Home for their new Parkinson’s Unit. ♦ Some people have paid pledges up front which has

helped our cash flow greatly. ♦ Shelly Coe was elected treasurer of the church for

another one-year term. ♦ Heating the narthex and the Norton Room with

portable heaters was discussed. ♦ The Fair Trade Shoppe now has a Facebook page. ♦ A concert scheduled for February 26 will benefit

the Parkinson’s Unit at the Presbyterian Home. ♦ Summer services will be shared with the Clinton

United Methodist Church again. ♦ A Lenten video series will be done at CUMC. ♦ The Village Green Storytellers will host an open

story swap at Preswick Glen on February 29.

One Great Hour of Sharing When the devastating earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010, you were there, participating in the rescue and providing clean water and food supplies almost as soon as you heard news of the quake. When almost one-third of Pakistan was se-verely flooded in the summer of 2010, with estimates of up to 20 million people affected, and nearly 2 mil-lion homes damaged or destroyed, leaving about 10 million people homeless, you were there. When disaster struck Japan a year ago, you were there. You were there because since 1949, Presby-terians have joined with millions of other Christians through One Great Hour of Sharing to share God’s love with people experiencing need. Our gifts support minis-tries of disaster response, refugee assistance and reset-tlement, and community development that help people find safe refuge, start new lives, and work together to strengthen their families and communities. As we journey through Lent to Easter, let us be thankful that we are able to share our blessings with others. We will formally receive the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering on both Palm Sunday and Easter. Fish banks and Sharing Calendars are available at the church for those who wish to use them. Please give joyfully.

Benefit Concert The Benefit Concert for the Parkinson's Project of the Presbyterian Home was a wonderful success. The event raised $813.27, and brought into our lovely church people who had never been here before. Thank you to all who helped with the concert, the lovely reception, and the sales in the mission shop. Special thanks to all of the performers. Lauralyn Kolb

First row from the left: Austin Franklin, Nicholas Elacqua, Zachary

Slade, Madeline Soults, Hannah Rosenstein, Lauralyn Kolb

Second row from the left: Kaila Booth, Zachary Kaye, Brett Hammes,

David Elacqua, Julia Omelko, Michael McCormick, Ewa Lawrence

Last row from the left: Libby Militello, Brian Collett, Madeleine

Adams, Simon Day-Roberts, Celine Laracuente, Helen Tracy


Lenten Series Sponsored by the Clinton Area Ministerium

“From Jesus to Christ: The Early Christians” is a video series produced by the PBS-affiliated “Frontline.” This excellent series will be presented following a light supper on Thursday evenings in Lent at Clinton United Methodist Church beginning at 6:00 p.m. Each episode will be followed by a time of discussion and reflection. Stone Church members are invited to join others from CUMC, St. Mary’s, St. James and Lutheran Care in this exploration of faith. The series explores these issues of interest:

March 1 - Jesus' Many Faces

How well do the archaeological clues historians are uncovering match up with the story Christians have long told each other?

March 8 - A Portrait of Jesus' World

His was a deeply religious generation, spiraling toward war amid expectations of a coming cosmic battle of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness.

March 15 - The Story of the Storytellers

The first gospel was written almost 40 years after Jesus' death. Were they historically accurate, ob-jective accounts? Or intended as proclamations of faith?

March 22 - The First Christians

The clash of customs and cultures among early Christians yielded a Jesus of many different inter-pretations and multiple messages.

March 29 - Why Did Christianity Succeed?

How did this small Jewish sect become the Christian church, embraced by the Empire that had sent Jesus to his death?

For those for whom Thursday nights are not an option, the same series will be shown on Wednesday nights at Three Steeples United Church in Paris beginning with a light supper at 6:00 p.m. Please do consider making this a part of your Lenten discipline this season! The series is also available for viewing online along with more information at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/.

No Cooking Necessary!

Many thanks to all of the Stone Church members and friends who faithfully serve dinner each month at Hope House. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

As always, volunteers are needed on the fourth Monday of each month at 3:00 p.m. Please add this rewarding opportunity to your schedule! Questions? Call Ceil Gilbert, 853-8289.

Hope House’s Wish List

FOOD: Coffee, tea, creamer, plastic grocery bags, and spices. HYGIENE: Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors, and shaving cream. Please leave items in Norton Room.


Fish Fry/Chicken Dinners

The Clark Mills Fire Department, 7700 Main Street, is hosting a FISH FRY DINNER/CHICKEN TENDERS DINNER every Friday until April 6. Cost: $9 for the fish fry; $7 for the chicken tenders. Hours: 5 to 8 p.m. Take outs are available by calling 853-3117.

Scout News Boy Scout Troop 9 attended the Klondike Derby on Feb. 4th at Camp Russell. On February 12th, Boy Scout Troop 9 and pre-sent and past leaders of Boy Scout troops in Clinton led the Scout Sunday service at the Clinton United Meth-odist Church. Mr. Rudge coordinated the service, the scouts performed as ushers and read the scriptures, and Mr. Leonard gave the message recounting his first Klondike Derby some years ago. The Boy Scouts are continuing to work on their Personal Management merit badge with Mr. Beach. It is a required badge for Eagle and requires spending records and budgets to be kept for three months. Boy Scout Troop 9 is planning a high adven-ture hiking and canoeing trek in the Adirondack moun-tains this summer. Troop members plan to participate in activities to condition themselves and prepare for the trek during the coming months. On Saturday, March 10th, 4-7 PM Boy Scout Troop 9 plans to host their annual ham dinner at the Clinton United Methodist Church from 4-7 PM. Food will be available for eating in, take-out, and will be de-livered to seniors within the village of Clinton. For tickets, please contact Gerry Gogel at 853-6461 or Cathy Axel at 853-6878. Virginia Ross, Assistant Scoutmaster


Historical Period Revisited—A Glimpse into Stone Church’s Past

Rev. Samuel Kirkland—His Role in Founding Hamilton College (Part I)

Hamilton College is celebrating its 200th year that was chartered on May 26, 1812. The Rev. Kirkland’s chartered Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 is referred to as the precursor to the establishment of Hamilton. Rev. Kirkland is rightfully credited as its founder. Sometimes overlooked as we distance ourselves over 200 years is that the college drew its existence from the struggles and sacrifices of Rev. Samuel Kirkland. For a brief background, Samuel Kirkland was the son of a minister and raised with an emphasis on inner personal religion. Important in Sam’s education was the spiritual and worldly welfare of the Indians inspired by his father’s friend Eleazar Wheelock at More’s Indian charity school in Lebanon, CT. Before finishing his senior year at Princeton, Sam was eager to help Indians and spent some rough times with the Seneca Indians receiving his degree “in absentia” in 1765. He was called back from the “frontier” to be ordained as a minister and then commissioned as a Congregational missionary to teach Christian knowledge to the Oneida Indians.

Rev. Kirkland quickly learned the language and his gentle demeanor gained the Indians’ trust and affection so much so that they looked to him for counsel in their affairs. He developed a compelling influence over them. He dealt with their drunkenness by getting chief men to seize intoxicating liquors—but not without lapses of course. Many Indians were converted to the Christian faith and also his wife’s devout faith helped influence industry, neatness and devotion among the Oneida women.

With the arrival of the Revolutionary War, Kirkland was asked to persuade the Confederacy to remain neutral but only the Oneidas and Tuscaroras stayed neutral for a time but they eventually sided with the colonists—the other four nations sided with the British not only bringing disunity to the Iroquois Confederacy but devastation to their homes. During the war Rev. Kirkland served as chaplain and after the war he resumed his mission with renewed hope and spirit to the poor, desolate and morally depressed Oneidas working among the Indians with tireless energy and courage.

Foremost in his mind was educating the Indians. By 1791 he established a native school with an Indian, Jacob Reed (Atsiaktatige) as teacher with 24 students. Later that year his good friend Ebenezer Caulkins was hired to teach in Oneida, a teacher the Indians admired. They actually justified his rigid discipline. In Rev. Kirkland’s eyes those schools were successful in teaching agriculture and husbandry.

In 1788 the Oneidas and NYS granted Kirkland 4760 acres west of the village of Clinton to reward him for his efforts as interpreter at land treaties and his several years of pastoral care. The patent of 2 square miles of land lay roughly between the Oriskany Creek and Skyline Drive. One year before this acquisition, a small group of settlers headed by Moses Foot established the community of Clinton. During this time, Rev. Kirkland occasionally preached at one of the settlers’ homes. He served on the Council when Rev. Asahel Norton was hired as the first pastor and gave the ordaining prayer at Rev. Norton’s 1793 installation service held in the “open air” near their log cabin church.

Rev. Kirkland envisioned the “reds “and the “whites” being educated together believing that the Indians needed educa-tion in order to gradually assimilate into the White man’s culture if they were to survive.

(to be continued) Midge Bakos


Thanks to Our Outgoing Officers!

Four officers of Stone Church have completed terms of service and are rotating off Session and the Board of Deacons. Of course, they continue to be ordained and to minister while not in “active service.” David Kolb and Scott Leonard are going off Session as Elders. David has served faithfully and well, leading the Worship, Education and Program Team, coming up with resourceful innovations (the Blue Christmas Ser-vice last year, the Healing Services that we will hold in March) and raising astute questions. He continues to serve as choir member, occasional cantor, storyteller and resident go-guy for microphone and amplifier issues. Scott Leonard’s farewell is somewhat tongue-in-cheek because he will continue to serve as Clerk of Session although not a voting member of Session. Scott has provided invaluable service to Stone Church over the past six years of his two terms. After chairing the PNC that chose me as your pastor, he continued to function as my “right hand man,” undertaking many tasks on session and serving as consultant and wise advisor. His bound-less energy and wide ranging interests and gifts, his knowledge of scripture and passion for storytelling, his dedication to the choir and the Boy Scouts—the list goes on and on! We are glad that we will continue to have the benefit of his counsel (if not his vote) on Session. Midge Bakos and Helen Leonard are our outgoing Deacons. What can we say about Midge? She is a pillar. She is the glue. She is the font of information. She is the embodiment of our history. As a Deacon, Midge faithfully called attention to the needs of the sick and troubled. With her “ear to the ground,” she helped extend the caring of the community of faith to those who needed it. Our “retired” Deacon continues to serve by updat-ing the marquee and hymnboards weekly, editing the Pulitzer-worthy The Corner Stone, caring for the many plants of the church (indoors and outside) and being an all-around help. Helen Leonard has been a faithful dea-con, caring for the sick and the lonely, attending Deacons’ meetings with regularity, contributing to the work of that board as Secretary. She took charge of flowers on special occasions, as well. In the Parable of the Talents in Matthew’s Gospel, those who have invested their landowner’s money to pro-duce a good return are congratulated by the landowner. We borrow those words of congratulations to celebrate the investment that our four outgoing officers have made over their terms in office: “Well done, good and faithful servants!”


Chocolate Lover’s Sale

We would like to thank everyone who baked, bought, worked, donated money (or helped out in any other way) for our Chocolate Lover's Sale on February 11th. We were extremely pleased with the great participation by our members

and friends. Our profit amounted to $429 for our baked goods and our Fair Trade sales totaled $200. Thank you, The Mission, Stewardship & Fundraising Committee

Kirkland Community Bloodmobile

Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Clinton United Methodist Church

105 Utica Street, Route 12B, Clinton NY

New and past blood donors are needed. Please call Jean Wainright at 853-2265 or 1-800-GIVELIFE to schedule your appointment or register on line at www.redcrossblood.org. Walk-ins are needed to meet the goal. Sponsored by Kirkland Community Organizations

Let’s make our Easter garden bloom!

Easter Flowers are available this year for those who wish to remember a loved one. Please fill out the form below and put it in the collection plate or send it, along with a check, to the church office. The plants can be picked up after the Easter service. The deadline for ordering flowers is Tuesday, April 3.

Flower choices: ♦ Lilies

6" $10 8" $20 (2 plants in pot) 10" $30 (3 plants in pot)

♦ Hydrangeas $16 Questions? Call Linda Rance, 797-0737, or Peggy Weldon, 853-2933.

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Name of donor(s) __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Given in memory of __________________________________________________________________ or Given in honor of __________________________________________________________________ Deacons may deliver the plant to the homebound __________ yes __________ no Flower choice ___________________________________________________________________ Amount enclosed ___________________________________________________________________

♦ Tulips, daffodils and hyacinths 6" $8 8" $16

♦ Mums 6" $10

♦ Azaleas 6" $18

Remember in Prayer If you would like to add someone to our prayer list or

would like to receive the prayer list for daily prayer,

please contact the church office at 853-2933 or go to

our website stonepres.org and click “Prayer Request.”

Lori Sherwood Eleanor Palmer Elaine Schmidt and Family Allen Solomon Marius Thomassen Rosalie Lauber Family of Nancy Shaw Menard Family Kathleen Putney Jennifer, Zach and Emma Liz Adams and Family Buzz and Carol Sterling Barrows Donna Marie and Toby Todd Family of Barbara Stockbridge Steve Zuchowski, Sr. and Family Dan LeMonnier and his father-in-law Joseph Pavlot Gidget Royce-Pavlot Susan Rambo and Family Dina Ferguson The Mushtare Family Dane Britcher

March Birthdays

1 - Taylor Pavlot 2 - Buffie Brothers Stephanie Leonard 6 - Chris Jensen 8 - Kara Milana 9 - Mandy Machold 16 - Larry Bishop 17 - Rhoda Swan 18 - Sue Dewey 21 - Liz Harrington


Remembering Audrey

We continue prayers for the family of Audrey Kaiser who died January 30, 2012. Her devotion to her husband Fred and his loving and caring in re-turn was a great example to all. She was a loving mother to daughters Cady and Deborah and grandmother to three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Audrey is remembered for her contribution of her artis-tic talents that she shared with the community through the KAC, schools, library, and Stone Church. Espe-cially known for quilting, each quilt told its own story. We will miss her wonderful smile and giving spirit.

23 - Grace Whittemore Virginia Francis Rose Lockwood 24 - Ewa Lawrence 28 - Christine Tuttle Thomas Pavlot 29 - Sarah Lalonde 31 - Dave Wilbur

The Kaiser Family Peter Fay and Family Stan Shinkle Don Black, Judy Black Lisa Hyatt The Machold Family Sarah Ziegler Mike Rosenberg Doris Locke Jim Royce

Wanted: Your Per Capita!

Please note that per capita payments for 2012 are now being readily accepted!!! Our per capita charge this year is $34 per member. The church is assessed this amount for each member on the membership roll. The per capita is the cost of our representative democracy as a church and supports the meetings and operations of the Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly. Please consider sending your per capita either directly to the church office or enclosing it in your pledge envelope. Thank you in advance for your help.

Welcome, Gio!

Frank and Kara Milana are the proud parents of another son Gio Francesco Milana named after the paternal grandfather Giovanni Milana. Gio weighed in at 7 lbs.

and 20 inches long on February 15.

Gio made his debut at our Ash Wednesday pancake

supper - a week old!


March 2012

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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10a-6:30p Fair Trade Shoppe

5:45p Daisy Scouts

6p Lenten Series-CUMC 7p Healing Service

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9a Choir 10:30a Worship

9a WEP meeting

7p Boy Scouts

6p Lenten Series- 3 Steeples 7p VSF meeting


6p Lenten Series-CUMC

7p Taizé worship

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9a Choir

10:30a Worship 11:30a Deacons

7p Boy Scouts

8:30a CAM – Lutheran Care 6p Lenten Series- 3 Steeples


5:45p Daisy Scouts


7p VSF meeting

10a Lay Academy

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 9a Choir

10:30a Worship 2:30p Kirkland Bird Club

7p Session

7p Boy Scouts

Newsletter

deadline

6p Lenten Series- 3 Steeples


6p Lenten Series-CUMC 7p Healing Service

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 9a Choir

10:30a Worship

3p Hope House

7p Storytellers

5p Presbytery meeting – 1

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Pres. Utica 7p Boy Scouts

6p Lenten Series- 3 Steeples

10a-6:30p Fair Trade Shoppe 5:45p Daisy Scouts


The Corner StoneThe Corner StoneThe Corner StoneThe Corner Stone Stone Presbyterian ChurchStone Presbyterian ChurchStone Presbyterian ChurchStone Presbyterian Church P.O. Box 33 (8 S. Park Row)P.O. Box 33 (8 S. Park Row)P.O. Box 33 (8 S. Park Row)P.O. Box 33 (8 S. Park Row)

Clinton, NY 13323Clinton, NY 13323Clinton, NY 13323Clinton, NY 13323

CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED

Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Clinton, NY 13323 Permit No. 37

Rev. Dennis Dewey, Pastor

Home Phone: 797-1163; Cell (emergencies): 790-2214

E-mail: [email protected]

Rev. Gerald R. Platz, Pastor Emeritus

Director of Music: G. Roberts Kolb Sexton: Cros Harvey

Treasurer: Shelly Coe Clerk of Session: Patricia Joseph

Office Manager: Peggy Weldon Newsletter Editor: Midge Bakos

Office: 315-853-2933 www.stonepres.org E-mail: [email protected]

Sunday Worship:10:30 a.m.; Church Office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday

Please note…

The deadline for the April issue of the newsletter is Wednesday, March 21.

Contact Midge Bakos, editor, 853-2951, with questions or comments.

Newsletter team

Many thanks to Midge Bakos, Carolyn Barnum, Trudi Christeler, and Bev Miller who have collated, folded, taped and labeled this issue of The Corner Stone for you!

Documents

The Corner Stone The Corner Stone€¦ · When almost one-third of Pakistan was se-verely flooded in the summer of 2010, with estimates of up to 20 million people affected, and nearly