The Messenger
Newsletter of Forest Park Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

The Rev. Roger Woehl, Pastor
2300 S. Sunny Slope Road • New Berlin WI 53151
Website: www.forestparkchurch.homestead.com Email: fppcsec@aol.com
Phone: 262-786-5850 · Fax: 262-786-5483

Church Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday

JUNE CALENDAR
Thurs 6/4	6:30 p.m.	Deacons
Sun 6/7	9:30 a.m.	Worship
Sun 6/14	9:30 a.m.	Worship
Fri 6/19	11:30 a.m.	Daylight Drivers
Sun 6/21	9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.	Worship/Messenger Deadline (July/August) Session
Sun 6/28	9:30 a.m.	Worship Scrip Orders Taken Today

On-Going Events at Forest Park

4^th Monday – Health Department Immunization Clinic 3:30-6:30 p.m.

2^nd & 3^rd Thurs – Embroiderers’ Guild

6:30-9:30 p.m./7-9 p.m.

1^st Monday – Boy Scouts District Committee 6:30 p.m.

June 2009

Greetings Church Family & Friends,

I am often asked about the relationship that exists between our church and Play & Learn Preschool. So here is a little background information and an update about our school that I hope you will find interesting and informative.

For two years (1974-1976) the YMCA Tot Time Nursery School was operating at Forest Park Church. The teacher/director was Ruth Budic, a member of FPC (Forest Park Church). Due to lack of support and equipment from the YMCA to run this program coupled with the transfer of the YMCA’s administrator to a different position, the future of the nursery school was uncertain. Interest was expressed by Britannica Preschools to use our church facility for one of their preschools. Progress was being made and equipment was sent to operate the preschool, but due to a financial setback and overextension of Britannica’s operation in Illinois, the school never opened. However, the church did purchase the equipment from Britannica Preschools for $800.

With this series of events, Ruth Budic and Rev. Ned Benson began to discuss the possibility of continuing a nursery center owned and operated by FPC. The Tot Time program had an enrollment of 18 children. The advantages of the church owning and operating the school were given as follows: “increased return from the school to more adequately offset the cost of maintenance/upkeep, significantly better quality in the program offered, state licensing of the school, and a more integral tie between the school and the community/educational ministry of Forest Park Church.”

In 1976 Play & Learn Nursery Center, Inc.(the legal title of the school), was formed as a non-profit, non-stock corporation, wholly owned by Forest Park Presbyterian Church, Inc. Play and Learn contributes 15% of their year’s tuition to

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the church as well as shares in other operational costs associated with the school. Play & Learn Preschool directors: Ruth Budic 1976 – Oct. 1995 (19 years)….Gwen Mastoris 10/1995 - 10/2000 (5 years)…. Betsy Lubeley 10/2000 – 2004/05 (5 years)…. Betsy Lubeley & Kay Von Rueden co-directors 2005 – 2008/09 (4 years).

Many of our church members have enrolled their children in our Play & Learn Preschool. Several church members have taught in the past, and two of the present school staff are Forest Park members. Due to the quality and dedication of our school’s directors and teachers over the years, our school has an excellent reputation in the community.

A year ago, a group made up of representatives from the session, the Play & Learn Preschool board, and Play & Learn parents was formed to explore options for the school’s future in response to the decline in student enrollment over the past few years.

The members of this group believe that to provide a safe, nurturing environment where children have unique opportunities to develop to their fullest potential – in a loving, caring environment which emphasizes Christian values is an important mission of Forest Park Presbyterian Church. It is our hope that the preschool will continue to thrive. The task group is seeking to determine the existing child care needs in our community, if those needs are now being met, and if they aren’t, what would be involved for us to providing additional child care services to meet those needs.

We anticipate that more parents will need care for their children that exceeds what we are currently providing. The Play & Learn Preschool year ends May 22 (approx. 3 weeks before the public schools). Our school is closed during the summer and when the public schools are closed for holidays. When we are closed, where do the children go if both parents are employed outside of their homes and do not have relatives to provide child care? While we meet the needs of some families, we suspect there will be a growing number of families that will require extended child care. This is what the task group is looking into. We’ll keep you posted.

With you in ministry and mission,

Rev. Roger

The first Sunday of this month is Trinity Sunday. Since November of last year our Sundays have revolved around the major festivals of the church year: Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. How should we view this Sunday which begins the second half of the church year variously called the seasons of Trinity, Pentecost, or in our practice, “ordinary time”? Philip Pfatteicher suggests that this Sunday is “best understood not as the feast of a doctrine, but as the celebration of the richness of the being of God . . . and the occasion of a thankful review of the now completed mystery of salvation, which is the work of the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit.” The Festival of the Holy Trinity is not new to the church—it began in the tenth century. The Trinity is also confessed in the creeds, and on Trinity Sunday this year we will be using the hymn “We All Believe in One True God” (TPH#137) in place of the spoken Apostles’ Creed. Both the text and tune of this hymn date from medieval times, but were adapted into a more complete creedal statement at the time of the Reformation, and ultimately took the place of the Latin Credo of the mass. The tune of the hymn, “Wir Glauben All’ an Einen Gott,” will also be highlighted in the June 7th service with a J. S. Bach setting for organ and violin.

-Roger Meyer

Remember our members at home in our prayers and expressions of concern

Gert & Jim Feldhusen

Clarence Reimer

Dr. Byung Lim & Tong Roh

Matt Tietze

Jean Wright

If you know of someone who should be added to this list, please notify the church office.

If you know or hear of a prayer need and would like to have one started on the prayer chain, notify the Deacon on Call for the month (listed in your Sunday Bulletin or monthly Messenger) to initiate your request. If you cannot reach that Deacon, call the Church Office and speak to Pam, or leave a message on the answering machine to be retrieved by her or Roger.

Defibrillator Project

Donations for the heart defibrillator have been very generous and we are nearly at our goal of $1500. On 5-17-2009, the Session gave the go-ahead to purchase the defibrillator. Once it is here, we will set up orienting sessions for all those interested and we hope that the ushers and Deacons will be our contact persons if an emergency arises.

Thanks to everyone, who have been so helpful. We can achieve any goal with God’s help!

Walt Piering

Be a Hero and Save a Life

on July 8th

Be a hero and save a life on July 8th at Forest Park Presbyterian by signing up for an appointment with Life Line Screening. Life Line Screening is the nation’s leading provider of community health screenings for stroke and vascular disease. We all know someone who has been affected by an aortic aneurysm, stroke, diabetes, vascular disease or osteoporosis. Now is your chance to be proactive about your health care and stop the silent killers dead in their tracks by being tested.

Life Line’s inexpensive, non-invasive, and painless ultrasound tests can make you aware of undetected health problems so you can follow up with your personal physician to get the care you need. You may be wondering why you can’t just go to your Doctor to have these tests if they are so important. Unfortunately, most of the time Doctors cannot order these tests unless you have had a symptom. The problem is most stroke and aneurysm victims have no warning signs. Sign up for your appointment at Forest Park Presbyterian by calling 1-800-324-1851; mention source code: HSC6509. Tests cost as little as $50 and a complete package is only $149.00. Call and save a life today, it could be yours.

Forest Park Presbyterian CHURCH will be hosting Life Line Screening on July 8th.

Four different health screenings will be offered for people 40-years-old and older. The screenings are performed using Doppler color flow ultrasound systems and include the following:

1) A Carotid Artery Screening –visualizes the build up of plaque in the carotid arteries, which leads to stroke. (Most strokes are linked to carotid artery blockage);

2) An Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) test – looks for an enlargement in the abdominal aorta that could lead to a ruptured aortic artery. The vast majority of people who have an aneurysm have no symptoms;

3) An Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) – screens for peripheral arterial disease in the lower extremities, which is closely linked to coronary artery disease.

4) And a test for Atrial Fibrillation, which tests for a dangerous type of irregular heart beat.

You must pre-register by calling 1-800-324-1851. These screenings are completely painless, non-invasive, and require ten minutes or less each to complete. Watch for more information in upcoming bulletins or call 1-800-324-1851. Please reference this code when calling: HSC-6509.

JUNE BIRTHDAYS

6/2 Howard Gleisner

6/8 Maureen Wise

6/9 Heidi Todd

6/10 Sheryl Dolan

6/11 Louise Hennum

6/11 Laurie Osborn

6/14 Tom Barbieri

6/20 Rebecca Reuteler

6/25 Paul Piering

6/27 Sally Daugherty

6/27 Linda Koszuta

6/27 Kathryn Giles

If you haven’t given the church office your birth date, and would like it to appear, please contact us.

MEN Ready to Sing!

Calling all Forest Park men who like to sing. Here’s your chance to sing in a choir. It is a great tradition here at Forest Park, and we will look forward to presenting John Shepherd’s “Jesus is Love With Us” on Father’s Day, June 21. This Sunday is also marked as Men of the Church, so we will look forward to hearing from them! We will have a brief rehearsal after the Sunday service on June 14.

WOMEN Ready to Sing!

 Continuing our tradition here of having a women’s choir sing during one of the summer services, this year’s summer women’s choir will sing Gerhard Schroth’s “A Song of Praise” on July 26. There will be a brief rehearsal of this choir on Sunday, July 19. We hope to see many of our choir members joining us on that Sunday, and it is an especially nice opportunity for those who are not in the choir to participate in the Sunday morning service in this way.

SUMMER SUNDAYS AND MUSIC

If you play a musical instrument or would like to sing this summer, please let our Music Director, Roger Meyer, know as soon as possible. With the choir off for the summer, we still like to have special music during these summer months.

O’Sullivans Public House

June 19, 2009

Another new destination! O’Sullivan Public House 12525 W. North Avenue will be our place to eat on June 19^th. This restaurant also came highly recommended; it’s like having our own Milwaukee Journal Sentinel restaurant critic. Everyone who likes to eat and talk (not at the same time) is welcome. Please sign up, and we will see you there at 11:30 a.m.

For more information, please call Deloris Butka at 262-786-8988 or Sally Daugherty at 262-786-6041.

We are excited to announce that we are going to create a new pictorial directory of our church family. The directory will help us connect names with faces. It will be an ideal outreach tool and will capture the history of our church congregation.

Please participate! All we ask is that you have your picture taken by the professional Photographer and meet with a Portrait Consultant at the church. For the next several weeks, we will be making appointments before and after services and meetings at the church. Or you can sign up online at www.forestparkchurch.homestead.com. Please sign up as soon as possible to get the best appointment to fit your schedule.

• Every participating family/household that selects a pose for the directory will receive a free directory and a complimentary 8 x 10 Custom Natural Portrait.
• You will come to the church only once for the photography and for portrait viewing.
• The program is available at no cost to the church budget.
• You will have the opportunity to order additional portraits during your scheduled appointment time.
• If you wish to purchase extras, the portraits come with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
• Whether you decide to dress formally or casually, you will want to make the most of this opportunity.

The Scheduled Dates for Photography and Portrait Viewing are: July 27^th & 28^th 3 – 9:30 each night.

If you have any questions, please contact Walt Piering 262-781-2542. We look forward to seeing everyone in the directory. Our new pictorial directory just won’t be complete without you!

COLLEGE GRADUATES

Scott Gustafson graduated from University of Oshkosh on May 16.  He majored in Biology and received a B.S. degree.  Currently Scott is unemployed and is looking for a position in the biology field.

Dustin Stigler received a B.S. degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on May 17.  His secondary studies included history, geography, psychology and social studies   He hopes to find a job in a high school, teaching World and U.S. History.

Presently Dustin is an assistant manager at the Majestic Theater in Waukesha.  In his spare time he is a house painter.

 High school graduates will be featured in next month's Messenger.  Please contact Thelma Reimer--786-7556- if there is a high school graduate in your family.  Information should include name of school, date of graduation and plans for the future.

Also, if there are any other Forest Park college graduates not previously mentioned, please give Thelma the information for next month's newsletter.  Thank you, Thelma

Each month we send the Messenger to 44 e-mail addresses. This cuts down on paper, printing and postage. Why not add your name to the list! Call the church office if you are interested.

It’s time to be thinking about our mission project of assisting children who have a parent in prison to experience summer camp. Money we raise will go toward providing a bus for the week the older children attend camp and to help with some of the cost for our campers. We also would like to fill a backpack for our campers. Backpacks will be available at the table in the narthex on June 7^th (there will be a card attached to each backpack that lists the items to purchase for the backpacks).

The camp director, Judy Lybeck, from Kenwood United Methodist Church in Milwaukee, will be here to answer questions about the Rising Sun Camp on June 7^th after church. See you on the 7^th of June.

-Karen Zobel

Financial Summary as of 4/30/09

April-09 YTD Budget YTD

Contributions $11,173 $43,084 $44,250

Total Operating Income

$11,718 $46,927 $53,050

Total Operating Expense

$18,346 $71,919 $63,014

Total Operating Income less Total Operating Expense -$6,628 -$24,992 -$9,964

Per Capita/Apportionment

$155 $2,531 $4,000

1/1/2009 04/30/2009 2009Change

General Operating Fund Bal.

$27,553 $2,561 -$24,992

Building Bund Balance

$17,410 $17,410 $0

New Look Fund Balance

$20,802 $23,779 -$2,977

CAMP E.D.G.E

Experience & Discover God Everywhere

Save the Dates!

August 10 -14^th

Dear Families,

We are so excited to invite all children (K4 – 6^th grade) to be a part of our Vacation Bible School, Camp E.D.G.E. this year.

At Camp E.D.G.E, your children join an extreme camp adventure where they will come to know that their strength and might come from God.

Extreme Bible treks will introduce them to Bible characters who have experienced and discovered God in many ways. Kids will learn an E.D.G.E Pledge with every story to encourage them to live on the E.D.G.E every day!

Again, we will be extending our learning through crafts, music, games, science and of course, snacks.

So, come and bring your hiking shoes as we go on an Extreme Adventure together.

Where: Forest Park Church

2300 S. Sunny Slope Road

New Berlin

When: August 10 – 14^th

Time: 9:00 – 12:00

Cost: $10.00/child $25.00/family rate of 3 or more children

Questions: Call Heidi Todd (414)235-4298, Kristen Tan (262)797-8278 or Terry Arenz (414)321-7354

REGISTER NOW!! Deadline June 1, 2009

CAMP E.D.G.E. REGISTRATION FORM

Deadline: June 1, 2009

Child’s name__________________________________________________

Parent/Guardian Name_________________________________________

Address______________________________________________________

________________________ E-mail Address______________

Phone Numbers Home___________ Cell__________ Work____________

Child’s Age______ Last School Grade Completed________

Home Congregation (if any):_____________________________________

Emergency Contacts:

Name/Relationship_______________________Phone__________________

Name/Relationship_______________________Phone__________________

Please list any allergies or medical info the VBS staff should be aware of:

Dismissal Information: Names/phone numbers_______________________

Please send payment and registration to:

Forest Park VBS

c/o Heidi Todd

2300 S. Sunny Slope Road

New Berlin, WI 53151

Checks Payable to: Forest Park Presbyterian Church

NEW THIS YEAR: Take home CD-ROM with songs and games.

Pre-order now! $4.00 each

# of CD’s______ Total $_______

Please circle a T-shirt size

YS YM YL Adult Small

ASSISTING IN WORSHIP

If you cannot serve on your assigned date, please arrange a substitute and notify the church office.

5/1	6/7	6/14	6/21	6/28	7/5
Liturgist	Youth	Mike Washic	CarolAnne Bozosi	Lee Tan	Sally Daugherty
Head Usher	Mike Marr	Gary Stigler	Ron Reuteler	Mike Marr	Gary Stigler
Ushers	Youth	Cindy Barbieri Gordon & Marne Willey	Frank & Ann Marie McLeod Linda Koszuta	Art Reimer Pat Janecek Mike Bellek	Cindy Stigler Betty & Paul Peterson
Hospitality	Godsell	Deacons	McLeod	Session	Bennewitz