CLASS OF 2014 ELDERS
MARCH BIRTHDAYS 1— Kim Jaynes 2— Kristi Bailes 3— Kari Matthews 10— Autumn Major 11— Steve Foster 13— Bayard Erskine 13— Eleanor Jaynes 14— Mike Massengill 14— Kenleigh Pennington 15— Kayla Scarbrough 19— John Stuart 22— Emme Ritchie 25— Cynthia House 26— Happy Hilty 28— Dale Webb NEWSLETTER Submissions to “The Beacon” are due on the 20th of each month. Your articles may be submitted by calling 588-5350 or by sending an email to admin@erinpresbyterian.org.
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FAMILY MINISTRIES Dear Friends, My family and I joined Erin Church Dive years ago and immediately found a home here. Truly, Erin is like my second family and so I am especially honored to join the staff as Director of Family Ministries. The Director of Family Ministries, formerly called the Christian Education Coordinator, is now a part-time position that focuses on Christian Education for children through Difth grade and their families. In this position, I will work to manage and develop the Discipleship Team programs, such as Sunday School, Planet Worship, Wednesday Night Pioneer Club, and Vacation Bible School. This is a busy time in our church year. In the weeks ahead, I will work to update the Discipleship volunteer roster, to grow and develop the Planet Worship program, and make plans for this year’s VBS. The strength of our children’s programs lies in the support and dedication of our congregation. I welcome your input and contributions and will be available Monday through Friday, 9 am to Noon, in the church ofDice. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve in this way. I look forward to an exciting and fruitful year!
~Joy Bornhoeft
For the next few months, we will be highlighting each member of the newest Elder class. P. Donald Quinley Statement of Faith I know that I am a sinner justly deserving God’s wrath. I have broken His commands and sought my selDish ends. But, my heart is thankful that He did not leave me in that state of rejection I so deserved. He intervened through His Holy Spirit to extend me grace for the payment of my sins by the completed work of Jesus Christ, His son, my savior. I believe that God calls believers to be a community of faith to demonstrate His love for a rebellious world. To live in a community that is redeemed, not capable of demonstrating anything of God apart from His love and power in us. That is the Good News…. God knows us and yet chooses to love us and call us to himself by the work of His Son. Being raised in the Presbyterian Church, I became a Christian at an early age receiving conDirmation at the age of twelve years. My calling to serve in the church was conDirmed upon returning from military service and being ordained a deacon and then elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S. and later the P.C.A. My journey has not always been that which I can lift as an example to follow in all endeavors, but God has provided His grace through a loving wife of 43 years, four adult children and their spouses, Dive grandchildren and an extended family that has loved and encouraged me throughout the years despite my many shortfalls. Through His provision, God has allowed me to have a rewarding professional life
as an architect experiencing the joy of creation in His world.
~P. Donald Quinley