This Week: May 9, 2020

EVERYONE WORSHIP ONLINE

Our 9:30 a.m. Worship Service will be live streamed at pcpc.org/live. We encourage you to share the link with friends, family, and co-workers. We will also live stream to Facebook, Youtube, Roku, Fire TV, the Apple TV app (search Park Cities Presbyterian), and the PCPC app.

CHURCH UPDATE

Visit pcpc.org/coronavirus/ to keep up-to-date on recent information and directives concerning safely gathering together again at PCPC.

DEEP LIGHT

We are so excited to launch our new Deep Light series! What is it, you ask?

Well Deep Light will be weekly interviews hosted by our very own Mark Davis and Tommy Obenchain. You will hear fun, meaningful, and life-giving stories from members and friends of PCPC. Deep Light is available on YouTube at youtube.com/c/parkcitiespca. Don’t miss it and be sure to subscribe, like, and share with friends and neighbors. It kicks off with Mark and Tommy, and then continues with Joe Januszewski (Texas Rangers), Nancy Guthrie (Author and Teacher), and many more over the next few weeks!

A few weeks ago, we asked you to give to the PCPC COVID-19 Response efforts. By God’s grace, you as a congregation responded with overwhelming generosity and enabled our church to do some amazing things. Here are a few examples:

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Provided enough food for 3 weeks to 400+ families identified by our ministry partners such as Casa del Lago, YoungLife West Dallas, Golden Gate Baptist Church, North Dallas High School, PCPC ESL, and Cristo Rey Presbyterian Church.

Delivered over 550 family-sized meals to first responder families at the Cedar Springs, Highland Park, and University Park Fire and Police Departments.

Provided two weeks’ worth of meals for kids served by BridgeBuilders.

Helped feed 30 Voice of Hope families for 3 weeks by providing fresh produce and dairy products.

Sourced and distributed 55 gallons of hand sanitizer to our ministry partners.

This is just a beginning, though. We are currently fielding more requestsa for help from our ministry partners than we’re able to respond to. Although Texas has begun the process of getting back to work, it will take a long time until things are back to normal. There will continue to be great need throughout our city, particularly among those who are most vulnerable. Please continue to GIVE to this effort as the Lord leads you.

Please email deaconhelp@pcpc.org if you have physical or financial needs.

214-224-2500 pcpc.org facebook.com/parkcitiespca twitter.com/parkcitiespca

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COVID-19 RESPONSE TEAM UPDATE

If you would like to financially contribute to our COVID-19 & Disaster Relief projects, you can donate online at pcpc.org/give or write a check to Park Cities Presbyterian Church with “COVID-19 & Disaster Relief” in the memo line.

EASTER PRAYER GUIDE

Our Easter 2020 Daily Prayer Guide is available at pcpc.org/resources. We’ve also made it available through the PCPC app (download via Apple App Store or Google Play Store for free), so you can have access wherever you are.

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CAREERS AT PCPC

The following position is open and in need of filling.

Full-Time Human Resource Specialist (Payroll and Benefits Liaison) Please visit careers.pcpc.org for more information.

This is a hard season.

I’m in the midst of being full-time employee, full-time parent to an energetic toddler, and full-time pregnant all while hunkered down in my house away from everyone else. I’m really struggling with trying to do all those things well, and it feels like I’m letting down the ones closest to me. It’s been hard to tell my son that we can’t go to church and play with friends. The role of Sunday school teacher has been falling to the bottom of the list most weeks of this quarantine. I spent Easter Sunday, and most of a month leading up to it, completely overcome with morning sickness. Needless to say, I’ve been feeling really low because I want to give everyone so much more.

And then an unexpected gift. And it brought me to tears.

Simple postcards addressed to MY SON from Mr. and Mrs. B. Mr. and Mrs. B teach Sunday school to two-year-old’s at PCPC and they’re complete professionals from years of experience. They’re so committed to teaching God’s Word to children that can barely speak their first words.

My husband and I have often prayed that any children we have will come to know the Lord at a young age.

And in those years of praying that prayer, I didn’t think to pray for the people other than us that would have the privilege of pouring God’s Word into those tiny hearts.

I can’t tell you how personally loved I feel from just a couple of postcards. I feel loved because someone is loving my son in the ultimate way—by praying for him and his walk with the Lord. To know that this great work goes on even on my lowest of days when I feel stretched extremely thin is freeing. As a young parent, it feels like so much of our children’s well-being and fate rests on our shoulders. More so now that our world has shrunk to the confines of our home. Intellectually, I know that the Lord is responsible for our children, but in the dayto-day, I’m constantly trying to exert more and more control. But what happens in the seasons when it feels like I have so little to give? The Lord gives us others to be His hands and feet.

In this time of social distancing, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the Body of Christ, His Church. We’re all trying to make the best of it, but it’s just not the same as gathering in the flesh. But Mr. and Mrs. B have made me feel more connected than ever. A brother and sister in Christ, with whom I have passing conversations during drop-off and pick-up, is praying for my son. Not in theory. Not just lumped in with all the other kids going through this time. My son whose soul they are committed to feed. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. B! Prayer is a powerful tie that binds us together. In this time of separation, pray for one another. It connects us more than you know.

—Tricia K. Cothran

UNEXPECTED

Gift

Navigating Marriage

OUR FAMILY

marriages

at H o m e To g e t h e r

• Virginia Ann Ray and Randal Peter McDonald on March 23, 2020.

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e have a God who continues to pursue, love, and refine us in preparation for our heavenly home. He continues to make all things new, even our marriages! He calls us to rejoice even when the world order shifts, and we wake up to pandemic stay at home orders, causing us to negotiate work and relationships differently.

But He has provided the Holy Spirit to transform this suffering into hope - life and relationship changing hope.

sympathies • Kirk & Carrie Jane Pogoloff (CC#06) on the loss of his mother; Seth & Morgan Pogoloff (CC#13) on the loss of his grandmother; Zoey & Hadley Pogoloff (CC#13) on the loss of their great-grandmother; Jared & Sarah Pogoloff (CC#25) on the loss of his grandmother; Carol Hardaway, Lou Lou Hardaway, Samuel Pogoloff, & Grace Pogoloff (CC#25) on the loss of their great-grandmother, Isabel "Peggy" Pogoloff, on April 16, 2020.

God has offered up marriage as the strongest earthly representation of how we can best understand Christ’s relationship to His Bride, the Church. So how are marriages doing during this strange time? What might God be trying to communicate to us through marriage? What might He be communicating about His nature? We checked in with some PCPC married couples - new marriages, marriages with kids at home, and empty nesters. Lean in and listen to how these couples are navigating life at home together and how the Lord is working.

—Bill Bogart

Care Clusters – pcpc.org/care/care-clusters/ GENERAL FUND

budget

2019/2020 operating budget

What has been the hardest part of spending so much time together?

There are moments we wish for quiet when the other is loud… but it has truly been an amazing time. We attribute that to the amputation of extras in our life – the incessant going and doing have come to a screeching halt. As a result, the stress, the exhaustion, the self focus has also been depleted.

—Ashley and Brant Ferguson What we have really lost is the solid connection made during date nights when we could talk. We are both so exhausted once the kids are in bed. We really don’t have any productive or personal conversations, so we need those dates to re-connect.

—Ashley and Michael Boone

$13,500,000

July 1, 2019—April 26, 2020 budget

$11,700,836

July 1, 2019—April 26, 2020 giving

$11,154,000

Budget Variance

–$546,836

What tips from PCPC Marriage Ministry (re|engage, Union, Foundation Groups) have been helpful during this time?

Words and actions matter. Kindness and decency are of utmost importance at the moment. When you fall short, ask for forgiveness.

—Lindsay and Scott Schardt Listen to understand your spouse. You can listen without agreeing. This shows you value them.

—Brenda and Bill Bogart Work on yourself (stay in your own circle). Assume the best about your spouse, that their motives are good.

—Nancy and Jay Turner

Nancy & Jay Turner

One thing that can’t slip from our schedule is time with the Lord. If not, we feel our selfishness take over and patience wear thin.

—Mary Love and Phillip Koons

Mary Love & Phillip Koons

What has been the funniest thing you have learned about your spouse during this time at home?

Nancy will drive 30 minutes for a Dr Pepper with crushed ice.

—Nancy and Jay Turner One of us may have accidentally made a Zoom conference call with pajamas on.

—Brenda and Bill Bogart

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o what is God saying to you through your marriage during this season? We know through John’s revelation He speaks a promise, “Behold I am making all things new.” As He prepares us as His Bride, so we are to prepare each other for Jesus. In the words of Tim Keller, "It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, 'I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to His throne.'"

Would you like to speak to someone in our Marriage Ministry?

Contact Melissa Hecht: melissa.hecht@pcpc.org