Snow. I'm lovin'it.

What a great month this was ... our family is growing! Tash was saved and baptized and another young couple has expressed interest in membership. Sunday night's Bible
from the study has outgrown our conference room and we must meet Pastor in the Ed building now. Our "prayer party" is tons of fun and is well-attended, and I look forward to it every week. I'm also looking forward to our new photo directory ... Silva and the team are doing a great job of putting together a spectacular book ... be sure to sign up soon and smile pretty!!!

Lets see--what else is going on--The deacons had a great training workshop, with a wonderful turnout, and are planning another one the first weekend in March. Following suit, the in the name trustees are going to being doing training in mid-March.

Planning for Summer Fun is well underway, and looks to be a great thing going on this summer. Yvonne from our school is our director this year, with a great staff and a really neat program--I'll save more details for them.

Lent also started up this month. I've never celebrated Lent before, so this is another learning experience for me. I'm not planning a Lenten series this year, but am continuing in our series of what the Church and being a Christian is all about. I will, however, do something special for the weeks around Easter--be here and see it! If you don't come for them, at least come to see the celebrated luminarious Lucy Lamb, a rare treat coming to us at great expense of time and resources...

Additionally, the first Lenten luncheon had a great showing, over 70 people by my count. Kevin Coffey from Atonement shared with us about the angel Michael, and I thought it was fun and interesting. I encourage you to come out, have a bowl of soup, and visit with our brothers and sisters in Christ from our neighboring churches. It is certainly time well spent.

Well--lots of love and coffee--Bob


ASSOCIATE PASTOR

My personal faith background is Presbyterian denomination. I cannot tell everything about it now.
However, I can tell one thing. They are too quiet among worship service. I don't mean that quietness is bad. We need to be quiet in front of God. But quietness without appropriate responding to God also makes our worship service not lively. At Korean worship service, we have a 'calling' time. At the end of worship service, I ask someone to come to the altar. Someone to devote herself or himself to God, to be baptized, to get my prayer, and to become a member of this faith community. Of course, they don't respond every Sunday. However, when they respond to the calling time, I am very glad to see them. Some people ask me to pray for them. Others devote themselves to God again. If I, a minister, am so glad to see the people to come, how much more will God be glad to see them? I think God will smile and dance! God will bless them abundantly. Let's give appropriate responding to God! Let's express our appreciation to God among worship service! And God will bless us abundantly.

How can you say blessing in Korean? Korean word of blessing is 'chook bok'. God in Korean is 'ha na nim'. God of blessing in Korean is 'chook bok ha she nun ha na nim'.

I believe that 'chook bok ha she nun ha na nim' will bless us a lot when we show our appreciation and responding among worship service. I hope'chook bok ha she nun ha na nim' may be with you in your whole life.

Pastor Joseph

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead. Daylight Savings Time begins on March 11th .
 

YOUTH PASTOR

I thought year 2007 just began couple days ago but the reality is quiet different, first 2months have disappeared already. What a fast time is! Some said each day is so slow but the week is so fast. I think that is true because many times I said "Wow, it is already Monday again!"
I thought many times whether I have been using my time wisely or not, and my new year's resolutions so far. The Bible says in Ephesians 5:16 "Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days." God gives me A lot of opportunity which I can use for His kingdom and for myself but whenever I look back I do not think I have used it wisely. I have many things to do but I wasted a lot of time. So it is a time for me to remind what I planned for this year for myself and for the kingdom of God. Thank God who continually gives me another chance.
 
Last week (Feb. 23 - 24) youth group had lock-in and snow tubing. It was fun to have it again. As usually we played video games and manhunt, I think I need to provide more games for the next time so that we would remember the lock-in for not only video games but also other fun stuff. I am going to search the web to find nice games for youth. Snow tubing was so much fun. The snow tubing lane in Campgaw is much better than it is in Mountain creek. We had several new faces; Amanda, Babette, Bianca, Meaghan and Joshua. I wished they enjoyed the time and they would come again for the youth camp and other fun day.

BYF (Saturday night) meeting is going well. The last few weeks I taught what we needed to seek as Christians; His righteousness. Even though we claim that we are Christians but many seek their own desires and follow earthly things; money, power, and so on, but the Bible clearly says that we need to "seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness" (Matthew 6:33). Jesus says this because God already knows what we need for our lives so that we do not need to seek these things. Faith is not merely believing God's existence but also trusting Him wholly and leaning on him for everything. I hope all students would learn these things before they leave their parents' arms.

Sincerely, Sung An



Church Photo Directory

Appointments will be scheduled for March 20th from 3:00 - 9:30 p.m. You can sign up in the Narthex on 3/11, 3/18, or by calling Silva Paunonen at 201-796-1402 or 201-913-0024.

2007 Annual Men's Communion Breakfast

May 19" at 8:00 a.m. at the Preakness Baptist Church. Charles Way, a six year veteran Now York Giants fullback will be the speaker. This years breakfast is designated as a men's/youth breakfast. We want to encourage young men to attend with their father, grandfather, brother or friend.

The 2006 Annual Report

There was an oversight in the Annual Report.
Stitchworks report was not in full. There are copies available in the narthex to add to your report. The office apologizes.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU
From Jeanne Manista for all the prayers, cards and calls during her recent surgeries.

FROM THE SCHOOL TEACHERS
 

The Three Year Old Class
Mrs. Fanning/ Mrs. Bravin

February has come and gone. The three's learned that the groundhog did not see his shadow, so Spring is coming soon.

Valentine celebration had our class talking about God's love and all the people we love. We made lots of hearts and our room was full of pink and red.

We are anxious for that first sign of Spring.
 

The Four Year Old Class
Miss Law/ Miss Padula

The "fantastic fours" have done so much in this short month of February. We have done letters S,T, and U. The color of the month was pink.

There was so much to do with such little time. It all started with Groundhog's Day. The groundhog did not see his shadow, so that means Spring is coming soon! We made groundhogs out of paper bags with a cute little poem glued to the front.

For Valentine's Day, we made hearts with our pictures on it and wrote who we love. We also made fish out of the shape of hearts.

For Chinese New Year, we made a scary paper bag dragon. Miss Law even showed us the real dragons that perform in China town.
For Presidents Day, we studied and read books about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We found out which presidents are on our coins.
As for our project, we painted red and blue stripes on white construction paper to represent the United States of America and placed cut out presidents on it. All of our fantastic four projects can be seen in the classroom and also, out in the hall.
February is also Dental Health month. Dentist Jackie gave us some excellent pointers to keep our teeth clean and we would like to pass them on to you! Make sure you brush your teeth in circles, gums, and tongue. Oh, and don't forget to floss.
 

The Four Year Old Class
Mrs. Craparo/Mrs. Pift

The children have been very busy this month. They learned the letters S, T, U, and the sounds that they make. In math they learned the number 6. We continue to work on counting and
recognizing numbers. The color of the month was pink. The children continue to sing the color and alphabet songs. We made snakes, turtles and a valentine mobile. We all enjoyed our Valentine's party. In Social Studies the children learned about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In religion we are talking about kindness. We are proud of all the children.

 

The Kindergarten Class
Mrs. Wetzel/ Mrs. Devereaux

February was a short and busy month. The shortest month of the year. We started off with Groundhog day. Since he didn't see his shadow, Spring will be here soon.

We celebrated Valentine's Day on the 15'h because of a snow day on the 14t . Our class celebrated with a special "Love Bug" snack we made with the help of Mrs. Lisa Schuldt.
We had a fun winter break celebrating Presidents week. Our class learned about President Lincoln (16'h President) and President &am Washington (ist President). We came back one day late because of the snow storm.

February is Dental Health month, we had visits from Dr. Madula, a local dentist and Stretch, a dental magician. (Look our picture is in the Fair lawn News).

Our letter for the last week in February is Ww ... W's for worship - That's giving God praise and telling our love for ... all of our days.

Sisters-Youth

Ziti and Meatball Dinner/ Game Night March 31st In the Ed. Building Dinner 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Games to follow!! $1 0 per person $25 per family Under 5 Free