WELCOME TO
COLESVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
12800 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20904
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Mailing address:
P. O. Box 10721
Silver Spring, MD 20914
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301-622-4555
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CPC Garden for All
June Update
Onions, Oregano, Potatoes, oh my! The gardens are growing and with all the rain everything is popping! June is a month of patience, we now have to wait for the veggies to be ready to pick. Watering has not been a problem over the past couple weeks as the rain has helped as well as a new hose from operations. The new hose is a light, retractable hose that can be pulled and used for multiple gardens with ease. Some new plants have gone in the ground this past month as well as some seeds already peaking out. Cucumbers you will find on the back wall beside the herbs. Yellow Squash has been planted and some from seed beside the back kitchen door. I had a helper plant Peppers, Zucchini and some Tomatoes out front by the choir room stairs. Additionally, more dirt was added to the potato gardens for more room to grow. This year I am keeping a tally of all that I grow and pick, below are current stats from what has been planted so far! -Ashley
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100 Onions (Red & Yellow)
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20 Potatoes (Red & White)
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12 Sweet Potatoes
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3 Rosemary
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12 Broccoli
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12 CabbageLettuce
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Carrot Seeds
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Cucumber Plants/Seeds
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2 Basil
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8 Tomato
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6 Pepper
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3 Purple Cone Flowers
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The WIND
June Update
Last month’s WIND essay and the WIND bulletin board got us to thinking in an abundance mode. CPC has abundance in a lot of areas — openness, acceptance, generosity, and our under-utilized property and building to name a few. Moreover, we are “Multi-cultural and Multi-racial since 1960” and have a heritage of social action on several fronts. Our abundance and heritage are our building blocks for the Next Direction. How do we discern what that is? And what changes will the Next Direction ask of us?
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Why do we need a Next Direction? Is the goal just to attract new members? Or is the primary goal to better carry out CPC’s mission and vision? To carry out the mission Jesus gave us to love one another and support the least of these? To bring that message to those in our community who are unchurched or who claim to be “nones” when asked about religious affiliation? To better fulfill our mission we will need to do church differently, not leaving what we have behind, but building a renewed CPC on the firm foundation of our heritage and abundance.
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Terms that come to mind for this process are rebirth, recreation, regeneration, rebuild, reinvent, and so many other re-words. We will need to incorporate who we are and what we have into something that allows us to be better prepared to carry out our mission. An essential part of this process is a rethinking of how we can more effectively interact with the community around us by better understanding who our neighbors are and how we can contribute from our abundance.
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As the WIND team moves through the Good Futures process, the next steps will be to get the views of some CPC members about what we do best and then interview some of our neighbors about their views of our community and how they see CPC contributing to a better Colesville.
If you would like more information about WIND or have any questions or suggestions, please contact any of the WIND members listed below.
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Mike Miller, chair
Alice McGinnis
Sten Maulsby
Susan Patrick
Mike Pettey
Diane Rogers
REMOTE WORSHIP
Come worship with us every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. via YouTube.
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YOUTH MINISTRIES
Our high school youth group meets on Wednesday evening. Please contact the church for information - Email at office@colesvillepresbyterian.church or call 301-622-4555
