March 2022

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VOL. XXXVII, NO. 22 | MARCH 2022 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SHAWN DAVIS, EDITOR 4124 OAK LAWN AVENUE DALLAS, TX 75219-3152

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Park Cities Presbyterian Church exists to extend the transforming presence of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in Dallas and to the world.

CONNECT, ABIDE, & EXTEND DEEP LIGHT PODCAST We are excited to launch season 2 of Deep Light as a podcast. Deep Light is a space and place for community, healing, hope and education around topics of rescue and growth. We will interview experts and members of our PCPC community who walk in each area. Our prayer for this series is that you walk away with a deeper understanding of struggles that surround us and God’s profound love and redemptive light He covers us with. Search for “Deep Light Podcast” on your favorite platform. pcpc.org/deeplight

MISSIONARY MAILINGS

MARCH 6 Write handwritten notes of love and encouragement to our missionaries.

There will be tables set up in the Courtyard where you can sit and eat lunch. Lunches are available by reservation. If you can’t stay for lunch, look for Missionary posters and tables all over the church building where you can write a note. emily.leonard@pcpc.org

FAMILIES SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIP TO MCALLEN

MARCH 15-20 Serve alongside your whole family on the US-Mexico border. Support the work of home-church missionaries, Jon and Libby White, who serve at the Rio Grande Bible College. Families are welcome with children of all ages. pcpc.org/shortterm

ESSENTIAL PATHS

PROCLAIMING THE KING: EVANGELISM One of the key steps along this path is being faithful in evangelism. Join us as we deepen our understanding of the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and explore how God has equipped each of us to make the Gospel known widely in our world. This is the third course in our new Essential Paths series of discipleship courses. This class will be taught in the spring beginning March 20. pcpc.org/essential-paths

MISSIONS LUNCHEON WITH THE RUSSELLS

MARCH 27 | 12:30 P.M. | OAK LAWN WEST Please come and help us send off the Russells back to the Bahamas after their U.S. home missionary assignment. emily.leonard@pcpc.org

FAMILY MINISTRIES BIRDS & BEES EVENT

MARCH 30 | 6:00 P.M. | SANCTUARY Join us to hear about the Birds & Bees. Birds & Bees equips and empowers parents to have age-appropriate conversations with their young children about sex. pcpc.org/events

HOLY WEEK

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APRIL 10 | Palm Sunday Services – 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m.

APRIL 11-15 | Noon Weekday Services – Noon-12:35 p.m.

APRIL 14 | Maundy Thursday Communion Service – 7:00 p.m.

APRIL 17 | Easter Sunday Services – 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m.

Ordinary Saints Sunday, March 27 | 7:00 p.m.

We hope that through engaging with these works— through these faces—people will turn to the faces of their neighbors, friends, and even their antagonists and see them differently. We hope that viewers will create or deepen the habit of seeing the image of God with the people they live and work alongside.

—J.A.C. Redford

From the first moment that He proclaims the Kingdom of God, Jesus appeals to our imagination.

He makes that appeal through the parables of the Kingdom, the paradoxes of the Gospel, the signs He gave in His miracles…those moments when the heavens open and the ordinary is transfigured, seen in an utterly new light.

—Malcolm Guite

W

e look forward to hosting the Ordinary Saints art exhibition at PCPC—a temporary art gallery, featuring 20 portraits by painter Bruce Herman, on display from midMarch through mid-summer. The art is richly adorned by a collection of poems by poet, Malcolm Guite, and music by composer, J.A.C. Redford—both created in response to and conversation with the art.

All three creators will join us at PCPC on the weekend of March 26-27—for discussions and presentations, concluding with a concert of the visual art, poetry, and music on March 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Ordinary Saints pushes against the modern, reductionist mindset to proclaim the full-orbed, Creation-to-Redemption Gospel. Colossians 1:15-20 says, “all things were created through Him and for Him.” God richly displays His handiwork in every part of the created order. The faces in Ordinary Saints (and the faces around us) convey the embodied glory

WOMEN’S LENTEN PRAYER

MARCH 2 | 12-NOON | THE CHAPEL Join PCPC Women as we prepare our hearts for the Lenten season. Elizabeth Robinson will lead a short time of prayer and devotion with music led by Megan Manley. We look forward to this rich time of worship with you! pcpc.org/events

of God—a tangible gift, a reflection of the Divine—something truly extraordinary.

Here, beauty is on lavish display. The church has often communicated an ignorance or ambivalence about beauty, aesthetics, and serious art forms. The Ordinary Saints project helps us participate in the recovery of the church’s historical role as purveyors of beauty through great art.

FRIDAY LENTEN ORGAN CONCERTS

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MARCH 4, 11, 18, 25 – APRIL 1 & 8 | 12-NOON We inaugurate a new series this year, with 30-minute organ recitals at noon on Fridays during Lent, featuring our own organists and other superb musicians from Dallas and beyond.

Take the opportunity to retreat from the busyness of the day to refresh your mind and soul with music in preparation for Holy Week and Easter. pcpcconcerts.org

Our Family January 2022

Baptisms January 16, 2022

Jayden Jonghee Kim Son of Daeim Choi and Indeok Kim

Aileen Aran Kim Daughter of Daeim Choi and Indeok Kim

Dorothy Margaret Martin Daughter of Salley and Rob Martin

Births Molly Elizabeth Martin daughter of Todd & Caroline Martin (Lake Highlands) on December 4, 2021.

Marriages Katherine Joyce Hohfeler and Joshua Dunn Hanson on January 29, 2022.

Deaths Guy T. Haltom, III (North Dallas) husband of Gigi Haltom (North Dallas), brother-in-law of Lee & Debbie Owen (Park Cities Boone Elementary), uncle of David & Julie Meyer (Park Cities UP Elementary), uncle of James & Jen Reid (Lakewood); on January 22, 2022.

Rosemary Thornton (North Dallas) on January 23, 2022.

Mary Anna Sutherland (Lake Highlands) sister-in-law to Kitty Walker (Out of town member); on January 30, 2022.

Budget general fund BUDGET

2021/2022 operating budget July 1, 2021—January 30, 2022 budget July 1, 2021—January 30, 2022 giving Budget Variance

$14,200,000 $8,777,560 $10,179,269 $1,401,709

Sympathies Brian & Nancy Piper (Far Northwest Region) on the loss of his mother, Haley & Caroline Piper (Far Northwest Region) on the loss of their grandmother; Carol Marie Piper on October 9, 2021.

Keith & Debbie Kanavel (Out of town members) on the loss of her mother; Cindy Cummings on December 17, 2021.

Bruce & Mary Jayne Fogerty (Lakewood) on the loss of her step-father, Anne Fogerty (Out of town member) on the loss of her grandfather; Aubrey “Ace” Black on January 3, 2022.

Tracey Humphreys (Far North Dallas) on the loss of her ex-husband, Brent & Jessica Baxter (Old East Dallas) on the loss of her father, Michael & Cassie Guerrero (Northwest Dallas) on the loss of her father; Mark Humphreys on January 3, 2022.

Jeff & Deb LaFayette (Lake Highlands) on the loss of his mother, Daniel LaFayette (Lake Highlands) on the loss of his grandmother, Ben & Lena Bickley (Richardson) on the loss of her grandmother, Judah (Richardson) on the loss of his great-grandmother; Jeanette LaFayette on January 27, 2022.

Mark & Kristina Davis (Park Cities UP Elementary) on the loss of her father, Cayden, Esther Kate, & Sam Davis (Park Cities UP Elementary) on the loss of their grandfather, Drew & Kara Obenchain (Love Field) on the loss of her grandfather, Jack & Maddie Bennington (out of town members) on the loss of her grandfather; David Emery Brickey on January 28, 2022.

Tim & Mona Wilson (Uptown-Turtle Creek) on the loss of her father, Rebecca & Elise Wilson (Uptown-Turtle Creek) on the loss of their grandfather, Timothy, & Gentry Wilson (Out of town member) on the loss of his grandfather, Shepherd Wilson (Out of towner) on the loss of his great-grandfather; Jack Craycroft on January 28, 2022.

Bill & Stephanie Weislak (Northwest Dallas) on the loss of his father, Judah & Will Weislak (Northwest Dallas) on the loss of their grandfather; Wayne Weislak on January 31st, 2022.

Julian & Christiana Russell (PCPC Home Church Missionaries) on the loss of her father, Jamila Russell (Out of town member) on the loss of her grandfather, Andrew & Stephanie Russell (Out of town member) on the loss of his grandfather, Elijah, Isaiah, Judah, Micaiah, Naomi, & Aaliyah Russell (Out of town members) on the loss of their great-grandfather; Joseph Zonicle on February 4, 2022.