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This week's Bulletin:

(Prior Week's Buletin)

Glenda Yoder Sano Scholarship

This year's Glenda Yoder Sano Scholarship applications are due April 30, 2013.

Applications and instructions can be found in the Narthex at Smyrna UCC or by clicking on this PDF:

2013 Glenda Yoder Sano Scholarship Application

Smyrna United Church of Christ is striving to be:

• A place of peace where we teach the word of God and the story of God's love.
• A spiritual haven where we accept and care for all humanity in an outreach of grace.
• A lighthouse of God's light, where worship, teaching, learning and spiritual growth take place in community powered by thought and action
• A Christian people, working for God's realm in ecumenical harmony with other people of faith and conviction.

The Spring 2013 Cemetery Newsletter has just been published and you can see it as a PDF by clicking here.

Click here to see this Easter's Cross being decorated.

“Peace in Our Town”

Smyrna United Church of Christ will be holding a week long day camp for elementary school children with a focus on Peace, Non Violence, and Tolerance.

The camp will meet 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Monday thru Friday, July 15-19, 2013.

The curriculum will include exercises in non violence, yoga, crafts, story time, snack and a visit from the Wildlife Rescue Aid Project with a different animal each day.

The cost of the camp is $25 which covers the daily crafts, snacks and a camp tee shirt. The camp is limited to the first 40 kids who enroll. Click here for registration materials (PDF) or by calling the church at 503-651-2131. (Registration materials are also available as an MS Word document.)

Smyrna is located at 31119 S. Canby Marquam Highway (Hwy 170) eight miles south of Canby. Peace be with you. Questions can be directed to Pastor Dave Akers at 503-927-3681.

We welcome Martin Tobias as our new music director effective March 1st.

Martin most recently was the music director at the Presbyterian Church of Laurelhurst in Portland where he served from 1999 through 2013. Martin has also been an elementary music teacher in Vancouver, and adjunct voice instructor at Oregon State, and a participant and soloist with the Portland Opera.

We are very excited to have Martin leading our choir, while continuing to give thanks to Joel Daniels for his many years of service, and his continued playing of the piano and organ.

Martin Tobias, our new music director.

Joel Daniels retires

After untold years (he couldn’t or wouldn’t reveal the exact number) as Smyrna’s choir director, Joel Daniels stepped down and handed over the posi-tion to Martin Tobias. In appreciation of many years of service, a gift and round of applause were giv-en during worship and a cake during coffee hour on February 24, 2013

Thomas Daniels Web Consulting     www.tomdaniels.com