Landscaping News

If you've been to church recently, you've likely noticed the cleaned-up landscaping and new layer of mulch around the plaza in front of the sanctuary. This work was carried out by a professional landscaper hired by Session. If you'd like to help pay for this unbudgeted cost, please make a check out to CHPC with "Landscaping" on the memo line. Your generosity is appreciated. Any excess funds received will be used for additional landscaping work later in the year.

Also, thanks to Marsha Berry, Chris Bischoff, Stewart Bridgman Jr., Soni Castleberry, Ben Langley, Patti Marcum, and Don Mead who worked to clean up other parts of the church's grounds.

Lights! Camera! Action!

Can you believe it? Is that our church on the big screen? Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church has been the backdrop the last few days for an independent Louisville-based film company cinematic production. Crescent Hill has always been one of the most predominant churches in our presbytery to foster the arts and support local small business. After much discussion, Session voted electronically to rent our facilities for this project, whose theme is hope and compassion. Let us thank our session for their prayerful wisdom and leadership.

Food for Thought Gathering About the Middle East

On Sunday, April 14, Tricia and Phil Lloyd-Sidle will share their transformational experiences from being in Palestine and Israel in February. They will do a Minute for Mission in our 11 a.m. service and talk from their hearts more specifically during a gathering in Henry Young Fellowship Hall right after worship. Light refreshments will be provided. Folks from other congregations are encouraged to attend their presentation.

Tricia and Phil were part of a 35-member mostly PC (U.S.A.) delegation that responded to a call from Christian partners in the Middle East to bear witness and express solidarity with all who are suffering during this time of unprecedented violence. Since their return, Tricia and Phil, have been speaking to other congregations, elected officials, and activists. Their messages are not only about grieving over the thousands who have been killed or starved to death, but the actions that are needed to lift up and pray for all those Palestinians and Israelis who engage in nonviolent actions to bring food, supplies, and justice to those in the region, stop further bloodshed, and return Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages.

Woosley-Leake Scholarships

Woosley-Leake Scholarship applications for the 2024-2025 school year are now available. Any Crescent Hill Presbyterian church member or immediate family of a church member who will be enrolled in an undergraduate college or training program is invited to apply. Applications need to be completed and returned to the church office by May 1. Contact Patti Marcum at pdwmarcum@gmail.com to request an application.

Jean Leake Scholarship Fund

The Jean Leake Fund offers assistance to the children and youth of Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church for camping opportunities. Applications for scholarships are now available. Please contact Patti Marcum at pdwmarcum@gmail.com or 502-403-8269 to request an application or ask questions. Deadline for applications is April 15. Scholarship applicants will be notified of their award amount by

May 1. Payment will be made according to information provided in the application.

Prayer Group for the Middle East

You are invited to join with members of CHPC and other churches in prayer each Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., on Zoom. Paul Seebeck offered to lead this group after several folks met together a couple of times to share information and support each other during the aftermath of renewed violence in the Middle East. Here is the Zoom link if you would like to join in:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81578416917?pwd=cTBLeDd0WFBRbTliclE1aGZVMERwdz09

Meeting ID: 815 7841 6917

Passcode: 972269

Bus Tour Honoring The Legacy of African Americans

On Saturday, May 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., join your friends in Mid-Kentucky Presbytery for a historical bus tour in the Louisville area. The bus will be departing from Central Presbyterian Church (318 West Kentucky Street).

The tour will visit sites from the slave to civil rights eras as well as Roots 101 Museum. One stop will be Second Baptist Church in New Albany, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Louisville historian and Highland Presbyterian Church member Tom Owen will guide a portion of the tour.

Tour participants must be middle-school age or older and be able to get on and off a school bus. The $25 fee includes a box lunch and admission to all sites. Seating is limited. Click here to register.

For more information, call Bill Williamson at 502-415-5469.

Invitation to Be a Nursery Volunteer

The Nurture Committee is planning ahead and wants to be ready for young children and their parents who might need to use our nursery space during our worship services. Two volunteers will be needed at any time. All volunteers are required to have satisfactorily completed a background check before being able to volunteer.

Four CHPC members have already signed up. These include: Soni Castleberry, Claudia Foulkes, Eva Stimson, and Jerry Van Marter. If interested in serving in this ministry of our church, please let Soni know (502-417-6481).