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Spring 2024 Newsletter

The New Leaf, a newsletter of Burke Presbyterian Church members and friends, is published quarterly. Read the Spring 2024 issue. Paper copies are available in the Gathering Space. If you would like to receive a paper copy by US mail, contact the church office at 703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org.

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Soup for the Soul (Lunch)

Join us on All Saints’ Day for lunch ~ some soup for the soul ~ and a discussion about what we can do when our mortality sets in. This session focuses on wills and estate planning, as well as how to secure access to the most advanced care, planning what’s to be for what’s left behind. This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering this year. For information about additional workshops, view our flyer or our events calendar. Questions?…

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Fill the Empty Spaces with a Potluck Lunch

Bring some comfort food to share at a potluck lunch! This session focuses on how to fill in the empty spaces once a death has occurred. How do we support each other in our immediate and ongoing grief? How do we fill in the gaps and honor our sisters and brothers in special ways when it isn’t crystal clear what they would want? This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering this year. For information about…

Palm/Passion Sunday Worship at 9:00 am and 11:15 am

Wandering Heart, our Lenten sermon and study series, continues on this Palm/Passion Sunday with “Songs of Loudest Praise”. Children and adults are invited to join a palm parade during our opening hymn at both services. Children are also welcome to bring their One Great Hour of Sharing fish banks to worship on Palm Sunday or on Easter Sunday. The nursery (for toddlers and babies) is available in Room LL-1 on the lower level. Older children are invited to begin worship with…

Wandering Heart: Teach Me

About this sermon series  1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that…

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Talking about ‘Next Steps’

This workshop is designed to help you get ready to talk about “next steps.” Learn how to talk to a family member about their wishes while you still can. Whether you’re ready to plan with broad strokes or think about nitty gritty details, come discover what questions to ask and whom to speak to, so that your loved one’s vision is clear for those left behind. This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering this year.…

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Facets of Grief

Rev. Deryl Fleming and Rev. Becca Messman lead a workshop on the many facets of grief. Come to discuss and reflect on how to support others even in our own darkness. What is helpful, and what isn’t? What is good to say and pray about, and what isn’t? This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering this year. For information about additional workshops, view our flyer or our events calendar. Questions? Please contact the church office, at 703-764-0456 or…

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Biology and Realities of Dying

Patricia Brockmeier, hospice nurse, will provide an overview of ‘how we die’ and when to initiate hospice care. She will also cover how to talk openly with affected family members and friends about decisions, expectations, and timing. This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering this year. For information about additional workshops, view our flyer or our events calendar. Questions? Please contact the church office, at 703-764-0456 or office@BurkePresChurch.org.

Sacred Crossings Workshop: Basics of Hospice

What is it like to watch someone whose life is ending? How can you be a support to that person, their family, and yourself? What is helpful and what are some common blunders to avoid? Rev. Christine Reimers, Hospice Chaplain, provides the basics of hospice, its philosophy, when it might be appropriate to consider, and how it might fit with one’s sense of ‘stewardship’ of ALL of life. This is one of six Sacred Crossings workshops that BPC is offering…

Sacred Crossings Workshops

BPC invites you to a series of workshops to help understand, plan for, and support each other when death, dying, and grief come to call. There will be three workshops this spring, and then three workshops in the fall. Most will take place during the Sunday School hour (from 10:15-11:00am), but some will occur after our second Sunday morning worship service. For details, please view our flyer or our events calendar. We hope you can join us! For more information,…

Wandering Heart: I’m Fixed Upon It

About this sermon series Matthew 16:21-23 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You…

Guest Preacher-Rev. Dr. Teri Ott

We welcome Rev. Dr. Teri Ott, March 17th! The Rev. Dr. Teri McDowell Ott has been an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister for over twenty years. After receiving her Master of Divinity degree from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary she served the church in a variety of pastoral positions. In 2008 she completed her Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. She began serving Monmouth College as Chaplain in January of 2011 and was promoted to Dean of the Chapel in…