Dare 2 Be Fit
Summer Camp

At D2BF Summer Camp, we recognize the need for children to find ways to stay physically active during the summer. To increase physical activity, today’s children need summer camp experiences where they can play and be active. Every day is filled with sports, dance and fitness programs that are exciting and challenging and sure to keep all campers engaged. Our unique program offers campers the opportunity to choose the activities that are right for them – they can join a low-impact game, choose a quiet activity, or play a challenging & physically active game.

Sunday School Walk for Missions

It is that time of year again. Spring has sprung and walking outdoors is wonderful at this time of year! The Sunday school will again be walking in order to raise money for Missions. The students will be asking for donations between services beginning the last week of April until the day of the walk on June 3^rd. The rain date is June 10^th.

Food Pantry Needs

Listed below are some items most needed but just about any non-perishable is appreciated:

• Peanut Butter,
• Powdered Milk (1 qt packages),
• Tea, Coffee

Please leave all donations in the round tub by the mailboxes outside the Narthex.  Thank you for all you do.

For more information contact foodpantry@stpaulsbrick.org.

Circuit Rider Letter
May 2012
by Pastor John DiGiamberardino

Holy Communion
May 6^th

We celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion on the first Sunday of every month. The other day I had someone come up to me and ask if we were going to have communion in April. I told them we skipped Sunday morning Communion in April because Palm Sunday fell on the first Sunday of the month. We celebrated Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday during Holy Week. It would have been interesting to have communion on Palm Sunday because we had an extra 100 people in services this year.

Through April our Sunday School has been taking time to educate and communicate with our children and their parents the meaning and importance of Holy Communion.

Marriage Moment
Brian Collis
May 2012

What is the nature of sin? This might seem an odd start to a marriage moment article, but bear with me.

Let’s start with relationships, because the Bible is, at the core of every story, about relationships; between people and God, and between people and other people. Relationships are never static. They are either growing and getting better, or are regressing and getting worse. Stagnation is not a healthy state for a relationship, so I consider that in the latter category of getting worse.

Our relationship with God is no different. We are either growing in this relationship and getting closer to God, or we are getting farther away from Him. It is interesting in regard to sin to consider a word often used in conjunction: repentance. We are called to repent from sin. This is often taken to mean to ask forgiveness, but looking at the Greek word we translate as repent, it means at its root “to turn around.” Constantly doing things and asking forgiveness is not repenting. Turning towards God, and consciously walking towards Him is. If repenting then, is turning around, turning to God, sin could be taken to mean turning from God.