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Confirmation – Info meeting, Sept 23

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Confirmation Information Meeting: Parents & Students
Sunday September 23rd, 2018 10:15-10:45, Niles Chapel

You are invited to join this year’s Confirmation Program! We’ve had a blast over the past few years and people have enjoyed hanging out with each other, talking through the Christian faith, learning scripture, going on retreat with friends, and deciding what they really believe. Typically done in the 9th grade year, Confirmation is open to any in high school who are interested.

Retreats: We will gather for three Saturday evenings over the course of the year. These times will include meals, conversations, and other fun stuff. We ask that students come prepared with a short written work and the memory passages ready to recite. This helps to ensure that everybody has the information they need to talk and think in deeper and more critical ways regarding their perspective on God, the church, and their faith.

Download the Confirmation 2019 – Registration Packet (pdf).

Mentors: Each confirmand is asked to find a mentor who can join in the retreats, meet independently for ice cream, and help with questions and statements of faith.  While this may be an older sibling or aunt or uncle, parents cannot serve as mentors for their own kids since a big part of the confirmation process is gaining an independence of faith.

Lake Champion: The December Senior High Retreat at Lake Champion (this year November 30 – December 2) is a date to put on your calendars now – extended time to ponder, question, and learn – and throw snowballs, jump in a freezing lake, sit around the fireplace with friends…open to all Sr. High students, not only the Confirmation Class.

Important dates: Confirmation Sunday is May 19, 2019 at 10AM (with brunch following). Students will also be expected to participate in the Session Meeting on Thursday, May 16, 7:00-8:30PM.

In years past, those who have gone through the program have been glad they did and we welcome you for the year, and beyond.  Join us for the information meeting to learn more.

I’ll see students this Sunday, 9:15AM, for bagels and such as the Sunday morning program kicks off! If you have any questions about any of the programs for youth at Nassau, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mark Edwards

609-933-7599

 

 

Small Groups – Fall 2018

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Weary and burdened by a daily dose of news that you only wish you could believe was fake? Tired of living in an age when the Kingdom of Heaven seems like someone’s idea of a cruel joke? Not after signing up for a small group, eight of which return this fall, offering myriad opportunities to strengthen your bonds to the fellowship of love and faith that is Nassau Church.

Find Your Way Back…

…to the hymns, or contemplate how Christian faith is imagined in dystopian literature. Join a study of the brilliant Frederick Buechner, or attempt to unravel some of the mysteries of John’s gospel. Want a preview of next week’s sermon? We’ve got that! And what better time than now to join others in thinking about the Holy Spirit and the Work of Justice, or a study of Simone Weil’s Gravity & Grace. Finally, Ned Walthall returns with another session on the The Sacred Art of Photography, the medium now central to contemporary art, this time focusing on photography and the parables.

Maybe it’s time to do more than read the paper; maybe it’s time to act. Small Groups at Nassau are in the business of transformation: no one remains unchanged, no one.

Sign Up

Sign up in Fellowship beginning Sunday, September 9, or online after Monday, September 10. Books will be available for purchase in Fellowship on Sunday morning or in the church office during regular business hours.

Groups meet weekly for seven weeks.

Available Small Groups

The small groups with spaces available are listed below.

Complete catalogue: 2018 Fall Small Groups (pdf)

Mondays, Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Faith in the Future: Christianity in Dystopian Literature

Corrie Berg, leader
Berg Home, Princeton
Light lunch (soup & bread) provided

Come read three classics of dystopian literature and learn how Faith is imagined in the future. What role does the church play in these futuristic societies? Are people imprinted with a desire for God even when religion is outlawed? How does our faith influence our view of the individual? We will spend two sessions discussing each book (about 100-150 pages of reading each week). No literature degree required! Come join this casual, welcoming discussion.

Corrie Berg is the Director of Children’s and Family Ministry at Nassau Presbyterian Church. She loves stories (Bible stories, all stories!) and is a life-long reader who believes that great literature helps us understand out own world and ourselves.

Mondays, Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, 7:30-9:00 p.m.

The Road Goes On

Marshall McKnight, leader
Conference Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church

Join us as we learn, share, pray and laugh with theologian, writer, preacher and faithful servant Fredrick Buechner as our guide. Buechner 101: Essays and Sermons by Frederick Buechner will lead us through a time of sharing that will be memorable and powerful. In the book’s forward, Anne Lamott writes of Buechner, “He writes about listening to your own heart, to the rhythms and narrative of your own life.”

Marshall McKnight, a Nassau Church member since 2011, serves as a deacon and is active on the Mass Incarceration Task Force and the Membership Committee. He was a journalist for seven years and for the last fourteen has worked for the State of New Jersey.

Tuesdays, Oct. 2 to Nov. 13, 7:30-9:00 p.m.

The Gospel of John

John Parker, leader
Tazelaar Home, Princeton

John’s Gospel contains some of the most thought provoking and poetic language in the Bible. Using the slim but superb N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guide, come explore the themes of the Gospel of John and its relevance for our lives today.

John Parker is long time member of Nassau Presbyterian Church. He wears many hats, including Elder, Deacon, Sunday School teacher, Youth leader, and Small Group leader. John appreciates Nassau’s Small Groups very much and still marvels that anyone would ask him to lead one. Somehow, with God’s help we all get by.

Wednesdays, Oct. 3 to Nov. 14, 6:30-7:30 a.m.

Listening Ahead of Time: Preparing for Sunday’s Sermon

Dave Davis, leader
Conference Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church
Bring Your Own Breakfast, coffee & tea provided

Join a Bible study on the sermon text for the coming Sunday, examining and probing and drawing relationships with life and mission as followers of Jesus Christ.

Dave Davis has been pastor and head-of-staff at Nassau since the fall of 2000. His PhD in Homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary focused on preaching as a corporate act and the active role of the listener in the preaching event. He has published two sermon collections, A Kingdom You Can Taste and Lord and Teach Us to Pray.

Wednesdays, Oct. 3 to Nov. 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

The Holy Spirit and the Work of Justice

Len Scales, leader
Conference Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church

Prayerfully consider The Brief Statement of Faith and The Belhar Confession, two confessions of the PC(USA). We will also read The Sarasota Statement, a confessional statement written in 2017, and discuss how we are called to affirm our faith in our own contexts.

Len Scales is Chaplain and Executive Co-Director of Princeton Presbyterians of the Westminster Foundation. In 2017 she helped lead the Young Ministry Leader’s Gathering of the Synod of the Northeast on a similar topic. It was a rich time to remember the power of the Holy Spirit and God’s call on the Church to “do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly.”

Wednesdays, Oct. 3 to Nov. 14, 7:30-9:00 p.m.

Simone Weil’s Gravity & Grace

Mark Edwards & Virginia Kerr, leaders
Edwards Home, Kingston

Simone Weil’s radical thinking swept across numerous fronts in theology, politics, philosophy, and in the daily way she cared for others. She has touched those who have sought both justice in human affairs and light in matters of the spirit. Join us in being challenged to live fully and love  gratuitously as we reflect upon her life and work.

Mark Edwards joined Nassau as Director of Youth Ministries in September of 2013. He is a lifelong Presbyterian and holds a PhD (Philosophy and Theology, 2013) from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has been an Assistant of Instruction at Princeton University, and is currently an adjunct professor at The College of New Jersey. Mark is married to Janine and they have two children.

Virginia Kerr is a Princeton attorney who has been active in Nassau’s criminal justice missions for almost two decades, first with ABC Prison Literacy and currently with the Mass Incarceration Task Force. She has been an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law where she received her J.D. and more recently has taught courses in history at several New Jersey prisons.

Thursdays, Oct. 4 to Nov. 15, 7:30-9:00 p.m.

Photography and the Parables

Ned Walthall, leader
Conference Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church
plus 2 optional off-site sessions

In the Gospels, Jesus often used parables to teach. When asked by his disciples why he spoke to them in parables, he talks, among other things, about the paradox of seeing and yet not seeing. “That is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing, they do not see.” (Matthew 13: 13). A great  photograph is like a parable: it enables us to see what it immediately reminds us we haven’t seen. We will ask ourselves how a photograph can function as a parable, examine some of Jesus’ parables, and create photographs to illustrate them.

No special skill or equipment is required, but you’ll be asked to think about the photographs you take and share them with the group. In addition to Thursday nights, there will be two optional sessions, including a Saturday in New York.

Ned Walthall has been thinking about and taking photographs for years. He is the geeky guy with the long lens at coffee hour. He is currently a candidate for an MFA in Photography at The New Hampshire Institute of Art. His work can be seen at nwalthall.tumblr.com.

 

Concerts & Recitals – September 2018

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Westminster Conservatory at Nassau
Thursday, September 20

On Thursday, September 20 at 12:15 p.m. the seventeenth season of Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will open with a recital of music for piano, four hands.  The performers, Inessa Gleyzerova Shindel and Galina Prilutskaya, are members of the teaching faculty of Westminster Conservatory.

On September 20 the program will comprise two works of Moritz Moszkowski, Nouvelles Danses Espagnoles, op. 65, no. 1 and the “Polonaise” from Polish Folk Dances op. 55; Edward Elgar’s Salut d’amour; Sergei Bortkiewicz’s Russian Tunes and Dances, op. 31; and an arrangement of the traditional Russian melody, Dark Eyes.

On October 18 Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will present Timothy Urban, baritone and Kathy Shanklin, piano performing The House of Life by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, a song cycle on poetry of Dante Gabriel Rosetti.

The recital will take place in the Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street in Princeton.  It is open to the public free of charge.

Westminster Conservatory of Music

New School for Music Study
Sunday, September 30

Celebrating Schubert

Join the New School for Music Study as they open their 2018-19 season with an afternoon of celebrating the master of the lyrical line, Franz Schubert.  This recital features solo and chamber works, including the complete set of the famous Op. 90 Impromptus!

The recital will take place in the Sanctuary of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street in Princeton.  It is open to the public free of charge.

New School for Music Study

 

Adult Education – September 2018

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September Classes
For a look at all the Adult Education offerings in September, download the brochure: Adult Education September 2018

Please note: there will be no Adult Education Classes on September 2

September 9

I’ll Say a Little Prayer for You…

Ann Schoonover

9:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

 What are our sensibilities when it comes to praying? Join me in an informal conversation, where there are no right or wrong answers, and questions are encouraged.  We will consider our denomination’s tradition of prayer during worship, and explore the role(s) prayer plays in our congregation’s life together. What about contemporary views, practices and expressions of prayer? If time permits, we will share stories about praying and its impact upon ourselves as well as the world around us.

Ann Schoonover, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PCUSA and currently serves Covenant and Hamilton Square Presbyterian churches. She is developing a regional older adult ministry (ROAM) program involving PCUSA churches in the greater Trenton area.  Formerly, Ann served in hospital, behavioral health, hospice and homecare settings as a chaplain. She has obtained certificates from Good Shepherd Mediation program and additional training in spiritual direction from Oasis Ministries. Keenly interested in people, Ann is fulfilled by guiding individuals, families and congregations through change and transition. Before attending seminary, Ann had a first career in labor relations, where she met her husband Tim Brown; they both now serve the PCUSA in various capacities.

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Ongoing: September 9 through December 16

In-Depth Bible Study: Colossians

George Hunsinger

9:15 AM
Maclean House

George Hunsinger returns for the 21st year to lead this verse-by-verse examination of Colossians. Bibles are available for use during the class. Find them on the Deacon Desk by the church kitchen. Class meets next door in Maclean House (Garden Entrance).

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September 16

Preaching the Gospel

Andrew Scales

9:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

How do we proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ today? That question has shaped worship and preaching for Presbyterians since the Reformation. In a world filled with plenty of bad news, preachers are listening to the Scriptures to discern what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. Join Andrew Scales as we explore together how preachers craft sermons that speak truth amid our hopes, fears, and needs.

Andrew Scales is a PhD Candidate in Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also serves as a Chaplain and Executive Co-Director of the Princeton Presbyterians campus ministry with his wife, Len Turner Scales. He is currently finishing his dissertation, “’Every Last Christian Takes Part’: Oscar Romero and Remembrance of Disappeared Persons in El Salvador.”

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September 23

Confessions in Worship and Life?

Dirk Smit

9:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

The Presbyterian and Reformed practice of weekly corporate confession of sin in worship, and weekly unison reading of a selection from a confession or creed in the PC(USA) Book of Confessions, often garners questions and strong reactions from congregants. Do Reformed people really need creeds and confessional documents? What role could they play in worship and life, and what role do they play?

Dirk Smit is the Rimmer and Ruth De Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. He recently came to Princeton from South Africa, with years of experience in Reformed circles and the ecumenical church, including experience with confessional documents and their reception and use in church and public life.

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September 30

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place

David A. Davis and Noel Werner

9:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

At each weekly gathering of the church staff, one of our major tasks is the preparation of Sunday worship. Within the four-fold movement of Reformed worship, all of our choices are governed by fidelity to scripture, the pastoral needs of the congregation, commitment to discipleship, and our calling in the world. Come hear Dave Davis and Noel Werner as they describe the creative and prayerful process of shaping the worship life of our church.

Dave Davis has been pastor and head-of-staff at Nassau since the fall of 2000. His PhD in Homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary focused on preaching as a corporate act and the active role of the listener in the preaching event. He has published two sermon collections, A Kingdom You Can Taste and Lord, Teach Us to Pray.

Noel Werner has been the Director of Music at Nassau Presbyterian Church since 2006. He lectures on occasion at Westminster Choir College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and spearheads many cooperative music endeavors in the community, in addition to directing Nassau’s adult choir, coordinating Nassau’s extensive music program, and staffing the Worship and Arts Committee.

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Adult Education – August 2018

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August Classes
For a look at Adult Education offerings (June-August), download the brochure: Summer2018

Please note: there will be no Adult Education Classes on September 2

August 5

Peter Paul Rubens: His Life and Work

Karlfried Froehlich

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was one of the great, if not the greatest artist of Dutch Baroque painting in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries whose famous monumental works of religious as well as secular art are found in numerous churches and museums all over the world. While born into a strictly Reformed family who fled persecution in the Spanish Netherlands, he was raised as a Catholic after his father’s death and became the most influential representative of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Living in the harbor city of Antwerp, he was extremely successful and widely in demand for altar pieces and portraits by wealthy patrons including the French, English, and Spanish royal courts, Italian princes and the Vatican. Come and learn all about him!

Karlfried Froehlich, a native of Saxony, Germany, studied theology, history, and classical languages in Germany, Paris, and Basel. Moving to the United States in 1964, he taught at Drew University and from 1968 to 1992 at Princeton Theological Seminary where he held the Benjamin B. Warfield chair in church history. An active member of the Lutheran Church in America (today the ELCA), he was a member of the Lutheran – Roman Catholic National Dialogue in the 1970s and 80s and of the Reformed – Lutheran Conversations in the 1990s which led to the 1997 declaration of full communion between the churches involved.  His scholarly interests include the history of Christian art and the history of biblical interpretation, a field to which he has contributed significantly through his teaching and writing.

August 12

Peter Paul Rubens: The Constantine Tapestries at Philadelphia

Karlfried Froehlich

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses a fabulous and quite unique treasure—thirteen large pieces of tapestry woven in Paris and Rome after sketches by Rubens and a friend which depict the story of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. While much of it is legend, the scenes constitute a fascinating account of one of the most important periods of Early Christian history. Focus on the story told in the tapestries as you hear highlighted its intended parallels to the religious history of France during those turbulent times of upheaval and religious wars.

Karlfried Froehlich, a native of Saxony, Germany, studied theology, history, and classical languages in Germany, Paris, and Basel. Moving to the United States in 1964, he taught at Drew University and from 1968 to 1992 at Princeton Theological Seminary where he held the Benjamin B. Warfield chair in church history. An active member of the Lutheran Church in America (today the ELCA), he was a member of the Lutheran – Roman Catholic National Dialogue in the 1970s and 80s and of the Reformed – Lutheran Conversations in the 1990s which led to the 1997 declaration of full communion between the churches involved.  His scholarly interests include the history of Christian art and the history of biblical interpretation, a field to which he has contributed significantly through his teaching and writing.

August 19

A Year as a Young Adult Volunteer in Peru

Katie Hastings

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

Selected for a year of service from Nassau Presbyterian Church, Katie will tell us about her time in Peru working in the Casa Del Buen Trato Hovde shelter for women and girls. Come see and hear about her emotional journey, what she found to be most valuable about the YAV program, and what she has learned.

Katie Hastings was born and grew up in Tokyo as a missionary kid. She moved to Princeton at the age of fourteen and was very involved with the youth group and choir at Nassau Presbyterian Church which she attended with her parents, Tom and Carol Hastings. In May of 2017 she graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, studying psychology and economics. She has always been passionate about traveling and learning from different cultures.

August 26

Teaching with Nassau’s Mission Partner, Villages in Partnership, in Malawi

Carla Tuan

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

After completing a final senior year semester in Paris this spring, Carla flew to Malawi and was introduced to the work of Nassau’s mission partnership in Africa by Liz Heinsel-Nelson, VIP’s Executive Director. Carla divided her time between teaching mathematics at a local high school, teaching computer classes to hopeful college students, and going to the homes of twenty vulnerable families. “They are incredibly poor, with not enough to eat. I am hoping to be able to raise money for them when I get back. Malawi is engulfed in poverty, and yet sometimes not just money, but communicating with villages and letting them do the work is the best solution.” On her return, Carla raised over $1,600.00 for one goat per family and other life-giving supplies.

Carla and her family – sister Susanna and parents Wayne and Emily – have been at Nassau all of Carla’s life. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a major in Mathematics this spring. Beginning in July she started working in NYC doing trading with BMO Capital Markets. Carla loves traveling, running, and reading, and she can do a Rubik’s cube!

 

Garden Tour of Trenton – Saturday, July 7, 2018

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Saturday, July 7

Join David Byers, Landscape Architect, Master Gardener, Member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and Stephani Register, Senior Planner, City of Trenton, for a guided tour of community gardens and urban development.

Meet at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1140 Greenwood Ave, Trenton, NJ 08609, at 9:30 a.m., parking available behind the church. We’ll end with lunch at Trenton Social (449 S Broad Street Trenton NJ). Please bring $10.00 cash for transportation expenses.

Contact Linda Gilmore for reservations (; 609-924-0103 x134). Questions? Joyce MacKichan Walker (, x103).

Adult Education – July 2018

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July Classes
For a look at Adult Education offerings (June-August), download the brochure: Summer2018

Please note: there will be no Adult Education Classes on July 1

July 8

“O Sacred Head Now Wounded,” A Hymn for the Ages

Paul Rorem

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

With loose attribution to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), “O Sacred Head Now Wounded,” has become a hymn for the ages – through the Lutheran Reformation to J.S. Bach to James Alexander of Princeton.  Originally written in Latin, the text is comprised of seven parts that outline the body of Christ:  feet, knees, hands, sides, heart and head. This hymn was later translated into German and, during the Thirty-Years War, became a profound source of comfort for those affected. James Alexander of Princeton translated this hymn into English, and this piece has remained a prominent fixture in worship services ever since.

Paul E. Rorem is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of Medieval Church History. An ordained Lutheran minister, he is interested in medieval church history. His courses cover the confessions and influence of St. Augustine, the Christian mystical tradition, medieval Christianity, and the spiritual and theological legacy of the Pseudo-Dionysian writings.

July 15

Momentous Moment: Ethical Reflections on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017-2018 Term

Larry Stratton

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Georgetown University law students just before the Supreme Court’s 2017-2018 term began, “There is only one prediction that is entirely safe about the upcoming term, and that is: It will be momentous.” Come and focus on several of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “momentous” decisions involving bakers and wedding cakes at gay weddings, political gerrymandering of legislative districts, immigration travel bans, and the taking of private property for burial ground access. Assess the judicial opinions in a wide-ranging discussion which will raise issues of constitutional interpretation, Christian ethical engagement, and the Separation of Powers.

Lawrence M. Stratton, Director of Waynesburg University’s Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership, and Associate Professor of Ethics and Constitutional Law has both religion and law degrees. As a field education intern at Nassau during his Princeton seminary M.Div. studies, Larry began an ongoing exploration of American constitutional law in relation to insights from the Christian faith during many sessions at Nassau Presbyterian Church beginning in the fall of 2001.

July 22

Universities and Free Speech

Keith E. Whittington

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

Universities have a distinctive and important mission in American society. They assemble and nurture an open and diverse community of scholars, teachers and students dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge. The robust protection of free speech and civil discourse is essential to that mission.  Better understanding the relationship between the critical functions of the university and the principles of free speech can help guide us in resolving the difficult challenges that confront the members of modern universities.

Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He writes about American constitutional law, politics and history and American political thought. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and is currently a fellow with the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. His most recent books include Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech and Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present.

July 29

Pay Up or Die!

Eric Barreto

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

It’s hard enough to imagine that we would, like the earliest believers in Acts, choose to sell our possessions and trust the church to take care of our every need. Harder still is making sense of the strange story of Ananias and Sapphira whose deceptions and deaths don’t exactly seem to function as a lesson for us today. Come and read these puzzling texts together.

Eric Barreto is Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, an ordained Baptist minister, and a Nassau parent.

 

Adult Education – June 2018

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June Classes
For a look at Adult Education offerings (June-August), download the brochure: Summer2018

Please note: there will be no Adult Education Classes on June 3

June 3

Nassau Goes to Westminster

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June 10

Then I Saw a Vision: Visions, God, and Christian Faith

John L. Williams

11:15 a.m.
Music Room

“The most fruitful and profound understanding of vision and visioning processes are not in organizational theories or management techniques. They are instead in the bible and Christian theology.” Come and explore an Old Testament vision story, through presentation and conversation. Then examine the relationships between and among visions, God, and our Christian faith.

John L. Williams is a retired minister. He has served the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as a pastor, presbytery executive, and synod executive and is currently an active member of New Brunswick Presbytery. His spouse Linda is a member of Nassau Church where they regularly worship. John is the author of a recently published book, Old Man Dreaming: A Theological Essay on Vision.

June 17

And My Eyes were Opened: Visions, God, and Nassau Church’s mission

John L. Williams

11:15 a.m.
Assembly Room

How can biblical vision stories guide our discovery of what God is calling us to do, and who God calls us to be, for the church in our time? Through presentation and conversation, explore a New Testament vision story. Then examine how that story might guide and shape our lives as partners in the mission of Nassau Presbyterian Church?

John L. Williams is a retired minister. He has served the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as a pastor, presbytery executive, and synod executive and is currently an active member of New Brunswick Presbytery. His spouse Linda is a member of Nassau Church where they regularly worship. John is the author of a recently published book, Old Man Dreaming: A Theological Essay on Vision.

June 24

Freud and God in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Eliot Daley

Follows the Congregational Meeting at 11:00 a.m.
Assembly Room

Eliot Daley speaks about “Freud and God in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Earlier that weekend, on Friday, June 22, the new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor opens at the Garden Theatre. The first screening benefits the Trenton Children’s Chorus (tickets available at trentonchildrenschorus.org), and Eliot will do a Q&A in the theater afterwards. This moving film takes us beyond the zip-up cardigans and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and into the heart of the man who inspired generations of children with compassion and imagination.

While serving as associate minister of First Presbyterian Church, now Nassau, Eliot wrote about the influence of TV on American families and children. This led to his connection with Fred Rogers, who invited Eliot to join him in producing Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Eliot served as president of the production company and wrote many early episodes.

Westminster Presbyterian Church – June 2018

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Join us for one (or all!) of these events with our Mission Partner church in Trenton

Sunday, June 3

Join us as we worship God and celebrate the Nassau–Westminster Mission partnership. This an annual event in which we worship with our friends at  Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1140 Greenwood Ave, Trenton. An opportunity for fellowship follows worship. If you need a ride or can take someone, let Joyce MacKichan Walker (, 609-924-0103 x103) know. Come for this special Sunday!

Saturday, June 9

Join David Byers, Landscape Architect, Master Gardener, Member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and Stephani Register, Senior Planner, City of Trenton, for a guided tour of community gardens and urban development.

Bus leaves Mountain Lakes parking lot at 9:00 a.m. and returns by 1:30 p.m., lunch included. Cost: $25.00; Limited seating so register now on the website or through Lauren Yeh (; 609-924-0103 x106). Questions? Joyce MacKichan Walker (, x103).

Sunday, June 10

Families from Nassau Presbyterian Church are invited to join Get S.E.T. families from Westminster Presbyterian Church to watch the Trenton Thunder (AA Yankees) play the Binghamton Rumble Ponies (AA Mets) on Sunday, June 10, at 1pm. Sign up online.

Tickets are $8 per seat (normally $12).

Make checks out to “Nassau Presbyterian Church” indicate “Baseball-June 10” in the memo line. Mail or bring to the church office:

Lauren Yeh, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542

Questions? contact Lauren Yeh.

Saturday, June 23

Come to the 6th Annual Bethany Community Garden Party, on Saturday, June 23rd from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM at 426 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, NJ. The celebration will include an open mic, spoken word, drumming, and dancing from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Light refreshments will be provided by Arm in Arm and Bonner Foundation.

Bethany Community Garden was designed by David Byers of Westminster Presbyterian Church. It was initially funded and supported by New Brunswick Presbytery’s Urban Mission Cabinet member churches, Isles of Trenton, I Am Trenton, Arm in Arm, the Jewish Community Center of Princeton, and the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville. In 2015, Westminster Presbyterian Church received a Faithful Families grant to expand the Bethany Community Garden. The produce harvested is shared with clients of Arm in Arm, and the Bethany House of Hospitality residents and neighbors. Muchisimas Gracias, once again to Arm in Arm for providing light refreshments!

Want more details?  Email Rev. Karen Hernández-Granzen at

 

Guatemala Dinner – June 16

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“Paellada” – ‘Paella Dinner’ for New Dawn School

At the home of Jonathan and Jane Holmquist
10 Allegheny Avenue, Lawrenceville, NJ
Saturday, June 16, 5:30 p.m.

Join us for a “paellada” ‘paella dinner’ hosted by Charo Juega (from Madrid), Fredy Estrada, and Jane and Jonathan Holmquist.  The authentic menu will include tapas, gazpacho, paella, salads, dessert, and Spanish beverages.

All proceeds support New Dawn school in Parramos, Guatemala; a donation of $50 is requested.

Sign up at the table outside Niles Chapel or contact .