The Lenten Craft Fair gives children a chance to understand what is happening in this important season.
We invite you to join us as we observe the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord.
Throughout Lent
Easter Memorials
We remember and honor our loved ones by giving for the Easter brass ensemble and Easter tulips, which decorate the church so beautifully on Easter Sunday.
Lenten Devotional
Don’t miss our church-wide, daily Lenten Devotional. Members and friends of the church have written meditations on Scripture to accompany us through the season of Lent. Read it here.
Small Groups
Offering fellowship and community, Small Groups are working through the six-session study Gospel Portraits of Jesus. Learn more and find a group.
Our artist-in-residence Armando Sosa, master weaver, is creating a set of three tapestries for use in worship during Easter, designed for the delight of our imaginations and the contemplation of the mystery of our salvation. Read about the project and follow his progress by visiting the loom in the church library and watching for photo updates on our Facebook page.
Wednesday, Mar. 1
Ash Wednesday Worship and Lunch 12:00pm, Niles Chapel
1:00pm, Assembly Room
Windrows/Stonebridge bus (note 1)
Lenten Craft Fair 4:00-6:00pm, Assembly Room
Ash Wednesday Potluck and Communion 6:00pm, Assembly Room
See note 2
Sunday, Mar. 5
Lent 1 Communion Worship 9:15 and 11:00am
“The Least of These”
Matthew 5:13-20
Sunday, Mar. 12
Lent 2 Worship 9:15 and 11:00am
“Perfect, Just Perfect”
Matthew 5:38-48
Sunday, Mar. 19
Lent 3 Worship – Youth Sunday 9:15 and 11:00am
“Consider the Lilies of the Field”
Matthew 6:25-34
See note 3
Sunday, Mar. 26
Lent 4 Worship 9:15 and 11:00am
“Following Your Heart”
Matthew 6:19-24
Sunday, Apr. 2
Lent 5 Worship 9:15 and 11:00am
“Pearls”
Matthew 7:1-6
Tuesday, Apr. 4
Nassau at Stonebridge Lenten Worship
1:30pm, Stonebridge
Sunday, Apr. 9
Palm Sunday Worship 9:15 and 11:00am
“Astounding”
Matthew 7:24-29
Special Offering: One Great Hour of Sharing
Tuesday, Apr. 11
Nassau at Windrows Holy Tuesday Worship 3:00pm, The Windrows
Thursday, Apr. 13
Maundy Thursday Noon Communion Worship and Lunch 12:00pm, Niles Chapel
1:00pm, Assembly Room
Windrows/Stonebridge bus (note 1)
Maundy Thursday Evening Communion Worship 7:30pm
Friday, Apr. 14
Good Friday – Noon Worship 12:00pm
See note 2
Sunday, Apr. 16
Easter Sunrise Worship 7:00am, Niles Chapel
Matthew 28:1-10
Easter Worship 9:00 and 11:00 am
Matthew 28:1-10
See note 4
Events are in the Sanctuary, unless otherwise noted.
(1) For Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday noon worship and lunch, senior bus service picks up from the Windrows (11:00am) and Stonebridge (11:20am) and returns after lunch.
(2) For Ash Wednesday potluck and Good Friday worship, childcare is available.
(3) On Youth Sunday, March 19:
No Church School
Nursery provided for children up to age two
Bible story and craft time for children age three to grade one in Room 07
(4) On Easter, April 16, 9:00 and 11:00am:
No Adult Education or Church School
Nursery provided for children up to age two
Bible story and craft time for children age three to grade one in Room 07
This video slideshow gives an in-depth, day-by-day look at the 2014 Guatemala trip. The group visited and served the students and teachers of the learning center in Parramos and also enjoyed seeing breathtaking Lake Atitlán and Mayan sites.
You are invited to join the 2017 Princeton/Parramos Partnership trip to Guatemala from July 14 to 23. The trip offers educational opportunities including visits to beautiful Lake Atitlán with its surrounding Mayan villages and the colonial Spanish city of Antigua. The highlight is five-day stay in the highlands town of Parramos.
In the town of Parramos, the trip provides service opportunities including interaction with children and teachers at New Dawn Trilingual Educational Center as well as work on projects in the community. Participants will also benefit from presentations by local leaders on local history and public health.
The cost of participation will be approximately $2,250; this includes round-trip airfare between the US and Guatemala, travel within Guatemala, lodging, and most meals. This is an annual trip that began in 2002 as a way to learn about the country of our Guatemalan immigrant neighbors and has included participants of all ages and from many parts of the USA.
An initial 2017 trip information and planning meeting will be held in Room 202 at 12:15 pm on Sunday, March 12.
For more information please contact Jonathan Holmquist (, 609-771-3744) or Fredy Estrada, (, 609-466-7458).
Viaje a Guatemala 2017 de la “Colaboración Princeton/Parramos”
El viaje a Guatemala 2017 de la Colaboración Princeton/Parramos está programado para el 14 hasta el 23 de julio. Este es un viaje anual que empezó en 2002 como una manera de aprender sobre el país de nuestros vecinos inmigrantes, guatemaltecos. El viaje ofrece experiencias educativas que incluyen visitas al bello Lago Atitlán con las aldeas mayas que lo rodean y a la ciudad colonial española, Antigua, y una estancia de cinco días en el pueblo Parramos situado en el altiplano. En el pueblo, el viaje provee oportunidades de servicio que incluyen interacción con niños y maestros en el Centro Educativo Trilingüe Nuevo Amanecer y trabajo en proyectos en la comunidad. En Parramos también, participantes beneficiarán de presentaciones por líderes locales sobre historia local y salud pública. El costo de participación es aproximadamente $2,250; esto incluye el precio del viaje ida-y-vuelta entre USA y Guatemala, viajes dentro de Guatemala, alojamiento, y muchas de las comidas. Para más información, por favor, comuníquese con Jonathan Holmquist (, 609-771-3744) o Fredy Estrada (, 609-466-7458). Una reunión inicial de información y planificación para el viaje 2017 tendrá lugar en Room 202 en Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ a las 12:15 el 12 de marzo.
A weaver/historian writes that about 20,000 or 30,000 years ago, early humans twisted some plant fibers together and created… string! Eventually, over many more thousands of years, evolving humans developed more sophisticated methods of spinning yarns and weaving them into cloth on various sorts of looms, all over the world. And in due time, beyond clothing and shelter, these looms became a medium for telling the stories of the weavers’ cultures, their daily lives, and their faith.
One such hand-built loom, created from memory by our artist in residence to replicate those of his Guatemalan childhood, stands in our own library. Here, master weaver Armando Sosa — New Jersey’s 2015 Folk Artist of the Year — has labored in love, sharing his stories and teaching his craft to many of our youth and others.
Currently, Armando is weaving a set of three tapestries for use in worship during Easter week, designed for the delight of our imaginations and the contemplation of the mystery of our salvation .
Until then, as you pass through the library, take a look under the loom’s back beam for a glimpse of the woven story. (The tapestry is backside up…) And pause for a moment to talk with this kindly artist, who has been truly gifted and called by God to his craft.
Watch for updates on Armando’s progress in News from Nassau and on our Facebook page – and anticipate with us more weaving events with Armando in May.
A Program of the Worship and Arts Committee
Nassau Church’s Artist Residency is a program of the Worship and Arts Committee. The Worship and Arts Committee seeks to engage all members of the congregation in every aspect of worship, in order build connections to God and amongst people. The Committee’s work is an ongoing creation of vital links among the arts and places of worship. As the Committee works to serve the renewing work of the Holy Spirit amongst us, the question is asked, “Has everyone been fed?”
Nassau Presbyterian Church Hosts Timely Thought-Provoking Discussion of Rare Diary of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor
Long-forgotten masterpiece back in print in English after sixty-five years
Princeton, NJ. – Nassau Presbyterian Church will host a discussion and book signing with Timothy Boyce, editor of the concentration camp diary From Day to Day, on Thursday, February 23, at 7:00PM. Boyce will discuss the story of Norwegian architect and humanitarian Odd Nansen, who was arrested in 1942 by the Nazis. Nansen spent the remaining years of World War II in various concentration camps in Norway and Germany. During that time he kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-thin pages he later smuggled out of the camps.
With an unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual brutality and random terror that was the fate of a camp prisoner. His entries reveal his constantly frustrated hopes for an early end to the war, his longing for his wife and children, his horror at the especially barbaric treatment reserved for Jews, and his disgust at the anti-Semitism of some of his fellow Norwegians.
An English translation of the diaries was first published in 1949. It received rave reviews, but soon fell into obscurity. In 1956, in response to a poll about the “most undeservedly neglected” book of the preceding quarter-century, Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to Day, calling it “an epic narrative,” which took “its place among the great affirmations of the power of the human spirit to rise above terror, torture, and death.” Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors of the camps, yet still saw hope for the future.
This new edition, from Vanderbilt University Press, is the first published in over sixty-five years, and contains extensive annotations from editor Timothy Boyce and new diary selections never before translated into English. Forty sketches of camp life and death by Nansen, an architect and talented draftsman, provide a sense of immediacy and acute observation matched by the diary entries.
Nassau Presbyterian is located at 61 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ. Admission is free. The event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, the Princeton Clergy Association and The Jewish Center of Princeton.
Odd Nansen (1901–1973) was a Norwegian architect and humanitarian. Son of the famous explorer, statesman, and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, Odd followed in his father’s footsteps when he founded Nansenhjelpen in 1936 to address the plight of Central European refugees fleeing Nazism. Arrested in 1942, Odd Nansen spent the remainder of the war in various concentration camps. Following the war he remained active in humanitarian organizations such as UNESCO, and continued to speak out against injustice, oppression, and violence.
Timothy J. Boyce practiced law for thirty-five years. He retired in 2014 as the Managing Partner of the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Dechert LLP, an international law firm.
PRAISE FOR From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps
“A long-forgotten masterpiece. . . . Rarely has the inhumanity of the camps been captured with such humanity.” —Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
“This is one of the most searing contemporaneous accounts of the Holocaust, but also one of the best written of the great documents of World War II. It is a profound indictment of evil, a daily diary of torment and torture, yet also somehow a deeply moving love letter. It should find a place on the bookshelf of every home, be taught in every school, made into a movie, and feted for what it says about man’s capacity for humanity in the face of satanic loathsomeness.”
—Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945; and Napoleon: A Life
From reviews of the 1949 edition:
“Writing with no thought of publication, merely to keep a record for his wife and to express his own boiling emotions, Mr. Nansen somehow created a remarkable book. Using stolen paper and stolen time, always in fear of being caught, he described each day’s adventures with stark simplicity and intimate authority. His book, although immensely long, is a continuously engrossing narrative. It is filled with vivid, concrete details, sharp character sketches, unspeakable horrors.”
—Orville Prescott, New York Times
“Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. But this book is different from all the others this reviewer has read. True, it does not slur over the unspeakable barbarities. But it rises above them and reminds us in never-to-be-forgotten pages how noble and generous the human spirit can be in the face of terrible adversity.”
I Corinthians 2:1-16
David A. Davis
February 5, 2017
“I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” The Apostle Paul to the followers of Christ in Corinth. “I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” Not Jesus Christ, God with us… him crucified. Not Jesus Christ, Rabbi, Teacher, Healer… him crucified. Not Jesus Christ, peacemaker, boundary crasher, threat to power, kingdom bringer… him crucified. Not Jesus Christ, Son of God… him crucified. Not Jesus Christ, Savior of the world… him crucified. Not Jesus Christ, the Resurrected One… him crucified.
The Victorious, Triumphant, Risen Christ shall always be the one crucified. Remember how he showed them his hands and his side. The one who taught in such parables shall always be the one who was mocked and beaten and whipped. The Jesus who wept over the death of Lazarus and welcomed children into his arms and called down a sinner from a tree shall always be the one who suffered, and bled, and hung with his arms outstretched embracing all even in death. The Beautiful Savior of the world wrapped in swaddling clothes shall always be the one whose body was taken down from the cross by Joseph from Arimathea, who wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the tomb. Jesus Christ… and him crucified.
It is the mystery of God, the cross and its foolishness. “God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,” Paul writes earlier in I Corinthians. “God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are… God is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1:27-30). The attributes of salvation — wisdom from God, righteousness, sanctification, redemption — through the cross of Christ. “Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified.” That’s how Paul put it. “God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.” “So I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ… and him crucified.”
Jesus Christ. “Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of slave being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the power of death — even death on a cross” (Phil. 2). Jesus, who turned the other cheek, forgave those who deserted him, betrayed him, killed him. Jesus, with a self-giving love, he loved until the end. Jesus, who actually could have saved himself and come down from that cross. But he didn’t. Jesus, whose agony included sweat that fell like drops of blood and asking God to take the cup away. “Nevertheless, not my will by thy will be done.” Knowing nothing except that Jesus.
It is to know that the Great Teacher of the Sermon on the Mount, the poet of the beautiful Beatitudes, willingly laid down his life — he willing laid it all down for the sake of others. The rabbi with a bit of anger, who muscled the moneychangers out of the temple? He refused to defend himself. He became a victim of violence. The one who came ushering in the kingdom of God and preaching good news to the poor and proclaiming release to the captives? He knowingly, intentionally found himself a prisoner, bound, sentenced to death. To know nothing except that Jesus is to know that before he rose from the grave and conquered death, he suffered and he died. Before he ascended into heaven and sat at the right hand of God, he was a lamb led to the slaughter. Before he was surrounded by the heavenly choir forever singing his praise, he was alone — hanging there, yet loving, giving, praying, serving until there was no breath left in him.
To know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified. It is to believe that the God we know in Jesus Christ is the God who sides with the most vulnerable, and the outcasts, and those who suffer. It is to believe that God will always be on the side of the least powerful, not the most; the ones who have the least, not the most; those who are least important, not the most. It is to believe that God works to strengthen the weak, uphold the fallen, find the lost, touch the outsider, rescue the persecuted, welcome the stranger. It is to believe in the God who forever welcome sinners, love sinners, embraces sinners, because of, and in and through, God’s only Son, the One Crucified. It is, frankly, the only way to know that God is for you, that God welcomes, loves, embraces you. Because of him… him crucified.
To know, to believe, to see. To see the face of Christ in those who suffer, and the sick, and the dying. To look at those the world most wants to hate and see those who God most wants you to love. To see in the eyes of someone you can’t forgive, or someone you can hardly stand, or someone you know is just flat wrong, or someone who looks different, believes different, lives different, is different than you, to somehow see in those eyes something of the gaze of Christ coming back at you. To look out at the world and not be obsessed with finding winners and losers, or seeing those who are right and those who are wrong, but remembering that Jesus saw a world of the least and the greatest, the haves and have-nots, and he was always concerned more with the have-nots, and the really have-nots. And that in Christ, in the One crucified, we are not conquerors, we are never conquerors, we cannot ever be conquerors because we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Him who loved us, him who loved until Love was no more, and then he loved even more.
To know, to believe, to see, to live for nothing other than Jesus Christ and him crucified. To live and bear witness to Jesus Christ and him crucified. Not to be right. Not to be smart. Not to be rich. Not to win. Not be safe. Not to be strong. Not even to live forever. But to live in order to point to him in all of his fullness. “For He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers — all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn of the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to God’s self all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace through the blood of his cross.” (Col.1) In all of his fullness, yet still the One crucified.
“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,” Paul writes to the Corinthians in the 11th chapter of this first letter. “The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. So do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” Then Paul concludes, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” Proclaiming the Lord’s death. The One crucified. “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
Remembering and proclaiming. A table for remembering. A table for proclaiming. “On the edge of campus, in the heart of town, proclaiming the love of God in word and in deed.” That’s what we say around here. This week a graduate student interviewed me for a paper on evangelism in the church for the 21st century. “What’s your theology of evangelism?” was the first question. “Proclaiming the love of God in word and in deed on the edge of campus, in the heart of town.” I blurted it so quickly the student was a bit taken a back. “Nailed it!” I said to myself. What I said out loud was, “Are we done here?”
Our proclaiming out there, it starts in here. It starts right here. Remembering. Proclaiming. Proclaiming God’s love. God’s love given shape and form and substance in him. God’s love made known in him. God’s love poured out in him. God’s love for you in him. Remembering. Proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes. The One crucified.
“O taste and see that the Lord is good,” the psalmist said. Taste and see. Yes. But also know, believe, see, live. Jesus Christ and him crucified. It is the great gift of God given to us in this feast. To taste again of his dying love. For on the stormiest of mornings or the longest of nights, whether on a joy-filled mountaintop or in the darkest valley filled with the shadows of death, when the world’s chaos races at a fever pitch or the day’s news keeps you awake at night, whether there with your head on the pillow you lose count of the many blessings or you can’t seem to get past the fear of another day yet to come, Jesus Christ is the same, today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Jesus Christ and him crucified. The One crucified. Which means His love has no bounds. His love never ends. His love is for you.
So remember and proclaim. Here and out there. Proclaim here as you eat and drink. Proclaim out there as you live, as you love. Know. Believe. See. Live. Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Stop by and enjoy fellowship with those of us with kids who are out the door, almost out the door, or just if you want to get out the door – all are welcome!
Join us for the first Legacy Parents get together of 2017 – Saturday, February 25th, 7:00 pm, at the home of Keith and Joan Kettelkamp: 7 Concord Lane, Skillman, NJ 08558.
Please bring an appetizer to share and the drink of your choice.
Questions, please contact Joan Kettelkamp, , 908-812-3176; or Katie Windom, .
Sunday, February 5
5:00 PM, Trinity Episcopal Church
All are welcome to a choral evensong at Trinity Episcopal Church on February 5 at 5PM. The adult choirs of Nassau and Trinity will be joining forces to present one of Britten’s masterpieces as well as music from the Anglican tradition. The offering that evening will be in support of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), and a reception will follow.
Music by Johannes Brahms Featured on February 16 Noontime Recital
Thursday, February 16
12:15 PM, Niles Chapel
The next recital in the noontime series Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will feature music by Johannes Brahms for violin and piano. The performers, Dezheng Ping, violin, and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, piano are members of the Westminster Conservatory faculty.
The centerpiece of the program will be Brahms’ Sonata no. 2 in A Major, opus 100 for violin and piano. The program also includes two short works by Brahms for solo piano, Capriccio in b minor, opus 76, no. 2 and Intermezzo in C, opus 119, no. 3. The Czardas for violin and piano by Vittorio Monti will conclude the recital.
The next Westminster Conservatory at Nassau recital will take place on March 16, and will feature Kevin Willois, flute and Kyu-Jung Rhee, piano performing works by women composers.
New School for Music Study Faculty Recital
From the Streets of Paris
Sunday, February 26
2:30 PM, Sanctuary
Performances by: Marvin Blickenstaff, Kristin Cahill, Angela Triandafillou Jones, Allison Shinnick, Denitsa VanPelt, and Michael Van Pelt.
Offering fellowship and community, Small Groups at Nassau return this Lent with the six-session study Gospel Portraits of Jesus, authored by Donald Griggs, former teacher at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and a former consultant to the Kerygma Group.
The Gospels, bedrock of our faith, present Jesus in many ways, as Messiah, the resurrection and the life, prophet, Son of David, Son of God. Many times he is referred to as teacher or rabbi. In this Lenten season small groups will examine the many ways Jesus is portrayed in the Gospel with an excellent curriculum, a remarkable line-up of leaders, and a kickoff event that is not to be missed.
Join skilled leaders from our congregation in a study of Jesus that will make this Lenten season one you will not soon forget!
Groups meet weekly for six weeks. Sign up on My Nassau or during Fellowship. Materials are available in the church office during regular business hours or during Fellowship.
Kick-Off Event
Sunday, February 19
“Names for Jesus”
Dale Allison
2:00 p.m.
Niles Chapel
Refreshments and fellowship at 1:45 p.m.
The Gospels bestow many titles on Jesus. What did they mean to his first followers?
Dale Allison, professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of, most recently, Night Comes: Death, Imagination, and the Last Things, will talk about the many titles the Gospels have given to Jesus, including Messiah, Son of Man, Son of David, prophet, and Son of God. How do they fit together or not fit together? What did they mean to Jesus and his first followers, in their originally Jewish context? Did they have different meanings before and after Easter? And how did they change over time as Christian theology developed?
Small Groups: Portraits of Jesus
2017 Lent Small Groups (pdf) time & location changes will be listed below – as well as groups that are full
FULL –Sundays, 5:00-6:30PM (Feb. 26 – Apr. 2)
Pulimood Home, Princeton
Mani Pulimood & Dan Dorrow, leaders
Mani has been worshiping at Nassau Church for the last 10 years with his wife, Monisha, and two sons, Nikhil and Philip. He has authored a book, Spiritual Dimensions–Musings on Life and Faith. One of his favorite ministries is online evangelism. You can find him on Twitter: @ManiPulimood.
Dan recently became a Candidate for Teaching Elder in New Brunswick Presbytery, feeling called to serve God as a pastor-theologian with special attention to the Bible’s mandate for economic justice. Dan is husband of Joanne and father of two adult daughters, Nouelle and Natalie. He has been a member of Nassau Presbyterian Church since May 2014.
FULL – Mondays, 7:30-9:00PM (Feb. 27 – Apr. 3)
Wehrheim Home, Stonebridge
Carol Wehrheim, leader
Carol Wehrheim, a writer and Christian Education consultant, finds that Lenten small groups deepen her own prayer life and her connection to her church community.
FULL – Mondays, 7:30-9:00PM (Feb. 27 – Apr. 3)
Harmon Home, Princeton
Kate & Scott Harmon, leaders
Kate, Scott, and their three teenage daughters returned to the Princeton area in the summer of 2015 after 8 years in Concord, MA, and are overjoyed to be back at Nassau. You may have seen them at church with Snoopy, their Seeing Eye puppy in training. He headed back to the Seeing Eye in Morristown on February 1.
Tuesdays, 7:30-9:00PM (Feb. 28 – Apr. 4)
Room 1060, Princeton Theological Seminary Library
John Parker, leader
John is a writer by trade and a long–time member and current Ruling Elder of Nassau Church. He is grateful for the witness of Nassau Presbyterian Church to the eternal word of God, and for the mission of this church to the community and the world.
Dave Davis has been pastor and head-of-staff at Nassau Presbyterian Church for fifteen years. He has two books of sermons in print, the most recent, Lord, Teach Us to Pray.
Wednesdays, 2:00-3:30PM (Mar. 1 – Apr. 5)
Home of Carol King (The Windrows)
Chikara Saito, leader
Chikara Saito is a second year Master of Divinity student at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Teaching Intern this year at Nassau.
Thursdays, 9:30-11:00AM (Mar. 2 – Apr. 6)
Music Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church
Joyce MacKichan Walker, leader
Joyce MacKichan Walker is Minister of Education at Nassau Presbyterian Church and cheerleader and advocate for all things small group! She loves leading because of the opportunity to go deep in a place where all ideas and questions are welcome.
FULL –Thursdays, 7:30-9:00PM (Mar. 2 – Apr. 6)
Room 1060, Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Tom Coogan, leader
Tom Coogan and his family have been NPC members for over 10 years and are grateful for the all the opportunities to worship, learn, and serve through choirs, committees, and small groups.
Other Small Groups
FULL – Thursdays, 7:30-9:00PM (Mar. 2 – Apr. 6)
The Sacred Art of (Your) Photography
Conference Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church
Ned Walthall, leader
Ned Walthall has been a member of Nassau Church since 1987 and is the geeky guy you see taking pictures at coffee hour.
Sundays, 9:30-10:30AM (Mar. 5 – Apr. 9)
Hope for the Future: answering God’s call to justice for our children
Room 302, Nassau Presbyterian Church
Shannon Daley-Harris, leader (& author)
book price $10
Come and explore this series of 12 meditations on our calling to seek justice for children, the challenges we encounter as we nurture and protect children, and what may sustain us in this faithful work and witness. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, professional working on behalf of children, volunteer serving children and families, concerned individual, or a young person yourself, your voice, insights, and reflections will enrich this conversation as we discuss how we experience ourselves as called, challenged and sustained as we seek to improve the lives of children in our nation.
Shannon Daley-Harris, author of Hope for the Future, has served the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) for 26 years, engaging the faith community in CDF’s child advocacy efforts. Raised in Nassau Church, Shannon is a minister of word and sacrament serving in specialized ministry at CDF.
Through February 14 we are participating in Arm In Arm’s annual Valentines for Food drive. With other congregations, McCaffrey’s Supermarkets, and area schools and community groups, we join with Arm In Arm to raise funds, food, and awareness to end hunger in our community. For the fourth year, several generous church members have pledged to honor the memory of Bill Sword, Jr., by collectively matching total Valentines for Food donations made by Nassau Church.
Your donation can be made at www.arminarm.org/donate or in special pew envelopes on February 5 and 12. It will be greatly appreciated by everyone at Arm In Arm.
Valentines for Food is Arm In Arm’s biggest community drive of the year, and we can help support it as volunteers, donors, and advocates. To learn more, take a flier from the literature rack outside the office, visit www.arminarm.org, or call 609-396-9355. Arm In Arm is grateful for your involvement — and hopes you will help this Valentines for Food will be the strongest yet.
