Dear Presbyterian Women,

Thank you for all the generosity you showed and help you gave to our February Mission.  Your valentines spread love to college students all over the country and our local senior citizens. 

Presbyterian Women is dedicated to growing our faith, nurturing each other, and supporting our church and community.  All women are invited to become involved.  Please join your sisters in Christ in the fellowship, mission, and spiritual growth opportunities that PW has to offer in March and make plans to attend our annual spring retreat in April.  Hope to see you there!

Your sister in Christ,

Janet Thompson

Moderator of Northminster Presbyterian Women

You are invited to the PW Retreat

Kingwood Country Club and Resort

Clayton, GA

April 29th - May 1st

Join us for a relaxing weekend in the North Georgia Mountains.  Experience great fellowship, spiritual growth, and relaxation.  There will be time to rest, read or exercise.  The Kingwood Resort offers a Spa and Fitness Center, tennis courts and walking trails.

Janice Simpson will lead us in exploring “Eat, Pray, Love - a study based on Acts 2:41-47, and what it teaches us about how to live as Christian community”

Cost for the retreat is $160

Please make checks payable to Northminster Presbyterian Women(NPW) $100 deposit due by March 23.  Balance must be paid in full by April 17.  Please return your completed registration form along with your check to Carol Coulter 545 Aston Hall Way, Johns Creek, GA, 30022, or leave in the envelope on the PW bulletin board outside the Fireside Room.

Click here to get more information and register!

March Circle Meetings

(meet the 3rd Tuesday or Wednesday of each month)

The Priscilla Circle will meet at 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 15th and the Rebekah Circle at 7:00 p.m. on that same date. The Ruth Circle will meet at 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 16th.  Please contact the circle leaders if you have any questions:  Priscilla: Kathy Keramidas at ; Rebekah: Sarah Dixon at ; and Ruth: Susan Hardee at .  Bible Study books are available in the Fireside Room and childcare is provided upon request.

Our theme in our March PW lesson on the Book of Revelation is “the rapture.”  We will not address this in detail in class.  Instead, we invite you to join us for a documentary film, “The Road to Rapture,” after worship on March 20.  See details below.

Questions?  Contact Linda Morningstar at 404-687-4636 or .

Come watch the documentary film

“Road to Rapture”

Sunday, March 20, 2011

12:30-1:40 after worship

Room 139

Bring your own brown bag lunch

Especially for PW Circles

Studying Book of Revelation, but open to all.

Join us for a thought-provoking, informative documentary about the biblical notion of “the rapture.”  In this 1999 A&E documentary, scholars and lay people explore such frequently asked questions as:

• Why do so many believe “the rapture” is about to occur?
• From where do these ideas originate?
• Are rapture-type passages in Scripture metaphorical/symbolic or literal?
• Who is “the beast?” the “whore of Bablyon?”  What does 666 mean?
• Is the “mark of the beast” woven into the $20 bill?

The film looks at some of the outcomes of rapture-thinking in our time:

• The Great Disappointment of 1843
• David Karesh and the Branch Davidians 
• Ruby Ridge 
• Heaven’s Gate suicide

March Mission

Collect items for distribution during the October NPC Brazil Mission Trip

Members of the 2011 Brazil Mission trip have shared their thoughts on how we can further enhance the 2011 Brazil Mission trip by collecting specific items which will be distributed to the families and children they visit.

Recommended Items:

• Sunscreen with high SPF - especially helpful since it is so needed and very expensive in Brazil 
• New or gently used summer clothes and flip flops for children and adults 
• New hair clips and pony tail holders 
• Toothpaste, tooth brushes 
• Crayons and coloring books 
• Books written in the Portuguese language

Bible Study

The PW weekly Bible Study continues Mar. 2, Mar. 9, Mar. 23 and finishes for the Spring on Mar. 30.  You can still join us!  The study is Jonah by Priscilla Shirer.  Books can be purchased at LifeWay on NorthPoint Pkwy.  Call Arlene Bennett if you have question at 770-777-9611, or email at .

PW Book Club

(meets the 4th Tuesday of each month)

PW Book Club will meet Mar. 22nd in the Fireside Room at 7:00 pm.   All are welcome and need not be a member of PW.  The book for March is A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.  April’s book selection is The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.  Please contact Pat Kendall, 770-569-4952, for more information. Childcare is provided upon request.

February Book Review

In his debut novel, Jamie Ford in The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.  This novel is told from the perspective of Henry Lee, a 12-year-old Chinese boy living in the Chinese/Japanese International District of Seattle during the war years, and then as an adult in the 1980’s searching to recapture friendship with his Japanese girlfriend of 40 year ago while reconciling his own family relationships.

Touching, sad and poignant this book was rated 7 ½ by PWBC members.