Christmas Eve Services 4:30, 9 and 11 pm.

Golf Outing Fundraiser

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!! The 1st BBPC Golf Outing fundraiser will take place on October 15th at Royce Brook golf course in Hillsborough. The golf committee needs your help NOW in identifying sponsors to make this a successful fundraiser for the church. How can you help??????????????? Can you identify anyone who would be willing to sponsor a golf hole, a foursome, door prizes or raffles, advertisement, drinks, gift baskets, breakfast or anything else to contribute to this fundraiser? Sponsorships are the key to a successful fundraiser. We are counting on you to help us. Schedule: 8-9 am: player registration, practice facilities open, breakfast 9 am: shotgun start 1pm: lunch Golfer Fees: Includes use of driving range with pro available from 8-9 am, a voucher for return golf (2 for the price of 1, M-Th), a bag tag, yardage book, cart, greens fees, breakfast, lunch, awards and prizes. $175 per Golfer ($200 after Sept. 25 deadline) $600 per foursome ($650 after Sept. 25 deadline) Non-Golfer Fee for Lunch & Awards Only: $40 SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES $900 Platinum: golf, breakfast and lunch for foursome, hole/tee sponsorship, program recognition $500 Gold: golf, breakfast and lunch for twosome, hole/tee sponsorship, program recognition $350 Silver: hole/tee sponsorship for longest drive, closest to the pin, pot of gold, hole-in-one or straightest drive, program recognition $175 Bronze: hole/green sponsorship, GPS advertising on cart, program recognition $125 Par Sponsor: yardage book advertising, program recognition $150 Beverage Cart: company name on beverage cart as sponsor, program recognition Checks are payable to BBPC with “golf” on the memo line. Mail check and registration to Kipp Case, 128 Sunnyvale Court, Somerset, NJ 08873 We hope you save the date (golfers and non-golfers) to participate in this event and help make it a success. Please contact any of the following people on the golf committee for more information:   Kipp Case, Doug Rayner, Laura Shreve, Jeff Willard, Cheryl Dolida Susan Anderson, Nancy Birdsong

Appalachia Service Project - Update

We are just weeks away! Please continue to support us! You can help us reach our goal by attending the following: Breakfast at Applebee’s Saturday, June 16, from 8-10 AM, cost $10 for a set menu. Car Wash Saturday, June 23 from 9-2 We will be leaving July 7th and heading to Warfield, Kentucky in Martin County. The population of Warfield is approximately 269! We will be staying at the Warfield Middle School. The county seat of Martin County is Inez. In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty from a front porch in Inez. Currently the per capita income in Martin County is $14,785. 33% of the population lives below the poverty line. ******************** You can follow our trip by reading our daily blog on the church’s website at www.bbpc.org.

Platelet & Blood Drive

ARE YOU WILLING TO HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF SOMEONE YOU MAY NEVER MEET? - NEXT BBPC PLATELET DRIVE IS ON SUNDAY, JULY 1, 8 AM - 2 PM As you may know, platelets are the blood component that is especially needed by cancer and other seriously ill patients. Donating platelets is similar to donating whole blood, but takes about 2 hours to do. You must reserve a slot to donate. Please contact Steve Yacik at steveyacik@optonline.net or 908-500-0907--BUT YOU BETTER ACT FAST. We have 12 donation slots--6 of which are already filled. If you've never donated before, now is the perfect time to try. fyi: On June 5, our church will be awarded the "Outstanding Community Platelet Donor Site" of the year by the Red Cross.

A Work Of Love

A.W.O.L.: A Work of Love: June 24-29! Students finishing grades 5-8 are invited to a week that they will NEVER forget. We have some AWESOME things planned including woodworking, trips locally including a Friday trip to Ellis Island, and a guest speaker who survived the holocaust. You don’t want to miss this. We will be looking at stories that have changed lives and changed the world. AWOL meets Monday through Friday from 9:30-AM—3 PM. The cost for the week including lunches, t-shirt and the trip to Ellis Island is $60. (If you don’t plan to go to Ellis Island the cost is $40). Registration forms are outside Linda’s office.

Catay Cancer Foundation

Give the gift of independence to cancer patients in need of prosthetics. Recycle!! Bring your cell phones, inkjet cartridges, and iPods to the church and place in the specially marked boxes. The Catay Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping patients who have lost a limb or who have decreased function of a limb as a result of cancer. Your donation will help the Foundation’s fundraising efforts and the environment at the same time.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

August 20-24 from 9 – Noon Children ages 3 through 4th grade welcome. Older students and adults are needed to volunteer! Let’s make this a blast for our kids!!!!!!! Contact Linda Owens if interested in helping! Planning Meeting: Get on board for the adventure! Those interested in organizing this event will meet Sunday, May 12 at 10:15 in the Cave.

APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT 2012

Appalachia Service Project 2012 Kentucky July 7-15th Time to get ready! We have received our assignment, we have begun to organized and in less than four months we will be on our way to Kentucky! This will be our eleventh summer taking youth and adults to the Central Appalachia Region to repair homes and we couldn’t be more excited. This summer we hope to travel with 84 senior high youth and adults leaders (which makes it by far our biggest trip ever!). What does it take to make that happen? YOU. That’s right, it takes you the congregation to make homes warmer, safer and drier for Appalachian families and it takes you to make this life-changing opportunity available to our senior high youth. We expect that it will take $56,000 to supply the materials needed to repair up to 12 homes and transport, house, feed our crew of 84. That is a lot of money! Some of course comes from those who participate in the trip through registration fees of $150 per person. That is a great deal if you are sending one youth, but many of our participants travel with siblings and parents who can be expected to contribute up to $600 to participate. In addition we rely on the local community through our car wash events and stock sale to members outside our walls. Telling the story of ASP is a great way to introduce our church to the larger community. Still the biggest burden in on the church and its members to make this trip happen. This year we will host a four week STOCK BLITZ of our congregation. Rather than for months being faced weekly with the pleading eyes of any number of youth group members asking for an ASP donations, we will run our stock sale and an informational campaign for four weeks beginning April 14th and ending May 6th. For those four weeks only you will have the opportunity to invest in ASP through our annual stock sale. We will not ask after that! In addition we have planned creative ways to share the ministry of ASP with you to celebrate what we have done in the past and to dream of what we hope to accomplish in the future. ASP Fundraising Events Car Washes from 9 AM-2 PM April 14 May 12 June 23 Coffeehouse & Silent Auction on April 29 from 4-7 PM Church Carnival & Dunk Tank June 24 after church

YOUTH SCOOP - APRIL 2012

Open Cave: Junior and Senior High youth will meet every Tuesday Night in April for Open Cave from 5-8 PM. Open Cave includes dinner, hang out time and a One Life Bible Study and meeting from 7-8 PM. Youth Group Calendar … April 8: Easter Sunday: No Youth Group April 15: ASP Orientation 1-3:30 in the PFC April 22: Good Sex, 5-7 PM for 8th grade through Senior High April 29: ASP Coffeehouse & Silent Auction from 4-7 PM Confirmation: The confirmation class will continue to meet Sundays from 3:30– 5:00 PM (except Easter Sunday, April 8 and Coffeehouse Sunday, April 29). Confirmation Sunday will be May 27th at the 10 AM service. Confirmands and their families will meet with the session on Saturday, May 26th for the reading of statements of faith and a reception celebration at 3 PM. A.W.O.L.: A Work of Love is week long junior high summer camp that focuses on mission work locally. All students who have completed the 5th grade through grade 8 are welcome to join us. The dates are June 25th through 29th from 9:30 AM until 3 PM. Registrations will be available soon. Camp Johnsonburg Open Houses will be held April 14th and May 6th This is a great way to introduce camp to your kids! Summer program brochures are available outside Linda’s office. Camp Johnsonburg is in Johnsonburg, NJ. All youth from BBPC are eligible for church camperships. This means that families will register their son or daughter, pay the entire camp fee, report their registration to the church Mission Commission and after summer will receive from the Mission Commission a small, partial rebate. The amount received depends on the number of youth who attend camp.

Red Cross Blood & Platelet Drive - Sunday March 18

RED CROSS BLOOD (9:00 - 3:00 p.m.)and PLATELET DRIVE (8:00 - 2:00 p.m.) – Sunday, March 18 During our Lenten season, please consider these two ways to (literally) give of yourself to help those in need: Whole blood donation – Takes about 20 minutes, and benefits a broad range of patients. Goal: 40 donors. Platelet donation – Takes about 2 hours, and benefits cancer and other severely ill patients. Goal: 12 donors. You must reserve a time slot to make a platelet donation, and are encouraged to reserve a time slot to make a whole blood donation. If you’ve never donated before—but know it’s an invaluable way to help others in need, why not try it this time? For more information, see the sign up sheets in the reception room, or contact Natalie Buzby (whole blood donations)(732-469-7746) or Steve Yacik (platelet donations)(732-271-4665)or call the church office (732-356-3575).

TRIP TO THE PLANETARIUM AT RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Just Older Youth - J.O.Y. TRIP TO THE PLANETARIUM at Raritan Valley College On April 4th, JOY will head to the Somerset County College Campus for a visit to the planetarium and a presentation on our night skies. The program begins right at 10:00 am. We need to leave the church parking lot no later than 9:20 in order to be in the auditorium and comfortable prior to the start of the show. We will car pool and are able to drive right up to the planetarium – we do not need to climb all of the steps. The cost for the show is $6 per person. Please let Carol (908-722-3452 or RedMag@aol.com) or Ted (tcsettle@verizon.net or 732-356-6313) know if you plan to come and if you can drive.

"In Community" Dinners

Introducing . . . “In Community” Our church Fellowship and Mission Commissions—in partnership with Bound Brook’s Downtown Business Coordinator, Veronique Cordier—are pleased to introduce “In Community”. What’s “In Community”? A new opportunity for members and friends of our church to eat together, have fun together and just get to know each other better—while helping local restaurant owners whose businesses have been impacted by Bound Brook’s recurring floods. Here’s how it works: 1) Once a month from April through June, members of our congregation, their friends and/or anyone else who's interested will meet at our church on a Saturday evening at 6:15. Childcare will be provided at the church for those who say they need it, at no additional cost. We can arrange transportation for those who need it. 2) Participants won't know where or with whom they will be having dinner until that night.  All they'll know is they're eating somewhere in downtown Bound Brook. (We’ll do our best to accommodate any special dietary needs—food allergies, vegetarian meals, etc.)   3) We'll go to one (or more) local restaurants—specifically those that have been impacted by downtown Bound Brook's floods, and could really use the customers. The restaurant owners will benefit in having customers they might not otherwise have—that night, and potentially after that (if people choose to go their again on their own).  The diners will benefit in trying a restaurant they might not otherwise have gone to and (hopefully) having a good meal with great people.         Our church benefits in having members get to know each other a little better—and maybe by inviting others who are not members of our congregation to see what we're like. Sound like fun? The first “In Community” event will be on Saturday evening, April 14 (the first Saturday after Easter) starting at 6:15 PM at our church. IMPORTANT: Payment of $25 per person must be made no later than Easter Sunday, April 8. Refunds cannot be guaranteed. For more information, please see the sign-up sheet in the reception area or contact Steve Yacik (908-500-0907 or steveyacik@optonline.net.)