The Evangelism & Fellowship Committee encourages everyone to share a meal together and welcome those joining our church family at the New~Member Brunch which will be held on Reformation Sunday, October 30^th, following worship.  The brunch will be served after the service in lieu of coffee hour.  The E&F Committee will prepare pancakes, sausage and eggs. Donations of fruit, casseroles and desserts are encouraged.  A sign up sheet for those willing to donate items is available in the Meeting House.

A modest free~will donation will be requested at the door to help offset event costs.  The church congregation, college students and the Cazenovia community are encouraged to participate.  Any funds raised beyond costs will be designated to the Outreach Committee for their use.

Please mark your calendars on Sunday, August 29, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., to ensure that you do not miss the third annual captain and crew golf tournament sponsored by your Evangelism and Fellowship Committee. The tournament will be held at the Pompey Club on Route 91 in Pompey. Please plan to arrive by 1:30 p.m. for check in.

This year, the meal will be the famous Pompey Club New York strip steak dinner with all of the trimmings. The cost will be $60.00 per person for nine holes of golf, riding cart, and dinner; and $30.00 per person for dinner only.

We plan to again feature the fabulous beverage wenches who will be circulating throughout our tournament field with an impressive assortment of drinks to keep the golfers refreshed and playing their best.

The Evangelism & Fellowship Committee has specified that at least two members of each participating group must be congregants of our church; but that is no setback since our church congregation is stacked with golf talent.

As is our custom, we plan to provide financial benefit to a local charity with the proceeds from our tournament. Accordingly, the Outreach Committee has designated Project Café as this year’s recipients.

There will be a sign up sheet and bulletin board set up in the Meeting House beginning in July, 2010; so please sign up your groups, or if you do not have a group, we will find a place for you. Checks should be made payable to First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia; cash payments should be made to Candy Riley, OP, at the church office weekdays from 8:00 a.m. ‘til 1:00 p.m. Remember, you do not have to be an experienced golfer to participate and have a good time with your church family while supporting a worthy cause.

Any questions should be directed to any member of the Evangelism & Fellowship or to Scott Campbell, who in a moment of advancing senility, agreed to set up the tournament.

Catharine Wheat, Director of Music, has planned a significant service of music. The organ prelude will be “Allegro Con Brio” from Sonata IV by Mendelssohn. There will be special music from the Sounds of Chimes Hand Bell Choir as well as music from all the vocal choirs of the church. The Senior Choir will sing the anthem “The Palms” by Faure.

The Reverend Dr. Steven R. Thomas, Jr. will deliver the sermon entitled “The Lord God Helps Me!”

The children from the Sunday School will distribute Palms.
Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, is the Sunday before Easter. Palm Sunday remembers Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem near the end his public ministry. When Jesus entered the city with his entourage, people laid palm branches in the road before him and greeted him as the long awaited Messiah. They shouted “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.”

After the Palm Sunday service there will be a gourmet brunch at 11:30 a.m. in the church’s Meeting House. The brunch will honor the new people joining the church, but the event is free and open to anyone wanting good food and good fellowship.

If you are looking for an open and friendly place to celebrate Palm Sunday, Pastor Thomas invites you to worship at the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia. Child Care and Sunday School are available during the service. For more information contact the church at 655-3191 or visit our website at www.cazpres.org.

Utterback has delighted audiences in the U.S. and Europe with his astonishing virtuosity and deeply personal music-making for over three decades. Utterback’s piano style was influenced by such keyboard greats as Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum. The artist also counts Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker among his favorite influential jazz musicians. He infuses familiar blues, ballads, Broadway, and jazz classics with a captivating, dynamic style.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Dr. Utterback received classical training at Wichita State University and the University of Kansas, where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and is in continuous demand as adjudicator and improvisation seminar presenter for local and national piano and organ guilds throughout the US and Canada .

After long-term gigs in the jazz centers of San Francisco and St. Louis, Joe is now centered in the NYC area, with periodic performances at restaurants such as 2nd Avenue’s La Mediterranee, the celebrated Tony Awards Gala Reception and in the lobby of the Empire State Building during the Christmas season.

The 2008-2009 season has witnessed a flurry of Joe’s compositional activity leading to the Spring 2009 publication of his 300+ published compositions: Including his choral jazz mass – MISSA JAZZIS for choir, trumpet, and piano; a lengthy organ mass Jazz Mass for Organ; and Celebrations!- a collection of piano/organ duets, which will be premiered by pianist David Allen Wehr and English organist Dr. Andrew Shenton for Joe’s 65th Birthday Bash Concert, October 4 at 4PM at the First Congregational Church, Main Street, Stratford, CT.

Additionally, on the recording scene, Connoisseur Society has lately released Joe’s most recent CD So Many Stars, a compendium of numbers from The American Songbook. A few of these titles will be the subject of Joe’s improvisations during the afternoon concert. The CD will be on the sale table, and Joe will gladly autograph them for you. Piano scores for three numbers in the concert and morning service are also on the table, along with other CDs.

Dr. Joe is actively involved in studio recordings with cabaret singers: the latest, a Christmas CD with the tenor soloist Michael Jovovich (for a November release), and a recent jazz CD with the Columbus, Ohio jazz singer Dwight Lenox, release scheduled for Cool Mondays jazz series at Lincoln Center, Barnes & Noble, NYC.

Dr. Utterback teaches at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, where he was recently honored for 15 years of service. He directs the Stratford Sister Cities Chorus, and serves as Director of Music and Organist at the First Congregational Church, Stratford, CT. You won’t want to miss the jazz pianist, composer, and recording artist “Dr. Joe” Utterback in this free concert at the Cazenovia Presbyterian Church Sunday, September J 3th at 4:00 pm.

For more information on Dr. Joe Utterback, visit his website at www.joeutterback.com.