July 11, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Amos 7:7-17 NT Lesson ~ Luke10:25-37
Reverend Thomas preaching: “Don’t Prophesy Here?”
Special Music: Vocal Solo ~ Russell Grills

July 18, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Amos 8:1-12 NT Lesson ~ Luke 10:38-42
Reverend Thomas preaching: “What Do You See?”
Special Music: Vocal Duet ~ Leigh Garber and Sharye Skinner
Guest Pianist: Mary Coburn

July 25, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Hosea 1:2-10 NT Lesson ~ Luke 11:1-13
Reverend Thomas preaching: “The Great Day of Jezreel”
Special Music: Violin Solo ~ Rae Tobey
Guest Pianist: Mary Coburn

August 1, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Hosea 11:1-11 NT Lesson ~ Luke 12:13-21
Reverend Thomas preaching: “They Did Not Know That I Healed Them…”
Special Music: Vocal Solo ~ Shelley Brooks
Guest Pianist: Mary Coburn

August 8, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 NT Lesson ~ Luke 12:32-40
Reverend Thomas preaching: “Wash Yourselves; Make Yourselves Clean!”
Special Music: Vocal Quintet ~ Carol Buckhout, Kathy Campagna,
Kristin Curtis, Robin Curtis, Beecher Graham
Guest Pianist: Mary Coburn

August 15, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Isaiah 5:1-7 NT Lesson ~ Luke 12:49-56
Reverend Thomas preaching: “The Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts”
Special Music: Vocal Solo ~ Kate Ball

August 22, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Jeremiah 1:4-10 NT Lesson ~ Luke 13:10-17
Reverend Thomas preaching: “I Do Not Know How to Speak”
Special Music: TBA

August 29, 2010 – OT Lesson ~ Jeremiah 2:4-13 NT Lesson ~ Luke 14:1, 7-14
Reverend Thomas preaching: “Where Is the Lord?”
Special Music: Vocal Solo ~ Lesley Roberts

Nursery care is provided for children 4 and younger.
Summer Sunday School for school-age children, at the Wendell House starts July 11th.
Call the church at 655-3191 for more information.

All children are welcome to join the congregation for World Communion Sunday, October 4, if your family is comfortable with their participation. We will keep children in the Wendell House if you prefer your child does not participate. Please let us know ahead of time if possible. When children return to the sanctuary it has been easiest if they sit with their class in the back of the sanctuary.

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.

On Sunday July 5th Pastor Steve Thomas will base his sermon “Don’t I Know You?” on Biblical passages from I I Samuel 5 and Mark 6. Special music will be given by Kris Curtis, Robin Curtis and Sharye Skinner singing a trio of “Let there Be Peace On Earth.”

After the formal church service, a time a food and fellowship continues with coffee, juice and something sweet.

If you are looking for an open and friendly place to celebrate Summer, please join us the Cazenovia Presbyterian Church. For more information or if you need a ride, contact the church at 655-3191 or visit our website at www.cazpres.org.

Probably the most traditional way of celebrating Easter is through special music and song. At the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia, Music Director Catharine Wheat has planned a wonderful program of special music. The introit Jubilate Deo will be played on handbells and sung by all three choirs of the church, singing from all parts of the sanctuary as well as the balcony.

The center of the service will be the sermon by The Reverend Dr. Steven R. Thomas. Jr., “This is Our God, We Have Waited for Him”.

Preludes and postludes will feature trumpet duets by Aaron and Denise Velardi. The trumpeters will be playing “Allegro Maestoso” from “Water Musick” by George Frideric Handel, “Gigue on Easter Hymn” by Michael Burkhardt, Variations on “ O Filii et Filiae” by Raymond Haan and “Trumpet Duet” by Purcell.

Aaron Velardi is a graduate of the Ithaca College School of Music and currently teaches music in the Chittenango Central School District. Velardi also performs in the Central New York rock band, Alter Ego.

If you are looking for an open and friendly place to celebrate Easter, please join us at the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia. Child Care is available during the service. For more information contact the church office

The Reverend Dr. Steven R. Thomas, Jr. will deliver the sermon entitled “He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord.” 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. 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, please join us the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia. Child Care and Sunday School are available during the service.

The word Advent means “coming” or “arrival.” The focus of the entire season is the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ in his First Advent, and the anticipation of the return of Christ the King in his Second Advent. Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing, of hope.

If you are looking for an open and friendly place to celebrate Sunday morning worship, please join us at the Cazenovia Presbyterian Church. Child Care and Sunday School are available during the service. For more information contact the church

• November 30th ~ First Sunday in Advent – Special piano duets from Handel’s “Messiah”
• December 7th ~ Second Sunday in Advent – Special Brass Sunday with Patrick Carney and Nathan Kaecher
• December 14th ~ Third Sunday in Advent – Lessons and Carols Service
• December 21st ~ Fourth Sunday in Advent – Sunday School Pageant
• December 24th ~ Christmas Eve Service – featuring the choirs and Mary Coburn playing violin