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NVM Wine Event in April: Save the Date: Friday, April 30, from 6pm-9pm. This fun fundraising event (Noe Valley Uncorked Wine Event) will feature Argentinean wine tasting and exploration.. Tickets $30 for the public ($25 for NVM members). Start creating your own party - Inform all your wine-expert friends! There will be many ways to help with this event. Watch for further details. For more information, see Yvonne, Karen, or Kay.

Sunday Parking: The Ministry Parking Lot on 24th St. at Vicksburg is available for Sunday parking! All churchgoers are welcome to park free of charge from 9 AM to 2 PM. Simply drive in, leave your car and be grateful!

Leaving a Message at the Beep...: NVM has undertaken a cell phone recycling drive, to raise money for the Building Fund. It is easy to participate! Just drop off your old cell phones (with interior batteries included, but not other accessories) at Marshal's office downstairs in the building foyer. There is a slot in the door

Haitian Relief: The PC(USA) is responding to the devastation in Haiti through the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance program (PDA). Already an initial $100,000 (from One Great Hour of Sharing) has been rushed for emergency relief. Funds are also being sent to ecumenical and local partners inHaiti. For updates on the earthquake and the Church's response, visit the PDA website. Financial relief donations can be designated to DR000064. or (800) 872-3283 or checks to PDA, PO Box 643700, Pittsburg PA 15264. Other frontline agencies worthy of financial support are Red Cross, Oxfam, Doctors without Borders, and CARE.

Help Sought Following Worship: We would appreciate everyone's help in putting away chairs, communion table, and rug after worship.

Seven New More Light Churches: We are pleased to announce and celebrate seven Presbyterian churches in seven different states. These are churches who faithfully seek to offer genuine welcome and affirmation to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families as they affiliate, minister and witness as More Light Churches in addition to other community mission and social justice commitments. Among them, First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans. is the first welcoming and affirming More Light Presbyterian Church in the State of Louisiana. And Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis is the first in the State of Indiana.

Honoring the Body - Christian Yoga: Dawn Summers is teaching another Christian yoga series at Mercy Center in Burlingame starting Tuesday, 2/23 from 6 - 7:15 pm. The class is an enrolled six-week series ($90) but students may drop in for $18 per class. This body/prayer contemplation practice with Christian themes is an excellent Lent observance. "Discipline" is not something staid, inhibited and restrictive. It is in fact a powerful tool for creating freedom and lightness in our lives.

One Great Hour of Sharing: More than 60 years ago, in response to the devastation of WW II, U.S. Protestant churches made appeals for relief and reconstruction in areas devastated by the war, primarily Europe and Asia. In 1949, the leaders of several denominations formed a committee to organize an appeal for support of the separate campaigns of their churches. A program called One Great Hour was broadcast on the evening of Saturday, March 26, 1949, over major networks asking Americans to give generously the next morning in their churches. More than 75,000 churches responded. By 1954, the goal for all giving to One Great Hour of Sharing was $8 million. Today, in a joint effort with nine Christian denominations, Presbyterians have given about $10 million annually, and the other denominations together have received a similar amount. While each denomination allocates its gifts differently, all use their funds for ministries of disaster relief, refugee assistance, and development aid, and each denomination does a significant portion of those ministries through Church World Service. Today, projects supported by One Great Hour of Sharing are under way in more than one hundred countries, including the United States and Canada. OGHS funds sent $100,000 during the first days after Haiti's earthquake, and continues to respond. OGHS includes the Presbyterian Hunger Project, Self Development of People, and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. We will collect this offering on March 28.

"Jesus Phreak" Comedic Play: This one-man comedic play portrays a very unlikely disciple - a church musician who becomes an outcast for wearing clothes of two different material. Clayton Valley Presbyterian, March 13, 7:00 pm (1578 Kirker Pass Rd, Clayton). $12 donation suggested.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Marin Youth Performers present this Biblical saga in a musical parable by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Friday, March 12, 7:30pm; Saturdays and Sundays March 7, 13 and 14 2:00pm; $18 General, $14Students $30 Reserved. 415.383.9600 or info@142throckmortontheatre.org. Throckmorton is a beautiful restored theater in Mill Valley - that alone is worth the trip! Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and rock 'n' roll, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless.

We Made a Difference: Our voice was one of those joined with California Church Impact to change children's lives with advocacy! The long-awaited SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) was signed into law by President Obama. It will add 4 million previously uninsured children to the program and provide states with enough federal funding to cover the vast majority of their children's health insurance. This expanded program means that finally virtually every child in America can have coverage without bankrupting families in lower-middle income brackets.

NVM Social Networking: Are you on facebook? Join NVM's new group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=28743493740. Contact Heather for an official invite!

One Minute Each Evening: During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace. This had an amazing effect as even bombing was stayed. There is now a group organizing the same thing here in America. If you would like to participate: each evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Time, stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the up-coming elections, for peace in Iraq, for reconciliation in Israel and Palestine, and for the revival of faith and forgiveness in our world. Our prayers may be the most powerful asset we have.

The Nonviolent Vigil For Peace And Justice:: Every Thursday, Noon-1:00 p.m. at the Federal Building, Larkin and Golden Gate. The vigil is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and the San Francisco Friends (Quaker) Meeting. This group has held vigil for nonviolence every Thursday since September 11, 2001. All are welcome to join them.

Take the Peace Pledge: Go to (http://pdamerica.org/petition/pledge-for-peace.php) to sign a petition asking Congress to use the power of the purse to limit any addition funds appropriations to the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq. Seventy Congresspeople have already signed an open letter to this effect: http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2007-07-20-07-59-11-misc.php.