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Christ Church Parish 4001 Franklin Street, Kensington, MD 20895 • 301-942-4673 • Fax: 301-942-1762 • email: [email protected] • website: www.ccpk.org Why it’s the Episcopal Church in Central Mont- gomery County! As most of you know, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (EDOW) is divided into regions. At the 2016 Conference of EDOW, we approved new regional districts based on geographical location. Bishop Mariann has been encouraging cooperation between congrega- tions and the hope is that this new structure will facili- tate just that in the new eight regions. CenMoCo collaboration is off and running. The cler- gy of the 10 churches have already met twice; once before Easter for a two-day retreat, and once in May to continue conversation and get some specifics on the table. The clergy were uniformly moved by our connection one with another. Most of us know one another to a greater or lesser degree, but there was an unusual level of openness and support that has emerged because of the focused conversations this spring. That in and of itself is cause for celebration! We are not in competition, but rather different expres- sions of the church. What are the goals of collaboration? First and fore- most, we seek to increase communication and coordi- nation between the congregations. This has already begun! Please “like” the CenMoCo Facebook page www.facebook.com/CenMoCo/ and check out the CenMoCo website, which is due to go live any day now. The website contains basic info for all 10 parish- es, links to the individual websites, and an updated calendar for outreach and events. Second, we are talking already about the potential for joint outreach projects, worship services, youth activities, clergy and lay leader support, resource sharing (vendors, strate- gies, etc.) and ‘marketing’. Here are a few concrete activities that are in the works. Youth: The CenMoCo congregations have submit- ted a proposal to the Diocese for a one-year pilot pro- ject for our 6-12th grade youth. The grant provides for the salary of a part-time youth activities coordina- tor who will work with staff and lay leaders of the con- gregations, plan regular opportunities for service, fun and worship. Three of the 10 congregations have paid youth ministers, two part-time (including CCPK) and one full-time. Together we are a far more diverse community of young people! Sunday evening worship: CCPK’s 5pm service is the only one at that time. There is energy to both get the word out about that beautiful service and try to grow the congregation at 5pm. Resource sharing: Joint vestry retreat in spring 2017. (We all face many of the same challenges and opportunities!) We are keeping the questions “How can we assist one another?” “How can we use resources more ef- fectively?” “What ministry might we accomplish to- gether than alone would be impossible?” The clergy and wardens from CenMoCo will be meeting on June 26, joining in worship at the CCPK 5pm service, hav- ing dinner and discussion. It’s all about relationships…as sisters and brothers in Christ and as fellow members of the Episcopal Branch of the Jesus Movement in CenMoCo! Stay tuned for more exciting news. Personally, I’d love to have a coffee shop so that we could say “Meet me at the CenMoCo for Cocoa and conversation!” If you have ideas or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Emily, [email protected] or one of your war- dens. -Emily+ Christ Church Parish News June 2016 ( What is CenMoCo?

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Christ Church Parish 4001 Franklin Street, Kensington, MD 20895 • 301-942-4673 • Fax: 301-942-1762 • email: [email protected] • website: www.ccpk.org

Why it’s the Episcopal Church in Central Mont-gomery County! As most of you know, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (EDOW) is divided into regions. At the 2016 Conference of EDOW, we approved new regional districts

based on geographical location. Bishop Mariann has been encouraging cooperation between congrega-tions and the hope is that this new structure will facili-tate just that in the new eight regions. CenMoCo collaboration is off and running. The cler-gy of the 10 churches have already met twice; once before Easter for a two-day retreat, and once in May to continue conversation and get some specifics on the table. The clergy were uniformly moved by our connection one with another. Most of us know one another to a greater or lesser degree, but there was an unusual level of openness and support that has emerged because of the focused conversations this spring. That in and of itself is cause for celebration! We are not in competition, but rather different expres-sions of the church. What are the goals of collaboration? First and fore-most, we seek to increase communication and coordi-nation between the congregations. This has already begun! Please “like” the CenMoCo Facebook page www.facebook.com/CenMoCo/ and check out the CenMoCo website, which is due to go live any day now. The website contains basic info for all 10 parish-es, links to the individual websites, and an updated calendar for outreach and events. Second, we are talking already about the potential for joint outreach projects, worship services, youth activities, clergy and lay leader support, resource sharing (vendors, strate-gies, etc.) and ‘marketing’. Here are a few concrete activities that are in the works. Youth: The CenMoCo congregations have submit-ted a proposal to the Diocese for a one-year pilot pro-ject for our 6-12th grade youth. The grant provides

for the salary of a part-time youth activities coordina-tor who will work with staff and lay leaders of the con-gregations, plan regular opportunities for service, fun and worship. Three of the 10 congregations have paid youth ministers, two part-time (including CCPK) and one full-time. Together we are a far more diverse community of young people! Sunday evening worship: CCPK’s 5pm service is the only one at that time. There is energy to both get the word out about that beautiful service and try to grow the congregation at 5pm. Resource sharing: Joint vestry retreat in spring 2017. (We all face many of the same challenges and opportunities!) We are keeping the questions “How can we assist one another?” “How can we use resources more ef-fectively?” “What ministry might we accomplish to-gether than alone would be impossible?” The clergy and wardens from CenMoCo will be meeting on June 26, joining in worship at the CCPK 5pm service, hav-ing dinner and discussion. It’s all about relationships…as sisters and brothers in Christ and as fellow members of the Episcopal Branch of the Jesus Movement in CenMoCo! Stay tuned for more exciting news. Personally, I’d love to have a coffee shop so that we could say “Meet me at the CenMoCo for Cocoa and conversation!” If you have ideas or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Emily, [email protected] or one of your war-dens. -Emily+

Christ Church Parish News

June 2016 (

What is CenMoCo?

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Music Notes - From Dr. Teddy

By Dr. Theodore Guerrant One of the joys of being at Christ Church is that it seems I'm always thanking you for something! In the past month we have been given two more amazing gifts for our music min-istry -- a generous monetary donation from the Women of Christ Church, and a lovely Young Chang baby grand piano from Peter and Christine Turner (who have also generously under-written the costs of putting it into service here) for our choir room. My present plan is to use the monetary gift to improve the choral library, which appears to have been neglected and is in need of new and replacement sheet music to support the ongoing offerings of our choir. The grand piano from the Turners will go into our choir room, allowing us to put the present choir room piano downstairs into the fellowship hall to use for wedding receptions and other social

events where piano accompaniment might be desirable. The fellowship hall could then even be used as an additional music rehearsal space should the need arise. Since this piano is now equipped with a humidity con-trol unit and a dolly (thanks again to Ted Seale and the Endowment Fund Committee!), this piano should do very well in its new environment. The electric piano, presently in the fellowship hall, might be put into a Sun-day School room, or it might perhaps be offered to someone for a donation to the music fund, ideas are wel-come! Our choir ends its regular schedule on Trinity Sunday (May 22), but will continue to sing at the 10 a.m. Sun-day service during June and July (rehearsing at 9 a.m., welcoming anyone who would like to join us!). From August through the Sunday before Labor Day our choir will be on break, allowing our faithful choristers to have a much-needed respite, and giving us time to refresh and prepare for the fall. We will resume our regular schedule the week immediately following Labor Day. During the month of June, we will have five Wednesday evening rehearsals (7:30 to 9 p.m.) to learn a larger choral work which we will then add to our repertoire for use during the coming year. This is a great time for other friends/relatives/colleagues/parishioners who like to sing to join with us in music making! We will be learning a Late Renaissance Latin Mass by Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612), a contemporary of composers such as Palestrina, di Lasso, Viadana, Victoria, and Schuetz. The joy of singing in liturgical Latin is that there are only 5 vowel sounds (7 if we sing in Italianized Latin), as op-posed to the 29 vowel sounds (counting the 13 diphthongs and triphthongs) we must address in singing Eng-lish (no wonder people from other countries have so much trouble learning our language -- it's really very diffi-cult!). During the summer, I will be planning choral music for next year to take advantage of the summer sales (25% off!), trying to re-organize the choral library in the choir room, and practicing. On Friday evening, Sep-tember 9, at 8 p.m. I will play an organ recital at Christ Church entitled "Bach and Friends" featuring the music of J.S. Bach, composers who influenced him (Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, de Grigny), other friends and col-leagues (Bohm, Telemann), his students (Krebs), and his own children (C.P.E. and J.C. Bach). Be sure to put it on your calendar!

A BIG THANK YOU to all those who braved the weather and helped with the weeding planting and mulching of the grounds. They were...in order of appearance: Anne Meyers Catherine Grandy Sarah Forman Judy, Nathan and Grace Carter Frank Shaw Sarah Leung, All ably assisted by our one and only Lenord, and led by our amazing master gardener, Peter Turner. There was a noted excess of donuts.

Green Team Day

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Outreach News

By Liz Quinn Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all ways, acknowledge Him, and he shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 As I read this prayer, I realize that this prayer has become the heart of our Outreach at Christ Church. We trusted in the Lord as we began our path to make 2015 a year of discernment for the Outreach at Christ Church. We knew changing paths would be difficult, but we also knew the Lord would guide us on our new our journey. In January 2015, the Outreach Committee an-nounced that “Our dream is that in 2016, Outreach will stop being a committee and become a parish-wide ministry.” With the Lord’s guidance, our dream has come true. Our parish family now looks outside our church walls, realizing that there is so much we can do to help those in need, not just through monetary means, but with our hands. Our path has given us… Rebuilding Together Project Day, where over 30

parish members volunteered their skills to help make a group home for adults with physical and emotional disabilities a safe place to live.

We have had overwhelming donations for the Comfort Cases for children going into foster care and over 20 sponsors for the cases.

Lunches are still being prepared for Bethesda Cares clients twice a month by parish families. Thank you to the Christmas-Flynn and the Duchelle-Smith families.

Parish members continue to volunteer each week to help deliver meals to shut-ins for Meals on Wheels. (see Highlights below)

Our parish has joined with our neighbor church, New Creation Church in Wheaton, to collect funds to purchase water for the citizens of Flint, Michi-gan.

Our parish is in the process of setting up computer courses for those who would like to learn how to use a computer, brush up on their computer skills and/or discover how to navigate the social media. For more information or if you would like to volun-teer to help, please contact Lee Puricelli at

[email protected] or [email protected]. And let’s not forget the bottle caps that we collected so the chil-dren of Arcola Elementary could create a sculpture garden at their school (see picture at left!).

Computer Trainers Needed

By Lee Puricelli While most of us take our computers, tablets and smart phones for granted, there are people all around us who are unable to get work, get infor-mation or communicate with their families because they don’t know how to use a computer, type a re-sume, send an email or use social media. One of those people is Susan, a woman who has special needs and really wants to learn to use a computer so that she can re-enter the workforce. We learned about Suasn through conversations with Our Savior Hillandale which wants to offer computer training through its partnership with Sa-maritan Ministry’s Next Step program. Hillandale has a small computer center, but no program (yet). Our Outreach Ministry has been for some time been exploring how we might provide comput-er literacy training and we have a curriculum, but no computers (yet). Both churches are working to develop plans to effectively reach a large group of people who need this support but who face chal-lenges with transportation and making time for learning between multiple jobs, erratic work sched-ules and family obligations. As a next step in this journey, Christ Church would like to find a volunteer or two who will teach Susan, how to use a computer. The lessons will take place at Our Savior Hillandale during their Next Step office hours on Tuesday between 9 am and 1 pm. We will provide the lesson plan, which includes work such as turning the computer on, using a mouse and basic Word and email skills. The curriculum is built on eight, two hour lessons. We would then ask these volunteers to report back to Christ Church and Hillandale on their experience. We hope that by working with Our Savior Hillan-dale, we can create an effective computer literacy program to empower people in our community. At the very least, we can fulfill’s Susan's dream of learning how to use a computer. If you are curious about this opportunity, please talk to Lee Puricelli, [email protected] or Ti-na Cleland, [email protected].

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Did you know that 3,000 children in Montgomery County enter the foster care system – EACH YEAR? They often arrive at night with only the clothes on their backs or a few cherished possessions stuffed in a plastic trash bag. They are often, disoriented, frightened, tired, and hungry. They are not going to a familiar home for an overnight stay or slum-

ber party like many of our children do. They are going for an extended period of time - maybe even for the rest of their childhoods - into the foster care system. Truly, this is a tough transition. A new organization – COMFORT CASES - has stepped in to ease the transition and ensure that children start off in foster care with basic age-appropriate belongings they can call their own. Comfort Cases provides these children with a duffel bag filled with necessary items such as pajamas, blanket, stuffed animal, book/coloring book, toothbrush/toothpaste, shampoo/conditioner, and other needed toiletries. As a parish, we made a difference by collecting items needed to help Comfort Cases fulfill their mission by collecting items that go into a child’s comfort case. Rob Scheer, the founder of Comfort Cases, will preach at our 10 AM service on Sunday, June 5th with a “packing party” to follow in the undercroft. We encourage all parishioners, including children and adults to help us fill the Comfort Cases duffel bags. We will need a lot of assistance at the packing party, so please raise your hand to help! For any questions regarding COMFORT CASES, please contact Lauren Robinson at [email protected]. Check the bulletin, newsletter and outreach table for any updates. Update: Thanks so much to everyone who has already donated! Lots of people are asking what we still need. Our most needed items are: pj's boys/girls size 6-12 and 12 and older, fleece blankets, shampoo/conditioner/lotion, pens/pencils, and crayons/coloring books. We could also use a few more books ages 6-12 and stuffed animals, but the items listed above are in order of most needed. Thanks!!

Comfort Cases - Christ Church Makes a Difference for Foster Children

From the Senior Warden: Honoring the Women of Christ Church

By Doug Smith On Sunday, May 15th, Christ Church honored the WOCC (Women of Christ Church) and celebrated their years of service and many contributions to the parish. Reorganized by Hilda Offutt in January 1992, the WOCC has been a small group of women who have met to serve their parish, the local community and be-yond. Remembering the past 20 years, it’s hard not to focus on some item or key event that has not been touched by their commitment. Within the parish, the WOCC provided countless dinners lunches and recep-tions. You might remember the Lenten/Agape dinners, or lunches for the ministerium, or the celebratory luncheon for the ground breaking of the “education wing” in 1998. Perhaps, you attended the House Tour and Tea the WOCC sponsored and served in 2006. Then, there were the countless memorial receptions the WOCC coordinated. Over the years, the WOCC put on many, many bake sales, card parties, and rummage sales to earn mon-ey to support their various projects; including renovating the church kitchen in 2003, as well as paying for a professional floor for the kitchen. They purchased many items for the kitchen: an earlier stove, pots and pan, serving carts, a freezer and recently the new professional dishwasher. They’ve supplied new furniture for the rector’s office, drapes and blinds, card tables, linens, and a storage cabinet for the flower guild. They funded the railings to assist handicapped parishioners and visitors from the parking lot and for the rear handicapped door. In addition, the WOCC have supplied funds to support our Sunday school, the Garden fund, the music ministry, and the building fund. Reaching out beyond the parish, the WOCC has supported the Episcopal Center for Children with funds and Toys for their Christmas Party and sent love boxes and toi-letries to homeless shelters and Bethesda Cares. They sent money for altar linens to a small church in Nova Scotia. Following the earthquake of 2012 the WOCC sent money to help restore our National Cathedral as well as the Cathedral in Christ Church, NZ. From 1993 until 2015, the WOCC provided lunch for the volunteers at the Rebuilding Together project (previously, Christmas in April). Even as the active era of the WOCC comes to a halt, the WOCC has continued their service to CCPK. In closing their accounts The WOCC has voted to use their remaining funds for new kneelers on the altar as well as $1,000 to for the music pro-gram. $300 will be set aside for future memorial receptions. (Continued on page 5)

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Vacation Bible School

This year’s parish Alive with Joy! Vacation Bible School promises to be lots of fun for children in mixed age groups of PreK4-Grade 1 and Grades 2-5. Ann En-kiri and Dylan Thayer need your help to fulfill that promise: they are seeking a few good men and women as volunteer teachers the mornings of July 11-15 from 9 am – 12:30 pm. They also are eager to welcome vis-iting activity leaders who can join us any morning or afternoon that week. For the first time we are offering Stay & Play from 12:30 pm – 5 pm. Ann and Dylan will prepare each day’s themed activities, welcoming input from volunteers. If you would like to join this vital out-reach Children’s Ministry, please email Ann: [email protected].

Parent Feedback

Dear Christ Church Parents, Christ Church would like your feedback. Now that the 2015-2016 education year at Christ Church is over, the Education and Youth Ministries as well as the Vestry thought it would be important and useful to hear from you, the parents. Is the education program at Christ Church meeting your child’s needs? What can be done to improve the educational experience for your family? What are some of the strengths and weakness-es that you see with Christ Church’s education program? These are some of the questions we hope parents at the church can take the time to answer. I have been a member of Christ Church for ten years and do not recall a parent survey requesting feedback on the educational experience at the church. Over the course of those ten years, my wife and I have formed opinions on what lessons and experiences have worked well and not so well for our three children. However, every family and child has different experiences and reactions to the lessons taught and the friendships they have made with the volunteer teachers and their Sunday School classmates. The Christ Church leadership thought it would be instructive to check in with parents at this time to understand how you feel about the Christian education your child is receiving and where you feel we as an educational community can better meet your needs. We encourage you to be honest, and please do not hold back with your opinions, criticisms, and praises. (Since the survey is conducted anonymously, there is no need to censure yourself!) This is an opportunity to inform the leadership at Christ Church about what can be done to help your child have a more fulfilling experi-ence.

We are sending out two separate surveys – one for pre-K through Grade 5, and the other for the Youth Ministry which encompasses Grades 6 through 12. By the time you ae reading this, you should have received both in your inbox. Please take the time to read through the surveys, and we encourage you to submit comments by July 15th. I want to thank Ann Enkiri, Dylan Thayer, Emily and the Vestry for their hard work and support in putting together this informative survey. Faithfully yours, Brian Woodward Vestry Member, Education

WOCC (Continued from page4)

We all thank and honor the dedicated women of WOCC, including those who have passed on: Hilda Offutt, Vera Wixon, Susie Brosnan, Bev Badders, Barbara Pierson, Jenny Lester, Marga-ret Volz, Barbara Dorsett, Elise Brownell, Audrey Higdon, Molly Hayley, Tudie Turner, He-lene Boyd, Anna Burrows, Eldred Clark, Verna Foote, Diantha Powers, Fay Bogley, Janet De-Bournville, June Rasmussen, Pauline Monroe, Joyce Holcombe, Edith Gregory, Sue Mitchell, Ann Scherer who graciously and tirelessly served as the Secretary of WOCC, Priscilla Nakamura who has flawlessly served in the thankless job as Treasurer, Elspeth Nunn, Bon-nie Douglas, Madge Darneille, Kay Bondeha-gen, Jan Croke, Annabel Kaufmann, Frances Brown, JoAnn Price, Amy Saylor, Yoko Sawanobori, and Mickey Sayles.

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Congratulations Graduates

Let’s be honest…it can get kind of tiring, hearing from me all the time! So I decided to turn this issue of the newsletter over to two of our graduating youth –Gavin Keith and Har-ry Feldman. Gavin and Harry are both seniors at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. Although they’re both good friends and proud CCPK seniors, they both had very different experiences in this parish. Ok, enough from me –here they are, in their own words:

Gavin Keith I’ve been a youth at this Christ Church for quite some time. Not as long as some, I real-ize, but regardless, it has been awhile. When I came to this church with my family from Saint John's in Bethesda, I was new, shy, but hopeful and grateful for change because my previous experience with Saint John's was less than desirable. It was a nice place, but it didn't feel welcoming. Then we came here –and I felt welcome. I felt welcome as myself, as a youth, by the youth and others in ministry. I was able to learn many things from many wonderful people and saw change go by. I’ve been here around six years, and in that time I have made wonderful friends, met wonderful people, and done amazing things that I honestly doubt I would have been able to do before. I was taught by two amazing youth ministers in Father Shawn Strout and Dylan Thayer. Both of them created such opportunity for both myself as well as other youth! And I have to give credit to Dylan for stepping in as Shawn left and making the youth program something better than it was before! It is kind of funny that as Dylan is leaving to go to school, so am I. I’m off to Lesley University and I have to thank Katie Wallace and Dylan for helping me get in. It is sad to go but I can look back and I remember so many good times: from building a hogon in Navajo Nation to hosting a vacation bible school for kids in West Virginia. And who could forget the games of Risk! Or Mafia! It has been a life changing experience here at CCPK, one that I will never forget and I want to thank each and every one of you here for being a part of it all! Especially the other youth. Y'all are like family to me –and con-sidering Creed actually is, I guess it isn't that much of a stretch! But thank you all -thank you CCPK vestry, members, youth and everyone in between for accepting me as a member of this perish and making being a youth here truly mean something. Harry Feldman I've been going to Christ Church for a year now, and it's been really awesome! Everybody is so nice and wel-coming. I first came here because of my best friend, Gavin –I wanted to see what his church and youth group is like. I went to the service with him held right before his youth group met. After the first youth group meeting I went to, I just kept on wanting to come back because it was so enjoyable. I think the first activity I did with the youth group was laser tag, which was really awesome; I had a lot of fun. I'm also a part of the youth group at my home church and a youth leader in my youth group there. Both churches I’ve been active with during my time in high school have given me two different experiences that I may not have tried if I didn't participate with them, and will follow me throughout my life. I hope I can come back once I graduate and participate in some of the activities with the youth group and the church when I come back and visit. Congratulations to all our High School graduates! We honor your accom-plishment and give thanks for all your gifts. Ashley Lakey Cameron Lett Rachel Parsons Gavin Keith Harry Feldman Camden Ventura William Steele Caroline Albright

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Birthdays: David Albright 06/01 MaryBeth Best 06/01 Eldred Clarke 06/02 Theodore Guerrant 06/03 Sheila Gart 06/04 Camden Ventura 06/04 Chlaila Haynie 06/06 Calvin Smith Jr. 06/07 Lori Steel 06/07 Jane Aylor 06/08 Rukmani Willis 06/08 Lauren E. Lakey 06/09 Patrice Upshaw-Whiting 06/09 Cora Simpson 06/12 Linda Daisley 06/13 Caroline Simpson 06/13 Jack Lawrence 06/14 Thomas Tatem 06/15 Gail Marks 06/16 Sydney Boniface 06/20 Grace Bullard 06/20 Laura Ventura 06/20 Helen Buck 06/24 Kurt Ellison 06/24 Gerald Fink 06/25 Bonnie Muheim 06/28 Jean Colvin 06/29 Irina Bukharin 06/30 Brett Holmgren 06/30 Ted Thanos 06/30 Anniversaries: Gerald & Cynthia Lett 06/01 Philip & Mary Padgett 06/01 Tom & Rukmani Willis 06/04 Lance & Judy Kilpatrick 06/05 Paul & Betsy Robbins 06/05 William & Karen Bruce 06/06 Diego & Sarah Vicente 06/21 Michael & Barbara Ferry 06/22 Rusty & Catherine Cleland 06/24 Claude &Fay Bogley 06/30

June Celebrations

Have you ever wanted to explore the bible in depth? Grow in your understanding of faith? EFM is a correspondence course from the University of the South (an Episcopal college in Se-wanee, TN) designed to empower lay ministry through study, worship, and reflection. If you might be interested, and are will-ing to commit to Tuesday nights, then contact Lee Puricelli at [email protected].

Education for Ministry (EFM)

Preparation for Communion

While children of all ages are welcome to receive communion, I realize that some parents may want their child to have some instruction about the Eucharist before participating. If this is something that interests you, please contact the Rector! [email protected]

The Prime Timers will meet on June 2nd, in the undercroft from 11:30 - 1:30 for social time and lunch and to enjoy a speaker from the Montgomery County Historical Society or the community. Please RSVP to Nora Buckley by May 30th at 301-564-0689 or [email protected] and let her know if you are attending and wish to order a lunch. This month's presentation is by Art Downey, the author of The Cold War - Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises, which is a look at the peo-ple and doctrines that helped avoid global catastrophe. The Prime Timers will not meet in July and August.

Prime Timers

Tuesday Book Group

The CCPK Book Group is continuing “The future of faith” by Harvey Cox. Please join us on Tuesday at 7:30pm in the li-brary For more information send an e-mail to Jim Kennedy at [email protected]

On Saturday, June 4, 2016, join us for the third annual Col-leen's BA 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk. It will take place along Beach Drive in Kensington. Proceeds from the event benefit the Colleen Mitchel Memorial Fund and support biliary atresia (BA) research at Johns Hopkins Pediatric Liver Center in Balti-more, Maryland and organ donation awareness in our commu-nity. For more information or to register, go to http://www.colleensba5k.org/register.html.

Run for Colleen

Summer Office Hours

During the summer (Memorial Day Weekend thru Labor Day Weekend) the office will close at noon on Fridays. The office is open Mondays thru Thursdays, 9am-5pm.

Kensington Labor Day Parade

CCPK is once again planning to march in the Kensington Labor Day Parade on Monday, September 5th. Mark Your Calendars! More info will be forthcoming!

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