Monday, May 21, 2012

Membership Report


As many of you have noticed, CSH has many more young families at our services and in our schools.  We are so excited to be a growing congregation once again.  Please make sure you to welcome and visit with these new members when you see them at services.  And, also, we hope that these young families will join us in leadership and volunteer roles at our synagogue.  We need you!!

What a wonderful Musical Shabbat, “Shabbat Alive!” over 100 of us experienced on April  27th.  Many of our congregation families shared their time and talents in baking for the special Oneg that night.  I want to thank each & everyone who provided the special treats for that night.  All those attending our first Shabbat Alive unanimously voted to continue to  make Shabbat the special  holiday we can enjoy together.  With that in mind, please mark your calendar for Friday, June 8th, for our next musical Shabbat.  I will ,again, be asking for volunteers to help with the Oneg Shabbat.

Congregation Shaar Hashalom will once again welcome Jennifer Rolnick on June the 8th, as well as our fellow members who participated in this wonderful Shabbat.  A special ‘Todah Rabah’ to our musicians:  Jennifer Rolnick, Lori Laird, Joe Buchanan and Craig Schweitzer.  Also included in the service were our guest vocalist Jennifer Rolnick, Rabbi Federow, Tammy & Shelby Allison, Carl Schwanke, Rex Hemme and Loren Paeglis.

If you weren’t there, you missed the melodies of the Beatles, Twist & Shout, as well as many other wonderful musical surprises.  Please  try to join us on Friday, June 8th, at 7:00 P.M.  Any help with the Oneg will be greatly appreciated.

A special welcome to our CSH family to April and Joe Buchanan & their family and to Mike Rosen.  As we have mentioned in the past, you, as our members, are also a welcoming committee for any guests attending our services and programs.  Please introduce yourself and show them how wonderful congregation members we have at CSH.

See you on June 8th

Risa Stein
Lori Pizzuti
Membership Trustees