UPCOMING EVENTS...
August 14:
7:00 p.m. - Worship, Music and Arts meeting
August 15:
7:00 p.m. - Session
August 20:
10:30 a.m. - Worship -
August 27:
10:30 a.m. - Worship - Rev. Jackie Pinkowski preaching
Nepal Mission Trip Presentation and Luncheon
September 10: 10:30 a.m. - Worship
Organ Re-dedication
Sunday School Kickoff
Sunday School Picnic - after Worship
October 7: Apple Fest
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN? Let Sarah Bereza, our organist, know! This summer we're singing hymn favorites in addition to the hymns related to each week's lectionary readings. You can email your favorite to Sarah at
sarah.bereza@gmail.com or you can leave a message for her at the church office.
NEPAL MISSION TRIP PRESENTATION AND LUNCH - We are back from our humanitarian mission trip to Kathmandu, Nepal and the experience was absolutely beautiful and successful beyond our wildest hopes. God's love was palpable and our community in His service expanded across the world AND within our very own city through the connections we made. We could not have undertaken this service trip without your support and want to share EVERYTHING with you. Please mark your calendars and join us on August 27th after church for a lunch and presentation.
With deepest gratitude,
Erika, Avery, Debbie & McKenzie
OUR ORGANIST, Sarah Bereza, writes a blog about Music and the Church. Each week she chooses a hymn based on the lectionary readings for the week and tells something about who wrote it, when it was written, and other interesting information about the hymn. This week's hymn is "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise". The text of this week's post is included below. You are encouraged to go to the link listed above and learn more about the hymns we sing in worship.
This week's hymn praises our God, our Savior. Although it's not part of this coming Sunday's scripture reading, this hymn text reminds me of a passage from Exodus describing an encounter Moses had with God. As the Lord passed by Moses, He "called out, 'The Lord God, compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, greatly-merciful, and true.'" Singing this hymn is an opportunity to praise God for all these good things!
Check out these beautiful choral settings of the hymn—I couldn't choose a favorite between the two: St. Olaf and the Cambridge Singers.
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.
Breathe, oh, breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit;
let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
Come, Almighty, to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise.
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Singing through the Year features a hymn related to next Sunday's lectionary readings. Each hymn will be sung at the Presbyterian church where I am the organist
FLOWER CHART – 2017: On the bulletin board in the Netting Building is the new flower chart for this year. Anyone that is interested in having flowers for Sunday worship, please sign your name and add the name of the person they honor, or if they are in memory of a loved one, or for a special event or occasion..
