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Creation Care Youth Group Sunday
Sunday, June 7, 2020
This Sunday we will hear the voices and share in the hearts of our youth. Since the state of emergency began, the Jr. and Sr. High youths have been meeting via Zoom every Sunday afternoon. In partnership with the Faith in Action Committee, they have prepared a worship service that calls us to accountability for preserving God's great gift of creation.
On Saturday evening we will send out the link for the YouTube video that captures their efforts - and the sustaining power of the Spirit. May God bless the message they bring to us; no less our response.
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The "Reopening" Plan
Dear Hanover Saints,
Last Monday the Elders gathered with the Worship Committee to discuss the details and plans for when we would open our doors for worship.
After an exhaustive discussion about all the aspects of reopening, it was decided that we will continue with recorded worship services until July 19. Barring any developments that would make it unsafe, we are planning to worship in person together again on Sunday, July 26.
There were many considerations that led to this decision. First and foremost we will carefully watch the trends of the virus between now and the 26th because at this time the numbers do not instill the sense of stability we are wanting to see. Our primary concern is now, and always, the safety and security of the Saints.
During this time, the leadership in the church will be plowing through the painstaking task of preparing for our reopening. Given all the needed precautions, worship will be quite different. Everything from how we come and go, sing, pray, preach, give, and sit will be new for all of us. There will be new protocols for which worship leaders will be trained. And we are committed to creating a way to offer our services so that any who cannot, or choose not, to attend can still partake in the Spirit.
In the time leading up to the day of our reunion, we will be constantly communicating so that we will all have a sense of what we can expect.
Time and again the Psalmist urged the people to “wait patiently for the Lord”. As difficult as it is, may you continue to receive God’s presence in each of your days and places, and may you be blessed with deep and abiding faith and hope…and patience. Let us wait in…
Peace,
Andy
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The Week Ahead at Hanover
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Thursday, June 4 8:00am Food Pantry
7:00pm From Surviving to Thriving (Zoom)
Friday, June 5 6:15pm Yoga at the Sugarbowl
Sunday, June 7 Worship service on line: watch at 10:00am
9:00am - 12:00pm call time with Pastor Andy
Monday, June 8 8:30am Prayer Circle (Zoom)
Tuesday, June 9 11:00am Hot Dog Cart
Wednesday, June 10 12:00pm High Noon at Hanover
5:30pm Coping with COVID-19 (Zoom)
Thursday, June 11 8:00am Food Pantry
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This Is Our Time Campaign Update
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Earlier today we received the news that we've worked for and dreamed of for nearly ten years. Today, an inspector from the state's Department of Health came to our Gathering Place kitchen. She came with her white gloves, checklist, thermometer, and tape measure to determine whether the newly renovated kitchen meets the code requirements to be licensed for public food preparation.
Praise God, here is the heart of her report: A pre-operational inspection was conducted today, June 4, 2020. All conditions of ATC #19-NC-154 FE have been met. This report serves as your interim Food Establishment to operate.
My friends, that is state-speak for WE PASSED!
May God bless each and every morsel of food that is prepared and served from our new kitchen; that it would bring comfort, nourishment, hope, and...
Peace
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On Wednesday backhoes and shovels started digging a trench from the Baynard side of the building into the Boulevard to install a new water line. This trench is required in order to install larger water lines that will provide the necessary pressure needed for the sprinkler system which will provide safety and security for all who use our gym.
May God bless our ditches, digging, and deconstruction as it leads to our reconstruction, renewal, and revival!
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In our ongoing effort to stay connected and support one another, we have scheduled a Zoom meeting every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30. All are encouraged to check in, and you can do so with an internet-connected computer, smart phone, or telephone. Next Wednesday we will ask...
Where is hell?
Contact the church office if you would like the Zoom link. Praise God for the safe space to learn and grow together - especially in the midst of crisis.
Peace,
Andy
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High Noon at Hanover
for June 10, 2020
Let us pray for reconciliation amongst and between all people, and that it would lead to peace.
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As we would normally include this as an insert in our weekly bulletin, here is some information on the Presbyterian Mission program for Pentecost. To make a donation to this special offering, please mark your check as "Pentecost Special Offering" on the memo line. Thank you.
If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot.
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The Hot Dog Cart is serving up on
Tuesday, June 9, from 11am to 1pm!
Please come and enjoy good food at bargain prices.
All proceeds go to the Food Pantry.
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The work of Christ is going strong at Hanover, and we rely on your pledges to keep us running smoothly.
Here are the ways that you can continue to give your pledge and other offerings:
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Mail: Please send your check to:
Hanover Presbyterian Church
1801 North Jefferson Street, Wilmington, DE 19802
Drop-off: You can go to the Jefferson Street Open Arms Academy/Church Office entrance and put your envelope inside the gray mailbox on the left door. It is safe and secure there, and Herman and/or Twyla will pick them up.
Drop-off in person: If you want to hand your check to the office in person, just call the office at (302) 658-5114 and we'll arrange a time to be there to greet you.
And perhaps easiest of all...
On line: Go to our website: www.hanoverchurch.org - scroll down to the bottom of the screen and you will see Online Giving. Click on the yellow highlighted word Donate - the next screen asks you if you are using a credit card or PayPal. Then follow the prompts - make sure you write in the Note section where your money is to go.
Thank you for sustaining our ministries here at Hanover.
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Orange days are fast approaching, June 5 or 6 or 7! This weekend.
Orange is the color of Gun Sense, gun safety, gun violence awareness. In other words orange is love. Sponsored by Moms Demand Action.
Please wear your best orange, take a selfie and email me, so I can post it on the Moms Demand Action, Wilmington page.
If you can, paint a rock, stone, or pebble orange, write a gun sense message, place it somewhere , anywhere, in Wilmington, take a selfie, and email me. Rock your orange this weekend. Participate with your kids.
Be safe, wear a mask, Rock your orange.
Lets make this an Orange weekend!
Please share, THANK YOU!
I have orange beads and key chains, contact me if you want one. (While supplies last). Thank you.
Isheta Smith: ishetas@gmail.com
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Hanover Book Discussion
(via Zoom)
Sunday, June 7th 11:00 a.m.
We'll be talking about the book: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, bu Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. If you'd like to join the discussion, please contact Karin Wilson at (302) 984-0257 or email at: kfmadison583@msn.com, and she will send you the link.
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Sunday, June 21 service
Like our Mother's Day recorded service, we are honoring fathers and people who have been like fathers to us, and we are looking for your submissions...
If you would like to make a short, less-than-two-minutes recording, talking about someone who has been a father figure in your life, please send it by email to Twyla at: churchadmin@hanoverchurch.org by Wednesday, June 17.
Thank you.
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A "VIRTUAL" JEREMIAH'S COFFEEHOUSE!
This talent call is going out to everyone - we'd like to have a "virtual" Jeremiah's Coffee House! If you have something to share - musical, poetry, a story, a craft - anything - take a short recording of it and send it in to the Church Office at: churchadmin@hanoverchurch.org. Once we gather our recordings, we'll have Tom Davis work his magic on them, and make them into a "virtual" coffeehouse.
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Click here to read today's issue of "Midweek Musings". |
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Inspiration for these days
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CLICK HERE to hear Maya Angelou recite her own poem, "Still I Rise."
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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Blessed be your journey . . .
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