: 10-12 Bread Ministry with Weis products/6-8 Dinner Huddle and study
: 9-12 Clothing Closet: Clothing Closet could use a door person/bouncer when they are open (1st and ). There are concerns of people roaming the building and for safety of workers. If interested contact Sarah, Don or Amber
: Worship at 10 Live in the sanctuary and on Zoom. Study of 2 Peter 1
*Don't forget the Lenten Envelopes will be used to replenish the Benevolence Fund. The fund is used to help members and others with urgent needs and has been used fairly heavily so far in 2026.
Good Morning Giving Refreshers! Oh man, that is our church! We are loving, joyful, sacrificial givers and servers and refreshers of others. And we are blessed abundantly as we do these. The great mystery of God is how we pour out and bless and then are taken care of and blessed back to keep the circle going. God is so cool how He does these things as we live and love more and more like Jesus. Keep it up church! The world around us needs to meet Jesus in the flesh and feel His love as we help and share our hope. And our neighbors are noticing His caring love, being drawn and refreshed, helped and loved and we are blessed as we continue God's circle of life and love. Amen and PTL! Check out Our Daily Bread and Upper Room devotionals for below. they speak right into this as God encourages us to keep at it and reminds us of His ever-present love and help. (Man I could write a sermon about all this!) What stories might you have to share about how you see God using you and us? Someone needs to hear that and be invited to come experience it and witness Jesus at work in and through us. We are doing what we can with what we've been given and God is using that and us as we are to be His vessels and He blesses and grows us as we do. he is enough--Jireh and all we need to impact the world with His love, our hope, and His help. Amen!
was an amazing Acts 2:42 type of worship and fellowship day. Acts 2:42 is what we are basing our evenings on and Acts 2:44 is part of what Bread and clothing closet are doing. God is with us and growing our fellowship as we do. Can you see it and God at work? He is! PTL! We are God's community of believers impacting our neighborhood with His love and ways. Meditate on this passage. What's God saying to you? How might he want you to join what he is doing? Will you? He has great plans ahead for you and us to be His Light and Love. May we live our lives surrendered to Him and as an act of worship and watch how He loves through us, grows us and blesses us and many others. He is able and he will do immeasurable more than we can imagine through our availability and moving feet. Amen! Let's discuss this further together soon!
Acts 2:42-47,
42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. [we did this !] 43 A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.44 And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.45 They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need.46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity[b]—47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. [We do this every week! PTL!] May God continue use us well and to add to our Body as we live and love more like Jesus! Amen!
UR: Called to Serve (Funny how Sarah reminded us of this verse and thanked you all for answering the Lord's call with "Send me" and allowing Him to use you!)
I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” - Isaiah 6:8 (NIV)
When I was just out of college, my first job was working at a psychiatric hospital as a healthcare technician, helping children and adolescents. In school, I had taken an interests inventory, and my two highest scoring areas were counseling and pastoral ministry. God seemed to be calling me, but I wasn’t sure in what direction. As I prayed for guidance, the words of Isaiah 6:8 came to mind: “Here am I. Send me!”
My experience at the hospital helped me decide to attend graduate school and pursue a career in counseling. I felt God calling me to support young people and their families, to bring them encouragement and hope. God had sent important people to me in my young life when I needed help, and I felt it was time to pay that forward.
Now that I am retired, I give thanks to God for my career in counseling as well as the experiences my family and I have had serving in church over the years. My wife and I are blessed to serve as lay people in our congregation. Sometimes I wonder how my life might have been different if I had become a pastor. However, I believe as Christians we’re able to minister to others, even if we’re not ordained pastors in a church. God has a plan for each one of us!
's Prayer
Father God, thank you for guiding us as we show your love to others. Help us to trust in your plans for us. Amen.
ODB:
Refreshing Generosity
A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25
An auditorium full of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine listened intently as ninety-year-old Ruth Gottesman spoke. As she concluded, Ruth announced—to the students’ gasps, cheers, and pandemonium—that she was donating $1 billion so they could finish their education tuition free. This is the largest donation ever given to a medical school. Yet in the interviews that followed, you would have thought that Gottesman was the one receiving the gift. She expressed joy, delight, and honor to be able to give her money away.
Proverbs tells us that this is how generosity works. The one who “gives freely,” far from being left diminished or bereft, finds blessings they hadn’t anticipated (11:24). When we open our hands to others, we’re left with something more—not less. “Whoever refreshes,” Scripture says, “will be refreshed” (v. 25). We’re often tempted to tightly grip whatever we have, fearful that we’ll be taken advantage of or left with nothing. God’s economy works differently, however. Jesus went a step further, stating that it’s “more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35).
We can be generous with our lives and our resources, offering what we have to others in need. And then, in return, we’ll find that we end up receiving too. There’s plenty for everyone in God’s kingdom.
By Winn Collier
REFLECT & PRAY
How has giving to others blessed you? Where might God be asking you to be more generous?
Dear God, please help me to be generous like You and trust that I’ll have all I need.
The “righteous” person is beautifully depicted in Proverbs 11. A careful reading of the chapter leaves one longing for what we see. Verses 24-25 describe the blessing of life-sharing generosity. And who doesn’t desire what’s described in verse 28? “The righteous will thrive like a green leaf.” The word thrive can also be rendered flourish (nlt). The Hebrew word is parakh, which means “to break out” or “to break forth.” Its usage in the Old Testament includes the sprouting or budding forth of plants or trees. That’s also what we see in Psalm 92: “The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God” (vv. 12-13). When we’re generous and refresh others, we’ll flourish and “be refreshed” as well (Proverbs 11:25).
was fun, wasn't it? With Worship, and then our annual meeting and then on to our SOUPER BOWL BRUNCH. There were 14 delicious soups to taste
and judge. We all had fun filling our tasting bowls with the soups and there was even some soup left for people to take home! Thank you so much to all
that made the soups!!! It was a great time. In attendance we had 65+ !
Keep an eye out for more new and different themed brunches from Two Peas in a Pod!
Praises and Prayer requests:
Terry had his first chemo treatment. It went well. He is feeling a little tired after treatments. Continue to keep him and Jane in your prayers as they
venture through this journey together, with Jesus. Also keep Pastor Don and Karen in your prayers as they chat with and encourage Terry and Jane
Millidine Waterman was feeling under the weather . Prayers for her to feel better in the next coming days
Kathy Canfield is asking for prayer for her brother, Jim who is in stage 4 cancer. He has been dealing with this cancer for 10 years. Prayers for him
as he has his Chemo treatments.
Also a praise, Jim's daughter was in the hospital , delivering Jim's first grandson. Praying for Momma and baby and that all is going
well.
Marilyn Ritter has permanently moved into Fellowship Manor. Her new address is:
Marilyn Ritter
Fellowship Villa
Room 330A
3020 Fellowship Drive
Whitehall PA 18052
Reid is praising God for his co-worker's celebration of his grand baby that was recently born. Baby and Momma are all doing well.
Nancy W and Kay P are praising God for safe travel to Thailand for her son and his wife. And yes, their luggage made it safely also.
Continue to pray for them as they spend three weeks in Thailand helping out with the outreach mission of GROW
Jim Handfast is praising God for all those that serve our country and keep us safe. May we continue to pray for their safety.
Lori Rohrer was there at brunch ! She is doing well, taking her time and using a walker to get around. Prayers for continual healing
and strengthening. And that she is patient with herself.
Please continue to keep Tina (Sandy Ritter's daughter) in your prayers as she is dealing with her painful back issues.
Okay everyone.....hope you all have a good rest of your evening! And have a great week!! Looks like warm temperatures are coming
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