Wishing you all a good week! It was great to see so many people (well over 100) at our congregational meeting last week. For those of you that could not attend, we elected Pat Blanchfield as our new Elder. He will be ordained in March.
Joys and Concerns
We are thankful for all our volunteers, and count you as our greatest joy this week! We are also thankful for the way God is working in Randy Prentiss’ life, and the direction he is taking him. We ask you to pray for Randy during this time of transition. Please pray for those in our congregation dealing with health issues, particularly Norma Roddy, Bill Weeks and Judy Phillips. Also continue to pray for those in our Sunday bulletin’s prayer corner.
Worship Information
Beekman Road – This Sunday Taylor will conclude his discussion on the Belhar Confession. This week’s scripture is Micah 6:1-8. The sermon title is This We Believe: We Do the Right Thing. Gathering begins at 8:45 AM with Glory Bound leading worship. Sunday school for The Gathering: Children in PreK-5 start in worship with their families; youth in grades 6-12 start in the Youth House. Foundations begins at 10:30 AM with the Chancel and Cherub Choirs leading worship. Sunday school for Foundations: Children in grades Pre-K-5 start in worship with their families; youth in grades 6-12 start in the Youth House.
HRC Journey – Journey is at Tymor Park every Sunday at 10:00 AM. Worship is led by Lynn and Wayne Morrison. Sunday school is available for children in Pre-K through 5th grade. Odyssey is the 2nd & 4th Sundays of every month. This coming Sunday is an Odyssey Sunday.
Common Ground – The Common Ground service meets at Arlington Reformed Church’s parsonage at 129 Ray Blvd., Poughkeepsie NY beginning at 4:00 PM.
Upcoming Events
February 14 – Our Sunday school children will be making sandwiches for the homeless shelter. If you signed up to bring items for this event, please remember to bring them to the community room before worship or have your children bring them when they go to Sunday school.
February 14 – BIG Worship will be at 3:00pm. This will be the last talk/worship for the Sharpe retreat. We invite all to come hear what the kids heard at the retreat. Preaching will be Carlos DiVitis , Youth pastor from Peninsula Covenant Church in California and the Matt Brooks Band will lead worship.
February 17 – Ash Wednesday worship service at 7:30 PM.
This past Sunday we met the two women who are coordinating our Sunday morning coffee time. Please contact Barbara Cady (Gatherings service) or Jessica Morsey (Foundations service) if you interested in helping with this.
One more note from the church office: If you are receiving duplicates of our church-wide emails, please bear with us. The software we are presently using sometimes loses the server connection and does not tell us which emails have already gone out, so we have to restart the entire list! We are working towards a solution for this problem. Thank you for your patience!
Don’t forget to check out our website, HopewellReformedChurch.org.
And that is all the buzz there is this week!
Your sister in Christ,
Birgit
