PASTOR’S MESSAGE 2 SUNDAY SCHOOL 3 YOUTH PAGE 4 KIDDIE KORNER 5 OUR CHURCH FAMILY 6 SENIOR FELLOWSHIP 7 PEACE PERSPECTIVES 10 CHURCH CALENDAR 12 WAYS TO SERVE 13 ANNUAL CONFERENCE WRAP - UP 14 & 15 SEPTEMBER 2018 SPRING CREEK CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN INSIDE THIS ISSUE: CREEK CONNECTION A FREE ONE-DAY PARENTING CLASS S pring Creek Church of the Brethren is partnering with COBYS Family Services, Day Seven Ministries, Love INC of Greater Hershey, and a local addiction counselor to provide a parenting class that builds and strengthens families. Parents or caregivers of children of all ages are welcome to attend. This one-day interactive class will be held at the church on Saturday, October 20, 2018, starting at 8 a.m. and going until 4:30 p.m. Based upon your schedule, you may attend either one or all four of the following workshops: Building Confidence and Self-Esteem Using the Power of Positive Reinforcement Parenting in a Porn-is-the-Norm Culture Hope for Families Faced with Addiction The cost of the program is free. Lunch and child care are provided. To register for this class, please visit the church’s website, springcreekcob.org/ parenting, or you may contact the church office by phone at (717) 533-7192 or by email at [email protected]. Space is limited, so please register early. M ark your calendars now! We hope you will join us for Community Day on Saturday, October 13, outside at Spring Creek. All are invited for this fun time together. Look for more details coming soon! COMMUNITY DAY - OCTOBER 13
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P A S T O R ’ S M E S S A G E
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Y O U T H P A G E
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K I D D I E K O R N E R
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C R E E K C O N N E C T I O N
A FREE ONE-DAY PARENTING CLASS
S pring Creek Church of the Brethren is partnering with COBYS Family Services,
Day Seven Ministries, Love INC of Greater Hershey, and a local addiction
counselor to provide a parenting class that builds and strengthens families.
Parents or caregivers
of children of all ages
are welcome to attend.
This one-day interactive class
will be held at the church on Saturday,
October 20, 2018, starting at 8 a.m.
and going until 4:30 p.m.
Based upon your schedule, you may attend
either one or all four of the following workshops:
Building Confidence and Self-Esteem
Using the Power of Positive Reinforcement
Parenting in a Porn-is-the-Norm Culture
Hope for Families Faced with Addiction
The cost of the program is free. Lunch and child care are provided.
To register for this class, please visit the church’s website, springcreekcob.org/
parenting, or you may contact the church office by phone at (717) 533-7192 or by
and our church activity calendar fills up. Vacation
season ends, and we’re back to the busy grind.
Yet one of the themes that comes up time and again through Scripture is that of Rest. In the beginning
God creates. God fills the earth with all kinds of vegetation, creatures and lastly God’s image-bearer,
humans. Then as everything is about to be set in motion, God rests. Before creation begins the business
of being fruitful and multiplying, the Creator and Sustainer takes a break.
In a way the narrative of Scripture can be told through the theme of rest. God himself rests with creation
at the beginning. But soon God’s people find themselves slaves in Egypt. They are forced to work
relentlessly. Their personal worth gets wrapped up in how much they are able to produce for Pharaoh.
Then, after the exodus, God commands the people to live in new ways. God gives the people good news
of rest in the form of one of the Ten Commandments. Elsewhere in The Law, God spells out a dramatic
practice of Sabbath rest every seven years and then a society-reorienting rest called Jubilee.
In the New Testament Jesus proclaims the good news of rest. The people are no longer bound by laws
of rest, but can truly receive rest as a gift. In fact, in Jesus we can find the only true rest. Total peace
and quiet.
Jesus invites all of us who are worn out, struggling, exhausted to come and find rest in him. In following
Jesus we can find a new way of living. We can be free to slow down and rest. We are freed to remember
we are humanBEINGS, not humanDOINGS. God loves us because we are God’s creation, not because
of what we have, or haven’t achieved.
As we jump back into the routine, busy schedules of fall, I invite you to join us in September as we learn
more about Sabbath rest. Ready! Set! Slow.
Two great resources for your own further study of Sabbath and rest would be Sabbath as Resistance:
Saying NO to the Culture of NOW by Walter Brueggemann and Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising
Power of Rest in a Nonstop World by A.J. Swaboda.
Blessings, Pastor Adam
A M E S S A G E F R O M P A S T O R A D A M
Sabbath:
"Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual
life in our day. You must ruthlessly
eliminate hurry from your life."
—Dallas Willard
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District-Wide Prayer Ministry
T he ANE District churches are praying for each other on a rotating weekly basis. For this month,
here are the sister churches to lift in prayer and those
praying for us.
Pray for their pastors, church leaders, and outreach
and service ministries. Pray for unity and love within
the church’s membership.
Pray for this church:
Praying for Spring Creek:
Sept. 2 Indian Creek (Harleysville, PA)
Germantown (Philadelphia, PA)
Sept. 9 Nuevo Amanecer (Bethlehem, PA)
Midway (Lebanon, PA)
Sept. 16 Akron (Akron, PA)
Mountville (Mountville, PA)
Sept. 23 Brunswick Fellowship (Wales, ME)
Source of Grace Mountain of Glory (Hyde Park, MA)
Sept. 30 Wilmington (Wilmington, DE)
Geiger Memorial (Philadelphia, PA)
SEPTEMBER SERMONS & SCRIPTURES
Sermon Series - Sabbath The Adult Sunday School classes
resume on Sunday, September 2.
The Carpenters meet in Room 402.
The Discoverers meet in Room 406 and will determine their specific fall study in September.
The Elective Class meets in Room 100. They will study Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren.
The Seekers meet in Room 200. They will study the international Sunday School lesson God’s World and God’s People.
A D U L T S U N D A Y S C H O O L
September 2 Ready. Set. Slow. Genesis 1:27-2:3
September 9 No More Bricks Deuteronomy 5:12-15
September 16 Jubilee! Leviticus 25 (25:8-12)
September 23 Sabbath as Gospel Matthew 11:28-30
September 30 Sabbath for the Rest of Us Matthew 12:1-14
T he Sanctuary Choir begins another year of ministry in September with their first rehearsal
on Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30 PM. Please consider joining them if you enjoy singing. The choir especially needs sopranos. If you are interested in sharing your musical talents, contact Dick Hiler or attend the first rehearsal on September 12.
Join in serving at the Disaster Relief Auction on September 21 & 22. Youth and families are needed to help with the children’s auction on Friday evening and Saturday late morning until mid-afternoon. For more info see Michelle or Marsha Heisey.
Youth Sunday School begins September 2, with a prayer walk through the neighborhood – praying for our schools, our family and friends and our community. Youth 6th-12th grade should meet in the Youth Room first.
September 9, Middle and High School will meet together in the Youth Room for Sunday School. Middle School youth grades 6th-8th will have Sunday School in Michelle’s office, and High School grades 9th-12th will meet in the Youth Room. Classes will meet together the last Sunday of every month for “SOS - Sharing Our Stories” and on a few other occasional Sundays. Parents you are invited to join your young person in the Youth Room for Sunday School on September 23 when we will talk about the upcoming year and pray together as we start a new school and church year. This fall our Middle School will be studying our New Testament biblical ancestors. Senior Highs will be using a new curriculum “Live a year with Jesus” where they will study the life of Jesus, discover in depth who he is, what he did during his earthy ministry, the truths he taught, and how they can share his message.
SEE YOU AT THE POLE day is Wednesday, September 26. All around the globe, in every time zone, students will be gathering at their flagpoles, praying for their school, friends, family, churches and communities. “See You at the Pole” is a day committed to global unity in Christ and prayer for this next generation.
Y O U T H P A G E
T hank you to all who helped Indian
Mobile Mission have a great summer with your special offerings. A check for $1,055 was gratefully received and produced the smiles you see on the bulletin board behind the Sanctuary. Check out the thank yous. You made a big difference in their lives! God’s blessings to you all! Marty Wolf
P.S. Sylvia Junior is also pictured and helping as Sylvia Webb nears “retirement.”
T he youth extend an official invitation to join them for SOS – Sharing Our Stories in the
Youth Room. Individuals or couples who would like to share a Sunday School hour talking about their stories with the youth should contact Michelle. SOS is the last Sunday of every month and is by far our young folks’ favorite Sunday!
YOUTH SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS
—Michelle Sheppard
Community Day is October 13. Come join us at
church!
WNA and Youth Group
both start October 3.
T H E K I D D I E K O R N E R
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Lebanon Rescue Mission Sunday is
coming soon. We are signed up to help
out on Sunday, September 23 from 2:30 –
6:15 PM. Look for a sign-up sheet for donations and to
help serve. If you have not had the opportunity to serve,
please consider helping out. This is a great time to
spread God’s love and realize how blessed we truly are.
Volunteers must be 8 years old or older.
begins again on
October 3. We will spend the month of
October preparing for Operation Christmas
Child. Be on the look out for ways to
volunteer throughout the Kid’s Club year.
SAVE THE DATES – Advent Bible School dates are
November 24, December 1, 8 & 15. Volunteers and
donations will be needed in order to make this ministry
successful again this year! Volunteer and donation
boards will be
set up next
month.
—Missy Blizzard
are needed for Kid’s Zone. Don’t forget that the kids still need you!!
If you are able to help, please sign-up online by clicking HERE. Thanks a bunch!!
Volunteers
—Missy Blizzard
Bethany Seminary Completes New Branding Project
A new logo, a completely redesigned website, and graphic themes represent the culmination of work by
members of the Bethany Theological Seminary community to give the Seminary a re-envisioned public
presence. “A change in an institution’s outward appearance should spark interest in what is happening within
its mission and program,” says Jeff Carter, Seminary President. “Consistent with our historic values, Bethany’s
new logo depicts the power of scripture read in community,
with colors that represent growth and wisdom. Our new
tagline—'so that the world flourishes’—speaks to the hope
of our mission while leaving room for individuals to live into
the ways God is calling them to serve. With a restructured
master of divinity program, a soon-to-be-revised master of
arts, and new scholarships and graduate certificates,
Bethany’s outward look is an expression of inward change,
so that our students, and the world, might flourish.”
Halloween Parade – Unfortunately, we won’t
be participating in the Hershey parade unless
someone else is able to run it, as Missy will not
be able to do it. If you are interested in leading
A donation basket is located inside Spring Creek’s main entrance.
September:
Come join us for a summer wrap-up event at Kauffman’s Chicken BBQ on Thursday, September 6th at 5 o’clock. Enjoy an evening of fellowship, eating chicken, playing mini-golf, and of course there’s always ice cream. A sign-up sheet is posted in the Gathering Area.
(Contact: Lee and Bonnie Swinsburg)
OCTOBER:
The senior activity for October is the ANE 55 Plus Banquet at Yoder’s Restaurant in New Holland. The event is at noon on Wednesday, October 24th.
Entertainment will be “One Heart, One Voice.” The meal choice features broasted chicken or ham loaf with tossed salad, green beans, baby carrots, mashed potatoes, and ice cream. Cost is $18.00/ person.
Look for a sign-up sheet in the Gathering Area. The reservation deadline is Sunday, October 7th. Checks can be made out to “Spring Creek Senior Fellowship”.
(Contact: Lee and Bonnie Swinsburg)
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NOVEMBER:
Please join the Senior Fellowship on Thursday, November 15 as we travel to Sight and Sound Theatre to see “Jesus”. The performance is at 3 PM and will cost $56 per person. Dinner will be on your own after the show. “JESUS” is the action-packed musical stage adventure that takes you on a miraculous journey alongside the most famous person ever to walk the earth and the everyday people whose lives he changed forever. Comments from a friend who recently attended:
Just made the words of the Bible hop off the page.
The words of Jesus seemed to speak right to me and I got chills when He did His miracles.
Checks are to be made payable to Judy Hiler and given to her by Sunday, October 14th. Look for a sign-up sheet in the Gathering Area.
(Contact: Judy Hiler)
SENIOR FELLOWSHIP ACTIVITIES
T he Food Bank currently needs canned meats and stews, canned pasta, chunky soups,
COBYS Bike & Hike Seeks to Extend Growth Streak to 20th
Year
T he 22nd annual COBYS Bike & Hike is Sunday, September 9, at Lititz Church of the Brethren. The event includes a three-mile walk, 10- and 25-mile bicycle rides,
and the 65-mile Dutch Country Motorcycle Ride. A silent auction runs throughout the afternoon. Donations of door prizes and auction items will be welcomed until the week of the event.
The Bike & Hike is COBYS’ signature fundraiser, raising more than $1.3 million for COBYS ministries, since its inception. Last year, the event grossed $136,669 and attracted more than 600 people. Participants included 306 walkers, 129 bicyclists, 166 motorcyclists on 104 cycles, and additional friends who stopped in to visit and participate in the silent auction.
Bike & Hike income has grown for 19 consecutive years. Planners are seeking to make it 20, while also setting a new attendance record.
“We are off to a great start this year, with record business support already in the bank,” said Director of Development Don Fitzkee. “Now we just need walkers, riders, and donors to get us the rest of the way.”
Walkers and bicyclists donate a $25 registration fee, obtain support from sponsors, or both. Motorcycles are $35 per cycle, plus $25 for an additional passenger. Pre-register by September 5 to receive a $5 discount. Individuals who raise $25 or more in pledges do not need to pay the registration fee.
Participants receive a free t-shirt, ice cream, refreshments, and a chance to win a door prize. Those who raise certain levels of support earn additional prizes. Junior and senior high youth groups who raise $1,500 or more earn a gym/pizza night.
A WJTL radio personality will provide live reports from the event.
For more info, visit www.cobys.org/bike-and-hike. To arrange a silent auction or door prize donation, contact Development Associate Anne Stokes at 717-656-6580 or [email protected].
Tuesday Evening Women’s Study
“Perseverance - Discipleship in an Instant Society”
by Eugene Peterson
When: Tuesday evenings, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. September 25 through October 30
Location: Pintarch home (note change of location as previously indicated on fliers)
Leader: Kathy Brode Cost: Books are $12.00
When the going gets tough, what does a Christian do?
This world is no friend to grace. God has given us some
resources, however. As we grow in character qualities
like hope, patience, repentance and joy, we will grow in
our ability to persevere on the journey to follow Jesus.
T he Brethren Disaster Relief Auction is only a few short weeks away on September 21 & 22
at the Lebanon Fairgrounds. There is so much to see and do. If you have not picked up a booklet please do so and see all the exciting things that are going on. There are also some really good articles in there. I have one I wrote about the children’s activities going on that weekend, and there is also one in there from Pete Kontra who most of you know.
The youth of our church are going to be helping out with the children’s activities and other things around the auction, such as face painting, balloon art, being runners for the children’s auction, helping at the children’s store, and helping to collect trash. Come out and support the auction and support our youth as they help out, too!
The auction needs other volunteers to help in various areas such as the Bake Stand, Produce Stand, Food, and Runners for the auctions. Would you consider helping? The website is updated, and all the areas that need help can be found on there. You can sign up there, too. If you don’t have access you can contact me, and I can get you in touch with the committee that needs help. The website is: https://www.brethrendisasterreliefauction.org.
We talked this summer about getting the adults and the youth together, and this is one way we can do that by volunteering together.
There have been so many disasters in recent weeks and in the past year. The money from the auction goes to help those families in need. We had many Hurricanes last year not to mention the Tornado’s and Flooding and the Wild Fires. So much devastation and so much need; that is why this is one way we can give back to help others in need.
Hope to see you out at this year’s auction! If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
—Marsha Heisey
A N E D I S T R I C T
C O N F E R E N C E
C ome one, come all to the 49th Annual Atlantic Northeast District Conference
on Friday and Saturday, October 5 & 6 in Leffler Chapel at Elizabethtown College. Misty Wintsch, Associate Pastor at Mechanic Grove CoB, is the Moderator.
The Bible theme for this year’s conference comes from Philippians 4:8 ~ “Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
There are certainly many true, honorable, just, pure, pleasing, commendable, excellent and praiseworthy things happening in our families, churches and communities to share with one another at our District Conference! We’re already getting excited about it! Why? Because it is a wonderful time of joy with other members of our extended Christian family. This year, we will be returning to a Friday night worship and fellowship time and a Saturday Conference. Certainly, we will be praising God and enjoying each other through God’s love during our Saturday business sessions, but our time of worship will be a separate and special event by itself once again this year. We will lift our voices to our Creator and Sustainer and celebrate His goodness for us as we meditate on this year’s theme “Think About Good Things.”
Delegates from Spring Creek this year are: Cindy Fasnacht, Bonnie Martin and Sandy Pintarch, with Pastor Adam also attending.
LONDONDERRY VILLAGE
P lan to join us on Sunday evening, September 30, for a concert by "Brass Triumphant," a nine member brass
ensemble from the central Pennsylvania area. They have
ministered in various churches, Messiah Village, Fort
Hunter, Masonic Village and will return to Londonderry Village. The concert will be held in the DiMatteo Worship
Center at 7 PM. A free will offering will be taken to support
October 3: First Wednesday Night Alive! October 5 & 6: ANE District Conference October 7: World Communion Sunday, Love Feast October 9: Lond. Village Good Samaritan Dinner October 13: Community Day at Spring Creek October 17: Wednesday Night Alive / Shoebox Packing
October 20: FREE Parenting Class at Spring Creek October 21: 11 AM COMBINED Worship, Baptism & Receiving New Members, No Sunday School October 24: District Senior Adult Fall Banquet at Yoders October 26: Church Movie Night October 27: Lond. Village Fall Harvest/Christmas Bazaar October 28: Hershey/Hummelstown CROP Walk October 31: Wednesday Night Alive
Ways to Serve Our Church Family
September 2018
September 2 September 9 September 16 September 23 September 30
Welcome Center Verna Royer-Rose Doris Lineweaver Brenda Gish Jan Gerhart Verna Royer-Rose
Nursery Breidenstine-Howes Jen Alwine, Joy Meck, Jan Gerhart
Blizzard Family Sonya Weber-Peters
Toddler Room Breidenstine-Howes Jen Alwine, Joy Meck, Jan Gerhart
Blizzard Family Verna & Chet Rose Verna & Chet Rose
Projection
Sound Bob Etter Bob Etter Bob Etter Bob Etter Bob Etter
Video Alex Gerhart Alex Gerhart Alex Gerhart Alex Gerhart Alex Gerhart
Worship Leader David Myers Kathy Brode Jim Martin Cindy Fasnacht Jon Sheppard
Reader Jan Gerhart Ben Sheppard David Gerhart Luke Sheppard Troy Peters
Message for Young Disciples Pastor Adam Karen Alwine Brenda Etter Sheppards
Kids’ Zone Cara Engle
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Nursery Breidenstine-Howes Joy Meck and Jan Gerhart
Blizzard Family Sonya Weber-Peters
CONTEMPORARY SERVICE
Greeters Bob Boyer Paul Pintarch Bob Boyer Randy Waybright Paul Pintarch
Welcome Center Debbie Haldeman Sandy Pintarch KC Thomas Dawn Early Dawn Early
Projection
Sound Mike Blizzard Mike Blizzard Mike Blizzard Mike Blizzard Mike Blizzard
Nursery/Toddler Room Mike Thomas & Phoebe Gesford
Sue Haldeman & Beth Boland
Gesford Family Marty Wolf & Phyllis Ingold
Phyllis Karli & Michelle Houck
Ushers Paul Pintarch Paul Pintarch Paul Pintarch Paul Pintarch Paul Pintarch
Kids’ Zone Gesfords
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If you see an empty box,
can you help fill it? Are
there ways you are
willing and interested in
helping out?
If you can help, please
contact the volunteer
coordinators listed in the
church directory or call
the church office.
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Adam J. Ulm Pastor Karen J. Breidenstine-Howe Administrative Assistant Melissa K. Blizzard Coordinator of Children’s Program Michelle Z. Sheppard Director of Youth Ministries David S. Myers Coordinator of Worship Ministry Judith M. Hiler Church Organist
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