Category: Announcements

Pick up your FREE Advent wreath kit in the Fellowship Hall – one per household.

Advent is a very special season in the church year.  It is a time of preparation and anticipation for the coming of Christ both in the past in His incarnation as the baby Jesus, but also in the future with His promised second coming as Christ Triumphant. Furthermore, Advent is a time to focus on His present coming to us in the Word and Sacraments. 

The Advent Kit included here will provide you with a way to experience this beautiful season of light in your own home.  The ritual of lighting a new candle each week and sharing God’s word of promise and hope in our Savior, Jesus Christ may make the darker days seem brighter!

The Advent Kit includes 4 Candles, Instructions for Creating your own Wreath and Liturgy to use each week when lighting your candle(s).

We are still planning to have the Angel Tree! We have 25 names this year. In communicating with the Director of The Northside Common Ministry, the suggestion was made to provide gift cards this year. Target, Amazon, and Dollar General are all stores accessible by most families in the program. If you wish to donate money, the Service Committee will purchase the gift card for you. If you are donating money, bring the donation to the church in an envelope labeled Service Committee/Angel Tree. You can come to the church to select a name from the tree or call the church office, 412-372-2934, to get a name. Please have your donation to the church by Sunday, December 6. The church will be open on Sunday, November 22 from 11am to 1pm, Monday, November 23 from 10am to 2:30pm and 5pm to 7pm, and Tuesday, November 24 from 10am to 2:30pm for drop-off of your donation or pick-up of a name from the Angel Tree. Again, we Thank You!

Reminder- Sunday, November 22 is Harvest Sunday. Since there is no in-house worship, please bring your donations to the church. If you have a key to the church, you can bring your donations anytime. The church will be open on Sunday, November 22 from 11am to 1pm, Monday, November 23 from 10am to 2:30pm and 5pm to 7pm and Tuesday, November 24 from 10am to 2:30pm. The food collected for Harvest Sunday will be donated to local food banks. Let’s take a big bite out of hunger, one mouth at a time!

The Service Committee would like to thank everyone that contributed to the making of the Personal Care Kits.  We made 48 kits for Lutheran World Relief and were able to donate toward the shipping cost of the kits.  Thanks to Mary Jo Batley, Jeanne Lewis and Mary Duggan for assembling the kits and to Harry McCollum for taking them to Zelienople to the in-gathering church.

The Service Committee will once again be sponsoring the Angel Tree for holiday gifts to those in need.  We have requested 25 names. We are not sure how the sign up will go, (to maintain social distancing), but we will work something out.

We will also try to do something for our home bound members for the holidays.

Men’s Shelter Meal – we continue to provide a monthly meal. To help you can call the church office to add your name to the list of items needed, or, place a green envelope marked “Shelter Meal” in the offering. We just confirmed with the Pleasant Valley Men’s Shelter our commitment for 2021. Your support of this is also appreciated!

I just wanted to thank everyone that helped make my Eagle Scout Project successful and for allowing me to complete it at the church. Thanks to everyone in the congregation that made donations and also to Thrivent Financial for their generous contribution. I am happy that the project was finished just in time for the Sunday worship services to begin at the Gazebo. It definitely made all of the work worthwhile. Thanks again!

Nathan Mauser