Announcements for the week of August 17, 2008

PLEASE KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS – Lois Calderon, Tom Farrier, Nancy Yelinek, Andy Balog, Mary Barrett, Mary Catherine Vizza, Beckie Cannon, Jess Falcion.
CHURCH/SCHOOL WORKDAY – The next church/school workday is scheduled for Saturday, August 23rd from 9a.m. to 5p.m.
BAPTISM AND POTLUCK – A Water Baptism will be held TODAY immediately following the second service. Following the baptism, join your church family for food and fellowship at Ten Mile Creek Park. Bring a potluck dish large enough for your family plus 4 more. The church will provide chicken and drinks. ALSO , we will use this time of fellowship to bless, Jason Vizza (our adult worship team, keyboard player ) with a going away party. Jason will soon be off to Geneva College, where he has been accepted into the Mathematics program.
RETREAT REMINDER – The ladies retreat is scheduled for October 3-5, 2008, at the Jumonville Retreat Center in Hopwood, PA. We are now taking registration and payment. Also, if you’d like to help sponsor someone (full or partial) who might otherwise be unable to attend, please place your donation in an envelope marked “ladies retreat”, and deposit it in the offering box in the rear of the sanctuary.
C2 YOUTH GROUP – The youth group is on summer break until August 28th. REMINDER – The Youth Group will continue to collect your empty dish detergent bottle donations for use, next summer. Please place bottles in crate located in foyer.
NEEDED – Aide for disabled person. 16 ½ hours, every two weeks. Call the church office for details.
MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY – LABOR DAY EVENING OUTREACH – Do you have a heart for Missions? Maybe you’ve been unable to go on one of our overseas, or NYC mission trips? On Monday, September 1, at 6:00PM, there is a Missions opportunity at the Mather Park (Mather, PA), just 12 minutes from our church! The worship band, “Intent” will be there proclaiming the name of Jesus, and we expect families in the community to be drawn to the park that evening. Our hope is to use this opportunity to reach out to the teens and young adults of Mather. If there is someone you know, whether it be a family member, a friend, neighbor, or other, to whom Jesus might speak through this event, please invite them to this free summer concert in the park.
Ministry needs: Intercessory prayer before, during, and after the event. Prayer teams to be available at the event. Greeters to share the love of Jesus with those who come. Parking lot attendants, and a few servants on hand for security purposes.
If you feel a tug in your spirit as you read this, the Lord wants to use you on that evening. There just might be someone there who needs to hear your story, of how your Saviour, Jesus Christ, set you free!
A sign up sheet is located in the back of the sanctuary. Please see Nancy Harwell with any questions.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4:18)