Unity Sunday

Unity Sunday Celebrating Pentecost

One Worship Service This Day – Held in the Sanctuary    

This Sunday, May 27, 2012 • 10am

Guests, Friends, and Members are Invited to the Luncheon Reception… 

Lunch will follow in the East Union Community Center

Join Us For Lunch… On this day where we celebrate the birthday of the church, we invite you and your family to share in fellowship with us and enjoy a wonderful meal prepared by the Church & Community Ministry Team. They’ll  serve spaghetti with red sauce, salad, rolls, and ice cream sundaes in the East Union Community Center. There is plenty for everyone, so please join us! (If you have some spare time following lunch, your help with clean-up will be much appreciated.)

Vacation Bible School

Forms can be found at www.eastunionchurch.org

 

 

Up, Up, It’s Time to Register for SKY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL!!! For Pilots Ages 4 Through 5th Grade Youth & Adult Volunteers Welcome! Sunday, June 24th thru Thursday, June 28th 5:45 – 8:30 P.M.

Register Now Mail or Drop off Children & Volunteer Forms to East Union Church

Oasis!

Dear Fellow Travelers….

 

    Our last OASIS of the Spring is upon us!  This coming Sunday, May 20th at 5 p.m., we’ll meet for a FABULOUS DINNER of fire-roasted skewers of beef, chicken and/or shrimp cooked by Mike Lynch and Pastor James.  The church will provide corn-on-the-cob, beverages and paper products, as well.  The rest of the meal will be POTLUCK, so everyone is invited to bring a salad, dessert or picnic munchies to share. We hope to eat in the pavilion if the weather cooperates.  Feel free to come early to help with set-up.

 

     VESPERS will feature the Faith Stories of Kim & Rachel Borczyk, as well as the music of our talented Praise Band.  It’s sure to be inspiring. The scriptures selected by Kim and Rachel are:

   ~ Psalms 116:1-2

             “I love the Lord because he hears my prayers and answers them. Because he bends

              down and listens I will pray as long as I breathe.” (The Living Bible)

   ~ Matthew 11:28-30
   ~ Psalm 77:19
   ~ Luke 12:22-28
   ~ Psalm 121:1-2

 

     The youth group will celebrate the upcoming birth of Baby Marks, our youth director, Sarah Marks and husband Jeff’s baby girl, due July 4th.  The Youth Group BABY SHOWER will be held in the EUCC.  Please see Kim Borczyk or Vonna Miller to contribute to ourCONGREGATIONAL GIFT for Baby Marks. Last-minute contributions are welcome.

 

     The other SMALL GROUPS will meet as usual and then head to the baby shower about 7:20 or so for a special prayer. Our KIDS CLUB will also meet with Sharon Maher leading a cool craft.

 

     Please note that we are hosting IHN beginning May 20th, so the Sunday School hallway & rooms are reserved as accomodations for our guests.  Kennedy Hall is available for our use.

 

     We’re sure to have a wonderful evening of inspiration and renewal. 

This Weekends Events

Unity Sunday April 29th • 10am
Children & Youth Service -Drama, Music, Liturgy, Movement, and a Blessing of the Children….Featuring ‘God’s Living Water’ – We celebrate God’s gift of water, with an emphasis on our Haiti Mission Project!

Sunday, April 29

10:00am -  Unity Sunday/Children & Youth Service

Unity Sunday

 

 

 

Unity Sunday

April 29th • 10am

Children & Youth Service

Drama, Music, Liturgy, Movement, and a Blessing of the Children

Featuring ‘God’s Living Water’

We celebrate God’s gift of water, with an emphasis on our Haiti Mission Project!

Sign Up to Volunteer at GA Today!

It’s been over a half century since Pittsburgh Presbyterians hosted this awesome event and in three months it will be here again – 220th General Assembly on June 30-July 7 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. We are building momentum and a successful General Assembly depends upon you! Volunteer your time, talent and treasure! Some of the opportunities are:
communion servers, prayer intercessors, members for the combined choir, greeters for hotels, airport, and the convention center, and other hospitable tasks to greet participants from coast to coast and around the world.

If these interest you, come and be a part of the GA Team! For more information about GA or to offer your help, go to www.PghPresbytery.org and press the “Sign Up for GA Today” button. There you will be able to check out all the exciting and pertinent information. The “Volunteer” button thoroughly explains the sign up process. Teens are also encouraged to help at GA and this is also explained on the “Volunteer” webpage. Here’s a hot tip: first press the “Mission & Cultural Tours” button to view all the tours for our GA guests. Perhaps you will find the perfect way to offer your talents for our GA visitors.

Dear Friends in…

Dear Friends in Christ,
 
Hope you are having a good week! This Sunday each worship will be different this week.

 

Contemporary Worship Service: The Bluegrass band Homecookin’ (featuring our own Dave Cook!) will be worship leaders for our Contemporary Service. I will welcome and pray at the beginning and say a benediction at the end, but Pastor Jerry Pawloski (of Bairdford Methodist…and leader of Homecookin’) will weave his message among the songs the band will sing. It promises to be a rousing, toe-tappin’ service.
 
Traditional Worship Service:  The Traditional Service will feature me preaching a sermon titled “Touch and See.” My text is a resurrection appearance of Jesus to the disciples where they, at first, think he is a ghost. He assures them he is not, and then offers for them to touch him. Not only that, he asks to be given some fish that he can eat. Ghosts can neither be touched, nor consume food! It really is Jesus! The risen Christ wants to be near, to be really touched, to be believed. I am also aware that Sunday is Earth Day, which is not a religious holiday, but one that can draw attention to the beauty and complexity of God’s creation. We get to “touch and see” God’s creation every day.  
 
Hope to see you Sunday. Have a blessed week. 
 
Peace,
 
James

Alleluia

 

 

May God sparkle in all of us

   as sunlight upon water,

May we radiate for each other

   compassion and hope,

May our work be fruitful,

   our joys profound,

   our pain redemptive,

May our discpleship be rooted

   in the very life of God.

May we be for each other,

   for family, for friends,

   for those in need,

   for those especially

   whose faith has come to staleness

   and whose hope has died

– a burgeoning ALLELUIA

– light and peace and simplicity

– full gratitude, full openness

May we take nothing less for granted

   than the life we seek

   to build up in common.

May we suffer the pain of a

   fully generous love.

May we remain steadfast

   in the shadow of the cross,

And rise to meet the passion

   of this world

Relying always

   on the untiring good Spirit of our God.

                                                         Amen.

Upcoming Events for Easter

Holy Week & April Worship Schedule

   Palm-Passion Sunday
April 1st

“A Passer-by Compelled”

(PALMS)  Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Mark 11:1-11;

(PASSION)  Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 15:1-47

Kaleidoscope Kids Singing • Children’s Passion Processional

Maundy Thursday

April 5th at 7pm in the Sanctuary

“Keeping the Feast” ~ Exodus 12:1-14 & John 13:1-17, 31b-35 ~ Communion

Good Friday, April 6th

Community Good Friday Service
from 12noon – 3pm

(Sponsored by Allegheny Valley Association of Churches)

Trinity United Methodist Church—Brackenridge, PA

Rev. James Ramsey at the pulpit 1-1:30pm with Dane Skroupa providing Music

Good Friday Service at 7pm in the East Union’s Sanctuary

“Crossways”

Easter Sunday, April 8th

Easter Sunrise Service at 7 am

(Sponsored by West Deer Ministerium)

East Union Presbyterian Church in Founders’ Chapel

Rev. Dr. James Legge at the Pulpit • Reception to Follow

Easter Service at East Union

(Regular Worship Schedule Observed)

“Rolling Away the Stone” ~ Communion Observed

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 & Mark 16:1-8

Guest Musicians and Singers featured at our 11:00 Traditional Service

Unity Sunday

April 29th, 10am in the Sanctuary

“God’s Living Water” ~ Worship Service Led by Our Children & Youth

Kaleidoscope Kids Singing • Reception to Follow Celebrating God’s Gift of Water

A Few Words From Pastor Jo

Dear Friends in Christ,          Thanks again to all of you who helped make last evening’s Healing & Wholeness Service meaningful and moving.  The music was uplifting, and God’s Spirit surrounded us.        This Sunday marks the fifth Sunday of Lent—the final worship service before Palm Parades, Passion Processions and Holy Week. On this final sabbath in the wilderness with Jesus, we will consider ‘repentance.’          The notion of repentance appears in both the Old and New Testaments.  What does it mean to repent?  First, we’ll follow the circuitous journey Jonah took to Ninevah, a text in which every character repents. Then, we’ll ask ourselves how we might have responded to Jesus’ call to repent, to leave our nets and follow Him.          Together, we will explore…            First choices and second chances,                  Limited vision and vast mercy,                        Unexpected invitations and courageous decisions…        We appreciate your faithful work and leadership.  May God be with us.   Lenten Blessings,       Pastor Jo