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ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEWSLETTER ITEMS ARE DUE FOR JULY: Please have

  all items in TODAY.

 

ANNUAL CONFERENCE WORSHIP – Join us!! The daily worship services at the 2026 Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren will be livestreamed and available free of charge with no registration required, although donations will be appreciated. Annual Conference takes place in Fort Wayne, Ind., on June 28 to July 2. The worship livestream can be viewed at www.brethren.org/ac2026/webcasts either live–starting with the Sunday evening worship service at 6:45 p.m. (Eastern time) on June 28–or later via recordings. The worship services continue at 6:45 p.m. (Eastern time) on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, June 29-July 1. The closing worship service on Thursday morning, July 2, starts at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time).

 

  CALENDAR OF EVENTS: JULY/AUGUST

    Sunday, July 19: 10 a.m.: Outdoor Church, Pavilion

                                             No Sunday School

    Monday, August 3: 6:30 p.m.: Full Board Meeting

    Sunday, August 16: 10 a.m.: Outdoor Church, Pavilion

                                                  No Sunday School

    Saturday, August 22: Church Reserved

 

 

  SPECIAL MUSIC:

  JULY 5: Jill Miller; 12: Anna Rowles

         19: Jill Miller and Tonya Hancock

         26: Sarah Esh, Jen Lynch, and Jerad Lynch.

  AUGUST 2: Jerry Hammons; 9: Anita Shields

              16: Bob Ritchey & Josh Hill   

              23: Doug, Kaitlynn & Allison Snyder

                 30: The 69ers

 

OUTDOOR PAVILION CHURCH SCHEDULE: The Music & Worship Committee decided on July 19, August 16 & September 20.  Service will start at 10:00 AM and there will be no Sunday School on those days.

 

RESERVED PARKING: If you need to reserve a parking spot at the Pavilion for Outdoor Church, talk to Jill Miller or Den Yoder.

 

THOSE SIGNED UP FOR CHILDREN’S TIME for Outdoor church are July 19 is Gloria Goss

                           August 16 is Dave Miller

                          September 20 is Dave Miller

 

UPCOMING MORNING GUEST SPEAKERS:

Dave Miller: June 28 and The Gideons: July 5.

 

EXPLORING BAPTISM & MEMBERSHIP CLASS:  Pastor Connie is planning a class exploring baptism and church membership.  The class will meet during the Sunday School hour on the following Sundays: Aug. 2, 9, 23, and 30.   This class is designed for anyone who has questions about baptism, joining the Pine Glen congregation, or would simply like to learn more about Brethren beliefs and practices.  If you are interested, please speak with Pastor Connie. 

GAS CARDS: The need has arisen for additional gas cards to help support those in our congregation who have additional travel-related expenses.  The cards can be given to any of the Deacons. Thank you. 

 

NEEDED for September, new classes starting for ages 7-12 years, need a teacher. We are blessed to have someone to volunteer as assistant. Young adult classes starting in September. We are blessed to have a teacher volunteer but in need of an assistant. If interested to be a blessing to God and our church, please talk to any Nurture Commission Member which are Bonnie Harshbarger, Mary Swartz, Carol Laughlin, Jill Miller, or Ruth Dunmire.

 

MEMORIAL BRICKS: We are going to begin selling Memorial Bricks to be placed in our “Prayer Garden” Cost will be $75. Please make checks out to Pine Glen Church of the Brethren and attach to order form, In Memory of a loved one, In Honor of a loved one, or In the Glory of God. Order forms will be on the tables in the Narthex. You may give your order form to any Nurture Commission Member: Bonnie Harshbarger, Jill Miller, Mary Swartz, Carol Laughlin and Ruth Dunmire.

 

THE LADIES OF PINE GLEN will be getting together on the second Wednesday of the month to work on quilts and other projects. We will be meeting at 9 a.m. Everyone is welcome.

 

 

 

MUSIC & WORSHIP COMMISSION: We want to echo what Pastor Connie said at Outdoor Church regarding conversations and greetings among the congregation before the morning service begins. We encourage everybody to be responsible in making an extra effort to get to know everybody else that attends church here at Pine Glen. We have some new members and some new people that have recently started to come to our services and we don’t all know each other, yet. That’s sad and unfortunate but curable. Let’s all make an extra effort to get to know each other. We welcome everybody that has joined our church family, and we thank God that you are here. Talk to each other before and after church.

 

PASTOR’S DON’S ADDRESS: 127 Waterfall Drive, Johnstown, PA 15906

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Jesus knew that this evening, this meal, was the last time he and his twelve disciples would gather as a group. He wanted his followers to remember, in the difficult days ahead, why he had come and what he had taught them. When the disciples began to argue about which of them was more important, Jesus decided to make his lesson plain: Taking a towel and a basin of water, this great teacher knelt beside the first disciple-and did not stop until, like a lowly servant, he had washed the feet of each one there. By including the service of feetwashing in our love feast, Brethren imitate Jesus’actions and honor his lessons. No person ought to be greater than another, Jesus taught. Love has no need to prove status or position; love simply gives-and keeps on giving. A symbolic, cleansing act, feetwashing prepares us for the meal and communion that follow. It reminds us that in God’s sight, everyone needs loving attention, and everyone can offer that service to others. First we humbly accept attention and care from the one who washes our feet. Then we in turn wash someone else’s feet. After each act of feetwashing, the two people embrace and share a simple phrase of blessing.

In receiving this emblem of God’s cleansing grace, we remember that as followers of Jesus, we can help distribute God’s blessing to others-through steady, loving service, symbolically washing the feet of the world.

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