St. Bartholomew’s United Church (ELCA)

1204 Grand Valley Rd.

Hanover, PA 17331

(717) 632-1952

April 28, 2024 Announcements

9:30 am – Worship Service

10:45 am – Sunday School (Water Walk Event) 12:00 pm – Social Hall Reserved

6:30 pm – Confirmation Class

THIS WEEK

Tuesday – Prayer and Care Gathering (Zoom) 7:00 pm

Wednesday – Conversation and Coffee 10:00 am, Choir 4:30 pm, Bells 6:00 pm Thursday – Yoga 9:00 am

Friday – Yoga Recording 8:30 am

NURSERY Our nursery is available during worship, but at this time it is not staffed.

MOTHER’S DAY Our Women of the Church honors mothers with names of those we wish to remember or honor in our bulletin on Mother’s Day. A donation of $1.00 is appreciated for each name given. Order forms and envelopes are available in the hallway. Deadline for orders is May 5^th. There will also be a small potted plant for all mothers to take home on Mother’s Day.

CARETAKERS NEEDED We would appreciate a few volunteers to keep the flower beds weed free. Please consider taking a month - May thru Sept - to pull or spray the weeds. Please see Chuck or Ruth to volunteer. Thank you!

MUSIC TASK FORCE We would like to create a task force along with Marlene to look at the current and future music program at St. Bartholomew’s. Please consider sharing your thoughts by signing up on sheet in hallway.

OUTDOOR WORSHIP Outdoor worship services will be offered the FIRST Sunday of the month only beginning in June thru Sept. at 8:30 a.m. in the pavilion area. Bring a chair. If the weather is not suitable (rain, mist or drizzle) the service will be canceled.

YOGA CLASSES are held weekly on Thursdays 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. A new Yoga recording will be released to the website monthly and available on the 2^nd Thursday of each month.

WATER WALK Join us during the Sunday School hour as we raise awareness for the millions of people who do not have access to clean drinking water. Bring a bucket and join us on a walk today at 10:45 a.m.

CONVERSATION AND COFFEE Bring your coffee/beverage and chat with the Pastor and church family. The next one is scheduled for May 1^st at 10:00 a.m.

A MOVIE NIGHT will be held on Saturday, May 11^th from 6:00-8:30 pm. There will be two movies, one for older youth (TBD) and one for younger youth (Joseph, King of Dreams). Pizza and snacks will be provided. A sign-up sheet is in the hallway. There will be a special Joseph themed Sunday School activity on May 19^th.

WOMEN OF THE CHURCH will meet on Thursday, May 23, 10:30 a.m. All women are welcome to join us for the morning bible study and fellowship.

FAMILY CAMP St. Bartholomew’s is again inviting our families with children to attend Family Camp at Camp Nawakwa, July 14 -19. (Please note: this year camp ends on Friday at 6:30 pm.) Our church council has approved funding for half of the cost of members attending Family Camp. You might also choose just to attend Family Camp for a few days to try it out. If you are interested in attending, registration is available at lutherancamping.org or by clicking on

this link:

Family Camp Registration

More information regarding Family Camp is available on their website.

MONROE S.E. GOBRECHT MEMORIAL AWARD Any youth members of St. Bartholomew's who are attending or will be attending post-secondary education are reminded that a minimum of 10 hours of volunteer service are required, with 5 of those hours helping with worship services. There are other requirements that need to be met for this scholarship award.

Youth members should have documentation of service hours and should NOT wait until the last minute. There are MANY opportunities to volunteer throughout the year at church. Applications for the scholarship are available next to the bulletin board outside of the church’s office.

Deadline to submit application is June 30^th.

APRIL’S SPECIAL ENVELOPE OFFERING will help with costs of sending St. B’s youth to retreats like Alive, the middle school retreat at Camp Nawakwa held in September.

COMMUNITY AID Our Community Aid partner number is 20061. If you provide this number to Community Aid when dropping off clothing items, household goods (excluding furniture), electronics, and toys to our local store, St. Bartholomew’s will receive $.13/lb.

HANOVER AREA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’ NEEDS

PAL – single serve fruit cups, canned mixed vegetables, corn, green beans, bags of potatoes, butter, scalloped potatoes, sugar, milk, snacks, and grocery/shopping bags.

Clothing Bank – Socks, men’s jeans (waist size 30-34), Children and teen clothes (all sizes), Shoes and Sneakers (all sizes), and grocery/shopping bags.

Changing Lives Shelter – Hygiene Products (Shampoo, Conditioner, Soap, Body Wash), Clorox Wipes, Kitchen Trash Bags, and Ziploc Bags (sandwich and gallon). (Please mark for changing lives shelter.)

Meals-on-Wheels – Adult coloring books, colored pencils, Word search books, compression socks, handkerchiefs, and box tissues.

Ruth’s Harvest – Single Serve of any Chef Boyardee Ravioli, Spaghetti, or other Pasta Entrée. Individual snacks.

REPAIR/MAINTENANCE REQUESTS If you find something in need of repair or maintenance in the church, please fill out a Work Order Repair Notice. Forms are available outside of the office. Please fill out the request and place it in the Secretary’s mailbox that is located by the bulletin boards outside of the office.

OUR CHURCH FAMILY IN OUR PRAYERS

Homewood: Alan Sterner                 Longview: Janice Kneller

Tree of Life: Shirley Fritz                  Utz Terrace: Stephanie Beyer

At Home: Lisa Dickensheets, Mary Ann Canouse, Pat Bechtel, Karen Amoss, Amber, Lori, Tammy Hershey, Hester Hershey, Diane Buvia, Carroll Wilson, Diana Hnat, Gloria Jean Werner, Asher, Ed Morris, Ron Klunk, Brian and Sara Bolden, Spike, and the family of Janet Frock.

Note: When a name is added to our prayer list, it remains there for three months. (If you would like a name to be on the list longer than this time, please provide us with a date for the name to be removed at the time of submitting your prayer request). This helps keep our prayer list current. Thank you for your understanding.

PARTICIPATING IN WORSHIP SERVICES

LIVE STREAM By participating in Worship, including the Children's Message, you will be on our worship live stream on YouTube.

2024 Worship Helper List: We are at the time of year when we need to update our worship helper listing for duties during the worship services. Now is the time to ask to be added or deleted from the list of helpers (worship assistant (prayers), scripture reader, worship sound, screen presenter/streaming, children’s message and acolyte.). This is for the second half of the year (July – December). Please contact the church office to add or delete your name from these lists. (By April 30th.) Thank you all for your participation in our worship services!