Peace be with you!
Friends of Peace – Those near and far away.
With almost forty children on our active rolls now, we have many exciting activities planned for the new school year in youth fellowship, lively learning, worship, and children‘s choir! This is a great time to get connected to life at Peace. New classes begin September 6. Contact Pastor Tricia to get more information about youth and Music Director Gia for more about choir.
In September we will collect a special offering for our friends at Mission Beth-El (ministry to farmworkers and families) and for our church camp, Cedarkirk. Both are having terrible shortfalls in budgeting, due to the decline in giving among most churches. We want to do all we can to ease the financial burden of those hit hardest by the recession by continuing our support of programs which bring peace in the midst of despair. For information about Peace‘s mission giving opportunities, please contact Eirinn Camphire.
In case you missed the big summer news, Peace was awarded a $50,000 Walton Grant for being an outstanding new church development in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
There is still time to become a charter member of Peace. Our charter celebration will be October 18th at 4:00 and you are all welcome to come – charter members and friends of Peace too!
"Practice What You Preach" is our theme for Sunday, August 30th, as we read James 1:17-27 and consider what it means to be "doers of the word and not merely hearers, who deceive themselves."
We will elect twelve elders and vote on a call to this pastor at the congregational meeting at 10:30 on Sunday. Pray for all our leaders to be effective "doers of the word."
Hope you will be at Peace with us. Any questions, comments, or prayer concerns, please check our website http://www.peacepcusa.com/
Blessings,
Pastor Elizabeth
