FYIVolume 148 North Park Church September 2019 COMPASS: Pig Roast and Pie Competition Come see who has the best pie in McCandless Township. Women's Bible Study Find information on this year's study. Sunday School Classes Find out what classes will be offered this fall. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 Features TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES 3 DID YOU KNOW? Stephen's Ministry Did you know that Eliana Joy McKinney was born on August 1 to Grant & Deb....that Minute Chris and Janet Lochner are walking through the Grand Canyon in September.... Youth Group that there are 132 Hawaiian islands....that the Ashworths are selling their local Schedule + Update home....that Nathaniel Hepner and Hannah Lucas will wed at NPC on September 4 21 at 1:00 p.m. and you are invited....that the motto of the IRS is, We’ve got what it Children's Ministry Programs takes to take what you’ve got....that Kristen Smalley was hired by Eden Christian School as the replacement for Kelly Laird....that Abigail Buirge was hired by Eden 5 nd Not as Advertised as a 2 grade teacher….that Dan Sherwin and Dick Skillen patched and coated our front steps improving the appearance dramatically....that at its deepest the 6 Pacific is nearly seven miles to bottom….that theHaytock and Bolibruck families Sunday School Classes both took a summer trip to see the western national parks....that the Lamperskis McCandless Community are freshly back from Europe….that Barbie’s last name is Roberts and Ken’s is Day Carson….that Katie Burke has a fresh Visa and is heading back to Ireland to work Family of The Month missions there….that the next North Park Encounter is October 27….that there are Writer Needed 8 time zones in North America….that those who read the FYI are 19% less likely to Fall Men's Retreat live in the Rocky Mountain time zone than those who do not? Did you know these 7 things? I thought you should. - Dan Hendley Summer Missions Trip Luncheon COMPASS: Pig Roast and Pie Competition! Women's Bible Study: The Study of James 8 Birthdays & Anniversaries of premarital counseling. PASTOR’S It has been a delight to have Beth CORNER share in this ministry, something she CAREGIVER Back in the late 80s and early did not do while we had children in 90s I did a bunch of weddings. the home NEEDED Our church had a thriving singles One of the encouraging things The family of Peggy Brindle is ministry that brought together many for me is to be with young couples looking for someone to serve as couples. Since coming to North who are serious about establishing a companion to Peggy, a disabled Park my opportunities for that kind a marriage that will last, will thrive senior, to help her at her home at of ministry have been minimal, at and will be a platform for ministry in St John’s Lutheran Care Center in about one or two per year. But 2019 the decades to come. The good news Mars. This is a paid position and has proven the exception. August for the Lord’s church is that there are hours are flexible. Interested persons alone held two weddings. September such couples – still committed to the may contact her daughter Marcy another and one more in November. old paths, the Scriptural paths. at [email protected]. Already my 2020 calendar includes Sowing into such young plans for the wedding of Abigail relationships feels sort of like CONNECT WITH US Buirge in June. Weddings are almost planting a tree that will grow and always pleasant affairs but for Beth provide fruit, shelter and shade for @NORTHPARKEPC and me our sense of calling and many decades to come. WWW.NORTHPARKEPC.ORG purpose centers around the process - Dan Hendley 2 NPC FYI September 2019 Features SCHOOL YEAR SCHEDULE BEGINS SEPTEMBER 8 We return our 9:00 A.M. Sunday School + 10:15 A.M. Worship schedule YOUTH GROUP on September 8. Make plans to join a Sunday school class and be on SEPTEMBER time for praising the Lord. SCHEDULE STEPHEN’S MINISTRY MINUTE Don’t forget our upcoming Sunday School study on Spiritual Gifts – there is September 1 still time to sign up or just show up on September 8 for Discovering God’s Vision No Youth Group for Your Life. due to Labor Day Weekend Join me in this prayer for our precious Stephen Ministry Caregivers September 8 (written by Jackie Trottmann author of God Notes) Youth Group Dear heavenly Father, 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. Provide the words of comfort I can say. North Park Church Provide strength to make it through this day. I cannot fix things or take control. September 11 I accept this, trust in you, and let it go. Middle + High School Help me listen and be present through the grief. Small Groups 7:00 – 8:30 P.M. When I grow weary, provide me with relief. North Park Church May this experience transcend this earthly plain. Help us find greater meaning beyond just pain. September 15 Heal our wounded places. Youth Group Restore us to wholeness. 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. Provide your peace and loving presence to guide us and to hold us. North Park Church In the name of your Son, the Great Physician. September 22 Amen Youth Group “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His North Park Church understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall September 25 exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they Middle + High School shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they Small Groups 7:00 – 8:30 P.M. shall walk and not faint.” - Isaiah 40:28-31 - Denise Velarde North Park Church September 29 YOUTH GROUP Youth Group 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. a fence, helping with a local children’s UPDATE North Park Church Our entire student ministry program, and much more! Further team is eagerly looking forward to testimonies and details from this a new year of youth group that will trip will be provided at the Missions book of James during the Sunday begin very soon! We had an amazing Luncheon. School hour. summer of spiritual growth, sacrificial Our fall semester will kick off Grant McKinney will be in charge service, and relational unity. on September 8 with our first night of the Sunday school class for our Once again, God abundantly of youth group. On that first Sunday, 6th – 8th grade students. Starting on provided for our missions trip to Taylor will begin a yearlong study of September 11, our Middle and High Alderson, WV (July 13-19). The the Gospel of Mark. This will be 28- School small groups will be meeting students greatly enjoyed returning to week series that will focus upon the every other Wednesday night at the Appalachia to serve those in need and life, teaching, miracles, death, and church from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Please be grow closer together as a youth group. resurrection of our Lord and Savior, in prayer for our ministry to the youth We were able to complete a Jesus Christ. of North Park and the Wexford area! variety of service projects that Bob Arnold will be returning to - Taylor Brown included painting a trailer, putting up lead the older students through the 3 September 2019 NPC FYI Features CHILDREN’S MINISTRY PROGRAMS - Kelly Laird The Children’s Ministry is ready to kick-off for the fall. Our church offers fun and developmentally age-appropriate programs for all children, from birth upwards! Let’s let it out so we can all be informed of ways to get our children involved at church. Nursery Children and Worship Our nursery program is for all babies and We offer an option for children during the toddlers from birth through potty-trained worship service called Children & Worship. After 3-year-olds. Staffed by loving, experienced about twenty minutes in the sanctuary, kids are caregivers, your child/grandchild will be in good released to go to Children & Worship where hands in our nursery. The nursery is located just they continue to learn how to worship and are off the lobby to the left at the taught a Biblical story and other elements of top of the main stair entry. what worship looks like. Children & Worship is open to all kids from potty-trained 3-year-olds Sunday School through the end of 2nd grade. Sunday School is an offering for families who make the time to get to church a little early and Vacation Bible School want supplemental education for everyone in VBS is a week-long camp that we offer to our the family. For the kids, it is offered for ages kids and kids from our local neighborhoods. It’s three (potty-trained) through the end of once a year, usually in June. Kids get placed in 5th grade. squads led by adults from our congregation and mature high school students where they spend Trekkers the days learning Biblical lessons and memory Trekkers is offered once a month for our third verses as well as practical application of those through fifth graders.