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When visiting our church, please fill out a Friendship & Communication card that is located in back of each pew; place it in the offering plate or hand it to an Usher.
Also, for those worshiping with us for the first time... we have a gift for you. Please stop @ the Welcome Center in the Narthex by the Main Entrance to pick it up.


Thursday, May 31, 2012

Pastor Bruce's June 2012 Newsletter Messsage


Dear Friends,
We have spent a lot of time in the last few years talking about and praying for REVIVAL!
Pastor Jonathan and I along with some other pastor friends of ours that are like minded meet once a month to pray for revival. We have been having bi-monthly unity services at the Brookville Church of God to cry out to God for revival.
The Scripture says, (Psa 85:6 NIV) Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
That word REVIVE in the Hebrew means to keep (leave, makealivegive (promise) life,suffer to) live, nourish up,preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, save (alive, life, lives), be whole.
God will keep us, He will preserve us, He will quicken us, He will repair us, and He will restore us! No doubt that the Psalmist was trusting in this promise from God and seeing the need that we need God to move in our lives all the time. Maybe we should be in a constant state of seeking to be revived. Maybe the same principle is true for our own restoration that is with praying, we are commanded to “pray without ceasing.” Should we be trusting God to be constantly revived?
Notice also that only God can revive us. There is no pill to take to be revived; there is not a person that can revive us, although there are those who certainly can encourage us. There is only One who can revive and that is God through the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. 
I do believe there are some conditions that need to be met in our lives in order for us to experience revival. The Bible says, (Isa 57:15 NIV) For this is what the high and lofty One says-- he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Two conditions this verse talks about is to be contrite and lowly. These words both have to do with attitude toward ourselves and it would probably fall under the category of humility. In fact the word humble is defined in the dictionary as; recognizing our shortcomings, modest, to lower in condition or rank. The Scripture says that  (Phil 2:5-8 NIV) Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: {6} Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, {7} but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. {8} And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
So my questions are, “Do we have the right attitude to be revived?  Do we have the humility to be revived? Are we able and capable of being revived?” Those are questions we each have to ask ourselves based on our attitudes.
The next step in revival is when it flows through us individually to the corporate body, the church. Certainly one criteria for revival on a congregational level would be a healthy church situation.
We’ve spent a lot of time in the most recent years talking about Church Health. I’ve heard the questions, what does a healthy church look like, and how does a church get healthy? I think the implication or the suggestion is that there are not a lot of congregations that are healthy. Based also on statistics that say that 90% of congregations are either plateaued or declining in attendance. In other words, generally speaking, the church today in our country is not growing and that translates into us not winning the lost to the Kingdom of God. In other words, we are not seeing souls saved. 
We obviously try to figure out the cause and a solution to the cause. We find that people in congregations, at least in the Church of God, do not have to listen to or take advice from anyone who comes into a congregation to intervene, give advice, and help the congregation to become healthy. 
Unhealthy churches are no respecter of size, there are large congregations that are unhealthy and there are small congregations that are unhealthy and everywhere in between.
Do I dare ask that in some cases an unhealthy pastor could also be a part of the cause for an unhealthy or declining congregation?
A. W. Tozer in his book, “The Knowledge of the Holy” says, "The history of mankind will probably show that no people have ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God."
The question is, “Just where is God in our discussion of the “Healthy Church?” We all know the right things to say, we can all talk the talk, but at times, our actions speak louder than our words. Is our idea of God BIG ENOUGH? In other words, do we recognize HOW BIG GOD IS? We need a big God to be present and we have God’s presence today through the Holy Spirit. Thus praying for and expecting that a big God could deliver a HOLY GHOST REVIVAL!
Leonard Ravenhill in his book “Why Revival Tarries” says, “At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light, so Christ is wounded in the house of His friends. The limping Church militant is mockingly called the Church impotent. Yearly we use mountains of paper and rivers of ink reprinting dead man’s brains, while the living Holy Ghost is seeking for men to trample underfoot their own leaning, deflate their inflated ego, and confess that with all their seeing they are blind. Such men, at the price of brokenness and strong crying and tears, seek that they may be anointed with divine eye salve, bought at the price of honest acknowledgement of poverty of soul.  Years ago a minister put this sign outside of his church, ‘“This church will have either a revival or a funeral!”’
I feel like, for too long, as leaders in the church, we just treat the symptoms of our lack of revival but never solve the problems!
Congregations are declining as a result of the last 2-3 decades of focus that has been all wrong! In fact, I will say with authority, because of the results we are experiencing in our day, the focus has been wrong! In many cases “cutting edge” hasn’t worked! Today Biblical illiteracy is at an all-time high. We are told that“only 3% of churches in America have a planned method of instructing their members to learn the Bible in its entirety. While studying the Bible shouldn’t be limited to a church setting, it’s imperative that churches take the lead in these types of endeavors.”

When only three of 100 churches even attempt to provide a way for their members to understand Genesis to Revelation, biblical illiteracy is likely to occur. And biblical illiteracy means that our churches may not be obedient to the calls of Scripture because they don’t know what the Bible says.
We have been taught by Church Growth Gurus that there are essentials and non-essentials with regard to Scripture(2 Tim 3:16-17 NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, {17} so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Jim Cymbala, in his study “When God’s Spirit Moves” says, “Do we need more translations of the Bible? Do we need more praise-and-worship choruses? Do we need better sound systems in our churches? Better choir risers? Better lighting? Do we need to serve more coffee before the service? What we really need is something from Heaven.”
In fact, his definition of revival is: “When people get so tired of what is, and cry out to God. Humble ourselves, submit to God, and confess to God.”
There hasn’t been a national revival in the U.S.A. for over 100 years.
Here is what I believe are the elements that will bring REVIVAL that are probably obvious:
1. Holy Spirit
2. Prayer (Corporate and individual)
3. Theology
(Psa 85:6 NIV)  Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
LET US ALL HUNGER AND THIRST FOR REVIVAL!

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Monthly Planner - June 2012

1 - CC HomeSchoolers using Church
2 - CC HomeSchoolers using Church
3 - SS @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - Graduation Sunday - Youth @ 6PM
4 - Weight Watchers @ 5:30PM
5 - Play Group @ 10AM
6 - Highland Oaks @ 2PM - Prayer Meeting @ 7PM
7 -
8 -
9 - Cakes & Strawberries due to the Church by Noon
10 - Ground Breaking @ Trinity Point @ 10AM (No Sunday School @ 9AM) - No Youth - Senior High
       Camp Begins
11 - Vacation Bible School 5:30 - 8:30PM - Sr. High Camp
12 - Vacation Bible School 5:30 - 8:30PM - Sr. High Camp
13 - Vacation Bible School 5:30 - 8:30PM - Sr. High Camp
14 - Vacation Bible School 5:30 - 8:30PM - Sr. High Camp
15 - Vacation Bible School 5:30 - 8:30PM - Sr. High Camp ends
16 - VBS Celebration @ the Pool
17 - SS @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - Father's Day - Jr. High Camp Begins - No Youth
18 - Weight Watchers @ 5:30PM - Jr. High Camp
19 - Play Group @ 10AM -  Jr. High Camp - Ladies Night Out
20 - Prayer Meeting @ 7PM - Jr. High Camp
21 - Jr. High Camp
22 - Jr. High Camp ends
23 - Celebration in the Fellowship Hall
24 - SS @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - 3 thru 5th Grade Camp Begins
25 - Weight Watchers @ 5:30PM - 3 thru 5th Grade Camp
26 - Play Group @ 10AM - 3 thru 5th Grade Camp
27 - Prayer Meeting @ 7PM - 3 thru 5th Grade Camp
28 - 3 thru 5th Grade Camp ends
29 -
30 - Getting Ready for IYC

Birthdays - June 2012


Birthdays
1 - Brian C. Burford, Jerry Conner, Doris Wolbert & Rachel Smith
2 - Kevin Schwab, Samantha Ferguson
3 - Blair Spencer
4 - Bill Shick
5 - Judy Schwab & Duane Troutman
6 - Shay Levand & Kris Bowser7 - Dan Emings
10 - Jayna Bates
11 - Tanner Vickers
20 - Tyler Allen
22 - Shelly Allen & Alex Kopko
24 - Mark Harriger
25 - McKenzie Schimp & Maggie Traister
26 - Ray Peltcs & Nolan Manville
27 - Chase Kriebel & Maya Miller
29 - Josie Bates

30 - Sarah Girardi

June 2012 - Bulletin Announcements

If you are new to Liberty Street C.O. G. (in your mailbox is a blue sheet with needed family information). Please place these in the secretary's mailbox. Also, please check your mailboxes for any information we may have placed in there.  The mailboxes are located in the Narthex.  If you are unsure if you have a mailbox or you do not have a mailbox, call Tammy @ 226 - 8672. You are important to us & we need to keep you updated on all activities!  Also, your monthly newsletter will be placed in the mailbox assigned to you.  
Also, we have Sunday School classes for all ages.  Nursery , Preschool, K-2nd, 3rd - 5th, Jr. Youth, Sr. Youth & 3 Adult classes... check us out today!  

We are offering a "Live Worship Telecast" in the Fellowship Hall to help accommodate the seating needs of our growing church!  Praise the Lord!  Anyone is welcome to check it out & share in this new Worship extension.   With video recording of the service in this way, we will also be able to improve our outreach to our shut-ins by giving them our worship on DVD.  Finally, if you are absent from church on Sunday & would like a copy of any of our Sunday morning sermons, please call the church office. We would be happy to send you one. 

WWCH Channel 1300 on AM Broadcasting @ 11AM every Sunday...  The first Sunday if every month a pre-recorded service from Liberty Street Church of God with Pastor Bruce will be heard.  If you are unable to attend church on any Sunday morning, tune in to AM 1300.

Please check your mailbox for the June Newsletter “Connections”.  All the mailboxes are now in alphabetical order.  DID YOU FIND YOURS?  Let the
office know if you do not have one.

Come to Prayer Meeting!!
As a church body, we have just finished studying the Holy Spirit, & what the role of the Spirit should be in our church & in our lives.  Jim Cymbala, the author of When God's Spirit Moves, says "The power of the Holy Spirit comes when people pray."  
We have an opportunity now to put this into practice corporately at our weekly prayer meetings on Wednesday nights @ 7PM here @ Liberty Street.  We suspended prayer meetings while studying the Holy Spirit for the past 6 weeks, but the time has come to seek the Spirit for ourselves & to ask Him to move in out midst.
Starting Wednesday, April 11 @ 7PM... let us seek together His will for us, His healing, His hope, & His power.  As Cymbala encouraged us, "God's not dead; he's still alive.  And what he's done through the centuries when people have prayed, he can still do today.  Let's ask the Holy Spirit to come & grant us a new spirit in our churches, in our small   groups, & in our individual lives."  "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people..." Acts 2:17  "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.  We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us..."  Romans 8:26

We're honoring our Graduates on June 3rd.
College - Erin Hepler - Casey McBride - John Mark Henry - Karla Peterson - Sarah Shick
High School - Hannah Allen - Marissa Atherton - Steph Christie - Ben Dulavitch - Jesse Himes - Cassie Sintobin  -  Teighlor Rice

Groundbreaking @ Trinity Point during the June 10th Worship Service.  There will be no Sunday School that day.  Great Worship, Food, & Fellowship.  Plan today to attend!!  Please bring lawn chairs.  Sign up sheet for strawberries & cakes is located in the Welcome Center.  This is a great time in the life of the Church.  Praise the Lord!!  God is so good.

Summer Youth Camps - www.whitehallcamp.org - see Tammy for registration form.  If you received a form in the mail, please still hand it into the Church Office.  We want to send them all in together with one check.  All campers that attend church here & or youth will be eligible to attend camp free.  Deadline:  registration & health form to Tammy in the Office no later than May 6th.
We believe Youth Camp is a vital part of young lives.  
Senior High 9th - 12th grades ...........June 10 - 15
6th - 8th  grades ..........June 17 - 22
3rd - 5th grades ..........June 24 - 28

Vacation Bible School... June 11 thru June 15... 5:30 - 8:30PM - VBS Celebration on June 16th......SKY - Everything is possible with God -- Register your child onlinewww.groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/libertystreet or register @ the church on June 11 @ 5PM... Watch your bulletins for more details to come!!!

Ladies Night Out - June 19th from 6-8PM - meet at the Dug Out for some Putt Putt Golf & Ice Cream.  Location on Rt. 322 (before Deb's Diner)

Food for Friends - Wednesday, June 20th @ Presbyterian Church - we are in charge.  A sign-up sheet is in the Welcome Center for anyone wanting to help.


Open House Celebration for Ray Peltc's 80th Birthday....
Saturday, June 23rd from 2 - 4PM @ LSCofG Fellowship Hall.  Sign-Up sheet in the Welcome Center or RSVP to Tammy @ 226-8674.  The Family requests no gifts, but only your presence.


Thursdays - Choir Practice @ 7 - 8:30PM.  This will run thru June 3rd.  If you are interested in being in the choir, please contact Bonnie Ferguson @ 764 - 5423.

We Need Volunteers…The Welcome Center is looking for more Volunteers!  Please see Tammy Lerch or call 226-9680 if you are interested.

Need motivation or just social companionship to exercise?  If you have any interest in getting together with other women to exercise on your level with your interest...please contact Tracy Miller by e-mail or phone: tmhm72@yahoo.com or 223-4717. This idea was brought up by one of our Christian sisters. Once we have an interest we will meet and conquer and divide according to interest, level, time constraints, and locations!

The Counseling Center is in need of a small couch or love seat that is gently used - anyone who can help them, please contact Tracy Miller @ 814 - 223 -  4717.

Coming up.....
July 27 thru August 3 - Camp Meeting w/Evangelist Mitchell Burch - @ Church of God Campground Rt. 219, Burnside, PA .  You are invited to attend services each day to learn more about Jesus & His Holy Word.  Children & Youth Programs - Services 10:30AM, 2:30PM, & 7:00PM

Women of Faith Conference 2012 - September 28 & 29 in PGH, PA.  CELEBRATE!!  "Be happy & full of joy, because the Lord has done a wonderful thing."  Joel 2:21 NCV - We are hoping to get as many women as possible signed up to go to Women of Faith next year.  It will be a geat time of fellowship & growing in our walk with God.  More info to come, but if you are interested... please see Blair Spencer to save your spot today.

Knox Ladies Seminar....  
After 25 years, the Knox Ladies Seminar committee felt they were called to step down & serve the Lord in other ways.  A new group of women have been led to step up & follow His call.  Their goal remains to continue the mission of witnessing to & exhorting a diverse group of women with a heart to seek closer & more committed walk with the Lord.  
On October 20, 2012, they have secured Ellie Lofaro; a national speaker & author.  Please mark your calendars now & continue to pray for the committee.  
They are starting over with no funds to grow on.  They are requesting a one-time donation to use as seed money to get started $10, $20, $30 or another amount.  Please make your checks payable to Knox Ladies Seminar & mail it to:
Knox Ladies Seminar
c/o Gretchen Cochran
707 Main Street
Knox, PA   16232

Saturday, May 19, 2012

New Signs @ Trinity Point

Progress is being made @ Trinity Point....

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Friday, May 11, 2012

May 2012 - Youth News from Pastor Jonathan


On behalf of the Liberty Street Church of God youth group and their parents, I would like to say thank you to everyone here at Liberty Street who has helped in one way or another with fundraising.  We have put a lot of effort into fundraising over the past two years and I know it gets frustrating and monotonous.  I appreciate everyone’s willingness to help out when they can and all the good attitudes even when you might have other things you could have been doing. Without all of your help it certainly would not have been possible to raise the funds necessary to go on the trip in July.  With that being said, we have two more fundraisers left before July is upon us, and they are both hoagie sales.  Be prepared to sell them in mid-May and also in June.
                Some of us recently attended the Spring Break Youth Convention in Brookville, PA.  It was a great time of fellowship with some other youth groups and I think all of us were challenged in one way or another by our speaker Rob Mohr.  I look forward to the convention every year because it is smaller than the other conventions we go to, and it gives us more of a chance to connect with the other groups involved. 
        I would like to remind all of the parents about the youth camps that will be taking place this summer at Whitehall Camp and Conference center.  If your youth has not already registered to go, please encourage them!  I truly believe that God has anointed that campground and many people have been called to ministry, met spouses, and given their hearts to Christ there.  If your youth decides to go it will without a doubt be a life changing experience for them.  It is an honor to be a part of a church that sends the youth without them having to pay…what a great opportunity!

Sunday, May 6, 2012

May 2012 - Monthly Planner


1 -
2 - Highland Oaks @ 1PM - Food for Friends
3 - Choir practice 7 - 8:15PM
4 - Wedding Rehearsal in the Sanctuary
5 - Schwabenbauer/Ferguson Wedding
6 - S.S. @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - No Youth
7  - Weight Watchers @ 5:30PM
8 - Play Group @ 10AM - Gideons @ 6:30PM - Business Mtng @ 7PM
9 - Prayer Mtng @ 7PM
10 - Growth Mtng @ 7PM - Choir Practice 7 - 8:15PM
11 -
12 -
13 - S.S. @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - Mother's Day - No Youth
14 - Weight Watcher @ 5:30PM
15 - Play Group @ 10AM - Council Mtng @ 7PM
16 - Prayer Mtng @ 7PM
17 - Worship Mtng @ 5:30PM - Choir Practice 7 - 8:15PM
18 - Parents Night Out  6 - 10PM
19 -
20 - S.S. @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - Unity Service @ Brookville Church of God @ 6:30PM - Youth              
        @ 6PM
21 - Weight Watcher @ 5:30PM
22 - Play Group @ 10AM - Ladies Night Out 6 - 8PM
23 - Prayer Mtng @ 7PM
24 - Choir Practice 7 - 8:15PM
25 -
26 -
27 - S.S. @ 9AM - Worship @ 10AM - No Youth
28 - Memorial Day - Church Office Closed!
29 - Play Group @ 10AM
30 -  Clarion High School Baccalaureate @ 7PM @ LSCOG
31 -

Birthdays & Anniversaries - May 2012


Happy Birthday
2 - Bonnie Collier & Dorothy McCall
3 - Erin Hepler & Jenna Miller
4 - Levi Bates
7 - Faith Antherton & Dan Jeannerat
8 - Hayley Jeannerat, Maci Thornton & Sam Wilson
9 - Stephanie Christie & Lynne Walters
10 - David Ferguson
12 - Bonnie Ferguson
13 - Herb Burns
17 - Ashley Trimmer18 - Jim Christie
19 - Ryan Finotti, Diane Gross, Virginia Lucas & KeLeigh Rice
20 - Jeff Hartle & Beth Henry
22 - Nathaniel Lerch24 - Brandon Bowser, Riley Burford & Rori Vickers
25 - Rob Schimp
27 - Brooke Allen & Monica Heal28 - Ann Bailey
29 - Nicole Allen & Pat Long
30 - Bonnie Dunkle, Andrew Henry & Dave Martin

Happy Anniversary
12 - Jerry & Diane Conner
13 - Terry & Debbie Aites
20 - Shawn & Tracy Miller
23 - Jim & Bridget Thornton
25 - Leonard & Judy Garris
29 - Ron & Ginny Kopko

May 2012 - Bulletin Announcements


If you are new to Liberty Street C.O. G. (in your mailbox is a blue sheet with needed family information). Please place these in the secretary's mailbox. Also, please check your mailboxes for any information we may have placed in there.  The mailboxes are located in the Narthex.  If you are unsure if you have a mailbox or you do not have a mailbox, call Tammy @ 226 - 8672. You are important to us & we need to keep you updated on all activities!  Also, your monthly newsletter will be placed in the mailbox assigned to you.  
Also, we have Sunday School classes for all ages.  Nursery , Preschool, K-2nd, 3rd - 5th, Jr. Youth, Sr. Youth & 3 Adult classes... check us out today!  

We are offering a "Live Worship Telecast" in the Fellowship Hall to help accommodate the seating needs of our growing church!  Praise the Lord!  Anyone is welcome to check it out & share in this new Worship extension.   With video recording of the service in this way, we will also be able to improve our outreach to our shut-ins by giving them our worship on DVD.
Finally, if you are absent from church on Sunday & would like a copy of any of our Sunday morning sermons, please call the church office. We would be happy to send you one. 

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WWCH Channel 1300 on AM Broadcasting @ 11AM every Sunday...  The first Sunday if every month a pre-recorded service from Liberty Street Church of God with Pastor Bruce will be heard.  If you are unable to attend church on any Sunday morning, tune in to AM 1300.

Please check your mailbox for the May Newsletter “Connections”.  All the mailboxes are now in alphabetical order.  DID YOU FIND YOURS?  Let the
office know if you do not have one.

Come to Prayer Meeting!!
As a church body, we have just finished studying the Holy Spirit, & what the role of the Spirit should be in our church & in our lives.  Jim Cymbala, the author of When God's Spirit Moves, says "The power of the Holy Spirit comes when people pray."  
We have an opportunity now to put this into practice corporately at our weekly prayer meetings on Wednesday nights @ 7PM here @ Liberty Street.  We suspended prayer meetings while studying the Holy Spirit for the past 6 weeks, but the time has come to seek the Spirit for ourselves & to ask Him to move in out midst.
Starting Wednesday, April 11 @ 7PM... let us seek together His will for us, His healing, His hope, & His power.  As Cymbala encouraged us, "God's not dead; he's still alive.  And what he's done through the centuries when people have prayed, he can still do today.  Let's ask the Holy Spirit to come & grant us a new spirit in our churches, in our small   groups, & in our individual lives."
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people..." Acts 2:17
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.  We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us..."  Romans 8:26

Deadline for June Newsletter items is Tuesday, May 22nd.  Please have them to Tammy by 12:00 Noon.

May 2nd - "Food for Friends" - we will have a sign-up for anyone wanting to donate or help serve.

Kid's Closet ... May 12th - 10AM to 2PM @ The Baker Street Church of God.  This ministry provides a large & ever changing collection of gently used children's clothing, which range in size from infant to adult.  It enables families to recycle their children's clothing as they grow.  It also allows for a consistent source of clothing to be available to everyone who participates.  They ask clothes be donated w/each visit to the Closet, but it is not required.  There is something for everyone.  No strings attached.  This is free clothing & you are not required to bring clothing to participate.  Kids' Closet is "Clothing People for Life".
For more information, please phone Daphne Vogle @ 814-745-3567 or the Baker Street Church of God @ 814-473-3655 or check us out on Facebook, Kids' Closet, Rimersburg

Clarion Community Choir Spring Concert on Mother's Day - Sunday, May 13, 2012 @ 7:30PM.
Clarion County Festival Choir touring Italy in June & Clarion County Student Participants in the PMEA District Chorus.  
First Presbyterian Church in Clarion, PA.

Thursdays - Choir Practice @ 7 - 8:30PM.  This will run thru June 3rd.  If you are interested in being in the choir, please contact Bonnie Ferguson @ 764 - 5423.

PARENTS NIGHT OUT – May 18th 6:00 p.m – 10:00 p.m.  Please sign up in the Welcome Center and be sure to include your telephone number. This is the last PNO until September!
***We will be having a special Brunch for our Parents Night Out Workers & families & children that participate on June 3rd immediately after Worship.***

Blessing of the Bikers.... Sunday, May 20th -- Rain or Shine - Worship @ 10AM - Meet to eat @ Noon & Blessing @ 1PM & then leave on ride.  Any questions call:  Duane Troutman @ 724-867-0905 or Rod Jeannerat @ 814-254-2920

Unity Service @ Brookville Church of God Solemn Assembly - May 20th @ 6:30PM - we encourage all to attend!!

Ladies Night Out - Tuesday, May 22 from 6 - 8PM - meet @ the church in the side yard - please bring a lawn chair & a snack to share!  Devoations & relaxation around the fire!!

Men’s Bible Study on Monday nights at Joe’s Gym @ 7:00 p.m.  Open to all men.  This is a great time to fellowship & study the Word with other Men willing to learn what it means to be a Man of God!

We Need Volunteers…The Welcome Center is looking for more Volunteers!  Please see Tammy Lerch or call 226-9680 if you are interested.

Need motivation or just social companionship to exercise?  If you have any interest in getting together with other women to exercise on your level with your interest...please contact Tracy Miller by e-mail or phone: tmhm72@yahoo.com or 223-4717. This idea was brought up by one of our Christian sisters. Once we have an interest we will meet and conquer and divide according to interest, level, time constraints, and locations!

AAA Life Services Report - LSCofG has graciously given $1, 142.20 through Baby Bottles Boomerang.  The financial donations received help the AAA provide many services.  Some find themselves struggling in different situations & circumstances.  A reminder ... all services are FREE & CONFIDENTIAL.

Ladies Sewing Group: "Sewful"
For women of all ages, beginners to experienced, wanting to get together for great fellowship.  We can learn from each other.   Anyone interested in knitting or crocheting is welcome, also!   Ideas for making sewing creations for ourselves, our children, & as gifts or donations.  
Starting in January we will begin doing projects including bags, quilts, pillows, & more.  Make something for yourself or as a gift for someone you love.  
In 2012, we'll meet in the Fellowship Hall on the 2nd & 4th Fridays from 6:30 - 8:30PM.  $5 - $10 requested to get supplies for a group project.  Also, we are always taking donations of fabric, buttons, tread, felt, yarn, & any sewing related items.  Childcare provided on site - $2 donation is requested.  
Any questions, please call Ame Pentz @ 724 - 747 - 5590 or email Ame @  Hebrews11_1@hotmail.com.

Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser....
Thank you to everyone who participated, helped with, prayed for, & attended the first ever LSCOG Chili Cook-Off.  $643.00 was raised to send out kids to Whitehall Summer Camp.  A special thanks to everyone who made chili, cornbread, cookies, & brought bread for this event.  Thanks to Whitehall (Alesia & Don Barger) for letting us borrow trays, Wendy's in Clarion for their generous donation of bowls, the Youth for helping, & the Gals & Guys int he kitchen prepping & clean-up (you know who you are!).  We have some great cooks in our church!!  Michelle Aites won the cook-off, bit the competition was fierce!  Congratulations, Michelle!!!

The Counseling Center is in need of a small couch or love seat that is gently used - anyone who can help them, please contact Tracy Miller @ 814 - 223 -  4717.

Coming up.....

Calling All Graduates --- please call the church office @ 226 - 8672 or email Tammy @ tammy_mcclaine@yahoo.com if you are graduating from High School or College.  We will be recognizing our graduates in our morning worships on June 3rd.

Groundbreaking @ Trinity Point during the June 10th Worship Service.  There will be no Sunday School that day.  Great Worship, Food, & Fellowship.  Plan today to attend!!  Please bring lawn chairs.  This is a great time in the life of the Church.  Praise the Lord!!  God is so good.

Vacation Bible School... June 11 thru June 15... 5:30 - 8:30PM
SKY - Everything is possible with God -- Register your child online @ www.groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/libertystreet or register @ the church on June 11 @ 5PM... Watch your bulletins for more details to come!!!

Summer Youth Camps - www.whitehallcamp.org - see Tammy for registration form.  If you received a form in the mail, please still hand it into the Church Office.  We want to send them all in together with one check.  All campers that attend church here & or youth will be eligible to attend camp free.  Deadline:  registration & health form to Tammy in the Office no later than May 6th.
We believe Youth Camp is a vital part of young lives.  
Senior High 9th - 12th grades ...........June 10 - 15
6th - 8th  grades ..........June 17 - 22
3rd - 5th grades ..........June 24 - 28

Women of Faith Conference 2012 - September 28 & 29 in PGH, PA.  CELEBRATE!!  "Be happy & full of joy, because the Lord has done a wonderful thing."  Joel 2:21 NCV - We are hoping to get as many women as possible signed up to go to Women of Faith next year.  It will be a geat time of fellowship & growing in our walk with God.  More info to come, but if you are interested... please see Blair Spencer to save your spot today.

Knox Ladies Seminar....  
After 25 years, the Knox Ladies Seminar committee felt they were called to step down & serve the Lord in other ways.  A new group of women have been led to step up & follow His call.  Their goal remains to continue the mission of witnessing to & exhorting a diverse group of women with a heart to seek closer & more committed walk with the Lord.  
On October 20, 2012, they have secured Ellie Lofaro; a national speaker & author.  Please mark your calendars now & continue to pray for the committee.  
They are starting over with no funds to grow on.  They are requesting a one-time donation to use as seed money to get started $10, $20, $30 or another amount.  Please make your checks payable to Knox Ladies Seminar & mail it to:
Knox Ladies Seminar
c/o Gretchen Cochran
707 Main Street
Knox, PA   16232