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Grace United Church of Christ 100 Fourth Street Hanover, PA 17331 (717) 632-1146 Church School for ALL Ages – Sunday 9:00 am Worship Service – Sunday 10:30 am
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Thanks for a Successful Celebration Sunday
Thanks for a Successful Second Annual Easter Festival and Toy Exchange
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"Hanover Has Talent: A Talent for Helping the Homeless" Evening Sun Article and Video "Hanover Has Talent" plays to an enthusiastic audience and raises money for the Hanover Changing Lives Shelter at the Hanover Area Council of Churches. Thank you for all who made this event a great success. We raised at total of $2,242.32 for the Changing Lives Homeless Shelter of the Hanover Area Council of Churches |
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Rev. Dr. Bruce P. Bouchard 717-632-1146 (office) |
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Spring Celebration Sunday a Great Success. We had a wonderful time celebrating spring by helping to feed some of God’s creatures. We created a variety of bird feeders to place around the church or take home.
Second Annual Easter Festival and Toy Exchange The Second Annual Easter Festival and Toy Exchange was a great success. Vickie Arnold, from church, and Janine Mundorff, from the Girl Scouts, had the event extremely well organized. In an age when many parents say that Hanover does not have much happening for children, it gave 66 children, 135 with their parents, and close to 150 with all those who helped at the program, a very special Saturday morning. Thank you whether you helped organize this event, gave your Saturday morning for it, or helped to supply the eggs, candy, or other gifts. Would you like to be close to God in your everyday life? Would you like to see God working in powerful ways? Why not join one of our experimental prayer groups. Many of these groups are now meeting and would delight to include a new friend. Patti Paull has spent hours writing a book for us. She writes:
Walking with My God and My Dog is a six-week spiritual experience and prayer journal opportunity based on the author’s inspirations while walking her SPCA-adopted beagle Sam-Elliott. The writings invite the participants to begin a spiritual walk so that they may gain sight in various elements of personal and community faith and worship and may draw closer to God.
We are in a time of transition as some groups that have met during the Christian season of Lent are ending. Some will be continuing and anticipating new members joining them. Other groups will be just starting. We will post these changes as they happen.
Patti Paull's Saturday morning group will be continuing at 9:00 AM at her home.
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We welcome you to join us as we pray aloud for those on the prayer list every Tuesday morning at 10:30 am
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meets Tuesday evenings in Fellowship Hall from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
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We have been gathering two exciting book groups at the New Oxford Coffee Company in New Oxford. Bruce Conrad has been leading the group at 7:00 PM. They are finishing Rob Bell’s book, Velvet Elvis. The group meeting with Bruce Bouchard have finished reading Velvet Elvis, but are now starting 40 Days Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This is an experiment in prayer that includes writing a prayer journal. Each day includes a quote from Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor, who resisted the Nazis during World War II. There are also a related passed from the Bible and a few verses from the book of Psalms to help focus our thoughts on the writer’s words, some questions for further reflections and some addition questions to guide our writing in the prayer journal. We will be reading this book for the next 10 weeks. |
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Reading the Bible Together Looking for God?Why not try reading the Bible with us?
A King for Israel Sun., May 13, 2012 – Sat., May 19, 2012 David Becomes King of Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 5) Moving the Covenant Box (2 Samuel 6) David and Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 9) David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11) Nathan Confronts David (2 Samuel 12) Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom (2 Samuel 13) Absalom's Return (2 Samuel 14)
A King for Israel Sun., May 20, 2012 – Sat., May 26, 2012 Absalom's Rebellion (2 Samuel 15) Absalom in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 16) Organizing the Opposite Against Absalom (2 Samuel 17) The End For Absalom (2 Samuel 18) The Joys and Trials of Victory (2 Samuel 19) Saul's Descendants Are Put to Death (2 Samuel 21) Solomon Becomes King (1 Kings 1)
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