July 1, 2018 ~ Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Church School: 9:00 a.m. Worship Time: 10:00 a.m.

WE GATHER IN GOD’S NAME (Take time to prepare your heart to worship God.)

PRELUDE “Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart” F. Atkinson, arr. A. Jordan “Spirit Song” J. Wimber, arr. J Carter “Lord, Revive Us” arr. G. Martin OUR LIFE TOGETHER MUSIC INTERLUDE

TO GIVE PRAISE TO GOD CALL TO WORSHIP from Psalm 118 and 124

Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. This is the day that the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

HYMN 19 “God of Great and God of Small” * PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, and what our hearts can no longer bear. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a fu-ture in which we can be changed. Amen

(Please pause for a moment of silent confession.)

* ASSURANCE OF PARDON Hear the Good News. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Praise God. Amen.

* GLORIA PATRI (Hymnal Page 581)

TO CELEBRATE THE FAMILY OF FAITH

CHILDREN’S MOMENT * PASSING OF THE PEACE The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And also with you. MORNING PRAYER/THE LORD’S PRAYER

TO HEAR GOD’S WORD PROCLAIMED FIRST READING Psalm 130 (OT Page 573)

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

SPECIAL MUSIC “Savior Redeemer of My Soul” Richard Peiffer, Soloist Gardner GOSPEL READING Mark 5:21-43 (NT Page 39) This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

SERMON “Multi-Tasking” Pastor Green

HYMN 462 “I Love to Tell the Story” * APOSTLES’ CREED (Hymnal page 35)

TO OFFER OUR GIFTS AND OUR LIVES PRESENTATION OF OFFERINGS OFFERTORY “Old Hundreth” arr. D. Lasky * DOXOLOGY (Hymnal Page 606)

* PRAYER OF DEDICATION

TO GO REJOICING IN GOD’S NAME * RECESSIONAL HYMN 338 “O Beautiful for Spacious Skies” * BENEDICTION CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE “God Bless America” Irving Berlin

Richard Peiffer and Congregation

POSTLUDE “Variations on ‘America’” J. Linker

Paxton Presbyterian Church Established 1732

3500 Sharon Street, Harrisburg, PA 17111 717~561~0510, www.paxtonchurch.org

THE LECTOR TODAY is Elder Blanche Skinner. Blanche is a member of the Prop-erty Management Ministry.

THANK YOU FOR VISITING WITH US TODAY! We are happy to share this Sun-day with you and hope you come back soon! Please fill out the yellow card and be sure to include your name, address, and phone number for our records. If you are in-terested in membership at Paxton Church, please indicate this when the friendship folder is passed or speak to the Pastor or Lector following worship. THE FLORAL ARRANGEMENT in the chancel this morning is placed in honor of Joe Frank, who is turning 14 on July 3rd with love from Bob, Tara and Sam Frank. . THE USHERS joyfully serving the month of July: Tom Clark, Captain; Bob Frank, Norm Daniels, Dave Elder, Rebecca Haner, Ryan Haskins, John Palmer, William Sanford, Michael Trephan.

TODAY Pastor Green will greet at the porch door. The lector will greet at the parlor door and an usher will greet at the south door.

COINS FOR CARING in the month of July will benefit the Humane Society as desig-nated by the Mission and Outreach Ministry.

The Worship and Music Ministry has recommended to Session that our worship service time be moved to 10:15 AM starting September 9, 2018, with the Church School time remaining at 9:00 AM. This recommendation was made to Session with two primary objectives in mind - 1. To allow adequate time for Church School teachers to present lesson material.

This would also allow the younger classes to have time to incorporate music activi-ties on a regular basis. An additional benefit for the adults is that those needing to leave class to gather for choir or bell choir would not miss as much of the lesson.

2. To allow adequate time for all those walking from church school classes to the sanctuary to do so in a safe and unhurried manner. While it is Session who will decide if this recommendation will be implemented, any thoughts you might have about this suggestion are welcomed. Please direct any com-munication to either a member of the Worship and Music Ministry (Becca Haner, Con-nie Cochran, Carol McCall, Richard Fowler, Jeanne Bruce) or to a Session member.

Each month during 2018, two of our youth will be highlighted in the bulletin.

By the end of the year, you will have the opportunity to get to know each one

of them a bit better.

PRAYER SQUARE

As Christians we are called to pray for everyone in a difficult time of life. To protect the privacy of those for whom we are praying we ask that permission be received before a name is placed for prayer request. We will keep the names in the Prayer Square for two weeks. If you would like them to be included longer, please call the church office or sub-mit another prayer request.

Please keep the following members of Paxton in your prayers: Jean Herrold, Jo Cain, Bruce Cavanaugh, Kathie Zimmerman, Kacey Bowers, Nancy Wion, Susan DeRemer, Fern Nickum, Christopher Bruce Fam-ily & Vera, Kitty Janes, Morris Rill, Gwen Casey, Louis Robertson, Donna Leaver, Yvonne Rosenberger, Becca Haner, George Taylor, Sally Killian, John Moyer & family, Tricia Stinner, Reit Jongsma, Jane Rising, Keith and Marian Birth, Jeanette Miller, Jim Knight

Continued Prayers: Krista Baer, Jim Gischel, Jane Rickert, Carmen DeLuccia, Erin Francis-Friel, Lori Giroux, Kathy Clark, Fred Purvis, Joyce Burd, Greg Brazil, Lynn McWatters, Raymond March, Dennis Otte, Ron McWatters

July 1 Jordyn Ramos, Marcia Hammann, Fran Newhouse, Allie Hargraves, Scott Chaffee, Ruth Nicholas, Cliff Barto

Each week we will be praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ within our Presbytery. This week we are praying for the Centre Presbyterian Church in Loysville.

Church Softball Schedule

Tuesday, July 10 Brightbill Field - @_Friendship_Center Double Header 6:00 PM

Thursday, July 12 Bethany Field Double Header 6:00 PM

Monday, July 16 Bethany Field Double Header 6:00 PM

Tuesday, July 17 PLAYOFFS BEGIN

Come, walk for Paxton!! Join us to walk for Paxton in the Paxtang Fourth

of July Parade. The parade will be July 4th. We gather at 30th and Derry

Streets at 9:30 and the parade starts at 10:00. Wear red, white, and/or blue,

comfortable walking shoes, and bring a small flag if you have one. Come

and represent Paxton to the community as we are the only church in the bor-

ough. See you there!

My name is Lelia Elizabeth Webb-Simmons. My mom is Sharon Webb and my brother is Tyler Webb-Simmons.

I am 15 years old and attend Harrisburg Academy. In school I participate in choir, orchestra, cross country, swim-ming, and track and field. Outside of school, I play travel soccer year round.

I have been a Girl Scout for seven years and enjoy helping people in and outside of my local community.

I enjoy spending time with my family.

Paxton Church is in the process of converting our membership and contribution software to a new vendor. We believe this will be an improvement over the previous system, but all change comes with its challenges. The financial staff appreciates your understanding as we work through this process. One way you can help is by always placing your envelope number and pur-pose of your payment on the check memo line so it can be cred-ited to the proper member and fund account. As we move for-ward, we will keep the congregation informed of new features we may be able to utilize in this software. Thank you.

Rachel Hitz, daughter of Elder Doug and Mrs. Janet Hitz, is a sophomore at Bishop McDevitt High School. She is currently an honor roll student at McDevitt and plans to work very hard in the coming years to keep that status.

She is involved with the Choir, Concert Band, Chorale, and Marching Band at McDevitt. Rachel is also involved with the Spring Musicals, most recently including Hello! Dolly. Rachel is very excited for the coming school year. Rachel is also active within the Susquehanna Youth Cho-ral Society.

Rachel would like to pursue a career in Actuarial Science or Engineering, with a Master’s in Business Administration. Her college is yet to be determined.

Rachel would like to stay a member of Paxton for the rest of her life and plans to join the adult

choir after college.

WEEKLY CALENDAR Sun 1 10:00 Worship 11:00 Sunday Snacks 6:00 Concert on the Lawn “Howlin’ Brothers”. Wed 4 Church Office Closed Paxtang July 4th Parade Sun 8 10:00 Worship 11:00 Sunday Snacks

PAXTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 3500 Sharon St., Harrisburg PA 17111

(717) 561-0510 Fax: 561-4052

Website: www.paxtonchurch.org Email: office@paxtonchurch.org

Ministers ~ All Members

Paxton Church Staff

Pastor, The Reverend John W. Green

Director of Music, Richard Fowler Organist, Jeanne Bruce

Chimers Director, Cindy Green Christian Education Administrator, Jo Jacoby Office Staff, JoAnn Snyder, Judy Frankford

Treasurer, Laurence A. Kilpatrick, CPA Wedding Coordinator, Peg Elder

Custodian, Mary Bowers

We are a Stephen Ministry Church For confidential referral, or if you are inter-ested in becoming a Stephen Minister please contact a leader.

STEPHEN MINISTERS

Carol Anderson LaVerne Collins Susan DeRemer

Karen Herrold Cheryl Holtzman Janice Hutchison Annette Kilpatrick

Bill LaDieu Donna Leaver Nancy Lengler

Steve Miller Kathy Woodbridge

STEPHEN LEADERS

Helen Heidelbaugh Gary Myers Jane Rising

Jane Sanford

Sue McLain Wanda Newhouse

Richard Peiffer Cathy Roland Joy Stennett Bev Ziebell

Happy Barber Connie Cochran Erin Giambrone Rebecca Haner

Doug Hitz Don Laughery Rich Lengler

Nan Bonnet Linette Burd Jerry Davies

Linda Flowers Nino Giambrone

Marti Greiner

BOARD OF DEACONS Pam & Louis Robertson (Co-Moderator)

David McPherson Gary Myers Lisa Pletz

Blanche Skinner Jason Skrinak

Merideth Staudenmaier Kristian Stennett

Erika Hanes (Clerk of Session)

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Christian Education is looking for supplies to make fish and we need plastic liter soda bottles. We will have a bin in the Gathering Room for you to drop them into. Thanks!

TONIGHT The Howlin’ Brothers

Nashville group providing bluegrass, blues and original music

August 11 Lower Paxton Variety Band

Big Band sound with a variety of music All concerts will take place outside so please bring your own seating and a picnic if desired. In case of inclement weather the concerts will be held in-doors.

The concerts will be held from 6:00-7:30 PM

A FREE WILL DONATION CAN BE MADE FOR THE BANDS

The Deacons continue to sponsor the food drive here at Paxton. During the month of July they will be collecting: PEANUT BUTTER, CRACKERS, RAMEN

NOODLES Thank You!

SESSION

HEY KIDS! (and adults too!) Check out Paxton’s Little Free Library

Our Little Free Library is packed with great summer reading op-portunities so check it out throughout the summer. When you visit, take home a special treat to enjoy while reading...we’ll be adding different treats each week!