Page 1. Rev. Kathy. June 2017

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1 Page 1 The month of June is the start, both officially and unofficially, of summer. School will let out on June 1 st and students will toss their backpacks down - not to be picked up again until September. On the 21 st we residents of the Northern hemisphere will experience the summer solstice - the longest day of the year and the official start of the summer season. It is the warm days and green hues of summer that make us head outdoors. We run our bare feet across the freshly mowed yards inhaling their grassy fragrances. We take our bats, balls and nets out to the park, woods or beach to feel the sun and wind on our faces. We linger on our front and back porches sipping cool drinks, watching and listening to the sounds of the summer bird visitors serenade us. It is this time of year, the time of the year that we spent out of the four walls that keep nature's elements at bay, that we become most aware of God's creative world. Job's words remind us that God holds us in His hands. God's most wondrous creative gift - this earth - has been filled with all things good. But the tricky thing we need to realize is we have been given the responsibility to care for this amazing gift. Genesis 2:15 says, "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it." God's design is for us to be stewards of our planet. As the summer quickly falls upon us, be sure you are doing your part to protect and sustain our planet. Buy "green" friendly products. Take reusable grocery bags with you when you go shopping. Increase the temperature of your summer air conditioner. Car pool with a friend to reduce carbon emissions. God intended for us to enjoy the critters found only in nature, the speculator mountain scenes, the vivid sunsets, and the touch the wind makes on our skin as it blows gently across us on a hot day. The out-of -doors has been gifted to you by our Creative God. Let this be the season for you to appreciate it. Perhaps you want to do so by joining us for outdoor services, which begins on June 11 th at 8:30 a.m. See you outside, Rev. Kathy

2 Page 2 On May 21 st, our church congregation gave recognition and thanks to all the musicians who enrich our weekly services throughout the year using their God given gifts! I'm sure those who were in attendance were uplifted by all the beautiful music that was shared in expressing the many names that we use to refer to our God. The theme was "You are...". From the designing of the bulletin cover to the Sanctuary anthem, "Light of Glory", to our youngest singing, I Have Decided to Follow Jesus"; we uplifted those names through the use of music! I want to thank all those special people for choosing to share God's message through music! What a blessing you all are to the life of your church! I especially feel blessed that you choose to take time out of your busy schedule to commit to weekly rehearsals and services. It is the fun, the fellowship, and the friendships we share during those times that I treasure! Thank you, thank you! You are a very special and serving group of dedicated musicians! Thank you for a wonderful year of Christian dedication to enrich the services of our church and share the musical love of our gracious God! June Rehearsal Schedule June Special Music Thursday, June 1 st June 4 th Sanctuary Choir 7:00 PM Sanctuary Choir June 11 th Sanctuary Choir Enjoy the summer vacation! **There will be a sign up sheet in the overflow room for special summer music. Please consider sharing your special gift or asking a friend to sing or play for our Sunday services. With God's love, Darlene P.S...Nature Report! It's been a very exciting 2 weeks at my house! We have a fox den right in the middle of farmer Bill's cornfield directly in the front of our house! We have ring side seats from our living room window! There is a mother and her baby living there! Usually there are more babies but I don't think too long about why there is only one! There is also a red tailed hawk's nest at the edge of the field! The circle of life comes to mind, but I don't really know for sure! But I m thankful for the one pup and they are so very entertaining! They play together and eat some very strange looking things and it's probably better I don't know what it is! We've seen the baby nurse and play with mommy's tail. We've seen the baby jump in the air, probably learning the instinct to pounce on the food source! It's all been so very enjoyable! Needless to say, Steve had some great photo ops and took advantage of them! The hummingbirds are back! The Jenny wrens are very noisy as they built their nests! They are rather entertaining as they try to fit all sizes of twigs into the box! They keep sliding a larger twig to its end in their beaks until it fits into the box along side of them instead of in front of them! It's amazing how smart they are! God's little creatures are amazing and I think we could learn some valuable life lessons from them. Mommy fox is quite a good example of a very nurturing mother. The little Jenny wren shows us a lesson in perseverance. She keeps trying until the impossible becomes possible! So much to see and learn from Mother Nature and her Creator!

3 May 28 June 4 Page 3 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. Friday Saturday Sunday School 9:30 AM Joyful Singers 9:30 AM Memorial Sunday 10:30 AM Sunday School 9:30 AM Pentecost Sunday w/ communion 10:30 AM June 11 Summer Casual 8:30 AM Sunday School 9:30 AM 10:30 AM May 29 May 30 Soup Kitchen 8:00 AM May 31 June 1 Sanctuary Choir 7:00 PM June 2 June 3 Chicken BBQ 9 AM 1 PM June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 12 Prayer Team 11:00 AM Music & Worship 1:00 PM w/ Staff to follow Council 7:00 PM June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 Potluck Dinner & Family Game Night 6:00 PM June 17 June 18 Summer Casual 8:30 AM June 25 Sunday School 9:30 AM 10:30 AM Sunday School 9:30 AM w/ VBS presentation 10:30 AM Picnic to follow service June 19 VBS 6:15-8:15 PM June 20 VBS 6:15-8:15 PM June 21 VBS 6:15-8:15 PM June 22 VBS 6:15-8:15 PM June 23 VBS 6:15-8:15 PM June 24 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1

4 Page 4 Thank you to our Volunteers! Sunday, June 4 Pentecost Sunday June 11 Trinity Sunday June 18 Fathers Day June 25 VBS Sunday Ushers Altar Guild Wendy Carl & Tammy Ballard Kim DeGroft Lectionary Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 7:37-39 Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 Genesis 18:1-15 Psalm 116:1-2, Romans 5:1-8 Matthew 9:35-10:23 Genesis 21:8-21 Psalm 86:1-10, Romans 6:1b-11 Matthew 10:24-39 Altar Flowers Lisa Crisamore Jenell McKowen Martha Smeltz VBS Memorial Vase Acolyte Ryan McKowen Nya Brown Joe Crisamore Mikayla Gebhart Worship Leader Kim DeGroft Melisa Altland Nancy Cherry Donnie Carl Lay Reader Nancy Cherry Melisa Altland Nancy King Donnie Carl Sound System Kim DeGroft Donnie Carl Donnie Carl Pat McKowen Greeters Joan Messinger Karen Bathgate Wendy Carl Jean Gross Melisa Altland Dee Hildebrand Jim Messinger Steve Miner Nursery Beth Mensinger Toni O Neal Melisa Altland VBS Children s Portion Blaine Breeden Julie White Melisa Altland Rev. Kathy Special Music Sanctuary Choir Sanctuary Choir VBS Money Counters 10 AM Kim DeGroft Dennis Weidler Joanne Hoffman Lisa Crisamore Jim Messinger Lois Nelson Elvin Myers Joanne Hoffman Diane Breeden Darlene Miner Jim Messinger Pat McKowen

5 Page 5 On May 3 rd a group of Prayer Warriors met. At this gathering we focused on ways to be more intentional in offering prayer to those who seek it. We revamped the look of the Prayer List hoping to make it more user friendly. Our goal was to deepen our relationship with the folks on the Prayer List - getting to know them so we can better offer to God their needs. Now, we pause full of hope, as we long to see results of our efforts; we want to know that prayers are being answered. So, if you no longer see a name on the Prayer List, it is because God's mercy is good and God has offered solutions to problems. We have agreed to meet regularly. At our gatherings we will share with each other how the Spirit is moving throughout our community. And we will, of course, open our voices in prayer for those seeking God's powerful touch. To ask for prayer and to place a name on the list, we are asking that you contact Linda Pentz ( ) or Carol Brown ( ) or Rev. Kathy ( ). Give us some information about the person and his/her needs, and keep us up to date on the work of God's amazing Spirit. But don't forget to do your part. Keep our church family and friends always in your prayers. OUR DEEPEST CHRISTIAN SYMPATHIES are extended to Mabel Baer & family on the passing of Mabel s sister, Bea Billbee, who entered the Church Triumphant on Thursday, April 27 th.

6 Page 6 LIP SMACKING! FINGER-LICKING GOOD! OUR CHICKEN BARBECUE will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, rain or shine. Tickets for chicken dinners, which include half of a chicken, baked potato, and applesauce, are available for a donation of $8.00. Please call or see Elvin Myers ( ) to purchase. THANK YOU to everyone for your thoughts, prayers and cards following my hip surgery. Also thanks to Dee Hildebrand for the beautiful Easter altar flowers and the Ladies for their plant delivered by Rev. Kathy. Joan Messinger THANK YOU to the Ladies of Lischey s for the beautiful flowers and cards at Christmas and Easter for Allison. We would also like to thank everyone for their cards and prayers for Allison. the Orchowski family WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK the church council for allowing us to use the facilities for the Matter of Balance class, and a very, very special thank you to all the participants who made the class so enjoyable for us. We hope you found the class to be beneficial and enjoyable, too. Jean & Julie Pentecost is June 4 th. Come celebrate communion and wear red. Outdoor services begin on June 11 th at 8:30 AM. Our Penn Central Conference delegate is Jean Weidler. She will be taking our donation of quarters for a new washer and dryer at Hartman Center. The next Prayer Warrior Team meeting is June 12 th at 11 AM. The next church fellowship night will be Friday, June 16 th when we gather for a covered dish supper and game night. VBS begins on June Please register children/ grandchildren and sign up to help and to donate supplies. The church picnic will be Sunday, June 25 th after the VBS program. Meat and beverages will be provided. Please bring a covered dish and enjoy the fellowship. If you would like to suggest a favorite hymn to be sung during church, please put the name/number on a paper and put it in the offering plate. Come every Sunday so you do not miss singing your hymn. Our hard working property committee reported that we should not use our current boiler for another heating season. Bids have been obtained. Prices depend on the type of fuel. If we can use natural gas, the cost could be up to $30,000. We already have $5,000 in a boiler fund. Michele and Bud Hamme submitted a grant application for the church and we have received an additional $5,000 from Community Aid. A big thank to Michele and Bud. We are awaiting a final recommendation from the committee.

7 Page 7 VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL will be held Monday, June 19 Friday, June 23, from 6:15 8:15 PM. On Sunday, June 25, we will celebrate VBS Sunday and share what we have learned, then follow the service with our annual church picnic. Our theme this year is Maker Fun Factory: Created by GOD, Built for a Purpose. Where curious kids become hands-on inventors who discover they re lovingly crafted by God! Maker Fun Factory VBS is for kids from age 2 (with a parent) to those who will finish 6 th grade this year. Registration sheets for children and sign-up sheets for helpers and donations are on the table in the overflow room. Registration is also available online at or on page 10 of this newsletter! * - designates 80 & over 2 nd Linda Hubley 5 th Larry Messinger 6 th Olivia Godfrey Lauren Orchowski 7 th Sue Bollinger Ken Brown, Jr. 8 th Marty Myers 12 th Katie Bathgate Mike Freed 14 th Lois Nelson 16 th Clair Kessler 20 th Pam Kiser Scott Sanders 21 st Cheryl Albright Chris DeGroft Bob Strausbaugh* 23 rd Art Brown 24 th Wendy Carl Caitlyn Kramer Delphine Waltersdorff* 29 th Martha Smeltz * BAGS & BLING BINGO - I would like to thank everyone who came out on Friday, May 12 th and supported the Bags & Bling Bingo. A lot of planning and preparation went into this event and it turned out to be very successful. We made a total profit of $10, There are far too many people for me to name, so a great big THANK YOU goes out to all the people who bought or sold tickets; donated monetarily; donated door prizes; picked up door prizes; donated baked goods; helped with food preparation; helped to set up Friday; helped at the bingo; and helped with the clean-up. Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this event possible! Chris DeGroft, Chairperson, Fundraising Committee June 3, 2000 June 4, 2005 June 7, 1969 June 8, 1973 June 13, 1981 June 14, 1970 June 25, 1988 June 26, 1993 June 27, 1970 Bob & Deb Wetzel Ryan & Toni O Neal Duncan & Barbara Gardner Mike & Sandy Lehman Barry & Tammy Wetzel Steve & Darlene Miner Blaine & Diane Breeden Don & Wendy Carl Jim & Linda Sanders

8 Page 8 JOE CRISAMORE will graduate from Spring Grove Area High School on June 2, He graduated from the HACC Academy Automotive Technology Program on May 10 th and is planning to continue to receive his certification in automotive technology. Congratulations, Joe! Directory Changes Barry Brown Homewood at Plum Creek, Room C Westminster Ave. Hanover, PA DO YOU NEED A HELPING HAND to change a light bulb or replace the batteries in your smoke detectors because you re not comfortable climbing a ladder? If you have a small job that you need help with, or if you are able to help do these types of small jobs, please contact the church office at (717) and we will match you up! OUR NEXT FELLOWSHIP EVENT will be a Family Game Night, to be held on Friday, June 16 th. We will begin with a potluck dinner at 6:00 PM and play games afterwards. Things to bring: Your family & friends a dish to share your favorite games your favorite snacks

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13 Page 13 Go Green Sunday August 13, pm to 4 pm Shiloh UCC Bring your family and friends, and come out and join us for a great time at this FREE eco-friendly, family event sponsored by the York Association Community Outreach Committee. Free Paper Shredding Truck Calculate your family s Carbon or Water Footprint Learn how to make a solar cooker from Dollar Store materials and make your own s more Recycled Art Contest Free Food New Nature & Ecofriendly Displays Crafts & Activities for children The Community Outreach Committee of the York Association is sponsoring our annual Recycled Art Contest on Sun. Aug. 13, Prizes will be given! Supplies you can use: Cans, bottle caps, water bottles, wine bottles, soda tabs, rolled paper, etc. be creative! Baskets, flower containers, sculptures, pictures, jewelry have fun! Open to All Ages! It can be a group project! Projects are to be submitted and dropped off August 7 th through August 9th at Shiloh UCC, 2251 Willow Rd., York, Pa.

14 St. Peter s Lischey s United Church of Christ 5671 Lischeys Church Rd. Spring Grove, PA Page 14 If you are spiritually weary and in search of rest, If you are mourning and you long for comfort; If you are struggling and you desire victory; If you recognize that you are a sinner and need a Savior - God welcomes you here in the name of Christ. To the stranger in need of fellowship, to those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, And to whoever will come - Sundays Sunday School 9:30 AM 10:30 AM