CHURCH EVENTS. A Message from Rev. Cinda. Hebron Presbyterian Church Newsletter March/April Rev. Cinda Isler 1767 Route 30 Clinton, PA 15026

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1 Hebron Presbyterian Church Newsletter March/April Rev. Cinda Isler 1767 Route 30 Clinton, PA Website CHURCH EVENTS March 13th Lenten Study Prayer 5pm Dinner March 16th Wednesday Prayer Service 7pm March 20th Palm Sunday Service and Luncheon/Egg Hunt 11:00 am March 20th Lenten Study Prayer 5pm Dinner March 23rd Wednesday Prayer Service 7pm March 24th Maundy Thursday Hebron 7:00 pm March 25th Cross Shop N Save Imperial 12 noon March 27th Easter Sunday Sunrise Clinton Church 7am March 27th Easter Sunday Service@ Hebron 11am Adult Sunday School invites you to join them at 9:45am as they continue their journey through the Bible by way of "The Story". Its exciting to watch through scripture Gods plan unfold by using the most unlikely people to carry out the difficult tasks he places before them to achieve his ultimate goal, to reunite with his people. ADULT DISCIPLESHIP A Message from Rev. Cinda This past week we had a huge scaffolding covering our chimney. Our 96 year old chimney was suffering from years of wet and damp and was crumbling from the inside out. We had many expert opinions of how to fix the problem, from not using the chimney at all, to a total rebuild. The bricks inside had fallen down to block the opening to the fireplace flue. Fortunately they hadn t totally blocked the side our furnace vents from or I might not be here to write this story! We opted for the total rebuild, taking apart the chimney and rebuilding from the roofline up, and putting in the terracotta flue pipes that should have been installed there in the first place. I got to thinking about how our caved-in chimney is a lot like our lives. Over years of freeze and thaw cycles in our faith, we too can crumble from the inside out. We have all kinds of options of how to deal with the issue. We can decide to just not use our faith or we can rebuild the parts that are shutting down life. Sometimes we need to clear out the stuff that blocks our relationship with God at the problem spot. This Easter is a perfect opportunity to check out the chinks in our faith and repair with Jesus, the true mortar, by whom we build our hope and our lives. Rev. Cinda I wanted to thank you all for my wonderfully generous Christmas gift! Your Amazon Gift Card has enabled me to complete my home library of Word Bible Commentaries, 51 volumes. Now I have a commentary for every book in the Bible, describing it verse by verse. What more could anyone want! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness! Cinda

2 Hebron made National Presbytery News! We sent our Blue Out Sunday photo to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and it was posted on their Facebook page so our photo was the first post seen! Deacons Preparing Easter Dinners The Deacons have decided to prepare Easter Dinner for our homebound members. They will be preparing the dinners on Saturday March 26th and delivering them later that afternoon. If you know of anyone that is not a member and is homebound who would enjoy a dinner please contact Bernice Litvak at Spaghetti Dinner to Benefit Caitlyn Papsan Hanover Community Church is having a benefit spaghetti dinner for Caitlyn on April 9th from 3pm to 7pm at the Hanover Township Fire department. The Deacons from Hebron are putting together a basket to be raffled off at the dinner. The theme for the basket is Gift Cards we asking for donations of gift cards so that we can make a tree of gift cards. If you aren t able to give a gift card, we are also accepting donations of any amount and we will purchase the gift cards. Contact person for this is Bernice Litvak.

3 One-half of our offerings to One Great Hour of Sharing this year is designated to purchasing pairs of goats and families of chickens to help families become self-sufficient. Give to One Great Hour of Sharing The other half of our offerings is designated to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to enable volunteers to continue helping victims of the flooding in the United States. Please give what you are able through your Fish Banks or through special offering envelopes on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. Hebron Has A Heart Hebron Conducts A Super Souper Bowl of Caring Food Drive Souper bowl of caring food drive Sunday, Feb. 7 and Sunday, Feb. 14 Bring in any of the following items to be donated to the WA Food Pantry: Soups like Tomato, Chicken Noodle, or Vegetable Canned Tuna Egg Noodles Boxes of Mac n Cheese Shaving Cream Plastic Razors Paper Towels Sponsored by the Mission Committee. On Super Bowl Sunday, Hebron kicked off its own Souper Bowl with members donating items needed at the West Allegheny Food Pantry including cans of soup. The food drive continued for two weeks. Each Sunday, we reached our goal of filling the large tub with donations. Hebron Has A Heart. A Big Thank You to our Volunteers who Helped at the West Allegheny Food Pantry during Hebron's assigned month of cold January. They unpacked the food delivery truck and helped distribute the food to the folks who came to get their food on distribution days. Thank You To Hap Marburger, Dick and Constance Purdy, Edi Davidson, and Rev. Isler. These folks gave their time to help those in need from our community proving that Hebron Has A Heart. We continue to collect ONE DOZEN ONLY egg cartons (no cardboard cartons) and plastic bags for the WA Food Pantry. Bring them with you when you come to church on Sunday. You can leave them in the containers you'll find in the coat room.

4 Session Highlights The following are a few items of interest decided by your ruling elders at the February session meeting -- from Clerk of Session, Ruling Elder Robbie Shoup 1. Session will meet on the third Thursday of each month 2. The youth will lead the Easter Egg hunt on Palm Sunday 3. The Deacons will sponsor a luncheon on Palm Sunday 4. Robbie Shoup and Eleanor Adams were selected to be Hebron's Commissioners to Presbytery and will attend the Pittsburgh Presbytery meetings 5. Hebron will host the June West Branch Presbytery meeting. 6. The Chairperson of Personnel and the Chairperson of the Nominating Committee recommended Ruling Elder Robbie Shoup to serve as Clerk of Session. The session voted and approved her to be the clerk for this session year. 7. Session will be devoting the beginning of each meeting to an in depth study using the series, Knowing God in a conscious effort to continue with their spiritual growth as begun last year with studying the book, Becoming a Blessed Church. 8. Session committees provided dates of upcoming meetings: Adult Discipleship on March 3 at 6pm, Christian Education on March 10 at 6pm, Mission on March 13 at Noon following worship. 9. The next meeting of session will be Thursday, March 17 at 6:15pm. Hebron has a very BIG Heart! The money donated to the Good Samaritan Fund on Christmas Eve and several following Sundays, amounted to an amazing total of $2, The Mission Committee is very grateful to so many who donated to this fund that helps our neighbors in need. We have received a meaningful gift from the Cain Family in memory of their husband, father, and our Hebron member Dale Cain. They purchased for Hebron Church a beautiful funeral pall to be used for funeral services in our church. A pall is placed over the casket at the beginning of the funeral service and signifies that the person has been covered in their baptism by the grace of Christ. By it we have a visible reminder that those who are baptized into Christ are also raised in the resurrection with Christ. The Cain s chose a white pall with an Easter lily outlined in green and yellow in the center. The white lily is also symbolic of resurrection to eternal life. Many thanks to the Cain family for such a thoughtful gesture. Happy Anniversary Please remember to pray for all our members who are on our prayer list, our homebound, and our brave people serving in the military. March Douglas & Edith Davidson 41 years April Please submit prayer requests on Sunday mornings by writing on a Prayer Request Card that is found in the pew, or through hebronchurch@zoominternet.net Delbert & Dolores Combs 53 years

5 Enid Jane Campbell Leeds Obituary Enid Jane Campbell Leeds, of Burgettstown, formerly of Tulsa, OK, passed away on her 94th birthday, Friday, March 4, 2016 in the Washington Hospital. She was born on March 4, 1922 in Pittsburgh a daughter of the late Arthur E. Campbell, Sr. and Etta Noah Campbell. A 1943 graduate of the Union High School in Burgettstown and Duff's Business School in Pittsburgh, she worked for Scott's Auto Dealership and Coll Tire in Burgettstown and retired after 26 years from M&M Construction in Hanover Twp where she was the office manager. Mrs. Leeds and her husband Al made Tulsa, OK their home after she moved there in She was an active member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church and their Women s Association. After returning to Burgettstown from Tulsa in 2010 she joined the Hebron Presbyterian Church in Clinton and served on their Finance Committee. Prior to her move to Tulsa in 1987, she was an active member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Burgettstown where she served in many capacities. An avid reader, she also enjoyed sewing, traveling, driving, working on her computer and nurturing her relationships with her family and numerous friends. She was also devoted to her beloved Pug, Noah. Her husband, Albert L. Leeds whom she married on May 9, 1987 passed away on February 7, She is survived by her sister, Nadene Dodds, wife of the Late William, of Langeloth; her sister-inlaw Alice Campbell of Burgettstown; three nieces Bonnie Dodds Winters, wife of the late Donald of Oakland, MD, Benita Campbell of Burgettstown, and Robbie Dodds Shoup and husband Larry of Burgettstown; one nephew Dale Dodds, husband of the late Patty of Ligonier; 7 great nephews, 1 great niece; 2 great great nephews and 3 great great nieces. Deceased in addition to her parents and husband is her brother Arthur E. Campbell, Jr. Friends will be received from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday in the Lee & Martin Funeral Home, 73 Highland Avenue, Burgettstown. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in the Hebron Presbyterian Church, 1767 Rt. 30, Clinton, with the Rev. Cinda Isler officiating. Everyone is kindly asked to go directly to the church on Wednesday morning. Enid and her husband Al will be laid to rest in the Grandview Cemetery, Florence. If so desired, memorial donations may be made in her memory to the Hebron Presbyterian Church, 1767 Rt. 30, Clinton, PA and/or The Burgettstown Community Library, 2 Kerr St, Burgettstown, PA Sunday School Please join us in the Sunday School room (Parlor) at 9:45am starting September 13th. Adult Discipleship Committee (Contact Person: is Sam Eaton.) Bible Study We have informal Bible Study Tuesday mornings 10:00am11:00am in the Church Parlor. We pray for those on our prayer list before we begin our study.( Contact Person: is Joyce Marburger.) Birthday s for the Month of Birthday s for the Month March April Adam Joyce Camden Johnke Grace Cain Sunshine Ankrom Noah Wilson Amber Marburger Damon Ankrom Tiffany Burns Adda Murin Amber Marburger Melissa Toole Wasso Kozlina III Louise Dawson Carrie Wilson Mitchell Georgia Manchester Valerie Calderone Patrick Coulter Katherine Medved Aida Olarte Janelle Vidovich Abigail Coulter Michelle Wilson Jonathon Moore Ella Dee McCullough of