We hope you enjoy receiving  our weekly email  designed to keep  you informed on current and upcoming events scheduled here at Roland Park Presbyterian Church.   

In This Week's Email:

reflection
A Blessing for New Beginnings
A reflection by Pastor Mark Hanna

For many--students, teachers, parents, administrators, support staff--a new year is about to begin. Here too, a new year is about to begin. Our new service time of 10:30am will begin on September 11th. On October 2nd we will kick-off our newly revised education program for all ages. There will be new patterns, routines and experiences this year. We will most likely meet new friends along the way as well. What an adventure it will be!

For all these new beginnings and more, I offer a blessing from the Irish poet 
John O'Donohue:

In out of the way places of the heart
Where your thoughts never think to wander
This beginning has been quietly forming
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
 
For a long time it has watched your desire
Feeling the emptiness grow inside you
Noticing how you willed yourself on
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
 
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the grey promises that sameness whispered
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent
Wondered would you always live like this.
 
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream
A path of plenitude opening before you.
 
Though your destination is not clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is one with your life's desire.
 
Awaken your spirit to adventure
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
 
In faith, hope and love,
Mark

haiti
A Message from Gaelle and Youse at Kay Papa Nou


Dear all,

Our hearts are fill of joys and happiness for what the Lord has done for Kerene.  after seven days of intensive care in the hospital, Kerene is home with us, rejoicing and singing praises to the Lord.

We thank you all for your prayers and financial support. You are always beside of us in time of trouble, we have reason( now we can say many reasons) to testify your love and your solidarity for us.

We will never forget  your good works and your kindness toward us and the Bible says in  Hebrew 6: 9,10:

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. 

Please see the above picture:  Kerene is third from the right.

Blessings  and Love,

Gaelle and Youse.

schoolsupply
Back to School Supply Drive and distribution lunch event
for Woodbourne-
McCabe Neighborhood

Thanks so much for all the donations of school supplies! A great amount have been received.  Volunteers are still needed for the event to assemble and hand out back packs to the children on  Saturday, August 27.
Please click here to sign up! Thanks.

Questions? Contact Jenn DiFranceco
revdifrancesco@gmail.com/
410-952-9578


habitat
Four Volunteers Needed 9/17
McCabe Avenue Habitat for Humanity Project, 8:30-4:00
  volunteer
After a few months away, RPPC has another opportunity to help build our community through Habitat for Humanity. Four people from the congregation are needed for work on the McCabe Avenue project on Saturday, September 17th.  No construction skills or tools are required.  Please contact Matt Marsh (matthew.b.marsh@gmail.com) or Mary Carey (maryrcarey@aol.com) if you are interested in participating.
Worship
Worship This Sunday
August 28, 2016
1 0am 

 Scripture:   Psalm 139: 1-18
Message: Reality Syndrome
 
misty
Fun Family Movie Nights 
and Sermon Series
LAST MOVIE TOMORROW
August Thursdays 7pm
Join us tomorrow for our last Thursday evening of fun, fellowship and a family-friendly PG-rated movie on the lawn. We will move into the fellowship room if the weather isn't cooperating. 

Fellowship begins at 7pm, Movie begins when the sun goes down.  The sermon on the following Sunday will be based on a theme from the Thursday night movie! Tomorrow's movie is  The Truman Show.

We will provide the movies, everything else is BYO. It's summer- let's picnic! Bring your blankets, chairs, coolers or picnic baskets, and friends!

servicetime
New Service Time begins
Sunday, September 11th
 
Please note that beginning Sunday, September 11th the worship service 
will begin at 10:30am. This will allow us to develop an education hour 
from 9-10am this fall. 
recital
As the Spring Sleeps...
an autumn recital
Saturday, September 10 @ 7:30pm
Roland Park Presbyterian Church
Experience an evening of music which explores and expounds upon familiar transitions in life: season to season, youth to age, anger to hope, and even life to death. 

Sensitive, charming soprano Juliana Marin and effervescent, passionate flutist Cari Shipp Kramer are joined by engaging, expressive pianist Julie Bernstein to present, "As the Spring Sleeps...," an autumn recital featuring the music of Bach, Mozart, Corigliano, Heggie and more.

No ticket required, donations welcome!

book
Faith and Fiction Book Club
Next Meeting: 8/31 @7pm  

All are welcome to join our Faith and Fiction Book Club in reading and discussing our new selection:  Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott. We will meet in the church library on August 31st at 7pm. 

Roland Park Presbyterian Church
4801 Roland Avenue
Baltimore, MD  21210

 Summer Office Hours: Mon-Thurs, 9:00am -- 2:30pm

410/889-2001
410/889-2990- Pastor's direct line
410/889-2000-fax