This Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019
8:30 & 11:00 Worship Services
14th Sunday after Pentecost
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The Stone of Help
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
This week in worship will be a joyous celebration of our youth’s experience at Triennium! The youth will each be speaking about their personal experience and sharing their video production. The great hymn,
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Robert Robinson, was the prompting for the theme of the week,
Here’s My Heart.
When we give our hearts to the Lord, God’s grace abounds. On the PCUSA website there is an article posted regarding God’s grace and our sin. It is under a section about what we believe as Presbyterians. It is an article by Susan Nelson titled,
The Freeing Grace of Forgiveness. Below is a segment from her article:
Presbyterians have always taken sin and our human need for forgiveness seriously. Whether we have spoken of total depravity, of original sin, or of the human proclivity to idolatrous ways, our tradition has acknowledged that if life is from time to time murky and ambiguous, laced with conflict and death, in our sin human beings make things much worse. We are sinners and “become debtors to the justice of God” (Larger Catechism).
And we have known that human sin is evident not only in the ways we turn from God but also in the implications that that turning has on our fellow creatures. In our sin, we brutally violate one another, fashion systems like apartheid that exclude some while favoring others and ignore the needy face of our brother or sister fallen by the side of the road. We can also sin in our attempts to be our very best selves. As the Confession of 1967 states:
“All men [and women], good and bad alike, are in the wrong before God and helpless without [God’s] forgiveness. Thus all … fall under God’s judgment. No one is more subject to that judgment than the [person] who assumes that he [or she] is guiltless before God or morally superior to others.”
If confession is good for the soul, then Presbyterians have been formed in the confessional, following patterns of repentance and gratitude for the grace of God that is our only source of hope. By God’s grace, we have affirmed, we are justified. It is God’s action, God’s forgiveness, that sets us free to become new persons in Christ.
To read the entire article go to this link:
Have a blessed week,
Pastor Jeri-Lynne
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The Mission Study Team has formed with the these members: Charlie Bergmann co-chair, production management), Cathy Levy (co-chair, IT/management/community service), Linda Billman (enroll agent/tax advisor), Karen Gagel (ministry/teaching), Janet Gross (survey development/political scientist), John Harder (scientist/professor in biology), Karen Hjelm (IT/community service), Megan Koeneman (Deacons contact), Bob Lowery (actuary), Cassie Lowery (surveying expertise/applied social psychology), Jennifer LuPiba (marketing), Nan Winslow (liberal arts), and consults, Sara Clark (lawyer), John Griffin (regional economist), Heidi Hallas (management/budget analyst), Jeff Roedel (marketing/writing/editing). We had our kick-off meeting on Sept. 10, where we planned our steps and divided into teams. The most important step will be a survey of the entire congregation; this survey will be more extensive than the Heart-to-Hearts with Jeri-Lynne which are helping to orient us. You’ll be hearing from us and we want to hear from you.
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Labyrinth Dedication & Spirituality Festival
This Sun., Sept. 15, 12:15pm
Celebrate our labyrinth and the beauty of our souls. Crafts, practices, yoga, games. We’re ordering pizza, so it would be great to RSVP to
Katie. And if you want to share a side dish or dessert, that would be lovely.
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Electronic Statements
Receive your quarterly statement of giving from Covenant electronically. Emailing statements is less expensive for the church, provides quicker delivery, is environmentally friendly, and you can save/print your statement for your files. Interested? Email
Ingrid Smith.
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Parents' Night Out
Fri., Sept. 13, 6-8:30pm (2nd Fri./month)
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World Communion Sunday Oct. 6
10am One Service. 11:30am Potluck lunch.
Volunteers are needed to help with set up, clean up and providing a side dish. Sign-up sheets are in the hall and inserted in bulletins.
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Spiritual Cinema
Mon., Sept. 16, 6:30-9pm, Lounge
Good Night and Good Luck is a 2005 historical drama that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Contact
Beth Askue or
Susan Imel.
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Tattoos on the Heart:
The Power of Boundless Compassion
by Gregory Boyle
Wed., Sept. 18, 7pm, Lounge
Led by
Katie Kinnison. Discuss stories of transformation from a pastor who serves with gang members in LA. Books are on the welcome table and book cart.
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Peanut Brittle Cooking
Starts Thur., Sept. 19, 9am-1:30pm, kitchen
Please bring in 1 lb. coffee cans, Kroger or Giant Eagle 80% margarine, and white sugar. We'll need cooks and other help. A great opportunity for fellowship and fun. Contact
Nancy Davidson.
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Primetimers’ Potluck & Program
Fri., Sept. 20, 12pm, Lounge
We will be playing BINGO. Come and win some fabulous prizes. Bring a dish to share and your table service. Call Jude McLean at 614-457-9177 if you have questions.
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Our Mission
Covenant Presbyterian Church is an open, accepting community awakening to God's life-giving love together.
Our Vision
Covenant Presbyterian Church glorifies God and builds relationships with Christ and each other through: worship that inspires, nurture that embraces, education that challenges,
fellowship that energizes, ministry that responds.
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