B
elow you will find several ways to participate in worship and prayer with others from HBIC. We invite you to join us in these various ways this week!
We've also added some other information in this week's e-mail, so be sure to scroll the whole way through!
We continue to pray that you will experience the riches of the Lord's presence during this time that we are not able to be present with one another!
-- HBIC Pastoral Staff
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ur pastoral staff are working together each week to record a worship service for our church family. The service will be available on the
HBIC YouTube Channel
on Sunday mornings by 9 am, as well as anytime thereafter.
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T
hese worship resources are designed to help you and your family participate with our online-worship video for Sunday. We invite you to sing, pray, worship, be nourished by his Word, and reflect on the joy of the Lord!
The
Worship-At-Home Resource Page
serves as a companion to the weekly worship video on the HBIC YouTube Channel. ...If you have more than one device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) and you'd like to see the lyrics to sing along, you can have the video playing on one device while you follow along with the worship resource on the other!
And when the video service is over, you'll have a chance to continue to reflect, as well as to discuss the message, using the questions provided.
May you experience the love and presence of God
as you worship this week!
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C
alling
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ll
G
raduates!
I
f you or someone in your home either graduated from
college/grad school
since last spring or is about to graduate this spring, please let us know! The info we'd like to have is: Student Name, College or University, Degree, and Future Plans.
And if you or someone in your home is graduating from
high school
at the end of this school year, we want your info as well: Student Name, High School, and Future Plans.
Please send your info ASAP to Pastor Brie, either by
email
or by phone (717-561-2170, ext. 121. Thanks in advance for your help in recognizing the achievements of our graduates!
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Our Church Property needs helping hands...
T
he Property Committee's planned Church-wide Spring Work Day has needed to shift a bit. We are working at a way to provide small family-group efforts to steward the church property.
We are in immediate need of Flower Bed Adoption or some volunteer hours to pull weeds. Anyone who is interested in spending 1-2 hours weeding the beds, either as a one-time thing or a potential ongoing effort, the Property Committee would be grateful for your desire to serve.
Anyone interested in helping with the needed weeding should please call or email
Rob Shoaff (717-614-3719;
gleanhbg@gmail.com
), or to click the link below for the sign-up sheet for volunteering.
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One of our HBIC families recently heard of the need for blood donations and asked us to consider hosting a
Red Cross Blood Drive
in order to help meet this need in our community. With the cancellations of blood drives that typically happen during the spring at high schools and college/university campuses, there is more of a need for blood donations. Since
"serving the needs of our local and global communities"
is part of our church's vision,
we are exploring the possibility of offering to serve as a host and would like your input
.
We wondered if a Blood Drive is something our congregation might do in these days of Covid-19. (The Red Cross carries out blood drives with an emphasis on safety and with precautions like people donating by appointment only.) Before we contact the Red Cross about the possibility of hosting a Blood Drive, we'd really like to hear from you.
Please respond to the poll below...
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1) If HBIC were to host a Blood Drive, would you consider donating blood at this drive?
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Yes, I would donate blood
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Not eligible to donate blood
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2) If HBIC were to host a Blood Drive, would you be willing to serve on-site as a volunteer??
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Yes, I would serve on-site
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S
ince we do not have a weekly worship service bulletin during this time, we are adding a
Schedule for the Week
to this weekly email.
The following will be taking place during the week of April 26 to May 2:
- Sunday, 9 am - Online Worship (HBIC YouTube Channel)
- Sunday, 10:30 am - Youth Sunday School (Zoom)
- Sunday, 7 pm - Sr. High Youth Group (Zoom)
- Monday, 10 am - Zoom Connection (Zoom)
- Monday, 4 pm - Creation Kids (Zoom)
- Monday, 8:15 pm - Young Adult Monday Book Study (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 5:30 pm - Jr. High Youth Group (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 7 pm - Virtual Prayer Meeting (Zoom)
- Thursday, 4 pm - Creation Kids (Zoom)
- Thursday, 7 pm - Gospel Choir (Zoom)
- Friday, 7 pm - Zoom Connection (Zoom)
- Saturday, 10 am - Creation Kids (Zoom)
If you'd like to participate in any of these and need more information, contact:
We also invite you to join in praying for these various ministry
opportunities throughout the week and for those who may participate!
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O
n Wednesday evenings, we are hosting a
Virtual Prayer Meeting
each week. This will give us an opportunity to connect together for prayer. We'll connect by using Zoom at
7 pm
.
You're able to use a computer, tablet, or phone to join our
Virtual Prayer Meeting
with video; or call in by phone, (929) 205-6099 to get the audio-feed. Our plan is to have the meeting link activated around 6:50 pm. ...You'll need Zoom installed on your device ahead of time in order to connect - if you need some guidance for this, contact
office@harrisburgbic.org
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e've added to our Zoom meeting schedule -- we have a couple of times each week for people to come together more informally,
Zoom Connection
. If you'd like to see others from HBIC and have some time to sit and chat with one another, join us!
This week's Zoom Connection gatherings will be held on
Monday, April 27, 10:00 am
and
Friday, May 1, 7:00 pm
.
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W
hile you may be doing some spring cleaning and sorting, if you come up with used greeting cards or Christmas cards,
please don't throw them out!
The Christmas cards can be used to make books that are given out at the BIC Christmas banquets in India, and greeting and birthday cards can be used to make bookmarks for libraries and cards like the ones Pastor Patty and Pastor Carmen sent out at Easter.
If you have used cards to donate, contact the
church office
to arrange a time to drop them off.
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A
nd don't forget -
Photos, please!
...We're collecting an assortment of photos -- some of you on Sundays as you join our worship service from home, as you participate in Zoom meetings with others, as children enjoy things from Pastor Patty, as you create things, etc. We'd really like our collection of photos to continue to grow!
Once we are able to worship all together again, we are hoping to have a collection of photos from this time to use in our celebrations. Please send your photos to
Pastor Lynda
. (And be sure to let her know who is in the pictures.) Thanks for your help!
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I
f you haven't checked out our
Gallery of Sabbath Creations
yet on the HBIC website, click
here
to see what some of our people, younger and older, have been up to!
And if you have creations to submit, send them along to
Pastor Brie
!
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