Our 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.

Our in-person services for Sunday, October 11 have been cancelled. Our pre-recorded service will be the only option for our service this week. If you have any questions, feel free to contact any of the pastors.

The Worship-At-Home Resource Page serves as a companion to the weekly worship video on the HBIC YouTube Channel and includes the song lyrics, the sermon scripture, reflection questions, plus some links for children. ...If you have more than one device and you'd like to see the lyrics to sing along, or have the sermon scripture handy to read along, you can have the video playing on one device while you follow along with the worship resource on the other!

Each week, we'll include here a link to the children's message... You can click here to view this week's special children's message by the Thompson family.

Each year on Missions Sunday, we take a special Missions Offering, which is used primarily to provide a love gift to all of the missionaries sent out from our church, plus a small portion for BIC World Missions. Giving toward this offering thus far has totaled $12,258.53, as of October 8. Thank you to the congregation for your generosity!

Contributions toward our Missions Offering can be given anytime between now and the end of October.

As a church family, let's keep in prayer those who have lost loved ones:

Please pray for Luis, Marcus, Juliano, and Isaiah Rodrigues and their extended family as they mourn the sudden passing of Mary Anne this week.

Please pray for Pat Morton and her family as they grieve the death of her nephew, who died in a shooting in St. Louis Friday night.

Please pray for Ryan Gephart, who lost a good friend this week, a friend who was a fellow student at both Messiah and Georgetown Law.

Each week, the opening page of our church's website, HBIC.church, has the registration links for both the 9 am and the 11 am services!

Please be sure to register (by Saturday at the latest) in order to help the staff to prepare the check-in list, etc.

During October, we plan to hold services outdoors in our fenced-parking-lot on 22nd St., across from our building's main sanctuary entrance. Bring your own chair if you can! (We'll also have some extra chairs available for those who may not have one.)

Volunteers will be needed to help with set up and tear down each week. If you'd like to help, please be sure to register early in the week (don't wait til Saturday), and check off that you'd be able to help if needed. Thanks!

If you have any questions about our outdoor services, contact Pastor Hank or Pastor Lynda. (Click here to see our protocols for meeting together during this time of COVID-19.) We look forward to seeing you if you are able to join us at our church property for our outdoor services next week!

Pastor Woody and a few others have formed a Tech Team that will be working to help ensure that anyone in our congregation who wants to connect virtually will be able to do so. They recently sent out a technology survey... You can access the survey here. Please help them out by taking a couple minutes to fill it out by October 18! Paper copies of the survey are also available to be mailed to you or someone you know who may need one - request a paper copy from office@harrisburgbic.org.

If you'd like to help with weeding some of the areas around our church, check out the video tutorial which gives a video tour of our property and the areas which need some help, complete with instruction captions! Click here to watch our Weeding Tutorial...

You're welcome to come to the church to do some weeding whenever you have some extra time. Feel free to stop by when it suits you, and work on one of the areas still in need... (Note: If you'd like to make use of any of the helpful tools/equipment featured in the video, you'll have to come to do weeding at a time when staff or property committee members are at the church, or pre-arrange your schedule with them.)

If you have any questions or would like to volunteer some time, feel free to contact Pastor Lynda, or call the church office.

It's not too late to sign up for one of the Life Group and Study Group opportunities available this fall... you can link to the printed information here. We're excited about the groups being offered and invite you to sign up for one of them this week!

...You can click here for a video from the various leaders sharing a bit more about their groups.

To sign up for one of the groups, click on the light green button below. Contact Pastor Woody if you have any questions about any of the groups.

Since we do not have a weekly worship service bulletin during this time, we are including a Schedule for the Week in this weekly email.

The following will be taking place during the week of October 11 to 17:

If you'd like more information, contact any of the pastors or the church office. And please keep these groups, gatherings, and meetings in prayer this week as you pray for the church.

Pastor Patty and some of our children's ministry volunteers are looking forward to hanging out with your children on Zoom, Monday afternoons at 4 pm, catching up with one another, playing some games, and praying together. Contact Pastor Patty for the link that your child will need for these times of connection designed especially for kids.

All are invited to join us for a Virtual Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings on Zoom, 7 pm.

We hope to see you at this special gathering to pray for one another, our church, community, and world! Click on the purple button below to link to the Prayer Meeting. Contact Pastor Hank for more info.

If you'd like to call in by phone (audio only), the number is 929-205-6099, and the Meeting ID is 810 3235 0433.

(Note: You'll be in a waiting room to start, not for long.)

The Missions Spotlight which had been scheduled for Wednesday evening, October 14, is being postponed until a Wednesday in November. Please watch for future announcements regarding the rescheduled date.

You're invited to bring your family, chairs and blankets and join us Saturday, October 24th for an Outdoor Movie Night sponsored by the Children’s Ministry Team!

Our feature movie will be Two by Two, God’s Little Creatures. One ark, 50,000 animals, what could go wrong? This is a charming, fun story of forgiveness, featuring the voices of Martin Sheen and Amy Grant - it's the story of Noah’s Ark like you’ve never seen before! The movie is rated G (81 minutes long) and will begin at 6pm. Popcorn will be served. (The plan is to be outdoors for the movie if weather permits; if not, it will be shown in the Large Youth Room/Open Area with seating distanced from one another.) Contact Pastor Patty with any questions.

All youth are welcomed to a Fall Party at 5pm on October 30th. We'll have food and lots of outdoor games. We're holding it at 339 North Locust Point Road, Mechanicsburg. Please look for an email from Pastor Brie with more details. 

We wanted to share some church dates that we know of for later in October and beyond for your calendar and planning... Contact any of the pastors or the church office for questions.