As we seek to continue to keep connected as a church family even while apart from one another, below you will find several ways to participate in worship, prayer, and service with others from HBIC. We invite you to join us in any of these various ways this week!
There's also some important "announcement-type" 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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ONLINE WORSHIP
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.
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WORSHIP-AT-HOME RESOURCES
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, 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!
May you experience the peace and presence of God
as you worship this week!
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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 May 10 to May 16:
- 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)
- Tuesday, 6:30 pm - Finance Committee Meeting (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 5:30 pm - Jr. High Youth Group (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 7 pm - Virtual Prayer Meeting (Zoom)
- Thursday, 1-2:30 pm - Food Pantry Distribution (outside CE Room)
- Thursday, 4 pm - Creation Kids (Zoom)
- Friday, 7 pm - Zoom Connection (Zoom)
If you'd like to participate in any of these and
need a link, a meeting ID, or more information, contact:
Any of the pastors or the
church office for the other adult gatherings
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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SISTERHOOD FACEBOOK GROUP
Did you know that our church's Women's Ministry has a private Facebook group called
The Sisterhood? The group originated several years ago when, after one of our Women's Ministry Retreats, the women wanted to continue the connections with one another that had been fostered in that time away together. Today, about a hundred women are involved in the group, where praises and prayer requests are shared, where a "question of the day" is sometimes posted, or where Pastor Carmen sometimes shares an encouraging word.
If you would like to be added to this Facebook group to connect with other women and encourage one another, please send a note to
Pastor Carmen.
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WEEDING, PART TWO
Many thanks from all the members of the Property Committee to all the generous volunteers who worked their amazing gardening skills for the HBIC flower beds. Last Saturday the Property Committee team was able to spread over 10 cubic yards of mulch at the Derry Street and 22nd Street flower beds. It couldn't have been initiated without the amazing work of many hands.
As we move through May, there is more mulch that needs to be applied to the other flower beds...
In planning out the rest of the month,
we are looking for more folks interested in weeding the flower beds. The Property Committee would be grateful for your desire to serve for another
1 or 2 rounds of a weeding effort
in May.
Anyone interested in helping with the needed weeding is encouraged
to email
Rob Shoaff,
to call (717-614-3719), or
to click the link below to access the sign-up sheet for volunteering.
Thanks in advance for your continued thoughts, prayers and concerns about our local Body of Christ as we stay connected during these times!
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E-MAIL PRECAUTIONS
A couple of times in the last two weeks, emails have been received by people in our church that appeared to come from Pastor Hank, but they were not from him. In the first case, someone made up a gmail address using his name and asked for gift cards to be purchased; in the second case, the subject line was his name and the email asked for a reply.
If an email asks you to send money or gift cards, you can be confident it is not from the church. Any invitations to give that come from the church will include clear ways to give through our normal channels, by check to the church or through our online giving portal. We wouldn't ask for funds in any other way.
Here's an important tip for email usage: If an email seems suspicious, you can hold your computer cursor over the sending address to double check that the sending address is legitimately from the church. All of our church emails will come from @harrisburgbic.org addresses.
One more tip: It's always best not to reply to and not to forward suspicious emails. ...If you're not sure about something you've received, you can always take a screen shot of an email and send it to any of the staff to verify whether or not it's real, or you can give us a call and ask.
The church has recently added some additional layers of internet security to our computers, and the illegitimate emails in Pastor Hank's name have been reported to our email hosting service. We are being as vigilant as we can be and would encourage you to be as well.
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MASKS NEEDED?
If you don't yet have face masks for your household, contact
Pastor Lynda. The church still has a limited quantity of masks that people have made and donated that we'd be happy to provide for anyone from HBIC who may still have a need.
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FRIDAY LIFE GROUP
If you'd like to join a life group that meets by Zoom through this time when groups can't meet in person, the Life Group which meets Fridays at 12 pm has 2 open spots. Contact
Pastor Carmen if you're interested.
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PRAYING TOGETHER
On Wednesday evenings, we are hosting a
Virtual Prayer Meeting each week, 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 (meeting ID:
433-644-241) to get the audio-feed. ...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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TIME TO CHAT!
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, no planned agenda for the gathering, join us!
This week's Zoom Connection gatherings will be held on
Monday, May 11, 10:00 am and then again on
Friday, May 15, 7:00 pm.
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GALLERY OF SABBATH CREATIONS
Have you checked out our website gallery lately? More creations are added each week!
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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AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
If you'd like a DVD copy of any of the online worship services, or a CD copy of any of the sermons, click the button below to order. Please designate whether you'd like these mailed to you or if you'd like to arrange a time to pick them up.
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ONE LAST TIP...
Anytime you see
italicized, underlined, blue text in these emails, you can click on that highlighted text in order to get a link to whatever it is referencing (an email address, a web page, or a pdf document).
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