WELCOME BACK

Join us this Sunday, April 11th
as we celebrate the opening of our Church Building for Worship

Special thanks to

Hill to Hill Brass Quintet
and
for sharing special music

and to those taking part
in Sunday's service:

Ken Koehnlein, Head Usher
John Barone, Usher
Cindy Talaber, Usher
Chuck & Karen Talboo, Lay Readers & Mission Moment
Our Stream Team

To follow along during the service click here
to print out the order of worship.

You know have 3 different options to join us for worship:

  1. Watch the live streaming via youtube at home 
  2. Listen over the phone with live phone streaming 1-855-883-5992 (toll free)
  3. Join us Sundays in the sanctuary - registration required (Click here for details) 

Is there someone in your life in need of prayer? Click here to fill out a prayer request form and Pastor Bruce will mention that person’s first name during worship. Please be sensitive to privacy. Permission to share from those involved must be granted before making a request.
Letter from our Conference Minister

Dear friends,

While I was reading through devotionals this week, I came upon this from Diana Butler Bass who quotes a response to a question asked during a podcast interview with Jim Wallis. I share this with you as I think this is how many of us are feeling right now.
 
Diana writes, “While taping a podcast about Freeing Jesus, Jim Wallis asked me how it goes with my soul these days. What a question! Happiness for new words in the world, the joy of Jesus’s Easter uprising. Weariness of long pandemic isolation, brokenhearted over the courtroom testimony about a death that never should have happened. My soul? A Janus-like spirit, leaping toward renewal yet still lugging a yoke that is anything but light.
 
Resurrection, yes. But haunted by the insurrections of fear and falsity that are ripping the world.
 
And so, after a long day of many Zoom calls and challenging conversations, I walked. For a couple of miles. Right now, my Virginia neighborhood resembles a florist shop, everything blooming, every color in flower. The dogwoods are among my favorites, the odd timber that is both tree and flower. In floral lore, the dogwood symbolizes spiritual rebirth, the blossoms seen as sacred, as tokens of light, bearers of the Christ consciousness to the earth.
 
The dogwood at the end of my street seemed to call toward me, beckoning to draw near and gaze. There’s an old southern legend that dogwoods grew in Jerusalem — and that one gave its wood for Jesus’s cross. Because of this, the dogwood was cursed (its short stature a ‘punishment’ for being the wood of death) but it also became a blessing. Blessing? For on each twisted branch burst forth petals of lightness and light.
 
That’s what I felt when Jim asked after my soul. Like the dogwood. Knowing the knottiness of death in this world, yet witnessing the flowering of new life from gnarled wounds. Resurrection, yes. But under the shaded insurrections of the deep forest. The twisted timber, and the most fragile flower.
 
How’s your soul today?”[1]
 
It is a good question. Theological studies of John Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodist Church, indicate that he began almost all conversations with a similar question, “How is it with your soul?” Followed them by the question, “What have you done for the poor lately?” The dogwood blossoms give Diana hope. What gives you hope in these days? Blooming flowers, budding trees and chirping birds give me hope.
 
Oh, and how is it with your soul?

Blessings,
Bonnie
 
[1] Diana Butler Bass from The Cottage <dianabutlerbass@substack.com>

CURRENT NEEDS

The pantry is well stocked but could use

SPAGHETTI SAUCE
MEAL HELPERS
(chicken/tuna/hamburger helper)

Drop your donations at Center Valley or Coopersburg Post Offices
or the Southern Lehigh Library. Donations can also be dropped
off on Wednesday mornings from 9-10 am at the pantry.
Thank you for your continued support.

Let's remember our Friends, Members, Forget-Me-Nots and others as we continue through this pandemic. Keep each other in your thoughts and prayers and stay connected if possible.

Birthdays:

April
10- Kay Ruser
11- Adam Heineman
11- Avery Koser
12- James Snyder
12- Chris Miller
13- Corinne Gunkle
16- Ryan Schoenberger
22- Jan Hughes
22- Sonya Dill
23- Dee Hutchinson
25- Nancy Schantz
25- Vaughn Stoffey
27- Tyler Schaffer
27-Karli Hieter
28- Tom Hovis
28- Kevin Gollie
29- Adam Weidner
  
(If you would like to send cards, addresses can be found in the Members & Friends Directory link at the bottom of this email.)

Click here for a list of birthdays and addresses of our Forget-Me-Not's. Some phone numbers are also included if you'd like to give a call! Also included on the list are names, addresses, and phone numbers of members who usually attend services but don't get to see the recorded services on a regular basis. Reach out to them and say hello or fill them in on the weekly news!
A Special THANK YOU to all who continue to financially support our ministry as you are able. Through these uncertain times our financial obligations continue and our regular bills are still coming in. Again we'd like to remind you there are several ways you can do this:

  1. Mail your offering directly to the church
  2. Make an electronic donation through Tithe.ly on our website's Giving page
  3. Use your bank's Bill Pay service
IMPORTANT LINKS

****Updated March 25, 2021***

Need to make changes, corrections, or additions to our Church Directory? Click HERE to let us know if your info is current or if we need to make
changes. Thanks in advance for taking the time to keep our
Church Directory up to date.





Contact us via email or call the church office at 610.282.3939

Dennis J. Duda, Organist & Music Director
Sandy David, Parish Administrator
(click on names to send an email)