State College Presbyterian Church

Worship Schedule
Sundays
Worship: 9am & 11:15am
Sunday School: 10am
Coffee Hour: 10am

Wednesdays
Taize Service: 5pm

Special Worship
Sunday Bulletin

THE SUMMER WORSHIP SCHEDULE BEGINS MAY 25 (Memorial Day Weekend) THROUGH AUGUST 31, (Labor Day Weekend) WITH ONE SINGLE WORSHIP SERVICE AT 10:00 a.m.  COFFEE HOUR IS HELD AFTER WORSHIP
IN THE SOCIAL HALL.

Church News

May Adult Education

May 4 -- New Challenges for the Women's Resource Center

May 4, 11 & 18 -- Last Lecture: The Story of Randy Pausch

May 11 -- Toward Our New Life in Thailand

May 18 -- God's Breath in Us

May 25 -- No Adult Ed. -- Single Worship Circle

 

Confirmation Sunday, May 11

Please plan to attend and participate in the service of Confirmation on Pentecost Sunday, May 11.  This year's class includes Sara Birmingham, Kevin Patterson, Will Lush, Max Sutterlin, and Suzie Shoffner.  Each will profess their faith publicly and  be confirmed as adult member sin our congregation.  The class will also be leading us in worship.  Confirmation is an important rite of passage in the Christian life.  We hope you will be present to help us celebrate as these young people move to adult status in our church.  Special thanks go out to Covenant Partners Greg Elliott, Bob Foster, David Beppler, Maura McConnell, and John Rodgers, and to class coordinators Kim Hunziker, Rachel Mastin, and John Robison.

Small Group Meets Every Other Monday
at 7:00 p.m. in the Martin Room

Our final meeting will be:May 19 with Mike Madera, Esq., District Attorney

We would love to have you join us. For more information, please e-mail this semester's leader, Phil Zimmerman or contact the Small Group leader Geoff Harford or contact via phone at 814-237-1536.

Education Celebrations

May 18th is 2nd Grade Bible Presentation Sunday   During the 9:00 worship service we will recognize the 2nd Graders in our church and hand out gift Bibles to them during the children's message time.  Letters of invitation are being mailed out to all families of 2nd graders.  If you have not received one yet, please call Deannine Shipman at the church office (238-2422).  

May 18th is also our last Sunday of regular Sunday School.

Chrysalis Summer Fun

An open invitation to all Chrysalis folks (if you're in 6th, 7th or 8th grade this year -- that's you!).  We have a special fun event scheduled each month between now and when we get started again in the fall.  We'll be sending out flyers - but encourage you to get these dates on your calendar now:

May 9 & 10 -- 8th grade Mission Trip to Pittsburgh

May 20 -- Bowling at Northland Lanes

June 24 -- Spikes Game

July 15 -- Movie at the Elliott's (upcoming 6ths invited!)

August 19 -- Swim Party at the McConnell's (upcoming 6ths invited!)

Questions?  Contact Maura (867-5544) or Diana (238-2422).

Young at Heart in May

Young at Heart will meet Friday, May 16th in the Social Hall.  Lou Prato, a member of our Church and past Director of the Penn State Sports Museum, will tell us about interesting experiences of Penn State athletes.  The title of his talk is "Penn State Unknown Sports History".  Come at 5:00 p.m. for social time before our pot-luck dinner at 5:30 p.m.  Bring a covered dish of meat, salad, vegetable or dessert and your own table service.  All are welcome.  Please wear your nametag. Questions -- call Ron or Hope Coder (234=8-8717).

Progressive Dinner -- May 17

Plan to attend this year's Progressive DInner to enjoy good food and fellowship!

This year's event encourages participants to prepare a favorite dish within a category of choice.  All participants will assemble at the home of Cynthia MannellaNickell and Ken Nickell for appetizers and fellowship.  Following hors d'oeuvres, all will split into groups of 6, 8, or 10 (previously assigned) and travel to their host's home for the main course.  Each couple (or single participant) will bring their own favorite selection of appetizer, dessert, or salad and bread.  Hosts will provide the main course.  Following the main course, all will reassemble at the home of Dot and Dave Colton for dessert.

For info call Dot Colton (237-9527) or Connie DiNunzio (867-3125).

Prayer Shawl Group Meets 5/31

9:00-10:30 am

The focus of this new small group is praying through the process of creating shawls; knitted, crocheted, sewn, weaved, quilted or by any other technique.  Gatherings include praying together as a group in silence, time to work on shawls, ceremonies for blessing completed shawls, praying for the recipients of the shawls, and sharing our stories as we journey on this ministry.  Through a contact of SCPC's Rachel Mastin we are joining efforts with another prayer shawl group to make shawls to be sent to Iraq.  Their goal is to send 150 shawls!  No experience in making shawls is necessary, just a love of creating and a belief in the healing power of prayer.  The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, May 31st in the Library from 9:00 - 10:30 am. If you are interested in becoming part of this group or if you have questions, contact Maura McConnell at 867-5544 or see the article in the February PresbyPost Newsletter.

JUNE

Summer Theater Fun 'n Fellowship

The Congregational Fellowship Ministry Unit is sponsoring two theater fellowship events this summer at the Downtown Theatre Center on Allen St.  We will see the final preview performance of the award winning Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot" on Thursday, June 26.  The group rate tickets for the preview are a fabulous value at $21.50; if you go on your own for an evening performance after the preview the cost is $40!  The second fellowship show for the summer is a new musical called "Ordinary Days"; we will go on Saturday, August 2.  Tickets are $30, wich includes pre-show "heavy hors d'oeuvres" at the home of Martha and Brian Orland.

More information about the musicals and the pre-show party will be in the June PresbyPost.  If you know now you want to attend, you can reserve your tickets early.  Sunday, June 8 is the deadline to order and pay for "Camelot"; Sunday, July 13 is the deadline to order and pay for "Ordinary Days."  Please contact Linda Morrow (lmorrow@psu.edu or 237-5858) after May 4 as soon as you know you want to reserve tickets.  Pay for the tickets by check made out to Linda Morrow or to Penn State and mail to Linda at 240 Lion's Hill Rd., E401, State College, PA  16803.

OTHER INFO

Changes in Child Care

Most of our wonderful caregivers will be away for the summer.  Our church requires two caregivers in each room.  Please consider helping pand playing with our little ones!

When?  Anytime amid-May through late Augsut.  Time? Anytime during service(s) and/or Sunday School  Where?  Rooms 101 and 102   Who?  Helpers of all ages are warmly appreciated.  Please contact Kelly Thom, Childcare Coordinator (ket113@comcast.net or 867-4098).

Eagle Scout Project Help

Max Sutterlin has begun the planning stages for his Boy Scout Eagle Project.  He plans to improve the handicapped accessibility in Westminster Hall by installing an elevator lift at the back corner of the stage.  This will enable people who are not able to use the steps down into Westminster Hall to be able to fully participate in activities that are held there.  The Church will help to finance this project, but approximately $5000 still needs to be raised in order to complete the project.  If you are interested in helping Max make this project happen and would like to contribute financially, you can send a check to the church office (made out to "SCPC" with "Max Sutterlin Eagle Project" in the memo).  This project will benefit everyone in the church that values participation of all people who want to enjoy and participate in programs in Westminster Hall.

Krislund Camp 2008

Registration for Krislund Camp is open for Summer 2008.  You can visit the Krislund web site or pick up a brochure/registration form from the rack outside the Church Office.  Scholarships are available through the Deacons by contacting Joel Blunk (238-2422). 

More information is available on the Krislund web site about:

1. Counselor positions are available for young adults, age 16 through College Age
2. Adult volunteers are needed to serve in the kitchen, maintenance, arts & crafts, camp store and assistant counselors
3. Grandparents can go to camp with their grandchild(ren) during the new "Bring Your Grandparent to Camp" experience, August 3-5
4. Opportunity to assist inner-city Harrisburg youth who can't afford camp.  Your donation of  a $300 scholarship will help to bring one of the 47 identified youth to Krislund for a week.

Give the Gift of Fair Trade
Stop in and visit Diana Malcom in the Youth Office to see and purchase some of the beautiful and tasty items that are available through the Presbyterian Coffee Project. We offer fair trade coffee, cocoa, chocolate and tea.  And, it is great coffee!  Rich chocolate!  You will probably want some for yourself as well as a nice basket/gift to give away. 

You can learn more about Fair Trade and the social justice implications of these two organizations at the following web sites: www.agreatergift.org  or  www.equalexchange.org.

New Spiritual Formation Blog
View our most recent edition.

Food Bank and Bags
Please remember to check for the current list of needs for the SC Area Food Bank and include donations for them in your shopping cart. Bring your donations to church, leave them at one of the main entrances of the church and the Deacons will deliver the donations to the Food Bank.

And remember, too, that the canvas bags that the Deacons provided for shopping are meant to be a way to conserve the amazing resources of our earth by being reusable and share-able. If you have bags at home, or in your car, please return them to a rack in the entry ways so that others may fill them as well!

Church's Habitat House
We're building a house for Habitat. Go to the Habitat page to learn more and to sign up. We need your help.