Annual Meeting Pastor’s Report – February 4, 2024

February 4, 2024 Annual Meeting Slides

Sunday Services

See below for a link to the live streaming of our services or to see previous services:

YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF6JWnNARixsYXmVVp-ImA/?guided_help_flow=5

Caring for God’s Creation

Friday, August 9
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (lunch included)

  Cost is $5 per child / $10 per family per session
 Children age 3 – entering 5th grade

God created an amazing world, and – as God’s children – we have been called to care for it.

Join youth and adult volunteers from Valley as we learn about the mysteries and science of our natural world; and how we can participate in nurturing and healing the earth and all its creatures.

 Activities will include music, movement, science lessons, working in the garden,
service projects, and bible story time.

Register by calling the office, or use the google form below:

Caring for God’s Creation Registration

Faith & Love:  Building Up Our Community with Fellowship, Meals, and Acts of Kindness

Coinciding with each of our Caring for God’s Creation events for children is a meal for all ages featuring a speaker from the community who will share their expertise, along with a related activity.  We would love for you to join us at our Table Together Meals.  Although it is not necessary, if you know you’re coming, please sign up below:

Friday, August 9 – Table Together Dinner – 5:30–7:00 p.m.
God’s plan needs all of us
Guest Speaker:  To be announced
Bloom where you are planted
RSVP:  https://forms.gle/bCahwwBNGWBe6BCG8

Community Meal

Tuesday, July 16
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

This month, we will, again, be engaging in our community meal program: preparing dinners to be available for pick-up or delivery.  These meals are our gift to the community:  to anyone who is in need of an evening of not cooking or the love that goes into making the food.

Menu:  Pork BBQ sandwiches, baked beans, macaroni salad, berry crisp

If you are interested in helping, we will be cooking meals from 9:30-11:30 a.m.; assembling from 3-4 p.m.; and distributing / delivering from 4-5:30 p.m.  In addition, if you would like to bake berry crisp (your recipe of choice) at home, please drop off by 10 a.m. on July 16th.

To sign up to volunteer, sign up on the church website or click the link below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090F44AAAA2BA4F49-free

To sign up for the meal, sign up on the church website or click the link below:

https://forms.gle/PhyM44jTUCULREmt5

August 2, 2024

The service bulletin for this Sunday, August 4, 2024, is below.

Next weekend, August 11, will be Chapel in the Woods!  See announcement below.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(additional announcements are in the bulletin and newsletter)

Chapel in the Woods

Next Sunday, August 11, 2024, we will worship amid the beautiful sights and sounds of God’s creation in our outdoor chapel (weather permitting).  Please dress comfortably.

Knitting For Others

Inviting all folks from 12-100 years of age, who like to knit or who would like to learn, to be a part of Valley’s Knitting Group.  We will be knitting special items like prayer shawls, blankets, and other helpful and comforting items for our members and people in our community.

The group will meet (come when your schedule allows):

August
Sunday, August 11 — 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 20 — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

For questions, please call one of our Co-Chairs, Beverly or Bev:

Beverly Wahl – 502-553-7255

Bev Keough – 330-888-5385

Mid-week Lunch Group – August 14

All are welcome to gather for lunch together at Buckeye Café (located across from the church in Tanglewood Square) at noon on the second Wednesday of each month (August 14, September 11, etc.) for a time of good food, great coffee, and even better conversations.

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LINKS

Church YouTube Channel

The livestream of the worship service is being broadcast via the Valley YouTube channel using this link:

Link to YouTube Live

Link to Facebook

Link to Prayer Request List

Link to Sermons

Link to service bulletin:

Sunday, August 4, 2024 service bulletin

July 16, 2024

“Don’t neglect to open up your homes to guests, because by doing this some have been hosts to angels without knowing it.” (Hebrews 13:2, Common English Bible)

Members and Friends of Valley,

One of the most heart-warming aspects of my experience at General Assembly in Salt Lake City was the amazing hospitality shown to us by our hosts from the Presbytery of Utah.  It is no small task to welcome, guide, and assist more than one thousand commissioners, advisory delegates, national staff, and volunteers for a week, and these Presbyterians handled their task with efficiency, joy, and grace.

The first Presbyterian mission workers arrived in the western territory that would become Utah in the mid-1800’s, roughly the same time as the Mormon church was established in the area.  Thus, there has never been a time when they did not live, work, and worship alongside a much-large presence of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints.

Currently, there are twenty Presbyterian churches in the entire state of Utah, with just over 3,000 members.  Eight of those congregations hosted guests for worship on Sunday and each provided lunch for their many guests.  I spent the morning at Cottonwood Presbyterian Church in suburban Salt Lake City and was fascinated to hear the many ways they are involved in the community, particularly in food ministries and helping recent immigrants.  And throughout the week, volunteers were present in and around the convention center to assist visitors in multiple ways.

I always consider it a privilege when Valley is able to host visitors into our church home.  This week, we will be providing a free community meal; folks will be coming to shop at our Pass-It-On resale store; and others will be dropping off clothes and school supplies in our parking lot this Saturday for the Homeless Hookup CLE back-to-school drive.  These ministries help to facilitate the strengthening of our community by both giving help to those who are in need and offering ways for people to share of what they have in impactful ways.

Throughout scripture, angels are the sometimes mysterious figures who deliver God’s message.  As the church, we believe that by providing opportunities for sharing, we are helping to spread God’s message of love.  And that is what we want our church home to be – a locus of hospitality which offers welcome, sharing, caring, and love.

Thank you all who help to make our church a home of hospitality.

In Christ,
Pastor John

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(additional announcements are in the bulletin and newsletter)

Pass-it-on

The store will be open on:
Friday, July 19, 2024 (1 p.m. – 4 p.m.)
Saturday, July 20, 2024 (10 a.m. – 2 p.m.)

Homeless Hookup STUFF the Bus Fundraiser

Homeless Hookup will be collecting:  New bookbags, school supplies (K – 12), new or like new kids clothes and shoes (K – 12), Kleenex, lunchboxes.

Valley Presbyterian Church (parking lot)
July 20th, 2024 (10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.)

Knitting For Others

Inviting all folks from 12-100 years of age, who like to knit or who would like to learn, to be a part of Valley’s Knitting Group.  We will be knitting special items like prayer shawls, blankets, and other helpful and comforting items for our members and people in our community.

The group will meet (come when your schedule allows):

July
Sunday, July 21 — 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 30 — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

August
Sunday, August 11 — 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 20 — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

For questions, please call one of our Co-Chairs, Beverly or Bev:

Beverly Wahl – 502-553-7255

Bev Keough – 330-888-5385

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LINKS

Church YouTube Channel

The livestream of the worship service is being broadcast via the Valley YouTube channel using this link:

Link to YouTube Live

Link to Facebook

Link to Prayer Request List

Link to Sermons

Link to service bulletin:

Sunday, July 21, 2024 Service Bulletin

Sunday, July 28, 2024 Service Bulletin

Pass-It-On Mission Store