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UPCOMING EVENTS: 

PINE STREET MEN will meet for breakfast on Saturday, September 11.  This is a great way to start the day, and even better way to prepare for worship on Sunday.  Breakfast is at served at 8 a.m., conversation and fellowship will follow.  We end by 9 a.m.  You will have the remainder of the day to work off the calories consumed at breakfast.  Arrive by 7 a.m. to help with set-up and enjoy fellowship and coffee while cheering on the cooks and those brewing the coffee.   Sign-up at the Welcome Center. 

INTERESTED IN MEMBERSHIP?  For those considering membership at Pine Street, the next New Members Class will begin on Sunday, September 12.  If you are interested, please speak with Rev. Lang or sign-up at the Welcome Center in the Gathering Place.

ALL CHURCH PICNIC. Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 26, 2010, when we will gather at Lower Allen Park for food, fun, and fellowship.  More details to come…..

THE CHOIR is looking for new singers! If you are interested in music and can give an evening each week … we need you!  This is a fun group that loves a good time along with working hard to make beautiful music for the congregation week after week.  If you are interested, please speak to Tom Clark-Jones.  We need your voice to complete our choir!

KOALA stands for Kids On A Lifelong Adventure.  Please reserve your Wednesday evenings this fall from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. for this adventure in learning and fun at KOALA CLUB.  This program includes students from 1^st through 5^th grades.  Sign-ups will begin Sunday, August 1 at the Welcome Center. This program will run from October through May with a suggested donation of $30.00 to help cover costs of the materials needed.

RALLY DAY IS Sunday, September 12 from 9:40 to 10:40 a.m. in Fellowship Hall.  Come and join your Pine Street friends to enjoy music, a continental breakfast, and fellowship as we kickoff the new program year.  There is no cost for the breakfast, but there will be sign-ups beginning Sunday, August 1 at the Welcome Center.

MISSION POSSIBLE FUND – Volunteer at Hershey Park by volunteering to work in the Food and Beverage areas of Hershey Park and the Giant Center in Hershey we can raise money to fund PSPC mission efforts.  New mission projects can be started and established projects can continue without worrying about “Where will we get the money?”  And maybe we’ll again be able to help financially support missioners on outbound mission trips. Members of Pine Street, their relatives and friends can all be involved in this effort.  Anyone who volunteers will earn $5.85 / hour for Pine Street’s Mission Possible Fund.  They will volunteer their time, the fund will get the money.  BUT the other great positive is that each volunteer will earn a voucher for free admission to Hershey Park or Dutch Wonderland each time he/she volunteers.  Sometimes the volunteer can earn 2 or 3 vouchers.  OH MY!!!  Sign-up at the Welcome Center.  August should be a month with a lot of volunteering opportunities.  If you are interested in more information, contact Debbie Olson at dolsonmassage@hotmail.com . 

HOME- GROWN  VEGGIES  --  Do you like to tend that garden patch at home?  Do you have so much growing success that you have too many tomatoes  (onions? zucchini? peppers?)  to even give away?   If so, welcome to the Pine Street Garden Basket! Beginning Sunday, July 18, and continuing through the summer gardening season, the Mission Committee will be hosting an area at the Missions Table in the Gathering Place for home gardeners to donate their excess produce.  Any vegetables deposited in the basket are available for anyone to take free -  or for a voluntary contribution in the accompanying “piggy bank.”  All monetary proceeds, and all leftover produce, will be given each Sunday to Downtown Daily Bread.

GIVE CORN TO DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD!  With the bounty of corn available, we would like to provide our clients at DDB with fresh corn.  We need 12 to 14 dozen ears per week.  Plan to pick up an extra dozen when you go shopping and bring them in on Sunday. Containers are available in the Gathering Place to collect corn or monetary donations.  If you have any questions, contact Betty Rader or Milica Knepp.

FAMILY RETREAT.  Save the date! for LOF … Lots of Families, following the Good Shepherd.  Pine Street’s first ever families retreat with kids.  Come join us at Camp Hebron in Halifax on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6.  The cost of the retreat is $70.00 per adult and $25.00 per child.  This includes lodging and meals.  Come join us as we connect with God, nature and each other.  For more information please call the church or e-mail Cheryl Goode at cgoode@pinestreet.org.

PARKING HOURS.  Remember your parking ticket for Sunday morning is good only until 2:00 p.m.  Be sure to exit by that time. AT OTHER TIMES, the garage is open for specific events ONLY AS ANNOUNCED.  Do not assume that when the door is open you may park there free. Only announced events are covered by our free parking agreement with the Parking Authority.

PINE STREET LIFE – E-version!  Many of you have received an electronic version of Pine Street Life. We hope that you are enjoying this new and faster way of finding out what’s going on at your church. You will have also received a mailed copy of PSL as well. We are running this concurrently for the first few months to make sure that everything is running smoothly, once that is determined we will drop the mailed copy. Anyone who hasn’t received their PSL electronically and wishes to do so, please e-mail your request to psl@pinestreet.org.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES:

MEN’S BREAKFAST.  Men, make that New Year Resolution now to have breakfast with Pine Street Men on the second Saturday of the month.  Great time of fellowship, discussion and dinning. The best way to start the weekend is by having a great breakfast with other Pine Street men.  We meet at 8 a.m. in Fellowship Hall.  Come early to assist in preparation and stay for a bit to help clean up or just for conversation.

SANCTUARY FLOWERS.  The flowers in the Sanctuary are contributed by various members and friends of Pine Street. If you would like to donate flowers you can do so by contacting Lucille Nast who coordinates this ministry.

SHAWLS AVAILABLE.  As you enter worship today you will notice that there are baskets containing shawls located in the Narthex and on the pew running along the side of the church near the Lectern where children’s bags are also located.  These are placed in the Sanctuary by the Shawl Ministry … a group of Pine Street members and friends who meet monthly to knit these garments and pray over them, dedicating them as a ministry of caring and love for those who use them.  If you are feeling a chill, take a shawl and wrap up.  If you are feeling a bit lonely, take a shawl. If you just want to feel the love of Christ given through the labor of this ministry, take a shawl.  We ask that you leave it on the pew at the end of the service.  Members of the Shawl Ministry team will collect and launder them for use another week.  Feel free to take a shawl occasionally, or every week as you enter … they are there for your comfort and to remind you of the love of Christ given through those who labor to make them.

CHURCH SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH  Children in pre-K through grade 5 begin choir at 9:30 a.m. each week in Room 106 with Mr. Clark-Jones. They continue with their lesson from 9:55 to 10:45.   Grades 6 through 12 begin the morning at 9:40 a.m. with Middle School meeting in room 103 and Senior Highs in the Boyd Building. 

CHILDREN’S CHOIR meets every Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the Sunday School area.  We invite all children in pre-K through grade 5 to join with us and sing.