Published: April 25, 2008 10:09 pm            

Church Briefs for 4/26

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Blessed Hope Baptist

The church, one mile south of Jasonville on Indiana 59, will welcome Alan Cassell to services on Sunday. Cassell has a unique testimony of the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Brother Cassell was heavily involved with the occult. The worship of Satan and fleshly things dominated his life until the love of Jesus Christ set him free. Sunday he will tell the whole story of his amazing conversion.

Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m., worship service at 10:30, Sunday evening service at 7, and Wednesday evening service at 7.

For more details, call (812) 665-3282.

Terre Haute’s

St. Stephen’s Episcopal

Services Sunday in the church at 217 N. Seventh St. includes Eucharists at 8 and 10 a.m. The children’s nursery opens at 9:45. Children’s Sunday school starts at 9.

After both services join us in the Great Hall for camaraderie, coffee and conversation.

For more details, visit

www.st-stephens-th.org or call (812) 232-5165 Tuesday through Friday.

Trinity Lutheran

Trinity Women (WELCA) Circles will sponsor its annual yard sale from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church at 2620 Ohio Blvd. Hundreds of items at low prices are available. There will be something for everyone. Monies raised will be supplemented by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

Maple Avenue United Methodist

Sunday morning worship begins at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Monty Barker will speak on “The Great Promise” with Scriptures John 14:15-21. Favorite hymns as well as contemporary praise choruses will be sung. At the 10:30 service, the children’s sermon will be given and the chancel choir will sing an anthem. The adult Sunday school fellowship is at 9:30 and the children’s Sunday school will meet during the 10:30 service. Nursery care is provided during the 10:30 service.

The youth group will meet from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday with youth leaders Rich and Melissa Nail. The youth group is made up of middle- and high-school students and is geared toward mission work, all while having a great time. The program includes weekly devotionals and fellowship in the gym.

For more details , visit www.gbgm-umc.org/maple_ave_umc/ or call (812) 232-7263.

Trinity and Brick United Methodist

Women of both Illinois churches plan a special evening of entertainment featuring Verna Davis, “The Joy Lady,” at 7 p.m. May 9. The program will take place in Trinity fellowship hall at 503 S. Michigan Ave. in Marshall, Ill. All women of the Marshall area and surrounding communities are invited to attend the event in honor of all womanhood. A free-will donation will be taken.

Davis is the Christian columnist of the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. She grew up in Indiana and has been married more than 25 years to Doug Davis, minister, and director of operations at Harvest Prayer Ministries. She is a happy mom, mom-in-law and grandmom. She is a graduate of Lincoln Christian College. She could be teacher of grades kindergarten through college, but chooses to spend her time writing weekly columns for the Tribune-Star. Davis is a two-time Honorable Mention recipient of the Writer’s Digest International Writing Competition.

Davis is an informative, humorous communicator whose lively tales of life will leave you clinging to spiritual truths learned through laughter. She candidly takes you on her journey of overcoming failures, depression and marital difficulties that led her to victory and joyous living. She shares why laughter is the best medicine God gave us. Using Biblical stories, she will share how failures can be valuable and necessary for Christian growth.

Centenary United Methodist

Sunday is “Celebrate Mission Sunday” in the church at 301 N. Seventh Street. Traditional worship service begins at 9:30 a.m. Bethany Riggs from the 14th & Chestnut Community Center will speak.

The chancel choir will sing, directed by Scott Buchanan. After the worship service, a lasagna dinner will be served.

Nursery care is provided. Ample parking is available behind the church and the Seventh Street entrance is handicapped accessible.

Berean Baptist

The Bible teaching hour at 9:30 a.m. Sunday features Lauren Lopez teaching the junior class, the teen class meeting in McDonald’s and Dick Triestram teaching the adult bible class in the church auditorium. Triestram’s lesson will be “The Appeal of Wisdom,” based on Proverbs 1:8-33.

The Rev. Larry Lilly will speak at 10:30 on “Why Reconciliation to God is Necessary” and explain why people need reconciliation and why God has graciously offered the way of reconciliation.

The Sounds of Victory and The Lopez Family will present special music. Dick and Judy Triestram will present a gospel magic illusion for the Integrated Family Worship time.

At 6 p.m. Sunday, Lilly will continue the series on “Gleanings From Daniel” with this week’s sermon, “Where Lions Fear to Tread.” This simple sermon will showcase the secret of Daniel’s amazing courage, his systematic schedule that contributed to his courage and his powerful secret of inner peace in times of deadly persecution.

Charlie Davis will present special music.

The church is at 6770 N. Clinton St.

Central Christian Church

Disciples of Christ

On the sixth Sunday of Eastertide, the celebration of the Easter season continues in the church at 4950 E. Wabash Ave. As part of the capital campaign, “Stepping Out in Faith,” everyone is invited to share what they love and appreciate about Central Christian Church and how it has affected their relationship with God.

The 9:30 a.m. service will include a “children’s moment,” led by the Rev. Rebecca Zelensky. Children (and adults) of all ages are invited to participate. Worship will be followed by a fellowship time with drinks and doughnuts.

Sunday school will begin at 11 a.m. Classes are offered for all ages. Zelensky will lead one of the adult classes in a discussion from the book, “Longing for Enough in a Culture of More.” Nursery care is provided during worship and Sunday school.

As is tradition each Easter season, food is collected for the Samaritan Food Project to benefit Catholic Food Charities. This Sunday is “Festival of Fruits.” Members and friends of the congregation are asked to bring any type of canned or dried fruits.

From 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today, the church will have a yard/bake sale shop. All proceeds will be go to defray the cost of the youth/adult mission trip to New Orleans in June. At the present time about 25 youth and adults plan to help with the continued rebuilding of New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

For more details, visit www.cccthdisciples.org or call (812) 877-9959.



Unity Presbyterian

Worship service at 1207 E. Springhill Drive is 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. Adult Sunday school is taught by Dr. Roland Kohr at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Linda Peters sermon “Called to Challenge” is from the Scriptures: Psalm 139:13-15 and Genesis 12:1-3. Using the Lifekeys book “Discover Who You Are,” this is the second of a sermon series on God’s call to ministry for the next three Sundays up to Pentecost. Sunday school for children follows the children’s moment during worship. Child care is available. On May 3, Unity will have a Jonah Fish Fry from 4 to 7 p.m.

Every Thursday, we have Praise and Potluck: Praise at 6 p.m. with dinner at 6:30. Choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m. under the leadership of Amie Ellison, director and Andrea Marlow, organist.

We also have an outdoor sanctuary you may visit for quiet reflection at any time. The church office number is (812) 299-2206, Web site www.unityth.com.

St. George’s Episcopal

Sunday's Christian education topic will be “Penance: Sacrament of Christian Healing,” led by the Rev. Chuck Ellestad from Frankfort, Ky. Adult Christian Education is from 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. in Taylor Hall.

Ellestad also will be celebrant for Holy Eucharist, Rite II, which begins at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary.

The church is at 1337 N. Smith Place (on Ferguson Hill), West Terre Haute. For more information, contact Kelly Hammonds, bishop’s warden, (217) 826-5439; kellyjo829@yahoo.com or go to www.stgeorgeswth.indydio.org.

The Kentucky priest retired in 2006 as rector of the Church of the Ascension in Frankfort after serving more than 16 years there. Even though retired from the Church of the Ascension, Ellestad continues to be active in the ministry, serving as priest-in-charge of a nursing home ministry, St. Joseph’s mission, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. He also is employed by Hospice of the Bluegrass as a stipendiary chaplain from the Frankfort office. In addition, Ellestad serves as priest pro tem (when he’s not at St. George’s) of St. Hubert’s Episcopal Church in Clark County, Ky., diocese of Lexington.

Ellestad has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; a master’s in religion from Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia; and a master’s in divinity from Nashotah House in Wisconsin.

Coffee hour with food and fellowship will be in Taylor Hall after the church service about 11 a.m. All are welcome to attend all services.

First Unitarian

Universalist

Congregation of Terre Haute

The telephone number is (812) 232-1193 and e-mail is uuputer@yahoo.com.

9:15 a.m. Sunday: “Dumbing Down in Religious Education” will be the topic of the Rationalist Free Thinking Discussion Group, which includes members of the congregation as well as members of the community. The group discusses current socio-political events and trends.

10:30 a.m. Sunday: The Poet’s Call to Worship – The Rev. Amy Kindred. Poets have a remarkable ability to use words to bring us to an awareness of the “awesomeness” of life. Some poems provoke a great reverence for nature. Others explore the nearly mystical experience of love. In the deepest sense, we are often called to honor the ethereal moment.

New Beginnings

Baptist Church

of New Goshen

A free church pantry/clothing/household Items giveaway is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 3 in the church at 2817 Durkees Ferry Road, New Goshen.

Contact: pastor Mono Pastore at (812) 239-0891 or Jennifer Schoffstall at (812) 208-2292

Mount Pilgrim

Missionary Baptist

The church is at 1935 Tippecanoe St.

Come celebrate pastor Charles Irvin’s 12th anniversary on Sunday. The Rev. James Edwards and the Cave Spring Church from Cerulean, Ky., will be our special guests. Services are 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The public is invited.

The Rev. Don Mullen, senior minister, First Congregational Church, 630 Ohio St., is preaching on Sunday on the theme “We are Called to be Creators,” based on Psalm 8. The text is especially apropos with the church beginning to look at its history and its plan for the future in anticipation of its 175th anniversary in 2009. The church was formally organized on Dec. 30, 1834 by the Rev. Merrick Augustus Jewett, who was most assuredly a “creator,” when as Dorothy Clark in a Historically Speaking newspaper article written in 1975 wrote that “11 people agreed to unite themselves in a church under the liberal but evangelical congregational policy.” Terre Haute had been founded only 18 years earlier in 1816 and had some 200 families. Services are every Sunday at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. All are welcome; child care is provided.

Memorial United Methodist

The church is at 2701 Poplar St.

At 8 a.m. Sunday, Partners in Prayer meet in the chapel with the pastors to pray for their work with the church and for their personal and professional needs.

At 8:45 a.m., the traditional worship service begins. Dave Voltmer, missions chairman, will lead in the reflections from the recent district mission trip to Chatham, Ill., at the United Methodist Distribution Center. Several of those who went on the trip will share thoughts about the ministry and their own sense of being a missionary for a few days.

From 8:45 to 10 a.m. is fellowship and coffee time.

At 10 a.m. is Sunday school for all ages. The children's lesson will be: “Barnabas and Paul,” Acts 4: 32-37

At 11 a.m. is the casual worship service



Emmanuel United Methodist

The church is at 6076 U.S. 150, West Terre Haute, (812) 535-4218; eum1@verizon.net.

Join us for Sunday school at 9:15 am and worship at 10:30. Pastor Karen Bray will continue with her sermon series “The Apostle's Creed” with this week’s sermon title being “One Holy Church.”

Emmanuel is a host site for Angel Food ministries, where you can place an order for a “unit” of food, usually $65 worth, for only $30. The deadline for ordering a unit in May is May 4. The delivery date is May 17. For questions or placing an order, call the church office.

May 1 is National Day of Prayer; remember to join our nation in prayer as we lift up our government, state and local officials, our educators, our church and our families.

Central Presbyterian

The church (125 N. Seventh St.) will gather Sunday for traditional worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Davis’ sermon, “Worshipping the Unknown God,” will be based on Acts 17:22-33, in which the Apostle Paul debates with the Greek philosophers. During worship, the congregation will express its gratitude for leaders and workers in the John Chironna Day Nursery School, one of the principal missions of the church. Sunday school for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m., including (in the church library) a class offered by Davis for persons interested in learning more about the church, about Presbyterians, and about how to become a member of the church. Nursery care is provided. At 3:30 p.m. Sunday, the church’s men’s a cappella singing group, “High Ground,” will perform spirituals and inspirational anthems in the sanctuary as this month’s installment of the Alfred R. Schmidt Concert Series. For more details, call the church office at (812) 232-5049 or visit www.thcpc.org.





Northside Community United Methodist

Traditional worship is at 8 a.m. in the chapel, with Sunday school at 9 and Celebration of Worship at 10.

On Sunday, Pastor Frank will continue the sermon series on the Miracles of Jesus as he talks about the man with the withered hand from Mark 3:1-6. On May 11, Northside Community will celebrate a Miracle Sunday.

Tuesday Morning Bible Study is at 10. We have started our journey through the Gospel of Matthew. This study is open to anyone in the community.

In the Wednesday Evening Bible Study, pastor Frank leads a small group study on Max Lucado’s book “He Chose the Nails.” We will study Chapter 11, (”I Have Redeemed you and I Will Keep You”), this week. If you are interested in participating, we invite you to show up and participate in our discussion. Child care is provided.

At 10 a.m. every Wednesday, there is a chapel service for Stepping Stones Child Development Center, however, it is open to the public.

The HEATT (Highly Energized Anointed Teen & Tweens) Youth Group meets the first and third Sundays of each month. The HEATT group of Northside Community will go to the Light House Mission the second Sunday of each month to serve the residents dinner. Our hope is that this is just the beginning of the outreach our teens and “tweens” will do. We invite other area churches to join us, as well as teens and tweens in our community who are not a part of a youth group. We begin at 5 p.m. and usually end at 7. Our next meeting will be May 4 and we will meet at the church to go to Light House Mission.

Oregon Baptist

The church is at 11200 S. Carlisle St., (812) 299-2112. Ask for pastor Fred Harrison.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, Oregon Baptist Church will start a DVD and discussion study over five weeks. Some of the lessons will face the following issues:

n I want to break through the noise of life.

n I want to something that will satisfy my thirst for something more.

The lessons are open to all interested. The series is called “Liquid” and is published by Thomas Nelson, media group. Based in the belief of Jesus’ revolutionary teachings, the study asks us to change the way we think in order to make a difference in this world.

Trinity Lutheran

The church at 2620 Ohio Blvd. worships at 8 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday, the Sixth Sunday of Easter, considering Acts 17:22-31, I Peter 3:13-22 & John 14:15-21. Pastor John Stacy’s message is “Jesus Promises Spirit-Power.”

This is Penny Power Project Sunday. We celebrate the presence of participating college students and our members who serve on campus in faculty and administrative positions. This is Confirmation Recognition Sunday. Alleluia, Christ is Risen!

First Baptist

A traditional service is at 9 a.m. and an informal service is at 11:15. The worship theme for this Sunday is “Answers for a Searching World” with Scripture text from Acts 17:22-31. Music will be provided in the first service by the First Baptist orchestra and sanctuary choir. The Sanctuary Bell Choir will provide music for both services. A children’s story is included as a part of both services and children’s church, for grades k-3, is conducted during the 9 a.m. service. Pre-school Sunday school and child care is available throughout the morning. Sunday school, with classes for all ages, is at 10:15 a.m.

The First Baptist Music Ministry will present “Sing and Ring” at 6 p.m. Sunday. This concert of traditional and contemporary Christian music will feature the Youth Handbell Choir and Youth Choir as they present their annual spring concert.

The church is at 4701 E. Poplar Drive. Pastors are Bernie Jackson and Steve Newman. More information is available at www.thfbc.org.

New Covenant Fellowship

Harps & Bowls Praise & Worship begins at 9:50 a.m. and is an opportunity to prepare hearts and minds to give honor to God. Blended Praise & Worship, led by the choir and praise team, begins at 10:30 a.m. with pastor C. Ray Leach bringing the message “Saving the Best for Last” from John 2:1-11. This Sunday is Family Worship Sunday, and all children will participate in the service with their parents. At 6 p.m., youth pastors Jeremy and Stacy Burch will lead the “Zero Gravity” youth group during “Pulse Night,” a teen-centered worship ministry for Grades 6-12. On Wednesday night, Bible Study begins at 7, with Leach leading study from the book “Battlefield of the Mind,” by Joyce Meyer.

Choir and praise practice is at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, led by Praise & Worship directors, Zach and Candi Trusler. Leadership Training for “Celebrate Recovery” begins at 10 a.m. May 3. Celebrate Recovery is a Biblical and balanced program that can help individuals overcome life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups by working through eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes with Jesus Christ as the Higher Power directing change.

For more information on any of our programs or services, contact us at (812) 466-2800 or at www.newcovenant-th.org. New Covenant Fellowship is a non-denominational church desiring to provide a haven for individuals struggling with spiritual, emotional, physical and relational life-challenges, and is located at 3415 E. Marquette Ave.

        

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