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Service Times
Sunday Mornings Worship Service- 9:00 a.m. Sunday School- 10:15 a.m. |
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Mark you calendars!!!
Some interesting things are coming up!
Some interesting things are coming up!
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Easter Sunday – April 21st. Kind of big deal with
Jesus overcoming the power of death and all. Baptisms – April 28th. Four young people who made their confessions of faith on Easter will be immersed in the love of God. Holy Humor – May 5th. Wear your silliest clothes. Bring a joke to share. Come to laugh and remember that Jesus is Good News and that means it’s okay to smile in worship sometimes. Mother’s Day – May 12th. Jesus had a momma. So did you. You might even be a mother. No one reading this got to be alive without one. So, we remember mothers. Special Guest Musicians and Singers – May 19th. We’re still working the details out on this, but if it comes together, it should be pretty awesome. Memorial Day Weekend – May 26th. A federal holiday remembering US military personnel who have died in war. It makes sense to remember in this season of resurrection. Blessing of the Animals – June 2nd. It should finally be nice outside by then. God created the whole world and called it good. This is an annual service when we remember that the world includes your dog or cat or iguana or….” Graduation Sunday – June 9th. With all the snow days, this was almost pushed back into July. :^) This is a time within the presence of God in worship for us to lift up those who are moving on to the next stage in their educational lives. |
From Robert's Desk |
Camp Is Coming(See the Youth Page for more information)
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Back when there were K-Marts, I was walking through one. A Dad and his five-year-old daughter were walking down the main aisle in front of me.
The girl was dancing more than she was walking. I mean, she was moving in the right direction alongside her father, but her movement was more a samba than a stride. And she was twirling. And she might have been singing. And she definitely was wearing these shoes that turned her acrobatic steps into a loud, happy beat: clippity-clop-flippity-flop! The Dad said to her, “C’mon! Walk the way you’re supposed to right now in a place like this!” Instantly, I was torn in two. After all, I am a dad, and I remember the dancing daughter days and my determined dad desire not to be disruptive to people in public places. I didn’t think the dad was wrong to want his daughter to chill. And yet… I also sided with the daughter. God bless her joy! God bless her willingness to share her joy! God bless her for knowing deep in her bones that life in God’s world is ultimately a song to be sung and a jig to be danced. The dad wasn’t wrong, but the daughter was oh so very right. And it hurt to see the dad try to box up the daughter. And it hurt because I identified so closely with the dad. So, I suppose, I identify closely with the synagogue church leaders in a story from Luke 13:10-21. It’s the Sabbath, the sacred day of rest, and Jesus has been invited to teach in the assembly of God’s people. So, that’s what he’s been doing, and all has been going smoothly. But then, in the middle of his sermon, Jesus sees this woman in the congregation. She is bent over, hunched, unable to stand straight and walk free. We’re told she’s been that way for eighteen years. And then Jesus messes things up. He stops his sermon, heals her, and sets her free. We are set free to imagine that for the first time in a generation the woman is able to stand tall, to dance, and to make her sandals beat out a joyful clippity-clop-flippity-flop on the stone floor. The church leaders see this and decide to shut it down. While, for some reason, they didn’t see Jesus’ teaching as work, they certainly saw his healing of this woman as work, and the Sabbath was a day for rest, not for work. The Sabbath was to be correctly celebrated with rest so the people of God could remember they were no longer slaves; they were free in God’s love to rest. And those church leaders weren’t wrong for coming down on Jesus. Knowing that is important. Living it out even more so. The Sabbath was critical. It was one of the main things that helped the people of God remain thankful to God. It was one of the main things that helped them from being caught up with false gods who taught them their only value was to work and produce for their bosses and their customers. I identify with those church leaders back then because Jesus messed things up and disrupted the public gathering. The synagogue leaders aren’t wrong for being annoyed. But Jesus is oh so right. I am so glad Jesus didn’t let the church leaders and the determined dads box him up. Much of life is about being responsible and quiet and doing things decently and in good order. Sure. OK. But more essential still is knowing deep in our bones that life with Jesus is a song to sing and a jig to dance. In a church. In a K-Mart. Or wherever we may find ourselves. |
2019 GKC Camp Dates
Grandparents Camp I: Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents May 25-27, 2019 Grandparents Camp 2: Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents June 15-17, 2019 Grandparents Camp 3: Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents July 12-14, 2019 Day Camp I: Completed K-2nd grade May 31, 2019 Day Camp 2: Completed K-2nd grade June 26, 2019 Day Camp 3: Completed K-2nd grade July 6, 2019 Primary Camp: Completed 2nd-3rd grade August 4-6, 2019 Junior Camp I: Completed 4-5th grade June 15-18, 2019 |
Junior Camp 2:
Completed 4-5th grade July 9-12, 2019 Chi Rho Classic Camp: Completed 6-7th grade August 4-8, 2019 Chi Rho Creative Camp: Completed 6-7th grade July 5-9, 2019 Equestrian Camp 1 (High School): Completed 9-12th grade June 15-18, 2019 Equestrian Camp 2 (Middle School): Completed 6-8th grade August 7-10, 2019 Eighters Camp: Completed 8th grade July 5-11, 2019 CYF Conference: Completed 9-12th grade June 23-28, 2019 GKC Mission Week: Completed 9-12th grade June 15-21, 2019 |
“What I like about Park Hill Christian Church is our God
blessed outreach programs
touching so many people in spiritual and physical need.”
~Member, Sandy Shipley
blessed outreach programs
touching so many people in spiritual and physical need.”
~Member, Sandy Shipley
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