An historic church serving Bucks and Montgomery counties since 1840
Written by Diane Scheller
Our Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, January 22, 2012. All members should participate in order to pass our budget and to elect officers and board members. The Annual Meeting will begin in the Sanctuary immediately following the 9:30 a.m. service. Childcare will be provided. Please join us in Lentz Fellowship Hall all for refreshments.
Written by Amelie Sell
Please join AfterGlow for a Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser on Saturday, January 28. We will serve supper from 4:30 to 7 pm. Our offerings will include spaghetti, marinara sauce, meatballs, garlic bread, salad, and dessert. The cost of the meal is a suggested donation of $7 for adults and $5 for children. We welcome your donation of desserts for our dinner. The proceeds of this winter’s Spaghetti Dinner will help fund our youth who will travel to next summer’s National Youth Event in Purdue, Indiana, and future youth mission trips. Hope to see you all there!
Written by Diane Scheller
Please join the Adult Day Fellowship (a 55 plus group) in Lentz Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, January 10 at 11:30 a.m. for our monthly luncheon meeting. Our program will be a Bible Study with Pastor Hilary. The mission will be to give a monetary donation for the Child Sponsorship program. No sign up is necessary and lunch will be provided. Be sure to join us!
Last Updated on Sunday, 18 December 2011 09:31 Written by Courier News Weekly
In August, Pleasantville Church hosted over 100 children and 60 volunteers for their annual Vacation Bible School program. This year’s theme was titled “Ark Full of Animals” and their goal was to gain a deeper appreciation of the ways in which Heifer helps people, animals and plants live in harmony . On each of the five days of VBS, the children discovered a different Bible story, country and animal through skits, games, crafts, videos, drama and snacks. After starting each morning with some lively music, the children had an animal visitor waiting to see them. On Monday, we visited with a 4-day-old cow, Lucy, who was brought to us by the 4-H Club. On Tuesday, we met Miranda and Jethro from Graceful Glen Alpacas and learned how important alpacas or llamas can be. On Wednesday and Thursday, the Bachman family brought their baby goats and chickens to visit with us. Then, on Friday all the children were welcome to bring in their own animal(s) for a “Blessing of the Animals” led by Pastor Amelie Sell. It was a very successful week. Not only did the children bring in a daily offering, many children also filled up their “ark banks” with their allowance, giving us about $4,000 at weeks end to help raise money for Heifer International. We also had a few contributions from our congregation and quickly met our goal of raising $5,000 for our Ark Full of Animals by mid-September. This gift provides livestock—two each of pigs, cows, trios of rabbits, donkeys, beehives, sheep, llamas/alpacas, flocks of geese, goats, oxen, flocks of chicks, trios of ducks, trios of guinea pigs, water buffalo, camels and pigs—and training for struggling families worldwide.
The best part about this whole experience was witnessing the children, ages 4 thru 16, work together to help raise money to buy animals for people that need our help.
If you would like information about Heifer International and the work that they do, please visit www.heifer.org or call toll free 800.422.0755.
Reprinted with permission from BucksMont Media, LLC.
Written by Diane Scheller
Sunday afternoon, Dec. 18th at 4 p.m. - - - our Kids' Choirs will be sharing, for EVERYONE, (that's church members, family, friends, neighbors!) their music & stories of Christmas! Our Cherubs will enlighten & delight us with "Love Came Down at Christmas" - a mini-musical, telling us, as only they can, of the night Jesus was born! AND. . . from our Junior Choir: "The Light Before Christmas" - a musical with different, yet accurate perspectives of the "True Light"! FINALLY. . . bring your spare change & dollar bills (or checks made out to Pleasantville), please - - - we'll be collecting donations to send to the children & youth at Bethany Children's Home! A GREAT way to spend a Sunday afternoon AND be "missionaries" thru our offerings to other kids.
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