Before Church – Join us for Bible Class at 9:30. https://us04web.zoom.us/j/800582881 Meeting ID: 800 582 881
Welcome to #YourHeartChrist’sHome
April 19, 2020 – 10:30 a.m.
This week’s Scripture: St. John 20.19-31
Music: “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms,” ”Grace Flows Down,” “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone),” a new/old hymn based on “All Creatures of Our God and King” – and a surprise hymn!
St. Paul’s Evangelical Beverly Hills United
Lutheran Church Presbyterian Church
Lansdowne Upper Darby
In the early 1950’s, Bob Munger, a Presbyterian pastor, wrote a classic booklet, My Heart — Christ’s Home – about how we can welcome Jesus Christ into the different “rooms” in each of our hearts, and truly make our hearts Christ’s home.
The opportunity of our Zoom “chats” is that we join together from our homes – and that the true spiritual home of the Christian is in each of our hearts, not in any physical building.
Join us online or by plain old telephone. Go to bhpcud.com or www.stpaulslansdowne.org for instructions you can bookmark or share, and invite your friends!
Join the Service from a computer or device (Zoom Meeting): https://ey.zoom.us/j/645754776
Join by phone: Call this number: +1 646 558 8656
Meeting ID: 645 754 776 ( https://www.bhpcud.com/coronavirus-virtual-services/ )
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We welcome this Sunday Nancy Haigh Ross, a retired minister in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church — and lover of “Holy Humor Sunday. (Stay tuned.)
Don’t forget your regular stewardship giving! Both congregations continue to receive mail (thanks to our faithful carriers!). In honor to Jesus Christ, we give to sustain our worship AND our work in our community and world.
FOOD HELP
Continuing our Life Center Ministry – Monetary donations are needed to continue providing meals for the Life Center.
For the past three decades, churches and groups have been preparing a hot meal to serve at the Life Center at 63rd Street every single day. What a miraculous ministry! Though this practice cannot continue in the same way because of the COVID-19 crisis, you can still help by making a monetary donation to keep this ministry alive. Mail a check – payable to Community Outreach Project (or COP for short) – to:
COP Meals COP Meals
c/o Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church c/o St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
500 Midvale Road 50 East Plumstead Avenue
Upper Darby, PA 19082 Lansdowne, PA 19050
And if any organizations/businesses can donate a case or more of plastic utensils, napkins, paper/plastic cups and plates, please email the details to copmeals@gmail.com.
The Upper Darby Emergency Food Cupboard, 7766 Wayne Avenue, is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10:00-Noon. (Tel. 610.853.2481).
Philabundance distributes food at multiple locations in Upper Darby. https://www.philabundance.org/find-food/food-map/
At First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne (140 N. Lansdowne Avenue), families in the William Penn School District (Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Landowne and Yeadon) can call the Interfaith Food Cupboard (tel. 610-622-0800, x 4). The church is also a pickup site for Grab-and-Go Meals for children of William Penn District, Mondays through Fridays.
Needed donations include:
Canned chicken, tuna, or salmon Pasta sauce
Peanut butter, jelly Crackers
Powdered milk Canned vegetables, fruit
Canned chili with meat Canned soup (especially chunky, with meat)
Items may be dropped off on Mondays and Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. at the door closest to the playground.
Answer the 2020 Census Today
It’s essential that every resident complete the 2020 census. Since you probably have some extra time now, do it today!
You should have received a letter with online instructions and an access code. Can’t find that? Don’t worry, other ways to complete the census:
• Online at https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
• By phone at 844-330-2020
• The Census website offers support for 50 different languages! See the complete list and instructions for language support at https://2020census.gov/en/languages.html.
Remember: the census counts residents (people) not citizens. There is no citizenship question on the census. Estimates are that each resident who is counted brings about $2,000 per year to Lansdowne, Delaware County and Pennsylvania. Download and read a census fact sheet at http://stpaulslansdowne.org/index.html for more general information.
St. Paul’s Prayer List
Linda Wisham Roberta Neill
Bob Haring Phyllis VanArsdale
Mary Korhammer Donald Van Krieken
Gynell Gilicinski Michael Gallagher, Sr.
Pete Conway Matthew Parrott & Family
The Opioid Crisis Mass Shootings
Borough of Lansdowne William Penn School District
Congregational Council
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, SE Pennsylvania Synod
THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER – April 26
9:30 a.m. – Adult Bible Study on the Book of Nahum
10:30 a.m. – Morning Worship
“We Are What We Worship”
Pastor Tung
Psalm 115; St. Mark 2.23-28
Today’s Text
John 20:19-31 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus Appears to Thomas
24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The Purpose of John’s Gospel
30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe[b] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.