East Liberty Presbyterian Church

Connections Potluck Lunch
2025-03-16 12:15 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Good Samaritan Room, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The Connections ministry will be hosting a potluck lunch on Sunday, March 16, at 12:15 pm, in the Good Samaritan Room (aka the Soul Food room). The lunch is open to everyone at ELPC.
Please RSVP online at bit.ly/4hubZkA to indicate that you’re coming and what food you’ll bring. Come join us for a shared meal and a time to get to know one another more deeply.

Young Adult Book Club
2025-03-16 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-30 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
YAM (Young Adult Ministry for those age 18-40) will be reading Take this Bread by Sara Miles across 7 Sundays this spring. Join us on March 2nd to discuss the first 4 chapters.

March 2 after worship in Harambe Room
March 9 at 7:30 pm – Zoom
March 16 at 7:30 pm – Zoom
March 23 after worship in Harambe Room
March 30 at 7:30 pm – Zoom
April 6 at 7:30 pm – Zoom
April 13 after worship in Harambe Room

Contact Sara Hackett for the Zoom link at SaraH@coh.net
Take this Bread book description: Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformed–embracing a faith she’d once scorned. A lesbian left-wing journalist who’d covered revolutions around the world, Miles didn’t discover a religion that was about angels or good behavior or piety; her faith centered on real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city.

Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.

Online Prayer Service
2025-03-18 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-03-25 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-04-01 08:00 - 08:20 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Online, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
ELPC offers an online prayer group each Tuesday morning, hosted by ELPC member Steve Evrard. These 20-minute sessions feature scripture readings, responsive prayer, and interactive dialogue. All are welcome at this opportunity for fellowship and prayer.
Join us by clicking the link below, or you may call in by dialing 929.205.6099. Enter meeting ID 896 9680 6662 and passcode 116 when prompted.
Join via Zoom

Living Love: Reading the Bible Queerly
2025-03-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-25 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Are you frustrated with how some people use the Bible as a tool against LGBTQIA+ people? What does the Bible really say about same-gender relationships? This introductory offering is for anyone seeking to reconcile and affirm one’s sexuality with one’s faith, as well as those interested in understanding more. Join us as we study a few supposed “clobber passages” through the lens of love and current biblical scholarship. This study will be held in-person on the campus of ELPC in an environment that openly welcomes and celebrates queer people as beloved children of God.*
We will meet for five consecutive Tuesdays, 5:30–6:30 pm. Registration is now FULL. Please contact Rev. Michael Diaz for more info. MichaelD@coh.net

March 11 | Introductions and Judges 19
March 18 | Genesis 19
March 25 | Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
April 1 | Romans 1:17–2:4
April 8 | 1 Corinthians 6:9–10

*CONTENT WARNING: Although this offering is primarily a study of scripture, some of the scriptures will necessitate conversations relating to homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, violence, and sexual assault.

Meditation Hour
2025-03-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-25 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Chapel, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
“The ladder leading to the Kingdom is concealed within you, that is, in your soul”—Saint Isaac of Syria.
Meditation is the practice of “looking deeply.” In silence and withdrawal from the world of everyday concerns, we turn our attention inward and calm our bodies and minds. In this emptiness, we may see the world as if for the first time. We may see others as they are and we may find that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; that we are living in God and God in us.
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to join John Benedict in the Chapel on Tuesdays, 6–7 pm, for an hour devoted to meditation. The session will include an opening reading, silent sitting, and walking. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
John Benedict is a retired psychologist and a longtime student and practitioner of Insight Meditation.

Club 116
2025-03-19 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-26 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-02 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Kids in 1st-6th grade gather for Bible study, crafts, games in the gym, and dinner together.
Registration is required and can be completed online.

Cathedral Yoga
2025-03-19 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-26 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Yamuna Morgenstern offers Cathedral Yoga class on Wednesdays, 6–7 pm! Join her and others in the ELPC Sanctuary or your own home via Zoom (password: [REDACTED] as she guides you through gentle poses. No yoga experience is necessary to enjoy the class, which Yamuna continues to offer with joy, light, and her uplifting playlists and spirit. Have a strap, scarf, or belt handy and experience time to heal your body, mind, and spirit.
Commune with the Divine through breath, gentle stretches, mindful music, and guided meditation. See you on the mat! Om shanti and Namaste.
A donation from the heart, to the church, is very much appreciated.
Join via Zoom

Taizé Prayer Service
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | ELPC – Chapel, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
ELPC offers evening prayers with chants from Taizé every Wednesday, 7 pm, in the Chapel. The hour-long service includes sung prayers, beautiful music, a time of silence, spoken and silent prayers, and opportunities for individual prayer and anointing. For more information, view our Taizé page.
Download this week’s bulletin.

About ELPC’s Taizé Prayer Service
Our Taizé prayer service is based on a style of worship developed at the Taizé community in France founded in the 1940s by the late Brother Roger. Originally a refuge during the war, Taizé has developed into an ecumenical prayer center for visitors from all over the world. Today, the Taizé community is made up of over a hundred resident brothers, both Catholics and from various Protestant backgrounds/traditions. Taizé wants to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples.

Youth Group
2025-03-20 16:30 - 19:00, 2025-03-27 16:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Thursday Nights is Youth Group for 7th-12th grade students. Together with Sixth Presbyterian church we share dinner, pray, play, and explore faith with the flexibility to do service projects, ‘field trips’, and whatever else we dream up! Register Online.
Teens in grade 7th-12th also meet for Breakfast on the first Sunday of the month from 9:45-10:45am and after church one Sunday a month for lunch and programing – see the full schedule here.

JourneyDance Class
2025-03-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax)
Join Yamuna Morgenstern for JourneyDance on the third Friday of every month from 7–8:30 pm.
Come experience one of ELPC’s unique spiritual practices and offerings. JourneyDance takes you on a journey within through playful dance in a non-judgmental environment. The playlists are designed to open up your chakras, move your Spirit, experience positive vibes, and have fun! JourneyDance is all about responding to music the way you want to respond—no rules, no groping, no ugly lyrics. Join us and dance in healthy community to release tension, feel good, relax, restore, and renew your body, mind, and spirit.
All ages and bodies are welcome. No dance experience necessary, just a joy of moving. Young children should be accompanied by their care givers. Wear comfortable clothing, and you may want to have a water bottle handy!
A donation from the heart, to the church, is very much appreciated.

Lenten LOVE BIG Discussions
2025-03-23 09:45 - 10:45, 2025-03-23 12:15 - 13:30, 2025-03-30 09:45 - 10:45, 2025-03-30 12:15 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us during the season of Lent as we use scripture and Rozella Haydée White’s book, Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World, to explore what it means to love God, love ourselves, and love others in ways that truly transform us and the world around us.
We will meet on Sundays, March 9–April 13:

9:45–10:45 am, at the Journey with Scripture Adult Church School Class, with Rev. Henk Bossers
12:15–1:30 pm, after Sanctuary worship, with Pastor BJ (light refreshments will be provided)

We will have conversations to explore that week’s sermon and for those who choose, the companion book, Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World. Whether you have walked the Lenten path for decades or this is your first intentional Lenten practice, you are invited to journey with us—with all your questions, your wounds, and your hopes.

March LGBTQIA+ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2025-03-23 12:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
You are invited to the next Spiritual Gathering of ELPC’s LGBTQIA+ Ministry to share food and fellowship at the church. Allies and LGBTQIA+ folks alike are welcome.
Contact Wil Forrest at 412.441.3800 X218 or Wil@coh.net to learn more, to RSVP, and/or to participate. A Zoom option will be available if expressed need is communicated to Wil before the Friday preceding the gathering.
GOD CREATED YOU. GOD LOVES YOU. BE YOURSELF.

Cathedral Concert: The Mendelssohn Choir
2025-03-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Critically acclaimed as one of the finest choruses in the country, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh will return to the ELPC Sanctuary on Sunday, March 30, 3 pm, to present We All Sing!—a celebration of music as the universal language that unites us all. Learn more at themendelssohn.org.
ELPC members and friends can contact Dr. Ed Moore at EdM@coh.net for complimentary tickets.

Living Love: Reading the Bible Queerly
2025-04-01 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Are you frustrated with how some people use the Bible as a tool against LGBTQIA+ people? What does the Bible really say about same-gender relationships? This introductory offering is for anyone seeking to reconcile and affirm one’s sexuality with one’s faith, as well as those interested in understanding more. Join us as we study a few supposed “clobber passages” through the lens of love and current biblical scholarship. This study will be held in-person on the campus of ELPC in an environment that openly welcomes and celebrates queer people as beloved children of God.*
We will meet for five consecutive Tuesdays, 5:30–6:30 pm. Registration is now FULL. Please contact Rev. Michael Diaz for more info. MichaelD@coh.net

March 11 | Introductions and Judges 19
March 18 | Genesis 19
March 25 | Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
April 1 | Romans 1:17–2:4
April 8 | 1 Corinthians 6:9–10

*CONTENT WARNING: Although this offering is primarily a study of scripture, some of the scriptures will necessitate conversations relating to homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, violence, and sexual assault.

Permission for Youth to Attend Adult Bible Study/Small Group
Living Love: Reading the Bible Queerly on Tuesday evenings.
If you have any questions please contact Rev. Michael Diaz or Sara Hackett

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