Dear ELPC Members, Friends and Staff,
As we welcome the summer season, we also will be welcoming several in-person pastoral candidates onsite at ELPC starting in June and continuing into July. As you may know from prior Pastor Nominating Committee updates, we have held many virtual first and second round interviews, which has allowed us to be at the point of bringing people onsite. Read More
We have been in a time of pastoral transition for over two years now. In addition, we (like every church) have been in a liminal time of wondering, praying, and thinking about what post-pandemic church looks like here at ELPC. Amid all that transition, lots of work, change, shifts, adaptions, growth and fruitfulness has been afoot. You, the church, has been working to live out our church’s mission, listen, and discern God’s leading, praying, leading, serving, and being God’s people within our church walls and outside of them. So, I was encouraged by a few of you, to share some of my observations (taken from my June 9 sermon) of how I see God’s Spirit at work in and through you, ELPC. Read More
Greetings and blessings to you all. I am Jen King, the new administrative assistant to the pastors, and I am coming from the South Hills of Pittsburgh, where I live with my husband, our 16-year-old daughter, and a 5-year-old tabby cat.
I am a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) denomination, but I have 2.5 years of experience working in a PC(USA) congregation in the South Hills. I also worked for my ELCA congregation for 11 years, and am a trained lay-leader, serving on our local judicatory board.
I am a part-time graduate certificate student at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and will complete the Adaptive and Innovative Ministries program in September.
I am very excited to be working with everyone, and look forward to learning more about your wonderful ministry here!
Reach out to me at 412.441.3800 x222 or JenniferK@coh.net.
Here’s what’s happening this week in worship.
This week, we’re celebrating our annual Youth Sunday!
Middle and high school youth prepared and will lead our service, and our graduating seniors will share stories of their faith journey. We will commission youth who are engaging in mission work this summer at Camp Crestfield and in Washington, D.C., and commission our graduates for the next chapter in their lives. Additionally, we will welcome the students who participated in Vacation Church School to share some songs of celebration in worship, giving thanks for our week learning and growing together. Pastor Heather will deliver a homily.
Join us in the Courtyard (weather permitting). Additional seating is available in the Garth Overlook Room for those who prefer to stay indoors, and the service will be livestreamed to a screen inside.
Join us in person or watch our livestream on YouTube or Facebook. If you’d like to join by telephone, call 929.205.6099 and enter Meeting ID 188 135 194 when prompted (press # if asked for a personal ID).
Join us to experience Taizé’s prayerful songs and quiet meditations. Pastor BJ will lead us.
Here’s what’s happening this week in worship.
Pastor Heather will preach from Mark 4:35–41, and deliver her sermon, titled “Calm in the Storm.”
Join us in the Courtyard (weather permitting). Additional seating is available in the Garth Overlook Room for those who prefer to stay indoors, and the service will be livestreamed to a screen inside.
Join us in person or watch our livestream on YouTube or Facebook. If you’d like to join by telephone, call 929.205.6099 and enter Meeting ID 188 135 194 when prompted (press # if asked for a personal ID).
Join us to experience Taizé’s prayerful songs and quiet meditations. Pastor BJ will lead us.
Here’s what’s happening this week in worship.
Pastor Heather will preach from 2 Corinthians 5:6–10, 14–17, and deliver her sermon, titled “A Fresh Perspective.”
Join us in the Courtyard (weather permitting). Additional seating is available in the Garth Overlook Room for those who prefer to stay indoors, and the service will be livestreamed to a screen inside.
Join us in person or watch our livestream on YouTube or Facebook. If you’d like to join by telephone, call 929.205.6099 and enter Meeting ID 188 135 194 when prompted (press # if asked for a personal ID).
Join us to experience Taizé’s prayerful songs and quiet meditations. Pastor BJ will lead us.
In the fall of 2023, HR and Session unanimously approved sabbaticals for Pastor Patrice and Pastor Heather in 2024. Both of our pastors were eligible for sabbatical (customarily a three-month rest for pastors every seven years) in 2022 and 2023 respectively, but deferred their sabbaticals to offer support during our pastoral transition.
We pray for rest and renewal for Pastor Patrice and Pastor Heather during their sabbatical months, and give thanks for our shared ministry together.
Here’s what’s happening this week in worship.
Pastor BJ will preach from 2 Corinthians 4:11–5:1 and deliver his sermon, titled “Do Not Lose Heart.”
Join us in the Courtyard (weather permitting). Additional seating is available in the Garth Overlook Room for those who prefer to stay indoors, and the service will be livestreamed to a screen inside.
Join us in person or watch our livestream on YouTube or Facebook. If you’d like to join by telephone, call 929.205.6099 and enter Meeting ID 188 135 194 when prompted (press # if asked for a personal ID).
Join us to experience Taizé’s prayerful songs and quiet meditations. Pastor BJ will lead us.
Juneteenth (June 19) gained federal holiday recognition in 2021, but has been celebrated in parts of the United States since 1866, when those enslaved in Galveston, Texas, received word of the end of the Civil War and emancipation over two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Reedy Chapel was the first place the formerly enslaved celebrated after learning of their freedom. The first Pittsburgh remembrance of Juneteenth was organized in the late nineteenth century by Presbyterian Pastor Henry Highland Garnett, the first Pastor of Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church, once again linking freedom with faith.
ELPC members can join in this year’s observance by:
Dear ELPC Members, Friends and Staff,
Greetings and blessings from the Pastoral Nominating Committee (PNC) to all of you. Thank you for your prayers and thoughts as all of us on the PNC continue to work together through the process of discernment and intentionality as we search for our new Senior Pastor. Read More