Mark Your Calendars

This Week at St. Andrews

Sun., July 3 Prayer Time
Sanctuary
8:45am-9:00am
Sun., July 3 Prayer Time
Prayer Room 10:30am-10:45am
Mon., July 4 Holiday-Office Closed
Tues., July 5 Softball Game
Hatboro
6:30pm
Wed., July 6 Church Meeting (Service times) Damascus
7:30pm
Fri., July 8
Red Cross Blood Drive
Zion
2:00pm-7:00pm

St. Andrew's vs. St. John's in Hatboro

July 5th 6:30pm
Sunday Worship
9:15 Contemporary Worship Service Zion
10:45 Traditional Worship Service Sanctuary
T.O.P.S. Mon. 5:15-7 Damascus
12-Step Recovery Groups
Monday
Over Eaters Anon. 10 AM Damascus
Tuesday
Al-Anon 10 AM Damascus

Scouts
Monday Girl Scouts-7pm-8:15
- Capernaum/Emmaus

Thursday
Narcotics Anonymous 7:30 PM-Damascus
Friday
Over Eaters Anon. 10:00 AM-Damascus
Warminster Korean Congregation
Sunday 1:30-5 PM
Wednesday 8-9 PM

July Birthdays
Jim Steele 7/4
Frankie Alvaro 7/4
Keith Fratantaro 7/6
Edith Uhler 7/9

Music Ministry
Wednesday Gospel Road - 7:00PM
Thursday-Bell Choir-7:00PM

Tuesday
Boy Scouts 6:30-9pm
-Damascus/Emmaus
EXERCISE
Monday-Zion Hall 5:45pm
Thursday-Walking-Zion Hall 6:15pm
YOGA
Tuesday 5:15pm-6:15pm
Wed 9-10:30am Thur 6-7:00pm

July Anniversaries
Richard & Karen Driesbach 7/3

July 3 2016
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP, FELLOWSHIP & SERVICE

PU RPO SE TO KN O W, GRO W I N , AN D SH ARE TH E LO V E O F CH RI ST

Office Hours:
Total Attendance: 6/26/16
Mon HOLIDAY-OFFICE CLOSED
Tues 11-3 Wed 9-3 Thur. 9-2

Greeters:

9:15-April Boyd
Pat Martin

115

Nursery Nanny: Phyllis DeNight

10:45- Janet Bamford
Sid Bamford

2nd Quarter Financial Statements are available for pickup

in the Narthex. Please report any questions to the office.
Thank you!
Please sign up for Vacation Bible School: "Cave Quest"
July 25th-July 29th 6:30pm-8:30pm (forms in Narthex)
See Bonnie Howe or Carol Michael

Red Cross Blood Drive

Friday, July 8th 2:00pm-7:00pm
Sign up sheet on Gift Card table
Premier Jewelry Fundraiser
July 17th 12:00pm-2:00pm ZION Hall
(see Jean Ostiguy/Kim Ruigrok for more info)

"Carpet Squares Committee" anyone interested in

assisting picking out the design/color of the new carpet
squares please sign up at Gift Card table.
Guest Preacher, Rev. Menno Good, will be joining us for both
services next Sunday, July 10th

Pastor Bowers email: pastor@standrewsworship.org

Cell phone:(215)630-0851
Office Hours week of July 5th:
T 10-3, W 2-5, Th 9-1

 Softball Team Fundraiser "Golf Outing"

Fairways Golf Club
Sept. 10th at 8:30am
Music Time for children K-5th will be held in the Sunday
School room during the first service 9:15-10:15). Thieny Bui,
a Music Education student at Temple University, will be
teaching the VBS songs.
Let's Pray! There will be a prayer time in the Sanctuary
every Sunday at 8:45am-9am and in the Prayer Room
(ground level) at 10:30am. Those in need of healing are
welcome to come and be prayed for. All are welcome to
come and take part in prayers for the church and worship
services as well.
Flowers for our Sanctuary & Zion hall each Sunday
morning add to our worship service. The flower chart for
2016 is posted in the Narthex so please consider signing
up to sponsor flowers.
Please put your Shoprite & Redner receipts in the red box
on the gift card table. St. Andrew's receives 1% cash back.

Stop by our Gift Card table today in the Narthex to see how
you can help support our ministries.

Please remember to donate non- perishable food items to our

pantry in the Narthex which is collected for the Food Bank at
Lehman UMC in Hatboro.
Items in need: Cereal
pasta
pasta sauce
microwave popcorn
shampoo toilet paper toothpaste

Romans 8:18-25
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the
creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be
revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not
by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in
hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its
bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of
the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has
been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the
present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the
first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our
adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in
this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at
all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope
for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Joel 2:12-16, 18-19, 28-29

12 Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning. 13 Rend your heart and not
your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and
compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents
from sending calamity. 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and
leave behind a blessing grain offerings and drink offerings for the
LORD your God. 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call
a sacred assembly. 16 Gather the people, consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the
breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her
chamber.
18 Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his
people. 19 The LORD replied to them: I am sending you grain, new
wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make
you an object of scorn to the nations.
28 And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons
and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your
young men will see visions.29 Even on my servants, both men and
women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

United Methodist Social Creed

We believe in God, Creator of the world; and in Jesus

Christ, the Redeemer of creation. We believe in the Holy
Spirit, through whom we acknowledge Gods gifts, and we
repent of our sin in misusing these gifts to idolatrous ends.
We affirm the natural world as Gods handiwork and
dedicate ourselves to its preservation, enhancement, and
faithful use by humankind.
We joyfully receive for ourselves and others the blessings
of community, sexuality, marriage, and the family.
We commit ourselves to the rights of men, women,
children, youth, young adults, the aging, and people with
disabilities; to improvement of the quality of life; and to the
rights and dignity of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.
We believe in the right and duty of persons to work for
the glory of God and the good of themselves and others and
in the protection of their welfare in so doing; in the rights
to property as a trust from God, collective bargaining,
and responsible consumption; and in the elimination of
economic and social distress.
We dedicate ourselves to peace throughout the world, to
the rule of justice and law among nations, and to individual
freedom for all people of the world.
We believe in the present and final triumph of Gods
Word in human affairs and gladly accept our commission
to manifest the life of the gospel in the world. Amen.
From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2000

United Methodist Social Creed

We believe in God, Creator of the world; and in Jesus

Christ, the Redeemer of creation. We believe in the Holy
Spirit, through whom we acknowledge Gods gifts, and we
repent of our sin in misusing these gifts to idolatrous ends.
We affirm the natural world as Gods handiwork and
dedicate ourselves to its preservation, enhancement, and
faithful use by humankind.
We joyfully receive for ourselves and others the blessings
of community, sexuality, marriage, and the family.
We commit ourselves to the rights of men, women,
children, youth, young adults, the aging, and people with
disabilities; to improvement of the quality of life; and to the
rights and dignity of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.
We believe in the right and duty of persons to work for
the glory of God and the good of themselves and others and
in the protection of their welfare in so doing; in the rights
to property as a trust from God, collective bargaining,
and responsible consumption; and in the elimination of
economic and social distress.
We dedicate ourselves to peace throughout the world, to
the rule of justice and law among nations, and to individual
freedom for all people of the world.
We believe in the present and final triumph of Gods
Word in human affairs and gladly accept our commission
to manifest the life of the gospel in the world. Amen.
From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2000