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SUNDAY SCHEDULE 9:00 AM - Sunday School Classes for all ages - click here for more information  10:30 AM - Worship, Sanctuary THIS SUNDAY IN WORSHIP November 3, 2019 SCRIPTURE LESSON: Luke 19:1-10     MESSAGE:      “A Climber Rescued”

Contents :  This Week Upcoming Events Children's Ministry Schedule J.A.M. Choir News Online Giving Thank You Birthdays Notes from the Console   Last Week Contacting the Pastor

Happening This Week TIME CHANGE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019 TURN CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR ON SATURDAY NIGHT! Friends of Cross Keys Village - The Brethren Home Community - "Change for a Day" is due Sunday Nov. 3, 2019 - Please place your donation in the container in the church narthex that is marked "Change for a Day." Thank you. - Anna Miller, Keyperson Soup Kitchen - Friday Nov. 8, 2019 -  Sign up in the narthex to make a casserole or to work at the Soup Kitchen on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 (10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) PLEASE add your name and number of casseroles, to the SIGN-UP sheet, so we can let the Soup Kitchen know how many casseroles to expect.  Master Planning Team Update - A brief update on building improvements and fundraising so that we all stay informed: The library carpeting is scheduled to be installed the week of November 4, after which we will begin re-stocking books and completing furnishings. A huge thank you to Bob & Beth Drawbaugh for their efforts there in recent months! The roof replacement project will likely take place within the month of November. Parking lot improvements will wait until Spring of 2020. Construction work for the proposed interior building improvements will likely begin in the Summer of 2020. The Master Planning Team continues to work on the design and coordination of these improvements going forward. Our Capital Campaign is scheduled to take place this Winter season. Please be responsive to any requests to participate in the work of the campaign, and expect to receive more information in the near future.

The following resources are available on the table in the Gathering Area: This week's e-news and the November calendar, which can also be viewed here November Church of the Brethren Newsline Digest

Events, Prayer Requests, and Classes

Click for Calendar of Events, Friends to Remember in Prayer, & Sunday School

Upcoming Events

SENIOR DAY AT CAMP EDER - Nov. 13, 2019 (Wednesday) - Meet our summer staff, enjoy a great meal and awesome program! 9:30 Meet and greet with continental breakfast, 10:00 Morning Program, 12:00 Delicious Lunch, 1:00 Afternoon program.

OWLS NOVEMBER EVENT - Nov. 14, 2019 (Thursday) - At noon in the Homebuilders Classroom 154 – That’s the time and place to gather, to see the interesting wall hanging made by Marie Bachman and hear the story of its creation. If you missed Marie’s presentation at NOAC this summer or want to learn more, this is your opportunity to do so. Join us on November 14. Bring your bag lunch and join us for lunch at noon. (Drinks and a dessert will be provided). Or join us at 12:30 for the presentation. Please sign up on the sheet in the narthex by November 10 so we know how many to prepare for. Coming events – The Annual Christmas tea – December 12

Children's Ministry Schedule

Thank you to all who assist with Children's Ministry. Your time, energy, and dedication are appreciated. If you need to make a schedule change or would like to serve as a teacher or in the nursery, please contact Michele Gibbel (717)318-5442 or mgibbel@yahoo.com

J.A.M. Choir News Children ages 4 to 6th grade J.A.M. (Jesus And Me) Choir is practicing Sundays from 9:50 am to 10:10 am in the basement choir room. For those children in Sunday school you will be escorted to the choir room and return to the Sunday school room to meet your parents after practice each week. J.A.M. Choir is scheduled to sing in worship every 2nd Sunday of the month. We will be singing, moving, using puppets, and playing musical instruments. Join us every Sunday as we make music for our Lord!

COOKIE BAKERS NEEDED First Church cookie bakers are needed to put their talent to work because we are again packing homemade cookies for the truckers which will be handed out to them during the month of December at the Carlisle Truck stops. The Carlisle Truck Stop Ministry chaplains will do so. The goal for our church is to pack at least 225 bags with about 6 cookies in each bag. That calls for ALOT of cookies!! We usually exceed our goal so I am expecting the same this year, friends. Please put your freshly baked homemade cookies in the church lounge on the table on Sunday, December 1. They definitely MUST be there by 9:30 AM Tuesday morning, December 3. The Ladies Bible Study group will pack them in the decorated bags that morning. Thank you so much for helping to brighten a truck driver's day!   Elizabeth Eisenhart

Parish Resource Center Events Church leaders and anyone else who is interested - click below or visit their website at parishresourcecenter.or g to view some of the many upcoming events through the Parish Resource Center in Lancaster - an organization that provides many class and study materials in addition to programs that serve to build up leaders and the church's witness. Take a look and see what may interest you or benefit us all!

PRC Events & Workshops

Anyone interested in attending the below workshop at PRC and want to car pool see Diane Gibble: Children and Music Awesome Worship (Nov. 11, 7:00 - 8:30 PM)

If you wish to begin contributing to the church using online giving, please visit our website at: yorkfirst.org and click on the Online Giving link or go directly to the Online Giving website at:  www.acionlinegiving.com/4706 . For assistance setting up your account, call Donor Support at:  800-348-2886 – Option 2 – Online Giving Questions? Contact Sheryl Leaman if necessary, and thank you for your support!

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Online Giving

Since 2011 our Witness Team has sponsored the Cash for Causes program by selling Giant & Weis gift cards. The church receives 5% of sales to support various ministries. For 2019 the money is sent quarterly to Camp Eder, Carlisle Truck Stop Ministry, and Children’s Aid Society. You may purchase the cards ($100, $50, $25, $10) by cash or check made out to York First Church. The cards make great gifts, especially at holidays. Consider donating cards to the Food Pantry or using them yourself any time you shop at Giant or Weis. Call me at (717) 793-9320, send an email rwenger643@aol.com , or just see me on Sunday morning at church. Thank you for supporting this program. Becky Wenger, Cash for Causes representative

A big Thank You to all the volunteers and contributors to the Trick or Trunk Event. The weather was perfect, the 16 car trunks were well displayed, and the light meal was enjoyed by many. The attendance swelled to 280 attendees who appeared to be having a great time. The effort of many volunteers make the event a big success. - The Witness Team Deb and Mike Martin and their son, Shea, thank the congregation for their expressions of concern, prayers, and cards. Shea is now conscious and ambulatory with the help of a walker and has been moved out of the ICU into the burn unit, where he will continue his recovery before moving to a rehab facility. We wish to thank our church family for the many calls, visits, and expressions of sympathy before and after the passing of mother. ~ Ruby and John Minnich We have received many cards and felt the prayers of the congregation and want to thank everyone for their love and concern during this time of grief at death of Vivian's mother, Mary Margaret Bowman Edwards at age 98. Thank you and blessings, Don & Vivian Hubbell

3 Barb Wueschinski 4 Dolly Furst 8 Jill McCracken 8 Jan Vuono 8 Brad Striebig 10 Dianne Hollinger 10 Jess Dietrich 15 Greg Klinedinst 18 Dolores Mann 19 Tanner Martin 20 Carlyn Hoke If your birthday is in  NOVEMBER and it is not on the below list or is listed incorrectly, please call the church office. 20 Bob Fitzkee 20 John Copenheaver 21 Elizabeth Eisenhart 21 Dan Snook 22 Charles Innerst 22 Bernadette Snook 24 Pat Paules 25  Laura (Thomas) Lash  27  Michelle Sauder 29  Tammy Stehr 29 Luke Baldwin

Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies presents “ A Conversation with Clarence Spohn about Printing in Ephrata ,” on Tuesday, November 12 , 7:30 p.m., in the Bucher Meetinghouse . Spohn, who worked at the Ephrata Cloister from 1968 to 1996, will discuss his collection of imprints from the early presses. For more information, call 717-361-1470 or visit www.etown.edu/youngctr/events .

"Notes from the Console," Article 15, By Mike Frock "What are all those little numbers?" Part 5-Other Uses I used two common hymns in the example in the last article, thinking that you might be able to do those switches in your head without having a hymnal in front of you. But the most frequent use of this switch is to sing the lyrics of an unfamiliar hymn to the tune of a well-known hymn. So, maybe the person choosing the hymns really likes the lyrics to hymn #540 "Oh, for a closer walk with God," which is a hymn that I don't think has ever been sung here. It is also a little bit odd in that it does not have a time signature, but the hymn is listed with a poetic meter of CM. So maybe instead of trying to learn this new tune, the congregation could turn to hymn #540 and sing those lyrics, but to the tune of "Amazing grace!" So, reasons for making this kind of switch may be that a tune is unfamiliar or challenging (rhythm, range, etc.). Or conversely, it may be that a tune is overused, and one wants something new, a variety, and/or a challenge. Maybe instead of singing #119 "Praise God from whom" to the OLD HUNDREDTH tune, the hymn has a poetic meter of LM (Long Meter 88.88), and the lyrics could be sung to any of the other 56 hymns tunes with that poetic meter. A rare use of the Metrical Index might be on the off-chance that the person picking the hymns would want to sing two hymns that have the same tune, such as #89 "For the beauty of the earth" and #218 "As with gladness men of old" (both to the tune of DIX), one tune could be changed. Lastly, the Metrical Index can be used to find a tune with a certain poetic meter to match to a piece of poetry without music. Maybe a poem is found or there is a wordsmith in the congregation who composes a poetic text, and that piece of poetry has a pertinent message which might make a good hymn. You can figure out the poetic meter of the poem and reference the Metrical Index to find a tune which would match that poetic meter. 

LAST SUNDAY IN WORSHIP

Scripture Lesson:   Luke 18:15-17 Message:   “Let the Children Come” Worship Attendance: 140

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CONTACTING THE PASTOR Pastor Joel Gibbel can be reached most mornings in the church office Monday - Thursday from 9:00 AM to noon. Afternoons and evenings are often set aside for visiting those in need, for meetings, and for other pastoral duties. Pastor Joel is also available for Pastoral Counseling by appointment.

If you need to reach the pastor outside of office hours, his home phone number is (717)318-5442, and his cell number is (717)271-4888 . You can also email him at pastor@yorkfirst.org. Note that laws prevent hospitals from contacting a pastor without your permission when you are admitted, so you will need to let hospital staff know that you would like the hospital to contact your pastor.

Our Mission Statement: “People dedicated to Spiritual Growth, Loving Relationship, and Sacrificial Service” Our Vision Statement: “To become a community of committed Christians who Love God, Share Christ, and Serve the World”