Summer Music Series

Mark your calendars for Friday, June 5th at 6:00 p.m. Come enjoy the first of 4 Summer Music concerts with some great music with Mundo Brew, a local band (with our own Doug Yeager!)

Join us for a night under the stars as we gather in our front plaza to listen to great local sounds and partake in a variety of local food trucks perfect for a warm summer evening. Bring a blanket or chair. Limited seating is available. Please share and invite.

Crescent Hill Garden Tour

June 6, 2026

CHPC and the Jefferson County Master Gardeners are thrilled to be included in the annual Crescent Hill Garden Tour on June 6th. The tour will focus on the Front Entry Garden, The Meditation Garden and the Vegetable Garden. We hope that the church members will stop by the gardens on Saturday, June 6th to meet the gardeners and see the progress that has been made over the last several months.  

To be able to tour all of the gardens on the Tour, tickets can be purchased at this website:

https://www.crescenthillgardenclub.org/store/p2/tourticket.html

The Crescent Hill community looks forward to this garden tour each year. With the hope of good weather, we expect to welcome up to 350 people into the garden to view our contribution to the neighborhood and to learn about the partnership between CHPC and the JCMGA.  

Sunday Greeters

We are in need of additional Sunday greeters, once each month or more. If you are available to help, please reach out to Lucy Steilberg at 502-821-7735 or at lucyd.steilberg@gmail.com.

Mahjong Group

Come on out and join the Mahjong Group! The members are having fun learning and playing Mahjong. Please feel free to join in.

Our next meet-up is Tuesday, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Prayer Group for the Middle East

Feel free to join us Thursdays on Zoom, in-person, or both. This group has enabled such support for one another as we all struggle to cope with the tragedies in the Middle East and the on and off cease fires and prisoner releases. The first Thursday of each month the group will meet in person. Please reach out to Soni for locations.

We would be grateful to have others join us. Email Soni at soni.castleberry@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and be added to the group email list for regular communication.

DID YOU KNOW? What Presbyterians Believe

Confession of Belhar, September 1986 

part 3 of 3

4. We believe

• that God has revealed himself as the one who wishes to bring about justice and true peace among people; that God, in a world full of injustice and enmity, is in a special way the God of the destitute, the poor and the wronged

• that God calls the church to follow him in this; for God brings justice to the oppressed and gives bread to the hungry;

• that God frees the prisoner and restores sight to the blind;

• that God supports the downtrodden, protects the stranger, helps orphans and widows and blocks the path of the ungodly;

• that for God pure and undefiled religion is to visit the orphans and the widows in their suffering;

• that God wishes to teach the church to do what is good and to seek the right;

• that the church must therefore stand by people in any form of suffering and need, which implies, among other things, that the church must witness against and strive against any form of injustice, so that justice may roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream;

• that the church as the possession of God must stand where the Lord stands, namely against injustice and with the wronged; that in following Christ the church must witness against all the powerful and privileged who selfishly seek their own interests and thus control and harm others. 

Therefore, we reject any ideology

• which would legitimate forms of injustice and any doctrine which is unwilling to resist such an ideology in the name of the gospel.

5. We believe that, in obedience to Jesus Christ, its only head, the church is called to confess and to do all these things, even though the authorities and human laws might forbid them and punishment and suffering be the consequence. Jesus is Lord. To the one and only God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be the honor and the glory for ever and ever. 

https://pcusa.org/sites/default/files/belhar1

(Note: This is a translation of the original Afrikaans text of the confession as it was adopted by the synod of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Africa in 1986. In 1994 the Dutch Reformed Mission Church and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa united to form the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). This inclusive language text was prepared by the Office of Theology and Worship, Presbyterian Church (USA).)

June Birthdays

Please remember these wonderful folks in prayer and, if possible, reach out to them with a card, phone call, text, email or however you choose to honor them.

June 2 - Virginia Claire Baird

June 7 - Patti Marcum

June 16 - Jean Burgess-Welch

June 18 - Elise Duerr

June 19 - Hilda Zuniga

June 20 - Sandra Duverge

June 23 - Isabel Husk

June 28 - Janine Linder

To double-check your listing, contact the office at office@crescenthill.church or call 502-893-5381.

Deacon of the Month

June's Deacon of the Month will be Richard Recob. Richard can be reached at 812-789-3441 or at Rrrecob1028@gmail.com.

Elder of the Month

June's Elder of the Month will be Luiz Kemmerle. He can be reached at 502-619-4492 or at Keeganga5@gmail.com.