This Week at St. Paul's!

This Week at

St. Paul's Lutheran Church-Lionville

May 26, 2024

"Grow in Faith, Serve with Love, Invite into Fellowship"

Memorial Day Weekend

9:30 am - Combined Service

Everyone is welcome!

Attend in person or worship online

Our Prayer List

We pray for John, Cassie, Julie, Dave, Lucy, Janet, Amy C., Ruth, Sid, Joanna, Bill H., Bill T., Sandy L., Amy D., Joy, Pat, Marlene, Nancy, Garnet, Chip, Sandy F., Alice, Jean, and Mark. We lift up Daniel, Zach, Alistar, Chris, and Adam in the military.

Summer Service Schedule Begins THIS Sunday!

Please note that we will be moving to our summer service schedule beginning Sunday, May 26. There will be one combined service at 9:30 am through Sunday, September 1.

Blood Drives

St. Paul's is holding a Blood Drive on Thursday, May 30, from 2:00-7:00 pm. To sign up, click here and enter "splutheran" as the sponsor code.

Crafters Schedule Changes

The Crafters will not be meeting on May 29 and July 3. Beginning Wednesday, June 5 we will meet in the Picnic Grove (weather permitting) at 11am for lunch and various projects.

Outdoor Service and Picnic

On Sunday, June 2, we will celebrate a wonderful outdoor service (weather permitting) at 9:30 am followed by a great afternoon of food and fellowship. The church will provide hotdogs, hamburgers, and veggie burgers. To sign up to contribute to the meal and RSVP, click here or go to StPaulsLionville.org/events. If your family likes to play outdoor games, bring your favorite one along. This is always such a delightful event that it would be a great opportunity to invite a friend, neighbor or family member to worship that day!

Please note that for those who regularly watch our livestream, due to the complications of offering the livestream outdoors, only the pre-recorded sermon will be offered that morning.

Graduate Celebration June 2

On Sunday, June 2 at the 9:30 am outdoor service, we will celebrate our high school graduates. I hope you can attend as we celebrate their achievements and offer them faith gifts to bless them as they move to new ventures in their lives!

Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief

Throughout the year we’ve been collecting items to assemble Personal Care Kits for Lutheran World Relief. Each kit contains a towel, bar of soap, a toothbrush, a comb and nail clippers and are distributed at refugee camps for self-care and critical germ fighting. We will be assembling these kits on Saturday, June 1, at 10 am. If you’d like to lend a hand, please join us.

Airport Transportation Needed for

Our ELCA Youth Gathering Team

AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION NEEDED FOR OUR ELCA YOUTH GATHERING GROUP! We are looking for three or four drivers who would be willing to take our group to Philadelphia airport on Tuesday morning, July 16 and/or pick us up upon our return Sunday morning, July 21. We will need to get to the airport at 4:00 am on Tuesday, and our returning flight arrives at 12:30 am on Sunday. If you are able to help, please sign up here: Youth Gathering Airport Transportation.

No Knitters Club on Memorial Day

Please note there will be no Knitters Club on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. Feel free to join us next Monday, June 3 though!

Flat Sheets Needed

The quilters are in need of flat sheets for the back of the quilts. If you have flat sheets you are not using, please place them in the bin in the hallway marked Quilts.

Vacation Bible School

It's that time of year again! We are so excited for Camp Firelight VBS!

Dates and Time: Monday-Friday, July 22-26, from 9:00-12:00 pm

Ages: Children who turned 4 before January 1, 2024, through those who completed fifth grade in the 2023-2024 school year

Cost: $40 per camper, $30 for siblings (financial assistance is available; please speak with Pastor Stuart)

Camper registration forms can be found in the narthex or downloaded at StPaulsLionville.org/vbs. Follow the instructions on the form for how to submit it and provide payment. Registration form(s) and payment are due July 7, 2024 (exceptions will be made if your child’s class is not full).

Coffee Fellowship

Most slots for coffee fellowship through June 30 are available! Team up with friends, family, or your church group to provide snacks and prepare coffee on Sunday mornings and sign up in the narthex or online at StPaulsLionville.org/events.

Prayer Team

If you would like to be part of the prayer team who is contacted when immediate prayer is needed, please contact the church office or pastorstuart@stpaulslionville.org. Also, if you have an immediate need for prayer, please don't hesitate to contact the church office or Pastor Stuart!

Youth Ministry News

For the most up-to-date event information and signup links,

go online to the Youth Ministry web page at StPaulsLionville.org/youth.

YOUTH NIGHT AT THE READING FIGHTIN' PHILS! Our youth ministry has been generously gifted with sixteen tickets to the Tuesday, July 9 Reading Phillies game against the Akron RubberDucks, which is also an Orion Kerkering Bobblehead Night! This event is open to ALL sixth through twelfth graders, but available tickets are limited; sign up here to save your spot: July 9 Reading Phillies Game.

OUR THIRD AND FINAL APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT PREP SESSION will be Sunday, June 2 from 4:00 to 5:30pm at St. Matthew's. We will learn more about our work crew teammates and spend some time practicing basic construction skills with hand tools and power tools. Please plan to attend if at all possible! Our ASP group leaves for Clay County, West Virginia on Sunday morning, June 23. If you haven't turned in your final registration payment, please do so by this coming Sunday, May 12!

OUR LAST ELCA YOUTH GATHERING MEETING will be on Sunday, June 9 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm at St. Matthew's. Come and learn more about what we will see and do while we're in New Orleans in July for the Gathering!

Peanut Butter &

Jelly Drive

Peanut butter and jelly is needed by the Chester County Food Bank. During the school year, low-income students receive free or reduced lunches at school. However, over the summer, they lose this option. The Chester County Food Bank steps in to fill this gap by providing students with the ingredients to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Please consider donating a plastic container of peanut butter or jelly. Bins will be in the narthex through Sunday, June 2.

Attention All Adults Who Work with Youth,

or Want to Do So

Under our congregation's Youth Protection Policy, everyone 18 and older who is involved in a direct, supervisory relationship with our youth and children must have completed background checks and YPP training within the past five years. Craig Miller has one remaining upcoming opportunity for you to be trained in our congregation's Youth Protection Policy (again, training which is required by the policy). It will be held on Sunday, June 2 from 10:45 to 11:45 am at St. Matthew's.

If you need help obtaining clearances and/or need to complete YPP training, please go to this link to sign up so that Craig can plan accordingly.

Lutheran Night at the Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies will host the St. Louis Cardinals at Citizens Bank Park on Friday, May 31, at 6:40 pm for Lutheran Night. If 500 or more tickets are sold across the synod, the bishop will be able to throw out the first ball! Purchase your tickets at StPaulsLionville.org/events.