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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
MEETING WITH THE PASTOR
Time with Pastor Liz is by appointment at this time. She may be reached by email, text or phone at lpolanzke@gmail.com or 717-654-2334
TRINITY DEDICATIONS
Anyone who would like to order flowers or sponsor bulletins & candles for 2024 should call Jan ASAP (717-564-6360).
LISTENING POSTS FOR A NEW BISHOP
Our synod is conducting listening sessions as part of a discernment process leading up to the election of a bishop at our 2025 synod assembly. This is an opportunity for you to share how the Spirit is calling us, as synod, to walk together in faith and community in our contexts. The information gathered at the listening sessions will be used to prepare the Synod Mission Profile and Gifts of a Bishop documents that will serve as educational tools for our congregations in preparing for the election.
You may attend a listening session at any location that is convenient for you. The Listening Sessions are scheduled from June through mid-September. A complete list of Listening Sessions is available on the synod's website. https://www.lss-elca.org/lower-susquehanna-synod-2025-bishops-election/The Listening Session for the Harrisburg Conference is:
Monday, August 26, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm
Harrisburg Listening Session
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
100 W Main St
Hummelstown, PA 17036
PRAYER SHAWLS
Prayer shawls are stacked up on a table in the foyer of Trinity. If you know of someone (or even yourself) that is in special need of the comfort of a shawl and the prayers that go with it, please feel free to take one from the pile. If you are taking one to a friend, please check the sign-out book to be sure that person hasn’t already received one from us. If they haven’t, please sign the book and feel free to take a sheet that explains the prayer shawl to deliver along with it. These shawls are free of charge.
RENEWED IN GRACE PRAYER CHAIN
Philippians 4:6-7 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
If you have a prayer request for yourself, a family member, or a friend, please
contact Jill Hawkins, 717-571-6655, jillhawkins5@msn.com. Jill will start the request by calling it on to the prayer chain. Please remember that we accept requests for any person who needs prayer, member or non-member. Thank you.”
ALL ARE WELCOME BIBLE STUDY
The All are Welcome Bible Study meets on Tuesday nights at 6:30p.m. via Zoom. We are working our way through the Bible. We are currently reading the Book of Acts. We send out a weekly email with the Zoom link, as well as a brief summary of what we covered the previous week. To get the link for attending the Zoom session, or just to get on the weekly email list, please contact Matt and Mary Hunt at allarewelcomebiblestudy@gmail.com.
Summer Worship Assistants
July 21: Trinity reader – Barb Kain assistant – Judy Krovic
July 28: St. Peter’s acolyte – Jill Hawkins assistant – Sally Schonewolf
Aug. 4: Trinity reader – Sandy Canning assistant – Judy Krovic
Aug. 11: St. Peter’s acolyte – Brady Keyser assistant – Brian Keyser
Aug. 18: Trinity reader – Ed Holwig assistant – Doris Reynolds
Aug. 25: St. Peter’s acolyte – Landon Keyser assistant – Patrick Hawkins Outreach Ministries
Laundry Love (2nd Thurs. of every month)
Monetary donations for this outreach may be given to Pat or Jill Hawkins.
May 2024: 11 people served; 32 loads
June 2024: 18 people served; 58 loads
July 2024: 20 people served; 84 loads
Monday Night Meals at St. Peter's (5:30-6:30)
July 1 116 meals 29 non-food 12 clothing
July 8 105 meals 29 non-food 11 clothing
July 15 95 meals 27 non-food 8 clothing
Thursday Night Meals at Trinity (5:30 – 6:30)
June 20: 98 meals served
June 27: 99 meals served
July 11: 87 meals served
Tree 4 Hope (Hope Academy) Sponsors
Please remember to send your checks in for the year 2024.
Home-bound people and those in need of prayers and cards
Members in care facilities:
Warren Nelson Columbia Cottage, Room 48, 103 N. Larkspur Dr., Palmyra 17078
Doris Miller Middletown Home, 999 W. Hbg. Pike, Middletown 17057
Ben Whittington Traditions of Hershey, 100 N. Larkspur Dr., Rm. 309,
Palmyra 17078
John Brunner 600 Masonic Dr., Elizabethtown 17022
Geraldine Reider Brookdale Assisted Living, 3560 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg, Pa 17110
Home-bound people:
Connie Barner, Joyce Stickle, Jacqueline Acri, Joan Hogentogler, Ann Kline, Nancy Wilson, Rose Hoover, Lynette Stough, Jeff Myers, Leslie & Lisa Lisnitzer
People in our Prayers:
Don Alsedek, Connie Barner, Duck Harris, Rose Hoover, Samson Kennedy, Jeff Myers, Warren Nelson, Geraldine Reider, Carl & Anna Zeiders
Our prayers and sympathies are with the family and friends of Ben Whittington who passed into life eternal with his Lord on Sunday, July 14. He had been under Hospice care at Traditions of Hershey. Ben was a long-time active member of Trinity for many years. He is missed by us all.
Office Hours for Renewed in Grace
Secretary: Jan Holwig (with help from Barb J. and John M.)
Secretary office hours are TBD. Please contact Jan Holwig with questions.
In the case of a pastoral emergency: Please note that Pastor Liz will be on vacation July 15-28, 2024. Pastor Molly Haggerty, St. Peter’s-Middletown will be on-call for pastoral emergencies (ie. hospitalization, death). She may be reached at 717-321-4877.
Take care & God bless,
Renewed in Grace Cooperative Ministries
St. Peter’s Highspire and Trinity Steelton are located on the original and ancestral homelands of the Susquehannock peoples and we give thanks for their presence here since time immemorial. We also wish to recognize and honor all our Indigenous siblings who have and continue to call this land their home.
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