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Vacation Bible School 2023 – Save the Dates!

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Our Vacation Bible School with our friends the Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown will be June 18-22. Our theme is Exercising our Faith! We’ll have time to build friendships, sing, learn about the Bible, and try new fitness activities. Possible activities include martial arts, yoga, gymnastics, games, and Zumba. Below is our nightly schedule. Check out our VBS page for more information.

Nightly Schedule

  • 5:30 PM free small meal and registration
  • 6 PM opening session
  • 6:08 PM opening song
  • 6:11 PM Bible lesson
  • 6:30 PM-7:15 PM nightly fitness activity
  • 7:15 PM-7:30 PM closing song/activity
2022 VBS picture of children and adult leader playing outside
2022 VBS

Community Dinners Spring 2023

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Evangelical invites our community to join us for four community meals scheduled for this spring. Below is our schedule:

  • February 18-Meatloaf Dinner
  • March 18-Bangers and Mash Dinner
  • April 15-Roast Turkey Dinner
  • May 20-Baked Hamm Dinner

Each meal will be from 4 PM to 6 PM or until sold out. We will continue this spring to host these meals on Saturdays. Meals are available for in-person dining or takeout. Beverages are served for those joining us in-person. Adult meals are twelve dollars and children’s meals are five dollars. Please contact us with any questions about the meal or feedback. These are our tentative meal plans and prices. Plans are subject to change.

Dessert table from community dinners
Desserts from November Community Dinner

Opportunities January 2023

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Educational Opportunities

Fellowship Opportunities

  • Cookie Social on January 8 after worship in the fellowship hall

Small Group Opportunities

  • Prayer Shawl Group on Tuesdays at 1 PM in the educational wing
  • Choir practice on Wednesdays at 6 PM in the sanctuary
Folks at tables in fellowship hall socializing
December cookie social

Christmas Eve and Day 2022

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We are offering three worship services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year at Evangelical.

Christmas Eve Service at 6 PM

Our 6 PM service will feature Pastor Cliff Flick in “Call Me Ahmet, Innkeeper.” The service will include special music and a children’s sermon. At the end of the service, will sing “Silent Night” with candle light in our darkened sanctuary. This service will not be live streamed.

Christmas Eve Service at 11 PM

Our 11 PM service will be a traditional Christmas Eve Service. Pastor Andrew will preach on what it means that we call Jesus “Emmanuel”. As part of our service we will celebrate Holy Communion. The choir will offer special music. We will conclude the service with singing “Silent Night” with candle light. This service will be live streamed.

Christmas Day at 10:15 AM

We will worship at our normal time on Christmas Day. There will be no Sunday school. Deacon Megan will offer a message about Jesus being the light in the darkness as we reflect on the opening words of John’s Gospel. The choir will offer a special anthem. Join us as we continue to celebrate Christmas! This service will be live streamed.

Poinsettias on the altar with candles lit, a cross, and a Bible opened

Creed (Sunday School)

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What do Christians believe? When we recite the Apostle’s Creed on Sundays, what are we affirming? Pastor Andrew’s Sunday School class will explore these questions and more for six weeks in January and February. We will explore the Apostle’s Creed using Adam Hamilton’s book, Creed. Learn about the Apostle’s Creed and the basic tenets of our faith. Each week we will start with a time of prayer, an opportunity to share how life is going, we’ll watch a brief video, and we will then discuss the assigned reading. The class is being offered in person in our Zoom room or on Zoom.

Participants should pick up a copy of Adam Hamilton’s Creed. If you would like the church to order a copy of the book for you. Please contact the church office. The cost of the book is 13.50. If the cost of the book will be a problem, please talk to Pastor Andrew. If you would like to order through the church, please let us know by Sunday, December 25th.

Schedule

  • January 8-Introduction and Chapter One (God)
  • January 15-Chapter Two (Jesus Christ)
  • January 22-Chapter Three (Holy Spirit)
  • January 29-Chapter Four (The Church and the Communion of Saints)
  • February 12-Chapter Five (The Forgiveness of Sins)
  • February 19-Chapter Six (The Resurrection of the Body)

Contact us to order a book or for Zoom Information