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		Lake Park United Methodist church is located in Lewistown, Pa. on the 700 block of West 4th Street at the corner of Crystal Springs Avenue. Sunday worship at 10:45 a.m., Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Rev. Mark Brower, Pastor....Parsonage/Office 717-248-0306 e-mail: mbrower4@verizon.net

LAKE PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JULY  6, 2008

Signs of Faithfulness Last Sunday (June 29):    

Attendance:  30  Offering: $656.00

Altar Flowers: To The Glory of God

Announcements:

Tues. July 8: Church Council Meeting at 7 pm.

 Sun. July 13: Organist and Pianists Appreciation Day

Note: If you were unprepared to donate to the Gideon’s program last week,
you can do so today and we will see that they receive it.
There are donation envelopes in the Narthex
or you can place it in the offering and mark it for the Gideons.
Thanks.

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LAKE PARK~GRANVILLE NEWSLETTER
July, 2008

 

Pastor Mark’s Remarks:

The Pastor is very busy so he has asked me to put an article in the newsletter for him.
The following is the one I have chosen.


GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION

We often hear the expression “life goes on” but we usually are referring to something within our lifetime.
It is human nature to not want to think about death, but we need to be reminded that life goes on after death
and we are in charge of our own destiny whether it be heaven or hell.
Our human nature is to be concerned about our income, health care, retirement, etc.
Everything we are concerned about in a lifetime is usually less than a hundred years.
But how often do we think about eternity? In eternity we could live several million years and still be
no closer to the end because there is no end. Eternity is forever.
God’s law says sin separates us from God and the punishment for sin is eternal death or eternity in hell.
When we die, it is only the body that dies. The part of us that knows, understands, realizes,
laughs and loves floats right out of our body and spends eternity in either heaven or hell.
But God loved us so much that he left his own son, Jesus Christ, pay the death penalty for our sins.
Anyone who confesses his sins, believes in Jesus and accepts him as Lord and Savior,
then his sins will be forgiven, remembered no more and he will have eternal fife in heaven.
And as we grow in the Christian life, you will realize that Jesus will be your best friend.
Someone you can count on to guide you through any problem or situation.
We only have to believe, have faith, and obey his commands as taught in the bible.
God tried to communicate with man for centuries throughout the Old Testament times through the prophets.
Then he came up with the plan of salvation by becoming a human being in the form of a baby, and living among us to teach us his ways.
God became one of us so he could communicate with us and then sacrifice his own life on the cross to pay for
our sins that we might have eternal file.
- J. Richard Henry

PS: This excerpt was taken from a flyer written by Dick Henry titled
“The Free Gift, Bits and Pieces of My Testimony of the Christian Life.”
Please contact Dick for a full copy.

In Memory of:

Stewart Samuel Druck, Jr.

11/12/45 ~ 5/20/08

Why Go To Church:
A Church go-er wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it
made no sense to go to church every Sunday (or Saturday) "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "
and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I
can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor.
It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher.
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.
But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this..
They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals,
I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible,
believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
- Submitted by Tim Collins

CHURCH CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 2008

MIFFLIN COUNTY 2

 Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m.

PLACE:  Lewistown, Grace

HOST:  Rev. Rick Bender

Lewistown, First

Lewistown, Grace

Lewistown, Grove Memorial

Lewistown, Granville/Lake Park

Lewistown, Trinity

McVeytown Parish

COMPUTER MINISTRY, INC. NEEDS YOUR HELP
Since January 2008, we have donated nearly 550 PCs to Zimbabwe, Puerto Rico,
Ghana, and various local churches and non-profit organizations helping people in the region and even up to Maine.
We need at least 20 for a theological seminary in the Philippines, and 200 more for a health ministry in Kyrgyzstan.
But our shelves are bare.
Perhaps the Lord is giving us a brief vacation, but the requests continue to come in.
Although our next recycle day is not until August 9th, we are making an appeal for your unused PCs and related equipment now.
If you have a PC you aren't using and want to dispose of, please consider Computer Ministry, Inc.
Even if you don't have a PC to donate, talk with co-workers, neighbors, or other family members.
We are in the Mission Central building, 5 Pleasant View Dr, Mechanicsburg PA.
our phone is 717.766.6373. We are open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8:30 am till 4:00 pm,
but if you can't make it on those days, Mission Central will accept PC donations for us any day they are open (Mon-Sat).
If you wish, we can give you a donation acknowledgment for tax purposes.

IMPACT '08 RETURNS FOR 14TH YEAR
Impact '08 is approaching fast. From Wednesday, July 30 - August 2, 2008,
Camp Greene Hills will be the destination for hundreds of teens and adult leaders from across the conference and beyond.
Check out our web site at www.snlym.com for costs for whole event and day tickets
or contact Cindy Noel at for pricing or registration info and questions. This is our fourteenth year!
Complete schedule for Impact '08 is posted at www.snlym.com.
Impact Hosts - returning for the second year are Steve Ackerman and Lisa McCaffrey
An offering is received each evening. This year we will be supporting "Friends and Neighbors",
"Mission Central," "Impact Scholarships," "CCYM Youth Service Fund," and the "Pee Dee Indian Mission".
The SnL dance and drama teams will be sharing during each main stage session.
Children's Ministry is provided by Kingdom Kids Puppet Ministry, St. Andrews UMC, Milton.
Children's ministry is available during the morning main stage session and during the afternoon seminar time.
Multiple afternoon seminars are available.
Complete schedule for Impact '08 is posted at www.snlym.com.

Bible Quiz

The names of sixteen books of the English Bible are hidden in the text of the following paragraph.
Can you find all sixteen of them?

I once made a remark about the hidden books of the Bible. It was a lulu.
Kept people looking so hard for facts and for others it was a revelation.
Some were in a jam, especially since the names of the books were not capitalized.
But the truth finally struck home to numbers of readers. To others, it was a real job.
We want it to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Yes, there will be some really easy ones to spot.
Others may require judges to help them. I will quickly admit it usually takes a minister to find one of them,
and there will be loud lamentations when it is found.
One little lady says she brews a cup of tea, so she can concentrate better. See how well you can compete.
Relax now for there are really sixteen names of books of the Bible in this story.

HAVE A SAFE AND

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY !!

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