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Join us for a Game Day
by: Karl Smith
01/11/2025
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We’re going to put those winter doldrums away on Saturday, February 1 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a family- friendly Game Day in Fellowship Hall.
If you like board games, this will be the place to be. Have a favorite board game? Bring it along, but it’s perfectly fine to just show up and join a game that you find interesting. Oh, and plan on bringing a snack to share.
Please let us know you’re coming - just drop an email.
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Youth Group: New Year, New You?
by: Karl Smith
01/07/2025
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Start the year with a fresh focus on transformation in Christ! This month, we’ll explore how to leave behind what holds us back, embrace the new life God offers, and set faith-centered goals for the year ahead. Through weekly lessons, we’ll reflect, reset, and discover how to align our lives with God’s purpose.
“If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17
Join us as we step into the new year, rooted in Chris
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Pitch in for our next community meal
by: Karl Smith
01/07/2025
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We are serving a variety of soups, stews, chilis, crock pot meals and casseroles for the January 22 community dinner but we need your help. Contact our church office (by email or 215-675-2110 to donate your favorite soup, stew, chili, crock pot meal or casserole.
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Youth Group's year of growth
by: Karl Smith
01/06/2025
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Rooted & Renewed: A Year of Growth in Faith
"You have accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord. Now keep on following him. Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful." Colossians 2:6-7 (CEV)
This year, our youth group embarks on an exciting journey with the theme "Rooted & Renewed." Together, we’ll explore what it means to be deeply rooted in Christ’s love and truth, allowing Him to
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New year, new music director
by: Karl Smith
01/06/2025
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New year, new music director Looking ahead to the future of the music ministry here at Lehman Church in the new year and beyond, we’d like to offer a very warm welcome to our new music director, Charlie de Mets. That’s right - our wonderful organist will now also lead the Sanctuary Choir.
Interested in singing under Charlie’s direction? Come check out the Sanctuary Choir during rehearsals on Thursday nights at 7:15.
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Thank you from our pastors
by: Karl Smith
01/02/2025
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From Pastor Julia:
I just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who sent a gift or a card, contributed to the pastor’s gift, and/or prayed for us over the last few weeks.
I feel so cared for by this congregation and I appreciate it more than you know. I hope you have a wonderful New Year!
Blessings, Pastor Julia
From Pastor Nancy:
I am writing this note with a grateful heart to a congregation that I love and appreciate so much! Thank you for your Christm
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Youth Group party on December 29
by: Karl Smith
12/11/2024
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The Youth of Lehman will have a Christmas party on Sunday, December 29 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. It’s a night where Christmas cheer and a New Year’s countdown collide with fun, friends, and festive vibes. Teens are invited to bring a $5 white elephant gift. Questions? Contact Vica.
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Get your “star word” on Epiphany, January 5
by: Karl Smith
12/06/2024
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We will celebrate Epiphany at Lehman on January 5 but it will also be “star day.” When you come to worship, you’ll be able to pick up your “star word” for 2025. Pastor Julia will explain this growingtradition where people choose life-guiding words for the year ahead.
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Our live nativity - fun for the whole family
by: Karl Smith
12/01/2024
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Our live nativity, complete with animals and the Christmas story, happens on December 22 from noon to 2 p.m. There will be crafts and snacks in Fellowship Hall and music and carols in the sanctuary, all packed into two hours.
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Chancel committee: Christmas is coming
by: Karl Smith
11/15/2024
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As the Christmas season rapidly approaches, the Chancel Committee is gearing up to beautify the church with decorations. But we need your help to accomplish this at two times, in particular.
Monday, December 2, we will gather at 6:30 p.m. to decorate the sanctuary. If you are available for any amount of time that evening, we would appreciate having the extra hands. Come and have a good time of fellowship while you work together with others to do the decorating. There will
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Join Us For Scrooge-centric Advent Bible study
by: Karl Smith
11/13/2024
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Join us for Thanksgiving worship
by: Karl Smith
11/11/2024
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Will You Be An Angel This Christmas?
by: Karl Smith
11/08/2024
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We will be having our Angel Tree program again at Lehman this year. During the Christmas season there are families in our community who need a little extra help, and with Angel Tree, we are able to provide that help. We will be collecting gift cards from Walmart and Target (no other vendors, please) in increments of $25. Beginning next Sunday, November 10, you can bring these gift cards to Chris Schmidt or Molly Moyle on Sunday mornings, or to the church office during the
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We'll honor our veterans November 6
by: Karl Smith
10/31/2024
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We will honor veterans Wednesday, November 6 with a service at 11 a.m. As a veteran of the USMC, Rev. Andy Krpata will be one of the speakers. Bayada Hospice, which sponsors the event, will be honoring veterans and their families in hospice care, as well as the veteran volunteers and employees of Bayada.
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We observe All Saints Sunday this Sunday
by: Karl Smith
10/29/2024
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All Saints Sunday will be observed next Sunday at both services. We will be honoring all those who have gone home to be with the Lord since last All
Saints Day. John Wesley wrote about the day often: In a journal entry from November 1, 1767, Wesley calls it “a festival I truly love.” On the same day in 1788, he writes, “I always find this a comfortable day.”
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