Sunday Service Recordings Available

In an effort to reach our members who aren’t able to attend Sundays, we will offer recordings in the form of CD’s of our weekly Sunday services.

If you are interested in receiving information regarding these recordings, please contact the office at 610-444-4624. Please be sure to request a CD player if you need to borrow one!

CD Players Needed

Please consider donating any CD players that you don’t use to the church! Donated CD players will be lent to parishioners who would like to listen to our recorded church services but don’t have a CD player of their own. All donations are tax deductible.

This Communications Committee endeavor is being headed by David Haradon, Wilson Somers,

Nick Ronaghan, and Paul Bente.

Advent encourages Education for Ministry participation

Education for Ministry is a program sponsored by Sewanee, The University of the South. It is the core course taught in Sewanee’s School of Theology.

EFM is designed to educate participants in the faith and to help people discern their ministry in the world. Some participants earn credits toward seminary. Others use the course to define their ministry as laity in the world.

The program is sent to students from Sewanee to study at home. Participants then meet with a trained mentor once a week. The weekly meeting is two and a half hours in duration and is structured to include: a period of worship, a time for review and discussion of lessons and a segment for theological reflection.

Theological reflection is a technique for examining important issues in our lives and in the world through the lenses of our experience, our church, biblical tradition, and our culture. The reflection concludes with a discussion regarding our own personal positions on the topic discussed and our collective insights about it. Finally, and most significantly, we talk about what implications we have gleaned for our individual ministries from the reflection.

EFM is a four year course covering Old Testament, New Testament, church tradition and theological insights. Students only need to sign up for one year at a time. The fee is $340 a year. EFM at Advent meets on Wednesday mornings throughout the year (except in the summer). It is an extremely rewarding study and group experience; however, it does require commitment, monetarily and time wise. Those who have taken it are genuinely enthusiastic about it.

The maximum number of members recommended for a group is 12. If you are interested in joining EFM next fall, please contact Peggy Newton

E-Chronicle Trial Period Coming to an End!

Over the past several months, parishioners (with internet access) have been receiving both the paper version and the electronic version of the Chronicle. We have received such an enormous amount of support in favor of the e-chronicle, that, beginning September, ALL parishioners who have been receiving both the paper version and the electronic version of the chronicle will begin receiving ONLY the electronic version.

If you prefer the paper version and want to continue receiving it in September, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE AND TELL THEM YOU WANT THE PAPER VERSION. The number for the church office is: 610-444-4624. Thanks again for helping Advent think green!

How Important is Christian Education at Advent?

Does each Sunday School class have a full complement of teachers ? What does this say to the kids about us?.....about THEM? What happens in the Fall depends on the committment of our Advent family to pass on the faith? It is up

to us to take a stand in their lives as teachers, mentors, and role models. Ask

not, "Will our children have faith (they already do), but will our faith have children."

(Quote from John Westerhoff ). If you would like to find a place to fit in, call or e-mail Kathy Prible (610-444-4624 or KLPrible@yahoo.com )

Special Request!

Special Request: sponsors for next year’s confirmation class are needed! We need adult community members willing to support an 8^th grade student as he or she prepare for confirmation starting this fall. As a sponsor you are asked to get to know your student through informal meetings over coffee or tea. An information meeting will be held in September that gives you questions to ask your student; along with ideas for meeting. Meeting every 4-6 weeks is suggested, and often times this can be done before or after church. Over the summer months please prayerfully consider becoming a sponsor. Is God calling you to this special and meaningful service?