Church Bulletin

Wednesday:

First Reformed Presbyterian Church

C.A.S.T.

(Churches Are Serving Together)

CAST invites...

All congregations in Beaver County are invited to join in partnership through CAST. The requirements of a participating church include:

1) A monthly collection of money, nonperishable food items, soap and paper products;

2) Attendance by a representative to the Advisory Board, and

3) Provision of volunteers who receive training and help when needed. As we know from Scripture, “A house divided cannot stand,” and by banding together in an alliance such as Churches Are Serving Together, Inc. (CAST) with pooled talents and resources, we can address the needs and be a support system for people to possibly make permanent changes.

CAST is...

...a nonprofit interfaith organization seeking to bring all churches in Beaver County in unity to serve the needs of people who come to the participating churches. This united approach has been established to help families and individuals in crisis through a variety of services. CAST has received a 501(c)3 designation as a charitable organization and all contributions are tax deductible. CAST is a United Way Donor option organization (code 9345).

CAST provides...

OUTREACH ACTIVITY

Emergency food; Tangible assistance

SMART CHANGES CLASSES

Two classes are held every year in the spring and fall, lasting 10 weeks in duration on money management, grocery shopping, goal setting resources other than money, etc. This program takes place in our office. The student receives folders of information, a bag of groceries or paper products each week, and play money if they show up on time and make suggestions. They can spend their play money at an auction at the end of the 10 weeks of classes. We put four new items on a table each week.

GRADUATE PROGRAM

In 1997, a graduate class was added, made up of the people who attended the 15-week course. They meet with the teacher 8 times a year to help them stay on the budgets they have set up and to learn new things that will help them manage their lives. In 2000, the group started to put together a cookbook and to plan an outing together.

BACK TO SCHOOL PROJECT

In August 2007, 329 children ages 4-18 received a new school outfit, backpack, school supplies and a shoe certificate. This was the sixth year for this project. It has grown each year since its inception, with almost 3,900 children receiving help.

G.E.D. CLASSES

In January 1998 CAST became a G.E.D. site in connection with Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Labor Management Committee (SPALMC). A teacher is provided from SPALMC twice a week for a total of 6 hours and volunteers from our participating churches help with tutoring the students.

To date, 92 people have taken classes, with everyone at least moving up grade levels, and 21 have received their G.E.D.s.

S.E.L.F.

In March 1998 a gardening program called Take Good Care of Your S.E.L.F. was started for people with low incomes to grow gardens. Penn State Extension Agricultural Master Gardener Program, through director Lee Miller, provides the piece of ground. The instruction for gardening is provided by Jim Irwin, a Master Gardener and volunteer. Donations and volunteers provide the seeds, tools, and transportation. The participants need only to labor to produce the abundance of vegetables.

SATURDAY FIX BRIGADE

The Fix-It Brigade is a program in conjunction with First Presbyterian Church (Beaver) done on one Saturday a month, running from April to September. Volunteers from both First Presbyterian and other churches are asked to do simple jobs around the homes of elderly, disabled, frail, people living on a fixed income.

HOLIDAY OUTREACH

Easter baskets for children, Thanksgiving food provided, Christmas presents and groceries provided.

See the entryway table for complete brochures, which include information on how you can help and give to this ministry.

Prayer Time, 9:45 a.m., in the “Upper Room”

Preparing for worship in our pews at 9:55 a.m.

Morning Worship Service, 10:00 a.m.

Christian Education classes, 11:15 a.m.

Evening Worship, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday:

Church Bulletin

For all website inquiries please contact:

firstrpweb@msn.com

10:00 AM

Morning Worship Service

11:15 AM

Christian Education classes for all ages, featuring a Sermon Discussion

6:30 PM

Evening Worship Service

Reverend Bruce R. Backensto

Tues & Fri: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Wed: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

“Blessedness Pictured,” Psalm 128:1-4

Pastor Bruce Backensto preaching. Elder Tim McClain presiding.

Reading: Deuteronomy 6:1-12

Children’s Message: “Falling Proud.”

Psalms: 122A; 127A; 31D; 128A; 41C

All events are at the church building unless otherwise noted.

Morning: Worship 10:00 a.m.

Evening: Worship 6:30 p.m.

Greeter:

Ken and Floy Smith

Presider:

Elder David Schaefer

Preacher:

Pastor Bruce Backensto

Offering:

Matt Thompson; Nicholas Smerk; Marilyn Roll; Bob Lash

Alternate:

Wendell Dean

Precentor:

Glenn Aley

Nursery:

AM: Ruth Vos; Melissa Tweed

CE: Heidi Filbert

PM: Matt Filbert

“Salvation: How?” Eph. 2:1-10

Pastor Bruce Backensto preaching. Elder Tim McClain presiding.

Psalms: 103B; 103C; 103D; 118E; 134B

Pastor Bruce Backensto preaching. Elder David Schaefer presiding.

Please speak with our pastor or a deacon -

If you wish to use the church’s facilities for family dinners, etc.

Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.

Psalm 127

Morning: Worship 10:00 a.m.

Evening: Worship 6:30 p.m.

Please take the time

to fill out the

Share Your Time &Talent

survey.

You may either send or email the form to

First RPC.

This will give our elders and deacons an idea of the gifts, talents and abilities God has given to you and how you might share them with each other.

TNT

First RP Church: 724-846-6877

-- After worship, enjoy beverages and snacks in the fellowship hall.

-- Correction from last week’s bulletin: Tim McClain preached at Tusca Area RPC last Lord’s Day and is preaching at the RP Home today.

-- The Deacons will meet Mon., Apr. 5, at 7 p.m.

-- The Session will meet Mon., Apr. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

-- The spring term continues today for the Sabbath School classes. The kids’ classes will continue meeting in the old building. The college class is doing a study on The Pilgrim’s Progress in the multi-purpose room downstairs. The library class is continuing their study in Isaiah, and the International Lessons class meets in the room next to Pastor Bruce’s study. The elective class in the main auditorium will continue with the Faith Lessons video series, Walk as Jesus Walked.

-- Volunteers are needed to prepare the mailing of invitations to RPTS’s 200th anniversary celebration. This involves collating and folding the invitations and sealing the envelopes. We will begin at 10 a.m. on Tues., Mar. 16, here, and will continue through the afternoon. Please join us for an hour or for the entire time. Lunch will be provided. Please contact Kim Backensto.

-- Attention, Parents! Shepherding a Child’s Heart is the theme of a conference Apr. 9–10 at Christ Bible Church in Cranberry Township. Brochures for the conference are available on the table in the entrance hall.

-- There is an open house at the RP Theological Seminary Tues, Mar. 16 from 8:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. The schedule is posted in the entrance hall. RSVP to Keith Evans at 412-731-8690, ext. 102, or e-mail kevans@rpts.edu.

-- Please sign up on the sheet posted in the entrance hall if you are willing to be a precentor or greeter in months ahead.

Update #12 - Library of First Reformed Presbyterian Church

A sampling of DVDs is now available in the audio-visual section of our library which we would like to expand.

On Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, comedian Ben Stein travels the world speaking to members of the scientific community on a search for answers to the quandary that people’s adherence to evolution or intelligent design presents. It reveals what happens to educators and scientists who reject the theory of evolution.

Why It Matters, a Creation Ministries International project, features Dr. Carl Wieland and shows that origins cannot be just a “side issue” for Christians.

For heart-warming wholesome family night viewing, try The Foundling, the 50-minute TV premiere DVD of The Waltons.

For fans of Janette Oke’s fiction, several titles are now available on DVD including Love Comes Softly directed by Michael Landon, Jr. Each video is between 80 and 90 minutes in viewing time.

Fireproof starring Kirk Cameron, whose role as a heroic fire captain is a tale of a transformed life through faith, underlines the fireman’s code “Never Leave Your Partner Behind.”

Flywheel is the story of a man who meets God in his used car business as he sets to work to restore a classic convertible and finds that God intends to restore him as well.

The librarians are grateful to the deacon board and whoever else is responsible for adding shelves in the library. Thank you!

Bonnie & Kay, March 2010

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Highlighted Missionary

RPTS Open House, 8:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. at RPTS. See announcement

RPTS volunteer mailing work, 10 a.m. See announcement

Center Outreach Bible Study at Schaefers’, 7 p.m.

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BEAVER FALLS, Pa. – New Song, Geneva College’s nine-member music ministry group, will perform a concert on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. in the John H. White Chapel in Old Main. The concert will feature drama performed by the group, as well as a capella versions of the psalms, hymns, spirituals and contemporary Christian music.

Members of New Song spend a large portion of their summer touring North America, and rarely have the opportunity to perform a concert on Geneva’s campus. “We want to reach out to all of our friends and fans in the area and give them a chance to get a taste of what we devote our summers to,” says sophomore and New Song member Adam Sheffer. “It should be a great time for everyone involved!”

Admission is free.

For more information, contact the college’s music department at 724-847-6660.

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This

Week's

Highlighted

Missionary

Some of you will remember Stacie Shopp who used to minister in Russia.

For over a year she has been ministering in Athens, Greece, working in Omonia, “the heart of the city’s ‘ghetto’ area.”

She works in the Athens Refugee Center there where the gospel is lived and proclaimed.

Join her in praying for the women on the street, for the drug addicts, for the refugees wandering aimlessly.

Pray for the restorative work of the gospel in the hearts and lives of the people.

Pray for Stacie as she rides the bus 45 minutes each day from her home to near the Acropolis and walks to Omonia and the Refugee Center.

If you are interested in receiving e-mail updates, contact Stacie at stacierussia@gmail.com.

She prays Psalm 139:7-12 would be realized through her ministry to hurting people who need to know they need the Great Physician.

First RP Church: 724-846-6877

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Saturday:

Geneva College’s "The Genevans"

Beaver Falls, Pa. – Recently returned from a tour of Southeastern United States, Geneva College’s acclaimed mixed choir, The Genevans, will perform a free home concert at 8 p.m. on March 27 and 28 at the John H. White Chapel on Geneva’s campus.

Using the theme song for this concert is “Mourning into Dancing” by the contemporary Christian composer James Ward, the choir will sing a wide variety of music styles, from the Renaissance to contemporary, from folk songs to Spirituals and anthems. The concert will include motets from Victoria’s “Lamentations of Jeremiah” and the beloved “Super flumina Babylonis” of Palestrina. Also featured will be music by two great composers with special anniversaries this year: Felix Mendelssohn (b. 1809) and Henry Purcell (b. 1659). Rounding out the program are folk song settings by Johannes Brahms and humorous works by Mozart and others.

Two small groups from within the choir will also sing: Grace Notes (women’s sextet) and Eight Bells (barbershop).

Established in 1938, The Genevans represent the merger of Geneva’s original men’s and women’s glee clubs. Since then, the choir has performed across the United States and Canada, as well as in ten European countries, to significant acclaim.

The Genevans have been directed for twenty-seven years by Dr. Robert Copeland, a Geneva alumnus who earned his M.Mus. and Ph.D. degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining the Geneva faculty, he served in the U.S. Army and taught in Kansas for ten years. Dr. Copeland is also an active elder in his church.

The concert is open to the public, and attendance is free. For more information, contact the music department at 724-847-6660

Geneva College is a comprehensive Christian college of the arts, sciences and professional studies. Founded in the tradition of the Reformed Christian faith, Geneva prepares students to serve Christ in all areas of society: work, family and the church. Geneva is a founding member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU).