Outdoor Property Clean-up Day – May 19th – 8:00 AM to Noon

Bring your gloves and gardening tools. Continental breakfast and lunch provided.

There will be a Rummage Sale to benefit mission, Saturday, May 12th from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  Drop off dates, Thursday, May 10th and Friday, May 11th from 11:00 AM to7:00 PM in Hoopes Hall.  No strollers, cribs, car seats or sporting equipment, please.  Join us for lunch and baked goods provided by the youth group the day of the sale.

Join Carol Ramsey and Lori Kosinski Thursday evenings for six weeks in a discussion of Billy Graham’s recent book Nearing Home. In this moving narrative he reflects on his life and how he tackles the limitations, frustrations and struggles of getting older. The title of this book is a metaphor from baseball. Billy Graham knows that he is rounding third and nearing home plate.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. I would have never guessed what God had in store for me, and I know that as I am nearing home, He will not forsake me the last mile of the way. – Billy Graham

Explore with me not only the realities of life as we grow older but also the hope and fulfillment and even joy that can be ours once we learn to look at those years from God’s point of view and discover His strength to sustain us every day. – Billy Graham

When: Thursday evenings, beginning April 12th through May 17th

Time: 6:45 to 8:00 PM

Where: Hoopes Hall (The April 26th class will be held in Room 223)

Where to get the book: Berean Christian Bookstore or Amazon

Our spring Blood Drive will be Friday, April 27th from 1:30-7:30 PM in Hoopes Hall.  Our goal that day is to collect 40 pints of blood.  Please consider being a donor.  Your gift will be helping others in need.  You can register by calling or emailing Brenda Myers or signing up online at www.redcrossblood.org and entering Sponsor Code 0228385.  Thank you in advance for your donation.

With the prices of everything going higher and higher, come join us to learn and share tips for saving money.  Join us in Hoopes Hall on Tuesday, April 17th from 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM to discuss these tips and ideas.  Feel free to bring your own ideas, favorite websites, etc.  No advance signup is needed, and feel free to bring your friends!  Light refreshments will also be served.

Palm Sunday – April 1, 2012

• 9:00 and 10:45 AM – Worship with communion in the main sanctuary (nursery care at 9:00 AM)

Maundy Thursday/Tenebrae Service – April 5, 2012

• 7:30 PM in the main sanctuary

Good Friday Service – April 6, 2012

• 12 noon in the Irish Meeting House

Saturday – April 7, 2012

• 10:00 AM – Easter Egg Hunt in the grove – community invited

Easter Sunday – April 8, 2012

• 7:00 AM – Sunrise Service in the Irish Meeting House
• 7:45 – 8:45 AM – Pancake Breakfast in Hoopes Hall
• 9:00 and 10:45 AM – Worship with communion in the main sanctuary (nursery care at 9:00 AM)

The 4th-6th grade youth group is still collecting shoes for their month long mission project for SOLES4SOULS.  If you have shoes that you wish to donate, you can drop them off in one of the collection boxes at the church.

Join us Saturday, April 7th at 10 AM for our Easter Egg Hunt.

We are still looking for donations of wrapped candy to fill the eggs and refreshments for after the egg hunt.

 ”Do You see what I see?…”
Explore the Gospels of Luke and John. Come and explore how these two different approaches to the same great story, challenge, bless and call us! See why and how these two Gospels are key to our faith. Pastor Sharyl Marshall, presenting.

WHEN: Saturday April 14th, 8:30 am to 2:30 pm
COST: Cost $15 (Scholarships available) Lunch is included!
Make checks payable to DRPC—earmark Women’s Ministry
Bring your Bible—Invite a friend and/or neighbor

We are hosting this week’s Wednesday evening community Lenten service.  Come and join us for the 7:30 PM service.   Pastor Dorry Newcomer from Rolling Hills UMC will be preaching.

This week’s Lenten Soup and Study topic is “Creating Community with Food.”    Signup sheets are available on the bulletin boards outside of Hoopes Hall.  Please let us know if you need child care and if you are able to bring soup, salad or a dessert.

The Lenten Soup and Study Series continues on March 11th at 6:30 PM with the topic “Hunger.”  Signup sheets are available on the bulletin boards outside of Hoopes Hall.  Please let us know if you need child care and if you are able to bring soup, salad or a dessert.

Join us on Sunday February 27 at 6:30 PM for the first in our Lenten Soup & Study series.

This week’s topic is “Sharing Food as a Sacrament.”   Child care is available upon request.  Contact the church office for more details.  Please  indicate if you need child care when you sign up.

We will be having an agape meal and Ash Wednesday service on Wednesday, February 22 at 6:30 PM in Hoopes Hall.