Life at SPPC

 The link for this week's live-streamed service is here

After looking at the church calendar for May, a friend remarked, "what a busy church." 

At a memorial service on Saturday, one of our stalwart kitchen helpers showed up in running shoes. 😲

So, I took a look at the calendar and discovered they were right. We have been and will be very busy at SPPC over several weeks.

First, we have our regular SPPC events: 

• Service on Sunday mornings including choir and streaming
• Session on the first Wednesday of the month and Bible Study, morning and evening, on the other three (4 in May) 
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  Choir practice every Thursday evening
• Worship Committee on Friday morning

Then we have all the congregational extras

• Sunshine lunch on the first Monday of May--our running shoe lady is key to this event
• A presentation from the team that went to the Dominican Republic on Sunday, May 7. There will be a lunch too.
• Mother's Day Cake
• Visit from the leaders of "House Upon the Rock" and lunch
• Food Bank Sunday 
• Memorial services --two in the past three weeks
• Presbytery visit --hours of preparation and two days of meetings
• Friendship Coffee at least once a month
• Bottle collections ongoing with money going to missions
• Volunteer cleaning and grounds-keeping weekly or more
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Other Users -- our facilities are used by other 

                          organizations

• Stratas - Eagle Ridge and Summergate regularly hold meetings in our building. While not a church event, volunteers from the congregation are needed to set up tables, chairs, water jugs, and microphones. Someone has to run the sound system and be on site to answer questions and troubleshoot, then take down the tables, chairs, etc. and lock up the building. 
  
  
  
• Genealogy group meets once a month in the lounge
• Parkinson's support group meets once a month in the whole building
• Jesus is Lord congregation meets every Friday evening and Sunday afternoon in our sanctuary and uses the kitchen. Next Saturday, a special training session will use the building for the whole day. 

I may have missed some events, but I've listed enough to illustrate that our congregation is a-doing, even if we don't all wear running shoes. 

After COVID-19 restricted our communal life, it is a sign of hope that the place is hopping with activity again. 

To conclude this post I considered the hymn "Work for the Night is Coming," but on second thought decided this one was a better choice.   "Many Gifts, One Spirit."