Electric Heights UMC News

The July newsletter has been posted on the communications page and the July pastors’ reports from the newsletter have been posted on the pastor’s message page.

Please check them out and don’t forget to join us this Sunday, July 3rd at our picnic lunch to welcome Pastor Steve and celebrate Independence Day.

We would like to encourage everyone to come out and meet our new pastor, hear his first sermon at Electric Heights, and also celebrate our country’s birthday.

Please join us after service on Sunday for a bbq luncheon. Hot dogs, cake, coffe, tea, and cold drinks will be provided. Please bring your favorite potluck dish or something to throw on the grill.

This Wednesday, June 22, at 7:00 in the church is the long-anticipated “Intro to the Bible” as presented by Rev. Janet Lord. Refreshments will be provided. Bring a friend!

Tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, July 13, at 7:00 is a social outing of Putt-Putt Golf and Dairy Queen (near the intersection of Route 48 and Monroeville Blvd.). Stay tuned for more information.

The Western PA UMC Annual Conference is being conducted this week. Pastor Steve went to conference on Monday to spend the entire week in Grove City. Pastor Rich went up on Tuesday to join in the sessions for probationers. Pastor Janet joined them today (Wednesday).
Since all conference clergy are expected to attend conference through Sunday, the churches of the Western PA Conference were left to find replacements for this Sunday’s service. At Electric Heights, we will have a guest speaker from the Gideon Bible Society. Please join us and welcome our guest preacher.
If you would rather travel to see our own pastors you can travel to Grove City and see Pastor Steve being commissioned at a large service to be held in the gym at Grove City College.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our collection of bulk items for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). Thanks to your generosity, Janet will be toting boxes filled with 50 hand towels, 51 tubes of toothpaste, and 21 pairs of scissors to Annual Conference. These will be sent on to the distribution center to be come available for use anywhere in the world. It is always amazing what we can accomplish when we work together!

As everyone should know by now, Reverend Steve Tiffany will be beginning his appointment as Pastor of Electric Heights UMC on July 1, 2005. Pastor Steve paid us a visit today to enjoy watching a Sunday service as a member of the congregation.
He did end up helping out with service as Pastor Janet Lord asked Steve to give the benediction. We all got a bit of amusement when Pastor Steve approached the pulpit to give the benediction and didn’t realize that the stool in front of the podium was only meant for somebody Janet-sized. He wound up needing to lean over quite a bit to speak into the microphone.
We were glad to see Steve and we look forward to hearing his first sermon on July 3.

Pastor Steve posed with Pastor Janet after service.

This is a reminder that there will be a luncheon on June 5th after service. At this luncheon we will be celebrating the time that Pastor Rich has spent with us and offering our prayers for continued success in ministry. We will also be honoring this year’s high school graduates.

Pastor Rich will be staying at Miller next week for a lunch in his honor. On Sunday, June 19, Pastor Rich and Pastor Janet will be at Western PA Annual Conference. Shortly after that, Pastor Rich will be moving north to Harmony-Zelienople UMC.
All of this means that June 5th will be last time Pastor Rich will be preaching at Electric Heights UMC during this appointment here. Please come join us in wishing him a fond farewell.