Sailing With Apostles This Week

September 29 - October 5, 2025

News and Updates for Our Community of Faith

- Pastor Jay will be at the Gathering of the MInisterium from Monday through Wednesday, October 1st and will be available by phone and email - 570-205-7506 and j80j84@msn.com. 

- The Gathering of the Ministerium is an annual event for the rostered ministers, interns, vicars, SAMS (actively serving), and spouses who are living or serving in the Virginia Synod. They will be meeting in Virginia Beach to reconnect, worship, relax, learn, sing, pray and play together while overlooking the ocean. Please keep them in your prayers this week!

- Input is needed for the October edition of The Epistle by Monday!! Please send anything you would like to see in the newsletter to Janet at thezemogs@gmail.com. 

- An update on the church mortgage payoff campaign - the Congregation Council has announced that anyone who designated offering in the last 2 years for the "building fund" and meant for it to be applied to the mortgage should contact a member of Council so that the offering can be applied to the mortgage instead of the building fund.  

- We will be taking in new members in the near future - please let Pastor Jay know if you are interested in becoming a member! 

- Sunday School will resume on October 26th.

- Prayer requests for this week. . .

- Rich Bitting

- Don Garfield

- Patricia Hodges 

- Linda Hodges 

- Jamie Mullaney 

- Arnold Schrader

- Michael Schlemmer

- Keith and Juanita Sturdy

- Nancy Wagner 

- Lena Woodlief

If you have a prayer request, please send it to Janet Gomez at  thezemogs@gmail.com