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For Such A Time as This – June 30, 2021 – Bobbi Dykema

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To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren, Joys and Concerns If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text, or email it to me.   If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Pastor Bill that week by Thursday evening.   The Church of the Brethren Annual Conference begins with worship this evening, continues with morning and afternoon business sessions and evening worship services on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and concludes with worship on Sunday morning.   This conference is virtual.   All of these events and more are available through the Church of the Brethren and Church of the Brethren Annual Conference websites.   Our delegates, participating in the conference from their homes and/or offices are John Grace, Cheryl Guerrisi and me.   The primary actionable business item is the discussion and vote on the Compelling Vision statement.   Please hold our conference
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For Such A Time as This – June 23, 2021 – Lori Faiola

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To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren,   Today’s devotion was written by Lori Faiola and shared as the devotion at a recent Education Team meeting.  With their encouragement Lori sent it to me to be used as one of our weekly devotions.  It is so well written and so timely that I am sharing it with you today, interrupting our Compelling Vision devotions.  The remaining two Compelling Vision devotions will the shared over the next two weeks.  If you wish to respond to Lori, her email address is: faiola_lori@comcast.net. Thank you, Lori!   Joys and Concerns If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text, or email it to me.  If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Pastor Bill that week by Thursday evening.    See this Saturday’s “Weekly Update” email for any new prayer concerns.   Thank You: To all who call others to check in on them and to share our emails and devotions.  
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For Such A Time as This – June 16, 2021 – Andy Hamilton

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To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren, Joys and Concerns If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text, or email it to me.  If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Pastor Bill that week by Thursday evening.    Ken Jurell asks for prayers for Bob Hummer.  Bob is the husband of Ken’s sister Marie’s best friend, Marty Bashore Hummer.  Bob was just diagnosed with liver cancer.   Dennis and Sally Lohr are excited to welcome their son Adam home for an 11-day visit from San Francisco, beginning this Thursday evening.  They have not seen him, except of by Zoom, since Christmas of 2019.   See this Saturday’s “Weekly Update” email for any new prayer concerns.   Thank You: To all who call others to check in on them and to share our emails and devotions.   Today’s Devotion: “Compelling Vision” is our denomination's effort to identify a shared vision that can foster unity in th
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For Such A Time as This – June 9, 2021 – Becky Zapata

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  To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren,   Joys and Concerns If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text, or email it to me.  If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Pastor Bill that week by Thursday evening.    Let us hold in thought and prayer our brother David Crist, following the death of his father Owen “Kay” Crist (88) of Bedford, PA, on May 27.   Let us hold in thought and prayer our sister Carol Lentz, following the death of her mother Helen Heagy (105) of Annville, PA, on June 5.   We rejoice that Terry Meads has returned home from the hospital and is doing much better.   See this Saturday’s “Weekly Update” email for any new prayer concerns.   Thank You: To all who call others to check in on them and to share our emails and devotions.   Today’s Devotion: “Compelling Vision” is our denomination's effort to identify a shared vision that can foster unity in
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For Such A Time as This – June 3, 2021 – Ryan Cooper

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  To the Good Folk of the Palmyra Church of the Brethren, Joys and Concerns If you have a joy or concern you would like us to share and pray about, please call, text, or email it to me.   If you would like it included in our Sunday Worship sharing and prayer time, please share it with Pastor Bill that week by Thursday evening.   See this Saturday’s “Weekly Update” email for any new prayer concerns. Thank You: To all who call others to check in on them and to share our emails and devotions. Today’s Devotion: “Compelling Vision” is our denomination's effort to identify a shared vision that can foster unity in the midst of great diversity and dividing differences.  A thirteen session Bible Study has been developed to undergird this statement.   We are using pieces of the Bible Study in our weekly devotion email. Today’s reflection was written by Ryan Cooper, who is pastor of Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren in Rockingham County, Virginia. He serves as ch
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