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Join us this Sunday

 Adult and Children Sunday School resumes in September  

Worship at    10:30 a.m.

and

  Toddler and Pre-School Sunday School also during Worship

We’ll welcome you home!

 

Pastor Jeff Myers

The Rev. Jeffrey I. Myers has been pastor of Prince of Peace since January 2001.  Jeff was raised in the metropolitan NYC area and received degrees from Drew University and Princeton Theological Seminary.  He was an Associate Pastor in Wilmington, Delaware, served as mission pastor to a yoked field in the southern West Virginia coalfields and as a pastor in Huntington, WV before coming to Pickerington.  In Huntington he also taught part time in the History Department of Marshall University.  After over thirty years of ministry he continues to delight in the opportunities ministry at Prince of Peace holds! 

Jeff  married Sue in 2002 and has two grown children from a previous marriage who are social workers living in Louisville, KY.  With marriage came a daughter and her family (instant grandparenthood) in Savannah, GA.


                                 PASTOR'S WORDS FOR JUNE 2011

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

 

 "The church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning!”                                                                                                                                                               Emil Brunner

“The church is the only institution whose primary purpose is to serve those who are not her members.”                                                                                                          William Temple                                    

“We work together to share God’s love by word and service in our community and beyond.”                                                          2nd sentence of the Vision Statement of Prince of Peace

 

As we move from Easter to Ascension and on to Pentecost we celebrate what it means to be Easter People, the Church of Jesus Christ created and empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve God in Christ in the world.  Jesus calls us into a community to be his voice, his hands and feet in the world. As my favorite quote by Emil Brunner affirms: a congregation that does not share the good news in its community and beyond by word and deed is NOT a true church!

                                                                       

I celebrate the mission and ministry of Prince of Peace.  Not only did we pledge $9,000 toward the mission of the denomination at the regional, national and international level, members and friends donated $1365.28 to the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering – these gifts will be put to good use in places like tornado torn Joplin Missouri, the flooded lands around the Mississippi, and to feed the hungry around the globe.  For a cause near and dear to many we gave $1,250 to fight MS and thus far we’ve contributed $608.23 on the three Sundays we received the Centsability offering to fight poverty and hunger locally, and $239 for the PCMA Food Pantry through the Souper bowl Offering.

 

But mission is more than giving money – through POP Arts we reach out to children, youth and adults in the Pickerington area.  A small grant from Presbytery will allow us to expand the program this fall in light of the cutbacks in arts programming in the schools.  In February Bob Clegg joined volunteers from Glen Echo Church to bring much needed medical care to people in Haiti.  Twice this year volunteers have packed food at the Mid-Ohio Food Bank and we’ll have two more opportunities this fall.  A crew recently went to Portsmouth to prep an elderly widow’s home for painting; a return trip is planned later this month (with youth from Eastside Vineyard joining us).  Dorothy Peterson was honored for her volunteer work at the PCMA Food Pantry and this summer the Pantry will need many volunteers as it moves to its new location in Pickerington. Finally, you’ve heard about the mission trip to Montgomery WV for months now – over $3,500 has been raised by fundraisers, member contributions and the participants themselves.  A great crew of volunteers enabled us to raise $1,365.28 at the Monster Mission Garage Sale.  I thank them all.  But more importantly, later this month 17 adults, college and high school students will give a week of their time and much hard labor to help elderly and poor residents of southern WV.  I celebrate that we are a congregation aflame with mission.

            God Bless, 

Pastor Jeff


 




 
 
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