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Our Memorial Day Weekend Coffee Break Project on Route 81N will be helping people "take a break" as they travel through our area. Your help in making this project possible is appreciated !

The Bunny Basket for May will go to Marley's Mission, a non-profit established in 2009 by April Loposky for childhood victims of abuse and neglect.
(see Events / Calendar Page for more Information)

For your Prayerful Consideration & Discussion...

The combined teams of Worship, Hospitality, and Educational Nurture, as well as other interested persons, met on 5.8.12 to discuss various options for the Worship and Sunday School Schedule for our new location. Twenty-five persons were in attendance.

A number of options were prayerfully considered.

The key determining factors considered included:

1. Recommendations from Claudia Lavy and Dan Glover to our teams to hold one Worship Service until the sanctuary is relatively full in order to build on the dynamic of the spiritual energy that a relatively full sanctuary will have versus several services with a smaller number of seats filled. (Our new sanctuary will accommodate up to 200 individuals.)

2. The opportunity for the congregation to again worship and fellowship together.

3. Selecting a time for Sunday School and Worship that is most desirable to the families, youth, children, and individuals in our local area whom we are seeking to attract.

4. Keeping our Worship and Sunday School times consistent rather than changing times to suit seasons.

5. Being able to add on other Worship times before and after the main worship service as attendance increases without having to change the times again.

The following consensus recommendations will be brought to the Church Council Meeting for discussion and a vote on
Sunday, May 20th:

1. The following schedule be adopted when we move to our new location:

          8:30 - 10:00 AM - The Chapel (which seats up to 30) will be open for
                                         individuals to pray, meditate, or read scripture.
        9:00 - 9:45   AM - Sunday School Groups for Children and Adults
                                       will meet from September - June
        9:45 - 10:00 AM - Hospitality Fellowship
        10:00 - 11:00 AM - Worship Service in the Sanctuary.
        11:00 - 11:45 AM - Hospitality Fellowship

2. In order to assure consistent expectations for families, youth, couples, and individuals we are seeking to attract, the Worship Service will be one hour in length.

Other ideas under consideration for planning (but not part of this recommendation) include Children's Church at the same time as our Worship Service, the possibility of offering communion in the chapel, offering prayer and healing annointing in the chapel as well as other group educational nurture opportunities.

We encourage all to pray over these recommendations, ask clarifying questions of Worship, Hospitality, or Educational Nurture Team Members, and attend the May 20th Council Meeting to discuss any thoughts regarding these recommendations.

Knoebels Amusement Park Day
for Families and Friends of
Countryside Community Church
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Sign up by June 10th
(See Events / Calendar Page for more information and sign up form)

New construction photos were added to our
Image Gallery on 5.10.12

Spiritual Nurture News
"No Perfect People Allowed"
A four week study on the challenges facing the post-modern, post-Christian church. God is drawing scores of spiritually curious imperfect people to become His church. How are we welcoming them? This class combines a DVD presentation followed by a series of questions and readings from the Bible. We are offering a
morning and evening class.

The morning class taught by
Alfredo Chavez is held on Wednesdays at 10 AM.

The evening session taught by Bob Smith,
is held on Mondays at 7 PM.

Join us for this thought provoking study as we prepare ourselves to move into our new home.
Contact Alfredo Chavez @ 388-3159 or
Bob Smith @ 961-8781
for more information.

Countryside Community Church is a member of the newly formed Susquehanna Conference of The United Methodist Church and was established on July 1, 2008 from the merger of four local churches near Clarks Summit, PA.

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
~ Colossians 2:2-3