What’s happening…
Please join us for a trip to the biennial lavender festival at Smokey Cat Lavender Farm in Federalsburg on June 14, 2025. We’ll meet at the church at 10:00 and carpool to the festival. There is a $14.00 entrance fee payable at the door. Details can be found at the following url, https://www.smokeycatlavender.com/.
Make plans to join us at Julianne Hardy’s house for a bruncheon on May 17, 2025 at 11:30. We’ll hear from Nancy Sears about church financing and how it all works with plenty of opportunity for questions.
If you ever wanted to learn to make bread, you’re invited to the Breadmaking (and Lunch!) workshop Saturday, January 18th at 11:00 at Janet Siar’s home. We’ll learn to make Ridiculously Easy Focaccia Bread. We’ll enjoy a soup and salad lunch as well as fellowship together.
Studying God’s Word
The Women’s Bible study groups will be on hiatus over the summer. We’ll resume meeting the week of September 8, 2025 with a study on the Holy Spirit.
For the rest of 2025, we’ll be using Tim Keller’s study guide, “Galatians : Gospel Matters”. This is a seven lesson guide that will take us directly into the Word and finish out the study year for us nicely. The letter to the Galatians has been called the “Magna Carta” of the Christian believer. Please join us via Zoom on Monday nights at 6:30. Thursdays we’ll still meet in person at 10:00 in the Poehlman Fellowship Hall. Study guides are available for purchase from the church and will be available on the round table in the foyer. We will begin with Lesson 1 on February 17th and 20th.
We begin our 2024-2025 Bible study with the book, “Gentle and Lowly”, by Dane Ortlund. Both the men and the women will be using this book in separate studies. “Gentle and Lowly” presents us with a profound look into God’s heart and the love He holds there for each of us. Women’s studies are held on the first and third weeks of each month, on Mondays in the evening at 6:30 and Thursdays in the morning at 10:00. Each study covers the same material. All studies are held in the Poehlman Fellowship hall.
Our 2024 summer study is a book/podcast/video presented by the national PCA. Join women all across the PCA this summer for No Empty Word: Relentless Pursuit, A Study on Hosea by Paula Miles. The book is available from this url: women.pcacdm.org/relentless-pursuit/
This study will include FREE videos* and podcasts until August 31. Please remember to register at the website for weekly emails. Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 16 from 7:00-8:00 pm EST when the videos will become available. We will pursue this study on our own schedules this summer. However, we will have two group discussions, Breakfast with Hosea, on Saturday, June 22 for the first four chapters and August 3 for the last four chapters. Both group meetings will be at 10:00 am and will be held in the Poehlman fellowship hall.
This year, the women have formed two Bible study groups, one meeting at 6:30pm on the first and third Mondays of the month and the other on the first and third Thursdays at 10:00 am. Both meetings are held at the church in the fellowship hall. We are studying the book of Revelation, using Nancy Guthrie’s book, “Blessed: experiencing the promise of the book of Revelation”, as our guide. From the back cover, “…Nancy Guthrie presents a friendly yet theologically robust guide to Revelation, explaining its meaning to the original first-century audience, which guides its meaning for readers today. Covering the full text of Revelation chapter by chapter, you’ll hear its call to faithfully endure and refuse to compromise as we await the coming of the kingdom of Christ in all of its glorious fullness.” Our last studies of the year will be the evening of April 22 or the morning of April 25.