Welcome New Members!

Four people were baptized and joined First Pres Delaware City this past Sunday! Welcome Matthew, Dorothy, Sharon and Catherine; a family full of believers! Many thanks to everyone who attend the reception to welcome them!

Coats For Vets

Delaware City is collecting gently used, clean jackets for vets in the Veterans Homes. The coats will be given out by a local organization on Thanksgiving Day. Please place donations on the coat rack in the Sunday School Room. The last Sunday to bring them in is Nov. 22.

Port Penn Cookbook Deadline is Sunday

This Sunday is the last day to donated recipes for the Port Penn Cookbook. Contact Debbie Pilli if you have entries or questions.

Crafters Wanted!

If you know someone who sells crafts or has a home-party business, please let them know they can have a free table at the Port Penn Harvest Celebration on Saturday, Nov. 14. To reserve a table contact Mary Lou Reynolds.

Many Thanks!
To Bill Derrickson and everyone else who worked so hard to make Delaware City's Fall Festival a success! In spite of the rain we had a steady flow of shoppers looking for bargains and goodies
from the bake table. Thanks to everyone who donated items, set up, priced items, baked things, worked on Saturday, helped publicize the event and all those other important parts of such a big undertaking!

This week!

Book Study
Our book study on "The Shack" meets at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 in Delaware City and at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Port Penn. Copies of the book are still available from Beth. Come and join us and let us know what you think about this unique work of fiction that presents the Trinity in very unusual ways!

Cantata Meeting
An organizational meeting for our proposed Community Christmas Cantata will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Delaware City. Singers and organists from other churches in both towns are planning to attend in hopes of joining our choir members in presenting a cantata on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13. If you can sing or even hum along we would love to have you join us!
Questions? Contact Ruth Smith who has graciously offered to direct!

Baptism and Reception of New Members
On Sunday, Oct. 25 three members of Bonnie Bowen's family will be baptized and two will be joining the church! Please plan to join us and welcome them! Members are invited to stop by a reception the family is hosting immediately following the service.

Remember:

Donate to Port Penn Cookbook!
If you have a favorite recipe to share now is the time to get it to Debbie Pilli for the Port Penn Cookbook! You can give them to Debbie in person or donate on line by boing to www.cookbooktree.com. Contact Debbie if you have questions on how to use the site. Final deadline is Sunday, Nov. 1.

Crafters Wanted!
If you know someone who sells crafts or has a home-party business, please let them know they can have a free table at the Port Penn Harvest Celebration on Saturday, Nov. 14. To reserve a table contact Mary Lou Reynolds.

Recycling Efforts
You can help Port Penn raise funds by recycling your aluminum cans. Church members and friends are encouraged to bring their empty and rinsed cans to our recycling container. Funds raised will go into the operating budget. Questions? Contact Debbie Pilli.

World Communion Celebration!

This Sunday, Oct. 4 we will celebrate World Communion Sunday Vanuatu style! Remember: This is a combined service that begins at 10:30 a.m. in Delaware City. Many of our brave members have volunteered to wear traditional island shirts and dresses made by the mamas on the island of Malekula! Everyone who has a Hawaiian shirt or anything tropical is welcome to wear it! We will take the offering in worship baskets made by the mamas on Efate Island. The choir is preparing a Communion song and it promises to be a special day! Come and join us! Everyone welcome!

Advent Bag Assembly
Everyone is welcome to stay after the service on Sunday and help the Deacons wrap items for out Advent Bags for shut-ins. If you have been meaning to donate something for the bags and haven't gotten around to it your contribution is still welcome. Remember, too that we have decided to assemble an extra special advent bag to send to our high school junior, Marji Eriksen, who is spending this semester in France. Oops! Wonder if she checks our website! Please pick up something this week that you think Marji would like and we will include it in her bag.

Choral Celebration!

Click on the image to hear the concert!

Congratulations to the Delaware City and Port Penn Singers!

Wonderful Concert
Congratulations to Bill Derrickson, Doug Eriksen, Mary Lou Reynolds and Ruth Smith for a WONDERFUL concert at Pencader Church this past Sunday! Our singers worked hard attending the Choir and the Small Church Workshops and the results were amazing! Whoo Hoo! Many thanks, too, to those of you who came out to support them!

Special Thanks
Many thanks to Jewel Blansfield who planned a spectacular Grandparents' Day celebration this past Sunday in Port Penn. We had bells, family trees and great food! Thanks, Jewel!

Children in Church
Hooray! We had three children in Sunday School this past week in Port Penn and four in Sunday School in Delaware City! Many thanks to our dedicated teachers--Debbie Pilli in Port Penn and Judy Reynolds and Bev Walton in Delaware City who are embarking on another year of service!

Meeting Reminders
Delaware City Deacons will meet at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16.
Port Penn Session will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17.

Time Change, Grandparents Day and Choir Concert this Sunday, Sept. 13

This Sunday, Sept. 13 promises to be a great day for our congregations!

*First of all, remember, our worship services go back to our fall/winter/spring schedule. We will gather for worship at Port Penn at 9:45 a.m. and gather in Delaware City at 11:15 a.m.

*We will be celebrating Grandparents' Day at both services with special recognition planned for grandparents at both churches. Grandparents are encouraged to bring their grandchildren and kids you are encouraged to bring nana, poppop, grammy, granddad, mommom, grandfather, whatever you call those special grandparents in your life! Come and worship together!

*At 5 p.m. singers from both Port Penn and Delaware City will join with vocalists from other small churches in the Presbytery to present a massed choir concert at Pencader Presbyterian Church. Please come out and hear the results of the Choir and the Small Church workshops!
A covered dish dinner follows so bring something to share. Come and support Bill, Mary Lou, Ruth and all the rest!

Many thanks!

Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make our service at Old Drawyers on Sunday a success! Thank you to Jewel for playing the organ, to the choir for a great rendition of "Amazing Grace," to Mary Lou for providing communion and to Pat for helping to serve; to Norm and Neil for ushering, to the Eriksen family for providing lemonade and to all the elders who came forward to help us bless Margie as she leaves for a semester in France! There is nothing better than a service in which so many play a part!

Thanks, also, to everyone who has contributed food to restock "Broken Bread," our food closet ministry. Your kind donations will help keep tummys full in our towns during this difficult economic time.

Worship Time Change Reminder
This Sunday, Sept. 6 is our last joint service for the summer. We will gather to worship at 10:30 a.m. in Port Penn. On Sunday, September 13 we will resume two services: Port Penn at 9:45 a.m. and Delaware City at 11:15 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 12 Choir Workshop
The last workshop in the series the Choir and the Small Church will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Pencader Presbyterian Church and all singers from Delaware City and Port Penn are invited to attend. These AMAZING workshops are fun for all who attend. Please mark your calendars and plan to join in--you do not need to have gone to previous sessions to attend on Sept. 12.

Sunday, Sept. 13--Grandparents' Day and Choir Celebration
On Sunday September 13 we will celebrate Grandparents' Day at both of our morning worship services. Special activities are being planned. All grandchildren are asked to invite their grandparents to church that day and all grandparents are asked to bring their grandchildren with them to worship. We will have Sunday School in both locations that day for those children who wish to attend.

At 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 13 members of our joint choir will join singers from several other small churches in the Presbytery to present the choral works they have learned by attending the Choir and the Small Church workshops. The concert begins at 5 p.m. at Pencader Presbyterian and is followed by a pot luck. Ruth Smith, Mary Lou Reynolds and Bil Derrickson have attended the workshops and we are hoping other members can attend the last one (see above). All members of both churches are urged to come out to the concert and support everyone for their great work!