Daily Prayer

"Please God put your arms around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth"

Had I followed my first impulse, I would have given this message a title and called it "Where Do We Go From Here?"

It is not an easy matter to write a meaningful message with an equally meaningful theme for inclusion in the 2008 publication of the "Church Directory and Calendar of Events" on the heels of such a successful and memorable 2007 year-long celebration of Mount Carmel's 125th Church Anniversary, under the bold and exciting theme of "This Far by Faith: A Plateau Not A Pinnacle: Taking Time to Remember".

This 125th Church Anniversary theme was not arbitrarily chosen. On the contrary it was both chosen and developed with a view to moving us forward in a more confident knowledge of our collective historic past.

In a practical sense we not only revisited some of the events of the past, but also we sought to recapture and relive some of the lives and legacies of the people of our rich past. Both the events and the personalities combined to make us what we are and who we are today.

In short, we dug deeply into this well-chosen theme for one solid year, from January through December, 2007 for the blessed benefit of each and every member of our church family.

Consequently, as I prayerfully pondered the events of last year, the question kept reverberating in my heart and mind and spirit, "Where do we go from here?" Not that there were absolutely no possible answers forthcoming; but the limited few that emerged from my prayerful musings just did not seem to satisfy my deep pastoral sense of need for a thematic emphasis that would move us collectively forward to the next level.

For example, because I wanted us to start the New Year, 2008, on what I chose to call "The Same Page "blueprint" beginning to read the Holy Bible together from Genesis to Revelation (selected passages) in the course of the year, I deliberately began our first "Rapping With Rev" session by entitling it "On The Same Page". I was proceeding on the well-founded assumption that should the Mount Carmel Congregation join other committed congregations in the Philadelphia area by reading the Bible through in this manner it might well result in a Bible Reading Spiritual Revival; buttressed with study and preaching for our growth and learning.

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Coming Soon: Shoe Box Project 

The Missionary Society will be having their annual “Gladys East Mission Shoe Box Project” starting Sunday, July 13^th to Sunday, August 24, 2008. Please mark your calendars for those dates. Now is the time to start collecting your shoe boxes so they can be filled with the selected items needed for the Mission Stations who will be receiving our gifts. Further information will be provided soon

Wednesday Morning Prayer and Noon Day Bible Study will resume on Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

Community Prayer Walks will continue on the second Wednesday through September 10, 2009.

Wednesday Evening Bible Study will resume Wednesday, October 15, 2008.

A Trip to Ace in the Hole

Wayne, NJ 

“Merry Christmas Baby”

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Buses leave: 8:00 A.M.

See any member of the guild for tickets and information

Donation $75.00

Payment plan: $20.00 due by July 31sr and balance due by September 30, 2008

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Please bear in mind the following: 

For the summer months of July and August, 2008 our Sunday Morning Worship Services will be combined into one service each Sunday at 8:00 AM, beginning Sunday, July 6, 2008 which is Communion Sunday. 

Sunday School will begin promptly at 10:00 AM for each of the Sundays during the months of July and August.

Church Office Summer Hours:  Beginning Monday June 30, 2008, the Church Office will close at 4:00 PM. Lunch 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

HIV/AIDS Ministry Evaluation Meeting

The Mount Carmel HIV/AIDS Caring and Sharing Ministry has scheduled an Evaluation Meeting of our recent June 7^th workshop to be held on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 10:00 AM in room #9. If you would like to join the ministry in its work, new members are invited and welcome to attend this meeting.

The Capital Campaign Memorial Corridor 

The Memorial Gift Program is an ongoing project of the Capital Campaign Committee. If you are interested in making a gift in the name of a loved one, please pick up a flyer on the table in the corridor. If you have any questions please contact: Clarice Archer, Fannie Bakon or Mary Nesmith.