Welcome to Forest Hills!
Session met on May 24 and has decided for the time being to leave our COVID-19 guidelines as they are so that we can take our time in this transition to make sure things continue to get better before we make changes in order to better support
those who need it at this time.
- maintaining a distance of at least six feet
between people not of the same household,
- wearing a mask indoors
- singing and making responses softly.
Session met on May 24 and has decided for the time being to leave our COVID-19 guidelines as they are so that we can take our time in this transition to make sure things continue to get better before we make changes in order to better support
those who need it at this time.
- maintaining a distance of at least six feet
between people not of the same household,
- wearing a mask indoors
- singing and making responses softly.
Important Info about Worship at FHPC!
We will be worshiping in FPHC's Common Ground Chapel at 11 this Sunday and for the rest of June due to air conditioner problems in the sanctuary. We're ready for everyone and can't wait to worship together there for the first time since Pastor Cheryl became our pastor. Sunday School will be in the Community Room at 9:30 as usual. Following worship, we will have our first "Lemonade on the Lawn Fellowship" for the summer. Come join us!
We will be worshiping in FPHC's Common Ground Chapel at 11 this Sunday and for the rest of June due to air conditioner problems in the sanctuary. We're ready for everyone and can't wait to worship together there for the first time since Pastor Cheryl became our pastor. Sunday School will be in the Community Room at 9:30 as usual. Following worship, we will have our first "Lemonade on the Lawn Fellowship" for the summer. Come join us!
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All of our online worship services are available
on our
Forest Hills Presbyterian Martinsville VA YouTube Channel.
The latest worship service is posted each week following worship. Click on the YouTube post below to be taken to it.
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This week's worship bulletin
June 13, 2021
11:00 am on-site, afterwards on YouTube
"GOD'S PLANTING PLANS"
Rev. Cheryl Peeples, Pastor
THEME: Jesus uses parables about seeds to describe God’s kingdom.
FOCUS SCRIPTURE: “He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.’”
(Mark 4:26-27)
First Lesson
Hebrew Bible Reading Ezekiel 17:22-24 (NRSV)
Israel Exalted at Last
22 Thus says the Lord God:
I myself will take a sprig
from the lofty top of a cedar;
I will set it out.
I will break off a tender one
from the topmost of its young twigs;
I myself will plant it
on a high and lofty mountain.
23 On the mountain height of Israel
I will plant it,
in order that it may produce boughs and bear fruit,
and become a noble cedar.
Under it every kind of bird will live;
in the shade of its branches will nest
winged creatures of every kind.
24 All the trees of the field shall know
that I am the Lord.
I bring low the high tree,
I make high the low tree;
I dry up the green tree
and make the dry tree flourish.
I the Lord have spoken;
I will accomplish it.
Second Lesson
Gospel Reading Mark 4:26-34
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,
27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.”
30 He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?
31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;
32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
PRAYER OF PREPARATION O Lord, Your word is indeed life to us. May we receive it with joy, unburdened by the concerns of our lives, caring only to hear your invitation of grace: abundant life in your service. Amen.
HYMNS WE WILL SING
HYMN #142 (v. 1, 4) “All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name” (CORONATION)
HYMN #399 (vv. 1, 4) “We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight” (DUNLAP'S CREEK)
HYMN #55 (vv. 1, 3) “Now Thank We All Our God” (NUN DANKETT GOTT)
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Contact Us
The Church Office is open Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Please contact Rev. Peeples at CherylRPeeples@gmail.com
for any pastoral concerns or emergencies that you may have
or our Office Manager at foresthillspcoffice@gmail.com
for Herald/bulletin announcements or office concerns.
We are the church together, wherever we may be,
so let us take care of each other
by following the best guidelines available at this time
of how to do so.
Whatever comes, Jesus has promised,
“And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)
Contact Us
The Church Office is open Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Please contact Rev. Peeples at CherylRPeeples@gmail.com
for any pastoral concerns or emergencies that you may have
or our Office Manager at foresthillspcoffice@gmail.com
for Herald/bulletin announcements or office concerns.
We are the church together, wherever we may be,
so let us take care of each other
by following the best guidelines available at this time
of how to do so.
Whatever comes, Jesus has promised,
“And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)
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For all other requests and information,
including receiving the Herald, our weekly email newsletter,
please contact our office manager via email at foresthillspcoffice@gmail.com.
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