I’m a bit late in posting this here, but this coming week June 19-June 23, we will have our annual Vacation Bible School at Pleasant Grove Union Church. The hours are from 9 AM through 12 each day. There is no pre-registration required. This years topics will be drawn from the New Testament. (Covering the parable of the Prodigal Son, The Story of Lazzarus, Zaccheus, the Widow’s offering and “time for Children” from Matthew 19.)
Pastor Deb Patterson will be holding a bible study based on the book “Invitation to the Old Testament” by Celia Brewer Sinclair and James D. Tabor. The first meeting will be Sunday afternoon, February 19th at 4PM in the Fellowship Hall of Pleasant Grove Union Church. The first meeting had been planned earlier but was postponed due to weather. At the first meeting, plans will be made on whether to keep the Sunday afternoon meeting time for the future meetings, or if another time would be best for the participants. The course is an 8 week study and all are invited.
This is a quick announcement to mention that our annual Christmas Program will be presented, Sunday December 18th and 6PM. All are welcome to come and enjoy this celebration of the Christmas season and Christ’s birth.
We’d like to thank those that helped in gathering gifts for the shoeboxes to go to Operation Christmas Child. We were pleased to be able to put together 13 boxes for the effort. They’ll be dropped off at a local radio station Monday, which is one of our local collection centers.
Rev. Robert E. Harris will hold his annual Revival services the week of Thanksgiving at Pleasant Grove. They will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd) at 7 PM. Also, there will a service Thanksgiving morning (the 24th) at 10 AM. All are invited and welcome to join in worship and thanksgiving.
There will be a meeting at Pleasant Grove Union Church on Wednesday, October 19th from 4PM - 6PM concerning the new Medicare Drug Benefit.
Experts will be available from the Council on Aging, Social Security Administration, SHIIP, and Buncombe Medication Ministry to help you complete the new forms from Social Security, so bring information you may have received.
You may qualify for additional assistance with medication under this new plan.
For additional information, please contact,
Judy Durham, LifeMinistries Outreach
828-230-1071
Just a quick post to pass along that there will be no singing, the evening of August 7th.
I’ve added a section for pictures. If you click on the “History” link in the sidebar to the right, you should see a new entry entitled “Photos”, with subheadings there for different years. Currently there is a VBS photo from 1946, several from 2003, 2005 and VBS and homecoming photos from 2004. I’d like to add more as we find them. I should also mention there are several photos of the Church buildings past and present on the “Photos” page.
August 7th will be Homecoming Sunday at Pleasant Grove. This year marks 125 years since Pleasant Grove was organized. There will be a special Worship Service at 10AM. The Sunday School hour (11 AM) will have an abbreviated Sunday School lesson and several special hymn selections. Afterwards, there will be a covered dish lunch in the Fellowship Hall.
Welcome to the new web site for Pleasant Grove Union Church. The layout is mostly set at this point. I have a lot of details yet to fill in though on some of the main pages and of course, check back for news and announcements.