Bible Class, normally at 9:30 prior to the service will not be held this Sunday but will resume next week. Hope you can join us!
Welcome to #QuarantineChurch!
Easter Sunday
April 12, 2020 – 10:30 a.m.
This week’s Scripture: St. John 20.1-18
St. Paul’s Evangelical Beverly Hills United
Lutheran Church Presbyterian Church
Lansdowne Upper Darby
In unprecedented fellowship, we gather on this Easter Day, even amid challenge and suffering, to celebrate the Good News of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ, who knows no worldly boundaries and barriers; and who is able to save, guide, and sustain us.
Join us online or by plain old telephone. Go to www.bhpcud.com or www.stpaulslansdowne.org for instructions you can bookmark or share with your friends!
Join the Service:
By computer or device (Zoom Meeting): https://ey.zoom.us/j/645754776
By phone: Call this number: +1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 645 754 776
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thanks to the Revs. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler and Nancy Haigh Ross for their pastoral assistance during these days, and to Lisa DeAngelis and Emily Greco for their ministries of music! Feel free to call on any one of us.
Don’t forget your regular stewardship giving! Both congregations continue to receive mail (thanks to our faithful carriers!). In honor to Jesus Christ, we give to sustain our worship AND our work in our community and world.
Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church
500 Midvale Road
Upper Darby, PA 19082
FOOD HELP
Continuing our Life Center Ministry – Monetary donations are needed to continue providing meals for the Life Center.
For the past three decades, churches and groups have been preparing a hot meal to serve at the Life Center at 63rd Street every single day. What a miraculous ministry! Though this practice cannot continue in the same way because of the COVID-19 crisis, you can still help by making a monetary donation to keep this ministry alive. Mail a check – payable to Community Outreach Project (or COP for short) – to:
COP Meals COP Meals
c/o Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church c/o St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
500 Midvale Road 50 East Plumstead Avenue
Upper Darby, PA 19082 Lansdowne, PA 19050
And if any organizations/businesses can donate a case or more of plastic utensils, napkins, paper/plastic cups and plates, please email the details to copmeals@gmail.com.
The Upper Darby Emergency Food Cupboard, 7766 Wayne Avenue, is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10:00-Noon. (Tel. 610.853.2481).
Philabundance distributes food at multiple locations in Upper Darby. https://www.philabundance.org/find-food/food-map/
At First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne (140 N. Lansdowne Avenue), families in the William Penn School District (Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne and Yeadon) can call the Interfaith Food Cupboard (tel. 610-622-0800, x 4). The church is also a pickup site for Grab-and-Go Meals for children of William Penn District, Mondays through Fridays.
Needed donations include:
Canned chicken, tuna, or salmon Pasta sauce
Peanut butter, jelly Crackers
Powdered milk Canned vegetables, fruit
Canned chili with meat Canned soup (especially chunky, with meat)
Items may be dropped off on Mondays and Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. at the door closest to the playground.
Answer the 2020 Census Today
It’s essential that every resident complete the 2020 census. Since you probably have some extra time now, do it today!
You should have received a letter with online instructions and an access code. Can’t find that? Don’t worry, other ways to complete the census:
• Online at https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
• By phone at 844-330-2020
• The Census website offers support for 50 different languages! See the complete list and instructions for language support at https://2020census.gov/en/languages.html.
Remember: the census counts residents (people) not citizens. There is no citizenship question on the census. Estimates are that each resident who is counted brings about $2,000 per year to Lansdowne, Delaware County and Pennsylvania. Download and read a census fact sheet at http://stpaulslansdowne.org/index.html for more general information.
St. Paul’s Prayer List
Linda Wisham Roberta Neill
Bob Haring Phyllis VanArsdale
Mary Korhammer Donald Van Krieken
Gynell Gilicinski Michael Gallagher, Sr.
Pete Conway Matthew Parrott & Family
The Opioid Crisis Mass Shootings
Borough of Lansdowne William Penn School District
Congregational Council
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, SE Pennsylvania Synod
THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER – April 19
10:30 a.m. Morning Worship
The Rev. Nancy Haigh Ross
Eastern Pennsylvania Conference,
United Methodist Church
John 20:1-18 New International Version (NIV)
The Empty Tomb
20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
#QuarantineChurch is a worldwide movement, with congregations everywhere streaming their services online.