Provo Community Church

This Friday night will be our first annual freedom Bibl-A-Thon. We will have civic leaders reading scriptures.This event starts at 6:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. This and and a whole lot more in our weekly comment…

As part of their summer fun schedule our youth group joined the Springville Presbyterian Youth for a rough ride down the river. Bruises, cuts, blood, sweat and tears, many other owies and a whole lot of fun made for an interesting afternoon.
This and a whole lot more can be found in our latest Weekly Comment: Super Summer Services

On Sunday, June 20th, we will be celebrating father’s day. We will be having a father’s day pot luck after church. Please bring your favorite dish to share. And don’t forget to say A Father’s Day Prayer:

For fathers everywhere, who have given us life and love, that we may show them respect and love.
Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers.

For fathers who have lost a child through death, that their faith may give them hope, and their family and friends support and console them
Holy God, hear this prayer for our fathers that mourn.

For men, though without children of their own, acted like a fathers and have nurtured and cared for us.
Holy God, hear this prayer for our father figures.

For step-fathers who have assumed that role with love and joy, who have loved the children of another as their own, and created a new family.
Holy God, hear this prayer for step-fathers.

For adoptive fathers, who have claimed the orphan and loved the once unwanted as a precious gift from God.
Holy God, hear this prayer for adoptive fathers.

For fathers who have been unable to be a source of strength, who have not responded to the needs of their children, and have not sustained their families.
Holy God, have mercy on absentee fathers.

For fathers who struggle with temptation, violence, or addiction. For those who do harm, and for those whom they have harmed.
Holy God, have mercy on fathers that struggle.

For new fathers, full of hope. For long-time fathers, full of wisdom. For the fathers yet to be, and fathers soon to be.
Holy God, hear our prayer for the fathers of your Church.

For those that have shaped our lives without claim of family or kinship. For those who have taught us, guided us, shaped us and molded us into servants of Christ our Lord.
Holy God, hear our prayer for the fathers of our faith.

God our Father, in your wisdom and love you made all things. Bless these men, that they may be strengthened as Christian fathers. Let the example of their faith and love shine forth. Grant that we, their sons and daughters, may honor them always with a spirit of profound respect. Grant this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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On Thursday night at 11:45 pm your friends at Provo Community United Church of Christ will hold a Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty. Please join us then and check out Amnesty’s Death Penalty Facts now.

June 11-13 the 36th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ will be held at the La Foret Conference and Retreat Center, Colorado Springs, CO. Our congregation’s delegation consists of Bev Larsen, Mike Talbot, Dorothy Talbert and Daniel Haas. The church office will only be open on Monday and Tuesday from 9-noon. Next year, 2011, our Utah Association has agreed to host the 37th Annual Meeting at the University of Utah. We will need many people involved with this huge event. Our church’s wider mission live and in action. Look if you can find it in your heart to help with the hosting duties we are going to have. More info to follow.

Registration is open for this year’s intergenerational Vacation Bible School:
July 6-10, 6:30-8:30 pm and July 11, 10.30 am
+ a week-long event with activities for the entire family
+ everyone is invited
+ a light supper every night with a BBQ on Saturday
+ free of charge
For our planning purposes we ask you to RSVP on facebook or download the VBS 2010 registration form and return it to the church office.