Provo Community Church

Put on your hiking boots and grab some water and join us for the first annual July 24th Mount Timpanogos Hike! Everyone who is interested please meet at the Timpooneke Trailhead at 6:00 a.m. Please RSVP on facebook.

Join us today at 6:30 pm for a BBQ with the Bike’n’Build Program that is spending a few days with us on their way from South Carolina to Santa Cruz, CA. Please bring a dessert or a salad.

Join the chorus of more than 2,000 people who have already opted in, and receive your free Voices pin.

Saturday July 17th is going to be crazy:
11 am: The American Fork Presbyterian Church will be dedicating their New altar stained glass window.
4 pm: The 16th Annual Llama Fest 2010 takes place in Spanish Fork
5 pm: The Springville Presbyterian Youth Group is having a BBQ with our Youth Group
6:30 pm: The Food and Care Coalition is hosting a Benefit Concert
What are your plans for Saturday?

Spice up your life with M&M:

Take the opportunity to remember
who you are, what you like to do,
how you feel and what it’s like to
just be yourself.
Reconnect with your creative, playful
side while enjoying the
company of other wonderful interesting women.
.

Saturday, July 10, 2010
12-4pm
Provo Community United Church of Christ
175 North University Ave, Provo
Leader: Rev. Mirjam Haas-Melchior

Lunch and everything for a nice coffee break will be provided!
Come and bring your mother, daughter, sister and/or girl-friend!!!

Info and RSVP: facebook or email

The first Friday of every month is Gallery Stroll night in downtown Provo. Our church joins with the Covey center and local businesses to create a wonderful evening of inspiring arts. On July 2nd we invited community leaders and downtown neighbors to help us make God’s Word part of Provo’s Freedom Festival. The Gallery Stroll is from 6-9 pm and we asked 15 high profile people to be part of a Bibl-A-Thon:  each participant is assigned a Bible passage and a time slot so that over the course of those three hours Genesis 37-50, Micah, Mark and Galatians are being read. The Gallery Stroll is an event of casual nature, so people stroll up and down the Avenue.  Some would stop for a minute to listen: the longboarder, picking up his board for a few moments, standing there, listening for the Word of God; the young couple munching on the waffles they got at the carnival down the street listening to the story where Jesus feeds the 5000.

Taking place during Provo’s Freedom days, the Scriptures all go along with the theme of Freedom: Joseph, son of a starving people becomes the second most powerful man in the Egyptian kingdom. The Prophet Micah calls for “Liberty and Justice for All.” Jesus sets everybody free from sin. Paul reflects on the new freedom in Christ. Continue reading “First Annual Freedom Bibl-A-Thon”

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.