This Week at Mount Zion UCC

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  Advent 2025

  

  The season of Advent is nearly upon us! This year, our theme will be “Yet In Thy Dark Streets Shineth,” as we look for the light that shines even in the darkness and shadows. We hope you will join us on Sundays at 9:45 AM!

  Sunday, November 30th: The Light of Hope
  Sunday, December 7th: The Light of Peace
  Sunday, December 14th: The Light of Joy
  Sunday, December21st: The Light of Love

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  Christmas Eve Services

  

  Mt. Zion will once again be having three Christmas Eve services on Wednesday, December 24th.

  • Our 3 PM is a traditional service, and often our most well-attended service.
  • Our 7 PM is a family service with many of Mt. Zion’s children and youth participating in the service!
  • Our 10 PM service is a more contemplative and quiet service.

  We hope you will choose the service that is most comfortable for you and that you will celebrate the birth of our Savior!

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  December Monthly Mission

  

  The Monthly Mission for December is the Christmas Fund.  This fund has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December.  Envelopes for these donations can be found in the pews.

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  New Tech Director

  

  We share the exciting news that Louis Allison joined us on Team Mt. Zion as our Director of Technology on Sunday, October 5th! Louis comes with experiences managing teams and utilizing audio visual equipment which will be a great blessing as we continue to work on our streaming and technology based ministries. We give thanks for this new partnership in ministry! If you have a chance, take a moment to introduce yourself to Louis and welcome him to our church!

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  Children’s Music — Fall 2025

  

  Children’s choir is returning! Normally we will have practice during Sunday Funday, but since the Little’s Retreat is in September in place of Sunday Funday, we’ll be having a separate practice after the service on Sunday, September 21st.

  The children’s choir will be singing on October 19th, December 21st for the Christmas cantata, and Christmas Eve at the 7 PM service.

  Additional practices will be at Sunday Funday in October, November, & December.You can sign your child up here.

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  Fall 2025 Worship Series

  

  We invite you to join us for our new Fall worship series, Sacred Stones: Building Faith in the Places God Meets Us. This series will focus on all the places in our lives God meets us, from times of joy to times of heartbreak. Services are on Sunday at 9:45 AM in the sanctuary, or streaming on our website, Facebook, and YouTube.

  September 21 — Spaces of Beginning
  September 28 — Spaces of Struggle
  October 5 — Spaces of Community
  October 12 — Spaces of Renewal
  October 19 — Spaces of Sending

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  Plum Creek Christmas Donations

  

  We will be collecting Bingo prizes and Christmas cards for Skilled Care and Personal Care residents at Homewood at Plum Creek again this holiday season. If you are purchasing Christmas cards, please do not seal them so they are easier for our residents to open. If you are donating BINGO prizes, the residents enjoy chocolate, single serving snack items, small holiday trinkets for all seasons, word search puzzles, small stuffed animals, and Dove bar soap.

  Please get all items to Doris Loucks, who will have a collection area in the back narthex, by December 5th, 2025. Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity!

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  York New American Welcome Center Donations

  

  The local YWCA’S & YMCA’S York New American Welcome Center who help families resettle in our area. They help with English as a second language, with filling out paperwork, schooling and jobs.

  We received information that the local Haitian community who arrived in 2021 is in dire need of assistance. They are refugees whose Temporary Protected Status was revoked, which means they lost their ability to work in the USA. Because they are not allowed to work many of their basic needs are not being met.

  We would like to collect items during the month of July, so when you shop each week, please pick up a few items to share.

  Donations needed:

  • Shelf-stable items (rice, beans, and so on);
  • Toiletries (shampoo, body lotion, diapers, sanitary supplies);
  • Cleaning supplies (dish detergent, laundry soap)

   

  Place donations on the table in back of narthex. Contact Nancy Sleeger at 717-266-4668 with any questions.

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  Mr. Sandy’s Quarterly Casseroles

  

  At the last Mr. Sandy’s Food Run, Sandi was asked if there was anything else she needed. Her response was any kind of 9×13 casseroles baked and frozen. At the Ridgerunners Town Hall, it was decided that we will provide 8 casseroles every quarter. The first delivery is June 22nd.

  Thank you to everyone who signed up and took pans! We had them all taken in just one Sunday!!!

  A reminder to everyone who took pans, please bring the baked, frozen casseroles to the church kitchen, and them put in the refrigerator or freezer on June 22.

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  Community Aid Partnership

  

  As a reminder, we have a partnership with Community Aid where we received credit for items donated under our partnership number: 20053.

  When you donate items to a community aid store, you can either tell our partner number to the staff member assisting you or staple it on the outside of the bag. With our partnership, we also receive Care Cards to give to individuals in need and can also be eligible for applying for emergency grants.

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  Facebook Update

  In order to be in compliance with Facebook guidelines, we are moving our Mt. Zion Friends from the main page to a group. We are planning to have this page up and running by Advent, around December 1st. At that time, we will stop posting to our friends page and we will only be posting content for friends in the group. We ask that you join this group so that you can continue to receive updates from Mt. Zion!

  Our business page where we host our streaming services and post more general information about the church will remain available.

  You can request to be a part of the group here.

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  Scam Warning — Text Messages Masquerading as Pastor Amy

  Unfortunately, we were made aware that a scammer has been asking for gift cards or a favor using Pastor Amy’s name. They have been sending text messages in which they ask you to buy the gift cards and then send them the barcode for the gift card. As a reminder, Pastor Amy has not given out her cell phone number, so you will not be receiving text messages from her.

  If you ever question the legitimacy of a text or an email from a staff member or something that just doesn’t seem quite right — please call the church office to verify.

  Though our church is blessed to have members who are generous with their time, talent, and treasure, the staff takes great care to be specific in our communications if we are asking for assistance with a ministry in the church, so vague texts and emails are a good signal that it is fraudulent. In addition, we will NEVER ask you to purchase gift cards and send us the numbers electronically. When in doubt, verify by contacting us directly.

  We don’t know why people do these kinds of things. It is frustrating and takes away from the real good that can be done. Thanks for your vigilance and care, friends.

  We are sorry for the inconvenience.