Poolesville Presbyterian Church

Times and Events	Children and Worship	Christian Education
9:15 am Sunday School (in the Manse during the school year) 9:15 am Adult Education (in the Sanctuary during the school year) 10:30 am Worship (in the Sanctuary) and also Virtual streaming service on our website or via Facebook Live 11:30 am Fellowship (in the Fellowship Hall)	Childcare is available during worship service for children ages 1 month to 2 years. Children 2nd grade and under typically leave the worship service following Time With Children (adult supervision provided). Children 3rd grade and older are encouraged to remain in the Sanctuary for the entire worship service. Books, coloring and activity books, and "worship buddy animals" are available in the front of the sanctuary for kids third grade and over.	PPC members are creative, purposeful people who care a lot about Christian Education. We provide Sunday School for children of all ages. In addition, we have weekly Christian Education classes for adults that are presented by our Pastor, Rev. Dr. David Williams.

Times and Events

Children and Worship

Christian Education

9:15 am Sunday School (in the Manse during the school year)
9:15 am Adult Education (in the Sanctuary during the school year)
10:30 am Worship (in the Sanctuary) and also Virtual streaming service on our website or via Facebook Live
11:30 am Fellowship (in the Fellowship Hall)

Childcare is available during worship service for children ages 1 month to 2 years.

Children 2nd grade and under typically leave the worship service following Time With Children (adult supervision provided).

Children 3rd grade and older are encouraged to remain in the Sanctuary for the entire worship service. Books, coloring and activity books, and "worship buddy animals" are available in the front of the sanctuary for kids third grade and over.

PPC members are creative, purposeful people who care a lot about Christian Education. We provide Sunday School for children of all ages. In addition, we have weekly Christian Education classes for adults that are presented by our Pastor, Rev. Dr. David Williams.

I'm New

Who We Are	What We Believe	Contacting Us
PPC seeks to be a warm and welcoming community that invites you to "come just as you are" to learn what it means to follow Jesus with your life. ☆ Meet our Pastor ☆ Our Session ☆ More About Us ☆ History of PPC	What does it mean to be Presbyterian? ☆ Our beliefs	Would you like to get in touch with us? ☆ Contact us

Adult and Family

We are a Safe Church	Child and Youth Ministries
PPC is committed to creating a safe and caring church environment for children and youth. Please check out our Child Protection Policy to learn more. ☆ Child Protection Policy	Children and youth are important part of PPC. ☆ Summer Family Gatherings

Get Involved

Music Ministries	Missions
Worship is vital to the life and work of God's people. At PPC, music and worship play an integral role in helping our church accomplish its mission. ☆ Adult Choir	The PPC community supports a variety of local and national missions. ☆ Little Free Pantry ☆ Backpack Bites ☆ Poolesville Community Garden Info ☆ Friendly Thrift Shop ☆ WUMCO-Help ☆ Rebuilding Together

Care and Prayer

Major Life Events	Prayers
We would love to support you in the major life events for you or your loved ones. ☆ Baptism ☆ Marriage ☆ Death and Funeral	PPC welcomes your requests for prayer for yourself or for those in need within your circle of family, friends, and acquaintances ☆ Prayer Requests

Multimedia

Worship and Music	Sermon Podcasts (July 12, 2020 and prior)	How About Some Pictures
Our Sunday Worship services are streamed live: ☆ Listen to our worship service on our website ☆ Listen via our Facebook page Music: ☆ Hear our Choir singing in recent worship services.	We recorded our pastor's sermons prior to July 20, 2020 so you can listen to them. ☆ Listen to Podcasts	View a picture gallery of PPC. ☆ Picture gallery

Use Our Facilities

Overview	Requesting Use
We let our members and other non-profit organizations use our facilities. You can get more information as well as learn about our policies and rules for use. ☆ General Information ☆ Policy and Rules	You can request use of our facilities online or via email. ☆ Online Request (recommended) ☆ Email Request

If you are having issues click here to go to an alternative format of live streaming. It will not have the bulletin.

Poolesville Presbyterian Church
04.28.2024; Fifth Sunday in Easter

Call To Worship: (responsive, adapted from a prayer by St. Augustine)
Leader: God of our life, flood the path with light.
Response: Run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise.
Leader: Tune our hearts to brave music.
Response: Give us the sense of union with heroes and saints of every age.
Leader: Quicken our spirits!
Response: Quicken our spirits, that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us.
Leader: For we walk the path together, to your honor and glory. Let us worship God!

Hymn 837 What a Fellowship, What a Joy Divine

Prayer of Confession (unison)
Gracious and Loving God, we know your Spirit moves in us and works to transform us. The radical love that is your very nature strives to live in us, and to move us. But when it comes time to make the growth of soul that your life requires, we fight back. We are who we are, we tell ourselves. Why should we have to change, or struggle with all that transformation requires? So we remain as we are, and the fruit of your grace does not come. For our stubbornness, forgive us, LORD. In Christ's name, forgive us, AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon:
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. I declare to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. May the God of mercy, who forgives us all our sins, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. AMEN.

Scripture Readings:

First: Psalm 22:25-31

Second: 1 John 4:7-21

Hymn 20 All Things Bright and Beautiful

Third: John 15:1-8

Sermon: Gardening Hard

Affirmation of Faith (unison, adapted from the Confession of 1967, 9.16; 9.54)
God has created the world of space and time to be the sphere of God's dealings with us. In its beauty and vastness, sublimity and awfulness, order and disorder, the world reflects to the eye of faith the majesty and mystery of its Creator. Biblical visions and images of the rule of Christ, such as a heavenly city, a father's house, a new heaven and earth, a marriage feast, and an unending day culminate in the image of the kingdom. The kingdom represents the triumph of God over all that resists his will and disrupts his creation. Already God's reign is present as a ferment in the world, stirring hope in us and preparing the world to receive its ultimate judgment and redemption

Hymn 35 Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty

Charge and Benediction1

Worship Live