January 2014

UP on the Hill
Newsletter of The Hill United Presbyterian Church Butler, PA

PASTORAL MINISTRY

Worship, Study and Fellowship With Us!

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP, STUDY AND FELLOWSHIP
9:15 A.M.J.A.M. Session and Adult Study 9:30 A.M.30 Minutes (!) For Youth 10:30 A.M.Worship Service 11:30 A.M.Coffee / Fellowship Time in the Fellowship Hall

Rev. Clark T. Sawyer

PROGRAM MINISTRY
Kathy O. Sawyer

MUSIC MINISTRY
Kathy O. Sawyer, Director of Music Margaret E. McGuirk, Organist Thomas P. Walters, Director of Handbells and Instrumental Music Nancy Slezak, Memorial Handbell Director and Assistant Organist Jessica E. Sanzotti

CHURCH OFFICE
Jennifer Gilliland, Financial Secretary Lyn Goehring, Treasurer

CUSTODIANS
John Whittington Bobby Jo Sullins
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. James 4: 8

Happy New Year!

The Hill United Presbyterian Church 501 Second Street Butler, Pennsylvania 16001 724-287-5427 E-mail: hillup@zoominternet.net www.hillup.org

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES 10:30 - 11:30 A.M.

JANUARY 5, 2014 2nd Sunday of Christmastide Lords Supper - Traditional Sermon: To Search and Discover...Or Destroy? Rev. Clark Sawyer Scripture: Isaiah 60: 1-5; Matthew 2: 1-18 JANUARY 12, 2014 Baptism of the Lord Sermon: On Certainty and Self-Understanding Rev. Clark Sawyer Scripture: Isaiah 42: 1-9; Matthew 3: 13-17 JANUARY 19, 2014 2nd Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Ten Clues As To Who Jesus Is? Rev. Clark Sawyer Scripture: Isaiah 49: 1-7; John 1: 29-42 JANUARY 26, 2014 3rd Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: The Workers In The Big Picture Rev. Clark Sawyer Scripture: Isaiah 9: 1-4; Matthew 4: 12-23

FROM THE PASTORS DESK

JANUARY 2014

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Members and Friends of the Hill United Presbyterian Church: While the Advent and Christmas Seasons have been busy with family, friends, gift buying and receiving, the celebration of Jesus birth gives us pause to look forward to the new year with the understanding that God goes before us and desires us to live our lives in the presence, love and teaching of our Lord Jesus. In the book of The Revelation to John, God, who sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new!. In our Lord Jesus, I do pray you A Happy New Year wherein all things may be made new in your Christian walk! May the grace, mercy and peace of our Lord Jesus be present in your life this year of 2014!

WORSHIP ATTENDANCE IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2013

Sunday 11/03 11/10 11/17 11/24 12/01 12/08 12/15 Christmas Musical - 7:00 p.m. 12/22 - Cantata 111 120 110 143 112 110 109 200 253 55 228

12/24 - Christmas Eve - 4:00 p.m. 12/24 - Christmas Eve - 8:00 p.m.

Having an opportunity to worship together as part of the Pastor Clark Family of Faith is a wonderful Rev. Clark Sawyer gift given to us as Gods people. Please share this gift with others as you and I invite and The 2014 Pulpit Flowers sign up bring others to our gathering for sheet is now available on the worship, study, bulletin board in the Overflow fellowship, Room. Please note that the florist service and has increased the price of the outreach! Thank flowers to $30 (instead of the $27 you very much. it has been). Please be sure to fill

out your form(s) clearly and attach your payment. Thank you!
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY Receipts and Disbursements

FOR MONTH ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 2013 BIBLE READING FOR JANUARY
Morning
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Gen. 1, 2, 3 Gen. 4, 5, 6 Gen. 7, 8, 9 Gen. 10, 11, 12 Gen. 13, 14, 15 Gen. 16, 17 Gen. 18, 19 Gen. 20, 21, 22 Gen. 23, 24 Gen. 25, 26 Gen. 27, 28 Gen. 29, 30 Gen. 31, 32 Gen. 33, 34, 35 Gen. 36, 37, 38 Gen. 39, 40 Gen. 41, 42 Gen. 43, 44, 45 Gen. 46, 47, 48 Gen. 49, 50 Ex. 1, 2, 3 Ex. 4, 5, 6 Ex. 7, 8 Ex. 9, 10, 11 Ex. 12, 13 Ex. 14, 15 Ex. 16, 17, 18 Ex. 19, 20 Ex. 21, 22 Ex. 23, 24 Ex. 25, 26

Evening
Matt. 1 Matt. 2 Matt. 3 Matt. 4 Matt. 5: 1 - 26 Matt. 5: 27 48 Matt. 6: 1 - 18 Matt. 6: 19 - 34 Matt. 7 Matt. 8: 1 - 17 Matt. 8: 18 - 34 Matt. 9: 1 - 17 Matt. 9: 18 - 38 Matt. 10: 1 - 20 Matt. 10: 21 - 42 Matt. 11 Matt. 12: 1 - 23 Matt. 12: 24 - 50 Matt. 13: 1 - 30 Matt. 13: 31 - 58 Matt. 14: 1 21 Matt. 14: 22 - 36 Matt. 15: 1 - 20 Matt. 15: 21 - 39 Matt. 16 Matt. 17 Matt. 18: 1 - 20 Matt. 18: 21 35 Matt. 19 Matt. 20: 1 - 16 Matt. 20: 17 - 34

Actual Envelope Offerings Other Offerings & Receipts Total Receipts

Budget

Variance Favorable (Unfavorable)

Receipts
$201,169 $214,284 ($13,115)

104,268 305,437

98,079 312,363

6,189 (6,926)

Disbursements
Personnel Buildings & Grounds Capital Improvements Office Operations Stewardship Mission Support Christian Education Nurture Worship Discipleship Total Disbursements Net of Receipts over Disbursements 187,533 37,754 0 7,817 12,950 18,148 16,058 2,929 8,942 17,096 309,227 186,693 38,381 0 8,800 10,546 21,926 15,583 5,317 10,267 14,850 312,363 (840) 627 0 983 (2,404) 3,778 (475) 2,388 1,325 (2,246) 3,136

Kids Club will resume on Wed., February 5th at 5:30 P.M. Invite kids you know to be part of a fun way to learn about the love of Christ in their lives. If youd like to help in any way, contact Kathy Sawyer.

(3,790)

(3,790)

Fund Balance
Unrestricted (Deficit) Designated Total General Fund ($45,001) 30,832 (14,169)

The above amounts represent the 2013 financial transactions in the general operating fund. This summary does not include any of the special and The next newsletter deadline is JANUARY 15, 2014 endowment funds.

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS HILL YOUTH CHORALE CABARET On Friday evening, January 24th at 7:00pm our own Hill Youth Chorale will be presenting an evening of Broadway songs and deluxe desserts in our church dining room. Also, there will be another performance at noon on Sunday, January 26th, which includes a spaghetti luncheon. This is the groups main fundraiser for their ministry tour. Tickets are $10.00 and include admission, an evening or afternoon of top-rate entertainment, and all the decadent desserts (or spaghetti and salad) and coffee or tea you wish. Tickets are available from Chorale members or in the Church office. If you want to attend, plan on picking your tickets up early this month, as they do sell out!! We are also in need of dessert donations for Friday nightpreferably decadent cakes, cheesecakes, etc. If you would like to donate an item, please let us know by filling out the form inserted in your bulletin in January. OFFERING ENVELOPES Offering envelopes will be mailed to those people who were unable to pick them up in the sanctuary after Dec 30, 2013. Please start using these new envelopes the first weekend in 2014. Please contact Jennifer in the church office if you have not received a box of offering envelopes, either in the church or by mail, by January 15, 2014. If you have already picked up your box, thank you for helping the Church save postage money. Postal rates to mail the boxes are high and increased again this year.
It was with joy that the Session received Tanner McCaw as a new member of the Hill Church upon Reaffirmation of Faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior! We welcome you, Tanner, blessings in your life. and pray Gods

The Session also approved a motion from the Administration Committee that the purchase of the projection system be approved with any additional funding (up to $15,000.00) coming from the Helen Beck Fund. Clark Sawyer, Moderator

DATES RESUME

THAT AT

POPULAR PROGRAMS HILL CHURCH IN 2014!

January 2: Willing Workers at 9:30A.M., Memorial Ringers at 6:30 P.M. January 5: HYC rehearsal, Womens Book Club January 7: Womens Bible Study at 9:30 A.M. January 8: Womens Breakfast at Macs Cafe at 8:00 A.M. January 16: Chancel Choir at 7:30 P.M. January 19: Adult Sunday School, J.A.M. Sessions, 30 Minutes! For Youth at 9:30 A.M.

GHANA MISSION TASK FORCE REPORT In a note received on December 10th, it was reported that Emmanuel Akorli, the Catechist at Odorkor, completed his studies and was ordained a minister. Emmanuel has been assigned to a congregation in the Volta Region which is north of Accra. His temporary replacement is Daniel Dzunu, currently a Presbyter (or Elder) in that congregation. The Bubiashie District extended Christmas greetings to the Hill UP congregation. If any of you received Christmas greetings from Ghana, please let Jim Ihlenfeld know. Please keep the Bubiashie District churches, Bernard Daddy, chairperson of the Bubiashie scholarship committee, as well as the students in your prayers.

We at the Hill Church were grateful to God when Helen Beck gave a bequest of over $75,000.00 to the ministries of Hill Church. Her love of our Lord Jesus and His Church is evident. Helen also loved Gods creation. As well, she gave a bequest to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. This is an article about her from the Conservancy Magazine. Helen Beck: Her Legacy By Carey Scheide Miller, Senior Director, Development Rattlesnakes can unnerve many - even an avid nature lover - but not Helen Beck. Her appreciation for the small, timid Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake, sometimes visible at Jennings Nature Reserve, is emblematic for the way she lived her life, enjoying nature to the fullest. Mrs. Becks love of nature was formed while growing up on her family farm in Greene County. She loved hiking, horseback riding and riding her bicycle through the countryside. Later in her adult life, she relished mornings in her wildflower garden, wearing a big straw hat, recalls her daughter, Billie Moser. She loved feeding the birds each day - including a chickadee that was so comfortable with her that it would eat from her hand. Mrs. Becks desire to see nature took her and her late husband, Richard, all around the world; however, even after all these adventures, Western Pennsylvania remained most dear to her. She particularly enjoyed hiking at WPCs Wolf Creek Narrows, Jennings Nature Reserve, Moraine State Park and McConnells Mill. In fact, for nearly her 90 years, Mrs. Beck rarely missed a chance to experience nature each day. Given her affinity for these WPC - conserved natural areas, it was no surprise that she called the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy her favorite charity - one that she faithfully supported since 1962. A mother of two daughters, stepmother to a son, grandmother to five grandchildren, and great-grandmother to another 10 children, Mrs. Beck passed her love of nature to many of her descendants. Billie shares her mothers passion for nature, particularly wildflowers and birds - and has a goal of visiting the 59 national parks in the United States (with 33 visited already). I had the privilege to get to know Mrs. Beck in her golden years - often over a hike at Wolf Creek Narrows. I was impressed with her knowledge of the many wildflowers there - learned over years of observation and study of her field guide - and I really felt privileged to be a part of her hiking adventures - even in her late 80s! In 2010, Mrs. Beck shared that she had included the Conservancy in her estate plans. This gave us the opportunity to acknowledge her ultimate support while she was living. I was saddened to learn of her passing in late 2011 at the age of 90. I think of her every time I visit one of her favorite places. Some of Mrs. Becks bequest will support a site improvement at Wolf Creek Narrows, the addition of a railing that will make it easier for people to access the hiking trail. Its a fitting, lasting tribute to a woman whose adventurous spirit touched so many.

Happy New Year Word Search

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VOLUNTEERS for JANUARY 2014 SUNDAY

USHER TEAM GREETERS BEFORE GREETERS AFTER (DEACONS) COUNTING ELDERS NURSERY ACOLYTE COFFEE HOUR

JAN. 5

Ladies Team

Sharon Montag Patti Donaldson Pam Lentz Bea Welch David McCrea Bea Welch Cathy Zarnick Sharon Montag Jack Montag

Louise Evans Peg Dumbaugh Nancy Daugherty Anne Miller Pete McElhaney Dennis Hawk Louise Evans Kelly Provident Carol Gadsby Aiden Wach

Volunteers Needed

JAN. 12

Bob Scotts Team

Lois Minich

Amy Waggoner

Volunteers Needed

JAN. 19

Junior Team

Anne McCaw

Jim Kamerer

Ben Huba

Deacons

JAN. 26

Don Lanes Team

Audrey Nossokoff

Nancy Daugherty

Bethany Sowa

Volunteers Needed

COMMUNION TEAM Team B NEWSLETTER TEAM in JANUARY (for February) Team A (The Hoover Family) VAN DRIVER for JANUARY ~

CHAD PROVIDENT 724-256-5908

PULPIT FLOWERS
JANUARY 5 Donated in loving memory of Samuel Cavalero by Patti Donaldson and Cathy Zarnick JANUARY 12 Still Available JANUARY 19 Donated in honor of our son John Mager by Mr. and Mrs. John Mager JANUARY 26 Donated in loving memory of Ruth Cupp by her family

PEW GREETERS
Hill Church for many years was known as The Glad Hand Church. The Nurture Committee wants to continue this tradition. Pew Greeters will now welcome visitors, encourage them to sign the guest registry, and invite them to Fellowship Hour on Sunday.
MIDDLE SECTIONBRADY STREET SECTION JAN 5 JAN 12 JAN 19 JAN 26 Sharon Montag 724-285-3231 Nancy Daugherty 724-285-1013 Lois Minich 724-283-1875 Dennis Hawk 724-285-6355 PEARL ST. SECTIONOVERFLOW AREA Karen Shultz 724-283-2413 Janet Edinger 724-282-7782 Barb Bishop 724-282-2737 Peg Dumbaugh 724-789-7331

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2nd Sunday After Epiphany Dining Room Closed 6:30-8:00pm - Master Classes in Sanctuary 9:15am - Adult Sunday Sch 9:15am - JAM Sessions 9:30am - 30 Minutes! 10:30am - Worship Rev. Clark Sawyer Preaching 11:30am - Fellowship 12:15 pm - HYC

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JANUARY 2014

O Lord, I have heard of your renown, and I stand 26 in awe, O Lord, of your work. Habakkuk 3: 2
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