Summer Worship Schedule

Summer Worship Schedule
begins on
May 29

Worship at 10:00 AM

This Week at Geneva

Holiday Worship Schedule

Christmas Eve

4:00 – Celebration of the Christmas Story

A joyful retelling of the Christmas story in which
children are invited to play a part

7:00 & 9:00 – Service of Lessons and Carols
with candlelight and communion

Sunday, December 26

10:00 am – Worship

Sunday, January 2

10:00 am -- Worship

Pray for our missions and missionaries:

Geneva’s Annual Boxing Night Clothing Drive for the Homeless

On Sunday, December 26^th beginning at 8pm the Geneva Senior Highs will be spending the night in the church parking lot to kick off our 16^th annual Boxing Night Clothing Drive for the Homeless. We will be collecting warm winter clothing, blankets, winter outer wear and toiletries from December 26^th through January 7. Bring your donations to the church. All donations will be taken to Fort Street Presbyterian Church Open Door Ministry to the homeless. Tell your neighbors!

Sock Drive – There is a chronic shortage of socks at The Open Door Clothing Bank at Fort St. Presbyterian Church. From now through Christmas, we will collect warm clean, new or gently used men's socks for distribution through the Open Door Ministry. Look for the brightly decorated collection box in the entryway.

Senior High Mission Day 3

Hello Family,

Day 3 was another hot day in W Virginia! There is not a whole lot different to report work-wise, as the groups are consistently doing the same thing each day. Every night our group meets in a private room to check in on each other, share stories, and prepare for the next day. Last night it was clear that Wednesday was the hardest day yet. The realities of altered sleep, rigorous schedule, many new experiences, and intense closeness with such a large group tends to make things tough in my experience.

Our youth are -as usual- representing God and our church very well. I believe they are learning more and more how challenging deep discipleship can be. They are seeing how having to choose between what God is calling us to and what we would REALLY like to do are often at odds. They get to see how caring for strangers is sometimes easier than caring for each other.

Please pray for us as today is our final workday, and we say goodbye to the people of WV. As you will hear on Sunday, our kids have been impacted by this community.

Peace

Dan

Senior High Mission - Pictures

Amanda having lunch

Friends!

Jam Session! Raking Rocks on the ball field.

Senior High Mission Day 2

We had quite a day on Tuesday. Kids club had a much greater turnout, with 12 kids. Our kids told great stories last night about the connections they made. They spent the morning at a nursing home, just spending time being with the elderly. It is the type of ministry that can be intimidating at first, but I think our group stretched their limits to be God's ears and mouths to these people.

The rest of us continued rehabbing a park. We raked more rocks from the ball diamonds and they are looking pretty smooth! We also painted the field house some more and cleaned it up. Tobi and I fixed some broken benches and picnic tables, cutting out the broken wood planks and replacing them with new wood. It was a sweaty day, but I hear y'all are having that too!

At the end of our work day, 2 brothers who have grown up in Mingo County sat us down and told us of the history here. It was sad to hear some of the history, and the future in their words, is "bleak". They concluded their talk thanking all of us for coming, and they were in tears at that point. As they thanked us for coming here "to work for free", it occurred to me that this is how God works. I think he smiles when we act on our faith. I think we were created to be with and help each other here on earth.

Please pray for us again today as we hit the spot where the week starts getting mentally and physically tough. Tonight we are going to worship, which should be a source of renewal.

Peace.
Dan