Meeting dates for committees appear in the Calendar and This Week at Messiah.
For information on a committee, click on the name:
Worship
and Music Committee
Evangelism Committee
Stewardship Committee
Fellowship Committee
Property Committee
Messiah Women of the ELCA
Christian Education Committee
Social Ministry Committee
Publicity Committee
Chairperson: Brenda Miller
Objective: In cooperation with Pastor and the Congregation Council, provide conduct of worship in accordance with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America - ELCA. The organizations included are choir, assisting ministers, lectors, ushers and the Altar Guild.
Mission Statement: To stimulate and lead our church members by proclaiming the Christian Gospel and to extend this effort to our community.
Chairperson: John Garner
Members: Marian Bowman
Joan Smith
Karen Hatt
Harry Hatt
Sharon Garner
Chairperson: Open
Members:
Anita Keisch
Rita Savant
Dorothy Daub
Chairperson: Deb Lutz
The purpose of the Fellowship Committee is to plan and help carry out the Christian Fellowship Activities with members and friends of the Messiah Family. Some of these activities are planned specifically by the Fellowship Committee while other fellowship activities are planned and carried out in partnership with other committees of the church, i.e. working with the Christian Education Committee for Rally Day, Annual Church Picnic and assisting the Evangelism Committee with the Spring Outreach Festivities.
Fellowship programs at Messiah include:
Monthly activity nights
Lenten Bread and Soup Suppers
Easter breakfast (in conjunction with the youth group)
Annual bus trips
Monthly 'Welcome Time' (first Sunday of the month after the early service)
Our fun, action oriented group meets every other month to plan activities and events. Please join us to help plan our activities or just to participate in the fellowship of Messiah.
Members:
Carol
Artz
Marion Bowman
Deb Bowman
Trudy Carmany
Dorothy Daub
Mary Ellen Dietrich
Lori Summers
Janice & Joe Hartman
Rick & Pam Knouff
Louise Scaramuzzino
Bruce Weaver
Pat Wetzel
Kay Zellers
The Property Committee oversees and is responsible for the care of our buildings and grounds. Minor repairs and major projects are part of our work. This committee also works closely with our sexton for the coordination of tasks.
Members: Mike McGinty
- Chairman
Daryl Artz
Laura Ebright
Joe Hartman
Rev. Barry Kendall
Rick Knouff
Jim Matthew
Messiah Women of the ELCA is an organization within the church that supports the ministry of Messiah. We reach out to all women of the congregation who are members of Women of the ELCA by the fact that they are members of Messiah. All women of the congregation are welcome to attend any and all of the Women of the ELCA meetings.
Women of the ELCA is the women’s organization of the 5.1 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This network of nearly 500,000 participants in 64 geographical areas (called synods) in the United States and the Caribbean exists for mutual support and bold action on participants’ faith in Jesus Christ.
The organization builds on the strong history of women’s missionary movements, Bible study, and service in which our foremothers engaged. Some of us recall stories from our grandmothers of how they saved “egg money” (from the sale of eggs) so they would have money to donate for support of missionaries in other countries. You may have heard how our foremothers trudged through snow for hours to get to Bible study at another woman’s house, hung their stockings on the line to dry while they studied, and then trudged home again the same day. Or you may have heard about schools and orphanages built in various parts of the world with women’s Thankofferings.
Every year the members of Messiah Women of the ELCA make Christmas stockings for Wernersville Hospital and with the help of the Confirmation and High School Sunday school classes and the generosity of the congregation, we assemble school kits for Lutheran World Relief that are distributed to children in the US and around the world.
We also sponsor a Spang Crest birthday party with the entertainment provided by several youth members of our congregation. Our offerings are sent to support Women of the ELCA Thankoffering, the Independent Church in India, Church Women United Leprosy Fund, The Tanzania Women’s Credit Union and the Tanzania Pastor’s Salary Fund. Messiah Women of the ELCA also purchases gifts for the shut-ins of the congregation as a way of brightening their holiday season.
Messiah Women of the ELCA were given a certificate from the Lutheran World Relief program for participation in Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza. Proceeds from each brick go to Lutheran World Relief's Project Comfort to ship quilts and other material resources to our neighbors around the world.
We have two groups called circles that meet monthly for Bible study and fellowship at the church: the Nancy Stevenson Circle, which meets the first Thursday of the month at 2:00, and the Deborah Circle, which meets the third Sunday of each month at 3:30. We also meet twice a year for our Combined Meetings in April and November. Please come and join us to become part of this ministry. View our 2006 report.
OUR OFFICERS:
President
Kathy Lilley
Vice President Pam Knouff
Secretary
Sharon Garner
Treasurer
Carey Kendall
Train
up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from
it. Proverbs 22:6
Christian Education is provided for all ages. Living in Faith meets weekly at 10:30 following the worship service. Our classes are as follows:
Ark Angels: Nursery – newborns through 3 year olds
Teachers: Carey Kendall and Teenie Batdorf
Shepherd’s Flock: Pre K through Kindergarten
Teachers: Carey Kendall and Teenie Batdorf
God’s Squad: First and Second Grades
Teachers: Nancie Whelan and Teenie Batdorf
Carpenter’s Kids: Third through Fifth Grades
Teachers: Brenda Miller, Dan LaRue and Carey Kendall
Confirmation Plus: Sixth through Ninth Grades
Teacher: Kathy Lilley
High School: Tenth through Twelfth Grades
Teachers: Pam Knouff and Lorraine Bender
Adult Classes:
Pastor's Class
Teacher: Pastor Kendall