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
05.19.2024; Pentecost Sunday

Call To Worship: (responsive, adapted from the Book of Common Worship)
Leader: O God, you are the light of the minds that know you.
Response: You are the life of the souls that love you.
Leader: You are the strength of the thoughts that seek you.
Response: Help us to know you so that we may truly love you.
Leader: Help us to love you so that we may truly serve you.
Response: And in loving and serving you, help us to find your perfect freedom.
Leader: Let us worship God!

Hymn 292 As the Wind Song

Prayer of Confession (unison)
Gracious God, You have created each of us with our own gifts, and our own abilities. There are things we can do that others cannot, and in our difference, we should find our strength together. Yet we look at what is ours, at what we have been gifted, and assume that it is the best. We look at what our culture celebrates, at what brings wealth and power, and we assume that it must be the most blessed. When we do this, we risk belittling the gifts of others, and forget our relationship to You. For those times we close our hearts to your Spirit, Lord, please forgive us. In Christ we ask this, AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon
Leader: Friends, who is in a position to condemn?
Response: Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us.
Leader: Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. The old life has gone. The new life has begun. Know that you are forgiven, and be at peace. AMEN

Scripture Readings:

First: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b

Second: Romans 8:22-27

Hymn 284 Holy Spirit Come to Us (Tui amoris ignem) x2

Third: Acts 2:1-21

Sermon: Speaking My Language

Affirmation of Faith: (adapted from the Brief Statement of Faith)
We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justified us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the Church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the Church. In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in Church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace. In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God's new heaven and new earth, praying, "Come, Lord Jesus!"

Hymn 66 Every Time I Feel the Spirit

Charge and Benediction1

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