January 2022 Update
Our Deacons delivered Harvest Baskets for Thanksgiving and Christmas poinsettias to our friends of the church in November and December. While we haven’t been regularly serving as ushers in worship since we haven’t been coming forward to collect offering due to COVID safety protocols, several of our Deacons were there to assist with distributing bulletins, candles, and communion elements on Christmas Eve. We were surprised to see so many in attendance that we ran out of everything, having planned for 60 but seeing 78 in worship! What a Christmas blessing!
May God be with you through the New Year and fill your life with comfort, love, and cheer. May this day and the days ahead hold many blessings for you and yours. Happy New Year!
Mary Ann Harman, Deacons moderator
May God be with you through the New Year and fill your life with comfort, love, and cheer. May this day and the days ahead hold many blessings for you and yours. Happy New Year!
Mary Ann Harman, Deacons moderator
Shady Side Academy Food Drive (December 2020)
Shady Side Academy Food Drive
2020 isn’t all bad! Look at the bountiful food collection Shady Side Academy Junior School again this year gave to us and WCM. These 2nd graders, parents and their teachers work so hard every year collecting food for us. Shady Side Academy has partnered with FPCE for more than 20 years on this annual food drive.
This year was a little different, but they still wanted to participate in some way. They did a fantastic job in collecting appropriate holiday food and also replenishing our shelves in our pantry. Rick Masten and his friend Tom Kilgour made two trips to Shady Side Academy, collected the food and brought it into our social room where we separated it. In the past, the kids bring their food they collected on their school bus and make repeated trips from the bus into the church, then it is explained to them how their wonderful generosity is used both by our food pantry and WCM’s. Their excitedness and wholesomeness in their annual collection is very humbling and very, very much appreciated.
We plan on sending our thanks to them when they are back in-person schooling to again explain how important they are to us and our community. We are truly blessed to have this special connection with Shady Side Academy.
2020 isn’t all bad! Look at the bountiful food collection Shady Side Academy Junior School again this year gave to us and WCM. These 2nd graders, parents and their teachers work so hard every year collecting food for us. Shady Side Academy has partnered with FPCE for more than 20 years on this annual food drive.
This year was a little different, but they still wanted to participate in some way. They did a fantastic job in collecting appropriate holiday food and also replenishing our shelves in our pantry. Rick Masten and his friend Tom Kilgour made two trips to Shady Side Academy, collected the food and brought it into our social room where we separated it. In the past, the kids bring their food they collected on their school bus and make repeated trips from the bus into the church, then it is explained to them how their wonderful generosity is used both by our food pantry and WCM’s. Their excitedness and wholesomeness in their annual collection is very humbling and very, very much appreciated.
We plan on sending our thanks to them when they are back in-person schooling to again explain how important they are to us and our community. We are truly blessed to have this special connection with Shady Side Academy.
The Board of Deacons at Edgewood
The office of deacon as set forth in Scripture is one of sympathy, witness, and service after the example of Jesus Christ. Persons of spiritual character, honest repute, of exemplary lives, brotherly and sisterly love, warm sympathies and sound judgment should be chosen for this office.
It is the duty of deacons, first of all, to minister to those who are in need, to the sick, to the friendless, and to any who may be in distress both within and beyond the community of faith. They shall assume such other duties as may be delegated to them from time to time by the session, such as leading the people in worship through prayers of intercession, reading the Scriptures, presenting the gifts of the people, and assisting with the Lord’s Supper.
Book of Order, G-6.0401–02
Deacons at Edgewood can be seen all the time, serving as ushers each week during worship, running our community food pantry, hosting the annual Strawberry Festival, providing the Melfard Douglass Memorial Scholarship for high school seniors and college students, collecting toy donations for the holidays as part of the annual Project Manger Tree drive, visiting and delivering care packages to our home-bound friends of the church, and providing refreshments for Mother's Day (Muffins for Moms), Father's Day (Donuts for Dads), and the annual congregational luncheon.
It is the duty of deacons, first of all, to minister to those who are in need, to the sick, to the friendless, and to any who may be in distress both within and beyond the community of faith. They shall assume such other duties as may be delegated to them from time to time by the session, such as leading the people in worship through prayers of intercession, reading the Scriptures, presenting the gifts of the people, and assisting with the Lord’s Supper.
Book of Order, G-6.0401–02
Deacons at Edgewood can be seen all the time, serving as ushers each week during worship, running our community food pantry, hosting the annual Strawberry Festival, providing the Melfard Douglass Memorial Scholarship for high school seniors and college students, collecting toy donations for the holidays as part of the annual Project Manger Tree drive, visiting and delivering care packages to our home-bound friends of the church, and providing refreshments for Mother's Day (Muffins for Moms), Father's Day (Donuts for Dads), and the annual congregational luncheon.
