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New Years Eve Celebration | Print |  E-mail
Celebrate the new year with us with a Hungarian New Years Eve Celebration.  We are celebrating the Hungarian New Year's from 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. (6:00 p.m. is Midnight in Hungary).  This is a potluck dinner so bring your best Hungarian food.  For futher information contact Jack McMichaels. 
 
Boar's Head | Print |  E-mail

     The Boar’s Head Festival presented by Park United Presbyterian Church in Zelienople, Pennsylvania will get the audience into the true Christmas spirit on December 10th at seven o’clock and 11th at 5:00 p.m., 2011.  According to the program, “The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Ceremony is probably the oldest continuing festival of the Christmas season.”  It was first presented around 1340 or earlier at Queen’s College, Oxford, England.  Director Marietta Reeb, her daughter, organist Carol Meeder, assistant director, Ellen Hamilton, and choir director Jane Ebner coordinated over one hundred participants in their thirteenth annual performance.  In England, defeating the fierce boar became a symbol of the Christ Child’s triumph over sin.  The lighting of the Yule Log, traditionally from the embers of the log burned the previous year, encourages rekindling love, promises for the coming year, and a “prayer for God’s keeping.”

     Familiar and well-loved Christmas songs such as “Deck the Halls,” “God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen” and “Angels We Have Heard on High” swelled as the audience joined the choir during the choruses.  Soloists will sing with poise and excellent pitch. All  will present their gifts and talents to the glory of God during the singing of “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” in a touching climax where they reached toward the baby Jesus who slept in his mother Mary’s arms showing that “God comes down to man and man reaches up to God.”

Twenty eleven marks the thirteenth annual presentation of the Boar’s Head Festival at Park U.P. Church. Hopefully we will continue for years to come.

May we all be reminded of the blessing of Christ coming to earth. May we rejoice in His loving sacrifice, His life, death, and resurrection so we may be forgiven of our sins and live with Him forever in Heaven. 

excertps from the Examiner.com, credit to Carol Hamillton  http://www.examiner.com/christian-living-in-pittsburgh/boar-s-head-festival-and-park-u-p-church-zelienople-pa#ixzz1f3n7JxeL
 
This Week | Print |  E-mail

This Week at Park U. P. Church January 30th

thru February 5th, 2012

Monday:   6:30 PM Budget & Finance Meeting, Church basement

Tuesday:  1-3:00 PM Knifty Knitters, Park Hall

7:00 PM Praise Band, Sanctuary

Wednesday: 6:30 AM Daybreak, Park Hall

5-6:00 PM Chime Choir, Church basement

6-7:00 PM Bell Choir, Sanctuary

6:30 PM The Quest, Park Hall

7:00 PM Chancel Choir, Sanctuary

Thursday: 10:00 AM Martha Circle, Park Hall

5:00 PM Christian Education Meeting, Park Hall

6:00 PM Dinner, Park Hall

6:30 PM Alpha Course Bible Study, Park Hall

Friday: 6:15 AM Breakfast with the King, Burger King

Saturday:         Jot down some God Sightings!

Sunday:  9:00 AM Contemporary Service, Pastor Paul Merrill

10:00 AM Sunday School for all ages

11:00 AM Traditional Service, Pastor Paul Merrill

“Souper” Bowl Sunday sponsored by the youth – “Coffee Hour” following

the 11:00 service.  We will be serving soup, salad, and dessert and we are

asking that all donate the money you would have spent on lunch elsewhere. 

This money will be donated to the local Meals on Wheels or Food Cupboard. 

Please come and enjoy and invite your friends!