Stockton Presbyterian Church

Did you know that April is National Poetry month?

On Wednesday April 7th, the church will be hosting a Poetry Reading Night.  Our guest will be poet Ray Brown.  The reading will take place from 7 to 7:45, with a time of coffee and dessert afterward.  The event is free and open to the public.

A brief biography of Ray Brown from the newversenews.blogspot.com

Ray Brown lives in Frenchtown, NJ. His first collection of poems, I Have His Letters Still, will be published in June. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, his poetry has appeared in the 13th Annual Poetry Ink Chapbook, Moonstone Publishing, Philadelphia; The Star-Ledger of Newark; NJ Lawyer Magazine; and at PoetsSpeak.com. He received a NJ Poetry Society 2009 Recognition Award, and will be published in upcoming volumes of The Edison Literary Review, The Big Hammer, FreeXpresSion, The River Poets Journal, and The River. Three of his poems have been published by The New Verse News.

L.I.G.H.T. House (Learning Is Good, Helpful and Team-based) bible Study is a once a month gathering for Adults during the Education Hour.

We meet from 10am to 10:40am in the Woolverton Room.  Our next meeting is Sunday March 21st, where we will be studying Philippians 4.

In April, we will start a study on the Paul’s Letter to the Colossians.

All are welcome.  This is a great opportunity for parents to nurture their spiritual life while children are in Sunday School.

As Holy Week approaches, the church is partnering with local congregations to offer worship to God.

Mt. Airy Presbyterian will be offering a Maunday Thursday service on April 1st. 

Stockton will be providing a Good Friday service at 7pm on April 2nd at 7pm.

Mt. Airy, Stockton, Old Rocks Community Church and the Wesleyan Church in Stockton will partner to offer a Easter Sunrise service at Dilts Farm Park in Sergeanstville on Easter morning.

We will offer our traditional 11am worship service on Easter Sunday.

The Deacons raised $175 to go to local mission during their recent and highly successful Shrove Tuesday Pancake Breakfast. 

At their meeting this past Sunday, the Deacons voted to donate the $175 in memory of MacKenzie Wright to CURE Foundation.  MacKenzie’s young body succumbed to cancer last week, but her spirit has left its mark upon many many people. 

Also, in 2009, the church started an international mission project of raising money for mosquito net missions in Africa, through a parishioner’s connection with Doane University in Nebraska.  The church is sending $830 that it had collected for The Africa Mosquito Net Project.  Dr. Brad Elder, assistant professor of Biology at the university spends time in Africa enabling residents to create microbusinesses and make their own life-saving mosquito nets.