PATRIOTIC PIPE ORGAN RECITAL
You are invited to a Patriotic Pipe Organ Recital at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle on July 6, 2014, 3:00PM by Robert McConnell and Hand Bells by Sue Garton of East Main Church, Grove City Pa., also other musicians to be announced.
Cost is $10.00 each, all proceeds to the organ restoration fund.
VBS
Questions of the day: Do you love God and enjoy being with kids? Are you willing to serve on a mission field? Are you willing to commit to one week of serving the families of our community?
Answer: If you said yes then God has fully equipped you to serve His
children this year during VBS July 14-18 from 6:00-8:30pm.
Contact Stacy Cosgrove or Cheri Ponziani today!
Please join us the week of July 14-18 for an adult Bible study that will run during VBS. 6-8:30 pm each night.
INGRID RENEAU WALLS
You are cordially invited to enjoy an evening of information and fellowship with Ingrid Reneau Walls at the Bessemer Presbyterian Church on Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 6:30PM.
Ingrid previously served in South Sudan, now serving at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture in Ghana.
Please join us for an ice cream social after the program.
PRAISE FEST!
Join us for an evening of worship and praise at the downtown Concert Series Praise Fest! Friday, July 18, 2014 from 6:00PM-9:00PM
Bring your own chair or blanket and enjoy the faith filled music.
NURSE MANAGER WANTED
Alpha Omega Center is in need of a Nurse Manager to work in both our Slippery Rock and New Castle offices. We are looking for a Registered Nurse to fill a part time paid position who has a strong commitment to Christ, a passion for the unborn and their mothers, and the ability to organize and direct volunteer staff. Please contact Sarah at 724-794-3325 ext. 1401 or email for more information.
MOHAWK AREA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The Officers of the Mohawk Area Alumni Association have met to discuss the up and coming 6th reunion to be held on Saturday,
August 2, 2014 at 6:30PM in the Mohawk High School Cafeteria.
The Class of 1963 will be in charge of Registration and the Class of 1965 will be in charge of the Refreshments. The Class of 1964 will be the Honorees.
MT JACKSON 200TH CELEBRATION
Mark your calendars -- next summer, August 8, 2015, is the date for the Mt. Jackson 200th Celebration. The committee for the up-date and printing of the new history book has been meeting monthly at the North Beaver Twp. Building. We would like to have your input on family histories, past and present businesses, stories of interest relating to Mt. Jackson and the surrounding area. Anything from the last printing in 1965 to the present would also be greatly appreciated. Please mail your written information to Howard Strohecker, 200 Brewster Rd., New Castle, PA 16102, or e-mail to . The deadline for these articles is September 1, 2014. Anyone interested and willing to help with the history book or planning for the celebration is more than welcome. There are committees needed to plan the different activities for August 8, 2015. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
MARK YOUR CALENDER
Women's Retreat - September 19-20 at Das Dutch Village Inn,
Columbiana, OH. Information and Registrations on back table and being accepted NOW!
IT'S A GIRL!!!!
Tylee Jayne Davis
Born: May 31, 2014
7 pounds 4 ounces 19.5 inches long
Parents: Rodney & Kelly Davis
Big Brother: Turk
Big Sisters: Tori & Tatum
Grandparents: Gary & Diane Harman
Rod & Julie Davis
Susan Carfano
Great Grandparents: Lloyd & Joan Raney
Virginia Harman
Bob & Thelma Shafer
PROJECT H.O.P.E.
Help restock the H.O.P.E. food bank for the month of
JULY
PASTA & SAUCE
MACARONI & CHEESE, RICE
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
CANNED FRUIT
Monetary donations are also accepted. Make checks payable to Project H.O.P.E.
A PRAYER FOR PATIENCE
God, teach me to be patient--
Teach me to go slow--
Teach me how to "wait on You"
When my way I do not know...
Teach me sweet forbearance
When things do not go right
So I remain unruffled
When others grow uptight..
Teach me how to quiet
My racing, rising heart
So I may hear the answer
You are trying to impart...
Teach me to let go, dear god,
And pray undisturbed until
My heat is filled with inner peace
And I learn to know Your will!
Helen Steiner Rice
The SACRAMET OF THE LORD'S SUPPER will be observed during Joint Worship at 11:00AM on August 10. Sunday School will be at 9:45AM.
There is NO 8:30 service that day.
Bethel Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Enon Valley, PA is seeking a part-time Worship Music Leader (approximately 10 hours per week). Qualifications: Professing Christian with a mature faith, in agreement with Reformed Theology; musical training (preferably a music degree); experience with organizing a choir, instrumental ensembles, and worship teams of various ages. The Music Leader will have a strong knowledge of both the classic hymns of faith and contemporary hymns/songs for worship. This person knows how to worship and help draw others into the presence of the Lord. The salary range is dependent on experience, education, and abilities. Interested candidates should submit a resume to the Music Search Committee at .
New in Library June 2014
July/August Newsletter This & That Trivia
Sending packages via the U.S. Parcel Post Service began on January 1, 1913. Regulations stated that packages could not weigh more than 50 pounds but did not necessarily preclude the sending of children
According to the National Postal Museum: "One of the oddest parcel post packages ever sent was "mailed" from Grangeville to Lewiston, Idaho, on February 19, 1914. The 48½-pound package was just short of the 50-pound limit. The name of the package was May Pierstorff, four years old.
"May's parents decided to send their daughter for a visit with her grandparents, but were reluctant to pay the train fare. Noticing that there were no provisions in the parcel post regulations specifically concerning sending a person through the mails, they decided to "mail" their daughter. The postage, 53-cents in parcel post stamps, was attached to May's coat. This little girl traveled the entire distance to Lewiston in the train's mail compartment and was delivered to her grandmother's home by the mail clerk on duty, Leonard Mochel."
(Source ~ Smithsonian National Postal Museum) :http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/2b2f_parcel.html
Do you remember licking a stamp. That all changed in 1974 when the first self-adhesive stamp was issued.
This picture was meant as a humorous image to the end of such practice. (Picture courtesy of the Smithsonian Institute)
As any collector knows value of an item is- condition, condition, condition. In Bethel History Archives is an envelope mailed from Philadelphia to Rev. Carl Person dated 9/12/1917. On it is a 2¢ G. Washington stamp. Worth about .75¢.
The first U.S official postage stamp was issued in 1847 with 5¢ and 10¢ stamps depicting Ben Franklin and George Washington.
Value of a 5¢ Benjamin Franklin used stamp is worth about $700. Unused about $7,000
December of 2011 a 10¢ George Washington stamp sold at auction for $120,000.
Forever “Liberty Bell” stamp was issued March 26, 2007 and was marked “USA first-class forever.
A rare British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta” stamp sold for$9.5 million at auction 6/17/2014. (Source Washington Post June 18, 2014)
Great Britain issued the first prepaid stamp. A 1-penny portrait of Queen Victoria known as the “Penny Black”, which eliminated payment by the recipient. (Source U.S. Postal Museum)
Declaration of Independence
Do you think you would ever find an original document of the Declaration of Independence? Well it happened to a gentleman from Philadelphia in 1989.
Here’s the rest of the story ~ while at a flea market in Adamstown, Pa he bought an old painting for $4.00. He didn’t care much for the painting but wanted the frame. While trying to remove the painting the frame fell apart in his hands. A folded document fell out. A friend who was a Civil War collector suggested he get it looked at. It could be a rare Dunlap broadside. Yes it was an original Dunlap broadside, printed by John Dunlap on July 5, 1776 to carry news of America’s independence to the 13 colonies. It was sold by Sotheby’s on June 4, 1991 for $7.4 million. (Source-NY Times archives 6/30/2000)
Another copy was discovered in the National Archives in the British Museum. That brought the total of known surviving copies of the declaration to 26. It was hidden among
correspondence from American colonist that had been intercepted by the British in the 18th century. Mel Hide, a spokeswoman from the
National Archives said the print will not be sold. “We will protect and preserve this copy. She did not rule out a trip across the Atlantic. The Americans are very excited by it. We often loan out our documents and I’m sure if an American institution wanted to borrow it, we would consider lending it to them”.
Edward Hampshire, at the National Archives, said: “This is an incredibly exciting find. The declaration of Independence is effectively America’s birth certificate, making it one of the seminal documents in world history. It is likely that only around 200 of these were ever printed, so uncovering a new one nearly 250 years later is extremely rare, especially one in such good condition.” Prints made by John Dunlap were delivered to the founders early on the morning 5 July 1776. (Source – The Guardian Newspaper of UK 7/2/2009.)
July 8, 1776 ~ a 2,000 pound copper-an tin bell now known as the “Liberty Bell” rings from the tower of the Pennsylvania State House (Now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia summoning all to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
FROM BETHEL LIGHT NEWSLETTER ~ OCTOBER 1975
I believe in America. I believe it became great because of its faith in God,
Its hope for independence and its love for freedom.”
I am grateful for America’s glorious past; I am awed by its unbelievable present;
I am confident of its limitless future.
I am not ashamed to take my hat off and to stand at attention when Old Glory passes by.
I do not apologize for the lump in my throat when I repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
I am not embarrassed by the tears in my eyes when I hear “the Star-Spangled Banner,”
Like millions of American, I want a free choice, not a free handout.
I prefer an opportunity to prove my abilities on the job
Rather than a license to demonstrate my frustrations in the street.
I am an old-fashioned American with a new found determination
to do my part to make democracy work.
--William Arthur Ward
Local News of the Past
June 17, 1972 by Bart Richards Pg. 18 (excerpt from article) -In New Castle there were leaders like Joseph S.White and Dr. Robert Audley Browne who did more than just talk. The Underground Railway” was established. It was a system of hiding places from the Mason-Dixon Line to Canada. Citizens who were in the movement would shelter escaping slaves during the day and aid them on to the next station of the Underground Railway at night. White was a prominent citizen in the days before and after the Civil War. He had a large home on N. Jefferson St above Grant St and this was an important Underground Railway station. White had a tunnel dug under Jefferson St. leading from his cellar, and when escaping slaves arrived at his home in the early morning he hid them in the tunnel until dark, and then helped them on to the station at Indian Run in Mercer County. The tunnel is undoubtedly under N. Jefferson St. yet for not so many years ago, when the old White home was being razed, a curious newspaper man took a look at it. There were other Underground stations in Lawrence; Mount Jackson had one, Rose
Point had one and Pulaski had one.
It required high courage and dedication to be a member of the Underground for aiding a slave to escape was an offense and slave owners were permitted to come into the North and if they found their slaves to take them back……Out of a population of little more than 21,000 over 4,000 young men of the county were in the service. (Note: the home of Joseph White was located where Pizza Hut is now located. Read more about Browne in last month’s newsletter)
Pastor’s Page ~ Bethel Lite August 1975
Rev. James Thomson (1974-1977)
“What is Shining?”
“Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16
The flag-waving, bugle-blowing, mouth-overflowing Christian. We have all know people we thought had gone to an extreme in their public witnessing for our Lord. They seemed to be over-zealous, even becoming obnoxious, to the point where they were actually harming the cause of Jesus Christ.
But then on the other hand, let us take a look at you and me. We may call these enthusiastic witnesses extremists. But are we also extremists? Have we gone to the opposite extreme of being so silent about our Lord that we also are harming His cause?
There was a popular song out last month by John Denver entitled “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”. The message seemed to be this: do your work, live a good life, be faithful to God, be a good husband and father. And then thank God that everything was fine and you were living up to all that could be expected of anyone.
Here is the trouble with the Church of Jesus Christ in our nation. Here is probably a main trouble with the “Christian” lives that you and I are living. When other people look at our lives is all they see a good, sound, moral, religious life? Or are we positive and open and affirmative to give the credit to Jesus Christ. Are we about our main business of letting the Holy Spirit so fill and control our lives that men truly do see our good deeds? But then we do not just stop there. As Matt. 5:16 says, the whole point of our good deeds is so that we may testify to the person of Jesus Christ—that He may shine through, that people may see that He is relevant to our lives and theirs.