18 • Upper Bucks Free Press • December 2022
Upper Bucks Area Places of Worship
Bible Baptist Church Meets at HIghland Park Dining Hall 415 Highland Park Road Sellersville, PA 18960 484-523-3333 www.biblebaptistcares.org Pastor: Tom Harris Bible Study Hour 9:30 am, Morning Worship 10:30 am, Services interpreted for the deaf Christ Church United Church of Christ 101 N. Main Street Trumbauersville, PA 18970 215-538-0142 christchurch10@verizon.net www.christchurchisalive.org Pastor: David Heckler A friendly, welcoming church. Change fear into hope, doubt into faith. God is calling. Join us at 11am Sunday. Halleleujah! Christ’s Lutheran Church 1 Luther Lane Trumbauersville, PA 18970 215-536-3193 christselca@verizon.net www.christslutheran.com 9:00am Worship, 10:15 Sunday School, Handicapped accessible, Family Friendly Church. Find us on Facebook! Church of the Incarnation 44 S. 8th Street Quakertown, PA 18951 215-538-3787 Ardores@verizon.net www.IncarnationQuakertown.org Pastor: Most Rev. Thomas J. Kleppinger Traditional worship, Biblical faith Sunday 10:30am, Holy Days as announced. Emmanuel Episcopal Church 560 S. Main Street Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-3040 emmanuelchurch11@yahoo.com www.emmanuelquakertown.org Sunday service at 10am, Visitors and new members always welcome! First United Church of Christ 151 S. Fourth Street Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-4447 info@firstUCC.net Facebook.com/FirstUCCQuakertown Senior Pastor: Rev. Jon C. Bauman Min. of Visitation & Pastoral Care: Elaine Ely Join us in person Sundays 9:15am Join us online at www.firstUCC.net. Community Lunch 2nd Saturday Drive through pickup 9am. Community Dinner 3rd Thursday 5:30pm (eat in).
Good News Church 424 Juniper Street Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-4393 Pastor: David Markey, Jr. An alternative to the ultra-contemporary Sunday Worship and Children’s Church 10:30 am, Wednesday Bible Study 7:30pm, World Evangelism Fellowship affiliate. Grace Bible Fellowship Church 1811 Old Bethlehem Pike N. Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-6096 grace@quakertownbfc.org www.quakertownbfc.org Sr. Pastor: Ron Kohl Sunday School for all ages. 10:10am Morning Worship, Small group meetings 2nd & 4th Sundays 6:30pm; Tues: Ladies Bible Study 9:45am; Wed: AWANA (2 yrs - 6th grade) & Teens for Christ 6:30pm, Adult prayer meeting 6:45pm Juniper Street Bible Church 317 Juniper Street Quakertown, PA 18951 267-373-9115 Pastor: Bob Stevenson www.juniperstreetbiblechurch.org Sunday worship 10am (also watch live on our Facebook page), Tuesday 7pm Bible study and prayer. We offer an invitation to you. Come and worship with us. Morning Star Fellowship 429 S. 9th Street Quakertown, PA 18951 215-529-6422 Pastors: John & Theresa Decker www.mstarqtown.org Sunday Services at 9 am and 11 am. Our cafe is open with free coffee. Children’s Ministries provided. Celebrate Recovery on Tuesdays at 7 pm. Student Ministries on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Weekly Connections. For updates and schedule changes, check our website. Palisades Community Bible Church 8730 Easton Road Revere, PA 18953 610-847-2637 secretary@pcbchurch.com www.pcbchurch.com Pastor: Rev. Corbin Seltzer, Jr. Sunday School (all ages) 9:30am, Sunday Morning Worship 10:30am, Tuesday Prayer Meeting 7:00pm, Men & Ladies’ Bible Studies - see website. “Walk by Faith.” II Cor. 5:7
CHOIR DIRECTOR NEEDED (Quarter-Time)
First United Church of Christ Quakertown, PA
Do you sing or ring? Join our Choirs!
Directing: Adult Choir Adult Bell Choir Children's Bell Choir Contact Pastor Jon for more information, or to apply: info@firstucc.net
Quakertown United Methodist Church 1875 Freier Road Quakertown, PA 18951 215-536-4992 barb@qumc.com www.qumc.com Pastor: Rev. Richard K. Brown II Sunday schedule: Worship 8:30 am, Sunday School 9:45 am, Worship 11 am Communion first Sunday of each month. St. Isidore Roman Catholic Church 2545 West Pumping Station Rd Quakertown, PA 18951 (215) 536-4389 Pastor: Rev. Kenneth C. Brabazon izzyparoff@comcast.net www.stisidores.org Sunday Masses - 5:00pm Saturday evenings; 7:00am, 9:00am, & 11:00am on Sunday mornings; 1:00pm in Spanish Sunday afternoons St. John’s Lutheran Church 4 South Main Street • PO Box 458 Richlandtown, PA 18955 215-536-5027 Admin@stjohnsrpa.org www.stjohnsrpa.org Pastor: Rev Dr. David A Genszler In person worship service Sunday at 9:30 am, Watch our Worship Service anytime on stjohnsrpa.org/sermon or on Facebook. Activity Center Rentals Open, Capacity 125, call 215-536-5027 to book. St. John’s Lutheran Church of Spinnerstown 1565 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Spinnerstown 18968 (GPS Quakertown 18951) 215-536-0734 stjohnsspinnerstown@gmail.com www.stjohnsofspinnerstown.org Worship Service: 9:30 a.m. Service also is live-streamed on Facebook (St. John’s Lutheran Church, Spinnerstown, PA) and video available on the church website.
St. John’s Lutheran Ridge Valley 910 Allentown Road, West Rockhill Twp 215-257-9643 stjohnsridgevalley910@gmail.com www.stjohnsridgevalley.com Pastor: Rev. Lauren Bruno 8:30am Traditional - 10:15am w/praise band. Grape juice & gluten-free wafers available. Adult Forum 9:40, Handicapped accessible. All invited and welcome to Share the Joy! St. John the Baptist Parish 4050 Durham Road, Ottsville 18942 610-847-5521 pastor@stjohnsottsville.org www.stjohnsottsville.org Pastor: Selvaraj Lucas, MSC St. John the Baptist, the first Catholic parish in Bucks County, has served the pastoral needs of Catholics since 1743. St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Applebachsville 837 Old Bethlehem Road, Quakertown 215-536-5789 stpaulsqtown@gmail.com www.stpaulsqtown.org Pastor: Rev. David Heckler We believe in sharing God’s love in joyful service. Come and see. All are welcome. St. Paul’s United Church of Christ 104 Green Street Sellersville, PA 18960 215-257-7268 Pastor: Rev. Trudy Irving secretary@stpaulsucc.net www.stpaulsucc.net Sunday Worship 10:15 in Sanctuary Springfield Mennonite Church 1905 Pleasant View Road Coopersburg PA 18036 267-999-1404 Pastor: Rev. Joseph Wames pastorjoe@springfieldmennonite.org www.springfieldmennonite.org Join us at 10:15a Sunday Mornings for a Blended Worship Service, Multi-generational, loving congregation. Biblically and Doctrinally Sound. Trinity Lutheran Church 102 N. Hellertown Avenue Quakertown, PA 18951 (215) 536.4345 www.trinityquakertown.org Pastor: Dayle Malloy 9 a.m. Traditional service, 11 a.m. Contemporary Service, 10: 15 a.m. Sunday School, Handicap accessible, Family Friendly, Dynamic Music Ministry, Living God’s Love for All
BY PASTOR DAVE HECKLER Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart! Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art: Thou my best thought, both by day and by night; waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord. Thou my soul’s shelter, and Thou my high tower; raise Thou me heav’nward, O Pow’r of my pow’r… It’s one of my favorite hymns and prayers— and during this Lenten and Easter season (not to mention this cultural season), it’s almost a theme. In many of our churches over the past six weeks, the stories of John’s gospel have challenged us repeatedly with how we see one another, and ultimately how we see and understand Jesus. Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the dark of night to meet Jesus, having seen God’s hand at work in Jesus’ miraculous signs, only to be told that no one can see God’s Reign without being born anew, from above— and ultimately, pointed to a cross likened to Moses’ healing bronze serpent lifted high amidst a deadly infestation of desert vipers. A Samaritan woman comes to a well at high noon hoping to avoid the scandal that others always seem to see in her, finds Jesus there, and ends up inviting her entire village to meet Him, saying, “Come and see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done! Could he be the Messiah?” (Would you be so excited to introduce someone to a person who’d exposed you so totally?) A man born blind is given new sight by Jesus (a gift that was surely traumatic before it was transcendent), and as the religious authorities interrogate him, we come to see that the newly sighted one sees more clearly than all the others who claim to know God well. Another man dead supposedly beyond redemption is raised to life by Jesus, who then calmly tells his sisters (perhaps a command for themselves and the crowd around them as much as for their brother) “Take off his grave clothes and let him go!” And ultimately, we
come to see this Jesus “high and lifted up, shining in the light of [His] glory” not on what we’d consider a throne, but on His cross, naked, bleeding, dying, and so utterly human, reduced to shreds by the shrapnel of our zeal for defending “righteousness” and yet exalted in His relentless forgiveness— a forgiveness that not even the grave can contain. All of which begs the question of us: How do we see? How do we see God most clearly: in the “awesomeness” of destructive and dominating power, or in the seeming fragility of self-giving, serving love? How do we see the people around us, especially those most vulnerable: as resource-sucking leeches constantly seeking what’s rightfully ours, or as those in whom Jesus comes to meet us in distressing disguise? How do we understand power and glory: as the gleam of those who take what they want and leave the “losers” in their wake, or as the life-giving strangeness of those who’ll go to the well and even to the grave, call the outcast by their own name, take them by the hand, and lead them from death to life? In the light of Jesus’ cross, do “winners make policy and losers go home”— or does God take His stand with the losers, take their brokenness upon Himself, and bid us walk with them into a new creation of resurrection life? So much depends on how we see. So many people struggle to find life, shrouded in the invisibility created by our own blindness. So as we enter once more into the season defined by the cross of Jesus and the defiance of shame and death, it’s never been more vital that we make our common prayer, “Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart.” Be Thou our vision, crucified and risen Lord— that for us all, there may be a new creation in You! Pastor Dave is pastor at St Paul’s Lutheran Church of Evangelical Applebachsville, Christ Church of the United Church of Christ, Trumbauersville, and Advocates for the Homeless of Upper Bucks (AHUB). He can be reached at prdaveheckler@gmail.com
Pennridge Christian Fellowship 720 Blooming Glen Rd, Blooming Glen 18911 215-257-7309 pastor@pennridgecf.org www.pennridgecf.org Pastor: Thomas Vargis Multicultural Charismatic church worshipping God in a casual, friendly atmosphere. Our service consists of song service, testimonies, and teaching of the word. Live Spanish translation & children’s service at 10:30 Sunday worship. Livestream: fb.com/pennridgechristianfellowship