We remember first that God is with us and will guide us through these stormy waters.  We remember second that we do not have to "go to church" in order to be the Church, and that our faith can be very much alive as we seek to love our neighbors! We may not be able to gather in body, but we can still gather in spirit  via technology every Sunday morning at 10am using the Zoom platform.  Our worship gatherings are warm, welcoming, and joyful!  Prayer, music, connecting and sharing, and listening for God's guidance in the weekly Scripture reading fill the screen.  On the first Sunday of each month, we celebrate our Communion with God and each other by using whatever bread and juice we can find in our homes. 

ALL are welcome to click on the following link or call in to access these gatherings:

Worship, Sunday 10AM: https://zoom.us/j/863779594?pwd=cGZ0TUxOSlZPY1hWSHEzVzZnVnhJUT09

                                                 Worship Meeting ID: 863-779-594

                                                 Worship Password: 001874

                                                 Dial-in Phone #: 1 929 436 2866

The Annual Meeting of the Membership of the Valley Forge Presbyterian Church will be held on Sunday, January 24, 2021 via Zoom at the conclusion of the Sunday worship service.  Information for joining the Zoom gathering are found just above. At this meeting, we will celebrate the good work of God and the Church in 2020, give thanks for God's guidance through a difficult year, rejoice in the ways we have grown more closely connected in the midst of this journey, and look forward to 2021 with hope and a renewed call to faithfulness!  The membership will be asked to receive the 2021 Budget as proposed by the Elders, which will include the approval of the pastor's Terms of Call for 2021.  This proposed 2021 Budget can be found in the 2020 Annual Report, which can be viewed and downloaded at the link below. 

The 2020 Annual Report will be referenced during the meeting. We humbly request that the membership review this report prior to the meeting.  Thank you, and thank God for the joy of our fellowship!

There are no sermons in our Sunday morning ZOOM gatherings, but Pastor Tim has been recording regular reflections on the experience of wandering together through the metaphorical wilderness of the pandemic season.  The latest is posted below, and all of the other episodes within this series of reflections can be found in the YouTube playlist embedded on the Sermons Library page.  You can also sign up for our VFPC Podcast including Wilderness Reflections and a few Pre-COVID sermons!

The Mission Agency of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has put out the challenge to all of its 10,000+ congregations to prayerfully consider joining a church-wide movement called "The Matthew 25 Initiative: A Bold Vision and Invitation." This initiative challenges every congregation to more deeply identify themselves as the sheep of Jesus' famous parable of sheep and goats from Matthew 25; that is, to claim that we are those gifted and called by God to love the least of our sisters and brothers in the world around us - those most in need of food, drink, welcome, shelter, clothing, care, and friendship. 

The initiative proposes to focus our discernment in three different areas in order to more fully grow into this faithful and sheeply identity:

(1) to grow in vitality as a church,

(2) to participate in the dismantling of structural racism, and

(3) to participate in alleviating systemic poverty.  

The VFPC Session spent many months discerning in response to this invitation, and was compelled unanimously at the June 2019 Session meeting to accept the challenge.  The Sent to Serve Committee is helping us grow in vitality as a congregration so that we are strengthened for our mission.  The Committee leads us in discerning how we might respond as a congregation with loving action to the least of our neighbors who are affected by the systemic social ills of racism and poverty. 

May God guide us into this season of intentional love for neighbor!  Learn more about the PC(USA) Matthew 25 Initiative.

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