Announcements

"Salvage Our Steeple" - Kate Nice and some of the members of her school choir presented a benefit concert at our church on June 1. Over $1800 was donated to the restoration fund. Below are two pictures from the restoration.

Our church has entered a promotion with the Abitibi Paper Retriever Recycling Program. Starting in May through August, if we increase our recycling effort by 20 to 25% we will earn a $250 donation; an increase of 25% or more would be $500. Please help us meet this goal. More information is located at the botton of this page.

Mark you calendar for our upcoming fundraisers.

The 131^st Oyster Picnic - Saturday, September 6

Fall Ham & Roast Beef Dinner - Saturday, October 11

The Bandstand - Ken Dietterich and his sons have built much needed storage room behind the bandstand. They have poured a concrete slab, boxed in the space, and installed three large roll-up doors. To the right is an example of an ad for The Reporter, to be included their special advertising booklet for churches: (It is also available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format) Scheduling Book - on the bench beneath the bulletin board is a maroon colored scheduling book. If your committee, group, or organization is planning to have a meeting at the church, please write it in the book in the appropriate date boxes. This will help us avoid scheduling conflicts. 2008 Calendars with historic photos of our church are available for $8. To the right are some excerpts from March, June, and September. Also available are copies of a pictorial history of our town, Images of Upper Salford by John Ruth for $20 Knitting group meets on Tuesday evenings at 7 PM. Come and learn to knit, or if you are experienced knitter, come and enjoy the fellowship. Fresh Bread! - Copies of Our Daily Bread are available in the back of the church. We urge members and visitors to use this free daily devotional booklet. Choir Practice is at 9AM each Sunday.  Anyone who would like to sing in the choir is welcome to attend. Hometowne Collectibles of Bowmansville, PA. has produced a wooden cutout of our historic church building which makes a unique and treasured memento. Many churches and other historic buildings from all around the country are part of this popular series. Packaged nicely in a clear plastic gift box, Hometowne Collectibles make an especially nice gift. You will find them in a box on an end table in the downstairs of the church. They are priced at $10.00 each. Checks can simply be placed in the offering and designated “For Hometowne Collectibles.”

Flowers – You can purchase alter flowers as a gift for a birthday or anniversary, or as a memorial of a loved one. The two bouquets on the alter are $20, and a vase on the piano is $10.

Redner's Supermarkets will give 1% of total amount you spend on groceries as a donation to our church. Please register with Redner's and get a card designating Old Goshenhoppen to receive your credit. Save your register tapes and leave them with the church secretary on her desk.

Paper Recycling - We have a Paper Retriever recycling bin in our parking lot for paper recycling.

What can be put in the bin? – Catalogs, Magazines, Newspapers, Junk Mail, Office Paper, Fax Paper, Shredded Paper Notebooks, Folders. Please NO phonebooks; NO CARDBOARD; NO cereal boxes, chipboard, milk cartons, soda cartons, or food cartons of any kind - We cannot recycle those items to make newsprint.

Abitibi - Consolidated is the largest recycler of paper in North America. They are approaching 20,000 containers nationwide and have over 650 containers in the Philadelphia area. Their program is unique because they offer a rebate to our church every month from the paper we collect.

Every day 66 million newspapers are purchased in the United States and 44 million are thrown away and not recycled. That is a complete waste of valuable resources. Every piece of paper that is placed in our container is sent to a 100% Paper Recycling Mill and is turned into new paper. The paper is then sent to newspaper manufacturers where it is printed and distributed back to the public. After the public reads the paper, magazines, catalogs, etc. they place the papers in the Paper Retriever and the process starts all over again. The paper you place in the container today comes back to you as new newspaper in about 2 weeks.

1 of every 3 newspapers manufactured in North America is printed on Abitibi paper. In fact every time a container is filled with paper it saves 17 trees from being cut down. If your container fills once a week, your organization will save 884 trees per year. What a great way to do your part to help the environment.

Becoming a "Good Steward" to the environment is critical as landfills continue to fill with paper that can be recycled. In fact 40% of landfill space is actually filled with good paper that should be recycled.