FaithNotes...
Christian Radio keeps the faith going
88.9 FM WORD -- Contemporary Christian Rock Music
107.5 FM -- Praise/Gospel Music & Bible teaching
106.9 FM -- KLOVE -- Contemporary Christian Rock
Check out bibleproject.com They provide videos, podcasts, Bible study, online classes and more, all for free. They are “helping people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.” Check out their website!
Understand the Bible in ten minutes a day with plans for every book and guides for every chapter.
Through the Word is a nonprofit ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to read the Bible, understand it, apply it, and make it a habit. They provide simple yet powerful tools via the web and mobile apps that lead users on a journey to understand the entire Bible, one chapter at a time. TTW combines clear, balanced, and relatable teaching with direct accessibility. Their purpose is God’s calling: to make disciples, equip the saints, and preach the word. (Mat. 28:19, Eph. 4:12, 2 Tim, 4:2)
TTW is the cure for broken Bible habits and lost-in-Leviticus syndrome. Easy to start, easy to keep, easy to share. Go to throughtheword.org or download the app on your phone.
Please keep the stamps coming!
It’s a continuing need! Thank you for all your contributions. It really helps!
Do you shop at Giant?
If you do, you can buy Giant gift cards from the church. A $50 card costs you $50. How does the church make money? Well, when Faith purchases $1,000 worth of cards from Giant, they only charge us $950 (a 5% discount.) So, when we sell those cards to you, the church makes $50. It adds up…
Hatfield Flowers and Gifts (215) 822-1530) provides Faith with two lovely flower arrangements for our sanctuary each Sunday.
You can sign up to sponsor flowers, bulletins or a food basket. The flowers are $35, the bulletins are $10 and the food basket is $25.
You can dedicate any one of these things to someone special, to celebrate a birthday or in memory of a loved one. You may take the flowers home, or they will be given to an ill or homebound member. The $10 for the bulletins is to help cover the cost of making the bulletins and the $25 for the food basket is money donated to “Manna on Main Street” to help feed those in the North Penn area.
To sign up for a particular Sunday either sign up on the chart on the Foyer bulletin board or call Janet in the church office (215) 368-0240.
Faith’s Transportation Initiative
If you need a ride to church on Sunday or you are interested in providing a ride to church to someone, please contact Dale Foster.
We currently receive donations of WAWA Food through the Food Donation Connection. We may receive anything from sizzlies, to breakfast burritos, to lunch sandwiches, to muffins, to sweet treats, to hot dogs...anything they didn’t sell the day before and have now frozen. If you are in need of some supplemental food or know of someone who is, please let either Janet Hill in the church office or Dale Foster know and we will make sure you receive some Wawa food.
Clothing Container Fundraising Program
Church Family, we now have a clothing donation box behind the church. It is located near the driveway to the Pine Tree Ridge development. The church will receive $50 per month for having the bin there. So please clean out your closets and fill up the bin…and tell your friends and family about it too. Thank you!
Help your community place their unwanted/gently used clothing, shoes, apparel & linens in our clothing collection containers. This saves our landfills and gives back to low-income families in need! In return, this program raises funds for local non-profits and organizations in our communities. Currently, they help raise funds for the American Cancer Fund, Rotary International, Eden Autism, and many other local non-profits.
They do not accept: Any merchandise that has holes, rips, stains, mold or has an odor and is wet.
https://clothingshoedrive.com/clothingcontainers/
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Gail Achilles, Anna Friedrich and Kate Waldman will be available on a rotating schedule each Sunday throughout the Summer (June 7 thru August 30) during 9:30 am Worship Service - same length of time as our traditional Sunday school. We will plan to do an activity/lesson with the children in our Fellowship Hall. We will resume traditional Sunday School on “Rally Day” September 13, 2026, during 9:30 am Worship Service after the children’s sermon and return for the rite of Holy Communion. Parents, grandparents and guardians, thank you for glorifying our God by bringing your children to learn His Word and His Good Works. (Note: Older youth ages 12 to 17 are welcome to serve as Youth Volunteers at Sunday School.)
Any comments or questions, please see Gail Achilles, Christian Education Chair
As scripture teaches, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
Monday Night Bible Study will be taking a break for the summer months and resume their next study (to be determined) on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 7 pm on zoom.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Parents’ Night Out (PNO) – Youth Fellowship (YF)
PNO-YF will be taking a break for July and August because of summer vacations. Our next meeting will be on Friday, September 18th.
Where the Word of Jesus is spoken, heard, and lived
Youth Ministry
(ages 12-17)
Youth Ministry will be taking a break for July and August because of summer vacations. Our next meeting will be on Sunday, September 20th.
We hope to see you in September!
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, NLT
Lord, when did we see you...?
The purpose of the Social Ministry Team is to follow Jesus' commandment to love one another as he loved us. To offer opportunities to our congregation to be good and faithful servants. To share the love and truth of Jesus Christ and to offer hope to all God's children by giving of our time, our money and ourselves to our church, our community, and the world.
August Social Ministry Project:
On Tuesday September 15, Faith Lutheran Church will be serving a meal at the Feast Incarnate in Philadelphia. We are going to repeat the same menu that we served in May. During the month of August, we will be collecting food items again. We will be collecting Idahoan Boxed Instant Potatoes, Frozen mixed vegetables, cans or jars of beef gravy, Duncan Hines Yellow cake mix, honey, chopped walnuts and butter. Look for the poster board in the foyer. We still have money from the Scrapbook yard sale that will be used to purchase the meatloaf mix. Look for sign-up sheets in August for making meatloaves and honey walnut cate as well as serving the meal itself. Questions: Debbie Hollenbach.
“Noisy Can” Offering – We continue to collect change for 141 Impact, every third Sunday,
which will be August 16, 2026, this month
A noisy coin offering is a worship service collection where members donate loose change to a specific cause. The collection is called "noisy" because the coins make a clanging sound as they are placed in the offering bucket.
On the third Sunday of each month, you will be asked by our Sunday School children to donate your “loose change” in our collection can for 141 Impact. The more noise the better. Of course, paper money is fine too. This is our continuing Christian love to serve others.
This collection will continue from January through November. In December, the Social Ministry team will decide which request from 141 Impact’s list of needs we will send the money to.
For January - June, God’s Global Barnyard “noisy coin collection” has received a total of $215.
In Christ, Sharon Hood & Debbie Hollenbach, Co-Chairs
The “Golden Girls of Faith” (Golden Men are welcome too!) which usually meet once a month for lunch, fellowship and prayer at a local restaurant will be taking a break for the months of July and August. They will meet again on the first Wednesday of September, which will be September 2, 2026. For more information or if you need a ride, please talk to Anna Friedrich. All are welcome!
In Memory…
Nathan Bailey
December 1, 1980 – July 10,2026
Please keep Nate’s family and friends in your prayers!
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
If you shop at Redner’s, please save your receipts. Anna Friedrich turns them in and the church receives a monetary donation from Redner’s. All you need to do is either bring your receipts to church. Thank you to those who bring in their receipts and to Anna who does the paperwork to receive this donation! Please note that when bringing in your receipts we need the entire receipt. Please do not tear off the bottom. Redner’s will not accept the receipt if the bottom is torn off.
Thank you from Jerusalem Lutheran Church
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ at Faith Lutheran:
Thank you so much for your generous gift of $500 to Jerusalem’s Vacation Bible School program. We are incredibly grateful for your partnership in ministry.
In a world where many causes are competing for your attention, your choice to support our program is deeply appreciated. Your gift allows us to create a safe, engaging, and fun learning environment where children can grow in faith and fellowship.
Thank you again for your continued support of Jerusalem Lutheran. We look forward to finding more meaningful ways to serve together in the future.
With gratitude and blessings,
Scott A. Godshall, Vacation Bible School Director
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24, NLT
Technology Volunteers
We are looking for a few volunteers who are willing to learn and help with the technology behind our virtual and in-person worship services. Each week we host our Zoom meeting for worship as well as running the video cameras and sound system in the sanctuary. Over the past few years we have refined this process and it’s running very smoothly now. But it’s being managed by the same few people every week and we are looking to train others to share in this responsibility. Please contact Adam Feldman or Pastor Ethan, if you are interested.
We are in need of Greeters (standing at the door and welcoming people as they come in) and Lectors (reading the lessons and psalm.) If you would like to volunteer or would like more information, please see Anna Friedrich.
We are also in need of Communion Assistants. Please see Rich Hollenbach if you are interested in serving as a worship assistant. Training will be provided.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 1:3)
TITHELY
As of January 1, 2026 we are now using Tithe.ly as our e-giving company. We will no longer be using Vanco. The finance team has decided that Tithely has more knowledge of working with churches and will be a better fit for Faith.
The new link to donate is: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=f170c342-0478-4214-a5d6-a09c8c86a221
You can also access this link through the “E-giving” tab on our website www.faithmontgomeryville.org
If you have any questions or need any help, please reach out to me via email or call or text my cell phone 215-285-6428.
Thank you for continually supporting Faith Lutheran Church financially!
Christian Radio keeps the faith going
88.9 FM WORD -- Contemporary Christian Rock Music
107.5 FM -- Praise/Gospel Music & Bible teaching
106.9 FM -- KLOVE -- Contemporary Christian Rock
Check out bibleproject.com They provide videos, podcasts, Bible study, online classes and more, all for free. They are “helping people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.” Check out their website!
Understand the Bible in ten minutes a day with plans for every book and guides for every chapter.
Through the Word is a nonprofit ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to read the Bible, understand it, apply it, and make it a habit. They provide simple yet powerful tools via the web and mobile apps that lead users on a journey to understand the entire Bible, one chapter at a time. TTW combines clear, balanced, and relatable teaching with direct accessibility. Their purpose is God’s calling: to make disciples, equip the saints, and preach the word. (Mat. 28:19, Eph. 4:12, 2 Tim, 4:2)
TTW is the cure for broken Bible habits and lost-in-Leviticus syndrome. Easy to start, easy to keep, easy to share. Go to throughtheword.org or download the app on your phone.
Please keep the stamps coming!
It’s a continuing need! Thank you for all your contributions. It really helps!
Do you shop at Giant?
If you do, you can buy Giant gift cards from the church. A $50 card costs you $50. How does the church make money? Well, when Faith purchases $1,000 worth of cards from Giant, they only charge us $950 (a 5% discount.) So, when we sell those cards to you, the church makes $50. It adds up…
Hatfield Flowers and Gifts (215) 822-1530) provides Faith with two lovely flower arrangements for our sanctuary each Sunday.
You can sign up to sponsor flowers, bulletins or a food basket. The flowers are $35, the bulletins are $10 and the food basket is $25.
You can dedicate any one of these things to someone special, to celebrate a birthday or in memory of a loved one. You may take the flowers home, or they will be given to an ill or homebound member. The $10 for the bulletins is to help cover the cost of making the bulletins and the $25 for the food basket is money donated to “Manna on Main Street” to help feed those in the North Penn area.
To sign up for a particular Sunday either sign up on the chart on the Foyer bulletin board or call Janet in the church office (215) 368-0240.
Faith’s Transportation Initiative
If you need a ride to church on Sunday or you are interested in providing a ride to church to someone, please contact Dale Foster.
We currently receive donations of WAWA Food through the Food Donation Connection. We may receive anything from sizzlies, to breakfast burritos, to lunch sandwiches, to muffins, to sweet treats, to hot dogs...anything they didn’t sell the day before and have now frozen. If you are in need of some supplemental food or know of someone who is, please let either Janet Hill in the church office or Dale Foster know and we will make sure you receive some Wawa food.
Clothing Container Fundraising Program
Church Family, we now have a clothing donation box behind the church. It is located near the driveway to the Pine Tree Ridge development. The church will receive $50 per month for having the bin there. So please clean out your closets and fill up the bin…and tell your friends and family about it too. Thank you!
Help your community place their unwanted/gently used clothing, shoes, apparel & linens in our clothing collection containers. This saves our landfills and gives back to low-income families in need! In return, this program raises funds for local non-profits and organizations in our communities. Currently, they help raise funds for the American Cancer Fund, Rotary International, Eden Autism, and many other local non-profits.
They do not accept: Any merchandise that has holes, rips, stains, mold or has an odor and is wet.
https://clothingshoedrive.com/clothingcontainers/
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Gail Achilles, Anna Friedrich and Kate Waldman will be available on a rotating schedule each Sunday throughout the Summer (June 7 thru August 30) during 9:30 am Worship Service - same length of time as our traditional Sunday school. We will plan to do an activity/lesson with the children in our Fellowship Hall. We will resume traditional Sunday School on “Rally Day” September 13, 2026, during 9:30 am Worship Service after the children’s sermon and return for the rite of Holy Communion. Parents, grandparents and guardians, thank you for glorifying our God by bringing your children to learn His Word and His Good Works. (Note: Older youth ages 12 to 17 are welcome to serve as Youth Volunteers at Sunday School.)
Any comments or questions, please see Gail Achilles, Christian Education Chair
As scripture teaches, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
Monday Night Bible Study will be taking a break for the summer months and resume their next study (to be determined) on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 7 pm on zoom.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Parents’ Night Out (PNO) – Youth Fellowship (YF)
PNO-YF will be taking a break for July and August because of summer vacations. Our next meeting will be on Friday, September 18th.
Where the Word of Jesus is spoken, heard, and lived
Youth Ministry
(ages 12-17)
Youth Ministry will be taking a break for July and August because of summer vacations. Our next meeting will be on Sunday, September 20th.
We hope to see you in September!
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, NLT
Lord, when did we see you...?
The purpose of the Social Ministry Team is to follow Jesus' commandment to love one another as he loved us. To offer opportunities to our congregation to be good and faithful servants. To share the love and truth of Jesus Christ and to offer hope to all God's children by giving of our time, our money and ourselves to our church, our community, and the world.
August Social Ministry Project:
On Tuesday September 15, Faith Lutheran Church will be serving a meal at the Feast Incarnate in Philadelphia. We are going to repeat the same menu that we served in May. During the month of August, we will be collecting food items again. We will be collecting Idahoan Boxed Instant Potatoes, Frozen mixed vegetables, cans or jars of beef gravy, Duncan Hines Yellow cake mix, honey, chopped walnuts and butter. Look for the poster board in the foyer. We still have money from the Scrapbook yard sale that will be used to purchase the meatloaf mix. Look for sign-up sheets in August for making meatloaves and honey walnut cate as well as serving the meal itself. Questions: Debbie Hollenbach.
“Noisy Can” Offering – We continue to collect change for 141 Impact, every third Sunday,
which will be August 16, 2026, this month
A noisy coin offering is a worship service collection where members donate loose change to a specific cause. The collection is called "noisy" because the coins make a clanging sound as they are placed in the offering bucket.
On the third Sunday of each month, you will be asked by our Sunday School children to donate your “loose change” in our collection can for 141 Impact. The more noise the better. Of course, paper money is fine too. This is our continuing Christian love to serve others.
This collection will continue from January through November. In December, the Social Ministry team will decide which request from 141 Impact’s list of needs we will send the money to.
For January - June, God’s Global Barnyard “noisy coin collection” has received a total of $215.
In Christ, Sharon Hood & Debbie Hollenbach, Co-Chairs
The “Golden Girls of Faith” (Golden Men are welcome too!) which usually meet once a month for lunch, fellowship and prayer at a local restaurant will be taking a break for the months of July and August. They will meet again on the first Wednesday of September, which will be September 2, 2026. For more information or if you need a ride, please talk to Anna Friedrich. All are welcome!
In Memory…
Nathan Bailey
December 1, 1980 – July 10,2026
Please keep Nate’s family and friends in your prayers!
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
If you shop at Redner’s, please save your receipts. Anna Friedrich turns them in and the church receives a monetary donation from Redner’s. All you need to do is either bring your receipts to church. Thank you to those who bring in their receipts and to Anna who does the paperwork to receive this donation! Please note that when bringing in your receipts we need the entire receipt. Please do not tear off the bottom. Redner’s will not accept the receipt if the bottom is torn off.
Thank you from Jerusalem Lutheran Church
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ at Faith Lutheran:
Thank you so much for your generous gift of $500 to Jerusalem’s Vacation Bible School program. We are incredibly grateful for your partnership in ministry.
In a world where many causes are competing for your attention, your choice to support our program is deeply appreciated. Your gift allows us to create a safe, engaging, and fun learning environment where children can grow in faith and fellowship.
Thank you again for your continued support of Jerusalem Lutheran. We look forward to finding more meaningful ways to serve together in the future.
With gratitude and blessings,
Scott A. Godshall, Vacation Bible School Director
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24, NLT
Technology Volunteers
We are looking for a few volunteers who are willing to learn and help with the technology behind our virtual and in-person worship services. Each week we host our Zoom meeting for worship as well as running the video cameras and sound system in the sanctuary. Over the past few years we have refined this process and it’s running very smoothly now. But it’s being managed by the same few people every week and we are looking to train others to share in this responsibility. Please contact Adam Feldman or Pastor Ethan, if you are interested.
We are in need of Greeters (standing at the door and welcoming people as they come in) and Lectors (reading the lessons and psalm.) If you would like to volunteer or would like more information, please see Anna Friedrich.
We are also in need of Communion Assistants. Please see Rich Hollenbach if you are interested in serving as a worship assistant. Training will be provided.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 1:3)
TITHELY
As of January 1, 2026 we are now using Tithe.ly as our e-giving company. We will no longer be using Vanco. The finance team has decided that Tithely has more knowledge of working with churches and will be a better fit for Faith.
The new link to donate is: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=f170c342-0478-4214-a5d6-a09c8c86a221
You can also access this link through the “E-giving” tab on our website www.faithmontgomeryville.org
If you have any questions or need any help, please reach out to me via email or call or text my cell phone 215-285-6428.
Thank you for continually supporting Faith Lutheran Church financially!
