Warner's VBS is happening this week, June 27-July 1, 9:00 to Noon. The theme for this year is "Come to God's Table Where All Will Be Fed". During the week, along with Bible lessons, music, recreation, and snack, the children will be preparing to present the musical, Stone Soup as the culminating activity on Friday.

VBS Staff 2016

Registration/Mission Collection: Charity Singletary, Janet Tennent

Opening/Closing: Kirby Lawrence Hill, Peter Smeallie, Jan Moody

Pre-School: Donna McNeil, Hannah Cope, Simon Winter,

Casey Fomundam

Elementary: Carol Andresen, Lena Aspiras, Ben Cope,

Emmanuel Fomundam

Art/Garden: June Eakin, Susan Bresee, Anne-Fleur Winter,

Sophie de Jesus, Charlotte Adams

Music: Peter Smeallie, Nancy Lawrence Hill,

Kyle Smeallie, Charlotte Cook

Recreation: Calvin McGlade

Snack: Barb Jaquette, Jan Moody

Outdoor Worship

Warner's long tradition of summertime outdoor worship services at the Temple Emanuel Meditation Garden continues in 2016 at 8:30 am in July and August. Bring a friend or neighbor and try a different worship experience this summer. Get closer to God in this beautiful outdoor setting. Hear the birds and feel the cool morning breezes. Music is provided by guitar and voices and holy communion is shared. In case of rain, the service will be held in the Warner library. Temple Emanuel is just down the street from Warner at 10101 Connecticut Avenue. Click here for directions.

You Can Help With Warner's 2016 Mission Trip

There will be an important Meeting after church this Sunday, June 26. All those who plan to be part of the work team going on the Mission Trip to Johnstown, PA, July 10-16, please come to the meeting at 12:30 in the Youth Room on June 26. Note: All paperwork should be completed and submitted by that date. Any questions? Contact Ina Rae Kramer or Ty Bragg.

You can take part in Warner's Mission Trip from home! We ask every person who is part of Warner's congregation to support Warner's Mission Trip with prayers for the Work Team and also prayers for the persons whose homes will be repaired by those seeking to be God's hands at work in the Johnstown area of Pennsylvania. Also, if you would like to make a financial contribution to support the work and workers, someone will be available at our Fellowship Hour throughout the month of June to accept, with gratitude, any amount that you would care to give. Thank you!

Last Sunday For Music Program Offering

Music is an integral part of worship at Warner Church. It ushers us into service, calms and inspires us during the worship hour, and sends us off into a busy workweek with blessings and joy. The music and worship commission manages to provide this beautiful service despite working on a very limited budget. Please consider honoring the music at Warner by offering, in addition to your generous giving, a gift from the heart just once this month. It could go a long way to supporting the music program and "right sizing' our budget.

Make Some Music at Warner Starting This Sunday!

Everyone is invited to drop in on the Summer Singers - Warner's pickup choir that will sing for Sunday services 4 times this summer, including this Sunday, June 26, as well as July 17, July 31 and August 14. We will sing easy anthems that can be rehearsed at the 10:30 warm-up time each week. All are welcome - especially if you have not been a regular choir member! Come join the fun and fellowship!

Do you have a musical talent that you'd like to share this summer? If you'd like to serve as a vocal or instrumental soloist during a service this summer, please contact Peter Smeallie.

Follow Warner on Facebook!

Warner's facebook page has 1,000 people following it. That means that 1,000 people from all over the world now receive posts from Warner on a regular basis. Recent posts have included a photo album of Warner's new RainScaping, music by George Strait, innovative outreach efforts, and a story about a Presbyterian church using wind power. Visit us on Facebook to see lots of church event photos, and content from PCUSA, Presbyterian Outlook, National Capital Presbytery, Presbyterians Today Magazine, Naked Jesus, Christianity Today, Faith on the Fringe, LCYC, Stephen Ministry, and our local community. Join our 1,000 followers and like, comment, and share Warner with the world.

Serving On Sunday

Pastor: Rev. Kirby Lawrence Hill

Liturgist: Joel deJesus

Ushers: June Eakin, Claudia Stalker

Music: Summer Singers

Deacons for the Day: Grace Sooklal, Hannah Cope

Sunday Morning Counters: Ruth Harvey, Susan Middleswarth

Fellowship Hour: Team 6, led by Atwood includes Meredith, Middleswarth,

Morris, Perkins, Rakow, Rhine, Robins, Sceery, Schroeder, Sun

Greeter: Janet Tennent

Upcoming Events

o the organ does not have its full sound right now. We look forward to having it restored near the end of the summer. Funds from the Rodkey Memorial are enabling this project.

Calling all ushers - seasoned and newbies - for the summer months. Sign up on the sign up sheet outside the church office

Team 7 will host fellowship hour next Sunday, July 3. Team 7, led by Yoder and Winter includes Shaw, Smeallie, Soni, Sooklal, Kinder, Och, Thompson, Trautvetter, Trout, Williams (Major). Contact your team leader(s) if you have any questions.. If you are not currently assigned to a team and wish to join one, please contact Sue Burns.

We are planning to take a summer hiatus from assigned Fellowship Teams for most of July, all of August and the first part of September and rely on volunteers. If you are willing to help with the light receptions during this time, please sign up. The sign up sheet may be found on the Fellowship bulletin board outside the church office.

New cards in the pew rack describe ways to support Warner including electronic giving. Please feel free to place that card in the offering plate to signify your financial support of the mission of the church.

Show your love for the less fortunate of the area by bringing food for the "For I Was Hungry" barrel this Sunday. The MUM (Mid County United Ministries) pantry is in particular need of cereal, 1 lb. bags of rice and cans of black beans.

When is the time we need God's love the most? Of course, we need that love every second of every day. But there are times when His love is especially precious to us: when we are seriously ill, or we lose a loved one, or life becomes to confusing that we do not know where to turn, or when depression sets in. Our congregation has trained lay people, Stephen Ministers, who offer a ministry of Christian caring. To find out more about Stephen Ministry, please speak to Barbara Jaquette or Rev. Hill.

Contact Info

Warner Outreach & Fellowship Commission Outreach@warnermemorial.org