Jottings from St. John’s Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............March 2026 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com St. John’s Women’s Guild February Meeting Cancelled The Women’s Guild meeting was cancelled February 6 due to expected cold and high winds. Shelley Vaughn arranged for Rhonda Flaugh from Ladies Encounter, to speak at our February 22 worship service on the mission of the Ladies Encounter group. They sponsor spring and fall e

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............January 2026 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Who We Are—David Snyder I had encouraged Joy Nelson to resume “Who We Are” columns in the church newsletter, and she asked me to be the first. I had sort of presumed everyone knew enough about me, but I’m willing to repeat what I thought they might have already known. I was born in downtown Loysburg almost 90 years ago and grew up in that house t

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659………...December 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com From the Consistory President: The Consistory met on November 20, 2025, in the copy room of the church. The primary topic of the meeting was the upcoming 2026 budget for the church. We are compiling a preliminary budget to finalize prior to the annual congregational meeting on January 25, 2026. Although our numbers look good we have to keep in mind we

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............November 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Mission’s Corner Heifer International (www.heifer.org) was founded more than 80 years ago by Dan West, a farmer and fellow church leader who rallied his church community to support a new way to help those in need. West felt that needy rural families couldn’t truly escape hunger and poverty through handouts alone. They needed real opportunities

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659………...September 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Church Retreat—Come Join the Fun and Fellowship Our Church Family Camp will be held September 12, 13, and 14 at Camp Mantowagan, 2671 Camp Lane, Saxton, PA. All are welcome to join us for the weekend. If that isn’t possible, please join us when you can for meals, Bible sessions, and our Sunday service. Jordan Rhoat will lead music throughout the wee

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............October 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Church Retreat Takes Attendees "Further Up and Further In" During the weekend of September 12th-14th, fifty-four people gathered together at Camp Mantowagan in Saxton, PA for the 2nd annual St. John’s Reformed family retreat. Eleven different “family units” stayed the night at the camp with many others commuting back and forth and joining when

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............August 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com Mission’s Corner Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............July 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com St. John's Established One New Reformed Church Plant in Late 1800s by David Snyder According to the Waterman--Watkins History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties (1884), St. John's Reformed in Loysburg had membership exceeding 100. At the same time, the Waterside Presbyterian Church had 60 members. A decade later, as the Presbyterian members

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659………...May 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com How Long Is Too...

A Conversation on Faith, Technology, and the Journey to Ministry For the past few months, St. John’s Reformed Church has had the...

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............April 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com MEETING...

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. – 1 John 4:7 NIV...

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to...

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. " – John 14:1    Jesus' words are most helpful to all who...

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from...

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for...

And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the...

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord...

He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up,...

And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the...