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Jottings from St. John’s | November 2025
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


Jottings from St. John’s | September 2025
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


Jottings from St. John’s | October 2025
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


Jottings from St. John’s | August 2025
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


Jotting From St. John's | July 2025
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


Jottings from St. John’s - May 2025
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659………...May 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com How Long Is Too...


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


Jottings from St. John's - April 2025
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Loysburg, PA 16659............April 2025 www.sjrcl.org stjohnsloysburg@gmail.com MEETING...


January 2025 - The Uncontainable Source of Joy and Strength
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...


December 2024 - A Reason for the Season
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...


November 2024 - An Opportunity to Grow
“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...


October 2024 - Life-Giving Fellowship
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...


September 2024 - Embracing our Christian Calling
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...


August 2024 - A Fresh Look at the Prodigal Son Story
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...


July 2024 - God Sets Aside a Time to Stop and Rest
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...


June 2024 - Kingdom of God Grows Like the Tiny Seed
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,...


April/May 2024 - The Difference Jesus Makes
And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the...


March 2024 - Christ Our Example
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever...


February 2024 - "Unbind Him and Let Him Go!"
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The man who had died came out, his hands and feet...


January 2024 - The Mystery: God Himself Lives in Us
To make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to...
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