Penbrook UCC

09/06/2026

Put on your church clothes! Hope, Faith, Community.....

09/06/2026

Loving God, as we gather in your presence, we seek to put on the armor of light, and to live as your children. Help us cast aside the darkness and embrace the love that fulfills our low. Awaken us to your call, that we may walk in the light of Christ each day. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

08/23/2026

Loving God, call us together as your people; transform us with your love. Transform our hearts, that we may love generously. Transform our eyes, that we may see your grace. Transform our hands, that we may serve others. Transform our spirits, that we may be the body of Christ, gathered to worship and sent out to serve. Amen.

08/16/2026

Holy God, you speak to us in a voice unexpected and come to us in ways we do not recognize. Never leaving us to our own devices or defenses, you are the ever-present, all-powerful God. Call us out in fatih again and again, until we learn to walk with you in steadfast love and faithfulness, and in peace. In the name of him who comes to us upon the waters, Jesus the Christ. Amen.

08/02/2026

Who would think that wrestling would enter our congregation's storytelling? But it goes all the way back to Genesis!

Some scenes from today's Livestream.

07/19/2026

Join diverse people of faith from across Central PA for the Spirits United Interfaith Pride Service: a gathering that brings together people from different religious traditions to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, focusing on our common values of peace, justice, compassion, and equality. St. Paul’s UCC is honored to host the service this year; Sunday, July 26, 6 PM. We hope you can join us!

06/19/2026

God, we thank you for deliverance...

🙏🏾 Prayer of Thanksgiving for Juneteenth

We give thanks to God for freedom and emancipation
of the enslaved people.

Cheated of their lives and livelihood by oppressors
beyond the pale of human rights and dignity.

Because of their skin they were deemed less than farm animals these African and African American people made in the image of the Divine, praying to God to loosen their chains.

We give thanks and praise to God for the full emancipation for these human beings.

From the shacks and plantations of Texas they sang:
“God, we thank you for saving our lives.”

“All persons henceforth shall be free”
were the words spoken in 1863.

Today we reinforce with thanksgiving God’s life, love and liberty.

From the depths of our hearts we cry:
“God, we thank you for deliverance.”

-Prayer excerpt by Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia A. Thompson
for Living Psalms 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Juneteenth, 6/18/2023

👉🏾Read the full prayer here: https://ow.ly/HnEf50Zeu0M

👉🏾 Add your prayers to the People's Prayers for Peace: https://ow.ly/6Wwe50Zeu0N

06/07/2026

Blessed by the presence of warm hearts and kind voices.