United Presbyterian Church of Jamestown

06/04/2026

Communion Sunday Preview and Announcements
June 7, 2026

Sunday School Off for the Summer!

Worship 9:30 AM NOTE SUMMER TIME!!

Hymns: I Danced in the Morning
Lord, Speak to Me, That I May Speak
I Come with Joy
Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Scripture: Matthew 9: 9-13

Sermon: The Hospital of God

Please join us in the Strandness Room after worship for refreshments!


Our church account at Buff Town Bargains has earned $87 for us so far!! Great Job, let’s keep it going! Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

The next Chess Gathering will be June 17th at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. All ages and abilities are welcome to join in!

Juneteenth activities - Friday June 19th at the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse at 2 pm - Come listen to David Zacharias speak on ‘The Dakota Life of “Colonel” Benjamin Hayes’. Learn some more North Dakota history! See more about this and other events at their page - https://www.facebook.com/1883Courthouse/

Get ready for the Summer Pie Bake-Off!! The Deacons are sponsoring the summer picnic lunch and holding a Pie baking contest! June 28th after the worship service in the Fellowship Hall. Get your favorite pie ready to bring and let’s make it a great time!! Lunch donations will go toward the Cancer Gas Fund with the Jamestown Cancer Support Group.

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - use QR code below or click or type this in to get more information:
https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555
VBS will be held July 31 & August 1. You can also find more information from the poster on the bulletin board at the church.

1883 Stutsman County Courthouse State Historic Site is home to a unique hands-on exhibit about civics and local government. It is North Dakota's oldest surviving courthouse and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

05/28/2026

Trinity Sunday Preview and Announcements
May 31, 2026

Sunday School Off for the Summer!

Worship 9:30 AM NOTE SUMMER TIME!!

Hymns: Holy, Holy. Holy! Lord God Almighty!
Lord, You Give the Great Commission
The Church of Christ in Every Age

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13: 11-14
Matthew 28: 16-20

Sermon: Building An Understanding Of God

Please join us in the Strandness Room after worship for refreshments!

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday.

Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost to honor the Holy Trinity—the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Although the word “trinity” does not appear in Scripture, it is taught in Matthew 28:18-20 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 (and many other biblical passages). The concept of the trinity can never be completely understood or rationalized, but it is clearly taught in Scripture. Understanding of all scriptural doctrine is by faith which comes through the work of the Holy Spirit; therefore, it is appropriate that this mystery is celebrated the first Sunday after Pentecost, when the outpouring of the Holy Spirit first occurred.
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Our church account at Buff Town Bargains has earned $71 for us so far!! Great Job, let’s keep it going! Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

The next Chess Gathering will be June 17th at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. All ages and abilities are welcome to join in!

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - click here to get more information:
https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

05/14/2026

Choir Appreciation Sunday Preview and Announcements
May 17, 2026

Sunday School 9:00 AM LAST CLASS FOR THE SUMMER!

Worship 10:30 AM

Hymns: My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
We All Are One in Mission
All Things Bright and Beautiful

Scripture: Acts 1: 6-14
John 17: 1-11

Sermon: The God Who Makes Us One

Please join us in the Strandness Room after worship for refreshments!

CHOIR RECOGNITION - Thank you for your beautiful music!

Choir Director - David Morlock
Soprano: Tiffany Dauer, Mary Reed, Kate Stevenson; Alto: Pam Burkhardt, Diane Witzig, Tenor: Delbert Bossingham, Steve Koehn, Mitch McPherson, Mark Sherfy, Bass: Christian Endo, Larry Hoffman, Steve Reed, Bill Wojnar

Thank you to all - the deacon offering brought in $1298.00 to help our members and our community!

Our church account at Buff Town Bargains has earned $50 for us so far!! Great Job, let’s keep it going! Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - use QR code below or click this to get more information: https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

A Chess Gathering will be May 27th in the Fellowship Hall at 7 pm - anyone with an interest is welcome!

SUMMER WORSHIP HOURS START NEXT SUNDAY…..
9:30 AM CHURCH AND NO SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES

Adult Sunday School - May 17 at 9 am in the Parlor – LAST CLASS FOR THE SUMMER!!

05/13/2026

From Madison Lyonhart:

I don't talk a lot about my children's diagnoses, but today is PDA day and I think it's incredibly important to spread awareness and acceptance regarding it. PDA stands for Pathological Demand Avoidance or Persistent Drive for Autonomy. It is commonly classified as a subprofile of Autism and sometimes ADHD, yet other specialists believe it should be its own separate diagnosis. Well regardless, my boys have all three...Autism, ADHD, and PDA.
Learning about PDA has been a game changer for us and has transformed our lives over the past year. I constantly wondered why we seemed different from other Autism families. Why accomodations for children with Autism just seemed to trigger my children. Why we always felt like we were standing on the edge of a cliff...
PDA is a nervous system disability. It means that demands (go get your coat), perceived demands (time to put shoes on), even biological demands (your body telling you that it needs to p*e) are perceived as threat to the nervous system. My children have been stuck in a constant state of fight or flight for years and we couldn't figure out why (nor could our doctors, therapists, teachers, etc)...when we learned about PDA we finally felt seen.
But life is full of demands....so what did we have to do? We've had to strip our lives, specifically the lives of our children, down to the bare minimum in order to get their nervous systems regulated. It's taken a year for us to figure out what this looks like and to act upon it. It has meant that we had to switch to "homeschooling" (which doesn't look like traditional homeschooling at all), we stopped going to church in person, we stop going on trips, we stopped visiting family, we stopped going to fun things, we stopped expecting our children to clean up after themselves, stopped asking them to be polite, stopped setting screen time limits...and the list goes on...because all of those are chalked full of demands and we needed to eliminate everything that wasn't totally necessary. We stripped it down to health and safety and those were the only demands we had. And it has been HARD! People don't understand, honestly we barely understand...
We adopted declarative language, a low-demand parenting approach, emphasized connection over coercion, and began practicing radical acceptance.
After some very hard years and 6-7 very hard months of adjusting and sitting in their nervous system burnout, we are starting to turn a corner. Starting to see the light. But that doesn't mean we jump back into things...it means we allow their nervous systems to lead and stay very attuned to it backing off as needed.
This past weekend we went to a one on one playdate for one hour at a playground where we were the only people. It was highly controlled to be safe, low demand, etc. And we saw the residual impacts for a couple of days because of the effort that it took and the toll it took. Playdates require soooo many demands...get dressed, put on shoes, get in the car, buckle up, go here, obey park rules, don't run off, interact in socially appropriate ways, speak kindly, share, take turns, now it's time to go, get in the car, buckle up, go in the house, take off your shoes....It's a lot for PDAers.
So if you didn't know, now you know and can begin to understand. Because this world isn't built for them, but we can help build a new world. It's worth it because my boys are wonderful, brilliant, kind, loving, and they deserve acceptance and understanding.

05/07/2026

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY Sunday Preview and Announcements
May 10, 2026

Sunday School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:30 AM

Hymns: Blessed Jesus, at Your Word
In Christ There Is no East or West
Love divine, All Loves Excelling

Scripture: 1 Peter 3: 13-22
John 14: 15-21

Sermon: The Helper Is On The Way

Please join us in the Strandness Room after worship for refreshments!

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

The Deacons are accepting their semi-annual deacon offering Sunday May 10th. These funds are used to support our various programs for our members and our community. Thank you.

Our church account at Buff Town Bargains has earned $50 for us!! Great Job, let’s keep it going! Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - use QR code here or type this in to get more information: https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

SUMMER WORSHIP HOURS START MAY 24 - 9:30 AM CHURCH - NO SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES

Adult Sunday School Plan - May 10 and May 17 - 9 am in the Parlor

The Witness Practice
JOHN MARK COMER

There is an unspoken rule we all intuitively live by: good news is meant to be shared. Whether it’s news of landing a new job, getting into the college we wanted, or discovering an incredible restaurant — we naturally want to share it with others.

Yet, for many of us, this isn't always our experience with our own faith, and for good reason.

Every day, we are bombarded with signals from our surrounding culture to “keep our beliefs to ourselves.” This can lead to a very private way of following Jesus that, in belief, is “good news for all people,” but in practice, just becomes “good news for me.”

Yet, in the midst of this, Jesus’ invitation to witness to him has not expired.

For the last two millennia, followers of Jesus have dared to ask the question: How do we witness to the good news of Jesus in this particular moment? Through this series, we want to explore this exact question for our time — to discover together the loving and patient way we can witness to the Gospel with our life and words.

Welcome to the Practice of Witness.

05/06/2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MEMBER GRADUATES. We recognized Hannah Tarr, Mason Gibson, Kristie Cagle and Zoe Bennett (not pictured) on Sunday the 3rd at church. We wish them the very best as they move on from graduation!

04/30/2026

Communion Sunday Preview and Announcements
May 3, 2026

Sunday School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:30 AM

Hymns: To God Be the Glory
I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art
Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ
Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above

Scripture: John 14: 1-14

Sermon: Trusting God through Difficult Times

Please join us in the Fellowship Hall after worship for graduation cake!

We are honoring Graduates today!!
Kristie Cagle, Mason Gibson & Hannah Tarr

There will be a National Day of Prayer service - May 7 at Club 1883 at Noon.

The United Presbyterian Women will meet for the last time until September, on May 7 for their Birthday Brunch Fundraiser - the Second Mile Giving - at 11:00 AM in the Fellowship Hall. Please see insert for more information on this fundraiser event. PLEASE RSVP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND. After the brunch, Jackie Tarpinian will lead the final lesson in the parlor.

Our church has set up an account at Buff Town Bargains for UPC! Let them know when you donate, and we can earn money! Please be sure to follow the regulations for donating. Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

We will be looking for VBS meal makers for July 31 supper, and light breakfast and lunch on Aug 1. Contact Tiffany if you would be willing to help with this!

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - use QR code below or click on this in to get more information: https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

We will be hosting another Chess Gathering - Saturday May 9th at 7 pm

Adult Sunday School Plan - through May 17 at 9 am in the Parlor

Join pastor and author Tyler Staton, on Right Now Media, on a six-session journey to rediscover the most misunderstood person of the Trinity. Moving from rich theology to practical application, this study provides a framework to experience the Holy Spirit in profound, new ways. You will learn to:
• Hear God’s Voice: Develop the practice of discernment to recognize God’s whisper amidst the noise.
• Move in God’s Power: Explore the spiritual gifts of prophecy, healing, and more, not as ancient history, but as a present reality.
• Redeem Your Pain: Understand how God meets us and works through our suffering.
A vibrant relationship with the Holy Spirit starts now!

04/22/2026

Sunday Preview and Announcements
April 26, 2026

Sunday School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:30 AM

Hymns: When Morning Gilds the Skies
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
God Be with You Till We Meet Again

Scripture: Psalm 23
John 10: 1-10

Sermon: Door and Voice: The Way to Abundant Life

Please join us in the Strandness Room after worship for refreshments!

A “Busy Jar” is set up in the sanctuary-THIS IS THE LAST SUNDAY!! Contributions will be going to the Dakota Children’s Advocacy Center. Please drop your spare change and/or dry goods into the jar for this great cause.

The deacons are asking that if you have a student graduating from high school or college that you please notify the church office. Thank you.

Our church has set up an account at Buff Town Bargains for UPC! Let them know when you donate, and we can earn money! Please be sure to follow the regulations for donating. Please contact Dixie Lee for more information.

Christian Nurture, Growth & Outreach - next meeting will be April 27 with no meeting in May.

We will be looking for VBS meal makers for July 31 supper, and light breakfast and lunch on Aug 1. Contact Tiffany if you would be willing to help with this!

There is a website for our VBS program and an online sign-up for youth ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade - type this in or copy and paste, or go to the pinned site to get more information. https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

**PLEASE HAVE COMMUNICATOR ITEMS IN BY APRIL 27**

We will be hosting another Chess Gathering on Saturday, May 9th – 7 PM.

Adult Sunday School Plan - through May 17 - 9 am in the Parlor

Join pastor and author Tyler Staton, on Right Now Media, on a six-session journey to rediscover the most misunderstood person of the Trinity. Moving from rich theology to practical application, this study provides a framework to experience the Holy Spirit in profound, new ways. You will learn to:
· Hear God’s Voice: Develop the practice of discernment to recognize God’s whisper amidst the noise.
· Move in God’s Power: Explore the spiritual gifts of prophecy, healing, and more, not as ancient history, but as a present reality.
· Redeem Your Pain: Understand how God meets us and works through our suffering.

A vibrant relationship with the Holy Spirit starts now!

04/20/2026

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL IS COMING!!

Come join in the fun - July 31-August 1!
Ages Pre-K (3) to finished 5th grade!

Check out the website (link below) to see more information and to sign up.

https://www.myvbs.org/vbs-2026-1776206471555

04/16/2026

Sunday Preview and Announcements
April 19, 2026
POTLUCK SUNDAY - Bring a dish to pass!!

Sunday School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:30 AM

Hymns: Celebrate with Joy and Singing
Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Come, Risen Lord

Scripture: Luke 4: 14-21
Luke 24: 13-35

Sermon: The Familiar Stranger

Please join us in the Fellowship Hall after worship for potluck dinner!

The Deacons are sponsoring the potluck dinner on Sunday the 12th!!

A “Busy Jar” will be set up in the sanctuary through April. Contributions will be going to the Dakota Children’s Advocacy Center. Please drop your spare change and/or dry goods into the jar for this great cause.

The deacons are asking that if you have a student graduating from high school or college that you please notify the church office. Thank you.

Our church has set up an account at Buff Town Bargains for UPC! Let them know when you donate, and we can earn money! Please be sure to follow the regulations for donating.

Christian Nurture, Growth & Outreach - next meeting will be April 27 with no meeting in May.

We will be looking for VBS meal makers for July 31 supper, and light breakfast and lunch on Aug 1. Contact Tiffany if you would be willing to help with this!

**PLEASE HAVE COMMUNICATOR ITEMS IN BY APRIL 27**

ALL PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN - The 2026 PW Spring Gathering is Saturday, April 25 at the Mendenhall Church in East Grand Forks. Check out the flyer on the bulletin board for more information.

April Adult Sunday School Plan - 9 am in the Parlor

Join pastor and author Tyler Staton, on Right Now Media, on a six-session journey to rediscover the most misunderstood person of the Trinity. Moving from rich theology to practical application, this study provides a framework to experience the Holy Spirit in profound, new ways. You will learn to:
·Hear God’s Voice: Develop the practice of discernment to recognize God’s whisper amidst the noise.
·Move in God’s Power: Explore the spiritual gifts of prophecy, healing, and more, not as ancient history, but
as a present reality.
· Redeem Your Pain: Understand how God meets us and works through our suffering.

A vibrant relationship with the Holy Spirit starts now!