Emmanuel Lutheran Church celebrates the 100th anniversary Scouting.

34 scout and leaders from four troops (T208, T205, T236, T552 & T236) and two packs (P213 & P874) came together at Emmanuel Lutheran Church (ELC) Sunday, February 14th to celebrate the 100th year of Scouting.  This celebration was one week late as the weather did not cooperate on the actual date of February 7th.  However, the scouts persevered and the celebration went off without a hitch.  Scouts participated in almost all aspects of the worship service.  The scouts made the communion bread at one of their scout meetings, delivered the readings, helped with communion and even played bagpipes and trumpets a few times throughout the service ending with Taps.  Many solemn aspects of scouting were included in the service such as the reading of the Boy Scout Oath with the accompanying Bible verse.  Even the congregation was including in the scout ritual of circle up before the closing of the service.  After the service, in the narthex, scouts and leaders recited the 12 points of the Scout Law along with the accompanying Bible verse.  After the ceremonies, punch and cake (baked & decorated by Lindsay Bruns) were shared by all.  ELC is the charter organization of Troop #208 that meets at the church every Thursday evening from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

Do you like music? Do you like to camp? Wish you could camp more often? Are you interested to getting to know people from other churches in our area? If any or all of these things appeal to you, Creation 2010 is the thing for you!

Nicole Held has been attending Creation on and off since High School. The experience of being in the wilderness camping with thousands of other people, going to 4 concerts in a day as well as worshiping every night is amazing. The atmosphere is fun and friendly with lots of fun side activities going on all day and in the evenings. They have special activity tents set up for adult leaders with information and ideas in how to deal with and get your youth group more involved with themselves and God.

Creation 2010: A Tribute To Our Creator, is a 4 day wilderness camping trip at Agape Farms in Mt. Union, PA, full of concerts, speakers, worship, and games. Creation 2010 is being held from June 30th to July 3rd with Christian bands such as Switchfoot, Chris Tomlin, and Tenth Avenue North, and speakers such as
Loui Gigilio, and Bob Lenz.

We are teaming up with Zion Lutheran in Penn Hills so we're only able to take 3 High School youth at this time. Deadline for full payment of $200 is Sunday, March 28th. The option for fundraising could be available. This payment includes everything except personal incidentals. Feel free to email Nicole Held at NMHeld@gmail.com with intended interest and any other questions you might have.