Author: pastorjosephhedden
I am a 40 something pastor with a love of the gospel, my community, and family. I like to hike, read, and travel.
In Memoriam: Christina March
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Please join me in offering Christian prayer and sympathy to the family of Christina March, daughter of Bob Holt’s fiancée, Sharon March. Christina passed away on Sunday after a lengthy struggle with Covid and we have been praying for her regularly since her hospitalization. The obituary notice is found…
Easter Flowers Orders
Please print or call in your order by Sunday, March 22, 2021.
“Self-Care during Anxious Times” Virtual Workshop”
“Self-Care during Anxious Times” Virtual Workshop” Blessed Be Educators, together with five other faith-based organizations, is offering the online workshop “Self-Care during Anxious Times” on Saturday, February 13, 2021 from 10:00 am to Noon. Presenters Ms. Eletta Cameron, Licensed Social Worker, and Ms. Rosemarie Perla, Licensed Psychologist will facilitate an interactive workshop. Join us to learn ways…
This Sunday: Luke’s Gospel “Promise and Presence”
Since September of 2020, we have been dealing with the theme of God’s Promise and Presence. Beginning in 2021, we have begun to study the Gospel of Luke using the same theme. Luke explains how Jesus fulfills God’s promises from the Old Testament and he also explains how God is present to us in the…
Happy New Year!
“To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. 12This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.’ 13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,14 ‘Glory…
Christmas Eve Worship
Begins streaming on December 24 at 7 p.m. Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, It’s almost time for the birth of Jesus on God’s Hill! Link to Digital, Remote, Online worship will go live December 24 at 7 pm: Worship here: http://www.facebook.com/hillschurchexport But the angel said to the shepherds, ‘Do not be…
Shift to All Digital Worship
Advent 4 and Christmas Eve Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, Snowy December greetings from God’s hill! Due to the advice of health professionals, we have prayerfully determined to keep our friends and members safe that we will be moving online for the remainder of 2020. We regret having to cancel in person…
Worship of December 6, 2020
Joel, Chapter 2 Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.14 Who knows if he will not turn and relent, and leave a…
Celebrate the Advent Season and 200 years of history.
The Murrysville Historical Preservation Society and the Emmanuel Reformed United Church of Christ (Hill’s Church) will be celebrating the Bicentennial of both Murrysville and Hill’s Church on Sunday, December 13th at 2:00pm. The occasion will include the history of the church and the Advent season, and an abbreviated, historical Advent service by Pastor Joseph Hedden…
Happy Thanksgiving from the Pastor, Staff and Consistory
Harvest Home in 1952. Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It’s the day before Thanksgiving up on God’s Hill. A few updates from up on the Hill: This Saturday, at 9 a.m., we will be having a COVID careful Hanging of the Greens to decorate for Christmas. We won’t be going all out this year…
Sermon of November 15, 2020 — “Men Wording”
A reading from Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34: In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I…
