Hi First Presbyterian Church,

It’s time for our Mid-Week Meet-Up! July has been a very full month for me - from going to Utah for the PC(USA)’s General Assembly, to visiting family south of Buffalo, and hiking in the Adirondacks. I hope you’ve been enjoying your summer as much as I have!

One part of summer that I’m especially enjoying is our summer sermon series. It gives me a chance to reflect on things you are thinking about, and I particularly like exploring your questions after worship during our Q&A. Here’s the schedule for the remainder of the sermon series:

August 4 - Predestination (Pastor Aaron)

August 11 - God’s Final Judgment (Pastor Aaron)

August 18 - Death and the Afterlife (Pastor Aaron)

August 25 - Why Bad Things Happen to Innocent People (Pastor Erin)

During my sermon two Sundays ago, I emphasized the importance of the Bible in the Protestant tradition and how reading the Bible should be an important spiritual discipline, especially for Protestants. This is one of the reasons I am looking forward to our one-year Bible reading plan that will begin this September. One of our strategic objectives in the coming year is trying to reimagine discipleship to become highly personal, relational, and biblical. The one-year Bible reading plan is going to help us work toward this objective. 

We will have paper copies of the Bible reading plan available at the end of August for those of you that would like to use an analog version of the plan. However, the Bible reading plan we will be using is also available on the Bible App. Not only does the Bible App have the text of the Bible (including audio versions), but it also has an interactive platform that allows us to talk to each other and encourage each other as we read through the Bible together. Click the following link to go the website to download the Bible App to your mobile device: the Bible App. (Note: you can read the Bible on your desktop through the aforementioned link, but the Bible App is really designed to work on a mobile device.)

Go ahead and download the Bible App and get familiar with it before September, especially if you plan to use the digital version to follow our one-year Bible reading plan.

I'm looking forward to growing in our faith together!

Peace to you,

Pastor Aaron