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    MEET OUR PASTOR AND HIS WIFE

REV. TOM & JENNY MILLIGAN

We welcome Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Milligan as the Pastor of our Congregation. Tom was installed and ordained as minister on Sunday, August 14, 2005. We Praise God
that Pastor Tom & Jenny have joined us, what an exciting time for our church!

(See "The Milligan's" page above for more information).

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    PASTOR'S MESSAGE                                            03-17-08

  Living Life As a New Creation

What is your calling in Life? Not just your job, or your role, or favorite
leisure activities. These are all important, but what about your calling
as a Christian. If you have been called by God, to be a Christian,
what is it that you are to do? Or better said, who are you to be?

Who are you? Our first response to this question may be to give our
name, but is that who we are, or simply our name? There is a
multitude of other ways to accurately answer this question, but one
meaning for response is "I am a new creation."

When we decide to follow Jesus instead of our old nature, our
direction in life changes and our life purpose is changed. As children
of God, our object in life is to glorify God. We no longer live for
ourselves, but rather for God. The question is; how do we glorify
God?

That answer I think is understood when we consider: What is close
to God's heart, and therefore should be close to ours? 2 Corinthians
5:17-20 states our calling as Christians in these words. "Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new
has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself
through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God
was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's
sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of
reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on
Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God."

We are sent as Christ's ambassadors in this world with a message
of reconciliation. The message is that a lost and broken world can
be reunited with its Creator. This is a high task, one that is noble
and daring. And each one of us is called to be a part of this ministry
of reconciliation. But it does not all look the same for all people or at
all times. For we can be reconcilers as we explain to friends about
how God desires a relationship with them based on his grace. We
can be reconcilers as we take this gospel to parts of the world and to
people groups who have never heard it before. We can be
reconcilers in our own families as we seek to love them and display
to them the grace that we have been given.

How do we do this? It is not in our own strength but through the
empowering of the Holy Spirit that we can be Christ's ambassadors.

We were made in the image of God, part of this image is to be God's
presence in the world. At the fall, when sin separated mankind from
God, the image was shattered (although not totally lost), but
humanity is no longer how we were created to be. Sin has captured
us and subjected us to death. But God reconciled us, that means
that he offers us the gift to have our sins forgiven. Reconciliation has
to do with overcoming enmity. For sin has not only separated us
from God, it has made us his enemy, in the camp with sin and death
God being holy hates sin and all that is unclean. Yet while we were
still sinners, Christ died for us. God made a way for us be right with
him. This is through the blood of Jesus Christ. God's wrath that was
properly aimed at us, his enemies was turned and poured out on
Christ instead. Thus Christ's suffering took our sin away, and if we
are found in Christ, then our sins are no longer there, and we have
fellowship with God as we were made for, and we also are being
restored in the image of God. Therefore we are Christ's
ambassadors on earth. The message that we are sent with is to
plead with the dying to be saved.

Death did not happen all at once when Adam and Eve sinned, but it
was made inevitable, and therefore they were in the process of
dying. Likewise when we are saved, we are given the new life in
Christ, and are made new creatures, but again it is a process, where
we put to death the old nature, and put on the new nature. We are as
Christians becoming new. The process is guided by the Holy Spirit,
who is powerful and effective.

To those who do not want to hear the call to be reconciled to-God,
we should be-creative in using our imagination, to help them to see
their need for Jesus. This is not done only through persuasive
arguments, but also through a life lived as a new creation of God,
and the joy in our lives that we have been forgiven and reconciled to
God through Jesus Christ. We plead with people to find the life that
we have been given. As we see dying people, some of them don't
know that they are dying, and we have the message of life. That is
the good news that we have been given, God has made a way for
sinners like you and me, to be restored to true fellowship with
Himself. Let us spread the good news!

Pastor Tom

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News & Events
(Postings in color "black"are new for the week).

   LBPC ANNUAL MOTHER-DAUGHTER BANQUET - The banquet will be
   held on Friday, May 9th, 6:30PM at the church.  The entertainment for the
   evening will be a special musical group called the "Bedouin Fires". Ladies,
   come out for a very enlightening and fun evening. Tickets are $6.00 for adults
   and $3.00 for ages 4 - 12. For tickets see Peggy McCauley, Shirley Galbreath,
   or Vonnie Brown.   posted 04-13

   UNION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PRAISE CONCERT - Saturday, May
  10^th at 7p.m. This will be an excellent time of worship. It is a time for
  brothers and sisters in Christ to lift our hands and give God the glory.
  Please come and allow the Holy Spirit to move you.   posted 04-27

   LBPC YOUTH GROUP MEETING DATES – The Youth Group will meet on
  Sunday evenings, May 11 and May 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Church.
   posted 04-27

    *** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE ON THE FOLLOWING EVENT ***
   ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT SPAGHETTI DINNER - Saturday, May 31st, 4:00PM
   to 7:00PM. The LBPC Youth Group is hosting the dinner and the cost is
   $5.00 a person. Tickets can be purchased ahead of time or you can get
   tickets at the door. All funds raised will be used for future LBPC Youth
   Group mission trips. MENU: spaghetti, meat sauce, salad, apple sauce,
   french bread, desserts, coffee, tea, and orange / Kool-Aid drink.
   Volunteers are needed to help at the dinner and donations of food and
   supplies are needed as well.
   On Sunday, May 25th (following church service) there will be a planning
   meeting of those who will be helping and those donating supplies.
   On Saturday, May 31st those helping will meet at 12:00PM to prepare and
   set up. Those who would like to help and/or make donations, contact
   Bob Brown for more information.   posted 04-13

   LBPC YOUTH LEADERS PLANNING MEETING – The meeting will follow
  Church service on Sunday, June 1st. Anyone who would like to find out
  what is going on with the youth group or would like to help out is invited to
  attend.   posted 04-27

   LBPC YOUTH GROUP TRIPS ARE PLANNED – The first trip planned is
  to The Lost Treasure Golf & Maze on Sunday, June 9th. It is located off
  Route 30 at the intersection of Route 896 beside Wawa. We will be leaving
  the Church at 6:00 p.m. Anyone is welcome to join us and please bring your
  friends and family members.
  The second trip planned is to The Witness Festival on Saturday, June
  14th. We will be leaving the Church at 6:00 p.m. Anyone is welcome to join
  us and please bring your friends and family members.   posted 04-27

   MOSQUITO NETWORKERS PROJECT MOTHER'S DAY CARDS - are
  available in the narthex. For a suggested donation of $10, you will receive a
  card with a message stating that you have made a contribution in the
  recipient's behalf to the Project. The funds are used to purchase mosquito
  nets to help to combat malaria in Africa. There is further information at the
  display.   posted 04-27

   VISIT THE LBPC MISSION TABLE - The Mission Table is located in the social
   hall. Please stop by often.   posted 05-04

   LBPC BAND-OF-BROTHERS - will meet on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each
   month at 7:30AM for breakfast. The 1st Saturday we will meet at Valley
   View Restaurant.. The 3rd Saturday we will meet at the Robert Fulton Fire Hall.
   We hope to begin serving the church and community through "handyman
   projects". All men are welcome and encouraged to join. See Pastor Tom if you
   have questions.

   LBPC SHARING TABLE RETURNS - The LBPC Sharing Table is now
   available for 2008. Over the next several months, if you have baked goods or
   a surplus of produce from your home garden, the items may be placed on
   the sharing table. Anyone may stop by the sharing table, and for a donation
   may take what they like to enjoy. All donations will go to the Presbyterian
   Hunger Fund.   posted 04-20

   DOES YOUR YARD NEED CLEANING? - The LBPC Youth Group would like
   to do the work for you. Contact Jimmy Gordon if you would like the help.
   posted 03-30

   NEW MENS GROUP AT LBPC - "THE BAND OF BROTHERS" will meet on
   the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 7:30AM for breakfast. The 1st
   Saturday we will meet at MJ's Restaurant in Little Britain. The 3rd Saturday we
   will meet at the Robert Fulton Fire Hall. We hope to begin serving the church
   and community through "handyman projects". All men are welcome and
   encouraged to join. See Pastor Tom if you have questions.   posted 03-23

   LBPC NEW MEMBERSHIP CLASSES - If you are interested in joining Little
   Britain Presbyterian Church, please contact Pastor Tom for more information.
   Classes will be starting soon. Check back for dates.   posted 02-24

    LBPC JUNIOR & SENIOR HIGH YOUTH GROUPS MISSION TRIPS - The Youth
    Groups are researching possible Mission Trips for the coming year 2008. They
    are looking at the groups "RAKE and REACH WORK CAMPS". If you think you
    might be interested in the upcoming mission trips then please sign-up on the
    sheets in the youth room.  For more information, contact Bob Brown. posted 11-11

    LBPC HELPING HANDS FUND - This fund will be used to give temporary
   financial aid to members of the LBPC family. Donation envelopes for this
   fund can be found in the pews each week. Please place the envelope in
   the collection plate during the offering.
   If a need should arise, any church family member would be eligible for
   funds. Needs may include: home heating, home & auto repairs, over due
   bills, etc. Contact Pastor Tom with your needs.   rev. posting 11-18

    MISSIONS, SMALL GROUPS, CHRISTIAN ED., YOUTH GROUPS,
   and NURSERY - Church committees are always looking for new input. If
   there is a mission you are interested in please see Pastor Tom. posted 01-07

   SUNDAY BULLETIN INFORMATION - Please have all bulletin information
   to Susan Nichols by Wednesday of each week. You may contact Susan
   directly, or place your requests in the secretary's mail box located outside
   of the choir room.   posted 03-04

    A NEW "SMALL GROUP" HAS FORMED AT LBPC - The new group is
   meeting on Sunday's, from 6:30 - 8:00PM at the church. They are studying,
   "The 7 Steps To Living At Your Full Potential", by Joel Osteen. If you would
   like to attend, please contact Jim or Carole Huber.   posted 09-17

   FLOWERS AT THE PULPIT - If you would like to place flowers in the pulpit
   vases or give flowers in memory of a loved one, please sign up on the new
   2008 Flower Chart located on the narthex table upstairs. A donation of $30
   per Sunday is requested. We need your help in this important ministry. For
   more information, contact Esther Ulrich. Thank you!   posted 02-17

   CASSETTE TAPES RUNNING LOW! - If you are receiving the LBPC Audio
   Tape Ministry and have cassette tapes that have not been returned to the
   church, please make arrangements to do so. We are running very low on
   tapes and need them back in order to continue the ministry. Please give
   your tapes to a member of the congregation you have contact with or
   contact a Deacon or myself, Ray Knarr, and we will be glad to retrieve the
   tapes. Thank You.

   LBPC LIBRARY - The church library is open every day during church
   hours. Books are available to borrow and read for a two week loan
   period. Stop in and check it out!   posted 02-17

   THINKING OF GOING TO COLLEGE? - Did you know, LBPC has
   scholarships available for those going to a Christian College? (See the
   "Youth Page" above for more details).

   DONATE TO THE APPALACHIAN BOOK PROJECT - (See more on this
   ongoing PW project on the "News & Events" page above).

   LBPC COOKBOOKS - available at $10 each. See Barb Long or Peggy
   Gordon.

   LBPC YOUTH LEADERS NEEDED - We need a few more youth leaders,
   if you are interested in helping then please contact Bob Brown.

   (For more information please see the indicated pages above).