PSF at WVU

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Sights and Sounds from the Student Led Service

Thanks to everyone who made the service so awesome on Sunday!!

Worship leaders and contributors

Will Armentrout

Danielle Black

Shelly Barrick Parsons*

Jordan Gunnoe*

Rachel Lake

Morgan Neccuzi*

Chet Parsons*

Craig Poole*

Cameron Thomas

*Providing worship leadership

Here is an audio file of the service from proclamation to the end. You may have to click on the link to the right to get it to play. PSF Sermon April 14

Thanks to FPC member, Justin Weber, for taking these awesome pics!

Worship Resources

· Call to Worship, Prayer of Confession, Closing Prayer written by Will Armentrout, Craig Poole, and Danielle Black.

· Monologues written by: Jordan Gunnoe, Morgan Neccuzi, Cameron Thomas, and Rachel Lake.

· Prayer for illumination: Walter Brueggemann in Awed To Heaven, Rooted in Earth, Fortress Press, 2002.

· Charge and Benediction: H. Eugene Farlough in A Book of Reformed Prayers, Westmintser/John Knox Press, 1998.

· Artwork designed by Morgan Neccuzi and Cameron Thomas.

· Prayer of intercession written by participants.

· Song: Blindman, Author Unknown, in New Song Second Edition, Presbyterian Youth Counnection, 2002.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Worshipping on Sunday, April 14

The Presbyterian Student Fellowship will be leading worship on Sunday, April 14 at 10:45 am at First Presbyterian Church, Morgantown. The service will be centered around the conversion of Saul in Acts 9.

Thinking about the future

The Campus Ministry Committee welcomed WVU Marketing Professor Paula Fitzgerald to our meeting last night (Monday, April 8) to help us begin to think about how we get word out about the PSF to the larger WVU community. She challenged us to think first about the following questions (rather than particular ways of advertising):

What happens in this group that enriches your life?
What do you look forward to each week?
What do we want to be good at?
Why would people give up (time, rest, other activities, studying, etc) to come?
What are we doing/want to be doing that adds spiritual value/depth to the WVU community?
What are we doing/want to be doing/being that is enriching?

She also encouraged us to think about outreach to the community as a tithe -- something we should be about regularly.

Answering these questions will help lead us to a marketing plan (to use technical terms).

Here are the additional questions I would add:

What about our time together brings you joy?
Where do you see God at work in the PSF?
Where do you think God is calling PSF on campus, or to what is God calling us?

We will begin thinking about these broad questions at our program on Wed. April 24. All students are welcome. We will be joined by members of the Campus Ministry Committee and Westminster Foundation. We will continue our work on May 1 as a group guided by the overarching hopes/goals we identify on April 24. In other words, we will come up with concrete ways to live his out next year. Hopefully on May 1 members of the Deacons from FPC will come before our meeting so we can begin conversations on ways we can connect with First Pres Morgantown.