Sunday Morning Worship! 5th Sunday in Lent

Sunday Worship!

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 6th FOR THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT!!!

Join us as this Sunday as we welcome New Members to our St. Peter's community, have a coffee hour to welcome our new members, and we celebrate, proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website. The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Welcome New Members!

We are very excited to be welcoming New Members to our community of Christ at St. Peter's this Sunday and we hope you will join us for this wonderful and special day in the life of St. Peter's! Following the worship service we will be having a Coffee Hour as an opportunity to meet and greet our New Members, have some snacks, and maybe stuff an Easter Egg or two...Also, if you are interested in formally joining St. Peter’s it’s super easy - just contact Pastor Suloff or the church office!

Easter Egg Hunt on Palm Sunday - April 13th!

Also join us next Sunday for Palm/Passion Sunday and our annual Easter Egg Hunt following the 10am worship service (pray for good weather)! And guess what?! We will be having a Coffee Hour that Sunday too so you can get coffee and snacky treats (along with candy) again! We hope you will join us for this day of reflection and fun as we prepare to enter Holy Week.

And oh yeah, there's even gonna be a Coffee Hour on Easter Sunday too! If you'd like to help with an upcoming Coffee Hour please contact Silvia Rotenbury.

Questions?!? At Church?!?!?

Questions?!? At Church?!?!?

Last Sunday, during the Children’s Message, we talked about how it is ok to ask questions at church.

So…I’d like to know what your questions are!

Parents: Ask your kids what their questions are and I’ll try using them in an upcoming Children’s Message and/or create a Facebook video about it!

Everyone: We are going to begin a monthly study session called Crash Course – it is a really simple idea, we pick a topic and I read as much as I possibly can on the subject and then share it with everyone over the course of about an hour to and hour and a half and you getting a reading list if you’re interested in further exploration of the topic. Ask any question you like – early church history, why is that story we heard in church in the first reading kinda super weird, why do we do what we do, anything at all!

The point is my friends, send me your questions and we are going to start trying to explore them and maybe even answer them! Also, we won't share where a question came from unless you are ok with it so don't worry about that - it's like every teacher says, there is no such thing as a bad question, just ask and we will explore together!

Email or call Pastor Suloff and please just let us know if it’s a question from a kiddo for the Children’s Message or a topic you’d like to see explored in a Crash Course.

We all have tons of questions about church, faith, and life cause it can be kinda weird at times so I can’t wait to hear your questions and I look forward to exploring them together with you all! 

Holy Week 2025

EASTER EGG HUNT ON PALM SUNDAY! (APRIL 13th)

Don't forget to bring your candy donations by next Sunday (you can either leave them in the Narthex or drop them off at the Church Office) and to invite your friends to Palm Sunday and the Easter Egg Hunt (following 10am worship) as well as all of Holy Week Worship! If you are able we hope that you will also consider joining us Sunday, April 6th as we welcome new members of St. Peter's during worship and following worship next Sunday, April 6th please join us in the chapel for a Coffee Hour and to (if you get bored with coffee, food, and meeting new members) to help stuff Easter Eggs for this great and fun event for the community!

Easter Flower Order Forms

Easter Flower Order Forms can be found using the button below, found in the church narthex, or by contacting Lisa in the church office.

The due date for Easter Flower orders is April 1st. (THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE!!!)

Easter Flower Order Form

Easter Flower Order Form

Place your orders for Easter Sunday by filling out the form or by contacting Lisa in the church office. Easter Flower orders are due by Tuesday, April 1st. The order form can be found using the button below.

Sunday Morning Worship! Transfiguration of our Lord

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd FOR THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD!!!

Join us as we celebrate and proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.

The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Fastnacht Fest 2025 - MARCH 2

Fastnacht Fest 2025: Coffee Hour & Fellowship Celebration

The Fellowship Team invites you to a very special coffee hour following the service on Sunday, March 2!

Our fantastic volunteers are busy making Fastnacht Fest 2025 a reality. If you'd like to join the donut-making fun, please contact Silvia Rotenbury (silvia3m@yahoo.com)—we could really use more large bowls and Tupperware for mixing and letting the dough rest and rise.

Team 1 will meet on Saturday, March 1 between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to prepare the dough. Then, Team 2 will meet on Sunday, March 2 at 8:30 a.m. to heat the oil, shape and fry the Fastnachts. 

Now we need you to help make the celebration complete! After Sunday's service, come join us for freshly made Fastnachts, warm coffee and the best church community in town! Let’s gather, laugh and savor this cherished tradition together. We can’t wait to see you there!

Ash Wednesday - March 5th

ASH WEDNESDAY- March 5th

Join us for the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday when we will be distributing ashes and communion in the parking lot from 11:30am until 12:30pm (if it is raining we will be in the Narthex) and for our shared Ash Wednesday worship service at 7:30pm that evening at Grace Lutheran Church in Wyndmoor (801 E Willow Grove Ave, Glenside, PA 19038 - it's like 10 minutes away from St. Peter's). We will have more details about the Lenten season, Holy Week, and Easter to share soon. If you have any questions please contact Pastor Suloff or Lisa in the Church Office.

GO BIRDS!!!

Here at St. Peter’s we believe in sharing the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all. No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what your questions may be - you are welcome. WE WELCOME ALL. That being said we must also say….

GO BIRDS!!!

(Our apologies to anyone who is a Kansas City Chiefs fan - we love you all too and welcome you all and hope you will come to worship because church is church but football is football - GO BIRDS!!!)

Join us for worship and then enjoy a safe and joyful Super Bowl Sunday everyone!

Have fun, be safe, join us for worship, and once again…

GO BIRDS!!!

SUPER SOUPER BOWL (& HOAGIE SALE) SUNDAY!

Souper Bowl Sunday Soup (and Chili) & Hoagie Sale!

We will once again be having our annual Hoagie & Soup Sale on Super Bowl Sunday, February 9th (GO BIRDS!!!) with all proceeds going to support our Social Ministry and Children, Youth & Family efforts at St. Peter's!

If you are interested in participating or plan on making soup or chili for the sale please contact Sue Speers and if you would like to help with the Hoagie Sale please contact Matt Clark.

Soup cups are still available if you would like to make soup - you can contact either Pastor Suloff or Lisa at the church office to arrange a time to pick up soup cups. The church will be open from 10am to around 1pm on Saturday if you would like to drop your soup off early. The hoagie team will be gathering at 9am Sunday morning to begin making the hoagies in the kitchen.

Soups will be available for $5 each or 5 for $20.

 Hoagies will be available for $8 each or 4 for $25.

GO BIRDS!

Sunday Morning Worship! 5th Sunda after Epiphany

Sunday Worship!

GO BIRDS!!!

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9th FOR THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY!!!

Join us as we celebrate and proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.

The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Sunday Morning Worship! 4th Sunday after Epiphany

Sunday Worship!

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd for the FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY!

Join us as we celebrate and proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.

The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Annual Congregational Meeting February 2nd

ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING!

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,

Our Annual Congregational Meeting will be held THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd following the worship service – so please stick around for this important day in the life of St. Peter’s!!! It will take us about 10 minutes to get set up for the meeting but for those of you joining us here at the church the Fellowship Team is providing a Coffee Hour so you can head into the Chapel and grab some snacks and some coffee while you wait. For those of you joining us online a Zoom Link was provided in the weekly email and you have a few minutes to grab your own cup of coffee and snacks before the meeting begins.

The Annual Congregational Report was attached to the weekly email as well and printed copies are available in the narthex. The line item budget and balance sheet are not included in the Annual Report but paper copies of both are available in the narthex. If aren’t here with us today but you would like to have paper copies, or you know someone who would like to receive a paper copy of the Annual Report or budget mailed please contact Lisa in the church office.

Your fellow servant in Christ,

Pastor Suloff

Souper Bowl Sunday Soup & Hoagie Sale!

Souper Bowl Sunday Soup (and Chili) & HOAGIE Sale!

We will once again be having our annual Hoagie & Soup Sale on Super Bowl Sunday, February 9th with all proceeds going to support our Social Ministry and Children, Youth & Family efforts at St. Peter's! If you are interested in participating or plan on making soup or chili for the sale please contact Sue Speers or use the sign up sheet that will be available in the chapel. Soup cups are available now! Soups will be available for $5 each or 5 for $20 and Hoagies will be available for $8 each or 4 for $25.

Also, GO BIRDS!!!!

Sunday Morning Worship! Baptism of our Lord Spoken Word Service

Sunday Worship!

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, January 12th for the BAPTISM OF OUR LORD SPOKEN WORD SERVICE!

Join us as we celebrate and proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.

The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Important Boar's Head Festival and Sunday Worship Updates!

Hi St. Peter's! Hope you are all staying warm in all this cold and wind!! We have a number of items to update you on for this weekend for both worship on Sunday and the Boar's Head Festival throughout the weekend so let's get to it...

1) Sunday Morning Worship will be a Spoken Word Service - our choir and musicians do so much during a weekly basis but especially during this time of year (and always!) so we have decided to make the Sunday morning worship service a Spoken Word Service and there will be no music (these hard working folks need both a little break and an opportunity to rest their voices - singing isn't easy, it's why the Pastor doesn't do it!). We will be celebrating communion as always and the rest of the worship service will be basically the same as usual (sorry in advance for the boring sermon, can't be helped). Also, we will not be having Sunday School this coming Sunday. Both Music and Sunday School will resume next Sunday, January 19th.

2) If you would like to attend the Boar's Head Festival, or know someone who would, tickets are still available so don't hesitate - while we livestream the worship service, we do not livestream the Boar's Head Festival! A link can be found below for you to order your tickets right now.

3) For all cast, musicians, crew, and anyone else helping out with the Boar's Head Festival we ask that you please park over at the Fire station across Germantown Avenue and use the Shuttle service to come over to the church so that we have adequate parking for all of our guests this weekend.

4) For all cast, musicians, crew, and anyone else helping out with the Boar's Head Festival we ask that you please arrive for dress rehearsal by 6pm for our 7pm start and by 12pm on both Saturday and Sunday for our 1pm showtime starts so that there will be plenty of time for costuming and makeup.

5) Finally, we appreciate everyone's support in this tremendous ministry where we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all. If you have any questions regarding any of the above items or anything else for the coming weekend please contact Pastor Suloff directly.

A Brief History of the Boar's Head Festival

A Brief History of the Boar’s Head Festival

by John Shiffert

The signature event in the St. Peter’s evangelism calendar since 1980, the Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival celebrated its 42nd renewal in January 2025. Thus, there is a lot of history to the Boar's Head at St. Peter’s, far too much for this venue. So, we’ll take a brief dive into origins.

According to the program for the fourth St. Peter’s festival (Jan. 8. Jan. 9, 1983), the original Boar’s Head dates back to Roman times, with the serving of the Boar’s Head (one would assumed a cooked boar’s head, since it was the first dish at the great Roman feasts) representing the triumph of Christ over evil, since the boar was considered a menace to man and a great evil in Norman England. (Something William the Conqueror would agree to.)

As to the first boar’s head procession, mythology tells us that a youth was walking through a forest, studying a book of Aristotle when he was attacked by a wild boar. He shoved Aristotle down the boar’s throat with the cry of “Graecum est!” Latin for “It’s Greek to me” (what Aristotle had to do with a Christian legend is a mystery). More specifically, Oxford and Cambridge universities were holding boar’s head festivals as early as the 14th Century.

Jumping ahead to January 1979, another fearless individual, St. Peter’s organist and choirmaster Robert H. “Bob” Rosenberger, flew to Palm Beach, Florida to research a festival held at an Episcopalin church there. As the “father” of St. Peter’s Boar’s Head Festival, Bob was the guiding light of a successful pageant for many years. His only disappointment with St. Peter’s festival was that they could never get permission to use a live donkey to bring the holy family on stage.

Speaking of the holy family, the program for the 1983 Boar's Head has a couple of interesting inclusions. We all know that our distinguished Church Council President, Gary Rotenbury, now fulfills the role of Joseph with heart, passion and song. However, in 1983, the role of Joseph was a non-singing role, and Gary was playing Good King Wenceslas. As for the holy family, Susan Neborak played Mary and a totally non-singing John Shiffert, Sr. played Joseph. A well-known “ham” himself, Jack Shiffert was a fine actor, but a terrible singer… lol.

Sunday Morning Worship! Epiphany of our Lord!

Sunday Worship!

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY, January 5th for the EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD!

Join us as we celebrate and proclaim and share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.

The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!

Support St. Peter's with RaiseRight!

SUPPORT ST. PETER’S WITH RAISERIGHT!

RaiseRight (formerly ShopWithScrip) has been in operation at St. Peter’s since 2007. So far, the RaiseRight program has contributed $41,700.00 to St. Peter’s. This includes $2,100.00 raised in 2023. When someone buys RaiseRight cards, they pay the face value of the card and they get the face value of the card. St. Peter’s receives a percentage of that face value from RaiseRight. The customer doesn’t need to do anything except purchase the cards. The “donation” part of the process is all done behind the scenes.

Gift card purchases through RaiseRight are available in various increments. $5, $10, $25 and $100 cards are available and all amounts help pay down the church mortgage. Go to www.RaiseRight.com and sign up (our Enrollment Code is 84AE323B15851). If you are placing an on-line order for physical cards (e-cards are available from some retailers), please place the order by Sunday at 8:00 p.m. for pickup the following Sunday at church. Or you can place a paper order with Jane Stettler at the front door of the church before or after the service using cash or check. Please email Jane or the church office with any questions.

Boar's Head Festival 2025!

BOAR’S HEAD FESTIVAL 2025!!!

42nd Presentation of the Boar’s Head Festival

January 11 & 12, 2025

January 11th at 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm

January 12th at 1pm. and 4pm

For more information about tickets please use the button or QR code below, or to participate in the Boar’s Head Festival please contact the Church Office or use the button below. The Boar's Head Choir Rehearsal Schedule can be found on the church website.

Christmas Eve Worship!

Christmas Eve Worship!

Join us for Christmas Eve Worship! Our Family Service at 3pm (more kid-friendly, glow sticks instead of lit candles, but still all the good stuff of Christmas Eve worship) or for our Traditional Service at 8pm (candles, basically what you grew up with, a super pretty and wonderful service). We hope to worship with you in-person or online this Christmas Eve - and don’t forget to share with your friends to join us in sharing the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all!

Tuesday, December 24th

3pm - Family Christmas Eve Service

8pm - Traditional Christmas Eve Service