Community Life
Fellowship Meals
Occurs monthly following the morning worship service, usually in a potluck fashion; sometimes a picnic in the summer.
Welcome Luncheon
A monthly gathering for visitors, new and occasional attenders to find a place to belong, learn to know other people at PMC, and learn about the programs, missions, and other small groups of the congregation.
Shipmates
A mentor program that partners a junior high youth with an adult in the church with whom they can have a special connection, provides social activities.
Fall Picnic
Every year, as the summer ends, the church meets at one of the surrounding parks. The annual outdoor worship usually held on first Sunday of September with Sunday morning worship and relaxed fellowship afternoon before the school season begins again.
The 2007 annual outdoor worship was held on September 2 at Wildwood Recreation Site. With attendance of 170 we spent time worshiping God, sharing good food and enjoying the fellowship with each other.
Spring Retreat
Annual all-church weekend at the coast to enjoy each other's fellowship. The 2008 retreat has been scheduled for May 9-11 at Twin Rocks Retreat Center.
Women's Retreat
Each fall, the women of PMC gather at a retreat site for a weekend to learn to know each other better, relaxation, reflection, good conversation and fun.
Library
Provides books, periodicals, videos and other resources to people of the church.
Other Church Committees of interest:
Home and Special Interest
Provides nurture and support during significant life events such as baby births, weddings, illnesses and death.
Peace, Justice and the Environment
Provides awareness and education from an explicitly Christian perspective about issues of peace, justice and the environment and provides opportunities for deepening involvement in ways of respectfully addressing these problems.
Property and Facility
Oversees the regular maintenance of the church facility and grounds.
Worship Team
Provides leadership of the Sunday morning worship services, as well as the Good Friday, Easter Sunrise and Christmas Eve services, by planning the themes and Scripture texts and coordinating the Worship planners who put the service together.
Colombia Sister Church Committee
PMC has been in a Sister Church relationship with the Anolaima Mennonite Church, 11/2 hours southwest of Bogotá, since January 2003. The purpose of the CSC Committee is to be our congregation's link to the congregation in Anolaima, to encourage mutual interaction and support for the work each church is doing.
Seven people from PMC have traveled to Colombia to learn more about the life and work of Colombian Mennonites. E-mail letters are exchanged with Anolaima on a regular basis. Pen-pal relationships have been established between youth in both congregations. Some advocacy work has taken place in calling on our elected officials to use their influence to encourage just actions in relating to Colombia. We pray regularly for the people of Anolaima.
For more information visit the Justapaz website.
The most recent letters FROM and TO our Colombia Sister Church can be viewed as Word Documents
For a complete listing of committees and members see the annual report.