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St Timothy Evangelical
Lutheran Church
140 South Ott Street
Allentown, PA 18104
610-435-6512
Handicapped
Accessible
The peace of Christ be with you!
God welcomes everyone, and so do we.
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The
Service of Holy Communion begins at 9:30 a.m.
each Sunday for our Summer Schedule.(June 16th-September
1st/Labor Day Weekend). On
the first Sunday of the month the music normally is led by our Glorious
Day praise band. The Service of the Holy Communion begins at 10:30AM each Sunday during our Fall/Winter/Spring schedule. On the first Sunday of the month the music normally is led by our Glorious Day praise band. |
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Core
Values of St. Timothy Church:
The
congregation of St. Timothy, in our Annual Congregational
Meeting on January 22, 2023, affirmed the following values as
the core values of our congregation. They will
serve as guides for decisions about mission direction,
ministries, and strategic planning
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COVID Protocols:
The protocols while in St. Timothy’s building are as follows:
- Anyone who is not feeling well or who knows
they have been exposed
to COVID is asked to stay home until it has been determined that
they are COVID-free.
-The wearing of face masks is voluntary.
(Masks are available in the narthex, should you need one.)
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These
learning opportunities are available again at 9:00 a.m. each
Sunday beginning September
8th, 2024.
There is something for everyone, so please join us as we seek to learn, ponder faith and life, and grow in spirit.
Classes for children and youth meet on the lower level of our building. You may enter off of the parking lot or by
the upper level, front door. Younger
children through elementary school age will engage in
age-appropriate lessons
Junior high
and high school level youth will follow a Bible-survey course that
invites them to apply the Scriptures
St. Timothy’s Adult Forum meets in the lounge on the upper level of our building.
(Should the weather be inclement, we will move the service indoors.)
On all other Sundays, the worship service will be held indoors, in the nave.
Please use the Ott St. entrance, and please follow the COVID protocols noted above.
All are welcome
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St. Timothy is a
partner and one of the host congregations of Family
Promise of Lehigh Valley, a charitable organization which
seeks, without
judgment, to help families who are experiencing homelessness.
For more information and/or to offer support, please visit the
Family Promise of Lehigh Valley website,
Family Promise of the
Lehigh Valley supports children experiencing
homelessness and their families. Since their inception in
11/2018 they have
served 31 families. In September they enrolled their first
prevention
family and have now prevented 9 additional families from being
homeless.
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St. Timothy: Ministry of the Month – 2023
This year, St. Timothy Church continues
its “Ministry of the Month” effort in which a specific social
ministry or justice effort is named as a focal point for each
month. Check out the websites of these life-
imbuing organizations.
- Allentown
YMCA Warming
Station
The Allentown YMCA Warming Station, open each night,
November 1 through April 30, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.,
the Y's Warming Station
provides shelter, food, and a safe place for those experiencing homelessness in Allentown. The goals are to always greet guests with kindness,
to provide a safe place for them to sleep, and to offer a dignified sense of community for neighbors in need. The Y also serves healthy, prepared
meals Mondays through Fridays to
Warming Station guests.
You may support the Allentown YMCA
Warming Station by becoming a volunteer.
To learn more, Contact Tim
Larney at timlarney@gv-ymca.org
The NAMI (National Alliance on
Mental Illness) Lehigh Valley. 
As stated on the NAMI LV website,
“Mental illnesses are brain disorders that are
biologically based medical problems. Untreated, they can cause
severe disturbances in thinking, feeling and relating. This
results in substantially diminished capacity for dealing with
the ordinary demands of life. Mental illness can affect
persons of any age and occur in any family. They are not caused
by bad parenting and not evidence of weakness of character.”
NAMI is “dedicated to improving the quality of life for people
with mental illness and their
families through support, education, and advocacy.”
For more information about NAMI,
go to their website, https://nami-lv.org/
Allentown
Area
Ecumenical Food Bank
The Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank is Allentown’s only daily food bank, assisting families in need from Monday through Friday. Every dollar of your support helps provide this crucial support to approximately 57,000 people each year.
For more information, please visit the website, https://allentownfoodbank.org/
The Conference Kitchen ensures that the working poor, homeless, elderly, children, people between jobs, individuals on fixed incomes, and those who have nowhere else to turn can receive a free nutritious meal, three times a day, five days a week. Volunteers help prepare and serve the food.
For more information visit the LCC website:
https://lehighchurches.org/ OR
Dubbs
Memorial Community Center
457
W. Allen Street, Allentown, PA 18102
info@lehighchurches.org
Community
Action Lehigh Valley
Community
Action Lehigh Valley is an anti-poverty nonprofit serving the
greater Lehigh Valley through programs focusing on Youth,
Neighborhood
Revitalization, Housing, Food Access and Nutrition, Business Start-up & Development, & Advocacy.
The
mission of Community Action Lehigh Valley is to improve the quality of
life by building a community in
which all people have access to economic opportunity,
the ability to pursue that opportunity, and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.
For more information the website is: https://www.communityactionlv.org/
Lehigh
Valley Aging in Place
Lehigh Valley Aging in Place (LVAIP) has been a resource helping families help seniors since 2005. The annual resource guide provides information regarding over 100 members serving senior needs, with 10,000 guides distributed yearly!
In 2018, LVAIP hosted the Senior Expo, bringing over 200 professionals together in one space for the public, another valuable annual resource. For these and many other reasons we invite you to join our membership or use our resources!
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ShareCare Faith in Action
Mission: ShareCare Faith in Action provides free volunteer services to elderly or disabled persons in order to enhance quality of life. * We serve people regardless of race, sex or religion. * We do not evangelize or convert.
Our services are not designed for medical or emergency care.
You
Can Reach Us At:
ShareCare Faith In Action
610-867-2177
ShareCare8@aol.com
321 Wyandotte Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
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If you are interested in Volunteering for Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley please call Melinda or Dawn at 610-691-1030.
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Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley
The mission of PNLV is to foster cooperation among residents within the Greater Lehigh Valley to create safe, healthy, vibrant, inclusive neighborhoods, where children succeed in school and where adults and families thrive and want to live.
Led by Executive Director, and community organizer, Hasshan Batts, and a volunteer board directors, PNLV is located at 333 W. Union Street in Allentown. More information can be found on its Facebook page, Instagram, Youtube and www.promiseneighborhoodslv.org
Previous Ministries of the Month
Lutheran
Disaster
Response
To learn more, go to https://www.ELCA.org/disaster
NAACP ALLENTOWN—UNIT
2247
Contact info: P.O. Box 9418; ALLENTOWN, PA, 18105 -- (610) 797-1107
Web Site- https://naacpallentown.org/ OR email to naacpallentown@gmail.com
Miller-Keystone
Blood
Center
Please also consider becoming a blood donor.
More information can be found at
Wildlands
Conservancy
Wildlands Conservancy main office is at 3701 Orchid Place, Emmaus.
Learn
much more about Wildlands Conservancy by exploring their website
https://www.wildlandspa.org/
LAMPa
Bethany Christian Services.
The mission statement of the organization is: “Bethany demonstrates the love and compassion
of Jesus Christ by protecting children, empowering youth, and strengthening families through
quality social services.” Learn much more about Bethany Christian Services by going to their website.
Communities in Schools - CIS.
The mission of Communities in Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
CIS works to ensure that every child has these five
basics”: a one-on-one relationship with a caring adult,
a safe place to learn and grow, a healthy
start and a healthy future, a marketable skill to use upon
graduation, and a chance to give back to peers and to
community. Learn much more
about CIS of Eastern PA by going to their website,
https://www.ciseasternpa.org/
VAST – Valley against Sex Trafficing.
“Through
collaboration, education, and advocacy, VAST empowers
survivors and encourages the community to take action in the
anti-trafficking movement.”
Their vision is to “eliminate human trafficking end sexual
exploitation.” Learn much more about Valley Against Sex
Trafficking by going to their website.
href=https://www.vast.ngo/
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)..
“For more than 80
years, LIRS has offered welcome and hope to more than half a
million refugees. Since 1939, LIRS has transformed lives,
with the support of
people like you, to welcome the most vulnerable to the
United States — from sea to shining sea. Together we have
supported, equipped and empowered these new Americans, while
advocating for policy that protects all of God’s children.
href=https://www.lirs.org/
Valley Health Partners..
“Valley Health
Partners Community Health Center (VHP) is a nonprofit
organization recognized as a Federally Qualified Health
Center Look-Alike (FQHC-LA).
An FQHC-LA is a community health center that provides
comprehensive primary care and other services, and does
not turn patients away based on their ability to pay.
Valley Health Partners provides “Street Medicine” which is
founded on the idea that everybody matters.
For more information on Valley Health Partners, please
visit their website:
href=https://www.valleyhealthpartners.org/
Habitat for Humanity..
“Habitat for Humanity
of the Lehigh Valley's mission is to help families in
need. Not with a hand out, but with a hand up.
“Habitat’s affordable, no-profit house payments
free up money for food, child care, medicine and other
necessities. And research has shown that decent housing
improves health, increases children’s
educational achievement, and strengthens community ties.
To learn more about Habitat for Humanity LV, go to their
website:
href=https://www.habitatlv.org/
LWR - Lutheran World Relief..
Lutheran World Relief
(LWR) tackles global poverty by helping people adapt
to the challenges that threaten their livelihoods
& well-being. LWR works with people based on need,
regardless of race, religion, or nationality. “Founded
[in 1945] by Lutherans in the US at the end of World
War II, grounded in Lutheran theology & building
on decades of experience.
To learn much more about LWR, please go to their
website:
href=https://www.lwr.org/
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Welcome to St. Timothy's Little Free Library
What is a Little Free Library?
It's a take a book, return a book gathering place where neighbors share their favorite literature and stories.
In
its most basic form, a Little Free Library is a box
full of books where anyone may stop
by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back
another book to share. You can too!
We
invite you to bring a book you enjoyed to share with
neighbors and to borrow a book from
this Little Free Library as often as you like. You
don't need a library card and there is no cost.
Now open so take a book, return a book.
Happy reading!
