Lord's Supper Celebration

January 2 (both services) is the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Those who wish to celebrate through livestream at home may pick up their Communion Kits during business hours either on Tuesday, December 29, or Wednesday, December 30. Pioneer will be closed Monday, December 28, and Thursday as well as Friday, December 31 and January 1.

Pioneer Holiday Hours

Please note the following church office hours:

December 23–25 - Closed
December 28 - Closed
December 29–30 - 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
December 31–January 1 - Closed 

Regular office hours are expected to resume at 9:00 AM on January 4, 2021.  We wish you and your family a blessed and peaceful holiday season.

"The Christmas Story"

Please note there will be no in-person Christmas Eve service this year.

Annual Christmas Eve Service

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December 16, 2020

"I Done It for Love"

For this pandemic Christmas, I say let’s forget Covid-19 for a quiet moment. Enough is enough already. Instead, I invite you to sit back with me and let the joy and wonder of Jesus’ First Coming invade our souls. 

Thank You From Roberts Family

Dear Pioneer Family,

Thank you for your prayers, cards and concerns at the time of the passing of my (Ruth's) sister Marietta Deming in early November. Philip and I will go to Arizona this week to complete the tasks needs to prepare her home to be sold. Her home church will have a service for her when we are there. Thank you also for the cyclamen plant that Pastor Glass delivered when I was gone the first time. We look forward to the Golden Morning when Jesus will come.

–Ruth, Ray & Philip Roberts

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December 9, 2020

Praying for Brandon Bernard

We continue to pray for Brandon Bernard, the Seventh-day Adventist 40-year-old awaiting execution in a few hours, December 10, 12:01 AM. Thank you for joining the many who are claiming Proverbs 21:1 on behalf of both this process and this young man. The North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists has posted this statement on its website:

Members in North America Asked to Pray Regarding Adventist on Death Row in Indiana

Happy 98th birthday, to Dr. Steven Tarangle on December 28

The family of Dr. Steven Tarangle wish him a very happy 98th birthday on December 28!

Volunteer Engagement Committee Second Reading

Please find included in this email our Volunteer Engagement Committee report for our second reading. We will be voting this report this coming Saturday in both our worship services. We thank those who have committed their service for the next 2 years as well as the Committee for their exceptional job under extraordinary circumstances for a job well done.
—David Nowack, Co-chair

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December 2, 2020

Don't Forget the Christmas Vaccine!

When I was a sixth-grader at John Nevins Andrews Elementary School in Tacoma Park, Maryland, I can still remember traveling with my parents to a distribution point, where medical personnel was giving all of us small sugar cubes containing the polio vaccine. Subsequently, I never contracted polio, and the disease has essentially been eradicated in this country. 

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