Hebron (Clay Center, Kan.) RPC

Ronald Graham, pastor

The annual congregational meeting was held Feb. 2 following a Family Night supper.

The Covenanter Youth Spring Retreat was held in Minneola on Mar. 5-6. Local youth who attended were Emily Graham, Shawn Cowley, Kyle Finley, and Jeremiah Hamer.

A Valentine’s banquet was held on Feb. 12, with the youth hosting. Proceeds will be used for summer camp.

The men’s prayer breakfast group hosted their annual pancake supper on Mar. 2. Several members refurbished the church by installing new flooring in the kitchen and entryways, painting the kitchen and bathrooms.

Midwest Presbyterial was held at Hebron on Apr. 7-8. The theme was “The Face of God,” and was presented by Mary Spear. Sixty-eight attended.

Pastor Graham assisted with communion in Quinter, Kan., and Rev. Gene Spear preached at Hebron RPC on Apr. 24. The spring communion was held May 29.

Shawn Cowley has been accepted to go on the Japan RP mission trip this summer.

—Mae Henderson, correspondent

College Hill (Beaver Falls, Pa.) RPC

Anthony Selvaggio, pastor

Spring found the College Hill RPC once again congratulating its graduates (see Brief Notes). A number of members and adherents were specially honored at the Geneva College commencement: Juliann Spencer, one of the valedictorians; Heather Carleton, summa cum laude; and Tabitha Stahl, summa cum laude with an education prize; Joel Mason and Katie McKay, music honor; Matt Stewart, three honors; Cassandra Latvala, library prize; Rachel McMahan, psychology honor; Juliann Spencer, English prize; and Becca Stewart, education and athletic prizes.

On May 2, the congregation said farewell to 19 Geneva seniors—members and adherents—who have worshiped with the congregation over the past few years. Each was presented with a copy of The Book of Psalms for Singing.

This spring, the congregation was amply represented in the cast and crew of Hello, Dolly! the annual musical theater production presented by Beaver County Christian School. Sharing the leads were Ailie Kilpatrick (Dolly) and Ian Smith (Horace Vandergelder). Others in the cast were Esther Carleton, Jeremy Glovier, Peter Carson, Bethany Stahl, and Molly Carson. Involved in the crew and orchestra and among the supporting staff were Lauren McBurney, Sarah Carleton, Jed Wallace, Jacque Stahl, Bethany Warren, Ken Carson, and Debbie Glovier.

On May 25, the eleventh annual Henry Awards program took place at Geneva College. The capacity crowd at Metheny Fieldhouse was entertained with representative selections from 14 musicals presented earlier this spring by high schools in Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence counties. These awards are named for a Beaver County native, the late composer Henry Mancini. The following College Hill RPC members received awards: Jeremy Glovier and Esther Carleton, outstanding performance by a group; Ailie Kilpatrick, outstanding female in a leading role; and Ian Smith, outstanding male in a leading role.

—Norman Carson, correspondent

RPCNA Ministers Gather at the Banner of Truth Conference

(See Picture) Though they didn’t plan to participate en masse, a fourth of the active RPCNA pastors were among the nearly 200 attendees at the 2005 Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference, May 24-26 at Messiah College, Grantham, Pa. Pictured here are, left to right: Ian Wise (Triangle [Raleigh-Durham, N.C.] RPC), Barry York (Sycamore [Kokomo, Ind.] RPC), Keith Magill (home missionary for Great Lakes–Gulf Presbytery), Christopher Bogosh (theological student in Atlantic Presbytery), Steve Bradley (Trinity [Beltsville, Md.] RPC), Steve Rockhill (Lisbon, N.Y., RPC), Ray Morton (Oakdale and Sparta, Ill., RPCs), Matt Kingswood, (church planter, Russell, Ontario), Jared Olivetti (associate pastor, Lafayette, Ind., RPC), Christian Adjemian (Cambridge, Mass., RPC), Keith Black (co-pastor, Geneva [Beaver Falls, Pa.] RPC), Gordon Keddie (Southside Indianapolis, Ind., RPC), David Reese (Springs Reformed [Colorado Springs, Colo., RPC), Scott Wilkinson (church planter, Kitchener, Ontario), Bruce Backensto(co-pastor, Geneva [Beaver Falls, Pa.] RPC), Brian Coombs (church planter north of Syracuse, N.Y.), Dave Long (Lafayette, Ind., RPC), Ted Donnelly (conference speaker, and pastor of Trinity RPC, Newtownabby, N. Ireland), Aaron Goerner (Christ Church [Utica, N.Y.] RPC), Ken Smith (retired pastor), Bruce Martin (Ridgefield Park, N.J., RPC), Anthony Selvaggio (College Hill [Beaver Falls, Pa] RPC), and Brad Johnston (Walton, N.Y., RPC).