PollyPress June 22, 2026

This week’s PollyPress includes thanks for the Father’s Day luncheon, scholarship information for students, summer worship and ministry schedule updates, Green Team encouragement for Plastic Free July, volunteer reminders, Filling Station needs, and ways to watch worship online. Father’s Day Luncheon Pollocksville Presbyterian Church shared thanks to the Women of the Church for planning and […]

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Lessons and Carols

This Sunday, our service will be a Festival of Lessons and Carols.  The nine scriptures can be found here.  On Christmas Eve of 1918, the world had just gone through four years of World War I.  Nearly a generation of people were wiped out due to war and disease.  Unfortunately, the world was in the

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“A Voice Cries Out”

For this Sunday, we will be in John 1:6-8, 19-28. John has no title.  John is not given the title “John the Baptist” or “John the Baptizer”.  He is simply John.  And John has one purpose:  To testify to the Light. In verse twenty, after being asked by the religious leaders if he was the

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“The Good News Begins”

The scripture for this Second Sunday of Advent is Mark 1:1-8.   Mark is the oldest and shortest of the four Gospels.  The word “gospel” itself means “good news”.  And Mark begins this book with the words “[t]he beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, God’s Son…”. Compared to the other three Gospels, Mark

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“Wilderness Food”

Our scripture for Sunday is Exodus 16:1-21.  The Hebrews are in their third month of the journey toward the Promised Land.  They are hungry and have suddenly forgotten God’s powerful acts that brought them from captivity to freedom.  Times are tough for them and already, people are ready to go back to slavery because they

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“I AM”

This Sunday’s passage is Exodus 2:11-3:22. Moses is now an adult and he is fleeing for his life!  Pharaoh knows what he did.  So, he makes it to Midian and there he meets his future wife and he settles and they have a son. Pretty impressive. But, at the end of chapter two, more time

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“Midwives of Compassion”

The scripture for this Sunday is Exodus 1:1-2:10. The Hebrews had been in Egypt for some time.  Joseph, his brothers, and all who knew them had died.  A new king came to power in Egypt who did not know Joseph and he feared the Israelites.  Pharaoh forced the Hebrews into work gangs and enslaved them.

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