Pleasant Hill Church of the Brethren offers Sunday School classes for all ages every Sunday morning starting at 9:15 A.M. Here you can find a description of each class to find one that works best for you. Use the links on the left to quickly scroll to a particular class.

    Class for younger children before kindergarten.

    Class for elementary age children with different classes.

This cycle's curriculum is "Journey to Bethlehem".
People in Bible times waited with anticipation for the coming of the Savior. During Advent, we wait and prepare to celebrate the birth of the promised Savior, Jesus. The coming of Jesus is the gift of Christmas, something we can remember and celebrate all year.

Different activities for our children include:
   Story
   Games
   Art
   Music
   Computer
   Science
   Cooking
   Video

For more information, check out the K-4 Sunday School Blog

    Class for middle school age children.

    Class for high school age children.

We are a class for parents who like their little ones close during Sunday School.

Our discussions are really for the parents, but we can keep an eye on our kids while we’re at it.  We meet in the Nursery so that the children can occupy themselves.

We are a laid-back class currently using the book “The Gospel According to the Simpsons.”  This book gives us a humorous opening to some serious topics, all the while keeping us in the scriptures.  Anyone is welcome to join, kids or no kids.  Just plan to find a comfy spot on the floor with a toddler or two climbing over you!

Currently discussing these topics:

·        What Is Important In Life?

·        The Power of Prayer

·        Skepticism and Blind Faith

·        When Bad Things Happen to Good People

·        What Is a Soul?

·        Little Sins and Big Sins

·        Lead Us Not Into Temptation

·        How We See the Bible

·        Calling and Tradition

·        Knowing God and Being Part of a Community of Faith

Some of the questions we’re answering (or attempting to):

·        Have you ever wished for something bad to happen to another person?  Do you know someone who has?

·        Does suffering make you more pessimistic, or are you able to find reasons to be positive even in the worst circumstances?

·        Does being part of a faith community help you in times of suffering?

·        Is there a difference between sins committed against God and sins committed against other people?  Does God forgive both kinds?

·        Does God occasionally say no to our prayers?

·        How do you think God responds when we pray for something that is not in our best interest?

·        Have you ever experienced what you feel to be unanswered prayer?

·        Is obeying the Ten Commandments the way to salvation, or is there something else we must do?

·        Do you agree that the Ten Commandments are “ten simple rules that are easy to live by”?

·        Have you ever been tempted to do something that was against your principles?

·        Should a person of faith believe in curses or bad luck?

·        Is there such a thing as a “victimless crime” or “victimless sin”?  Who is the victim in the case of cable theft? (In order to provide cable, the cable company must charge those who receive it.  The loss of revenue from cable theft is then passed on to other customers, which raises their monthly premiums.)

·        How do you know that God is a part of your life?

·        Do you believe that God miraculously reorders the universe in response to our prayers, or do our prayers prepare us to understand God’s will in the “big picture”?

How to Study the Bible

1.  Observation

2.  Interpretation

3.  Application

·        The Book of James

·        Various Passages – Fruit of the Spirit

·        Psalm 139

·        Matthew 6:5-15 (The Lord’s Prayer)

·        1 Corinthians 13 (The Love Chapter)

We meet in one of the basement classrooms.  We welcome you!

The Better Half Class is a group of couples and singles, with an age range from 40s through 60s, that is seeking to grow in faith through Bible study, prayer, witness, and outreach.  We are health care professionals, teachers, bank employees, child care providers, dairy workers, carpenters, hair stylists, customer service representatives, managers, stay-at-home moms, and truck drivers.  Some of us are beginning retirement.  Some of us are still looking forward to it.

We have provided Christmas meals and gifts for families through the New Day Christmas program.  We have sent campers to New Day summer camp.  We have supplied hygiene kits and school kits to the “Gift of the Heart” program.  We carpeted and painted the nursery.  We provide the children’s Bible gifts for child consecration services.  We take food to sick folks.  We pray.

Our study material is varied.  We have used the standard quarterlies as well as topical studies.  We include a time for sharing at the beginning of the class.  Twice, we have challenged ourselves to read through the Bible in a year.  The first time we read through from beginning to end.  Last year, we used a chronological Bible with daily readings.  We just finished a study on Christian living.  We try to relate all of our lessons to everyday life.

Gifts:

·        Bible School

·        Bridge of Hope

·        Cambria City Mission

·        Camp Harmony

·        Christmas Gift Baskets

·        Christmas Gift Cards to Needy

·        CoB Disaster Relief Fund

·        Donations to those going on Mission Trips

·        Donations to MREE Mission to distribute Bibles throughout Russia and Eastern Europe

·        Easter Egg Hunt

·        Families in Need

·        Living/Memorial Trust Fund

·        New Day

·        One Hour of Sharing

·        Red Cross for Flood Disasters in Florida and Louisiana

·        Thanksgiving Gift Baskets

·        Thanksgiving Gift Cards to Needy

·        West End Food Pantry – Special donations at various times during year

·        West End Food Pantry – Weekly Special Offering (ongoing)

Fellowship:

·        Covered Dish Dinners at Church

·        Summer Picnic at Picnic Shelter

·        Fall Hot Dog Roast at Picnic Shelter

·        Birthday Party at Lutheran Home

·        Birthday Party at Presbyterian Home

·        Picnics at home of Bill Edelmann

·        Covered Dish at home of Jerry and Doris Bassett

·        Picnics at Cernic’s Picnic Grove

·        Thanksgiving Covered Dish at the home of Jack and Carol Harrison

·        Christmas Covered Dish Dinners at home of Pastor Phil and Judy

·        Christmas Covered Dish at home of Ray and Elisha Balog

·        Camp Harmony Pig Roast

·        Camp Harmony Christmas Dinners

·        Dinner at Jean Bonnet Tavern – Bedford

·        Fall Foliage Drive and Dinner at Pia Curina Restaurant in Blairsville

·        Drive and Dinner at Spaghetti Vendor Restaurant – Indiana

·        Dinner and Show at Rockwood Mill Shoppes and Opera House

·        Road Rally and Dinner with Alethia Class ending at Froggy Mountain off of Route 30

·        Picnic and Homemade Ice Cream at home of Pastor Phil and Judy

·        End of Year Dinner at Camp Harmony

Greeting Card Project:

·        Baby

·        Birthday

·        Christmas

·        Easter

·        Get Well

·        Sympathy

·        Thanksgiving

·        Thinking of You

·        Valentine

Service:

·        Baby Kits

·        Books

·        Hygiene Kits

·        School Kits

·        Kits for Troops in Iraq

·        Buckets for Disaster Relief

Class Lessons:

·        Study of various books of the Bible

·        Prayers

Alethia:  To search for truth.

We’ve used our weekly offerings to…

…provide Christmas gifts of clothing and toys to abused women and their children at the Women’s Help Center.

…sponsor Multiphasic Blood Screenings at our church.

…donate to fundraisers and sponsor a child at Camp Harmony.

…replace suspended ceiling and purchase fans for the church kitchen.

…donate towards budgets and special fundraisers for The Salvation Army, The West End Food Pantry, and New Day, Inc.

…donate to Mission Discover Center and Mission-Honduras

…hold fundraising dinners for families and individuals in need of financial help.

…provide assistance to those in need.

…donate to The Living Memorial Trust Fund.

…provide Bibles for each person getting baptized or becoming a member of Pleasant Hill CoB.

…provide baskets for auctions at District events.

…donate two heifers to Heifer International.

…provide assistance to our class members when they are in need.

…donate school kits and health kits to be shipped to children in need.

Some of the books we have enjoyed studying are:

·        The Purpose Driven Life

·        Prophecies of the Bible (God’s Word for the Biblically-Inept Series)

·        What Really Counts – Your Guide to Discovering What Matters Most in Life and Letting Go of the Rest

·        Revelation – Unlocking the Mysteries of the End Times

When our funds get low, we sometimes have a class auction (White Elephant Sale).  We always have such a great time doing it!

Our class enjoys going out to eat together.  We are truly Brethren!

Our Road Rallies are great fun.  Join us on our next one!

Some of the things we enjoy doing besides having Auctions and Road Rallies are meeting for picnics at the Grove, Yellow Creek, and the South Fork Dam pavilion.  We’ve made many wonderful memories together.

We are the Keystone Seekers Class.  Our teachers are Jay Carney, Bill Owens, and Chuck Graham.  President is Sue Graham, treasurer is DeVon Saintz, and secretary is Jean Rager, who takes care of our enrollment and sending out Get Well cards to those in the hospital.  Offering is collected every Sunday, which is used towards helping New Day, Cambria City Mission, and towards the building of a handicap ramp at Honduras Orphanage.  We’ve helped Melinda Cameron on a mission trip to Honduras.  Our class sponsors two children named Wilfredo Tejada and Wilfredo Lopez.  If there is a need inside the church or outside the church we will try to help.  Our class has time of fellowship until Sue begins by asking DeVon for a treasure report, followed by any business, and then we address the prayer concerns and praises on the list.  The class shares their prayer concerns too.  A class member is called upon to start us in a word of prayer.  Our teacher, Jay, begins the lesson on Joshua 1:11-16.  The class participates in a discussion on how the lesson applies to our daily living, so that we can live by the example God has taught us.  At the end of class time we all join in saying the Mizpah*. 

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day.  Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

And Mizpah; for he said, the LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent from one another.

Genesis 31:48-49 (KJV)

*May the Lord keep watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.