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Father vs Heavenly Father! - 06-15-2025
This coming Sunday, we celebrate Father’s Day, a time to honor and give thanks for the fathers and father figures who have shaped our lives with wisdom, love, and guidance. But as a family of faith, we also pause to reflect on a deeper question: How do we give thanks to our eternal Father in heaven? How do we acknowledge the boundless love and protection of our Holy Guardian, who walks with us every step of our journey?
In recent years, Father’s Day gifts have ranged from practical tools to thoughtful keepsakes—a digital tape measure for precision, a 365-day prayer book for men to nourish the spirit, a smoker oven for shared meals, or a personalized embroidered t-shirt to carry meaningful words close to the heart. Yet beyond these tokens of appreciation, we are reminded that true gratitude goes beyond material offerings.
How do we express our thanks—not only to our earthly fathers—but to our eternal Father? Through worship, reflection, and embracing the lessons of love and forgiveness that He has placed before us. This Sunday, we invite you to gather in faith, as we explore this theme in the sermon “Earth Is Forgiveness School.” Worship begins at 10 AM, and you are warmly welcomed to join us in fellowship, prayer, and praise.
Come, reflect, and celebrate the love that surrounds us—both here on earth and in the heavens above. You are welcome here.
Pastor Jonas
Get the Red on! - 06-08-2025
This coming Sunday, June 8 is Pentecost Sunday, which celebrates the birth of the church.
Pentecost is 50 days after Easter. It’s a period of time the disciples of Jesus are beginning to forget the passion that they once had soon after the resurrection.
What are you passionate about? How are you called to serve Jesus Christ in the community in this season?
So, come to worship with us at Lely Presbyterian Church as we seek to experience the divine in the context of a diverse community as part of the Body of Christ.
Sunday morning worship is at 10:00AM.
Remember to wear the color red in worship to remind us of the fire of God’s Spirit acting in the world and inside every child of God.
See you in church!
-Pastor Jonas Hayes
Lely Presbyterian Church; Address: 110 St Andrews Blvd., Naples, FL 34113; Phone: (239) 774 – 6151; Website: www.lpcnaples.org
Pastor Jonas
Generational Love - 06-01-2025
This coming Sunday, June 1 – the theme of my message for worship is: Generational Love.
In the news, we have been hearing about “intergenerational trauma”. Whenever a person or group oppresses or marginalizes another, many of the victimized people may suffer trauma, and then pass on that trauma.
To all who have experienced generational trauma, Psalm 100 proclaims Generational Love: “The Lord is good. God’s steadfast love endures forever and God’s faithfulness to all generations!” (Psalm 100:5) Come and reflect on God’s word proclaimed in Psalm 100 and to reflect more deeply on how we can proclaim God’s Generational Love in place of the intergenerational trauma which we can experience.
And may God empower us to proclaim and offer God’s Generational Love – and to create space where God’s people can thrive and flourish. Worship is at Lely Presbyterian Church is at 10:00AM. All are welcome.
Welcome to Lely Presbyterian Church. Welcome to worship. Welcome home.
Pastor Jonas Hayes

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