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This Sunday
Fellowship Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00 AM
Worship Services
8:30 & 11:00
Preaching this week:
Rev. Jamie Butcher
Youth Group,
grades 6-12, meets at 5:30pm at APC |
The Good News Email Information
The Good News - This Week is a publication of Alpharetta Presbyterian Church for its members
and friends.
Send your comments and suggestions to connections
@alpharettapres.com.
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Ollies' Offerings
We are excited to share with you a new benefit of membership at APC! The church is about to launch a new software innovation that will give you, the members of our congregation, the ability to access multiple, new functions online. You will be able to make changes to your address, phone numbers, email addresses and other items related to your membership records. Your membership profile can only be seen by you. However your contact details (just as they have appeared in print directories) will be available to registered members of the congregation. You can control how much, or how little, information you share. Our new system will be "launching" on June 10. Among the many benefits are:
- Online access to the church directory from your computer or smart phone
- Better involvement in small groups
- More efficient communication among small group leaders and members
- Online event registration
- Online giving
We will be holding training sessions during the 9:45 hour in the Fellowship Hall and again after the 11:00 worship service. Come get an introduction to the new system or get one-on-one help getting your account set up.
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Congregational Meeting
Please attend a congregational meeting on Sunday, June 17. We will meet at noon in the sanctuary to vote on the Session's recommendation to transfer land to the City of Alpharetta. This transfer was requested by the city and has been studied by the Property Committee and approved by Session. This thin strip borders Academy Street and totals 0.12 acres. In exchange for the land the city will provide the church $10,000 in landscaping. The city needs the land for the Haynes Bridge Road realignment project, which includes widening Academy Street to include a dedicated left turn lane into our church driveway. This project is envisioned to improve safety and traffic flow. If approved by the congregation, this transaction will also need the approval of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. |
Summer Series
Molly Elkind's summer series, Seek His Face: Images of Jesus in Art, will not meet this week, June 10. It will resume next Sunday, June 17, at 9:45 am in the theater. Come see how believers encountered Jesus "face to face" in Byzantine icons and learn how the appearance of Jesus that we recognize today came to be. |
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VBS Update
Plans and preparations are in full swing for this years VBS. We expect to have 350 children in attendance and we need your help! Our mission focus for this year's VBS is Haiti. Our VBS attendees will be creating educational materials and games for the children of Haiti and donating them through our partnership with La Gonave Haiti Partnership. Please save your cans ( soup, bean, broth, etc) to be donated. Also we have placed a Helping Hands board in the hallway outside Fellowship Hall. Please help us make our VBS successful and serve the children of Haiti through donating supplies and volunteering the week of VBS, July 10-13. Volunteers can contact Kristin Hicks at kristinhicks@bellsouth.net |
| Ladies Night Out - Zumba!
What is Zumba? It is an exhilarating, easy-to-follow, dance-fitness program. Put on your workout clothes and join us Saturday, June 23. We will meet at APC at 6:30pm and caravan to Fellowship Christian High School for the Zumba Party!!! Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Proceeds benefit the children of the Dominican Republic. RSVP to Pam Heydinger at 770-664-8354 or pamheydinger@comcast.net.
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 Calling Any Artists!Calling any artists, art students, art teachers! ACT1 urgently needs someone with artistic ability to help with the set for "The Wind in the Willows" this summer! If you help with the set, you will be rewarded with free tickets for a performance! Please contact Dianne McNaughton as soon as possible for details and to see if you can help with this fun project! diannemcnaughton@comcast.net |
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STARS News
Join the STARS for the July 4th concert and celebration with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestrs at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Spectacular fireworks follow the concert! Tickets are $22.50 for reserve seating and the firm deadline to signup and pay is Thursday, June 21. Meet at the back parking lot to carpool at 6:45pm. See the signup sheet and more details on the STARS bulletin board in the lobby. |
Career Transition
APC Career Transition Program - Recently the unemployment rate in Metro Atlanta dropped from 10.2% to 9.9 %. When individuals are no longer job hunting, as well as those who seek full-time jobs are counted, the real rate of unemployment is a conservative figure of 15%. Since 2007, Georgia has lost 360,000 positions, so the state now has approximately the same number of jobs that existed in 1999. Elder Bill Harris leads efforts at APC to address the employment concerns and needs your help. We are trying to get a handle on how many of our members are unemployed and underemployed and whether or not they participate in the Career Transition Group at APC. If you would like employment assistance, please email Bill at w.m.harris@att.net. If you work for or lead an organization, we would appreciate any information on positions that might represent opportunities that become available or contact names that would ensure a more effective outreach. We need our employed professionals and executives to reach out and make information available that will give a competitive edge to members of our congregation who are endeavoring to gain a sense of the real jobs and hidden market versus Internet postings. In the Lobby, the Career Transition Bulletin Board is now up and running. Please email Bill with any assistance you can offer as we renew our commitment to serve our members, veterans and the community in this challenging and prolonged Recession. |
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Youth Ministry News
June Youth Group Dates - June 10 and June 24 from 5:30 - 7:30pm at APC (no dinner served)
Click here for an Informational Bulletin about our CROSS and Appalachia Mission Trips.
During the summer, we will not send a weekly newsletter via e-mail, rather, we will send periodic information about summer activities and mission trips as needed. Please continue to refer to the Good News and the Youth Website for information.
For questions or more information, please contact Kelly Edwards, Director of Youth Ministries at kelly@alpharettapres.com or 770-751-0033. |
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Children's Ministry News
Disciples' Village will not meet during the summer. We will welcome everyone back on Rally Day, August 19.
Nursery care is provided on Sundays from 8:15am - 12:15pm for ages 0-2 in the nursery.
Promise Class is provided on Sundays during the 11:00 worship service for our special needs students in the Blue Room.
Kinderkirk (Children's Worship Education for children ages 3 - First Grade) will be during the 11:00 service only during the summer. Preschool classes will meet in Room 105 and Kindergarten and first grade in Room 108. |
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Sympathy & Celebrations
Sympathy - To Tana Wagner, her sister Roxann and her nieces Katie and Abbie, at the death of her brother-in-law, John Case, on Tuesday, June 5 in Ohio.
Sympathy - To the family and friends of Michelle Michaels, who died Thursday, May 31. Services were held on Tuesday, June 5.
Celebration - Congratulations to Chuck and Rebecca Watson at the marriage of their daughter Emily to Mark Beavers on Saturday, June 9. |
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Sunday Volunteers
Serving as greeters this Sunday: Sybille Johnstone at 8:30 Serving as ushers this Sunday: George and Susie Meyers, Carolyn Dillon, Wilson Borden at 8:30 & Ken Bogle, Larry Prohl, Dale Carter, Dot Van Dyke at 11:00 Promise Class volunteers this Sunday: Fran Mosher |
| APC Church Officers
The Session
Class of 2012 Class of 2013 Class of 2014
Dianne Berry-Children's Ministry George Bancroft-Property Scott Doll-Membership/Youth Ministry
Michelle Burton-Youth Ministry Jodie Barger-Children's Ministry Molly Elkind-Worship
Morris Estes-Finance Lynn Danson-Fellowship/Mission Stu Laubenstein-Personnel
Jim Gray-Clerk of Session/CE Pat Dennis-Open Arms Anne Mahone-Dayschool/LRP
John Shevlin-Mission Stacy Guy-Commitment/Commun. Charles Moriarty-Property/CE
Jessie Prigge-Youth Ministry Nancy Hill-Personnel/Nominating Sarah Provow-Open Arms/Commitment
Amy Rogers-Communications Jan Hughey-LRP/Finance Ferrell White-Worship/Fellowship
Jean Williams-Nominating/Membership Kylie Vacko-Open Arms
Deacon Care Teams
Hospitality - John Hicks, 678-513-4570, hicksjc@bellsouth.net
Companion Care - Carolyn Dillon, 770-751-3799, csdillon@bellsouth.net
Hospital & Recovery - Paul McChesney, 678-234-8471, paulsmcchesney@gmail.com
Sympathy & Celebrations, Steve Ludlow, 770-722-5473, ludlowst@comcast.net
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Find us on Facebook! That's right Alpharetta Presbyterian Church has a facebook page! You can "like" APC at http://facebook.com/alpharettapres. Look for the latest information about activities and missions of the church! |
The Good News - This Week
Alpharetta Presbyterian Church.
You can visit the church on line at www.alpharettapres.com or contact the office during regular business hours at 770-751-0033 (Mon-Thurs, 8:00am-4:00pm and Friday, 8:00am-1:00pm). |
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