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on First Presbyterian Church
November 10, 2011 |
Celebrate Christmas Heart to Heart with Worship, Lunch, Fellowship |
 Begin your Christmas celebrations with a Heart to Heart three weeks from now, on Friday, December 2. We will gather at 11:30 a.m. and worship together at 11:45 with music, prayer, and a message from Jessica Stollings Strang, "Christ Was Born for This?" At 12:30 we will enjoy lunch together-or you can take a lunch back to work with you.
Please let us know if you need child care (lunch included). We're happy to provide it, but we need to know how many children to expect. Call the church office or email the church at sreuning@fpcbristol.org to let us know you can come (423) 764-7176. Make it a point to invite a friend! |
Our Ethiopia Mission Team Leaves in January |
  First Presbyterian Church's Ethiopia mission team leaves in January! Trudy McFerrin and Peggy Hill will be visiting Berhane Yesus Elementary School in Dembi Dollo as well as other missional programs that FPC has supported in the past. PC(USA) missionaries Michael and Rachel Weller will host the team for part of their travel.
In preparation for the trip, the team earnestly requests your prayers for God's guidance, discernment, and grace for meeting the needs of our missional partners. Trudy and Peggy would also like to carry an abundance of pens (ballpoint or gel), pencils (No. 2 lead), and playground and soccer balls (all sizes) for the 600 schoolchildren at Berhane Yesus. If you would like to donate any of these items, you are welcome to deposit them in the little red house outside the Fellowship Hall anytime during the month of November.
May you be blessed for your continuing generosity to those in need! |
Potluck Supper for College Students Sunday |
 FPC will host a potluck supper for college students this Sunday, November 13. Church members who plan to bring food should have their dish here by 5:15 p.m. We will serve our guests at 5:30 in the Fellowship Hall.
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Fellowship Dinner Menu for November 16 |
 Soup Beans
Corn Bread
Kraut and Sausage
Salad Bar
Dessert
A kids' buffet will be available.
Volunteers:
Morning: Julie King
Servers/Cleanup: Claire & John Pruner/Lee Galliher |
 Please Sign In for Sunday School |
For the safety of our children, please remember to sign your child in and out of Sunday School. Sign-in sheets are located at the Children's Ministries' registration table before Sunday School and will be in the classrooms afterwards. If you have not registered your child for Sunday School, you will find the necessary form at the registration table. |
Nursery for Early Service Needs Volunteers |
Our nursery needs volunteers to care for our babies during the 8:30 a.m. Sunday service. Volunteers may serve only once or as often as they like. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Cathy Newton or Debbie Pfeifer. |
It's Time for Cheerios at Fairmount School |
 Thank you to all who brought in Teddy Grahams for the Fairmount Elementary School snack program! The Neighborhood Initiatives Steering Committee's yearlong program continues with a request for Cheerios for December and January. We're asking folks to bring boxes of multigrain or honey-nut Cheerios to the church and put them in the Little Red House in the Fellowship Hallway. The committee will take them to the school, and the teachers will divide them into snack portions as needed. We need at least 34 boxes to see the children through the next two months.
The Neighborhood Initiatives Steering Committee has been providing afternoon snacks for students whose parents cannot afford to purchase them. Our own Kay Ward, the community outreach liaison at Fairmount, works with the committee to identify the children in need and to distribute snacks to the teachers to hand out each day. Kay has discovered that there are at least two children in each of 23 classrooms whose parents cannot give them snacks. That adds up to a need for 46 snack portions every day, a total of 230 snacks per week, or 920 snacks each month.
Your loving contribution will give a boost in both energy and dignity to children from low-income families by allowing them to enjoy snacks with their classmates. Say a prayer of blessing as you send them on their way! |
Not the Keys to the Kingdom |
We found a car key in a grocery bag of candy intended for our Trunk or Treat event, which took place October 30. We are holding the key in the church office until its owner can claim it. If you think it may be yours, please come by or call the office. |
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Music Notes | |
Music Participants: November 13: Sanctuary Choir, Savior's Singers Children's Choir; November 20: Sanctuary Choir, Jubilate Youth Choir; November 27: Sanctuary Choir.
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George Herbert |
Sunday's Music: This past spring, the Sanctuary Choir recorded seven newly published anthems for St. James Music Press to post to their website so that choir directors could hear how these works might sound. This week's anthem, "King of Glory, King of Peace," was one of those selections. The text, by the seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert, is a reflection on our need to constantly praise God. The music setting by composer Roland Martin, who lives and works in Buffalo, NY, musically matches the lyricism and elegance of Herbert's text.
Special Christmas Music: You will want to mark your calendars now: the Sanctuary Choir, joined by the Savior's Singers Children's Choir and the sixth-through-eighth graders in the Jubilate Youth Choir, will present Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols during the 11:00 service on Sunday, December 11. This beautiful work, accompanied by harp, is a setting of some medieval English poems relating to the nativity. To enhance our understanding of these poems, our resident medieval English scholar, Dr. Craig McDonald, will present the Wednesday night program after dinner on November 16, at approximately 6:20 p.m.
No Organ? If you worship regularly at the 11:00 service, or if you've just wandered through the sanctuary now and then, you may wonder why the organ is covered in plastic and why we are using both the downstairs and balcony pianos. In addition to a roof leak, termites have been confirmed in the balcony ceiling over the organ, and in order to protect the organ from both the termite work and the ceiling beam and roof leak repairs, it was necessary to remove the horizontal trumpet pipes and cover the entire organ, including the console (keyboards), and temporarily disconnect it. We are fortunate to have a marvelous piano down front, and we can also use the balcony piano.
Christmas Pageant Rehearsal: The first rehearsal for our annual Christmas pageant will take place Wednesday, November 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m., in the sanctuary. All children in both Cherub Choir and the Savior's Singers Children's Choir should be there. We will fit costumes and do an initial run-through. ~ Vicki & Steve Fey |
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In Our Prayers
Dot Copenhaver
Dave Guldseth
Sharon Hatcher
Ruth Musser
An extensive list of prayer concerns, "Pray for One Another," is available for pickup at the church each week.
Congratulations
We celebrate with new members Pat and Bill Criswell, the joyful grandparents of Charlotte Randolph Greer, born October 27 to their daughter, Jennifer, and her husband, Michael Greer, of Holly Springs, NC.
Birthday Prayer Fellowship
November 13 Samuel Hankins
November 15 John Crewey,Conor Haaser, Sam Jennings, Billie Whisnant
November 16 Stefan Guldseth, Cass Madison, Joyce Samuel
November 17 Jordan Fey, Sarah Galliher, Wayne Sheffey
November 18 Susan Solomon
November 19 Grayson Phipps, Courtney Sharrett |
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Sunday Worship | |
November 13: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lessons: Deuteronomy 6:1-6; Luke 10:25-37
Sermon: Crossing the Line, Gordon Turnbull
Hymns: I Sing the Mighty Power of God; Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life;
I'll Praise My Maker
Anthems: King of Glory, King of Peace, Sanctuary Choir
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God, Savior's Singers Children's Choir
By the Numbers for November 6: 8:30: 151; 11:00: 120 |
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Sunday, November 13
8:30 a.m. Worship, Fellowship Hall
9:00 a.m. Cherub Choir
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship, Sanctuary
4:45 p.m. Youth Choir
5:30 p.m. College Potluck
5:30 p.m. HeartsBurn Bible Study
6:0 p.m. Junior & Senior High Youth/White Fork Ranch Fall Festival
Monday, November 14
5:30 p.m. Sanctuary Handbell Choir Rehearsal
7:00 p.m. Building & Grounds Committee Meeting
7:00 p.m. Worship Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November 15
9:00 a.m. Staff Meeting
10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer Group
6:30 p.m. Cub Scout Pack 3 Meeting
7:00 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 3 Meeting
7:00 p.m. Heart to Heart/HeartsBurn Bible Study
Wednesday, November 16
9:30 a.m. Ladies' Bible Study
1:00 p.m. Women's Bible Study
4:15 p.m. Heart to Heart Steering Committee Meeting
4:15 p.m. Children's Handbells
4:45 p.m. Youth Handbells
4:45 p.m. Savior's Singers Children's Choir Rehearsal
5:30 p.m. Fellowship Dinner
6:15 p.m. Adult Program
6:15 p.m. Kid Connection
6:15 p.m. Junior High Bible Study
6:45 p.m. Senior High Bible Study
7:15 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
Thursday, November 17
7:00 a.m. Men's Bible Study
12:00 p.m. HeartsBurn Bible Study, Java J's |
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