The senior and junior high youth groups will work together this Sunday, January 29, to make pizzas to raise funds for their summer mission and camp trips. The senior high group is preparing for a mission trip to Urban Promise, in Trenton, NJ, and the junior high group for camp at Great Escape.

The youth will not only assemble your pizzas but also deliver them to you. While their pizzas may contain the same ingredients as the commercial kind, they are for such good causes that do not fall into the category of guilty pleasures. Please place your order by Sunday morning by contacting Dave Welch at 423-764-7176 or dwelch@fpcbristol.org. Thank you for helping our youth achieve their goals! 

Next Saturday, February 4, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Heart to Heart will hold a Read and Feed, a book review session and soup smorgasbord,at Jennifer Kennedy's home. Come enjoy great food and fellowship as you hear about books that can encourage and challenge you in your life of faith. Please call 423-764-7176 or email the church office (jhunt@fpcbristol.org) to let the group know you can come. Child care is available for this event; just let the church office know of your need.

Also at this event, registration will open for our annual Women's Retreat, to be held at Blowing Rock Conference Center in Blowing Rock, NC, March 16-18.

Music Participants: January 29: Sanctuary Choir; Sanctuary Bells.

Sunday's Music: In the early years of the nineteenth century, a form of musical notation called shape note (because each note of the scale had a different shape) was developed in New England to combat musical illiteracy. The related musical style, often of a rugged nature, became popular and survived well into the twentieth century in southern Appalachia. Most of the related tunes and often the words of hymns from this tradition were anonymously written. Two of the best known are "What Wondrous Love Is This" and the tune we traditionally use to John Newton's words, "Amazing Grace." The Sanctuary Choir anthem this week is an arrangement of a hymn from that tradition, "Brethren, We Have Met to Worship." Uniquely, the author and composer are both known; the words are by George Askins and the music is by William Moore. The choral arrangement is by John Carter (b. 1930); Carter served for a number of years as Director of Music at University Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio, and has published hundreds of choral works throughout an extended career. The musical setting maintains the rugged character of the original, and in the tradition of shape-note singing, has no accompanying instruments.

Arts Series: Mark your calendars now for the next program in our Arts Series! Organist and pianist Jeremy Filsell will present an interesting program on Sunday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. Making use of both our wonderful Steinway piano and Randall Dyer pipe organ, he will play Bach and Rachmaninoff on each instrument and throw in some Gershwin and Duruflé for good measure! Suggested ticket donation is $10 for adults; students will be admitted free of charge. This program is jointly sponsored by the Northeast Tennessee/Southwest Virginia chapter of the American Guild of Organists. - Steve & Vicki Fey

In Our Prayers

Ian Addison

James Bowdoin

Becky Busler

Bill Goforth

Mary Nell Harris

Sharon Hatcher

Carolyn King

Ruth Musser

An extensive list of prayer concerns, "Pray for One Another," is available for pickup at the church each week.

Condolences

Our love and sympathy are with Emily and Louisa Patton in the death of their father, Carl Patton, January 19, and with Ron Grubbs in the death of his uncle, Paul Kerwin Nelson, January 22.

To the Church Triumphant

Robert Ernest Wright

January 22, 2012

Congratulations

We rejoice with Lisa and Jon McClain in the birth of a son, Maddox Drue, January 18. Mollee is his proud sister.

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

January 29      Travis Burt, Betty Millard

January 30      Karen McDonald, Herb VanNostrand

January 31      Andrea Hyde, Craig McDonald

February 1      Kristy Davis

February 2      Genny Lou King, Isabelle Ladd

February 3      Jacquelyn Rutherford

February 4      Joey Cannon, John Graham, Linda Moore

January 29: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lessons: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Mark 1:21-28

Sermon: Teaching with Authority, Gordon Turnbull

Prelude: The Blessing, Sanctuary Bells

Anthem: Holy Manna, Sanctuary Choir

Hymns: Christ of the Upward Way; Though I May Speak;
               Savior, Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise

By the Numbers: January 22: 8:30: 173; 11:00: 160

Sunday, January 29

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

4:00 p.m.     Officer Training

4:45 p.m.     Youth Choir

5:30 p.m.     Combined Youth Groups: Pizza Fundraising

Monday, January 30

5:30 p.m.     Sanctuary Handbell Choir

Tuesday, January 31

10:00 a.m.   Morning Prayer Group

6:30 p.m.     Cub Scout Pack 3

7:00 p.m.     Boy Scout Troop 3

Wednesday, February 1

9:30 a.m.     Ladies' Bible Study

1:00 p.m.     Women's Bible Study

4:15 p.m.     Children's Handbells

4:45 p.m.     Youth Handbells

4:45 p.m.     Savior's Singers Children's Choir

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, February 2

7:00 a.m.      Men's Bible Study

12:00 p.m.   Thursday Noon Bible Study, Java J's

Saturday, February 4

8:00 a.m.      Men's Breakfast

11:00 a.m.   Heart to Heart Read & Feed

Save the Date:

Friday-Sunday, March 16-18
Annual Women's Retreat, Blowing Rock Conference Center