Looking Toward Sunday - July 24, 2016


Sermon: Life and Death Struggle (Life Wins!)
Scripture: Revelation 12
 
Lib McGregor Simmons will preach at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 in Lingle Chapel.

Revelation 12 is filled with scary images that depict a life and death struggle.  They are the kinds of images that can cause people to back away from Revelation altogether.  They are also the kinds of images that have lured people into interpreting present reality through them in a literal way.  On Sunday, we will not succumb to either of these temptations.  What we will do is to consider one particular image: wilderness.  While "wilderness" often connotes something negative, in Revelation 12, it is a place of nourishment.  As you read this Scripture lesson in preparation for Sunday, consider how your own wilderness experiences have nourished your faith and how the church of Jesus Christ, and Davidson College Presbyterian Church in particular, can join God nourishing persons who find themselves in the wilderness.

The men's chorus will sing The Chariot Spiritual at the 9:00 service.
Rusty Knox will sing Wings of Eagles at the 10:30 service.

Join us at 10:00-10:30 a.m. for Coffee at the Chapel on the northwest corner of Lingle Chapel near the cross for fellowship.

Weekly Discussion of Revelation

Join in a weekly discussion of Revelation by viewing the video introduction by Lib McGregor Simmons and Jesse Jones and adding your comments.  You can access this week's discussion by clicking here.
Youth 
Children's News 
DCPC Book Club

The DCPC book club meeting is this Monday, July 25, away at 7:30 pm.  Our book this month is "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. For information, contact Jane Todd.
Gathering Around the Word

Revelation is full of visual imagery, and artists over the centuries have depicted scenes from John's visions. But there is also music inspired by the book. Olivier Messiaen, the great French composer, was a prisoner of war of Nazi Germany, and while there he composed the Quartet for the End of Time, based on Revelation chapter 10. The piece was written for the instruments and musicians he had available: piano, clarinet, violin and cello. This Wednesday at Gathering Around the Word, Jane Cain will discuss the background of the piece, a little about Messiaen's ground-breaking musical language, and how he envisioned the Angel of the Apocolypse and other images. Messiaen literally saw colors inherent in different musical chords. Then we will listen to a recording of the entire piece, which ends with a movement of sublime beauty in adoration of the Immortality of Christ. Join us in the parlor this Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Volunteers Needed

Do you enjoy technology? Are you interested in volunteering at church?  The church could use you to help with the sound system.  Training will be provided and the system is easy to operate. Contact Rick Cardenas or the church office if you are interested.
DCPC Night at the Knights to Support Save a Life Group

Let's Play Ball!" Please join the Fellowship Committee in a fun filled evening cheering on our own first place Charlotte Knights while supporting Save A Life Group, the non-profit Gary Simmons founded following his life-saving liver transplant experience in 2013. Wednesday, August 24, Durham Bulls at Charlotte Knights. BB&T Ballpark - First Pitch at 7:05 p.m. (Field Box - $15 (Section 120) RF Home Run Seats - $12 (Sections HR1 - HR2) LF Power Alley Bleachers - $9 (Section 126)) To purchase tickets CLICK HERE.
Who Is Jesus? What a Difference A Lens Makes

 Join Professor George Ramsey, Kristen Herrington Professor Emeritus of Bible at Presbyterian College, on Saturday, August 27, from 9 a.m.-noon for an in-depth study of a range of perspectives on Jesus: the individual gospel writers, Paul, Hebrews, the non-canonical gospels, other Abrahamic faiths, and contemporary culture.  While this study is a preview of the Presbyterian Women Horizons study for the coming year, it is open to ALL!  The cost is $10; register online (CLICK HERE) or through the church office.

Women's Retreat

It's time to register for the annual Women's Retreat to be held at Montreat's William Black Lodge September 16-18.  The theme is Generations...we hear about them all the time: The Greatest Generation/Baby Boomers/Generation X/Millennials.  With help from Biblical stories about people of different generations, we will listen to God and one another as we wrestle with how we relate to, care for, understand, teach, learn from, and support each other across the generations.  You are encouraged to invite your mother, daughter, sister, or other family member to join you! CLICK HERE for registration forms.   The registration deadline is September 4.
Summer Fun!

If you're out of town this summer, take a picture in front of a church and send it to Rhonda Boggs ([email protected]) in the church office. We'll collect pictures on a bulletin board as a way of unifying us through summer travels. We are the body of Christ- wherever we roam and with whomever we worship.
BEST Partnership 

It is hard to fathom that less than 10 miles from our very comfortable town is a community where children go to bed hungry, where children are caught in families where parents are unable to feed their children, where children are, in effect, raising themselves. This is Huntington Green, a community of rundown mobile homes, many without electricity, whose children attend Blythe Elementary School. During the school year, the children are fed at school, and during summer weeks, Angels and Sparrows provides lunch. Last summer, this project was an overwhelming success! Over 100 members of our congregation contributed bags of food or money to buy food to feed these children on summer weekends for 9 weeks.  That's 225 bags of food- thank you!   It's time to step up to the challenge again and meet this need in our community.  This need is tremendous, and the solution is simple! E-mail Catherine Bragg or Rosemary Klein for instructions and the food list.

Concerns and Joys

Tom Perkins- Died July 15. The memorial service will held July 23 at 3:00 p.m. in the sanctuary with a reception following in the 
Congregation House.
John Batcha- Olde Knox Commons
Vicki Gray-recuperating from surgery
Jean Johnston-recuperating from surgery
Attendance and Financial Update

Davidson College Presbyterian Church
PO Box 337
Davidson, NC  28036
704-892-5641
www.dcpc.org