on First Presbyterian Church

October 10, 2013

Ryan Fogg

On the afternoon of October 20, pianist Ryan Fogg will open our new Arts Series. Please join us at 3:00 in the sanctuary for a program of works by composers Poulenc, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Bolcom. The concert is free and open to the public. Suggested ticket donation is $10 for adults and $5 for students aged 6 through college.

It's not too late to mark your calendars for the great series of programs lined up for this year! Coming to our sanctuary February 9 will be students from one of the most vital organ studios in our region. They will be followed March 2 by a veteran of the United States Air Force Band, trumpeter SMSgt USAF (ret.) Clarence Mitchell II, in performance with Dr. David Champouillon and the Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble. Our final concert, April 6, will showcase flutist Mindy Rosenfeld and lutanist Ronn McFarlane of the Baltimore Consort.

Donations are still being received for the Arts Series. If you choose to donate, please make your check out to the church and write "Arts Series" in the memo line so that it can be properly credited.

Donations received will be acknowledged with series tickets at the following levels:

                $500                     4 season tickets

                $250-$499          3 season tickets

                $100-$249          2 season tickets

                $50-$99               1 season ticket

The Presbyterian Women want your used stamps, except those featuring the US flag or the Liberty Bell. The PW participate in a program that transforms all other used stamps into thousands of dollars for mission work around the world. Please bring your used stamps (a bit of envelope is OK) to the church and put them in the special box outside the Fellowship Hall. Or you can give them to a PW member. Thank you!

The goal of FPC's Care Shepherd ministry is to show Christian love and care to those of our church family who are in need. Opportunities for volunteering include providing meals to those just home from the hospital, sending a card or making a phone call to someone in a special care facility, and providing comfort in other situations.

Volunteers serve one month at a time on a Care Shepherd team that coordinates the needs of the congregation for that month. We are humbly seeking volunteers to serve in October, November, December, and January.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact Lorri Looney at jeffandlorri@msn.com or 423-573-1676.

School is back in session, and that means it's time to perk up the hungry students in our neighborhood school who can't afford to buy snacks to see them through the afternoon. We are now collecting small pretzels. The small sticks and the small curved pretzels are best for fitting into snack-sized portions for our Fairmount Elementary kids. As before, please place your contributions in the little red schoolhouse in the Fellowship Hallway. Thank you!

FPC 6th-graders will head to Atlanta November 1-3 to enjoy a band, outrageous skits, dynamic speakers, and fellowship with other 6th-graders from all over the Southeast at SuperStart 2013. On top of that, we will spend an afternoon at Stone Mountain Park.

The cost of the trip is $125, which includes SuperStart, transportation, lodging in an area hotel, food, and an adventure pass at Stone Mountain Park. Register by next Wednesday, October 16, by sending Katie Arnold or Amy Buck your payment and a notarized FPC release form (available on the FPC youth webpage).

 

What do a tower built in ancient times to reach the heavens and a cell phone have in common? A lot more than you may think. The people responsible for the tower of Babel used the technology of their day to elevate themselves, taking God out of the picture. We use the technology of our day in similar ways. The technology itself isn't bad or good, but how we choose to use it is important. The right kind of relationship with technology will help us to do the right kinds of things with it. Join us this Sunday as we begin a three-part series of discussions on this topic. Sixth- through twelfth-graders meet in the Youth Wing at 6:00 p.m.

Session One, October 13: I <3 Technology

Many of us are in a serious relationship with technology. We love it, we need it, it's a big part of our lives. But others of us just aren't that into it. We don't need to text someone every minute. Some of us don't even have a Facebook page (gasp!). Either way, we can't escape the reality that technology is part of our lives. And that's not always a bad thing, because technology isn't evil. But what we do with it, how we use it, says a lot about our relationship with it.

From Steve & Vicki Fey

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