March 2

Transfiguration of the Lord

Lessons

2 Peter 1:16-21

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Identity and Message Confirmed

Gordon A. Turnbull

Hymns

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Jesus, Take Us to the Mountain

Be Thou My Vision

Anthems

Psalm IX

Sanctuary Choir

Everyone Praise the Lord

Cherub Choir

Worship Count

February 23: 8:30: 149;

11:00: 125

All those interested in joining our congregation are warmly invited to meet with the FPC Session at 10:20 a.m. this Sunday, March 2, in the chapel.

Please plan to participate in our Ash Wednesday worship service, to be held March 5 in the sanctuary. The service will begin at 6:20, after the fellowship dinner. A nursery will be provided. Our regular programming, including Wednesday Night Kids and youth small groups, will be suspended for the evening and resume the following week.

Clarence Mitchell II

This Sunday, March 2, it will be our privilege to host guest trumpeter Clarence Mitchell II, accompanied by his colleague and friend Dr. David Champouillon and by members of the Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble, a group of local string players (including Vicki Fey on harpsichord). At 3:00 p.m. in the sanctuary, these fine musicians will present a lively concert of baroque solos and duets by composers Franceschini, Torelli, Viviani, Telemann, Purcell, Vivaldi, Fasch, Handel, Tartini, and Stradella.

Mitchell is retired from the United States Air Force Band (Washington, D.C.) and lives in Fort Washington, Maryland. He retired as a senior master sergeant with 28 years of service. He earned a bachelor of music degree in composition from Temple University. Champouillon is a Bach artist/clinician and professor of trumpet at East Tennessee State University.

David Champouillon

Mitchell and Champouillon served in the USAF Band of the Golden Gate from 1979 to 1983 and have been friends for more than 33 years. They studied together with Laurie McGaw, then the associate principal trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. They both also studied with the late Professor William Fielder of Rutgers University, who taught Wynton Marsalis. Further study for Mitchell was with the late Seymour Rosenfeld, second trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Champouillon went on to study trumpet with the late Gilbert Johnson, solo trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Arts Series events are free and open to the public. Suggested ticket donations are $10 for adults and $5 for students ages 6 through college.

Men's Breakfast This Saturday

Join the Mowing Team!

Sunday's music participants: Sanctuary Choir, Cherub Choir (both services).

Ash Wednesday music participants: Savior's Singers Children's Choir.

Sunday's music: The Sanctuary Choir anthem, "Psalm IX," is a musical setting of selected verses of the King James Version of Psalm 9. Composed by Donna Jo Butler (b. 1960), it praises God, recognizing that God will hear the cry of the humble. Butler has set out the text in a straightforward and rhythmic declamation that clearly reflects both the joyous and comforting nature of the text. Butler is a native of Oklahoma with degrees from Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and she has an extensive catalogue of compositions in print.

The Cherub Choir anthem, "Everyone Praise the Lord," declares that every living person and every living thing praises the Lord, whether we whisper or shout, dance or skip, grin or laugh.

In Our Prayers

Mack Blevins

Sue Cannon

Jane Crewey

Dorothy Dollar

DeeDee Galliher

Mary Nell Harris

Sharon Hatcher

Ann Holler

Carolyn King

Ruth Musser

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Virginia Rutherford

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

To the Church Triumphant

Frances Frazier Caldwell

February 21, 2014

Congratulations

We rejoice with George and Junella McClellan In the birth of a granddaughter, Katherine Elizabeth Zeiler, to Ned and Susan McClellan Zeiler, on February 2 in El Paso, Texas.

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

March 3        Darlene Pollard

March 4        Landon Corder, Brandi Smith

March 7        Abby Welch

March 8        Tony Adams, Dawn Eubanks, Nathan Heacock

Gifts were made in memory of the following individuals during the week of February 16:

Dr. Ed Hatcher: by Dr. & Mrs. William Wade, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP

George King: by Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Crutchfield, to the Minister's Discretionary Fund; by Mr. & Mrs. John Warner, to the Arts Series Fund

Mary Landrum: by Dr. & Mrs. William Wade, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP

Dr. Robert Vann: by Charles & Heidi Abele, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Joel & Jean Conger, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Crutchfield, to the Minister's Discretionary Fund; by Ben & Madge Essary, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Dr. & Mrs. Dale Keller, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Sam & Marlo LaPorte, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Owen & Kristine Lewis, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Dr. & Mrs. Louis Mattison, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Dr. & Mrs. Roger McSharry, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Mrs. Peggy Nicar, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Mrs. Billie Peterson, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by H.D. & Mary Lynn Satterwhite, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Scott Swanson & Susan White, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Martha D. Tucker, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by United Way of Bristol, TN-VA Inc., to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP; by Dr. & Mrs. D.E. Ward, to the Brazil Scholarship Fund; by Mr. & Mrs. John Warner, to the Brazil Mission Fund

Sunday, March 2

8:30 a.m.      Worship, Fellowship Hall

9:00 a.m.      Cherub Choir, Room 209

9:45 a.m.      Sunday School

10:20 a.m.   Session Receives New Members, Chapel

11:00 a.m.   Worship, Sanctuary

3:00 p.m.     Arts Series Concert, Sanctuary

5:00 p.m.     Jubilate Youth Choir, Music Wing

6:00 p.m.     Student Ministries Fellowship, Fellowship Hall

Monday, March 3

5:45 p.m.     Sanctuary Handbells, Handbell Room

Tuesday, March 4

9:00 a.m.      Staff Meeting, Room 123

10:00 a.m.   Morning Prayer Group, Conference Room

7:00 p.m.     Betsy Turnbull's Heart to Heart Bible Study, Room 123

7:00 p.m.     Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, March 5

9:30 a.m.      Lynette Wallen's Heart to Heart Bible Study, New Mothers' Room

9:30 a.m.      Lorri Looney's DVD Bible Study, Friendship Classroom

4:15 p.m.     Children's Handbells, Room 212

4:45 p.m.     Youth Handbells, Room 212

4:45 p.m.     Savior's Singers Children's Choir, Room 209

5:15 p.m.     Baby & Toddler Care, Nursery

5:30 p.m.     Fellowship Dinner, Fellowship Hall

6:20 p.m.     Ash Wednesday Worship, Sanctuary

7:15 p.m.     Sanctuary Choir, Room 202

Thursday, March 6

7:00 a.m.      Men's Bible Study, Parlor

12:00 p.m.   Noon Bible Study, Room 117

8:15 p.m.     Praise Team Rehearsal, Fellowship Hall

Friday, March 7

Women's Retreat Begins