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Worship

May 25

6th Sunday of Easter

Sermon

Gordon A. Turnbull

Hymns

From All That Dwell below the Skies

Heaven Shall Not Wait

Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

Anthem

Come Down, O Love Divine

Last Sunday's Attendance

8:30: 181; 11:00: 100

In This Issue
Share Our Summer Wilderness Experience
Men's Breakfast Back on Second Saturdays
Here Come the Brides
Music Notes
Pray for One Another
Memorial Gifts
Church Calendar

Windows

on First Presbyterian Church

May 22, 2014
Share Our Summer Wilderness Experience
"Wilderness Escape" is the theme of this summer's Vacation Bible School, scheduled for June 9-11, from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. Children from the age of four through rising sixth-graders are invited to flee Egypt with Moses and the Israelites and travel into the wilderness. Registration forms are available at the church.

 

We are looking for adults of all ages to help us carry out this adventure in a number of ways. Please call the church office or email Gordon Turnbull at gturnbull@fpcbristol.org, if you can volunteer.

We also are collecting supplies and props for the Israelites' camp. If you can lend or donate any of the items below, please contact Lilly Osborne or Tina Witcher. And please put your name on any item that you would like to retrieve after the Israelites have reached the Promised Land.

VBS supplies needed: easy-up canopies, woven rugs, wicker baskets, flat sheets in solid colors, artificial greenery/palm trees, and artificial fruit.

Men's Breakfast Back on Second Saturdays
The monthly Men's Breakfast has moved back to its old place on second Saturdays and will continue through the summer. The next gathering of the men of the church and their friends for breakfast, Bible study, and good fellowship will be at 8:00 a.m.,

June 14, in the Fellowship Hall. We look forward to sharing this time with you! 

Here Come the Brides
It is late spring, and everything has come into bloom: irises and peonies, roses and blackberries, and the first of the summer brides. Our beautiful grounds will be ready for the white shoe treatment, thanks to dedicated mowers like Roger Sikorski (this week) and Jim White (next).

You can help keep our lawns wedding ready by joining our team of volunteer mowers. Just call our mowing team coordinator, Randy Cook, at 423-956-1541, or email him at npolecook@aol.com. Randy will be happy to show you how to use the Tiger Cat.

From Steve & Vicki Fey

Music Notes

Sunday's music participants: Sanctuary Choir.

Ralph Vaughan Williams around the time he edited The English Hymnal.

Sunday's music: For an anthem this week, the Sanctuary Choir is singing "Come Down, O Love Divine" from the hymnal. The text began as a 14th-century Italian devotional poem that remained unpublished until the 19th century. Richard Frederick Littleton published his English translation in 1867. It gained wide popularity as a hymn after Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a new tune for it and included it in The English Hymnal, published in 1906. The text lyrically calls on the Holy Spirit to dwell within us and refine and purify us. The expressive, emotional nature of the text is matched by the flowing quality of the music. Vaughan Williams named the tune DOWN AMPNEY after his birthplace.

Rehearsal schedule: The Sanctuary Choir ended weekly rehearsals Wednesday, May 14, but will sing in worship through the end of June. During the month of July, soloists and ensembles will provide music for the 11:00 service. If you would like to sing with us through June, give us a call!

Programs of note: The Paramount Center's Tunes at Noon will begin the summer series of Friday programs on June 6, with basso Tim Landis (and friends), accompanied by Vicki Fey. Then, on June 13, the Bristol Music Club's scholarship winners will perform, with a cake in the lobby afterwards to celebrate the club's 100th anniversary!

Pray for One Another

In Our Prayers

Mack Blevins

Sue Cannon

Barbara Daniel

Dorothy Dollar

DeeDee Galliher

Will Hankins

Mary Nell Harris

Sharon Hatcher

Ann Holler

Ruth Musser

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Brenda Rogers

Virginia Rutherford

Katy Sikorski

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

 

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

May 25     Faye VanNostrand

May 26     Rebecca Coté, Sherry Ratliff, Ford Sikorski, Lenita Thibault

May 27     Jerry Poteat

May 28     David Tudor

May 29     Sandra Grubbs

May 30     Opal Johnson

May 31     Ernie Pennington

Memorial Gifts

Gifts in memory of the following individuals were received from Monday, April 28, through Sunday, May 4:

Dr. Louis Mattison: by Gene & Bonnie Haskins, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP

Janet Wright: by Frank & Jackie Leonard, to the Memorial Fund 

Church Calendar

Sunday, May 25

8:30 a.m.      Worship, Fellowship Hall

9:45 a.m.      Sunday School

11:00 a.m.   Worship, Sanctuary

Monday, May 26

Church office closed

Tuesday, May 27

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

1:30 p.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 123

7:00 p.m.     Session Meeting, Room 123

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

Wednesday, May 28

7:30 p.m.     Praise Team Rehearsal, Fellowship Hall

Thursday, May 29

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

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

Windows is a publication of First Presbyterian Church, Bristol, TN.  Please direct questions and suggestions to the editor, Kathy Acuff, kacuff@fpcbristol.org.