October 19

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lessons

Psalm 119:33-48

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Treasure and Heart

David L. Welch

Prelude

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Sanctuary Bells

 Hymns

We Praise You, O God

Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart

I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me

Anthem

With What Shall I Come Before the Lord?

Sanctuary Choir

Attendance on October 12

Windows

Dr. Jerman Disasa

Our Evangelism & Outreach Committee is inviting us this month to deepen our identity as disciples in mission. Our Wednesday evening programs have helped us think about how and why we connect with others about the Good News of God's love for us in Jesus Christ. This focus continues in two upcoming events next week.

Our Wednesday evening program on October 22 will invite us to think about our global mission: how and why we connect with those beyond our borders. Gordon Turnbull will be coordinating this program, with input from others whose testimony will help us understand better our individual and collective calls to mission.

On Sunday, October 26, we will welcome to our worship a special guest, Dr. Jerman Disasa of Laurens, South Carolina. Dr. Disasa is a native of Ethiopia who was educated at the Berhane Yesus Elementary School in Dembi Dollo and was in the first graduating class of the Bethel Evangelical Secondary School. He is eager to share his experience in those schools and to communicate his gratitude for our church's deep commitment to the ministry there. Dr. Disasa will be offering greetings in each worship service, and he will speak in the Fellowship Hall during the Sunday School hour for all interested in attending.

Come to a hoedown in the Fellowship Hall next Sunday, October 26! We'll share a barbecue dinner then clear the floor and dance. Please join us from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for food, fun, and fellowship! Our Deacons' Fellowship Committee will provide the barbecue and drinks. Please find yourself in the list below and bring the appropriate extra:

Last Name A-H:  dessert

Last Name I-P:  side dish

Last Name Q-Z:  salad

Come prepared to have a fine time dancing, or just tapping and clapping!

The Marsh Blood Services Bloodmobile will be in our front parking lot Wednesday, October 29, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Please plan to give a pint to save a life when you come to the final segment in our program series on missions. Thank you!

Betsy Turnbull's Heart to Heart Bible study is in the midst of an inductive consideration of selected psalms. On October 21, they will look at Psalm 22, an individual lament; Psalm 27, a psalm of confidence and a cry for deliverance; and Psalm 30, a song of thanksgiving for deliverance. Psalms 103 and 139 are on the list for future study. Participants are asked to look ahead and be ready to suggest other psalms that they would like to study as a group. They meet at 7:00 p.m. on first and third Tuesdays in room 123. All women are welcome to come and bring a friend!

Freshmen through senior students are invited to a Fifth Quarter party after the Tennessee High School football game next Friday, October 24. We will gather at 9:30 p.m. at Quaker Steak & Lube on the corner of State Street and Piedmont Avenue for an evening of fun and fellowship. You will need to bring $7 for food and drinks. We will turn into pumpkins at midnight.

Student Fellowship is taking a break until Sunday, November 2, when we will pick up part three of The Comparison Trap. We look forward to seeing you then!

Fifth and sixth graders did some aerial walking during last week's bonfire party.

Our Fusion bonfire inspired us to plan monthly events for our fifth and sixth grade students. The next Fusion event will be a games night at the church on November 2, from  6:00 to 8:00. We'll share a simple meal of pizza or hot dogs and have a whole lot of fun! If you are in fifth or sixth grade, please join us!

Children's Ministries encourages children and their families to collect items for Operation Christmas Child. In November, our children will pack shoeboxes with gifts for other children who need a little Christmas. Gift items may be toys, school supplies, hygiene items (no liquids), T-shirts, socks, hats, sunglasses, jewelry, flashlights with extra batteries, and so forth. Further information and gift suggestions can be found here. 

We are now collecting small pretzels to perk up the hungry students in our neighborhood school who can't afford snacks to see them through the afternoon. The small sticks and the small curved pretzels fit best into snack-sized portions for our Fairmount Elementary kids. As always, please place your contributions in the little red schoolhouse in the Fellowship Hallway. Thank you!

"Unusual weather we're having, ain't it?" Summer heat, early frost, balmy days, calm days, high winds, downpours. So far, we've had no snow, but so much rain in October is odd enough for Bristol. Jim White will feed the latest results to the Tiger Cat this week. By next week, when Randy Cook's turn comes around, we may have (water)logged the wettest October in memory.

If you'd like to help mow the church grounds, Randy will be happy to add you to our team as a regular or a substitute. You can reach him at 423-956-1541 or npolecook@aol.com. It's not too early to sign up for next year!

Sunday's music participants: Sanctuary Choir, Sanctuary Bells.

Sunday's music: Micah 6:6-8 calls us to consider what we bring to worship and truly how we offer ourselves and our gifts and talents unto God. The Sanctuary Choir anthem, "With What Shall I Come Before the Lord?," is a setting of these three verses by Gladys Blakely Bush. It begins with a quiet questioning of what are the right gifts to bring to God, and becomes more and more agitated and extreme as it considers what one could offer in response to the gifts God has given us. When these considerations become more than God could demand, it answers that what is truly required is "to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."

Programs of note: Voices of the Mountains, directed by Pat Flannagan and accompanied by Vicki Fey, will present Bach to the Future this Saturday, October 18, in our sanctuary. Featuring a variety of music by various Bachs, the program has something for everyone. The chorus will be accompanied by a small chamber orchestra for the first two works. Suggested donation is $15. All students will be admitted free of charge.

Next weekend, October 24-26, the Paramount Chamber Players will celebrate their tenth anniversary with a gala weekend of great music! Artistic Director Craig Combs has commissioned arrangements of such familiar works as Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and a medley of Broadway tunes for all the Players, past and present. In addition, a commissioned work by three local composers (Kenton Coe, Ann Holler, and Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke) based on poems of the late Dr. Sam Miller of Abingdon, will receive its premiere. Guest artist Rachel Barker will be part of the event. The Friday night program will be at 7:30 in Kingsport's First Presbyterian Church. Saturday night's gala program will take place at the Paramount in Bristol, also at 7:30. Sunday's program will be at Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church in Abingdon at 3:00 p.m.

Kimberly Clayton

Montreat bio: The conference preacher for next summer, Kimberly Clayton, is Director of Contextual Education at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She works with students, pastors, congregations, and nonprofits to organize internships and ministry opportunities. She thinks she has the best job at CTS! For 21 years before joining the CTS staff, Kim served churches, including Central Presbyterian in Atlanta and Grace Covenant in Asheville, as associate pastor and pastor, and she still preaches regularly around Atlanta and beyond.

Kimberly has been privileged to write essays included in Feasting on the Word and Feasting on the Gospels; she was one of seven primary liturgy writers for the Feasting on the Word: Worship Companion, Volumes 1-6. She is Mom to Jonathan and Katherine and has the cutest dog ever, Bentley. She loves to spend time at St. George Island on the Gulf Coast of Florida, but she also loves the mountains of Montreat.

In Our Prayers

Becky Busler

Jane Crewey

Barbara Daniel

Dorothy Dollar

Laura Francis

Fred Frazier

DeeDee Galliher

Dorothy Giesler

Bill Goforth

Juanita Goforth

Ron Grubbs

Will Hankins

Mary Nell Harris

Sharon Hatcher

Rebekah Heacock

Hawley Heglar

Opal Johnson

Carolyn King

Ruth Musser

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Brenda Rogers

Virginia Rutherford

Katy Sikorski

Faye VanNostrand

Ann Woods

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

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

October 20      Dyan Buck, Alicia Mumpower

October 21      Dan Heglar

October 22      Cliff Bailey, Peachy Bane, Nancy Cook, Gwen King, J.T. Scott

October 23      Carl McGrady, Junella McClellan, Lyndsey Ratliff

October 24      Alice Graham, Lance Tudor

We recently received a gift in memory of the following individual:

Harold Craddock (father of Cindy Heglar): by Richard & Julie King, to the Memorial Fund

Sunday, October 19

8:30 a.m.      Worship, Fellowship Hall

9:00 a.m.      Cherub Choir, Room 209

9:45 a.m.      Sunday School, Education Wing

11:00 a.m.    Worship, Sanctuary

4:00 p.m.      E&O Committee, Room 123

Monday, October 20

4:45 p.m.     Administrative Committee, Room 117

5:30 p.m.     Sanctuary Handbells, Handbell Room

7:00 p.m.     Christian Education Committee, Room 117

Tuesday, October 21

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

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

1:00 p.m.      HeartsBurn Bible Study, Burt Home

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

7:00 p.m.      Praise Team Bluegrass Rehearsal, Fellowship Hall & Sanctuary

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

Wednesday, October 22

9:30 a.m.      Lorri Looney's Heart to Heart DVD Bible Study, Parlor

10:00 a.m.    Elizabeth Patrick's Women's Bible Study, New Mothers' Room

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

6:00 p.m.      Wednesday Night Kids, Rooms 11 & 31

6:00 p.m.      Student Ministries Small Groups, Youth Wing

6:20 p.m.      Adult Learning Program, Fellowship Hall

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

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

Thursday, October 23

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

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

Friday, October 24