Serve with Sharing Christ Next Saturday 

You can help feed the hungry in downtown Bristol next Saturday, June 13, at Sharing Christ Worship Center. We need volunteers to cook dinner items ahead of time, pack sack lunches, or serve and clean up. If you can help in any way, please fill out and return the bulletin insert in worship this Sunday, or contact Tammy Connolly, our coordinator for this effort, at 423-968-3831 or lconn4691@btes.tv. Sharing Christ Worship Center is located on the Virginia side of State Street at Sixth Street. 

All-in-One Adult Summer Sunday School 

Through August 9, our adult Sunday School classes will share a single classroom. All adult classes will meet in room 167, better known as the Common Interests classroom, nearest the exit door in the Boy Scout Wing. This is going to be a great chance for cross-class exchanges of ideas and fellowship. Please join us!

Urban Promise Mission Trip Planned for July 

Do you care about the plight of urban youth? Are you eager to respond personally to their needs? If so, then please consider the opportunity to join a team from FPC that will work with Urban Promise in Camden, New Jersey, from Sunday, July 19, through Saturday, July 25.

Dan Kreiss will be leading this team. We seek to gather a group of six to fifteen adults and youth (ages 16 and older). The work will support established educational and social programs in Camden.

Please consider prayerfully this opportunity to join in Christ's ministry of love, peace, and justice. For more information, contact Dan Kreiss or Gordon Turnbull.

Pray for Our Brazil Mission Team 

The altar of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Felipe Camarão was adorned in celebration of our mission.

The members of our Brazil mission team arrived safely in Natal and are now busy among the families of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Felipe Camarão and its preschool. We ask your continued prayers for team members and their work. 

Two Sundays, Twice as EPIC 

This Sunday, June 7, our EPIC: Through the Bible with Jesus journey continues with the most famous fish tale of all time. Retold in The Jesus Storybook Bible, "God's Messenger" is drawn from several chapters of the book of Jonah.

Next Sunday, June 14, our EPIC lesson will be "Get Ready!", the story of the return of God's people from slavery in Babylon, distilled from the books of the prophets Nehemiah, Malachi, and Ezra, who ministered to them.

Meet the FPC Summer Interns 

This summer we have two interns serving with Student Ministries!

Brooke Calhoun

Brooke graduated from King University last December with a BA in Psychology and Youth Ministry. Since then she has been interning with Urban Promise in Camden, New Jersey. She is excited to be back in Tennessee and serving within this church community.

Dylan Detman

Dylan is from Grayson, Georgia. He is studying Criminal Justice at the University of West Georgia. He has a special love for Bristol and is excited to spend his summer serving and working with FPC students.

Baseball Equipment Needed for Student Mission 

Middle School Mania Swimming Pool Olympics 

The FPC summer interns are hosting the 2015 Swimming Pool Olympics on Friday, June 5, for all middle schoolers who want to accept the challenge! The event will be held at the home of Gracie Brooks from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Wear your bathing suit, bring a towel, sunscreen, and a snack to share. And come ready to experience the craziest Olympics you've ever seen!

More Family Fun Coming Up June 17 

Our second Family Fun Fellowship gathering of the summer will be held Wednesday, June 17. Kids and their families are enthusiastically invited to Lilly and Ray Osborne's home at 5:30 p.m. for loads of, well, fellowship and fun! These gatherings will continue on July 1, 15, and 29, so be sure to mark your calendar. 

Register Now for Vacation Bible School 

We are now accepting registrations for Vacation Bible School, which will be held July 20-22. Sign-up forms are available on the kiosk near the front office, at the VBS display in the Fellowship Hallway, and in the narthex. Jesus as a child in Nazareth is our theme, and a Middle Eastern marketplace is the setting.

We are looking for volunteers to help our program leaders create a fun and meaningful event for the children. If you can help, please contact Lilly Osborne at 423-764-7176 or losborne@fpcbristol.org.

One way to help is to provide props, labeled so that we can return them to you. We need the following items to set the scene:

• Easy-up canopies
• Woven rugs
• Wicker baskets
• Flat sheets in solid colors
• Artificial greenery/palm trees
• Artificial fruit

And we really can't say this often enough: Please label all items. Thank you!

Mowing in the Right Light 

Clouds and rain are on tap to chivvy us through the first half of June, but be of good cheer. The greens of leaves, the tawny tones of trunks, and the colors of flowers show to greater effect in their light. In all kinds of weather we can look upon our well-kept church lawn with pleasure, thanks to our intrepid mowing team. Roger Sikorski is seizing his chance between storms this week, Jim Mayden will dodge thunderbolts June 10-13, and Randy Cook will clear the way to sunny days June 17-20. What a team! To join them, call Randy Cook at 423-956-1541 or email him at npolecook@aol.com. If you've never used a Scag mower before, Randy will be happy to show you how. 

Music participants on June 7: Sanctuary Choir; Liz Dollar and Will Dollar, duet.

Music for June 7: The Sanctuary Choir anthem for June 7, "My Song Is Love Unknown," has a text by Samuel Crossman (1623-1683), a melody by English composer John Ireland (1879-1962), and an arrangement by Scottish composer James Kirkby (b. 1949). Crossman's lyrical text is a reflection on the love shown to us by God's Son: "He came from his blest throne salvation to bestow." Ireland's music takes these words, written as a poem rather than a hymn, and musically illuminates their singing nature. Kirkby's arrangement sets out the melody first simply, then in canon between the voices.

The offertory duet, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu" from his Requiem, has grown in popularity since its premiere in 1985. Unique to this piece is the combination of both the Pie Jesu text and the Agnus Dei text from the mass. Requiem was written to honor Lloyd Webber's father, who died in 1982.

Music participants on June 14: Sanctuary Choir. While they aren't moving until July, we thank Liz and Will Dollar for participating in worship next Sunday. We will be sad to see them move but thank God for their vocal gifts in the Sanctuary Choir and Savior's Singers Children's Choir, and for Sophie in the Cherub Choir.

Music for June 14: The Sanctuary Choir anthem for June 14, "Canticle of the Turning," is based on the song of Mary in Luke 1:46-58. Rory Cooney has cast this passage as a strong statement of the changes coming to the world through the infant Jesus. Cooney matched the words with a strong Irish folk melody, "Star of the County Down." John Ferguson (b. 1941) has made the arrangement for choirs, leaving the words and music in a clear, uncluttered statement.

Programs of Note: The David and Frances Caldwell "Tunes at Noon" series of summer concerts at the Paramount kicks off this Friday, June 5, featuring winners of the most recent scholarship auditions held by the Bristol Music Club. On June 12, bass Tim Landis will be joined by Mark Owen Davis, Vicki Fey, and Brandon and Mariel Story. Donations are $5 at the door.

Hannah Garrity

Montreat bios: Hannah Garrity, Art Assistant/Children's Art, earned her BFA degree from Cornell University. She holds an MS in Teaching degree from Pace University. Hannah is currently the Liturgical Artist for the Montreat Conference Center's Summer Sunday Worship Series. She is also the Lower School Art Teacher for Powhatan School in northern Virginia. John M. Dull (CCM), Guitar Jam Session Facilitator, has an MM from East Carolina University and a BA from Bridgewater College. John serves as Director of Music Ministries and Associate for Youth Ministry at First Presbyterian Church, Staunton, Virginia, where it is not unusual to hear the guitar playing in Sunday worship with handbells, organ, piano, or choir, or leading congregational song. John also teaches guitar and directs the University Wind Ensemble at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. 

Sam Samuel is having a birthday party, and you are invited! Sam will be celebrating in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, June 7, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Drop by to wish him many happy returns of the day, and enjoy a piece of his birthday pizza pie and a glass of lemonade or tea.

In Our Prayers

Becky Busler

Jane Crewey

Dorothy Dollar

Fred Frazier

DeeDee Galliher

Dorothy Giesler

Ron Grubbs

Will Hankins

Sharon Hatcher

Hawley Heglar

Vivian Hill

Carolyn King

Sue Olsen

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Brenda Rogers

Virginia Rutherford

Katy Sikorski

Faye VanNostrand

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

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

June 7     John Roberts, Sam Samuel

June 8     Beckham Schiesz

June 9     Courtney Cavatoni

June 12   Van VanNostrand

June 14   Robert Pollard, Betsy Turnbull

June 15   David Moore

June 17   Julia Abel, Laura Bassett, Emily Hyder, Bill Whisnant

June 19   Kevin Buck, Parker Sword

June 20   Paul Blair, Stuart Parker

We recently received gifts in memory of the following individuals:

Juanita Goforth: by Bill Goforth, to the Educational Technology Fund

Elizabeth Thomas Long: by Jim & Bettie Hite, to the Capital Campaign Fund/MEP

We are also pleased to announce receipt of gifts in honor of:

Juliana Linke: by Robert & Susan Dickenson, to the Honorarium Fund

Jacob & Shelly Strang: by Joseph Gross of Signature Properties, to the Honorarium Fund

Summer Newsletter Schedule Begins 

We begin our biweekly summer newsletter schedule with this issue of Windows. Expect your next few newsletters on the following dates: June 18 and July 2, 16, and 30. We will return to our regular weekly schedule on August 6.

Sunday, June 7

8:30 a.m.     Worship, Fellowship Hall

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

11:00 a.m.   Worship, Sanctuary

5:30 p.m.     Sam Samuel's Birthday Party, Fellowship Hall

Monday, June 8

7:00 p.m.     Building & Grounds Committee, Room 117

7:00 p.m.     Christian Education Committee, Room 124

7:00 p.m.     Worship Committee, Room 123

Tuesday, June 9

9:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 123

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

6:00 p.m.     Venture Crew 3, Cub Scout Room

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

Wednesday, June 10

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

Thursday, June 11

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

8:30 a.m.      Meals on Wheels, Fellowship Hall

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

Saturday, June 13

4:00 p.m.     Sharing Christ Mission, Corner of State & Sixth Downtown

Sunday, June 14

8:30 a.m.     Worship, Fellowship Hall

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

11:00 a.m.   Worship, Sanctuary

5:30 p.m.     Finance Committee, Room 123

Monday, June 15

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

Tuesday, June 16

9:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 123

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

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

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

Wednesday, June 17

5:30 p.m.     Family Fun Fellowship, Osborne Home

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

Thursday, June 18

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