Cary Umhau

After sixteen years of service to our congregation, Gordon and Betsy Turnbull will soon follow God's call to John Knox Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina. October 11 will be Gordon's last morning in the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church, and we have chosen that evening as the time for a celebration of our time together. We will gather at 4:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall to share dinner and memories and to say farewell. Dinner will be served at 4:30.

Meanwhile, those who wish to participate in tangible remembrances for the Turnbulls have several opportunities:

Still, it would be hard to find anything more tangible than your presence at the party! Please mark the date and time on your calendar and plan to be there with bells on! You will not only add to the evening's music but also leaven our loss.

We want you to know about an opportunity to serve the hungry in downtown Bristol on Saturday, October 10. You can cook food 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 you will soon find in worship, or contact Tammy Connolly, our coordinator for this effort, at 423-968-3831 or lconn4691@btes.tv.

At last check, in addition to servers, we also needed nine chicken casseroles, six large slaws, five large cans of green beans, and dinner rolls, as well as sandwich bread, fruit, snack cakes, peanut butter and jam for 75 bag lunches.

The Sharing Christ Mission is located on the corner of State and Sixth streets. Our final opportunity to serve in 2015 will be Thanksgiving weekend. Thank you for your care and service!

Our Fusion kids packed boxes of food at the Pantry in July.

The Board of Directors of the Bristol Emergency Food Pantry cordially invite you to their 50th Anniversary Celebration Open House from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 11. It will be a chance to meet the board members and to see the Pantry and how its mission is carried out. The Pantry is located at 21 Washington Street (behind the train station) in Bristol, Virginia.

The Bristol Ministerial Association organized the Pantry to provide three days of food for hungry people. Last year, the Pantry served more than 14,000 individuals, many of them children and older adults. Clients from both sides of Bristol may come to the Pantry once a month. Having begun operation in 1965, it now has two part-time employees and many volunteers. It depends on donations of food and funds from local churches, businesses, individuals, and two local food drives, the Boy Scout drive in the fall and the Postal Workers drive in the spring. For more information, please contact Jim White at 423-571-4449.

We are collecting boxes of original and multigrain Cheerios for neighborhood schoolchildren who cannot afford to bring snacks from home. We want all the young students at Fairmount Elementary School to get the energy boost they need to stay focused in the afternoon. You can help by bringing in one or more boxes of Cheerios and placing them in the little red house in the Fellowship Hallway. We appreciate it, and so will our hungry young friends!

Sunday's music participants: FPC youth led by Annie and Daniel Osborne.

Cherub Choir reminder: Unlike most Sundays when there is a combined service, we will have Cherub Choir rehearsal this Sunday, September 27, at 9:00 a.m. The children will be taken to Sunday School at 9:30.

Singing in worship: Parents, please note that on World Communion Sunday, October 4, the Jubilate Youth Choir (grades 7-12) will sing for the 8:30 service only, and the Savior's Singers Children's Choir (grades 2-6) will sing for the 11:00 service only.

Arts Series: It's not too early to put the first Arts Series program on your calendar! Please mark 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, to welcome BucsWorth, the men's ensemble from ETSU, under the direction of Dr. Alan Stevens. The program will be held in the sanctuary. Suggested ticket donation is $10 for adults and $5 for students ages 6 and older. Brochures will be in the mail soon!

Linda Archer

Becky Busler

Jane Crewey

Dorothy Dollar

Fred Frazier

DeeDee Galliher

Dorothy Giesler

Ron Grubbs

Will Hankins

Sharon Hatcher

Hawley Heglar

Vivian Hill

Sue Olsen

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Brenda Rogers

Virginia Rutherford

Katy Sikorski

Chuck Thompson

Faye VanNostrand

Deborah Whitaker

 

 

Sept. 27      Jamie Bales, Melissa Odom, Jessica Rogers

Sept. 28      Will Davis, Kelley Mayden

Sept. 29      Larry Connolly, Riley Miller, Ann Woods

Sept. 30      Vicki Essick

Oct. 1          Ben Cherry, Liz Dollar

Oct. 2          Jordan Pennington

Oct. 3          Fred Harkleroad