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James Island Presbyterian Church
1632 Ft. Johnson Road
Charleston, SC 29412

 
In this issue
This Sunday @ JIPC
Stewardship
Flower Guild
Greetings!

 

We are honored to have shared this Advent season with you and pray you  are able to join us on Christmas Eve. Please remember that on Sunday, December 28, we have a single service only, at 10:00am, and we will not hold Sunday School that day.

Click here for Christmas Eve, 5:00pm Family Service Bulletin
Click here for Christmas Eve, 7:00pm, Lessons & Carols Bulletin
Click here for Sunday, December 28 Bulletin

In this short business week, we've still had time to share Christmas joy & spirit. On Monday, several of our youth, along with staff & chaperones, went downtown for their annual Christmas Shopping Trip and lunch at T-Bonz. 

 

Later, several members loaded into the church van (Henry Meeuwse, driver), and traveled around James Island to sing choirs at various members' homes. They even visited a Sunday school party and a grocery store! 

 


We again  thank all of our JIPC family who have been working so hard to make this a  meaningful Advent & Christmas season.

 

Read on for more news and information about James Island Presbyterian Church. 

 

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This Sunday @ JIPC

Worship 8:30 & 11:00am
Deane Kemper, preaching
Henry Meeuwse, liturgist

Each of our choirs will be participating in both of Sunday's services. Join us as we celebrate the 4th Sunday of Advent!

Click here for Sunday's bulletin

 Remember: Sunday, December 28
ONE SERVICE ONLY, 10:00am
No Sunday School

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JIPC Stewardship
 
The Session is working on a budget for 2015. Click here for a letter from the Session regarding this process and our needs.

We thank our members who have made their pledges for JIPC 2015. So far, we have received 193 pledges totaling $570,244. Thank you! Now we need our other 141 families to turn in your cards.

You also have a Time & Talents Pledge card this year, and we encourage you to prayerfully consider and return this pledge as well.

PLEASE TURN IN YOUR PLEDGE CARD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THE SESSION MAY PLAN FOR 2015.
You may also submit your pledge card via email by clicking here.

 ARE YOU CURRENT WITH THIS YEAR'S PLEDGE? 
 
Attention Flower lovers...

 

We hope you have enjoyed and appreciated the lovely Advent greenery and adornment presented by our Flower Guild.  

 

We are very grateful for the dedicated members of our JIPC Flower Guild. We have several rotating teams to share the load and try to make sure each team works only once a month. Are you willing to help and to learn? As we look forward to 2015, we need more volunteers with our Flower Guild. Contact Madelyn Graf (225-9788, grafm@gmail.com) or Debbie Hodges (768-1431, hodgesdg@yahoo.com) for more information. You can also check in on Saturday mornings to see how you can help. In addition to arranging, we can use your help with picking up flowers and greenery, carrying, & cleaning up. Please join us!

 

Would you be interested in a flower-arranging workshop in the new year? If yes, please contact Madelyn or Debbie. If there's enough interest, we'll plan something after January 1.

 

In the meantime, join us on Saturday mornings to see how you can help!  

 

 

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Denominational Issues - what's next?

 

JIPC held two forums in October to explore denominational issues and concerns. The first forum was on October 5, and you can view that recording by clicking here.You can view a recording of the second forum on YouTube by clicking here.  We thank member Phil Cobb for his recording and uploading of these videos.

The Session has conducted a nonbinding straw poll to determine our membership's views on PC(USA). You can review the results by clicking here.

On Monday, December 1, our Session met in a called meeting, and this letter was emailed or mailed to our congregation on December 2. Several of you have asked for contact information for our Session members. You may email the Session as a whole by clicking here, or you can access a contact list by clicking here.

 
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