June 19, 2016
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.
Worship is broadcast at 11:00 a.m. on WCHS-580AM
304-343-8961
Next week’s sermon is “Ancient Words: Redemption” by Bill McCoy.
“On the Green” Host: Sandy Campbell
Congratulations to John Baldwin on the birth of his granddaughter, Frances RaeAnn Baldwin. Frances was born on June 20, 2016 in Kenna, WV to Beth and Scott Baldwin. Aunt is Jennifer Baldwin Cox.
Second Hour Bible study: After Time with Young Disciples and the Passing of the Peace, all children in grades 1-5 are invited to join us for Bible Study in room E-113. Look for Janet Chambers. She will walk the children to their classroom. If this is your child’s first time visiting Second Hour Bible Study, please accompany them to the room so that you can sign them in and get acquainted with our teachers.
This morning we welcome the Family Choir to worship leadership. On Family Choir Sundays, we meet in the Choir Room at 9:30 a.m. to learn the anthem for 10:30 a.m. worship. We’re a different group each time, determined by the people who are in town on a given Sunday. You have two more opportunities to sing with the Family Choir this summer: July 10, and August 14. Come sing a new song with us! All ages are welcome.
Gideons Offering is Received Today – Join in sharing the Good News: The Gideons International is an Association of Christian business and professional men and their wives dedicated to telling people about Jesus through sharing personally and by providing Bibles and New Testaments. Known worldwide for their work with hotels, they predominantly share Scriptures in schools and colleges, prisons and jails, hospitals, and medical offices. Gideons offering envelopes are available today in your bulletin. Please give generously to this offering and help Gideons be able to continue to share the Good News of Christ throughout the world.
The Cents-Ability Offering is Received Today: The summer months are here, which means that children are not in school and are therefore not receiving free or reduced breakfast and lunch. This places a tremendous burden on families that do not have enough food. The demand on the Covenant House Food Pantry is greater than ever. Last month 1,118 people were served at the food pantry. Please recognize the tremendous impact you can make on the lives of those who struggle with food insecurity. Please consider how you might give to help those who are hungry.
Youth: During the worship service, the youth are invited to sit with director Payne Warner in the rear gallery.
Youth News: Due to traveling for work and vacations regularly scheduled youth events will be taking a hiatus until the end of July. Notice will go out when events restart on a regular basis. Please pay attention to email for notice of summer events such as pool parties, bowling, and movie parties. If you would like to get on the Youth email distribution email Payne at youth@firstpresby.com.
This Week’s Food Pantry Needs: Beans, Ramen Noodles, and Canned Fruit
Thanks to our child care volunteers today in our nursery, toddler and preschool rooms. All child care rooms are equipped with live video feeds of the worship service. Do you love children and babies? Call the church office, (304)343-8961, to volunteer in this special ministry.
Electronic giving- Did you know that we can easily set-up a recurring gift to the church directly from your checking or savings account? This can easily be done on our church website. Also you can offer your financial gift to God electronically by scanning the QR code on the laminated card in the pew racks. These cards can also be placed in the offering plate as a sign of your faith and trust in God, if you already give electronically through your checking account or credit card.
Presbyterian Coffee Project: Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolates, and nuts continue to be available for purchase after worship and during the week during church business hours.
Are you a Kroger Community Rewards customer? Kroger Plus Card shopper? The Kroger Company will make a contribution to First Presby each time you use your Kroger Plus card, when you designate the church as your choice of charity. (Participation does not affect your gas point total). To enroll your card, go to www.kroger.com/communityrewards and select First Presby as your church. If you need help, stop by or call the church office during the week, with your Kroger Plus Card and we will be happy to register it for you.
Traveling this summer? Keep in touch with your church family several ways. You can participate in Sunday worship – the service is broadcast on the WCHS 580AM radio website at 11:00 a.m. Check out our website, http://firstpresby.com/ to read the weekly announcements and the bulletin, download past sermons to listen at your convenience. You can log in to the website as a member and set up a recurring gift directly from your checking account or credit card to continue supporting your church ministries while away. Members can also find contact info for other church family members in the member portal. Find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/FirstPresbyCharleston to see photos of the latest happenings. Stay in touch this summer- we’ll miss you when you’re not here!
Look for the big map on the bulletin board in the hallway! Whenever you travel, bring home a bulletin from the churches you visit, and we’ll “map” you on the board. By the end of the summer, our board will be full, and we’ll be connected to brothers and sisters all over the world! Leave your travel bulletins in the church office.
Art Camp: First Presby will be having Art Camp the weeks of July 18-22 and July 25-29. We are accepting 12 students per week, and have room left during both. If you’d like to register your child, please go to www.firstpresby.com/children or pick up a form in the main hall. Art camp is for ages 4 and older unless accompanied by an adult. For more information, please call Janet Chambers at 304-343-8961.
Take me out to the ballgame! Join the Fellowship and Recreation Division tomorrow, June 27 for First Presby at the Power Park. The game starts at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are available in the church office during office hours, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-4 p.m., and are first come-first served. Grab some friends and let’s cheer on the Power!
Are you receiving the weekly announcements in your e-mail? If not, call the church office to update your e-mail address. In addition to the once a week announcement sheet, we will e-mail you only with very special or late-breaking news. We won’t “spam” your inbox. We promise.
Please pray for the FPC Lyres Club as we minister in music to the residents of Oak Ridge Nursing Care Center this Tuesday, June 28. Gig Sheet 93 has been emailed to all harp players; hard copies are on the table in the hallway.
“On the Green” family sign-ups: We are trying something new for our “Fellowship on the Green” after worship this summer. Our usual small groups–classes and divisions–will cover fewer Sundays for bringing refreshments. This will allow 2 or 3 families to participate together on a Sunday of their choice. Sign up on the poster in the hall or call the office to share being the hosts of “On the Green” this summer. Instructions are included. Open Sundays are July 17, August 28, and September 4 and 11. Please take advantage of this new opportunity to share in the hospitality of First Presby this summer.
More about the music: The songs in our hymnal have notes of explanation about them at the bottom of each page. These notes were written by The Reverend Carl P. Daw, Jr. M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. Carl Daw is an Episcopal priest and is the Curator of Hymnological Collections and Adjunct Professor of Hymnology at Boston University School of Theology. He served as Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996-2009 and is a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. Several Geneva Choir members know Carl Daw personally because we studied with him at the 2010 Montreat Conference on Worship and Music. We found him to be an amazing musician and theologian, and we think he’s a really nice guy, too!
Carl Daw authored an important resource for our new hymnal entitled, Glory to God: A Companion which contains extended articles about each text and tune in our hymnal. Here’s an excerpt from the Companion article about this morning’s Family Choir anthem, “The Right Hand of God”: “The imagery of the first stanza is based on the story of the handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast (Daniel 5:5), though it seems to include an element of remembrance rather than foreboding. Similarly, in the second stanza, the pointing of the hand is for guidance rather than for shaming. When the hand strikes in stanza 3, the purpose is to destroy vices and injustice rather than to afflict. In stanza 4, God’s hand becomes the means of healing for ‘bodies, minds, and souls.’ These stanzas bring together the biblical understanding that the right hand of God is a metaphorical means of expressing God’s power and God’s favor…Even though this imagery is about God, it is not intrinsic to the nature of God, so there are no grounds here for using this language as a precedent for devaluing left-handed persons.” For more fun tidbits about our music and hymn texts, visit our church copy of the hymnal Companion in our church library or see Mary after worship.
Weekly Featured Mission Agencies: Your plate and pledge offerings are used in very significant ways in our community and world. In our Weekly News, a few agencies and/or organizations that are supported by your generous giving will be featured. We hope that this information will help you to know the breadth and depth of how your giving is being used to help those in need. The agencies are listed below and are all recipients of the Mission Grant Fund:
1) East End Family Resource Center: The EEFRC provides after-school tutoring and senior programs to some of the most vulnerable and poor living on the West Side. The grants funds that EEFRC received from First Presby will help to fund the East End Innovation Zone, a fun and interactive learning program that will stimulate learning of nature, science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
2) First Presbyterian Church, St. Albans: First Presbyterian Church of St. Albans receives work groups from all over the country who come to participate in WVMAW projects to provide a “hand-up” to local families with such things as new roofs, porches, handicap access ramps, weatherization and more. The funds that FPC St. Albans received from First Presby will be used to install four shower stalls and necessary water heater and improvements to the plumbing in two bathrooms to have available to the work groups.
3) Habitat for Humanity: Since 1988, Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha & Putnam has passionately served its mission to eliminate sub-standard housing within our communities of Kanawha and Putnam counties. We have had the honor of working with Habitat for Humanity to provide several homes to families – what a joy it has been to stand on the steps of those homes as the families celebrate their new safe shelter! The funding that HFH received this year from First Presby will be used to create a new Master Homeownership Education Program that provides free financial and homeownership classes which will be open to the community.
Mission Co-Workers
Rev. Jed and Jenny Koball, Peru
Rev. Bob and Kristi Rice, Congo
Rev. Renee and Justin Sundberg, Nicaragua
Rev. Kate Taber, Israel/ Palestine
Missions
Firelight Foundation, Africa
Hope for Children, Slovakia
Westminster Foundation, WV
WVMAW Work Camps, WV
Prayer Partners Near and Far
West Virginia
First Presbyterian Church, Weston
Baxter Presbyterian Church, Dunmore
Big Spring Presbyterian Church, Slatyfork
Kenya
Church- Kigwandi (Kay-GWAH’dee)
Parish- Riamukurwe
This week at First Presby–
Sunday 6/26:
Activities Bldg. Closed
9:15 Covenant Class
Sojourners Class
9:30 Family Choir Warm-up
10:30 Worship
11:00 Fellowship “On the Green”
4:00 Stephen’s Ministry
Monday 6/27:
Activities Bldg. Closed
8:30 Aerobics
7:05 Church Power Park Game
Tuesday 6/28:
Activities Bldg. Closed
No Scheduled Events
Wednesday 6/29:
Activities Bldg. Closed
8:00 Wed. Work Crew
8:30 Aerobics
11:45 Men’s Group, Bistro
7:00 Worship Team
Thursday 6/30:
Activities Bldg. Closed
7:30 Shoney’s Bible Study, Downtown
Friday 7/1:
Activities Bldg. Closed
8:30 Aerobics
Saturday 7/2:
Activities Bldg. Closed
No Scheduled Events