The Church will host a Ladies Tea Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 3PM. (Rev. Deb Patterson is hosting.) From the announcement in our bulletin…
Ladies:
You are invited to share tea in the comfort of our Church. Please bring your favorite finger food, tea cup and tea pot (if you have one). Come for an afternoon of fellowship, food and fancy. January 20, 2007 3PM.
We’ve started the year off with a new project, the Church has adopted Pleasant Grove Rd. for trash pickup (between Reems Creek and Eller Cove Rd.) Saturday was a wonderful 70 degree day which made for a great first pickup. We had 10 people turn out to help and managed to pick up 7 bags of trash, and one back each of glass/plastic/aluminum. We expect to schedule pickups quarterly/as needed. Kudos also to the NC DOT. We reported the pickup this morning when their office opened and found the bags had been picked up by 1:15 PM.
This is a brief note to pass along that the Church’s annual Christmas program will be held Sunday evening, December 17th at 6PM.
Additionally, Pastor Deb Patterson will be holding a Christmas Eve service on Sunday, December 24th at 6PM.
I’ve uploaded a PDF of our newly reworked brochure. It should be accessible via this link. (To save it to disk you will likely need to right click the link and then select “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…”)
I’ve put a few pictures up from VBS 2006. All of these are from the last day, from the traditional picture on the front steps to the certificates and the fun out in back. Here is the link.
Some time back, we decided to have a meeting on the 5th Sunday of the month along with our 5th Sunday covered dish lunch. Well, since we had 5 Sundays in July and the first Sunday in August was homecoming, we postponed the covered dish lunch until the 1st Sunday in August (tomorrow 8/6/06). We did go ahead with our meeting and I thought I would give a rough summary of what was discussed for those that weren’t able to attend.
Saturday, August 12th at 4PM we’ll have another in our “Movie Matinee” series. Snacks will be provided. The video will be shown in the fellowship hall. (A classroom adjoining the fellowship hall.) Due to the restrictions on advertisement that the licensing gives, I can’t say here what the title is, or the series. However, I will say that the series is a popular line of kids videos that many adults enjoy as well. Each video has a good lesson to it and are quite entertaining.
This welcome is long overdue. Around January or February, Rev. Ray Bailey started filling in for Rev. Dan Bowers on the second Sunday of each month. After many years of service Rev. Bowers was not in good enough health to continue preaching. Around February/March we officially welcomed Rev. Ray Bailey back as our second Sunday Minister. Ray returns to us, he previously served at our Church from 1984-1994 and we are glad to welcome him back. This change also brings with it a bit of a schedule change. On the second Sunday of the month our service is now at 11AM and Sunday School precedes the service at 10AM.
August 6th will be Homecoming Sunday this year (it’s always the first Sunday in August.) We’ll have a short program with some special songs during the Sunday School hour and a covered dish dinner starting around 12:30 (give or take a bit…) We look forward to seeing familiar faces and new visitors alike.
We had a good week for VBS this year. We had about 11 students in total and as we’re in the busy summer season. I wanted to post a reminder about our Cookout this coming Saturday (July 8th) at 5:30 PM at the Church. We’ll have 2 short videos starting at 4PM for those that come early. (Videos in the Fellowship Hall.).