Dear Friends,
This Sunday we continue with the third of the five-part
sermon series looking at the creeds and confessions of the Presbyterian
Church. This week we will travel to Switzerland and visit the Second
Helvetic Confession of 1564. Links to online versions of each creed can be found
in the gray box below.
I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday.
In Christ,
Sherard
First of all, don't call it a Yard Sale. It is an Emporium (but you may call it a Treasure Sale). In response to their recent study of the book
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, the Cross Roads class is organizing this sale of the things you no longer need and using the
proceeds to support the Empower Me Center.
They don't want your junk. They want your treasures. Bring these treasures to the church for the sale on Saturday October 21.
We have already had a deluge of donations for the Emporium.
We need volunteers on Friday, October 20, to move items from the Dinges House to the Fellowship Hall and then on Saturday, October 21, to help move items at 7:00 am. To volunteer please contact the office.
Volunteers are needed on October 28 at 9:00 a.m. to help clean up the Dinges House in anticipation of Compassionate Hands. Contact the church office if you can help out that day.
Oct 18 - Covered Dish
Oct 25 - Fall Festival with Roast Pork, Apples, Sweet Potatoes, Green Beans, Pumpkin Cake
Nov 8 - Chili Cookoff
Nov 15 - Thanksgiving Meal
Nov 22 - No Meal
Nov 29 - Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes, Lima Beans, Banana Pudding
Saturday, October 21
Emporium for Empower Me
(Treasure Sale)
Saturday, October 28
Dinges House Spruce Up - 9:00 a.m.
Sunday, November 5
All Saints Sunday
Saturday, December 2
Compassionate Hands begins
Sunday, December 3
Keyboards at Christmas
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An archive of sermons and bulletins
(audio and text) can be viewed
here.
We are presently taking food donations to the Timberline Campground. When our food arrives, the shelves almost always bare. We have seen people waiting for our food deliveries.
It is easy to forget the need that exists in our own backyard. PLEASE remember to bring canned food donations each Sunday and place them in the boxes in the hallway.
Requested food donations include:
- Canned goods—preferably with pull tops—fruit, vegetables, meat/noodles, soups.
- Dry goods—individual packets of cereal, Ramen noodles, crackers.
- Peanut butter!
- Personal hygiene items—soap, shampoo, deodorant, women’s hygiene & toothpaste/brush.
- Baby care items—diapers, wipes, baby food, blankets/wraps.
- Dog food—smaller bags or separated into gallon zip lock bags.
Each Sunday the following classes meet—
Faith Builders: A Journey for the 30s and 40s meets upstairs. Led by Jeff and Alice Gossage.
Westminster Class meets in the Sanctuary. Led by Sheridan Henson, this class follows The Present Word curriculum. 8-10 people.
Atypical Adult Research Bible Class meets upstairs. Led by Brenda Thaxton, this class is reading the book The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. 8-10 people.
Women’s Class meets in the Session Room. This female class is reading When God Winks by S.Q. Rushnell. 12-15 people.
Cross Roads Class in the Library. Led by George Gebhardt. Studying the book When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg. 12-15 people.
Preschool - First Grade (ages 4 - 6 years) uses the Growing in Grace and Gratitude curriculum and is led by John Foutch, Tracey Bone, and Debbie Harlan.
Elementary Class (2nd grade - 4th grade) uses the Growing in Grace and Gratitude ; Led by Marty Bone and Barbara Howell. Through Biblical stories shared in a variety of ways, children learn in a setting that stimulates their imagination and encourages class participation.
Middle School Class Led by Aileen Foutch using the Connect curriculum.
High School Class Led by Sally Thaxton.
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Acts 3:37-42
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"
38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him."
40 And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."
41 So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Pardon
(from Second Helvetic Confession)
In the beginning, man was made according to the image of God, in righteousness
and true holiness, good and upright.
But when at the instigation of the serpent and by his own fault he
abandoned goodness and righteousness, he became subject to sin, death and
various calamities.
By sin we understand that innate corruption of man
which has been derived or propagated in us all
from our first parents, by which we, immersed in perverse desires and averse to
all good are inclined to all evil.
Full of all wickedness, distrust, contempt and hatred of God, we are
unable to do or even to think anything good of ourselves.
Jesus Christ our Lord is the unique and eternal Savior of the human race, and
thus of the whole world, in whom by faith are saved all who before the law,
under the law, and under the Gospel were saved, and however many will be saved
at the end of the world.
Friends, in the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Thanks be to God!
