College Bound...Technology & Us
First Press Weekly e-News
January 18, 2018
 
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College Bound Conversations
Join us for our semi-annual Youth-Parents Dinner on Sunday, January 28th, 5:00-7:00pm. Parents will be treated to a presentation about college preparation for all students led by Elizabeth Harwell, Counselor at the Newton College & Career Academy.
 
Middle and high school students will gather in the Youth Lounge for games and conversations, then we will all join together for dinner in the fellowship hall at 6:30.

QUESTIONS? Call Dan Walden at 404-405-3559
Technology & Us
Make plans to join us for a 3 week Sunday School series addressing the challenges that current and emerging technologies pose to our families and ourselves.  
  • February 4 - Cindy Elrod, PhD, Licensed Professional Counselor
  • February 11 - Catherine Bagwell , PhD, Professor of Psychology, Oxford College
  • February 25 - Dan Walden, Director of Youth & Children's Ministries
A reference text that we will be using is " The Tech-Wise Family" by Andy Crouch. Copies will be available for purchase, or can be ordered HERE.
 
We will meet in the fellowship hall at 9:45 am on each of these Sundays.  
*NEW* Director of Music

Session has appointed a new Director of Music who will start this month, Alexis Renee Ward. She is a composer, conductor, singer, music educator, adjudicator, and accompanist. She has a wide variety of experience in both vocal and instrumental fields including teaching elementary through high school level choral and instrumental music, teaching college level music theory, conducting professional/community choirs and orchestras, directing church ensembles and semi-professional chamber groups, serving as a board member for local ensembles, and accompanying choirs and private voice studios. Check out her website HERE.    
Ms. Ward's first official Sunday with us will be January 21st. Please welcome her to the FPC family! 
Praise & Prayers

We extend our sympathy and prayers to:

  • The family of Bill Taylor who died this week. Audio recordings of Mr. Taylor's memorial service can be heard HERE.
Please keep the following people and their families in your thoughts and prayers this week:
  • Jim Elder - pneumonia
  • Roger Gossage - dialysis at Piemont (Atlanta)
  • Betty Miller - hospital
  • Bill Shirk - heart attack (Danny Vining's brother-in-law)
  • Marilyn Hall - cancer (TOPS group)
  • Lewis Bunn - hip surgery (Alan Bunn's father)
  • Tom Horton - cancer surgery (nephew of Maxine Blankenship)
  • Karla Ensminger - back surgery (sister of Perri Walden)
  • Tom Holmes - cancer (friend of Dan Walden)
  • Jim Patrick - shoulder surgery (Piedmont Newton)
  • Dave Gregory - heart surgery, home recovering
  • Clynton Byer - heart surgery (friend of the Ardis family)
  • Chuck Brasher - pacemaker (Piedmont)
  • Brandon Massey - blood cancer (grandson of Chuck & Sherry Brasher)
  • Bryant Family - friends of Jeanie & Warren Liem
  • Steve Bozarth - ill (father of Debra Arnold)
  • Jeanette Davis - hospice care (mother of Maria Davis)
  • Danny Vining - skin cancer surgery 
  • Ethan Lassiter - brain tumor (8 y.o. grandson of E.G. and Maryanne Lassiter)
  • Nat Allen Long - surgery (step-son of Alice Walker)
  • Rick Gunter - Glory Personal Care Home (Covington)
  • Adriane Ivey - cancer treatment
  • Teresa McCurry - tests
  • David Cooper - lung cancer (father of Rebecca Bates)
  • Anderson Krieger--chemotherapy at home
  • Debi (Dee) Selin - home
  • Carol Baynes--cancer, friend of Phyllis Yoder
  • Robin McKeown - cancer, friend of Phyllis Yoder
  • Chuck Hodges--treatment for lymphoma (friend of Patti Lanford)
  • Ron Swatty--heart problems (brother-in-law of Charles Ardis)
  • Mitchell Jessup--cancer (father of Nick Jessup)
  • Sophia Hawley--Cystic Fibrosis
  • Jan Coulon--home

Please update your prayer requests this week!
Email: [email protected] or call the church office, 770-786-7321.
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