With the Evangelism & Outreach Committee, the Session has designated that we focus our mission emphasis for the month of July on the Bristol Emergency Food Pantry. The Food Pantry, located on Washington Street, is directed by our very own Jim White. As the major local hunger relief agency, it is the hub for integrated food and poverty assistance on both sides of Bristol. Last year the Food Pantry provided food and hunger relief services to nearly 14,000 local people.

We are asking the congregation to collect specific items for the Food Pantry for each Sunday in July (see weekly lists below). We encourage you to bring your food to the front of the Fellowship Hall when you come to the early service or to the chancel if you attend the late service. We also welcome monetary donations.

On Sunday, July 28, we will celebrate One Worship at 9:00, head to our regular Sunday School classes, and enjoy lunch on the grounds around 11:00. Then we will box up the food we've collected throughout the month and take it to the Food Pantry, where we will square it away.

Let's build a mountain of thanks for what God has done! / Dave Welch

The Worship Committee invites the congregation to participate in our 2019 Advent Devotional by submitting devotions of no more than 300 words. Your contributions will enhance our time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you would like to share a devotion, complete the form available at the church and place it in the offering plate or leave it in the church office. The committee needs to hear from you by August 1 to determine whether we will have the number of devotions needed for a booklet. If we do, they will need to be submitted by October 1; Han Ong will collect them. You may email your devotion to him at [email protected] or leave it in the church office. If you have questions, please contact Candy Phelps at [email protected] or 423-538-8801. / Candy Phelps

We have several new staff email addresses, all of them musical in their own way, to share with the congregation. Make a note of them, if you will:

Chris Bingham: [email protected]

Anthony Childress: [email protected]

Bob Greene: [email protected]

Make a gift of your talent and enthusiasm for music to our 9:00 a.m. congregation, and have a good time doing it! Our early worship group is looking for volunteer musicians and audiovisual personnel. For more information or to volunteer, email Anthony Childress, Director of Contemporary Worship, at [email protected].

June holds further occasions solemn and joyful for celebration or sober observance. June 16 is both Trinity Sunday and Father's Day, for which Pat Flannagan (June 12 -15) will mow the grounds, perhaps humming the day's anthem as he goes. Summer, despite having crashed the party weeks earlier, will be officially ushered in during Jim White's watch (June 19-22). Leave the fifth Sunday of the month to Ron Fox (June 26-29), while you make your preparations for the Fourth of July.

June 16 music participants: Pat Flannagan, Bob Greene, Sanctuary Choir.

	Fred Gramann

June 16 music: June 16 is observed throughout the Christian faith as Trinity Sunday, one of the very few Sundays celebrated as part of our doctrine and not as commemorative of an event in the life of Christ. Our anthem, "Trinity," is by American composer Fred Gramann, a native of Washington state, where he began his organ studies, winning the student organ competition sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the American Guild of Organists while still in high school. Earning a bachelor's degree in organ performance at Syracuse University, he won first prize in the 1972 Ft. Wayne National Organ Competition and was awarded the Arthur Poister Prize for outstanding organist in the Syracuse University School of Music for four consecutive years. From 1972 to 1975, he studied organ in Paris, with both Marie Claire Alain and, for a year, organist and composer Maurice Duruflé. In 1976, Gramann earned a master's degree in organ performance at the University of Michigan. He returned to Paris in 1976 as Director of Music at the American Church in Paris, the oldest nongovernmental American institution abroad. He recently celebrated his 30th year of music ministry. Gramann has had numerous choral anthems and handbell works published in the US and is Honorary Associate Director of the Raleigh Ringers.

Organist's footnotes: "Wir gläuben all' an einen Gott" ("We All Believe in One True God") is a Lutheran hymn by Martin Luther that paraphrases the creed. It was first published in Johann Walter's chorale hymnal, Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn. Its three stanzas deal with the three persons of the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Many composers have created settings of this hymn. I am playing two settings from Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685 -1750) Clavier-Übung III. The first of these, BWV 680 (prelude), is written "à 4, in organo pleno," meaning there are four distinct melodic lines played on the main pipes of the organ. The second setting, BWV 681 (offertory), is a slower, quieter, ornate fugue played only on the manuals. Finally (postlude), Jacob B. Weber (b. 1988) has created a bold, contemporary setting (2016) calling for the use of the Festival Trumpet. Mr. Weber is Kantor at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Dearborn, Michigan.

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June 23 music participants: Pat Flannagan, Alice Sanders (organist), Women of the Sanctuary Choir.

	No ël Goemanne

June 23 music: Our anthem, "I Have Touched the Face of God," is a repeat of an anthem that was sung in August by the women of the Sanctuary Choir. Many members of the choir and the congregation commented about this anthem, so we're bringing it back for another worship service. The text and music were written by Noël Goemanne (1926 -2010), a Belgian-born musician who immigrated to the United States in 1952 and had a notable career in church music in Texas, Michigan, and Alabama. During WWII, Goemanne was asked by the Third Reich to become a composer for the Nazi Party, but he refused. He was later arrested for playing the music of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a prominent composer from a Jewish family. The text of this anthem is very reflective of his own personal experiences: "Give me courage to do good."

Sunday, June 16

9:00 a.m.       Worship, Fellowship Hall

10:10 a.m.     Sunday School

11:00 a.m.     Worship, Sanctuary

4:00 p.m.       Evangelism & Outreach Comm., Room 117

Monday, June 17

7:00 p.m.       Middle School FISH, Off Campus

Tuesday, June 18

10:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 117

10:00 a.m.     Morning Prayer Group, Conf. Room

7:00 p.m.       Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, June 19

4:30 p.m.       Christian Education Comm. Room 123

6:00 p.m.       Worship Team, Fellowship Hall

7:00 p.m.       High School Dinner & Devo, Off Campus

Thursday, June 20

7:00 a.m.       Men's Bible Study, Parlor

12:00 p.m.     Noon Bible Study, Room 117

Sunday, June 23

9:00 a.m.       Worship, Fellowship Hall

10:10 a.m.     Sunday School

11:00 a.m.     Worship, Sanctuary

Monday, June 24

7:00 p.m.       Session of Elders, Room 123

7:00 p.m.       Middle School FISH, Off Campus

Tuesday, June 25

10:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 117

10:00 a.m.     Morning Prayer Group, Conf. Room

6:00 p.m.       Venture Crew 3, Room 165

7:00 p.m.       Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, June 26

5:30 p.m.       Fun Family Fellowship, Church

6:00 p.m.       Worship Team, Fellowship Hall

7:00 p.m.       High School Dinner & Devo, Off Campus

Thursday, June 27

7:00 a.m.       Men's Bible Study, Parlor

12:00 p.m.     Noon Bible Study, Room 117

Church Officers
Class of 2019	Class of 2020	Class of 2021
ELDERS
Anna Booher	Nancy Allerton	Ann Abel
Lee Galliher	Rebecca Beck	Randy Cook
Pete Holler	David Hyde	John Graham
Han Ong	Jordan Pennington	Katie McInnis
Pete Stigers	Jerry Poteat	John Vann
DEACONS
Sujean Bradley	Blake Bassett	Fred Harkleroad
George Linke	Rhonda Comer	Matt Kingsley
Greg Roberts	Ron Fox	Lisa McClain
Nate Sproles	Brenda Lawson	Drew Rice
Bill Whisnant	Barbara Thompson	Joyce Samuel
TRUSTEES
Nancy Cook	Peggy Hill	Jack Butterworth