August 2, 2021
Summer 2021 Service Time:
10:00 AM (ONE SERVICE ONLY) - Sanctuary & Livestream
Baby & Toddler Nursery Available at 10:00 AM
Wednesday Outdoor Communion Service - 7:00 AM.
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Dear Church Family,
After worship on Sunday, August 1, the Session met to discuss how we respond to the most recent Center for Disease Control guidance regarding masks for vaccinated people as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Their recommendation is that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission of the coronavirus.
Roanoke City and County have both entered the "high" transmission status over the past two weeks.
The Session unanimously endorsed the new guidance from the CDC and thus highly recommends that unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people wear a mask when in the Raleigh Court Presbyterian facility for worship or other activities. Disposable masks will again be available at the door.
Other activities within the life of the church will continue, and the Session will keep monitoring the infection rates of our area and alert you if there is a new recommendation for RCPC.
We cannot thank you all enough for your patience and faithfulness throughout the last year and a half and know that your willingness to adapt to change has helped us to remain united and committed to the Gospel. To share the Eucharist together as we did this week, to see pictures of our youth serving in mission throughout the city as they did last week, to hear beautiful music, to gather the harvest from the God Alive Garden, to pray with and for each other- God's work continues.
The Session of Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church
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As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me[b] while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. – John 9:1-8
“I am the light of the world,” Jesus says. As people begin to recognize Jesus for who he is in light of the healing of the blindman, Jesus’ light begins to be apparent. This text along with Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill we Climbed” framed the Hometown CROSS Missions Week for our Youth. 22 Youth and five adults served eight different non-profits within the Roanoke Valley pondering where we saw Christ’s light and how we could be Christ’s light as we experienced our Hometown anew.
Throughout the week, the places RCPC supports through their Opportunity for Generosity became places we’ve been to – with employees and clients some whose names we even know after this week. There’s Mackenzie, the Director of Education with the West End Youth Center, who let herself get tossed into the pool on Tuesday afternoon. There’s Ms. T at Apple Ridge Farms who recognizes the importance of everyone on the team to get a job done and will tell you about their quite reasonable wedding packages that begin at $2500 (you can even use their zipline!). There’s Heather in the RAM Kitchen, creatively cooking (just as she does on Wednesday nights at RCPC) from donations while knowing the story of each person who comes in for a meal. The list goes on of people we spent time with and in whom we saw Christ’s light shining brightly. As we learned about these places and these people, each invited us to also be the light, to share the light by working alongside them of course on that day we were with them but with the invitation for us to come back again soon. The beautiful thing about mission work in our hometown is that it’s easy to do just that. So, adults of RCPC – hear this invitation as not just for our youth but for you too. Where might you be able to spend a few hours of your time this fall to see the light of Christ and to be the light of Christ?
Pray with me.
Christ,
you are the light of the world.
With your light, you cast visions of a new creation
And invite us to work on bringing it to be.
May we be brave enough to see your light.
May we be brave enough to be your light.
May we know your new creation right in our hometown.
Amen.
-The Rev. Isabella Fagiani, Associate Pastor
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Thank you for all the congratulations on Jonathan and I’s engagement and prayers during his job seeking season! We’re thrilled to announce Jonathan has accepted a yoked call as the solo Pastor of Campbell Memorial Presbyterian Church in Vinton, VA, and the Evangelist for Wild Goose Christian Community in Bonsack, VA. He begins in late August. |
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June 10 - August 26, 7:00 PM at Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church, and a live stream is available for all concerts on Facebook & YouTube.
August 5 - Brooke Tolley and Friends from Opera Roanoke
August 26 - "Heroic Music for Brass, Timpani, and Organ" featuring the Roanoke Chamber Brass & Mitchell R. Weisiger, Organ Grant Frederick, Guest Conductor, Minister of Music at Bonsack Baptist. Featuring the music of Karg-Elert, Gigout, J.S. Bach, and others.
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Red Sox Game
The fellowship committee is getting a group together for a Salem Red Sox game! The game is Friday, August 6 at 7:00 PM, tickets are $11. It’s also ‘Bark in the Park’ night, in which fans can bring their dog if they get a $5 ‘pooch pass.’ Signup online at tinyurl.com/RCPCSalemRedSox2021 or on a signup sheet in the Gathering Area by Tuesday, August 3. Ticket money may be turned in to Jeff Bossert or to the church office. Contact Jeff Bossert if you have any questions: jbossert71@outlook.com
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Amazon Smile to Benefit the Rent Assistance Funds Distributed by PCC and RAM
Already shopping on Amazon? Why not have your purchases support RCPC's support of the rent assistance funds distributed by PCC and RAM at the same time! AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection, and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.
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Book Club
Join the Book Club for their monthly discussion on Wednesday, August 11 at 10:30 AM in the room beside the church library. August’s book is Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
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Andrew Whaley: Hope for Christian Pessimists
Yesterday, our senior pastor Andrew Whaley was featured on the nationally syndicated radio program Day1. Day1 has been aired for over seventy years featuring preachers from a variety of mainline denominations.
Take a listen to the recording online. Several RCPC stories are included in the sermon!
"Hope for Christian Pessimists"
John 6: 1-15
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August 8 Genesis 19:8 Lot and His Daughters
August 15 Joshua 8:24 Divine Genocide
August 22 John 10:14-16 Other Sheep
August 29 John 14:1-7 How We Come to God
September 5 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 Skydiving With Jesus
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August Opportunity for Generosity: The RCPC Hunger Mission Travers Classic
When: August 21, 2021. The first group will T-OFF at 10:00 AM (registration 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM)
Where: 3033 Dover Drive, Roanoke, VA 24018, home of the famous Dover Hills Disc Golf Course
How: Come play or come spend time as a spectator.
To play: Contact isabella@rcpres.org. Get your $10, cash or check made out to RCPC Hunger Mission with Travers Classic in the memo line or provide just 3 jars of peanut butter. Lunch included in Classic entrance fee.
To watch: Show up & bring a donation of canned food. Jars of peanut butter are always in need!
Why: Besides playing to win the 2021 Green Jacket, ALL money collected from this event will go to support the Hunger Mission Group which fills bags of non-perishable food for the weekend, for children at Lincoln Terrace and Hurt Park elementary schools every week. With your help, we can give the Hunger Mission Group at RCPC a head-start on this year’s food supply
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RCPC Flower Guild
The RCPC Flower Guild offers to arrange flowers in memory or in honor of a loved one. If you would like to honor a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion on a specific Sunday, please contact Anne Currin at
anne@rcpres.org or call the church at 540 343-5541. The cost is $80, which is for two arrangements placed in the chancel of the sanctuary.
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August BIRTHDAYS
August 1-8
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1 Gini Agee
Lisa Boylan
Sloan Sebolt
2 Tweetie Lyon
3 Bessie Williams
4 Robert Frantz
James Mountcastle
Robert Mountcastle
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5 Jeff Newman
6 Leigh Ramsey
7 Genevieve Gannon
Anne Travers
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The Herald
The Herald is a monthly newsletter that comes in your mailbox the first of each month. The deadline for articles is the 15th of each month to appear in the next month's newsletter.
This Week @ RCPC
The This Week @ RCPC is published every Monday morning via email. This publication is for weekly activities at RCPC. If you would like to receive this email please contact Julie Satterwhite at julie@rcpres.org or call the church office at 540-343-5541 x 107. The deadline for the This Week is noon on Wednesday prior to the Monday publication. Video Board in the Gathering Area
Have an upcoming event? Pictures from a recent event? Want to get information displayed on the video board in the Gathering Area? Please send the information to Carole Banks at pixiebowls@gmail.com
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Prayer Requests
Marie Brown, Alice Cabaniss, Pat Davis, Rachel Erb Birch, Brendan Brown (Kathy and Les Brown's grandson), Gail Cordes, Dawn Blakeman, Mary Frances Donnelly, Sue and Jerry Garrett, Bill Gordge, Mary Hampton, James Harrison, Susan Lindstrom, Helen Lovelace, Joe Lynch, Susan Moore, Bob Nelson, Jennifer Owen-O'Quill, Lois Pollash, Marion Raney, Bryan Tims, and all caregivers.
(Prayers request as of Friday, July 30. Names in bold indicate an addition to the prayer list this week.)
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Monday, August 2
9:00 AM - Preschool Camp
10:00 AM - Monday Morning Prayer Group
7:00 PM - BSA Troop 2
Tuesday, August 3
9:00 AM - Preschool Camp
10:30 AM - Primary Purpose: AA
4:30 PM - Small Group: Dixon
5:30 PM - Tai Chi
8:00 PM - Small Group: Bryant
Wednesday, August 4
7:00 AM - Communion Outdoor Worship
9:00 AM - Preschool Camp
10:00 AM - God Alive – Second Graders
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Thursday, August 5
9:00 AM - Preschool Camp
10:00 AM - Centering Prayer @ St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church
10:30 AM - Primary Purpose: AA
5:30 PM - Tai Chi
6:00 PM - BSA Council Meeting
6:30 PM - Hip Sober Chicks
7:00 PM - Evening Prayer Concert
Friday, August 6
9:00 AM- Preschool Camp
7:00 PM - Salem Red Sox Game
Saturday, August 7
Sunday, August 8
10:00 AM - Worship
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