Join us in person or virtually for our Sunday Worship Service at 11:00 a.m. To watch: click the button above or visit our website, www.2ndpres.org, and click the "Sunday Live stream" button on the home page.
We will also email an active link on Sunday morning.
Also - if you click the gray button above you will be able to download the worship order so you can follow along at home!
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As a result of the Session’s change to our Covid Precaution Policy at its meeting this past Tuesday, in-person worship will be held this Sunday and all subsequent Sundays for those who are comfortable worshiping in-person. The precautions for in-person worship during Phase Red will be the same as Phase Orange. Face coverings are required and distancing will be encouraged through the taping off of every other pew.
The restroom across from the library will be available for use and the library itself will be open as usual for those who may need to leave the sanctuary but still want to watch the service. The nursery will be open, as well, for families with small children.
The rest of the building will be closed on Sunday mornings when we are in Phase Red and coffee and doughnut holes will not be available. Please enter through the Sanctuary doors or through the Portico entrance. All other entrances to the building will be closed. We respectfully request that households keep physically distant from one another and that you refrain from congregating with people outside of your household while in the building. (Visiting outside in the courtyard before or after worship is encouraged!)
Moving forward, in-person worship will be an option no matter which Covid Phase we are in. As always, the live stream is available on our website or YouTube channel for those who prefer to worship from home during times of high Covid transmission in the community. The current Covid Phase will always be available on the home page of our website, where you can also find the guidelines for each phase. Additionally, signs on the doors of the building will alert you to the current Covid Phase.
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As of September 23rd we are still in PHASE RED.
At its regularly stated meeting on September 21st, the Session made the following changes to the Covid Precaution Phases Policy:
During Phase Red, in-person worship on Sunday morning will be held with the same guidelines as Phase Orange (masks, distancing, etc.). All areas of the building except the sanctuary, library, and restroom across from library will be closed on Sunday morning; entrance to the sanctuary will only be through the Narthex or Portico entrance.
Essentially, this means that Sunday morning worship will always be held in person, regardless of the levels of Covid transmission within the community. For those who are not comfortable worshiping in person during levels of high transmission, the service will always be streamed via our website and YouTube channel. This policy goes into effect immediately. Sunday worship will be in-person beginning this Sunday.
All other precautions of Phase Red regarding meetings and usage of the building remain unchanged. This only applies to Sunday morning worship. Please see below for the updated policy.
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The Peace & Global Witness Offering offers light to those in the shadows and guides us all into the ways of peace. We come together to promote the peace of Christ by addressing injustice in our own communities around the world.
25% of this offering stays with our congregation to support peacemaking and reconciliation in our own community.
25% of this offering will go to the Presbytery of East Tennessee to support peacemaking work in our region.
50% of this Offering supports the work for peace and reconciliation being done by the Presbyterian Church USA.
The Peace & Global Witness Offering will be received on
Sunday, October 3rd.
Checks can be mailed to the church office with 'Peace & Global Witness' on the memo line.
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Phone and desk coverage has been arranged from
9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Wednesday Night Bible Study will continue this
Wednesday, Sept. 29th at 6:30 p.m.
If we are still in Covid Phase Red, there will be no dinner and the class will take place virtually on Zoom until we return to Orange. The Zoom link is below, and you will also receive an email on Wednesday morning with the link and the current week's discussion questions.
Once we have returned to Covid Phase Orange, the Bible Study will be in-person with a Zoom option for those who wish to join from home. We will also gather for dinner at 6:00 p.m. during Covid Phase Orange, but a prepared meal will not be served. Instead, we invite those who desire to gather for dinner with each person/family providing their own “brown bag” dinner.
This fall we will be studying The Kingdom Parables of Jesus, those parables in which Jesus says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like…” The format will be lecture/small group discussion. Pastor Tim will review the story for 20 minutes or so then we will break into small groups for discussion questions together. The makeup of each group will change from week to week and the discussion questions will be provided.
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Recordings of the Kingdom Parables Bible Study are available for those who weren’t able to join us “live” and would like to watch them. We apologize that weeks 1 & 2 are not available – Pastor Tim forgot to push record! This past week’s study of The Mustard Seed & The Yeast is available, however, and can be accessed under the Resources tab of our website or by clicking the button below.
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Food & Friends will resume when we return to Covid Phase Orange.
Food & Friends is a fellowship ministry to college students and young adults that provides a free lunch following worship. While in Covid Phase Orange we will gather in the Fellowship Hall for a catered meal. Once we reach Covid Phase Yellow we will return to visiting a local restaurant each week.
Hosts for Food & Friends are needed each week to arrange for the meal.
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EVEN BETTER NEWS!
100% of what you pay for a School Coupon stays with West View School. The School Secretary shared this good news with me when I picked up books to be sold at Second Church.
Remember, the sale will end on September 29th.
So, please do your part and order several/one or make a donation.
$10.00 per book.
Please make checks payable to: West View School.
Donations should go directly to Sandra. Thank you!
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If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Audrey via email (ajohnson@2ndpres.org) or phone (865-523-2189).
The dates are October 11th through 14th. Thank you!
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The Second Readers Book Club would love to welcome new members! We will read The Keeper of Lost Things for our October 13th gathering.
Attendees are asked to bring their lunch.
The time and location for our October meeting will be announced at a later date.
Call Margaret Sullivan at 865-588-3103 if you have any questions about Second Readers!
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Some of our local nursing homes and assisted living facilities have shut down again due to Covid-19.
Be on guard and call before visiting anyone who may be in a facility to get the latest updates.
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Additional Volunteers Needed!
We are trying to finalize our fall volunteer schedule and are still needing 2 people willing to be in our nursery on a 6-week rotation. We are also in need of 1 person to help teach Kindergarten-5th grade Sunday school once a month. If you are interested, please contact Holly Grimm at hgrimm@2ndpres.org or 865-243-6353.
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If you like to shop, the Fish Pantry mission is in need of the following household and personal items:
-Dish Soap
-Bath Soap
-Shampoo
-Toothpaste
-Deodorant
-Toilet Paper
Our once-a-month Fish team receives phone call requests for food and these additional items; then they are sorted, packed, and delivered to each client's household.
All donations should be newly purchased, and any quantities would be greatly appreciated.
They can be dropped off into the “Fish” bin that sits on the floor in the coat rack area just off the atrium. Thank you!
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Compassionate Cuisine is a program from the Care and Compassion committee and our Cooking Teams. This group is collaborating to create a homecooked meal, and will gather safely at the church to package them into individual portions, that they will then distribute to some of our members who are living in their homes but may not be getting out and about to pick up dinner or groceries to make a home-cooked meal.
The teams would love to have your help in cooking and/or distributing meals in hopes that this ministry might be able to grow in the coming months. If you’re interested in helping by cooking a portion of one of the meals and/or would be willing to deliver some of the meals, please contact Leslie Matthews: flowlilly@gmail.com, (865) 765-0549.
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Pick up your
September-October
Upper Room Devotional
in the vestibule
(Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)!
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On the Pastoral Care page of our website, we will share more specific updates regarding those on our prayer list. It will be updated frequently by the church staff.
Visit our website: 2ndpres.org. The page is located under the 'Members' tab.
To keep all information private, the page is password protected. Please contact Audrey at the church office (via email: ajohnson@2ndpres.org or phone: 865.523.2189) for the password.
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Our Wi-Fi network is for use by anyone who visits the building.
The network is “Second Presbyterian Church” and the password is Psalm100.
Please feel free to save it as a network that connects automatically for your device.
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The Church Directory was recently updated. It can be viewed online by visiting our website under the 'Members' tab.
The password to this page has not changed.
If you would like a hard copy of this directory, please contact Audrey
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Prayer List:
Please keep Fran McLean, Scott Farris, Alex Robinson, and Peter Hamilton in your prayers.
Please contact the Church Office (865.523.2189 or ajohnson@2ndpres.org) with prayer concerns to be listed in the weekly email or bulletin.
Names remain on the prayer list 4 weeks unless requested by the individual or a close family member of the individual to keep them on longer.
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