GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE
Sunday, August 14, 2022 @ 11 am
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Scripture: Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19;
Hebrews 11:29 - 12:2; and Luke 12:49-56
Sermon "Only a Weatherman"
Gary Helton, CRE
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SPECIAL NEWS AND INFORMATION |
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CALLED CONGREGATIONAL MEETING - AUGUST 21ST |
A Called Congregational Meeting is announced for Sunday, August 21st immediately following morning worship to hear the report of the PNC and to vote on the pastoral candidate and terms of call. |
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LORENA LAWRENCE MAST |
The time and place of the memorial service for Lorena Mast has been set for this coming Sunday afternoon/evening, August 14th at Hopwood Christian Church, Milligan College. A visitation with the family is planned for 5 – 7 with the service beginning at 7 pm.
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AFGHAN FAMILY RESETTLEMENT |
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FLOOD RELIEF FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY |
If you and your congregation want to funnel donations through Transylvania Presbytery for direct relief, the easy-to-use online giving portal on the Holston Presbytery website will make it easy. Just make sure the memo says “flood relief” and we will make sure it all goes to the right place.
In the meantime, there are some things we know will be needed:
- Money, either through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, or we can get money directly to the presbytery there for direct help
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Clean up buckets: here is a link that shows what is in included in these buckets, and can be used as a bulletin insert if you’d like; if your church could serve as a collection and assembly point for these buckets, that would be great; I hope we can deliver these in person in the next few days https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/pda/pdfs/cleanup_bucket_bulletin_insert.pdf
- Folks willing to be on “stand by” when the need for helping hands is more clear
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Jean Darling has asked if anyone is interested in reviving the Keenagers group for gatherings or other events. The Keenagers involves anyone over 50, which is most of us now. If you would like the group to return, please give Jean a call. |
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Just a friendly reminder and plenty of notice that there will be at PW 5th Tuesday Work Day coming up on August 30th. It will be time to make more Hygiene bags. So bring your items to fill those bags, including: shampoo, combs, small tissues, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush (and cover), face cloth, deodorant, bar of soap. Also remember to bring in those magazines, notepads, greeting cards, and calendars.
Also remember that is the same week that PW Circle restarts for the fall on Thursday, September 1st. Please contact Linda Brashear, no later than August 15th, if you will be needing a study book. New members are always welcome so let Linda know if you want to join with them.
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The Lunch Bunch has reservations to have lunch at Cafe Lola on August 21st @ 12:30 pm. Michelle can only accommodate 10-12 so pre-reservation headcount is needed no later than Thursday, August 18th; so please contact the church office if you want to attend. We would still like suggestions for August 28th. If you have a restaurant we should put on the list for those dates,
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Just a reminder that Loaves & Fishes at West Main Street Christians Church will be coming up at the end of August on Saturday, August 27th. Hugh is asking for volunteers to help pack the lunches and make cupcakes for this event. Stay tuned.
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE COMING WEEK |
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Sunday, August 14 - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Gary Helton, CRE, Guest Minister (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @TBD - suggestions please
5 - 7 pm Visitation for Lorena Lawrence Mast @ Hopwood Christian Church, Milligan College; Memorial service begins at 7 pm.
Wednesday, August 17
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Sunday, August 21 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Karen Russell, Guest Minister (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
Called Congregational Meeting following worship to hear the report of the PNC
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Cafe Lola (1805 N Roan, JC)
Wednesday, August 24
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Saturday, August 27
Loaves& Fishes @ West Main Street Christian Church
Sunday, August 28 - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Karen Russell, Guest Minister (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ TBD - suggestions please
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GENERAL FUND: YEAR TO DATE: |
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[2022 Annual Budget - $ 135,000
Budget through Aug. 9th, Week #32 ($83,077)
Receipts $ 92,141.00
Disbursements -$ 78,764.26
Balance $ 13,376.74
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Thanks to everyone for your continued support the church with your tithes and offerings during this extraordinary time. We are on the verge of getting a new pastor and our expenditures will soon be increasing. Make sure that your pledges are
up-to-date. There is much work that still needs to be done and the year is already beginning to wind down. You are encouraged to mail your pledge to us or to drop it by the church office during regular business hours. Thanks.
We are still receiving the 5 Cents per Meal offering that is usually taken on Communion Sundays. If you would like to make a contribution to this offering please do so and designate it on your checks.
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JULY BIRTHDAYS
August 20 - John Hancock
August 21 - Dick Lura
The Chancel flowers were given
in honor and appreciation of
Rev. Sharon Amstutz
by her friends at WAPC
PLEASE NOTE: THE NEW 2022 FLOWER LIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE SIDE ENTRY
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For Members / Regular Attendees
Phyl Summers; Don Loughry; Camilla & Hunter Lyle; Jack Hansel.
For Friends
Karen Clark's aunt, Merietta Cahill; Matthew Clark's friend, David F Smith; Ken Solly and family; Sally Gerhardt's son, Fritz, is beginning his second round of chemo for multiple myeloma; Gene Barringer, friend of Matthew & Karen Clark; Eddie & Pauline Everhart, neighbors of the Danks; Nathan Songer; Rev. Maggie Lauterer; Karen Frederick; the family of Olga Pastushenko from Odessa, Ukraine refugees in Romania; Sue Sheffield's nephews, Jeremiah Collins and Tanner Frye; Sue Shank's friend, Judy Klein; Sharon Amstutz's brother, Paul Hagood; Sarah Suptin; church neighbor, Dorothy Harvey.
Special Prayers for Clinical and Medical Health Care Workers
The continued COVID pandemic concerns with cases still on the rise with the delta, lambda and mu variant strains, along with the new omicron virus with the highest number of overall cases in the United States, India and Brazil; a new strain BA2.12.1 subtype COVID cases are now on the rise in numerous European countries. And persons now affected by the rise in new active cases of the infectious disease, monkeypox.
Prayers for others
Special prayers for the people of the Ukraine in light of the military invasion by Russia and the ongoing humanitarian crisis there; for our military members who serve our country here and abroad, as well continued prayers for our fragile planet during this time of extreme weather conditions, and for those who have suffered loss from recent ongoing disasters including a new humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following the earthquake on the Afghan / Pakistan border, as well as the Horn of Africa hunger crisis. Prayers for the families in Buchanan County, Virginia, Southeast Kentucky and other places experiencing massive flooding. And especially prayers for our nation and for strength, endurance, faith and courage for all.
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Who is this talented fellow and when was this photo taken? |
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In 2018 China stopped accepting the enormous quantities of US trash that used to provide raw materials for its factories. Suddenly once profitable recycling became a net cost that many communities could no longer afford. Then the pandemic accelerated the crisis with enormous amounts of packaging waste from online purchases. Towns in Maine, like many others across America, either stopped or limited recycling. Instead of giving up, however, Maine responded by changing the game, passing a first-in-the-nation law that shifts 100 percent of the cost of recycling from communities and taxpayers to the makers of wasteful products.
In the new system the recycling infrastructure remains the same; just the billing address changes. Manufacturers pay based on the tonnage and volume of the packaging they sell, or they pay a fee if their materials are too expensive of difficult to recycle. Signed by Maine's governor in the summer of 2021 despite stiff opposition from industry, the bill proved so compelling that Oregon quickly followed with its own version. Now the legislatures in 15 other states are working on their own extended producer responsibility programs. (GSN #111)
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VIRTUAL CREATION ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK |
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US Dept. of the Interior: National Park Service
(March 2011 | 24:09 Min.)
Welcome to Channel Islands National Park, one of North America's magnificent treasures. Close to the California mainland, yet worlds apart, the park encompasses five of the eight California Channel Islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara) and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. The park bridges two biogeographical provinces and in a remarkably small place, harbors the biologic diversity of nearly 2,500 miles of the North American coast. The Channel Islands are home to over 2,000 plant and animal species, of which 145 are found nowhere else in the world.
The protection of these fragile island resources was ensured when Congress, in the act that created Channel Islands National Park in 1980, established a long-term ecological monitoring program to gather information on the current health of resources and predict future conditions. This information provides park and natural resource managers with useful products for recreation planning, conservation and restoration programs, and early identification of critical issues.
Directed by Joshua Colover; narrated by Kevin Costner.
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IN THE POTEAT LIBRARY
NOTE: The library is open by appointment. Please remember that you are welcome to drop by the church library if you are looking for something new to read. We ask that you to sign out any books on the register sheet found on the file cabinet in the corner with the call #, book title, your name and date checked out.
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The Book of Jonah: A Novel
By Joshua Max Feldman
(F/FEL)
The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein.
He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything.
Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah's life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who's no stranger to loss herself.
As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you're chosen?
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Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests - Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey with information.
Flower List - The 2022 Flower List has been posted on the bulletin board in the side entry. Please sign up to sponsor flowers for our weekly worship services in honor or in memory of loved ones.
Arrangements are $65 each.
Liturgists - We are always looking for new people to be liturgists. Please contact the church office, if you would like to volunteer.
e-Avenue deadline - Please submit information to church office (office@wataugapc.org or 926-7942) at any time and for the September issue of the e-AVENUE, no later than Friday, August 19th. This includes team and committee meetings, news, planned events and other newsworthy items.
Photos needed - We welcome contributions to our Facebook page via your comments and photos of church events and activities. Please also submit your photos to the church office for archiving. It will be wonderful to have a visual record of all of the positive things that Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church does for our community.
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Established 27 September 1892, Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ. Reformed in theology and Presbyterian by way of organization, it is related to Holston Presbytery, the Synod of Living Waters, and to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
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