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Wednesday,
November 16, 2022
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mailing address: Balmoral Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 17309, Memphis, TN 38187
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NEWS THIS WEEK
- WORSHIP for THIS SUNDAY
- Circle of Faith Worship at 8:30
- Sunday Studies at 9:30
- BPC Worship at 11
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CREWS NEEDED for CISTERN BUILDING in Xjupil, Mexico
- JOHNSON AUXILIARY UPDATED NEEDS
- PW Bible Study CHRISTMAS PARTY Saturday Dec 3
- PRESBYTERIAN PEACE FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCES A NEW VISION STATEMENT
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BPC Photos
- Worship Sunday, Nov 13
- Fall Cleanup Day
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WEEKLY INFORMATION
- Birthdays
- Calendar of Events
- CONTACT INFORMATION
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES
- BRING FOOD for the FOOD CART
- Give out Hospitality bags
- DONATED BOOKS for the VA
- SIGN UP to be a WORSHIP LITURGIST!
- Johnson Auxiliary Fall Clothes Drive
REMINDERS:
- PINECREST EVENTS
- THANKSGIVING at NaCoMe and Newsletter link
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BPC WORSHIP
Sunday,
November 20, 2022
11:00am
IN BPC's SANCTUARY
Christ the King Sunday
"The Crowning of the Year"
A service of scriptures and music describing each season of the Church calendar
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SUNDAY STUDIES
9:30am in Classroom A
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We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign
by Liz Theoharis.
The Bible cries for justice, and we do too. It's time to act on God's persistent call to repair the breach and fight poverty, not the poor. Join us this Sunday in our discussion!
LEADERS: Ted Pearson and Cliff Gurlen
This will be the last Sunday for the Fall Studies series. There will be no Sunday Study on November, 27 (Thanksgiving weekend).
Advent Studies will begin Sunday, December 4 (see below).
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CIRCLE of FAITH WORSHIP 8:30am
IN BPC's Fellowship Hall
Everyone is invited to join Circle of Faith's worship service!
To enter the building, use Office door to the Fellowship Hall.
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We will still send an email on FRIDAY
with the LiveStream YouTube link & Sunday Worship Guide.
Previous Worship Services at Balmoral are also still available on the
Balmoral YouTube channel
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For our Sunday Studies for Advent, we will share Christmas books, read by BPC family members. Come join these Classic Christmas stories! | |
December 4
2 books will be read:
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The Crippled Lamb
by Max Lucado
read by Jack & Emmie Orians
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Christmas Day in the Morning
by Pearl S. Buck
read by Scott Hill
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
read by Beverly & Bill Hooker
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(NOTE: There will be no Advent Studies on December. 18, December 25, or January 1. Winter Studies will begin on Sunday, January 8. 2023.) | |
CREW NEEDED for CISTERN BUILDING MISSION TRIP to XJUPIL, MEXICO
January 9-14, 2023
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Clean water cistern building is part of Balmoral’s active ministries in Xjupil, Mexico. Members of Balmoral travel to Mexico two to three times a year to build the cisterns. The mission of providing clean water for impoverished families in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula is BPC’s largest and most far reaching ministry. Since 1996, this mission, which is aligned with The Outreach Foundation and PCUSA, has built in excess of 400 cisterns for truly needy families.
Bill Hooker and Scott Dawson are taking a crew to Xjupil, Mexico, January 9-14. If you would like to join us or have more information get with Scott Dawson!
CONTACT SCOTT DAWSON if you are interested!
Text Scott at (901) 849-1685 or
email at scott.dawson1956@gmail.com
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PW BIBLE STUDY
CHRISTMAS PARTY
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Saturday, December 3
12:00pm in the Fellowship Hall
Join us for Presbyterian Women for our annual Potluck Christmas Party. Bring a dish to share.
All are welcome to join us!
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PW BIBLE STUDY
Wednesday, December 7
10:30am in classroom A
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Join us as we study Sabbath as a reminder to honor God who honors us by giving us a day each week to reset our pace, our priorities, and our lives.
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BOOK CLUB
Tuesday, December 13
11:30 am
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Food, fellowship and favorite poems are the focus of the Holiday Book Club on Tuesday, December 13, at the home of Ted and Janie Pearson,
(9625 Spring Hollow Cove Germantown, TN 38139-5639) beginning at 11:30 a.m. Please bring a dish to share.
And bring one (or two) of your favorite poems to read! (They can be nursery rhymes, Haiku, Shakespeare Sonnets, the work of U.S. Poet Laurette Billy Collins, or anything between or beyond.)
We will enjoy lunch together and savor the company and the poetry.
All are welcome!
(We also will further discuss books for 2023,
so please bring your ideas.)
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UPDATED NEEDS for
JOHNSON AUXILIARY
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With cool weather arriving, Regional One needs the following items for our Clothes Closet for men & women:
Clothing:
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Men’s and women’s underwear—must be new, preferably in a package or tags still on them (all sizes needed)
- Men’s and women’s sweatpants, sweatshirts, etc.--all sizes needed (can be new or gently used)
- Men’s and women’s outerwear—all sizes needed (can be new or gently used); outerwear includes items such as jackets, caps, gloves, umbrellas
- Men’s pajama pants (all sizes needed)
- Men’s athletic shoes and house shoes (with backs)—all sizes needed (new or gently used)
- Women’s athletic shoes and house shoes (with backs)—sizes 8 and up (new or gently used)
Other Needs:
- Adult coloring and puzzle books; crayons and colored pencils (must be new)
- Magazines (New or gently used; no more than 6 months old)
- Paperback Books (including large print); new or gently used for both men and women
Hygiene Items -- must be new, unused and not beyond expiration date—
- Men’s and women’s deodorant (unscented preferred)
- Toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash (small travel size preferred)
- Disposable razors and shaving cream
- Large Combs (particularly those for detangling hair) and Brushes
If items have been previously worn, they must be clean, odor-free, stain-free and not in need of repair.
Your contributions really help and are greatly appreciated!
(Place items near the Food Cart in the narthex hallway.)
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
THANKSGIVING LUNCH AT PINECREST
Thursday, November 24 (serving 11:30am-1pm)
Join us for traditional lunch, hikes, bonfires, and hayrides
$25 (adult), $15 (4-11years), 3 and under free
Reservations: 901.878.1247 or EMAIL AMANDA
THE GREAT CINNAMON ROLLOUT
Delicious Pinecrest cinnamon rolls packaged for your holiday giving.
$15/pan of 6-7 gooey cinnamon rolls $14/pan for more than 9 pans
Order by 12/2 ... Delivery on 12/10
Orders: 901.878.1247 or EMAIL AMANDA
STARGAZERS U-NIGHT
Saturday, Dec 3 ... 6-8:30p
A little learning, a lot of viewing deep space objects through the incredible telescopes of the Memphis Astronomical Society.
BYO binoculars for added fun.
Pay what you can, but register at 901.878.1247 or EMAIL CHARITY
CHRISTMAS CAMP
December 18-19 ... 2p-5p (27 hours of fun!)
3rd-8th graders ... $125/camper
You finish up your Christmas prep.
Our same, great staff has got the kids.
Register by December 10 HERE
Find these events & more on Pinecrest's website
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Come and spend Thanksgiving at NaCoMe! We will take care of the cooking and cleaning, so you will have time to spend with family and friends. You can come early or stay late to enjoy the creek and beautiful fall scenery. We will also have cabins available if you would like to stay overnight. | |
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For more information about NaCoMe events and plans, read their November newsletter at this link! Summer camps, summer staff applications, ways you can support NaCoMe - all can be found here! | |
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
announces a new vision statement
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Peace & Justice November 15, 2022
The 80-year-old parachurch organization seeks to ‘disrupt and transform the culture of domination’
from Presbyterian Peace Fellowship | Special to Presbyterian News Service
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LOUISVILLE — Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a parachurch organization begun during the 1940s to provide support to conscientious objectors during World War II, has announced a new vision statement, according to a news release:
“Relying on God’s grace, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship imagines
a world of peace where all God’s creation can thrive.
In local and global communities, we will use every nonviolent means
to disrupt and transform the culture of domination that normalizes
racism, ecocide, militarization, and war.
We build peace through the abolition of structural violence
and by living into alternatives to violence
with creativity, intelligence, imagination, and love.”
“The new vision does not override our longstanding commitments to anti-militarism, a fossil free world or the prevention of gun violence,” said the Rev. abby mohaupt, one of the organization’s co-moderators. “Rather, it refocuses how we do that work in words that are particular to this time and place.”
In a Tuesday news release, the organization noted “the rising threats of fascism and right-wing extremism across the globe, fueled in part by Christian nationalism, climate chaos and dangerous war threatening nuclear disaster and exacerbating the energy crisis” as a few of the realities shaping how PPF organizes itself.
“We will not stand by while this culture of structural violence escalates,” said the Rev. David Ensign, PPF’s interim executive director, “and we feel really excited about the ways this new vision coupled with new leadership as we navigate staff transition will create powerful new opportunities for us to take action together.”
The legacy of PPF’s 80-year history “is marked by significant change in direction at regular intervals in order to stay true to an overarching commitment to stand against violence and war and to focus on the things that make for peace,” PPF said in its news release. “Over the years there has been a commitment to the abolition of war and nuclear weapons, gun violence, fossil fuels and the structural violence that fuels migration across the globe.”
The Rev. Lucy Waechter Webb, PPF’s manager of communications and digital organizing, said that “the framework of abolition compels us to build up a new world as we simultaneously work to dismantle the structures of violence that cause so much harm.”
Photo by Sunguk Kim via Unsplash
https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/presbyterian-peace-fellowship-announces-a-new-vision-statement/
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LITURGIST SIGNUPS
We have LOTS of open slots for Worship Liturgist volunteers. Use the button here to sign-up!
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Choose the Sunday(s) you are available to serve. All materials you need will be sent to you for that week!
(Contact Rev. Mary Gale if you have questions or need help signing up.)
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OPPORTUNITIES for OUTREACH | |
STEWS & MEATY CHILI
are on the MENU FOR THE
FOOD CART!
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St. Luke Methodist Food Pantry needs stews or Chili with meat! Add a can or two to your grocery list this week for the
Food Cart!
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HOSPITALITY BAGS
ARE AVAILABLE NEXT to the FOOD CART -
PICK SOME UP!
You can also pick up Hospitality Bags to donate to those you pass along the road who are in need.
(And bring donations for more bags - bring bottles of water,
And bring donations for more bags - bring bottles of water, boxes of raisins or other dried fruit, granola bars, cheese crackers (NO PEANUT BUTTER!!), clean socks - when you see someone asking for a handout, hand them a Hospitality bag!
URGENT NEED: WE ARE OUT of BOTTLED WATER and SOCKS for the HOSPITALITY BAGS! Please bring what you can!
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IF ANYONE IS CALLED TO SERVE....
We work every 1st and 3rd Thursday.
Colonial Park UMC
5330 Park Ave
CONTACT SCOTT DAWSON for more INFORMATION
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THE VA WANTS YOUR BOOKS!
GENTLY USED BOOKS WANTED!
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The VA has a need, a big one, that won’t cost you any money! We need books!! Books in good condition! BUT we need to be a bit picky….
No books that smell of cigarette smoke, no books that have been sitting in open boxes in someone’s garage or attic gathering dust and/or bugs. We need books of many genres, fiction & non-fiction: histories, mysteries, DIY, westerns, biographies, cookbooks, etc. We’ll take some romances, but most of the folks here aren’t big on the Harlequin variety!!
The VA ALSO NEEDS:
We are in desperate need of the following items:
- T-shirts, sizes M and 2XL
- Sleep pants/lounge pants, summer weight, sizes 2XL and 3X
- Deodorant, men’s
Of course, we always need all sizes of underwear, t-shirts, sleep pants, but we are either out of or down to just a few of the items listed above. And we get requests daily!
Anything you can do to help is greatly appreciated.
Karen Pilkington will be collecting the books & clothes – bring them to church in bags or boxes and leave them next to the Food Cart and her DAR chapter will see that they get to the VA.
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Eli Gurlen (16), Kristen Gurlen (17),
Amy Berthouex (19), Amelia Lucas (21)
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Sunday, November 20, 2022
8:30 AM Circle of Faith Worship in the Fellowship Hall
9:30 AM Sunday Studies in Classroom A
11:00 AM BPC Worship in the Sanctuary & on LiveStream
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sunday, November 27, 2022
1st Sunday in Advent
8:30 AM Circle of Faith Worship in the Fellowship Hall
NO SUNDAY STUDIES
11:00 AM BPC Worship in the Sanctuary & on LiveStream
Saturday, December 3, 2022
12:00pm Presbyterian Women Christmas Potluck
in the Fellowship Hall
Sunday, December 4, 2022
2nd Sunday in Advent
8:30 AM Circle of Faith Worship in the Fellowship Hall
9:30 AM ADVENT Sunday Studies BEGIN in Classroom A with
The Crippled Lamb, read by Jack and Emmie Orians and
Christmas Day in the Morning read by Scott Hill
11:00 AM BPC Worship & Communion in the Sanctuary
& on LiveStream
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
10:30 AM PW Bible Study in Classroom A
Sunday, December 11, 2022
3rd Sunday in Advent
8:30 AM Circle of Faith Worship in the Fellowship Hall
9:30 AM ADVENT Sunday Studies BEGIN in Classroom A with
The Gift of the Magi, read by Beverly and Bill Hooker
11:00 AM BPC Worship in the Sanctuary & on LiveStream
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
11:30pm BOOK CLUB at the Pearson's
9625 Spring Hollow Cove Germantown, TN
Christmas Potluck!
Sunday, December 18, 2022
4th Sunday in Advent
8:30 AM Circle of Faith Worship in the Fellowship Hall
NO SUNDAY STUDIES
11:00 AM BPC Service of Christmas Music Worship
in the Sanctuary & on LiveStream
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Musical Offering "A New Song" directed by John Gilmer | |
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Left: Rev. Mary Newberg Gale
Right: Liturgist Rev. Lisa Kroener
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Pastoral Care is supplied by Pastoral Care Intern Rev. Elizabeth Dick 314.330.0506
or email elizabethdick2@gmail.com
and our Transitional Pastor
Rev. Mary Newberg Gale 913.481.7427
or email mngale@balmoralpc.com
Session members are your primary contact for ongoing communication. Here's the current contact list:
Lori Blackwelder .... (901) 262-8282 ............... LORIEB1165@yahoo.com
Leiza Collins ........... (901) 246-5031 ..................... leiza1016@gmail.com
Barry Dotson .......... (901) 277-1596 ............... barry.dotson@yahoo.com
Janice Hill ............... (901) 826-9747 ................... janicehill81@gmail.com
Beverly Hooker.........(901) 496-1241 ......................... bev.h@earthlink.net
Ted Pearson home: (901) 754-9796 ................... pearsonteda@aol.com
...........................cell: (901) 486-6117
Karen Pilkington......(901) 262-5810 ............karenlpilkington@gmail.com
Erich Shultz ..............(901) 268-4951 ...................emshultz@bellsouth.net
Linda Warren............(901) 573-2654..............emighwarren1947@gmail.com
(NOTE: Many of these Session members work during the day, so you may want to text them or email them.)
Keep in mind that ANY Balmoral member who is healthy will most likely be happy to help you in case of need as well!
To contact other members, the most-current contact information is available by requesting a copy of the BPC PHONE DIRECTORY from Kathy Singleton by email ksingle2@bellsouth.net or by phone or text to (901) 734-7193.
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POLICIES for WORSHIP & BUILDING USE
- Wearing a mask in the church building is optional.
- Social distancing is still encouraged.
- Individuals exhibiting symptoms of illness are asked to not enter the building.
- Unvaccinated individuals are asked to wear a mask, including members of community organizations that use the building.
- Should a surge in Covid-19 infections prompt the Shelby County Health Department to recommend indoor mask-wearing and social distancing, the task force will convene to decide how to react.
- Members who test positive for Covid-19 are asked to notify Rev. Elizabeth Dick, who will notify the congregation so members can decide how to respond.
- To keep the SEED children as safe as possible, the procedures controlling the old end of the building will remain unchanged, except when there is a need for someone to pass through the SEED area.
- Individuals may bring only water into the sanctuary; food and drink is permitted elsewhere.
- Passing plates to collect the offering is permitted.
- The SEED children and staff are allowed to use the new hallway to access the playground and the main bathrooms.
- The drinking fountains are no longer off limits.
- The kitchen is no longer off limits.
- Collections for the Food Cart may resume.
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Small Group Meetings in Classrooms A & B must be scheduled with Barry Dotson, barry.dotson@yahoo.com or signed text/cell: 901. 277.1596 | |
THIS ISN'T ENTIRELY OVER YET, HOWEVER!
PLEASE, FOR THE SAFETY OF YOURSELF and ALL THOSE YOU LOVE AND CARE FOR:
Anyone who is experiencing symptoms of illness (EG: sinus infection; flu like symptoms; sore throat; fever or chills; cough; shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; fatigue; muscle or body aches; headache; new loss of taste or smell; congestion or runny nose; nausea or vomiting; diarrhea) should consider contacting your Healthcare Provider and let them know you may have been exposed to a breakthrough case of COVID-19 to a fully vaccinated person.
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THE CHURCH
IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS
Thank you for continuing to observe the ever-changing policies as we navigate the pandemic together.
To contact the Chair of the BPC COVID-19 Task Force:
Scott Hill - signed text: 901.277.9794
email: sphill1946@gmail.com (NOTE his new email!)
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IF YOU ARE EXPOSED TO OR HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH COVID
Contact: The Reverend Elizabeth Dick 314.330.0506 or elizabethdick2@gmail.com
Let Elizabeth know when you were last in church; Give permission for notification to the congregation; Get Tested, if you have not already been; Contact any person or persons you have been with and follow with your doctor's advice.
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- Newsletter Articles & Photos should be emailed to Kathy Singleton at ksingle2@bellsouth.net no later than Monday at noon for the week you want the article in the news.
- Bulletin Information should be emailed to Rev. Mary Gale, with a copy to Kathy Singleton, no later than Monday noon the week before the Sunday you want the information to appear.
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Prayer Concerns should be submitted via email to Rev. Mary Gale (mngale@balmoralpc.com) and/or Rev. Elizabeth Dick (elizabethdick2@gmail.com) with a copy to Kathy Singleton at ksingle2@bellsouth.net.
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NOVEMBER 2022
online church calendar
Click HERE for the BPC Calendar
The calendar will take a few seconds to load and, once it opens, you will see the month that we are currently in. To see the next month's calendar, click on the arrow pointing down - it is just to the right of the name of the month. Once you click on that arrow, an icon will appear with all the months of the year listed. Click on the month that you want to see. To see a specific date, click on the number of the day you would like to see. The entire 2021-2022 calendar is available to you.
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