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GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE
MORNING WORSHIP / COMMUNION
Sunday, February 5, 2023 @ 11 am
Sermon - "The Fragrance of Love" | Scripture reading - John 12:1-8
Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor
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both in-person and on Facebook or YouTube (click here)
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SPECIAL NEWS AND INFORMATION | |
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
UPCOMING READ
The Adult Sunday School class has begun reading and discussion Adam Nicolson's book, "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible."
The class meets in the Poteat Library at 10 am. If you wish to join the class in the coming year there is always room for one more.
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FOOD, FOOD AND MORE FOOD
IF ANYONE HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR LUNCH BUNCH DINING IN 2023, PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH OFFICE SO IT CAN BE ADDED TO THE LIST!!
February 5 @ Bella Vita's (2927 North Roan, JC)
February 12 @ Bayou Boys (1805 North Roan, JC - next to Café Lola)
February 19 @ El Charolais (1805 West State of Franklin - Kroger Plaza South)
February 26 @ Saint Patrick's Fellowship Potluck Lunch (Irish dishes welcomed)
Our February potluck on Sunday the 26th will have a St Patrick's theme so start planning what Irish dishes you might bring.
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WALK PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY
The Green Team has scheduled a walk at Kings Commons on Wednesday morning, February 15th @ 11 am weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to join the group for a leisurely stroll around the Commons for some fresh air and fellowship. The group will meet in the adjacent parking area. If the weather is not cooperative, the walk will be postponed until February 22nd at the same time and place. We hope to see you there!
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FROM THE PASTOR
One of the things that I try to do when reading and engaging scripture is that I try to imagine the scene with my senses. I try to imagine what the place looks like, what the food tastes like, what are some of the noises that are going on in the background. And this week, as we come to the story of Mary anointing the feet of Jesus, I am wondering what everything smelled like. In this story, we hear that Mary takes 12 ounces of very expensive perfume made from pure nard and anoints Jesus’s feet with it. A bottle that could have been sold for 300 denarii. Think of the smell filling that room. The smell that would linger for days. The smell that would be a constant reminder of the love that Mary had for Jesus. When we think about the fragrance of love that is filling this room, though it may be fit for burial, it is also fit for a new life in Christ.
Yours in Christ,
Brandon
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE COMING WEEK | |
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Thursday, February 2, 2023
10 am PW Circle @ the home of Bea Ellis
Friday, February 3, 2023
10 am Tusculum Theologian-in-Residence series (in person & visa Zoom)(see note below)
Saturday, February 4, 2023
9 am Holston Presbytery Meeting @ Tusculum University, Greeneville
Sunday, February 5, 2023
10 am Adult Sunday School - reading "God's Secretaries" by Adam Nicolson
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Bella Vita's
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Friday, February 10, 2023
10 am Tusculum Theologian-in-Residence series (in person & visa Zoom)(see note below)
Sunday, February 12, 2023
10 am Adult Sunday School - reading "God's Secretaries" by Adam Nicolson
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Bayou Boys (next to Café Lola)
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
11 am Group Walk @ Kings Commons (weather permitting)
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
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FUN NEWS
If you are looking for something to do, our own Dick Lura is playing Norman Thayer in the upcoming production of "On Golden Pond" at the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre through February 5th. There are several performances remaining. For information visit - http://www.jonesboroughtheatre.com/on-golden-pond
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TUSCULUM THEOLOGIAN-IN-RESIDENCE FEBRUARY 2023
For over 30 years Tusculum has sponsored the Theologian-in-Residence Series. The theme for this year's lecture series is "The Satan and the Forces of Evil" led by Dr. Ryan Stokes, director of graduate theological studies and associate professor of Biblical Studies at Carson-Newman University. They will be held in person and via Zoom.
The series will consist of four lectures on Fridays in February beginning at 10 am:
February 3 - "The Origin of Satan: the Satan in the Old Testament"
February 10 - "Fallen Angels, Evil Spirits and Demons"
February 17 - "The Satan in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Writings"
February 24 - "Satan in the New Testament'
It is necessary to register in advance so they have an accurate headcount for seating, and more importantly for each of the lunches. If you plan to join by Zoom, please be sure to provide your email address. Please contact Kim Kidwell, Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement at 423-636-0525 or 423-636-7303 x5788 (office) or 423-525-7745 (cell). Or you may send an email to kkidwell@tusculum.edu.
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UPCOMING EVENT - THERE IS HOPE
THERE IS HOPE with Special Guest Speaker, Tim Tebow and Pre-Event TEEN TRUTH with Special Guest Caleb Campbell will be at Freedom Hall on Saturday, April 15, 2023 @ 6:30 pm. This event is designed to give our student body HOPE and reassure them that they are not alone through this season of life. Beginning at 5:00 pm, there will be games, door prizes, music and fun prior to the main event starting. The main event starts at 6:30 pm and will include music and words of encouragement by guest speaker Tim Tebow. After the main event, there will be a team available with information and resources.
PLEASE NOTE: From January 6th through February 28th, all student tickets (up to age 20) will be $10 each and all Adult tickets (age 21 and older) will be $20 each. Beginning March 1st, all student tickets (up to age 20) will be $20 each and all Adult tickets (age 21 and older) will be $30 each.
You can order tickets online at - https://event.etix.com/ticket/p/4112373/there-is-hope-tim-tebow-with-special-guest-caleb-campbell-johnson-city-freedom-hall-civic-center
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GENERAL FUND: YEAR TO DATE: | |
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[2023 Annual Budget - $ 177,600
Budget through February 3, Week #5 ($17,077)
Receipts $ 24,763.71
Disbursements -$ 15,306.92
Balance $ 9,456.79
We will be receiving our "Five Cents per Meal" offering this week.
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FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS
February 2 - Caitlin Bailey Smith
February 3 - Bob Danks
February 6 - Sue Ellen Sheffield
February 9 - Alice Burrell
February 10 - Virginia Farr
February 11 - Sue Shanks
PLEASE NOTE: THE 2023 FLOWER LIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE SIDE ENTRY
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PRAYER PARTNER PROGRAM
A revival of the Prayer Partner Program is in the works. An email will be sent in the next several days to all local members and friends with a form of those interested to fill out and return. We hope to have the program started by the beginning of Lent.
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For Friends
Carl Krell and family for the recent loss of his sister, Doris Krell Christie; Fred Burrell (resting at home); Janice Hollingshead (recovering from surgery for severe burns); Ginger Helm's brother, Larry Ray Davis (pancreatic cancer); Don Loughry; George, Jo & Nikki Rolling; Rev. Maggie Lauterer; Stephen Patrick's cousin, Linda Strock, diagnosed with stage4 inoperable esophageal cancer (squamous cell); Sally Gerhardt's son, Fritz (recovering from stem cell transplant surgery); Nathan Songer; Sue Sheffield's nephews, Jeremiah Collins and Tanner Frye; Sue Shank's friends, Judy Klein, Mary Murphy and Rev. Dodie Rossell; Sarah Suptin; church neighbor, Dorothy Harvey; Kelly Hodges.; Edna Campbell.
PLEASE NOTE: several have called to ask, but you can read updates to Janice Hollingshead's condition and progress on her daughter's Facebook page - Melinda Honeycutt.
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 throughout the U.S. including various storms and weather phenomena including earthquakes, flooding and landslides in California, and severe tornados in Alabama & Georgia; and the various complex humanitarian disasters worldwide for 2023 include: Somalia (hunger); Ethiopia (drought); Afghanistan (economic); Democratic Republic of Congo (armed conflict); Yemen (economic and hunger); Syria (health crisis); South Sudan (food); Burkina Faso (armed conflict); Haiti (gang violence and hunger); Ukraine (displacement) And especially prayers for our nation and for strength, endurance, faith and courage for all.
Special Prayers for the Women of Afghanistan
Currently, Afghanistan ranks 170th out of 170 countries for women’s inclusion, justice and security. Contributing to the crisis are chilling announcements from the Taliban banning women from attending university and working for NGOs like the International Rescue Committee. The latter decision forced the IRC and other NGOs to suspend services, because they cannot deliver services without female staff.
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY - https://disasterphilanthropy.org/
UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA) - https://reliefweb.int/
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - https://rescue.org
US FEMA - DECLARED DISASTERS - https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations
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Who are these people and where are they? | |
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Advanced technology could make the need for most physical fences in cattle ranching a thing of the past. At pilot sites in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, The Nature Conservancy is working with partners and private ranchers to test virtual fencing technology that could improve habitat, boost soil health, and reduce costs. Traditional fences can lead to a variety of environmental impacts, including habitat fragmentation. Using virtual fences, managers can move cattle across the land with unprecedented precision. Adult cows wear GPS-enabled collars linked to a rancher's computer or smart device. Animals learn to respond to a warning sound that keeps them from crossing the invisible barrier, thus allowing ranch managers to direct the herd to stay within a defined zone. (Studies to date show no evidence that the collars adversely affect the animals.)
Virtual fences could help ranchers give pastures more time to recover, for instance, or steer cattle clear of sensitive areas such as stream banks or nesting areas of vulnerable species such as the greater prairie-chicken. It could also enable ranchers to focus grazing in specific areas to address challenges such as invasive weeds. The 5-year study hopes to show how conservation and economic benefits can go hand in hand. (GSN #134)
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VIRTUAL CREATION ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK | |
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KAZAKHSTAN - AMAZING NATURE SCENERY
ZEN LIFESTYLE (JANUARY 2022 | 28:57 min.)
With a vast territory almost the size of Western Europe, Kazakhstan is endowed with an enormous diversity of mountain ecological systems due to high altitude zones. It has a great diversity of natural conditions, ecosystems and species.
Kazakhstan, a vast country in Central Asia, boasts a stunning array of landscapes that support a rich diversity of wildlife.
Vast steppe grasslands extend across much of the country from the Volga Delta in the west and Siberian plains in north to the Altai Mountains in the east. Moving southwards, the vista transitions into a desert landscape.
Kazakhstan is often called the “small Switzerland” because of its amazingly beautiful lakes and mountains, steppes and deserts, rivers and high hills.
Kazakhstan occupies ninth place by territory in the world. Nevertheless, most of the land is still untouched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNmVlF98qk
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IN THE POTEAT LIBRARY
RECENTLY ADDED BOOKS:
200 FEI - Where God Was Born: a journey by land to the roots of religion - by Bruce Feiler
232 ROH - The Universal Christ - by Richard Rohr
232.9 SPO - Born of a Woman: a bishop rethinks the birth of Jesus - by John Shelby Spong
299.16 NEW - Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul - by John Philip Newell
302 BRO - The Second Mountain: the quest for a moral life - by David Brooks
363.7 GOR - Earth in the Balance: ecology and the human spirit - by Al Gore
NOTE: The books donated by Sally Gerhardt are currently in process; those books not being added to the library collection are being placed on a book truck in the Heritage Room for your browsing and taking. Please remember the library is open by appointment and 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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Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of Journalism
By Eric Burns
(071/BUR)
Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renonwned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams—the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George Washington and John Adams, the leading disdainers of journalists; and Thomas Jefferson, the leading manipulator of journalists.
These men and the writers who abused and praised them in print (there was, at the time, no job description of "journalist") included the incendiary James Franklin, Ben's brother and one of the first muckrakers; the high minded Thomas Paine; the hatchet man James Callender, and a rebellious crowd of propagandists, pamphleteers, and publishers.
It was Washington who gave this book its title. He once wrote of his dismay at being "buffited in the public prints by a set of infamous scribblers." The journalism of the era was often partisan, fabricated, overheated, scandalous, sensationalistic and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Despite its flaws—even because of some of them—the participants hashed out publicly the issues that would lead America to declare its independence and, after the war, to determine what sort of nation it would be.
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Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests - Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey with information.
Flower List - The 2023 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 March issue of the e-AVENUE, no later than Wednesday, February 15tth. This includes team and committee meetings, news, planned events and other newsworthy items.
Facebook - Please remember to friend and follow our Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/Watauga-Avenue-Presbyterian-Church-94712920937/ ]. All news and events will be reported there.
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.) | | | | |
