Alex Miller-Knaack is originally from the Chicago suburbs and joined Oxford College as assistant chaplain in the fall of 2021. Among other things, she offers support to the campus community connecting with students and staff one-on-one, and through partnerships with Campus Life, Counseling and Career Services, International Student Programs, and the Center for Healthful Living. She is being certified as a Spiritual Director and hopes to bring new ways to practice spirituality and soul care to campus. Before coming to Oxford Alex worked as a chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. In her final year of grad school she was awarded the Robert E. Speers Award for College Ministry and the Robert P. Goodlin Award for Clinical Training.

Get ready to roll up your sleeve, lay back and take it easy for about 30 minutes and then get cookies for your effort. Can you believe it cookies for taking it easy. Yes indeed, First Presbyterian is hosting an American Red Cross Blood Drive and everyone is welcome. This is a critical time for the need of blood donations. Please go to the American Red Cross website and look up our event and sign up for a spot that best works for you. However, "walk in's" are welcome and anyone who comes to the event will be given the chance to donate. Anyone that gives a donation or tries to give a donation will be welcome at the cookie and juice table (really good cookies). Please put June 30th on your calendar and come visit with some of your church members working the event.

Attention all possible volunteers, First Presbyterian is hosting an American Red Cross Blood Drive and we are looking for volunteers to assist with donor check-in (minimum computer skills needed) and volunteers to assist donors after they have completed their donation. Volunteers will also help with giving out cookies and juice/drinks to the donors.

Contact Curtis Watson at 404-550-1212 or wats1818@bellsouth.net to volunteer.

On Sunday, September 25th, we will commemorate the rich history of the Presbyterian Church with origins deeply rooted in the Church of Scotland. Our worship service will open with a processional of bagpipes and field drum, combined with our beautiful pipe organ, to the magnificent tune "Highland Cathedral". As part of the service, we will present and bless the tartans.

Over the course of the next two months, you have the opportunity to purchase a tartan in your family name (ancient or modern). A member of your family will get to participate in the processional, carrying your family tartan, and will then be a part of the presentation and blessing, as well as the recessional at the conclusion of the service. Tartans can also be purchased for any branch of the military, as well as the United States Tartan. The St. Andrews Cross flag is also part of the service.

Please contact Alicia Taylor at alicia@fpccov.org or 770-656-6848 for pricing, questions, and to order a tartan. If you email, please provide the tartan family name, the name of the individual ordering the tartan, phone number, and email address, as well as whether you will be paying by cash or check. You can do a search for your family tartan HERE.

An Extra Connection to FPC Covington!

The Saint Andrews Society of Washington, D.C. held the first Kirkin' during the early years of World War II. Former pastor of FPC Covington, Dr. Peter Marshall, an eloquent Scot, and then Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, led the service in 1943, choosing "Kirkin' o' the Tartan" for the title of his sermon. His sermons were so popular that a request was made for their publication, with the proceeds designated for war relief programs. As the war continued, the D.C. Saint Andrews Society continued to hold prayer services for the British subjects. These became known as Kirkin's.

Reserve your spot by clicking HERE to email Alicia Taylor!

   If you would like to make a contribution to the Give-A-Bell program, please click HERE to fill out the form and attach cash or a check made out to FPC and place it in the offering plate this Sunday or drop it off at the church office. Please put “Give-A-Bell” or “Handbells” in the memo space on your check or envelope.

   Please email catherine@fpccov.org with your listing details if you use Text to Give.

Email Alicia Taylor at alicia@fpccov.org to learn more.

Want to try your hand at creating paper lace cut banners, peace crane origami models, worship banners, and other types of sacred art? The arts are a vital and growing part of our worship at First Presbyterian Church of Covington! If you have a creative mind and love to craft, sew, cross-stitch, needlepoint, quilt, draw, paint, or any other type of art, please email Alicia Taylor at alicia@fpccov.org or call her at 770-656-6848 to express your interest in joining our newly forming Liturgical Arts Guild. Let's get started over a cup of coffee!

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