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Worship Preview | Sunday, June 12, 2022
Trinity Sunday
Sanctuary and Youtube
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*For the full revised common lectionary, please click here. | |
| Thursday, June 9 | PART Mtg. | 6:00 pm on Zoom | | Saturday, June 11 | Garden Workday
(Team 4) | 9:00 am | GCPC Community Garden | | Sunday, June 12 | Summer Choir | 9:30 am | Sanctuary | | Sunday, June 12 | Hybrid Worship
(In-person and online) | 10:45 am @ GCPC
(also on Youtube) | | Sunday, June 12 | Summer Fellowship | 11:45 am | GCPC Courtyard | | Sunday, June 12 | Cancer Support Group Mtg. | 12:00 pm | Jerusalem Room (also on Zoom) | | Monday, June 6 | PW Circle 5 Mtg. | 11:00 am on Zoom | | Tuesday, June 14 | Church Office Open! | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | | Tuesday, June 14 | Property Council | 6:00 pm on Zoom | | Wednesday, June 15 | Garden Workday
(Team 1) | 9:00 am | GCPC Community Garden | | Wednesday, June 15 | MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) Grp Mtg. | 11:00 am | Fellowship Hall (also on Zoom) | | Thursday, June 16 | 20s/30s/& Beyond Gathering: Well Played Game Night! | 7:00 pm @ Well Played Board Game Cafe
(162 Coxe Ave) | | Thursday, June 16 | PW Circle 3 Mtg. | 7:00 pm on Zoom | | |
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PART Meeting | TONIGHT, Thursday, June 9 | 6:00 PM | via Zoom
The Power and Race Team will meet tonight at 6p. We will be talking about American gun culture and its connection to white supremacy culture. Because the parking lot is currently closed at the church, we will meet online only this time.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91314445389
Meeting ID: 913 1444 5389 Passcode: 789
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GCPC Summer Choir
Sing because you can! Summer choir begins this Sunday in the sanctuary at 9:30 AM. This opportunity is open to all who want to sing. Join us for the time of fellowship, where we will warm up and learn a simple anthem to share in worship. This is a great time to find out if you enjoy singing in a choir. No experience necessary, children and adults welcome.
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Sunday Flowers for the Sanctuary!
The 2022 Flower Chart is now available! Please consider signing up to give flowers one Sunday. GCPC will place the order each week. Click on the button below to access the calendar and check which dates are available.
After signing up, email Anna Louise (annalouise@gcpcusa.org) your dedication for the bulletin or include it in the comment section in the sign-up.
Please mail your $75 check, payable to GCPC (with Flowers in the Memo line) to 789 Merrimon Ave., Asheville, NC 28804
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Deacon of the Week:
The deacons of Grace Covenant are available to talk and pray with you by phone or online and to coordinate care. If you have difficulty reaching your assigned deacon or if you do not know who your assigned deacon is, please feel free to reach out to our deacon of the week.
This week (6/5-6/11): Emma Maney | email: emmabrynn14@gmail.com
Next week (6/12-6/18): Pat Cheffins | email: patriciacheffins@gmail.com
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Prayer requests will stay on the GCPC Prayer List for one month. Please let any staff member know if you (or your loved one) would like to remain on the list for longer.
Iglesia Jerusalem congregation
Maria and Esteban Goicoechea (La Mariposa and her husband)
Winnie Martel (Prayers for Winnie and Susie Churchfield)
Seth Turnbow (Anne Raustol’s twin brother)
Vince and Michele (Gordon Gaiser’s niece and nephew-in-law)
Chip Lambert (GCPC Community member who is hiking the App. Trail)
Shabnam and Sana (Afghan Family partnering with GCPC’s Circle of Welcome)
Deanna Fleenor (Mike Fleenor's sister)
Estilita Ruiz (Marta Alcala-Williams' great aunt)
Ciera Williams (ACS principal’s daughter)
Trey and Alisha Thompson and 3 kids - Gabi 7, Arlo 5, and Eldon 3 (Patty and Brent Thompson's son and daughter-in-law and children)
Jorge Lopez (father of friend of Marta Alcala-Williams)
Bob Higgins
Susan Smialowicz
Doris Prak
Michelle Chromey and family
Bob Schaefer
Frances Johnson
Don and Gloria Moe
Janet Hovis
Jim Froehlich
Susan McCammon
Stacy and Kelly Haddenham
Earl Fowler
Kyremes-Parks Family on the death of Amy Kim’s uncle, Marcos Archuleta
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Racial Justice Book Series | 4th Thursday of the month | 6:30 PM | Fellowship Hall and Zoom
The Racial Justice Book Series returns this summer with four books about the systems, consequences, and remedies of the deep entrenchment of white supremacy culture in our country and church.
All meetings will be in hybrid format. Come in person or tune in via zoom! The church library has copies of all the books. Contact Richard or Anna Louise to reserve a copy.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84687572345
Meeting ID: 846 8757 2345 Passcode: 789
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Presbyterian Womenʼs Circles are Zoom meetings. Please join us.
Circle 1: Second Monday of each month, 10:00 a.m.
Circle 2: First Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Circle 3: Varies (Click here to see schedule for 2021-2022), 7:00 p.m.
Circle 4: First Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m.
Circle 5: First Monday of each month, 11:00 a.m.
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Need to set up a church zoom meeting?
Contact Anna Louise and she can get you all set up!
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Last Thursday, six garden volunteers made their way to the Cole's Jasperwood Farm in Leicester to help weed the potato patch. | |
Saturday's Team 2 had 10 volunteers and harvested 1/2 lb. of basil, 19 lbs. of broccoli, 148 lbs. of cabbage, 19 lbs. of chard, 14 lbs. of collards, 21 lbs. of kale, and 3 lbs. of zucchini. This bountiful harvest was shared with Western Carolina Rescue Ministries. | |
Wednesday's Team 3 had 9 volunteers and harvested 52 lbs. of cabbage, 8 lbs. of chard, 19 lbs. of collards, 11 lbs. of kale, 80 lbs. of onions, and 9 lbs. of summer squash that was shared with the YWCA. | |
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Planning on giving regularly to GCPC? Let us know by submitting a pledge, which helps us maintain sustainable financials and more accurately budget. Anyone can pledge any amount- every single gift helps support the ministry and mission at GCPC!
WAYS TO PLEDGE:
Questions, concerns, or need help setting up eGiving? Contact Natalie Weaver, Stewardship & Financial Administrator at 828.254.3274, natalie@gcpcusa.org, or stop by the office Tuesdays 10am - 4pm.
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Winter Shelter Team News
The founders of Trinity Shelter have initiated a “Room In The Inn” type of shelter for approximately ten women. Currently Jubilee in downtown Asheville has granted them the temporary use of their facilities. GCPC is supporting these folks with this endeavor. However, the GCPC Winter Shelter Team needs additional support from our congregation! We need a group of GCPC folks (women or men) who have about 2 hours to volunteer every 2 weeks.
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Here is the Need:
We need individuals to rotate in picking up two bags of soiled sheets and pillowcases from the Shelter at Jubilee every two weeks and taking that laundry to the Fiesta Laundry at 615 Merrimon Avenue (behind and below the Sherwin-Williams Paint store). The employees there will wash, dry, fold and package the sheets and pillowcases. When that cleaning process is complete, a person from Fiesta Laundry will call the GCPC volunteer. At that time, one would need to pick up the laundry and deliver the cleaned items back to the Jubilee Shelter. (Payment for the cleaning is reimbursed by the church.) Pick-ups and Deliveries to the shelter may be done anytime between 8:00 and 9:30 am, as the all the ladies and overnight volunteers leave the shelter at 10:00 am. Currently this task is being done at approximately 9:20 am. There will be an orientation for each volunteer.
Will YOU be able to help?
If you are interested in helping with this cause, please contact Beth Philipsen at onthecove@charter.net or call 828-230-7661. Thank you!
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Habitat for Humanity News!
GCPC is participating along with a dozen or more faith families in this years' Habitat for Humanity House of Faith. Next phase is to put up the roof! There are still a few shifts available on Wednesday, June 22 and Thursday, June 30. If you are interested, please contact Bill Ryan at bill73ryan@gmail.com. More information is also available at the Welcome Desk in the narthex.
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Other ways to support the Habitat house are:
- prayer for the family and builders
- send a donation directly to: Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road, Asheville, NC 28803. Please mention that the money is toward this year's House of Faith and is connected with GCPC.
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Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls | Saturday, June 18 | Washington, D.C.
The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing all of us and there is no more time for silence. Click here to RSVP. Click here to find a bus stop near you!
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Buncombe County Remembrance Project | |  |
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Interfaith Initiative -
Social Justice Opportunities
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God’s church: a liberated and diverse community of faith -
How can we preach a faith embedded in liberation without practicing it in our own community?
~ by Yenny Delgado
Many people understand the church from the concept of community: a group of believers with a heart composed of faith that embraces liberation, welcomes diversity, preaches God’s good news, and has love, compassion and care for people in need. However, the church’s history shows us that there has been a continual struggle to be that community that practices God’s good news.
Indeed, it is not easy being an open, ecumenical and diverse church of God in the United States. The ethnic diversity, languages, background and understanding of God continually challenge us in finding ways to be an inclusive community. How are we living God’s callings to serve the poor, migrant, and refugee and welcome “the other” to our community? How can we preach a faith embedded in liberation without practicing it in our own community?
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‘Glory to God!’ -
Presbyterian Publishing Corporation to donate royalties from hymnal sales to reparative justice causes
~ by Presbyterian Publishing Corporation
Presbyterian Publishing Corporation announced Wednesday that it will donate royalties from sales of the Glory to God hymnal to organizations involved in reparative justice for every African American spiritual and Indigenous Peoples’ song in the book. This is being done to honor the creators of these songs, who, unlike other hymn writers in the book, were never able to benefit from their creations.
“Paying royalties for songs composed and arranged by respective communities of African Americans and Indigenous People is part of the repair work for racial justice and healing PPC understands as part of its mission as a publisher,” said the Rev. Dr. Bridgett Green, vice president of publishing. “The hymnody and creative expressions of faith of these two groups have been and continue to be pivotal to Christian worship. Because many hymns and spirituals were passed through tradition and without an assigned author, African American and Indigenous communities were never compensated and honored for their creative expressions when their works were published; therefore, those communities did not benefit from the economic resources they so richly deserved.”
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Fall Craft Week | September 25-30, 2022 | Montreat
Fall Craft Week is our quest here at Montreat Conference Center to celebrate the profound idea of “craft” in a world where technology dominates and where people mainly use their hands to operate smart phones and computers.
Work with your hands, your voice, and your craft to create beautiful handmade works of art as you make time for renewal in a community of artists. Come gain proficiency in an art form of your choice, and enjoy the community of other artists during a fall week in the mountains. This is a great opportunity for individuals or groups. Bring your church, community, family, or come alone. We can help you figure out all the details!
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HOW TO CONTACT STAFF:
The church office is open weekly for walk-ins on Tuesdays, 10am - 4pm. Our staff can also be reached by email or voicemail Monday - Friday. To leave a voicemail for a staff member to return your call, follow these steps:
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Call the main office at 828-254-3274.
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Listen through the office closure notice, which will then take you to a staff directory.
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Enter the first 3 letters of either the staff member's first or last name on your phone keypad (i.e. to reach Natalie Weaver, you'd enter 628 for NAT or 932 for WEA).
- You'll be directed to the staff member's individual voicemail, where you can leave a message to be returned as soon as possible.
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If you just want to leave a message for the general voicemail box, press 0.
You can also reach our staff by email- please see our website for each staff member's individual email address.
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Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
789 Merrimon Ave. Asheville, NC 28804
828.254.3274
www.gcpcusa.org
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