GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE | |
Sunday, October 2 @ 11 am
WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY
Sermon - "In the Beginning - John 1:1-18"
Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor
both in-person and on YouTube or Facebook
WAPC Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgI_BKUlZH70GzG90xIQ1xA
The Session approved at its April meeting that masks are now optional during worship.
We will continue to monitor the number of cases locally.
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SPECIAL NEWS AND INFORMATION | |
REMEMBERING THE SEASON OF CREATION | |
As we look back at the Season of Creation, and look forward to the celebration of the incarnation of Christ, we hear the words repeated words of In The Beginning. Genesis taught us that God commanded the light to be, and John reminds us that the light has come into the world and that the darkness cannot put it out. As we begin this series in the Gospel of John, my hope is that we will be encouraged to see the light, live into our calling as children of God, and that we may begin to see and believe that the Word became flesh and moved into our neighborhood.
Yours in Christ,
Brandon
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ADULT LIBRARY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
The Adult Library Sunday School class resumes meeting in the church library this Sunday morning, October 2nd, at 10 am. The first book selection is Misquoting Jesus, the Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D Ehrman. Participants should read the first chapter for discussion this week. Everyone is invited to join the group for thought-provoking reading and discussion. Participants obtain their own copies of of the books.
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BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
As part of our Season of Creation activities, a Blessing of the Animals service will be held on this Sunday afternoon, October 2nd @ 4 pm under the church portico. This even is conducted in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi's love for all creatures. We hope that you join us and bring your beloved pet or animal
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SPECIAL WALKS IN OCTOBER
Two more walks are scheduled by the Green Team in October. The first will be on Wednesday, October 5th at Sycamore Shoals State Park that will include a little birding with Larry McDaniel. Those wanting to participate you need to be at the Visitors Center by 8:30 am so that we can experience the birds when they are most active.
A second walk is scheduled for Wednesday, October 19th at 9:30 am along the downtown portion of the Persimmon Ridge Trail in downtown Jonesborough. So get those walking shoes ready and join the group. Meet at the Chuckey Depot Museum / Railcar parking lot on South 2nd Avenue in Jonesborough. Hope to see you there!
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DRIVE THRU TRUNK OR TREAT
This year's Drive Thru Trunk or Treat is scheduled for Saturday, October 29th from 3-5 pm in the church parking lot. Bags will include assorted treats, healthy treats and school supplies. Students from ETSU / U-Kirk will be on hand to assist; other volunteers are also welcome. We are looking for a few volunteers to distribute flyers in the church neighborhood the week before the event and to prepare the goodie bags..
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BOOKS ON NATURE AND CREATION ON DISPLAY
There is a display of various books from the Poteat Library on nature and creation in the side entry hall. We want to highlight some of the items that are available for checkout from the library. The Poteat Library has lots to offer by way of Biblical commentaries and study guides, as well as a wide variety of other items. Please take advantage of what we have to office. So check out a book today.
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Lunch Bunch in October includes:
OCTOBER 2 - AUBREY'S
OCTOBER 9 - CARRABBA'S
OCTOBER 16 - FREIBERG'S
OCTOBER 23 - RAINBOW ASIAN CUISINE
OCTOBER 30 - FELLOWSHIP POTLUCK LUNCH
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SCENES FROM HERITAGE SUNDAY 2022
A selection of photos taken of this past Sunday's activities of our 130th Anniversary potluck and the Ordination & Installation Service of Brandon D. Enjoy!!
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE MONTH (noted when online)
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Sunday, October 2 - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time / 5thSunday of Creation
10 am Adult Library Sunday School Class (in Poteat Library)
11 am Morning Worship / Communion, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Aubrey's (3029 Hamilton Place, JC)
4 pm Blessing of the Animals @ church portico
Tuesday, October 4 - Last Day of the Season of Creation
Feast day of St Francis of Assisi
Wednesday, October 5
8:30 am Bird Walk with Larry McDaniel @ Sycamore Shoals, Elizabethton (everyone invited)
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Thursday, October 6
10 am PW Circle meeting at the home of Jean Darling
Sunday, October 9 - Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
10 am Adult Library Sunday School Class (in Poteat Library)
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Carrabba's (175 Marketplace Blvd., JC)
Tuesday, October 11
7 pm Session meeting
Wednesday, October 12
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Thursday, October 13
4 pm Green Team (via Zoom)
Sunday, October 16 - Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
10 am Adult Library Sunday School Class (in Poteat Library)
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Freiberg's (203 East Main Street, JC)
Wednesday, October 19
9:30 am A Walk along the Persimmon Ridge Trail in downtown Jonesborough (everyone welcome)
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Sunday, October 23 - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
10 am Adult Library Sunday School Class (in Poteat Library)
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Rainbow Asian Cuisine (2406 North Roan @ Day's Inn)
Wednesday, October 26
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Saturday, October 29
3 - 5 pm Drive Thru Trunk or Treat
Sunday, October 30 - Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
10 am Adult Library Sunday School Class (in Poteat Library)
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:15 pm Fellowship Potluck following worship.
Sunday, November 6 - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS
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But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31
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October Elder of the Month - Karen Clark
Next Session meeting - Tuesday, October 11 @ 7 pm
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2022 Annual Budget - $ 155,900 (revised)
Budget through September 27th, Week #39 ($ 116,925)
Receipts $ 101,339.00
Disbursements - $ 104,232.60
Balance $ (- 2,893.60)
Thanks to everyone for your continued support the church with your tithes and offerings during this extraordinary time. Please make sure your pledges and giving is up to date. 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.
We will be receiving the PCUSA Peace & Global Witness Offering on Sunday, October 4th, which is also World Communion Sunday. This offering joins Presbyterians together as active peacemakers; enabling the church to promote the peace of Christ by addressing systems of injustice in our own communities and across the world. Please give generously!
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Holston Presbytery meetings 2022 / 2023
Meetings in March, June and December begin at 9 am; meeting in September begins at 2 pm.
Saturday, March 5, 2022 @ Waverly Road, Kingsport
Saturday, June 4, 2022 @ Strawberry Plains
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 @ Colonial Heights, Kingsport
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 @ Hopewell
Saturday, March 4, 2023 @ TBD
Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 @ First Presbyterian, Morristown
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 @ TBD
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ TBD
Rev. Diana Moore, Transitional Stated Clerk
Rev. Karen Russell, Transitional Executive Presbyter
Stephanie Ratcliffe, Transitional Treasurer/ Financial Manager
info@holstonpresbytery.org
423-247-6178
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OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS
October 18 - Karen Martin
October 24 - David Hughes
October 27 - Lanny Brashear
October 28 - Fred Burrell
October 29 - Bobbie Wilson
October 31 - Sharon Amstutz
OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES
October 27 - Stephen & Sue Shanks
The Chancel flowers this past week were given in honor of the special day of the Ordination and Installation of
Rev. Brandon Davis
THE 2022 FLOWER LIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE SIDE ENTRY
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THOUGHTS & PRAYERS
For Members / Regular Attendees
Dick & Theresa Lura; Don Loughry; Camilla & Hunter Lyle; Jack Hansel.
For Friends
Stephen Patrick's cousin, Linda Strock, diagnosed with stage4 inoperable esophageal cancer (squamous cell); Matthew Clark's friend, David F Smith; 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; 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 the victims of Hurricane Ian in Cuba and Florida; an earthquake in the state of Michoican in Mexico; of Typhoon Talas in central Japan; Typhoon Noru in the Philippines; the Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda; and Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as other disasters. And especially prayers for our nation and for strength, endurance, faith and courage for all.
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY - https://disasterphilanthropy.org/
UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA) - https://reliefweb.int/
US FEMA - DECLARED DISASTERS - https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations
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This is the Chancel Choir circa 2014. Front: Jack Hansel, Zelda Frederick, Phyl Summers, Marty Shanks, Sue Sheffield, Jean Loughry, Marty Shanks and Karen Foote. Back: Stephen Patrick, Jo Rolling, George Rolling, Jim Foote,
Tom Shanks and Stephen Shanks.
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NOTEWORTHY GREEN SPACE NEWS | |
In 2019 a fund set up by The Nature Conservancy purchased 253,000acres of forested mountain habitat across Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Known as the Cumberland Forest Project, the effort focuses on conserving land and giving back to the community. "In the Appalachians, people have always been in the equation," says Brad Kreps, TNC program director. "For our work to be successful, it has to speak to the needs of the community so people see the practical benefit of conservation."
To that end the project's Community Fund has awarded its first round of grants to local businesses and groups. The 17 grants, totaling more than $270,000, will fund nature-based economic and community development projects like the construction of an ADA-accessible elk-viewing tower in Tennessee, the installation of a rooftop solar system at a community center in Kentucky, and new climbing routes in Virginia. (GSN#118)
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VIRTUAL CREATION ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK | |
NEW ENGLAND PEAK FALL FOLIAGE 2020
KEVIN EASSA (October 2020 | 4:42 min.)
This short film highlights the fantastic fall foliage in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. The colors are spectacular. Enjoy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDECY1P9YwM
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LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT,
CHECK OUT THE POTEAT LIBRARY
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NOTE: 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. The white book cart inside the library has new titles. There is also an orange book cart in the Heritage Room that has books free for the taking. Come and browse.
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Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
By Jonathan Phillips
(909.07/PHI)
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars.
Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading.
In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries.
Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.”
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Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests - Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey.
Flower List - Sign up to sponsor flowers for our weekly worship services in honor or in memory of loved ones. Arrangements are $65 each.
Liturgists - On Hiatus - 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) for the November 2022 issue of the e-AVENUE no later than October 15th. This includes team and committee reports, 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.)
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