Balmoral Presbyterian Church  Where the Spirit Takes Flight   BPC NEWS BRIEF Wednesday, April 28, 2021

mailing address:  Balmoral Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 17309, Memphis, TN 38187

NEWS THIS WEEK REPORT from the SESSION REV. CARLA MEISTERMAN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT in NOVEMBER CONGREGATIONAL GATHERING 7:00pm TONIGHT on Zoom INVITATION to INSTALLATION of NEW PASTOR at PARKWAY GARDENS WORSHIP for SUNDAY MAY 2, 2021 CIRCLE of FAITH NEWS FIFTY DAYS of EASTER: aaaaaaaaaaa The Words of Eternal Life SPRING SUNDAY STUDIES REMINDER: Tickets Available for INTO the WOODS: Musical at the Drive-In with a Gurlen on screen God's Not-so-Frozen Chosen! AROUND MEMPHIS CURRENT NUMBERS VACCINATION RATES Choosing Safer Activities - Updated from latest CDC report

WEEKLY INFORMATION Birthdays Calendar of Events OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES CONTACT INFORMATION Building Information BPC Photos Worship last Sunday LINKS to DOCUMENTS: FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions) TIPS for Joining a ZOOM meeting DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENT of the 2021 BOOK CLUB DESCRIPTIONS PINECREST SUMMER CAMPS PRINTABLE CDC SAFE ACTIVITY CHART

REPORT from the SESSION

At the Sunday, April 25, 2021 Session Meeting, the Session approved the following: Approved the return to in-person Worship in Balmoral's sanctuary on Sunday, June 6, 2021. The last Virtual Service will be held on Sunday, May 30. Beginning June 6, the Worship service will be LiveStreamed from Balmoral's sanctuary for those who cannot attend in person. The Session has delegated to the BPC COVID TASK FORCE to develop the policies and procedures for the return to the building and for communicating to the congregation on a regular basis. Approved a request from Circle of Faith for an outdoor worship service in cars in the Balmoral parking lot on Mother's Day, May 9, 2021. The Session was presented a retirement letter, effective November 30, 2021, from the Rev. Carla Meisterman. (See more information below this article.) The incoming Elder Class of 2024 were examined and approved by the Session. Their Installation and Ordination will be held in worship on Pentecost, May 23, 2021. The Session also approved Pastor Discretionary funds to be used by Rev. Carla Meisterman to purchase anti-racism T-shirts for the Trouble I've Seen small group to sell for a fund-raiser. The front will say "Racism is Sin" and the back will feature the logos of both Balmoral Presbyterian and Circle of Faith. The Session also encourages all members and friends to be vaccinated.

REV. CARLA MEISTERMAN'S RETIREMENT

CLICK ARROW for REV. CARLA MEISTERMAN'S MESSAGE on YouTube

For a larger, printable version of Carla's letter, please click this link: Retirement Letter from Rev. Carla Meisterman

CONGREGATIONAL GATHERING TONIGHT, Wednesday, April 28, 7:00pm on Zoom

Our Human Resources Team invites you to participate in our congregational Zoom gathering Wednesday night, April 28, 2021 at 7:00pm with Carla and the HR Team to give you a chance to speak with Carla and ask any questions you have about timelines and processes. Come hear about how God is already at work guiding us into the future. We want everyone to have the opportunity to hear the plans already in place for involving everyone this summer in our visioning and planning processes, and to have a chance to express your thoughts and talk to Carla. We'll see you there! Mary Schmitz, Becky DeLoach and Cliff Gurlen BPC Human Resources Team CLICK HERE to JOIN the CONGREGATIONAL GATHERING

INVITATION to INSTALLATION of new Pastor for PARKWAY GARDENS UNITED PRESBYTERIAN

The Presbytery of the Mid-South and Parkway Gardens United Presbyterian Church Cordially invites you to a Service of Installation for Reverend Katral K. Rainey as Pastor to the Parkway Gardens United Presbyterian Church of Memphis, TN Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 10:00 am (Due to covid, seating capacity is limited. Service will be live streamed via Parkway Gardens United Presbyterian Church’s Facebook Page & on YouTube) A reception will follow the service Please contact the church office by 1:00 pm, Thursday, April 29, 2021 to request in person attendance

SUNDAY WORSHIP Balmoral Presbyterian Church Sunday, May 2, 2021                                    BALMORAL WORSHIP at 11:00am on YouTube Scriptures: Selected verses from Psalm 22 & 1 John 4 Sermon: "The Beloved Community"

SUNDAY STUDIES at 10:00am on Zoom Join with members & friends of BPC and Circle of Faith for either one of our two classes available: > On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old by Parker Palmer > Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne LaMott (see more information about these classes below)

CIRCLE of FAITH WORSHIP at 9:00am on YouTube Everyone is also invited to join the Circle of Faith service led by Rev. Cliff Stockton. The link will be listed each week in the ONLINE EVENTS calendar in this Newsletter!

You will receive emails on FRIDAY & again on SUNDAY with a link to the YouTube site for Worship & a downloadable Sunday Worship Guide.  The Idlewild service will also still be available at 11:00 am on the radio at 96.1 FM or you can go online to the Idlewild Livestream broadcast at https://idlewildchurch.org/worship-music/ Previous Worship Services at Balmoral are still available on the  Balmoral YouTube channel

CIRCLE of FAITH NEWS

FIFTY DAYS of EASTER

So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.” —John 6:67-68

The Words of Eternal Life

by Scott Gunn  APRIL 24, 2021

Whenever I waver in my faith, I think of Jesus’s disciples and close followers. They heard Jesus teach and saw him perform miracles, and still they doubted. So maybe we should cut ourselves a bit of slack if, in our time, we sometimes struggle. In John 6, Jesus is on a bit of a roll. He’s offering some tough teaching. It’s hard to get emotion from reading the scriptural text sometimes, but Jesus seems cranky in my reading. It’s not surprising he might be a bit testy. Verse 66 says, “many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.” So Jesus turns to his disciples, his companions and closest followers. You can hear the poignancy in his question: “Do you also wish to go away?” Good old Simon Peter, who sometimes gets it spectacularly wrong, is also the one who gives the superstar answers at key moment. “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.” It’s a brilliant reminder for us as individuals and for the whole church. Jesus has the words of eternal life. It might seem tempting for us to pay attention to things other than the scriptures. The ways of the world can be alluring. But to find eternal life, we must hear Jesus. That means we need to listen to him, to read the scriptures. In many places, our churches are dwindling. Perhaps we’ve forgotten what we have to offer. If we think a church can thrive by offering good feelings, a few good works, or a cozy set of friendships, we will discover that people can find all these things in other places much more attractively packaged than in the average church. These days, when people turn up at our churches, they probably aren’t looking for earthly things. Even if they can’t articulate it, they might well be saying, “Church, where else can we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Let us who inhabit the church make sure that when people listen for Jesus’s words of eternal life in our church, they hear an invitation to a transformed life. Let us make sure the sacraments are rightly offered and the word is rightly preached. Let us testify to the world that we have come to believe that Jesus is the Holy One of God. "Guide us, O Lord, as our congregation moves forward into 'where else WE can go.' Amen."

SOURCE: https://50days.org/2021/04/the-words-of-eternal-life/ Mosaic of Jesus Christ from Wikimedia Commons.

"INTO the WOODS" at the Drive-In

Come see one of your favorite Gurlens on the big screen at the Summer Avenue Drive-In!

One showing only on May 20th! Tickets will go fast, so get your ticket now using this link. And while you're online, check out other ways you can support this fabulous children's community theater group!     https://www.newspark901.org/shows--events.html   See you at the Drive-In!

SUNDAY STUDIES for SPRING

Spring Studies begin Sunday, April 11, 10:00am. The classes will run through May 23. Two classes will be offered:

On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old by Parker Palmer A beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything." Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Parker Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds.

Leaders: Jan Kaplan and Ted Pearson

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne LaMott When life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Anne Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope."

Leaders: Beverly Hooker and Mary Schmitz

Both books are available from Amazon and Thriftbooks.com There are also multiple copies at several branches of the Memphis Public Library

GOD'S NOT-SO-FROZEN-CHOSEN!

by Paul Seebeck | April 19, 2021 (Presbytery News Service)

LOUISVILLE ­— In the spirit of the Easter season, First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina has put together its first ever dancing music video. After an opening shot of the church’s Gothic Revival cathedral in the city’s historic Fischer Park District, pastors Jill Duffield, Dolly Jacobs and Neil Dunnavant are shown dancing in their robes to the music of “High Hopes” by “Panic! At the Disco.” Watch the video here (or click on the image above) The idea came from Jacobs. When she saw this story in late February about nuns dancing at a monastery in locked-down Ireland, she sent an email to FPC staff suggesting they do something similar. When Duffield saw the video, it made her smile. Calling it “joyous and winsome,” she thought it would be great for First Church to try something that might evoke a similar reaction — and she thought it would be fun for the staff. “Given how challenging a year it has been, it seemed like a good idea — the right thing to do, especially in this season,” she said. “I thought it would make our congregation and even our community smile.” Wanting the video to be ready for the church’s Easter Sunday morning online service, which was only a month away from Jacobs’ suggestion, the staff began to brainstorm. Once worship and music coordinator Anne Albert chose “High Hopes,” they began to map out different places where the congregation could dance and who might be willing to participate. Since the video debuted at 11:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday, at the exact moment the congregation would’ve been coming out from worship and filled with joy of the resurrection, the video has been viewed more than 1,800 times. 

Suzanne Tilly danced with a group of women and their husbands at the downtown ballpark where the Greensboro Grasshoppers play their home games, First National Bank Field. When she and her husband Tom were asked to participate in dancing to “High Hopes,” they both thought of the Frank Sinatra song of the same name. When the group got together to listen to the version by Panic! At the Disco, she experienced a little bit of panic herself. “The music was so fast, our group decided to start off with few choreographed steps and let the rest be impromptu,” she said. “When the day of taping came, we did a few of our steps and then did a lot of laughing and jumping around. Afterwards we joked about making fools of ourselves, but how much fun it was to do it together.” In all, more than 80 people in 15 groups danced at various places in the church and around Greensboro. The clergy choreography was done by Albert and her daughter using the Just Dance Video Game. All of the scenes of the groups of First Presbyterian Church members dancing together were edited and mixed together by the church’s information technology director, Jennifer Gaddy.

“I had a sense before I came here [in December 2020] that this congregation had a winsome and fun side,” Duffield said. “We have a majestic beautiful sanctuary, but we aren’t stuffy. We are real and this video revealed to me that we are willing to show and share that part of ourselves.” Duffield’s first in-person worship experience at First Presbyterian Church will be at the ballpark on Sunday, May 2. Even at 25% capacity, the 7,500-seat stadium will still be able to accommodate more worshipers than the church’s sanctuary. Tilley has a final thought about dancing to “High Hopes” at the ballpark. Even though there were significant differences in style and tempo in the two songs, she felt like there were many similarities — even in the meaning found in the lyrics. “Mama said Burn your biographies Rewrite your history Light up your wildest dreams” (Panic! At the Disco)  “Next time you’re found With your chin on the ground There’s a lot to be learned So, look around” (as performed by Frank Sinatra, with music by James Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn)

“For me, the message in both is that you’ve got to have high hopes in insurmountable circumstances,” she said. “Trust and faith will move you forward. Never, ever give up.”

SOURCE: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/gods-not-so-frozen-chosen/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Presbyterian+Church+USA+Weekly+News&utm_campaign=Weekly+News+%7C+April+14-20 First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a Hunger Action and Earth Care congregation. Learn more about the church’s many outreach ministries here. PICTURES: The senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Rev. Dr. Jill Duffield, center, with fellow pastors Neil Dunnavant, left, and Dolly Jacobs dance in a video celebrating the joy of Easter. (Screenshot) When Suzanne Tilly (second from right) heard they’d be dancing to “High Hopes” at the Greensboro ballpark, she thought of the Frank Sinatra song. (Screenshot) Dan Kerns, a member of the First Presbyterian Church’s Chancel Choir and a farmer, participates in the dance video to help church and community members smile a bit and celebrate Easter, even during the pandemic. (Screenshot) Several scenes in the video highlight First Presbyterian Church’s hunger ministries, including the Giving Back Garden, where nutritious food is given year-round to local nonprofits. (Screenshot)

IN THE NEWS AROUND MEMPHIS

WATCHING the NUMBERS Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order yesterday removing mask mandates in the 89 counties under the state Department of Health. But he also tweeted that he would like to see all of the state’s counties — even the “Big 6,” (including Shelby County) which have their own health departments — abandon mask mandates and business restrictions by Memorial Day. In response, leaders in Shelby County said we need more people vaccinated “before we even begin that conversation.” The executive order/tweet came as the Centers for Disease Control suggested relaxed mask restrictions for those who have already been vaccinated. Gov. Bill Lee’s request that the six metro counties lift their mask restrictions by Memorial Day met an ambivalent silence from Shelby County health leaders who are seeking advice, legal and otherwise, before responding.  “The good news is, we have about 30 days to evaluate that,” said City of Memphis COO Doug McGowen on Tuesday, April 27. “Our legal team is looking at what impact the governor’s request, should there be a change in the Shelby County health order, what impact that has to the City of Memphis’ mask ordinance. It’s clear that in some communities where they have a very high level of vaccination, that it’s probably reasonable for people to request that. But remember, our percentage is not as high as some other communities. “We are not there yet to the point where it’s reasonable to eliminate a mask requirement. We need more people to be vaccinated before we even begin to have that conversation,” McGowen said. STAY VIGILANT, even if you are fully vaccinated!

SOURCES: https://dailymemphian.com/section/metro/article/21566/tennessee-gov-lee-asks-counties-to-end-mask-mandates-shelby-memphis-officials-look-to-experts?utm_source=early_word_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=earlyword_2021-04-28#/questions https://www.localmemphis.com/video/news/health/coronavirus/breaking-down-the-latest-covid-19-data-in-memphis-and-the-mid-south/522-d86b6053-092d-40fb-b00f-e330bfa86433

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VACCINATION RATE Tennessee is still dragging behind the nation in the rate of vaccinations, despite the vaccine now being readily available. The city continues to have availability of the vaccine, with capacity at the Pipkin Building alone able to deliver 3,000 doses a day with the help of FEMA and Department of Defense forces.FEMA brings 21,000 extra doses a week to Memphis, which could change. “But I don’t want people to worry that there will be a lack of vaccine available at the site. Remember, that is 21,000 additional federal doses we are getting. We will still have a lot of doses available to us through the state of Tennessee. Availability of vaccine is not an issue,” he said. Next week’s appointments and vaccine schedule will be posted Thursday, April 29, at Covid19.memphistn.gov, including the availability of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Beginning next week, the J&J vaccine will rotate among public sites. Where it will be available is also on the city’s COVID vaccination site. Supply of the J&J vaccine is an issue in Tennessee, according to Dr. Lisa Piercey, state health commissioner. After 15 million doses had to be discarded due to a manufacturing problem, the weekly allocation of J&J to states dropped.    Tennessee, which rivals Mississippi and Alabama for the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, turned away more than 80% of its coronavirus vaccine allotment last week, a billboard-sized sign of hesitancy in the Volunteer State. “The hesitancy we are experiencing here is not unique to Tennessee, and it’s not unique to rural areas,” Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said in a news briefing Tuesday, April 27. In early April, the City of Memphis was giving 60,000 shots a week. Monday, April 26, it gave a total of 1,100 shots across all of its public drive-thru venues, a marked decrease in rate from the 20,000 it gave last week. In the meantime, Tennessee is not losing access to the unused doses. “The federal allocation is still reserved for us. We still have access to it,” Piercey said. If there were a surge in demand, or if the Pfizer vaccine receives approval for children ages 12 and up, as experts believe will happen, Tennessee will have supply for demand. Decreasing demand is a tragedy, says Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. “Younger adults somehow believe that they are not at risk for serious consequences of COVID, but almost 25,000 people younger than 49 have died from COVID. Studies are beginning to show that as many as half of the children and 30% of adults who get COVID have long-lasting, even debilitating symptoms,” Wurtz said. “People are under the impression that the vaccine is worse than the disease, when the disease is thousands — tens of thousands of times more dangerous — than the vaccine. And every person who isn’t vaccinated is potentially a vector, bringing COVID to immunocompromised people who don’t get protection from the vaccine, to children who are, as yet unable to get the vaccine, and to the small proportion of people (<5%) for whom the vaccine doesn’t work.” State surveys found demographic groups have different reasons for being reluctant. Rural white conservatives voiced the strongest sentiments, including doubting the need for the vaccine. Another issue, particularly among Hispanic residents, is the belief that the vaccine causes death. “We want to reassure folks that there are exceedingly, exceedingly higher chances that you will contract COVID and die from it than the vaccine itself,” Piercey said. “Now, albeit the risk of death from COVID is still relatively low, particularly in younger populations, but it’s not zero by any stretch of the imagination, but it is exceedingly more likely than death from the vaccine.” Wurtz suspects the J&J vaccine pause April 13 scared even more people. “Some may not understand that its safety concerns don’t apply to the mRNA vaccines. I think the most likely people to want to get vaccinated (older people, people with underlying conditions, maybe women, maybe liberal people) went right out and got vaccinated as soon as they could, and now we are dealing with people with more ambivalence,” she said. The J&J vaccine was resumed last weekend, including in Tennessee.

Click the link below to get current locations for VACCINES: HERE'S WHERE YOU CAN GET VACCINATIONS

NOTE: The Daily Memphian provides all COVID-19 related information free of charge at these links as a service to the community.

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NEW CDC MASK GUIDELINES

President Biden announced these new CDC Guidelines yesterday.

A PRINTABLE version of this chart is available at the link HERE

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For COVID-19 testing information, go to this link: https://covid19.memphistn.gov/resources/covid-19-testing-sites-in-shelby-county/ NOTE: Several CVS and Walgreen's locations are now currently on the updated list at the link above.

Family & friends visiting? Going to visit a gathering? How safe will you be? Click the link here: https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/

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Lee Waltz (5), Fran Shannon (6), Dee McGuire (7), Jessica Orians (12), Clinton Bailey (23), Casey Gurlen (26), Janet Smith (26), Tom Kernan (28), Shirley Vosburg (29), Phil Shannon (30), Noah Mercer (31)

ONLINE    SUNDAY WORSHIP LINKS Balmoral Worship on YouTube 11:00 AM Circle of Faith Worship on Zoom 9:00 AM Every Monday 2:00pm Writer's Group via Zoom  JOIN MONDAY'S WRITER'S GROUP ZOOM MEETING 1st Wednesday of the Month Bible Study with Presbyterian Women 10:30 am JOIN the PW BIBLE STUDY on ZOOM 1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month Ellis Small Group 10:15 am  JOIN Ellis Small Group Zoom Meeting 2nd Tuesday of the Month BOOK CLUB meets via Zoom JOIN the BOOK CLUB ZOOM Meeting 2nd Thursday Evening of the Month 7:00 pm Trouble I've Seen Small Group Join Trouble I've Seen Zoom Meeting 1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month COLONIAL PARK FOOD DRIVE

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Congregational Gathering 7:00pm on Zoom CLICK HERE to JOIN the CONGREGATIONAL GATHERING Sunday, May 2, 2021 9:00 AM Circle of Faith Worship on Zoom 10:00 - 11:00 AM Spring Sunday Studies on Zoom 11:00 AM BPC Worship & Communion Service via YouTube Wednesday, May 5, 2021 10:30am BIBLE STUDY led by Rev. Anne Hagler on Zoom Sponsored by Presbyterian Women Sunday, May 9, 2021 9:00 AM Circle of Faith Worship on Zoom 10:00 - 11:00 AM Spring Sunday Studies on Zoom 11:00 AM BPC Worship Service via YouTube Tuesday, May 11, 2021 1:30pm BOOK CLUB on Zoom

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE is held each week at BPC ONLINE on YouTube at 11:00 am

The BUILDING is CLOSED UNTIL MAY 31, BUT   BALMORAL is OPEN !

Worship with us on our YouTube Channel Sunday morning at 11:00am  and check our website at www.balmoralpc.com/  Our Session is committed to providing worship during the pandemic that reaches everyone. Those of you who do not have computer access or SmartPhone access, Idlewild will continue to broadcast  all of the worship services on the radio 96.1 FM. Stay at home! Stay Safe!

REMINDER: Everyone who comes onto the BPC property MUST WEAR A MASK, including those who are only in the parking lot. NO ONE is allowed in the building without authorization. We must help to keep our Worship team and the SEED children safe! Requests for use of the property (including the parking lot) MUST prepare a proposal to the BPC COVID-19 Task Force (Scott Hill, chairperson) for review; the task force will review the proposal, then make a recommendation to the Session for consideration.

COLONIAL PARK FOOD DRIVE

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

CONTACT INFORMATION

Pastoral Care will be supplied by Rev. Carla Meisterman        and by Rev. Anne Hagler as a backup. Rev. Carla Meisterman 901.235.1014         or email carlam@balmoralpc.com Rev. Anne Hagler 901.628.2104 or anneh6616@gmail.com      The current Session members have been re-aligned to be your primary contact for ongoing communication. Here's the new contact list: Lori Blackwelder .... (901) 262-8282 ............... LORIEB1165@yahoo.com Cathy Bailey ........... (901) 481-6395 .............. catbailey2017@gmail.com Frank Carney ...........(901) 337-4917 ............. fcarney@evanspetree.com Leiza Collins ........... (901) 246-5031 ..................... leiza1016@gmail.com  Becky DeLoach ...... (901) 489-3369 ............. BeckyMD2905@gmail.com Barry Dotson .......... (901) 277-1596 ............... barry.dotson@yahoo.com Don Lamb ............... (901) 754-5530 ............................ fbslamb@aol.com Ted Pearson home: (901) 754-9796 ...................  pearsonteda@aol.com  ...........................cell: (901) 486-6117 John Van Nortwick (901) 605-2907 ............ jvnortwick@cornerstone- systems.com (NOTE: Many of these Session members are working 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.

BPC PHOTOS

BPC Worship  Sunday, April 25, 2021

Prelude "Sonatina No. 1 in C Major" Leiza Collins, piano

Musical Offering "The Lord's My Shepherd" Fran Addicott, Linda Warren, Pete Addicott, William Warren, Erich Shultz, Phyllis Long and John Gilmer on cello, Leiza Collins on piano

Psalm 23 and Hymn 473 "Shepherd Me, O God"

LINKS to DOCUMENTS We have been keeping reference articles in the Newsletter each week throughout the summer. It's time to take them out, BUT some of these may still be helpful, so we will store them and give you links to them, but eliminate them from the body of the newsletter itself.

To access a document, simply click on the link name. The document will then open in your browser as a PDF file! TIPS for using ZOOM FAQ's (Frequently asked Questions) about the building closure GOOD READ Recommendations DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENT of the 2021 BOOK CLUB DESCRIPTIONS PINECREST SUMMER CAMPS PRINTABLE CDC MASK GUIDELINES

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. Carla Meisterman, with a copy to Kathy Singleton, no later than Monday noon the week before the Sunday you want the information to appear. Prayer Concerns should continue to be submitted via email to Rev. Carla Meisterman (carlam@balmoralpc.com)

APRIL 2021 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 calendar is available to you.