GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE
Sunday, July 10, 2022 @ 11 am
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Scripture: Isaiah 40 and Colossians 1:1-14
Sermon "Fruit of the Spirit - Patience and Gentleness"
Rev. Sharon Amstutz, Interim Pastor
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Comments: We have set our YouTube channel to accept comments. If you are viewing, we ask that you say hello or to let us know you are there so we can count you as part of our attendance.
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SPECIAL NEWS AND INFORMATION |
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My apologies for the delay of this week's e-AVENUE. On Tuesday evening the 5th about 6 pm a sudden wind storm took out one of the trees along my driveway and it landed on other trees in my yard which snapped the power line to my house. With the tree blocking my driveway and no power I was forced to stay at home until trees were removed and power restored. I felt helpless but managed to survive the inconvenience of the situation. Trees were removed and power was restored yesterday about 6 pm. So i am attempting to get caught up here. Your bulletin should arrive by noon tomorrow (Saturday).
Thanks, Stephen.
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AFGHAN FAMILY RESETTLEMENT |
Carolyn Andrews has announced that:
Church World Service (CWS) notified her last week that we could be welcoming our Afghan family at the end of this month. Although we did not know the composition of the family, we felt it was prudent to decide on and secure an apartment. We applied for a six-month lease on a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unfurnished apartment at Summer Chase apartments on West Lakeview Drive in Johnson City and were accepted. The lease begins on July 15. With this timing, we could furnish the apartment and have it ready for the family when they arrived.
The arrival window will likely be July 18-25. We do not yet know anything about the family, but it is possible that we will be given more details tomorrow. CWS's Afghan refugee allocations meeting is this afternoon. As soon as I know more about the family, I will send that information to you.
If you wish to sign up for areas other than support for housing and clothing and have not yet done so, please let Carolyn Andrews know. Once we are assigned a family, we will need help with employment, schooling, health and medical, public benefits, etc. We will feel less overwhelmed if we have many hands on deck.
WAPC has volunteered to fulfill the portion of items in the Office, School & Craft supplies section of the master list of items needed by the family to get started. Here is the list of those items: pencils; ballpoint pens; ream of copy paper; flexible (not metal) measuring tape; yardstick; sewing kit with sewing scissors; various colors of sewing thread; everyday scissors; duct tape (wide); duct tape (narrow); packaging tape; notepads; sheet of first-class stamps; sheet of international-rate stamps; box of standard-size envelopes; box of legal-size envelopes. If you have purchased some of these items, please drop them by the church office or bring to church with you by July 17th.
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The Lunch Bunch will be going to Sahib this week (July 10). Finding places with adequate outdoor seating is preferable but it limits our choice of restaurants. FYI we have added Bella Vita (July 17) and Frieberg's (July 24) which only has indoor seating. We are planning to schedule Cafe Lola sometime in August with Michelle's help. If you want to join us and have a favorite restaurant that includes outdoor seating, just give the office a call so we can put it on the list. See you Sunday!! |
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HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE COMING WEEK |
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Sunday, July 10 - Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Interim Pastor, Rev. Sharon Amstutz (in-person/ YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Sahib (1803 West Market, JC)
Tuesday, July 12
7 pm Session meeting
Wednesday, July 13
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Thursday, July 14
4 pm Green Team (vis Zoom)
Sunday, July 17 - Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Interim Pastor, Rev. Sharon Amstutz (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
Wednesday, July 20
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Sunday, July 24 - Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Interim Pastor, Rev. Sharon Amstutz (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Frieberg's (203 East Main, JC)
Wednesday, July 27
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Sunday, July 31 - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
11 am Morning Worship, Interim Pastor, Rev. Sharon Amstutz (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ TBD
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GENERAL FUND: YEAR TO DATE:
2022 Annual Budget - $ 135,000
Budget through July 5th 2022, Week #27 ($ 70,096)
Receipts $ 69,700.50
Disbursements - $ 65,493.62
Balance $ 4,206.88
Thanks to everyone for your continued support the church with your tithes and offerings during this extraordinary time. 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.
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JULY BIRTHDAYS
July 12 - Linda Brashear
July 16 - Anne Causey
July 17 - Susan Turner
July 29 - Tom Shanks
July 31 - Tommy Causey
JULY ANNIVERSARIES
July 11 - Fred & Alice Burrell
The Chancel flowers were given in appreciation of
Stephen & Sue Shanks
and the staff of Anna Marie’s Florists for making our chancel beautiful through the years.
PLEASE NOTE: THE NEW 2022 FLOWER LIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE SIDE ENTRY
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For Members / Regular Attendees
Phyl Summers; Don Loughry; Camilla & Hunter Lyle; Jack Hansel.
For Friends
Janis Miyamoto's brother, Jerry Chin; Gene Barringer and Betsy Parks, friends of Matthew & Karen Clark; Eddie & Pauline Everhart, neighbors of the Danks; Nathan Songer; Rev. Maggie Lauterer; Karen Frederick; the family of Olga Pastushenko from Odessa, Ukraine refugees in Romania; Joel Carillet, local photojournalist; Linda Solly; Sue Sheffield's nephews, Jeremiah Collins and Tanner Frye; Sue Shank's friend, Judy Klein; Sharon Amstutz's brother, Paul Hagood; Theresa Lura's cousin, Randy Carter; 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.
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 a new humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following the earthquake yesterday on the Afghan / Pakistan border, as well as the recent flooding in Cuba from Tropical Storm Alex, and massive rainfall in the states of Pernambuco; Alagoas and Paraiba of Northeast Brazil; and fires in California Canyon and Hermits Peak in New Mexico; and the flooding in Yellowstone National Park that washed away roads and other infrastructure, among numerous other ongoing crises and disasters. And especially prayers for our nation and for strength, endurance, faith and courage for all.
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This photo was taken last week of Sally, John Sharon, Stephen and Sue
at Sycamore Shoals during their leisurely stroll by Watauga river.
Looks like they were having fun; you should plan to join them on the
next walk or stroll that is planned.
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Residents of Chicago's South Side had spent more than three years fighting one polluter's attempt to relocate an industrial metal-shredding facility to their community from the city's rapidly gentrifying North side. In defiance of an intense grassroots opposition campaign that had included a month-long hunger strike, a federal civil rights investigation, a frigid "die-in" outside the home of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and countless hours of community activism, the city appeared poised to approve the project. However, what organizers planned on the steps of City Hall as yet another protest against environmental injustice unexpectedly turned into a celebration: the city announced that it was denying the permit.
"Elation" is how Gina Ramirez, a third-generation resident of the Southeast Side, expressed her reaction. "I grew up smelling the sulfur in the air as I passed every toxic facility in my neighborhood, and I've spent half my son's life fighting for his right to breathe clean air. This victory has given me hope." Now the winning coalition, which includes groups such as Southeast Environmental Task Force and the Chicago Environmental Justice Network, is working to leverage its history victory into more action to improve the city. (GSN #106)
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VIRTUAL CREATION ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK |
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Marko Polo Adventures
(September 2020 | 5:06 min.)
Enjoy the landscape and the beautiful views of nature! This video was shot in Alta Norway and - Lemmenjoki National Park Finland. Features waterfalls, rivers, mountains and much more.
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IN THE POTEAT LIBRARY
NOTE: The library is open by appointment. 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.
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Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
By Shea Tuttle
(B/ROG)
Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn’t simply sentimental: it came directly from his Christian faith. God, he insisted, loves us just the way we are.
In Exactly as You Are, Shea Tuttle looks at Fred Rogers’s life, the people and places that made him who he was, and his work through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. She pays particular attention to his faith—because Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person, ordained by his church with a one-of-a-kind charge: to minister to children and families through television.
Tuttle explores this kind, influential, sometimes surprising man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be. Throughout, Tuttle shows how he was guided by his core belief: that God loves children, and everyone else, exactly as they are.
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Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests - Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey with information.
Flower List - The 2022 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 August issue of the e-AVENUE, no later than Friday, July 15th. This includes team and committee meetings, news, planned events and other newsworthy items.
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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