As part of our ongoing commitment to anti-racism work, our next Racial Equity Reads book will be "I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by Austin Channing Brown. Whether you have engaged in this work for a long time or are just curious about this journey, we welcome everyone to join us for open and gracious conversation. We will begin our six week video and discussion series on Thursday, August 19th at 4 p.m. in Davis Hall. As always, we encourage you to purchase your book through black-owned booksellers, if possible. For more information or to sign up to join the discussion, please contact Lynne Keel at lynne.keel@firstpresconcord.org, that she may send you the reading schedule as well as notify you of any changes to meeting times/places.

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Last Wednesday, thirteen of our high school Youth gathered in Davis Hall for an evening of community service. A huge THANK YOU to the Youth and their families for their generous donations for our service projects! Guest speaker, Rev. Thad Brown of Opportunity House, shared the non-profits mission with the group, followed by a great question and answer session.

The Youth assembled sixty turkey and cheese sub sandwiches, which were delivered to Opportunity House along with bottled water, applesauce, granola bars, chips and pretzels, and oatmeal creme pies. Ten personal hygiene bags were also packed with shampoo, soap, toothbrush & toothpaste, and deodorant. Those bags will be donated to The Junior Charity League of Concord for distribution to Cabarrus County school kids in need. The Youth also learned more about the Blessing Box and restocked the shelves.

If you missed our gathering last Wednesday, please feel free to e-mail René Prager at: r.prager@firstpresconcord.org with any ideas and suggestions for youth and/or Sunday School this year. We look forward to gathering again in the fall!

FPCC will be collecting for the WSOC 9 School Tools project to benefit students and teachers in Cabarrus County Schools and Kannapolis City Schools. Collection dates at FPC are July 28 – August 16. The collection barrel may be found in the Fellowship House.

Teacher requests include: pencils, inexpensive headphones, composition books, notebook filler paper, copy paper, glue sticks, black Expo markers, index cards, tissues and Lysol/Clorox wipes. All donations are sincerely appreciated!

The Cabarrus County sponsor is the Concord-Afton Sunset Rotary Club.

Next Tuesday, August 3rd we will accept donations for the Market for Mission Sale from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The sign-up genius has been eliminated for the rest of the summer. Please join us for worship whenever you can!