We may have had Commitment Sunday, but it’s not too late to make your commitment by submitting your good and perfect gifts! 

Submit your Covenant Card by TODAY November 30th to be included in our 2023 Operating Budget!

Children & teens are encouraged to join our Christmas Pageant!

Speaking & non-speaking parts available.

Practices: Dec. 4 at 9:45am

Dec. 11 at 9:45am

Dec. 14 at 4:00pm

See Erin for more details and to sign up

On December 3rd we will once again be passing out hot chocolate and donuts during the Covington Lion’s Club Christmas Parade!

We will have a table in front of the church and will meet at 9:15am to set up before the parade starts at 10:00am. Please contact Curtis Watson if you are interested in helping out!

We will have smoked pulled pork provided by Jay Lanners

and we invite you to bring a side dish or dessert!

Sign up with Erin to bring your favorite!

Following our Soul Feast Christmas Party, come hear a word about how we can help our neighbors living in homelessness! Jennifer Phillips from Willing Helpers Clinic will be speaking in the Adult Sunday School Room at 6:15pm on December 7th.

Youth Lunch and Caroling

Dec. 11 after Lessons and Carols for 5th grade and up

Lunch at Your Pie

$5 per person

RSVP to Erin by Dec. 8th

After eating pizza, we will bring some youthful joy to our home-bound friends with some Christmas Carols!

The Chancel Choir has begun rehearsing music for Advent and Christmas, and we would love to have you join us! Currently, a portion of the rehearsal from 7:20 to 7:50 is dedicated to rehearsing Lessons & Carols, which will be accompanied by a string quartet and percussion on Sunday, December 11th. 

"Grace Notes & Gospel Gab" is a new email offering from our Director of Music and Worship Arts, Alicia Taylor. Subscribe to learn about FPC’s music ministry and the history behind special worship services.

Children 3 years old through 1st grade are invited to Joyful Noise at 4:30pm to ring bells, sing praise, participate in a rhythm band, and puppetry arts.

Hallelujah Kids! meets at 5:00pm for 2nd through 8th graders to learn to ring tone chimes and handbells, sing praise, participate in a drumming circle, and puppetry arts.

Childcare will be available from 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM each Wednesday at the church for parents who are involved in the church music ministry.

Please contact Alicia Taylor at 770-656-6848 or at alicia@fpccov.org with any questions

The Angel Trees have been put in the narthex!

We want to give you as much time as possible to purchase the gifts. There are Salvation Army Christmas Angel tags, and Senior Care Facilities Senior Angel tags!

You'll find a clipboard by each tree with a form to record who has chosen each tag.

The gifts must be returned to the church no later than Tuesday, December 13th. Gifts should be returned and placed in the corner of the narthex over by the children's bags.

It is very important that the tag(s) must be returned with gifts and each gift should have the appropriate identifying tag/number attached in some manner. Attaching the appropriate identifying tag/number will help ensure the gifts reach the appropriate Angel. Congregants may make additional tags with the appropriate identifying number if needed.

Dear Members and Friends of First Presbyterian Church, Covington:

Each year during the Christmas Season, we at FPC, Covington, like to show our appreciation and gratitude to our church staff members who give so much of themselves on our behalf throughout the course of each year.

We ask for your participation in this effort by making a contribution to a special fund that we establish annually for this purpose. You may contribute in several ways: leaving your contribution in the FPC offering plate, bringing it by the Church Office, or mailing it to the Church. Please ensure that you label your check and/or your envelope, “Staff Love Gift” so that it will end up in the right place. It would be helpful if your contribution were made in a separate check, rather than making it a part of your regular contributions to FPC. You may also give on-line through REALM or by texting to 73256, enter FPCCOV as your message, click to send. You can also give through REALM by clicking HERE. Follow the prompts and use “Love Gift” as the fund. If you aren’t able to enter a fund, please email admin@fpccov.org to notify us of your gift to the fund. 

Please make sure that your “Staff Love Gift” reaches the Church by Sunday, December 18, 2022. Your generosity is much appreciated, in helping us to show our love to our devoted Church Staff Members.

Sincerely, 

John McCarthy, Clerk of Session;

Billy Fortson, Personnel Elder;

Bob Tabb, Finance Elder

Neeley’s Notions is an email offering that gives Neeley the chance to start a conversation about the inspirations and influences she thinks about while writing her weekly sermon. The email will be sent on Friday mornings when the Spirit leads, and you can reply to the email with your thoughts and stories for Neeley to read.

Read an excerpt of Neely's Notions for the start of Advent below, and subscribe to get the full story in your inbox tomorrow!

It was a tradition, my mom remembers dating back to her childhood around 1960s, that all the work stopped on Saturdays at lunchtime. And the table – well, everyone gathered around the table to enjoy fried chicken, green beans, rice and gravy, mac and cheese, and the best buttermilk biscuits in all the land!

Great Grandmomma wanted everyone around the same table – the family, the workers on the farm, the neighbors. It was a feast of acceptance and love and the award-winning southern cooking!

My childhood was the same. My mom carried on this tradition. At our home in Dahlonega, we grew to expect neighbors, friends, and even strangers to be seated with us at the table any day of the week! The example my great grandmother passed on to my mom was passed down to my sisters and me. A table of acceptance. I pray, I too, pass a table of acceptance on to our three girls from generation to generation! All stories woven together, interconnected, around the table of grace! 

Greetings in the name of the Lord! What a joy it is to serve in ministry with you! As we walk on this journey of faith together, we will send out a monthly newsletter with ministry opportunities for Children and Families. Be on the lookout for ways to connect with one another! 

With joy,

Rev. Erin Morgan

Associate Pastor for Faith Formation

Thank you to everyone who made last week's blood drive possible. We successfully exceeded our goal with 21 units of blood donated. It is through efforts of volunteers such as yourselves that many people will have a chance for a healthier life!

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our Pastors and members of our Church Family for your deep love expressed in so many ways during the past weeks. Thank you and may God bless you well.

 --Patrick and Janet Carmichael

Please keep the following people and their families in your prayers this week:

Prayers:

• Dan Walden - recovering from knee surgery
• Sandy Morehouse - recovering from pulmonary embolism
• Joe Burns, brother of Cathy Dobbs
• Stephanie Fortson - broken hip
• Patrick Carmichael
• Donald Vining, brother of Danny Vining - vision loss
• Beverly Beasley, friend of Jean Elder - caring for husband who has leukemia
• Larry Cox, brother-in-law of Randy Layton - cancer
• Bob Darby, friend of Jeff Mackenzie - leg amputated, kidney problems
• Bruce Hamilton, brother-in-law of Theodosia Wade - cancer
• Karen Lein Kaasa, sister-in-law of Julie MacKenzie - home health care
• Lonnie Lamb - chemotherapy
• Gary Lott, brother of Tricia Hinton - recovering at home following two brain surgeries
• Linea Lott, niece of Tricia Hinton - leukemia
• Richard, friend of Miriam and Jack Wheeler - cell mutation
• Tony Taylor, brother of Alicia Taylor -gradually gaining strength with physical therapy
• Blair Weaver - health issues
• Joyce Williams, sister of Danny Vining - Alzheimer’s

Condolences

• Our prayers are with Kayla Dobbs and her family as they mourn the death of her grandmother Patricia Edwards. 

Independent and Assisted Living

• Penny Blakeney - The Oaks Assisted Living
• Julia Brubaker - Benton House
• Jean Elder - Florida with her daughter
• Dot Fincher - Merryvale
• Travis Moss - Westbury, Conyers
• Louise White - Merryvale

Military Service

• Billy Scarborough - Marines
• Koen Ardis - Navy

Please click HERE to update your prayer requests or send new prayer requests.

You will be sent a check-in after three weeks.

In your email please indicate if you would like your request to be confidential or added to our prayer list.