|
GOOD NEWS AND WORSHIP UPDATE
MORNING WORSHIP
Sunday, April 16, 2023 @ 11 am
Sermon - "The Lambs and the Sheep" | Scripture reading - John 21:1-25
Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor
| |
|
both in-person and on Facebook or YouTube (click here)
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.
ELDER OF THE MONTH - KAREN CLARK
| |
SPECIAL NEWS AND INFORMATION | |
EASTERTIDE THOUGHTS
At the end of the Gospel of John, it says that Jesus did many other things in his earthly ministry and after his resurrection. And if every one of them were written down, the whole world would not have enough books to collect all of the stories. And in this last chapter we find one of the stories that was written for us to know and believe in the risen Jesus. He meets his disciples on the beach to have breakfast. In the wake of their grief, pain and surprise, Jesus meets his disciples’ needs. He takes the bread and the fish and gives it to his friends. Feeding them so that they can go and feed his lambs. Join us this Sunday and hear the simple yet complex call of Jesus to “Follow me!”
Yours In Christ,
Brandon
| |
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
The Adult Sunday School class is currently reading and discussing Adam Nicolson's book, "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible." They hope to conclude their study in April.
| |
|
The class as selected Philip Yancey's book, "Vanishing Grace: what ever happened to the Good News?" as their next title, which they begin reading and discussing on Sunday, April 30th. You should have plenty of time to secure your personal copy and join them in class. Good used copies can be found on Amazon, as well as BetterWorldBooks.com.
The class meets in the Poteat Library at 10 am. If you wish to join the class there is always room for one more.
| |
FOOD, FOOD AND MORE FOOD
The Lunch Bunch / Meal Schedule for APRIL
April 16 @ Southern Craft BBQ (601 Spring Street)
April 23 @ Bella Vita's (2927 North Roan Street)
April 30 @ Fellowship Potluck Lunch (Cinco de Mayo theme)
At our Cinco de Mayo Fellowship Potluck lunch we will be receiving an offering that will go to Latin America and Caribbean (General Support). Funds given to this PC(USA) project will be used to further the work of World Mission among our partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The funds will be used where the need is greatest so that they will have the greatest impact. (E864600)
IF ANYONE HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR LUNCH BUNCH DINING IN 2023, PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH OFFICE SO IT CAN BE ADDED TO THE LIST!!
| |
CHURCH DIRECTORY UPDATE
We appreciate all of you who have submitted your information to the church office for updating our church directory. However, there are still a few others who have not responded. Please do so at your earliest convenience or before the April 16th deadline.
| |
SAVE THE DATE
There will be a wedding shower for Alynda Worrell in the Fellowship Hall on Saturday,
May 6th, beginning at 2 pm. The wedding of Alynda and Alec Welch will be on Saturday, June 17th in Hillsville, Virginia. Everyone is invited. Go to their website for more info: https://www.theknot.com/us/alynda-worrell-and-alec-welch-jun-2023
| |
HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE COMING WEEK | |
|
Sunday, April 16, 2023
10 am Adult Sunday School - reading "God's Secretaries" by Adam Nicolson
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:30 pm Lunch Bunch @ Southern Craft BBQ (601 Spring Street)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - EARTH DAY
11 am Earth Day walk @ Sycamore Shoals State Park (possibly lunch afterwards)
Sunday, April 23, 2023
10 am Adult Sunday School - reading "God's Secretaries" by Adam Nicolson
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:15 pm Coffee in the Library
1 pm Lunch Bunch @ Bella Vita's (2927 North Roan Street)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
4 pm Meditation Circle (via Zoom)
6 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal
Sunday, April 30, 2023
10 am Adult Sunday School - reading "Vanishing Grace" by Philip Yancey
11 am Morning Worship, Rev. Brandon Davis, Pastor (in-person YouTube / Facebook)
12:15 pm Fellowship Potluck Lunch (Cinco de Mayo theme)
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
9 am Holston Presbytery Meeting @ Holston Presbytery Camp, Banner Elk, NC
| |
GENERAL FUND: YEAR TO DATE: | |
|
[2023 Annual Budget - $ 177,600
Budget through April 14, Week #15 ($51,231)
Receipts $ 82,855.49
Disbursements -$ 48,228.91
Balance $ 34,626.58
The next special PC(USA) offering will be taken on Pentecost.
| | |
|
|
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
April 22 - Mike Miyamoto
April 23 - Theresa Lura
April 24 - David Wood
April 25 - Maggie Lauterer
The Chancel flowers were given
in loving memory of
Linda Reed Walker
(11 March 1961 / 8 April 2012)
by Karen & Matthew Clark.
ALSO NOTE: THE 2023 FLOWER LIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE SIDE ENTRY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE IN REQUESTING CHANCEL FLOWERS.
| |
|
For Friends
The Brown and Taylor families in the loss of BeverlyTaylor Brown's husband, Sutton Brown; the Davis and Helms families in the loss of Ginger’s brother, Larry Ray Davis (pancreatic cancer); Susan Turner Sally Gerhardt (in rehab); Beth Gerhardt's friend Teri Chapa and son, Ormar Torres; Jonathan Sharp; Michelle Browning's step-father, Rick Elm; Fred Burrell; Janice Hollingshead; Don Loughry; George, Jo & Nikki Rolling; Rev. Maggie Lauterer; Sue Shanks' friend Judy Klein; Sarah Suptin; church neighbor, Dorothy Harvey; Kelly Hodges.; Heather Hughes; Edna Campbell.
Update on Sally: Sally remains in rehab to build up more strength and confidence in moving around. She' is still at Givens Estates (Skilled Nursing & Short Term Rehabilitation), 600 Barrett Lane, Asheville, NC 28803 and in Room 208 with phone 828-552-5829 for now. (Her cell is 423-302-9084). She appreciates, cards, phone calls and visits.
Prayers for others
Continue to pray for the recent wave of tornadoes across the United States; and the four major ongoing international crises: the Turkey-Syria earthquake; Sao Paulo, Brazil flooding; the Horn of Africa hunger crisis and the Ukrainian Humanitarian Crisis. These emerging crises also need our prayers: the armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Yemen; Syria; South Sudan; Burkina Faso; and gang violence in Haiti; the aftermath of tropical cyclones; flooding; forest fires; and earthquakes around the world. Additional prayers for the women of Afghanistan. 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/
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - https://rescue.org
US FEMA - DECLARED DISASTERS - https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations
GLOBAL DISASTER ALERT & COORDINATION SYSTEM (GDACS) - https://gdacs.org
| |
Someone looks happy. Wonder who it is and why ??? | |
|
If you need a cup of coffee to get going in the morning, you can thank the birds and the bees that team up on farms where coffee is grown. Conducting field work on 30 Costa Rican coffee farms, researchers discovered that coffee beans grow larger and more plentiful when birds and bees join forces, with the bees pollinating the plants and the birds protecting them from pests.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists report that without the combined efforts of these winged helpers—many of which have migrated from thousands of miles away—the $24 billion coffee industry would suffer nearly a 25% decrease in crop yields. They say their findings suggest that ecosystem services can be appreciably more valuable together than separately. "Nature is an interacting system, one full of important synergies," says an ecologist at Costa Rica's Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center. (GSN #144)
| |
WALK AT SYCAMORE SHOALS
Our next walk will be at 11 am on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22 at Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton. Take highway 321 toward Elizabethton. The park is about 8 miles from the church. Turn left into the park from the highway and follow the road past the fort, on your left, to park by the tennis courts. The entrance to the park is just before you get to Sycamore Shoals Hospital. .
| |
VIRTUAL CREATION ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK | |
|
ANTELOPE CANYON, ARIZONA
Amazing Places on our Planet (October 2016 | 8:11 min.)
Antelope Canyon is the most photographed slot canyon in the world. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona, and managed by Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park. Northern Arizona's pristine slot canyon invites visitors to step inside a monumental natural sculpture. Shaped by millions of years of water and wind erosion, the magnificent canyon was named for the herds of pronghorn antelope that once roamed the area. The Upper Antelope Canyon tour is the more popular route because more sunlight enters the canyon and the walls reach up to 120 feet. The Lower Antelope Canyon tour is equally impressive, immersing visitors in the swirling embrace of sandstone walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4nM1FoUqYs
| |
|
IN THE POTEAT LIBRARY
NOTE: The books donated by Sally Gerhardt are currently in process; those books not being added to the library collection are being placed on a book truck in the Heritage Room for your browsing and taking. Please remember the library is open by appointment and 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.
| |
Saved by Faith and Hospitality
By Joshua W. Jipp
(241.JIP)
Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church's identity. In this book Jipp argues that God's relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith.
Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God's welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God's hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges—immigration, incarceration, racism, and more.
| |
|
Congregational Concerns / Prayer Requests - Please contact the church office or Sherry Bailey with information.
Flower List - The 2023 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 May issue of the e-AVENUE, no later than Friday, April 14tth. This includes team and committee meetings, 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.
| |
WATAUGA AVENUE PC IS ON .. click and see for yourself. | | |
|
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.) | | | | |
