This week’s plate offering goes to Stillman College Choir! We are grateful for their gifts of worship leadership through song. 

You are invited to click HERE or the button below and select the fund "Stillman" from the dropdown menu to give your love offering!

NEXT SUNDAY our annual stewardship drive will kick-off with this year's theme " A Deeper Well: Dig Deep. Draw Deeply"

Stewardship is a time to reflect on how the church fills our cup and how we fill the church's cup. By considering how you plan to offer your time, talent, and gifts in 2025 and sharing your intentions, we are able to build our church budget and calendar in a way that reflects our whole church!

Signup to be an usher on Sunday mornings! Would you like to help open up the church, greet people and hold the door as they enter, pass out worship guides, and generally help congregants be ready for worship on Sundays? You might love being an usher! Click below or talk to Jodi Atkins to signup for a slot in November!

Saturday, October 19th 10:00am-1:00pm

Come join us for Change the World Day, an annual community event of education, service, fun, food, fall festival and fellowship hosted by FUMC!

Our witness team will have a booth to let us reach out and connect to people in our community of all ages! If you’d like to volunteer please reach out to Curtis Watson or Luke Usry!

All are invited to join the newly named

"Good Enough Book Club"

as we read and discuss

No Cure for Being Human

(And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

by Kate Bowler on Tuesdays at 5:30pm in the Parlor!

Discussion will be led by Erin and Neeley!

Childcare is provided.

Click HERE to email Erin with any questions.

Space Update:

Great news! The installation of our new security system is nearly complete! Watch your email for a full building update coming soon!

Questions: contact Catherine or Neeley

July Finance Report:

July was a low month for donations and a high month for expenses. You will see that reflected in the concise report attached below.

We thank you for keeping up your pledge or you non-pledge giving you will help FPC to continue to prepare and present meaningful programs and activities for the congregation. Your giving of Time, Talent and Treasure is what makes FPC a place where you are Loved, Valued and Welcome in this community of faith!

Remember you can make your offering by sending a check or by logging on to your Realm account or by using “Text to Give” your offering! Text* FPCCOV followed by your donation amount to: 73256 and follow the link to give online. Select “2024 Pledge” if you made a stewardship pledge. Select “Non-Pledge” for a general offering.

--The Finance Team

Finance Reports are updated following approval in monthly Finance Team meetings.

Our finance team has finalized our 2024 Operating Budget but it’s not too late to make your commitment by offering your Time, Talent, and Treasures! Submit your Pledge Card today to be included in our 2024 Operating Budget!

The Elizabeth Ann Presbyterian Women Circle met in the fellowship hall and on Zoom this morning to discuss the lesson on land justice in this year's bible study "Let Justice Roll Down: God's Call to care for Neighbors and All Creation"

Join them next month for a lesson on food justice on Tuesday, November 5th!

Elizabeth Ann Circle meets the first Tuesday of the month at 10:00am.

Martha Circle meets the first Tuesday of the month at 10:30am.

Night Circle meets the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm.

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

Most recent prayer requests

Requests will be moved to “ongoing” after three weeks unless the office is notified

• Tom Crews
• Peggy Stallings - recovering from surgery
• Barbara Brown, friend of Miriam Wheeler - surgeries following a fall
• Jim Cooper, friend of Mark & Jennifer Fogarty - pancreatic cancer
• Parker Ford, friend of Angie Woodham - non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Kim Fratesi, friend of Mark & Jennifer Fogarty - pancreatic cancer
• Danny Vining - recovering from surgery

Ongoing prayer requests

Requests will be removed from “ongoing” after six weeks unless the office is notified.

• Wesley Berg, friend of Tom Crews - pancreatic cancer
• Tyra Canady, friend of Miriam Wheeler - recovering from stroke
• Charlie Kennon, brother of Larry Kennon
• Nancy, friend of Mark & Jennifer Fogarty - stage IV pancreatic cancer
• Martha Young, grandmother of Cotton Young - cancer
• Ava Moss, friend of Donna Weesner - cancer
• Janice Campbell, friend of John Leavitt
• Jill Chandler, sister of Brad Hawley - cancer

Condolences

• Our thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of Bernice Bailey as they mourn her passing on September 27, 2024. We especially hold her daughter, Betty Bailey in our prayers during this time. A memorial service will be held in the sanctuary on October 19 at 11:00am.

Military Service

• Koen Ardis - Navy
• Billy Scarborough - Marines
• Clint Williams - Army
• Daryl Williams - Army

Independent and Assisted Living

• Penny Blakeney - Prema at Ashton Hills
• Homer Borders - Presbyterian Village
• Jean Elder - Florida with her daughter
• Dot Fincher - Madison, GA
• Louly Hay - Presbyterian Village Athens
• Jon Paschal - Annandale Village, Suwanee
• Louise White - Prema at Ashton Hills

Prayer requests and updates may be given to either of our pastors, put in the offering plate, or emailed to catherine@fpccov.org