Congregational News

Congregational News

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 Announcements

The flowers this morning are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Everette Dancy by his family.

Our Senior Adult group, the “ARP’s,” will meet for lunch this Wednesday, May 13, at McLaughlin’s Farm House, 15725 Mooresville Road. Everyone should plan to arrive by 12 noon. Anyone needing transportation should contact Mary Helen Smith or Jerry Hallman.

The Sunday Night Groups will not meet this evening.

The Mary Grier Circle meeting for this Tuesday has been cancelled.

FAMILY NIGHT IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 20! We are pleased that Cheryl Pletcher, Director of the Serenity House in Mooresville, will present our program. We begin with our Covered Dish Supper in the Family Life Center at 6:30 PM. The Mary Grier Circle will set-up and clean-up.

The Women’s Ministries’service project for this quarter will be to help “Partnership for Young Children.” This organization provides resources for at risk children, ages 0-5 and their families. Items needed are listed in the Bugle. You may place your donated items in the church library. Please leave prices on donated items.

Home should be a place of mutual responsibility and respect, of encouragement and cooperation and counsel, of intergrity, of willingness to work, of discipline when necessary, with the tempering quality of love added to it. With a sense of belonging, and with someone to talk to.

May Elder Greeter: Van Knox

Head Deacon: Blaine Brawley

Greeters: Ed and Barbara Parkes

Nursery Attendants: Steve and Amy Ferguson

Attendance, May 3: 63

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Announcements

Our sympathies continue to be expressed to the family and friends of Mr. Buford T. Compton, 89, Elder Emeritus, Deacon, Sunday School Superintendent for 32 years and Church Treasurer for 19 years, who died April 27. Buford was on our church roll longer than any current member, joining on September 11, 1932. Only Mrs. Ruth Barber united with this church earlier (9-4-25), but she moved her membership to another church before re-uniting with us on July 3, 1949.

The Sunday Night Groups will meet here this evening, beginning with the younger children’s group at 4 PM. Amy Smith and Jackie Shaefer are in charge of Children’s group dinner, and Carla Kennedy is in charge of Youth dinner.

Thanks to Nancy and Aubrey Price for sponsoring our breakfast today. This will be our last breakfast until September.

A Prayer Shawl workshop will be held in the Family Life Center today at 4 PM.

The Session will meet today at 6:30 PM.

The Men of the Church will eat breakfast at Corine’s Café, 694 E. Plaza Drive, next Sunday at 8 AM. All men are invited.

The Mary Emma Kennedy Circle meets this Tuesday at 10 AM here. Charleen Lawson will have the Bible Study, and Betty Mills will present the Program.

The Women’s Ministries' service project for this quarter will be to help “Partnership for Young Children.” This organization provides resources for at risk children, ages 0-5 and their families. Items needs are listed in the April Bugle. You may place your donated items in the church library. Please leave prices on donated items.

May Elder Greeter: Van Knox

Head Deacon: Blaine Brawley

Greeters: John and Alice Massie

Nursery Attendants: Blaine and Angie Brawley

Attendance, April 26: 58

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Announcements

The service of worship begins with the Chiming of the hour and the Prelude. Please use this time as a period of meditation and contemplation.

We warmly welcome all visitors to our worship service. Thank you for blessing us with your presence and participation.

The flowers this morning are given in loving memory of Nat Smith and Nora Harris by the Nat Smith Family.

The Sunday Night Groups will meet here this evening, beginning with the younger children’s group at 4 PM. Stephanie Monroe and Angie Brawley are in charge of Children’s group dinner, and Amy Ferguson is in charge of Youth dinner.

The Women’s Ministries' service project for this quarter will be to help “Partnership for Young Children.” This organization provides resources for at risk children, ages 0-5 and their families. Items needs are listed in the April Bugle. You may place your donated items in the church library. Please leave prices on donated items.

Mr. Gordon Query, Columbia, SC, businessman and Moderator of the ARP General Synod, has asked that each member of every ARP church consider the discipline of daily Bible reading. He quotes Deuteronomy 8:3b and Matthew 4:4 as the basis for his request: “One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (New Revised Standard Version) Daily Bible Reading guides are available on the Tower Narthex Information Table.

All Sunday School teachers are reminded to turn in their completed attendance slips to Jim Adams or the church office each Sunday morning so that the numbers can be posted in the record book.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

-Helen Keller

April Elder Greeter: Steve Ferguson

Head Deacon: Matthew Smith

Greeters: The Dennis Deaton Family

Nursery Attendants: Steve Hart and Erskine Smith

Attendance, April 19: 77

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Announcements

In this hour we wish you the peace and harmony of His love. May there come to you an abundance of His blessings and may you experience the glow of his love and the light of hope He offers as we worship Him together.

The flowers this morning are given in loving memory of Irene Kennedy by her family.

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the preschool class at 5:00 PM, with the older youth class starting at 5:15. Kristin Donaldson and Stephanie Monroe will provide supper for the preschoolers, and Amy Ferguson is in charge of the Youth supper.

The Women’s Ministries’ next service project will be to help “Partnership for Young Children.” This organization provides resources for at risk children, ages 0-5 and their families. Items needs are listed in the March Bugle. You may place your donated items in the church library from March to June.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

Our church received the following communication last week from the Rev. Mr. Bryan Crotts, Moderator of First Presbytery: “The Presbytery wants its churches to be aware that numerous churches, ministers and church members throughout the Presbytery are having immense and painful struggles (primarily due to the economy). First Presbytery has called its churches to a Day of Prayer and Fasting on Tuesday, March 24, for our ministers and their families, for our students & licentiates and their families, and for our churches and its members during this time of seemingly intense attacks from the Evil One." Our Sanctuary will be open all day this Tuesday if anyone wishes to spend time here in prayer and meditation.

First Presbytery’s Elders Association will meet this Tuesday at the Craig Avenue Tabernacle Church, 3936 Craig Avenue in Charlotte, at 7 PM for supper and a program. Any Elders wishing to go should meet here at 6 PM to carpool.

March Elder Greeter: Jim Adams

Head Deacon: Carla Kennedy

Greeters: Blaine and Angie Brawley

Nursery Attendants: Steve and Amy Ferguson

Attendance, March 15: 76

The “ARP’s” Senior Group is planning a trip to the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte for its May meeting. This is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, May 13, during the day. The group plans to take a van or two for the trip. Please see Mary Helen Smith, or contact the church office if you would be interested in going.

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Announcements

We welcome all who worship with us during this season of Lent, as we follow in the footsteps of our Lord as he prepared for the events of Holy Week.

We continue to express our sympathies to the family and friends of Mrs. Dorothy Mills Jones, 78, faithful church member since 1956, who died March 6.

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the preschool class at 5:00 PM, with the older youth class starting at 5:15. Amy Smith and Jackie Shaefer will provide supper for the preschoolers, and Debbie Marsh is in charge of the Youth supper.

March’s Family and Friends’ Night is set for this Wednesday in the Family Life Center. It is a pleasure to welcome Vicki Conrad and her clogging group back for a performance. Our Covered Dish Supper begins at 6:30 PM. The Spares ‘N Pairs Sunday School Class will set up and clean up.

This a good day to tell someone you care about them. It is a good day to seek peace by looking beyond self to the wisdom of God. This is a place where you can find the way to satisfaction and accomplishment. For those who make it so, this is a good day to be alive if they let God make it so.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

March Elder Greeter: Jim Adams

Head Deacon: Carla Kennedy

Greeters: Barclay and Debbie Marsh

Nursery Attendants: Erskine Smith and Steve Hart

Attendance, March 8: 81

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Announcements

Welcome. The season of Lent is a time of self-examination and obedient expectation for the church as Easter approaches. Therefore, let us enter the sanctuary praying humbly, yet expectantly, for God’s Spirit to be with us.

The flowers this morning are given in loving memory of Paul Kelly Compton and Dorothy Moore Compton by their family.

A Prayer Shawl workshop will be held this afternoon at 4:00 in the Family Life Center in the Prayer Shawl room.

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the Children’s Group at 5 PM. The church will provide supper.

The “ARP’s,” our Senior Adult group, will meet this Wednesday at 12 noon in the Family Life Center. Please bring a sandwich and a vegetable or dessert to share. Also, bring a inexpensive gift for bingo playing.

March’s Family and Friends’ Night is set for Wednesday, March 18, in the Family Life Center. It is a pleasure to welcome Vicki Conrad and her clogging group back for a performance. Our Covered Dish Supper begins at 6:30 PM. The Spares ‘N Pairs Sunday School Class will set up and clean up.

The Women’s Ministries will hold their Joint Meeting on this Tuesday at 6:30 PM at Showmars Restaurant, 129 Gateway Blvd. (behind McDonalds’on Highway 21). If you would like a ride, please let Carolyn Sigmon know (704-662-6028). We will have a short Bible Study following dinner.

First Presbytery will hold its Spring Stated meeting this Tuesday at Coddle Creek Church, beginning at 10 AM. Jerry Hallman will attend.

March Elder Greeter: Jim Adams

Head Deacon: Carla Kennedy

Greeters: Dennis and Rose Deaton

Nursery Attendants: Kevin and Kristin Donaldson

Attendance, March 1: 68

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Announcements

We are most grateful to have our new organ console today! We appreciate the work of Allen Organ Company in making the installation. Once again we thank our Organ Committee, consisting of Pat McCall, Karen Hart, Connie Smith and Sandy Torrence, along with our Deacons, for all of the work that has gone into this project. We are grateful, too, to all of you who have so faithfully made financial contributions toward the funding of the refurbished organ. We look forward to many years of beautiful service from this instrument.

We are very happy to have Mr. Richard Woods back with us today to add to the beauty of our music!

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the preschool class at 5:00 PM, with the older youth class starting at 5:15. Stephanie Monroe and Angie Brawley will provide supper for the preschoolers, and Carla Kennedy is in charge of the Youth supper.

Our Prayer Shawl workshop will be held this afternoon at 4:00 PM in the Family Life Center in the Prayer Shawl room.

The Session will meet today at 6:30 PM.

The Women’s Ministries will hold their Joint Meeting on March 10th (Tuesday) at 6:30 PM at Showmars Restaurant, 129 Gateway Blvd. (behind McDonalds’on Highway 21). If you would like a ride, please let Carolyn Sigmon know (704-662-6028). We will have a short Bible Study following dinner.

The Women’s Ministries’ next service project will be to help “Partnership for Young Children.” This organization provides resources for at risk children, ages 0-5 and their families. Items needs are listed in the March Bugle. You may place you donated items in the church library from March to June.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

March Greeter: Jim Adams

Head Deacon: Carla Kennedy

Greeters: Larry and Carolyn Massey

Nursery Attendants: Dava Brown and Anne Collier

Attendance, February 22: 68

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Announcements

A Prayer Shawl workshop will be held today at 4:00 PM in the FLC parlor.

The Mary Grier Circle will meet Tuesday, February 10^th at 7:00 PM in the Family Life Center. Members will make items for the Bonclarken gift shop.

The Session will meet today at 6:30 PM.

This Wednesday the “ARP’s” will meet in the Family Life Center at 12 noon. Bring your favorite sandwich and a vegetable, salad or dessert to share; drinks will be provided.

February’s Family and Friend’s Night will be next Sunday, February 15, when Steve and Karen Hart will present a slide presentation on their family trip to Africa last summer. Our Covered Dish Supper begins the evening at 6. The Deacons will set-up and clean-up.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

We have received word that our refurbished organ is to be shipped to us in a week or so. We shall probably be without use of an organ for the last Sunday of February, but it is hoped the new instrument will be in place for the First Sunday in Lent, which is March 1. We regret this project has taken so long, but we are assured by the company that “we shall be pleased with the final results.” We thank our Organ Committee, consisting of Pat McCall, Karen Hart, Connie Smith and Sandy Torrence, along with our Deacons, for all of the work that has gone into this project. We especially thank all of you who have so faithfully made financial contributions toward the funding of the refurbished organ.

February Greeter: John Massie

Head Deacon: Violet Knox

Greeters: Cansell and Pat Brown

Nursery Attendants: Blaine and Angie Brawley

Attendance, February 1: 62

Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Announcements

The flowers this morning are given in loving memory of Joe Knox by his family.

We welcome Susan Haynes as our organist this morning.

We appreciate very much the work of the Witness and Outreach Committee in sponsoring our Pancake Supper.

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the preschool class at 5:00 PM, with the older youth class starting at 5:15. Jackie Schaefer and Amy Smith will provide supper for the preschoolers, and Amy Ferguson is in charge of the Youth supper.

The Mary Emma Kennedy Circle will meet this Tuesday at 10:00 AM at the church. Nancy Wilson will have the program, and Charleen Lawson will lead the Bible Study.

Thanks to Nancy and Aubrey Price for sponsoring our breakfast today.

The Session will not meet today but will meet next Sunday at 6:30 PM.

The Men of the Church will eat breakfast at Corine’s Café, 694 E. Plaza Drive, next Sunday at 8 AM. All men are invited.

The Mooresville Area Bible Teaching Association (MABTA) will sponsor a Port-a-Pit barbecue here this Friday from 10 AM until 2 PM. Cost is $7.50 per plate, with an additional $1 for a drink. This is all take out, and tickets must be purchased in advance. Delivery is not available. Contributions are welcome. For information, please call 704-663-2301. MABTA supports Bible classes at Mooresville Senior High School.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

February Greeter: John Massie

Head Deacon: Violet Knox

Greeters: Blaine and Angie Brawley

Nursery Attendants: Kevin and Kristin Donaldson

Attendance, January 25: 72

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Announcements

Our Sunday Night groups will not meet today.

A Pancake Supper will be held this Friday, January 30^th from 5-8pm in the FLC. Be sure to invite a neighbor or friend. Cost is $5 per adult, with children under six eating free. We need some helpers to serve, clean tables and perform other duties. Please contact Aubrey Price (704-663-3695).

Breakfast will be served next Sunday in the Family Life Center at 9:30 AM. We thank Nancy and Aubrey Price for providing this meal.

If you haven’t visited the church’s Internet Website lately, take a look at www.mooresvillearp.org for information and interesting features. Feel free to comment or make suggestions to Webmaster Steve Ferguson regarding the site. If you have pictures, information or articles for The Bugle or the Website, you may send those also. Please email Steve at capinfergie@msn.com or by mail at 370 East Cedar Street, Mooresville, NC 28115.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

“Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing, then thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when thou perecive this, then thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understand of it.”

-F. Dostoevsky

January Elder Greeter: Rick Matthews Head Deacon: Amy Ferguson

Greeters: Bob and Lois Compton

Nursery Attendants: Steve Hart and Erskine Smith

Attendance, January 18: 60

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Announcements

Our Sunday Night groups will not meet today or next Sunday.

The Deacons will meet after the worship service today.

The congregation is invited to the Installation Service of the Rev. Mr. Mark McClamrock as minister of the Concord ARP Church this afternoon at 4 at the church, 177 Union Street N. A Covered Dish Supper will follow the service. Jerry Hallman will preach the Installation sermon.

This Wednesday we shall enjoy our first Family and Friends’ Night of 2009. The Edwards Bluegrass Band will be our entertainment. The band consists of Connie Edwards and her four children, who will perform a selection of Gospel music. A Love Offering will be taken. A Covered Dish Supper precedes the program at 6:30 PM. The Adult Choir is in charge of set up and clean up.

A Pancake Supper will be held on Friday, January 30^th from 5-8pm in the FLC.

Dr. Jack Farnam Heinsohn, 81, died Sunday, January 11, at his son's home in Charlottesville, VA. A native of Long Beach, CA, Dr. Heinsohn grew up as a performer in various circuses as a trapeze artist, a clown, trampolinist and on the horizontal bars until the age of 21, when he felt the call to the ministry while a student at Erskine College. After graduating from Erskine Theological Seminary, he served as minister of the Hickory Grove and Smyrna, SC, ARP Churches and later was appointed by the General Synod as Denominational Evangelist. He then served pastorates in Pennsylvania and California in the Presbyterian Church, USA and also as Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy and College Chaplain at Grove City College, Grove City, PA. He returned to the ARP Church in 1986 as minister of the Doraville Church in Atlanta, GA. In July of 1990, he was appointed Chaplain of Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary and in 1993 became Professor of Preaching at Erskine Theological Seminary. In 2001 he was named Interim Pastor of Providence A.R. Presbyterian Church in Clinton, SC. Dr. Heinsohn preached his famous “clown sermon” in many churches and retreat settings over the years. He was the brother-in-law of the late Dr. W. C. Lauderdale. Chap’s sister Martha, who was married to Dr. Heinsohn for 57 years, survives him, as do two daughters, three sons, 13 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. He was buried in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery in Lexington, VA.

January Elder Greeter: Rick Matthews Head Deacon: Amy Ferguson

Greeters: The Erskine Smith Family

Nursery Attendants: Blaine and Angie Brawley

Attendance, January 11: 70

Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Announcements

Our Sunday Night groups will meet here today, beginning with the preschool class at 5:00 PM, with the older youth class starting at 5:15. Jackie Schaefer and Kristin Donaldson will provide supper for the preschoolers, and Debbie Marsh is in charge of the Youth supper.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

The Mary Grier Circle will meet this Monday evening at 7:00 PM at the home of Betty Brawley. Nancy Price will lead the Bible Study.

Today at 2 PM our Handbell Choir will participate in a workshop led by Mr. Ed Tompkins, minister of music at Morning Star Lutheran Church in Matthews, NC. Ed is a Board member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers and frequently serves as clinician for handbell conferences. He served as minister of music at River Road Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA, from 1987-2003, and came to Morning Star in 2004. We are grateful that our handbell members can have this opportunity.

The “ARP’S” will meet for lunch this Wednesday at 12 noon in the Family Life Center. Bring your favorite sandwich and a vegetable, salad or dessert to share; drinks will be provided.

On January 21 beginning at 6:30 PM we shall enjoy our first Family and Friends’ Night of 2009. The Edwards Bluegrass Band from Salisbury will be our entertainment. The band consists of Connie Edwards and her four children. We shall enjoy a selection of Gospel music that evening. A Love Offering will be taken. A Covered Dish Supper precedes the program at 6:30 PM. The Adult Choir is in charge of set up and clean up.

A Pancake Supper will be held on Friday, January 30^th at 5pm. to 8pm in the Family Life Center. A brief meeting of the Pancake Supper Committee will be held after worship today.

January Elder Greeter: Rick Matthews

Head Deacon: Amy Ferguson

Greeters: The Tim Smith Family

Nursery Attendants: Dava Brown and Anne Collier

Attendance, January 4: 84

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Announcements

The flowers this morning are given by Ruth Stafford in loving memory of Ray Stafford.

Our Sunday Night groups will not meet this evening.

Please pick up your 2009 offering envelopes; they are in the Tower Narthex.

Anyone wishing to place flowers in the sanctuary in honor or memory of a loved one may do so by contacting the church office.

The Session will meet tonight at 6:30.

The Mary Emma Kennedy Circle will meet this Tuesday at 10:00 AM at the church. Geneva Adams will have the program and Charleen Lawson will lead the Bible Study.

If you know of someone who would like to have Communion but cannot attend worship, please see one of the Elders or Jerry Hallman.

Each year is a new beginning … a golden dawn on the horizon of life.

Riches are the least worthy gifts which God can give us … yet we toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God frequently gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

January Elder Greeter: Rick Matthews

Head Deacon: Tim Smith

Greeters: The Jon Kennedy Family

Nursery Attendants: Steve and Amy Ferguson

Attendance, December 28: 53