WELCOME VISITORS If you are worshiping here for the first time today, welcome! We are glad to have you with us. Please fill out a visitor information card, located on the right as you enter the chapel, and place it in the offering plate.
OFFERING Plates are available just inside the doors to the chapel as you enter and exit. Our gifts take many forms: open-hearted presence here, voices lifted in song, the prayers that rise in us, the material gifts we share with neighbors, and our willingness to live in a world as allies and advocates for those whose needs are overlooked. The monies we bring symbolize the offering of our lives in all circumstances. A separate labeled basket is available each week to receive Our Daily Change offerings, formerly known as Five Cents a Meal hunger offering.
COMMUNITY JOYS AND CONCERNS: If you would like to add or update a prayer request, please contact the church office.
We celebrate: Andrew Tripp being back home after rebuilding his house following Helene ⸰ All in our Congregation that are out and about this summer and we pray for safe travel ⸰ that our Chapel is being used for so much exciting music this month
We remember in prayer: The Daugherty family on the death of Naomi Daugherty, July 5 ⸰ Blessings for the family of Margaret Rada. There will be a service of remembrance on August 3 at 3:00 pm in Anderson Auditorium in Montreat ⸰ For healing and encouragement for Jackie Cole ⸰ Brooks Joslin, Blake’s father, now on Hospice care ⸰ Arden Starnes, her family, and her caregivers ⸰ all who continue to be affected by loss caused by Hurricane Helene. In our congregation, we remember Cindy and Dennis Riley, Jackie Wintle, and Bob, the father of Natalie’s partner Jeff ⸰ the extended Lytle family ⸰ Mary Craig ⸰ Jackie Ligon Cole ⸰ Pat Crumpler ⸰ Martha Dugger ⸰ Rick Garrison ⸰ Fran Roberts’ sister-in-law, Linda Briggs ⸰ Marjorie Hettrick ⸰ Shane Reece (Nancy Garrison’s son) ⸰ Pat Wilson’s son, Kell
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Warren Wilson College is hosting the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas concert series on Saturday evenings through August 2 at 7:30 PM in the WWPC Chapel. Tickets available at www.cms-carolinas.orgor at the door.
WWPC WELCOMES THE SWANNANOA VALLEY FRIENDS MEETING The WWPC Session has come to an agreement with the Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting (SVFM) Quaker congregation who are meeting in our Ransom Fellowship Hall on Sunday afternoons from 1:30 to 4:30 PM for one year. Hurricane Helene destroyed the SVFM meeting house in Black Mountain and their congregation has been meeting in various locations since then. On the infrequent Sundays when WWPC has after-church functions (e.g., Centennial celebration) those will take priority and the SVFM will make other arrangements. The SVFM youth group will also meet in the downstairs youth room one Sunday per month concurrent with the services in the Fellowship Hall. The Session is pleased to offer this hospitality to our friends from SVFM at no cost.
LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME We have several items in the office area which are going to be donated soon unless anyone in the congregation has need of them:
- 2 Little Tykes play sets next to office area (not from the playground)
- 1 dark wood coffee table
- 1 CD rack
- 1 small TV table and TV (currently in the Fellowship Hall)
- 1 whiteboard
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED There are many ways to help on Sundays:
Greeters will welcome worshipers, offer bulletins and other worship resources to guests, and assist with a brief after-service cleanup of bulletins and hymnals.
Liturgists typically lead the Call to Worship, offer the Prayer for Illumination and the First Reading, and lead the Affirmation of Faith. All texts are supplied to readers.
Coffee-Hour Hosts make coffee (provided by the church) and put out snacks, juice, and water. (Hosts may choose to use snacks available at the church or bring refreshments to share). Hosts have access to the parlor kitchen for clean up. Susan Daugherty and members of the Congregational Life Team are available to answer questions or provide assistance.
Sound/Video if you would like to help run the sound and/or livestream, please see today’s operator or contact the church office.
GUEST PIANIST We welcome to our morning worship concert pianist Wayne Smith, retired from a long musical career in Kansas City as soloist, accompanist, teacher, and church musician. Dr. Smith continues musical performance through the Asheville Area Piano Forum (board member and chair of Benefit Concerts) and is the organist/pianist for St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain.
MINISTRY OF HOPE Today is the last Sunday collecting for the Women’s Prison. If you have additional items, bring them to the church office tomorrow (Monday). Delivery will take place Tuesday morning.