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 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.
STEWARDSHIP It is now Stewardship Season at Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church. You will be hearing from our Stewardship Team in a variety of ways through November 16 as we consider the offering of gifts of our time, talent, and treasure that makes Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church’s work vibrant and future oriented.
COMMUNITY JOYS AND CONCERNS: If you would like to add or update a prayer request, please contact the church office.
We remember in prayer: Tommy Eller now home after a hospital stay
ALL SAINTS SUNDAY Next Sunday, November 2, we will recognize WWPC members and those associated with members who have died in the past year by reading their names and lighting candles for them in worship. If you have a loved one who has died in the past year you would like to be included, please contact the church office by Tuesday.
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE The Newsletter deadline is tomorrow.
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS NEXT SUNDAY, 11/ 2 Don’t forget to set your clock before you go to bed Saturday night!
GUEST PREACHERS Katy Schafer is a native Floridian, Flagler College graduate, and obtained a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. She has four young adult children, the oldest of which is transgender and began transitioning as a 9th grader in 2015. She has spent the last 7 years as Director of Children and Family Ministries at First Presbyterian Church Raleigh. She and her husband Mac, a Presbyterian minister, have spoken at conferences and have walked alongside friends and strangers who have reached out for how to care for a transgender child. Their family was part of the lawsuit against North Carolina’s HB2 (Bathroom Bill). She and her husband now reside in Doylestown, PA.
Rev Mary Kay Scott has been an ordained PCUSA pastor for 30 years and has been serving in the Presbytery of the James in Richmond, VA for the past 19 years, currently serving at the Gayton Kirk as their interim pastor. She is Katy Schafer’s college roommate and dear friend. And most importantly – Alex Collins’ mom!
CALLED CONGREGATIONAL MEETING There will be a called congregational meeting immediately following worship on November 9. The purpose of the meeting will be to elect 2 elders for the class of 2028 and 2 members of the Congregational Nominating Committee. In prayer and discernment and following the instruction of the Book of Order of the PC(USA), the current Congregational Nominating Committee (made up of Rodney Lytle, Natalie Daugherty, Elaine Barnes, Barbara Griswold, and Kay Stockdale) places the following in nomination:
For the office of Ruling Elder:
- Natalie Daugherty (to serve a second term)
- Jack Allison
- Cadence Cowal (one year youth elder, ex-officio term)
For the Congregational Nominating Committee:
- Donna Eagle Joslin
- Jack Allison (who will serve as session liaison on the Congregational Nominating Committee)
COMMUNITY YOGA We are hosting the Riceville Community Yoga, which is open to anyone and meets Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:00 AM in the downstairs youth room of the Education Building
TAI CHI/QIGONG PRACTICE CLASS Improve your balance, bone & muscle strength, flexibility, posture, range of motion, breathing fitness, concentration, and stress level using gentle, fluid, easy-to-follow stretching and exercise. Mondays, 2:30 PM, in the WWPC Lower Fellowship Hall, Starting November 10, lead by Paulette Heck, pheck812@gmail.com (828)335-4631.Paulette began taking classes and practicing Tai Chi/Qigong 15 years ago and began teaching 5 years ago.
TRUNK OR TREAT It’s that time of year again! On November 2nd from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, we’ll host our annual Truck or Treat. There will be a sign up sheet in the narthex for Trunks as well as space to help with refreshments and crafts! We look forward to the return Trunk or Treat!
SVCM COLLECTION Community Engagement of WWPC is collecting toilet paper, laundry soap, paper towels, shampoo, and other general personal care items. Items will be collected in our Narthex and delivered to SVCM at the end of November.
TOGATHER Togather is not meeting this week. They will resume on November 11.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION The Asheville Farm School Presbyterian Church was founded on November 22, 1925 and became Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church. We celebrate its centennial on Sunday, November 23, the same day as the Thanksgiving display. The celebration includes these events:
- Sunday, November 9, 3:30 – Tribute of Thanks Concert by Friends of Steve Williams by his friends, Dewitt Tipton, Rebecca Hettrick, and Benjamin Blozan
- Thursday, November 13, 5:30 – “History Behind the Architects and Engineers of Six Associates” Heath Towson of the Preservation Society will speak about Charles Sappenfield, who was the main architect of the Chapel and other buildings on campus
- Sunday, November 23, 12:00 – The Thanksgiving Farm Display and Centennial Celebration. Past ministers and associate ministers have been invited for the occasion. Everyone is encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to place at the foot of the display. This food will be shared with the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry. Following worship the birthday celebration will continue in the Ransom Fellowship Hall with a reception and a program called “The First 100 Years”.