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.
COMMUNITY JOYS AND CONCERNS: If you would like to add or update a prayer request, please contact the church office.
We celebrate: Our new pastor, Rev Jessica Rigel, as she prepares to move to our area
We remember in prayer:The family of Dean Kahl, retired WWC Professor, who passed away on February 14 ⸰ Ernst Laursen at Aston Park ⸰ Blake Joslin continuing recovery at the Laurels
MINISTRY OF HOPE Ministry of Hope WNC, in partnership with Black Mountain UMC, is proud to host the WNC installation site for the traveling public arts display, Stitching Stories Reimagined, a 25-foot prison awareness quilt. It will be on display from February 21st – March 26th at BMUMC’s green space, facing Hwy 70/W State Street. More information at ministryofhopewnc.org/stitching-stories-reimagined/
BMCA FUNDRAISER Tomorrow at 7:00 PM at the Monte Vista Hotel there will be the Beer and Hymns Fundraiser for Black Mountain Center for the Arts. Black Mountain Presbyterian Church is a sponsor and their Director of Music, Aaron Price, will lead the event.
PRESBYTERY DISASTER RECOVERYAnne Waple, the Disaster Recovery Coordinator for the Presbytery of WNC, will speak at Montreat on Wednesday, February 25 at 4:00 PM in Upper Anderson, with refreshments at 3:45. Anne is a climate scientist, and she’s doing a wonderful job coordinating all the work sites and work groups.
SUNDAY SCHOOL Both Adult and Youth classes are invited to meet on March 1 through the 29th for an Intergenerational Sunday School gathering. We’ll use curriculum from Illustrated Ministries that “invites us into the work of honest turning—facing hard truths, naming injustice, and trusting that transformation is possible even in the shadow of empire.” Class will meet at 9:30 in the Fellowship Hall on these Sundays. Come join us for a time of learning and reflection as we dive into the “The Work of Imagination” together!
