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 or scan the QR code on the back of this bulletin. 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 summer and remember in prayer all those in our community who are traveling or spending time in rest and renewal with friends and family.
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY We are hosting the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas in our sanctuary. They will be holding many rehearsals and four different concerts each Saturday night through August 1 at 7:30. More information and tickets are available at cms-carolinas.org/
CALENDARS It’s that time of year where we order the 2026-27 Presbyterian Planning Calendars (they cover September ’26-December ’27). Many of you have used these in previous years and know what valuable resources they can be. If you would like one for the coming year and want to be a part of the church’s bulk pricing let Andrew know. They are $16 each. Deadline to order is Monday, July 27.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS TRAINING Today at 3:30 the Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting will have Cheryl Williams from the League of Women Voters in our Fellowship Hall to do a training to register voters and will begin writing 140 nonpartisan Get Out the Vote
postcards to be mailed in October. Participants will have opportunities to sign up to staff “Voter Registration” tables in August and September. More information is on the flyer in the narthex.
AUGUST 2 WORSHIP Next week WWPC will gather for worship at Montreat Conference Center’s Anderson Auditorium (off of Assembly Dr on Look Out Rd) led by Dr. Jacqueline Lapsley, Pastor Jessica’s Old Testament professor and current President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Virginia. The service is a bit earlier than our normal gathering time; worship begins at Montreat at 10:30. Communion will be served and the Word will be preached, just at a different location! Please join us for this special opportunity to share in worship together with our wider community & Presbyterian family!
PRESBYTERY EVENT Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church will be hosting a Presbytery-wide opportunity for folks to hear more about the decisions made at our denominational body’s General Assembly, which was held earlier this summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Please let Pastor Jess know if you’re available to help with set-up or clean-up or hospitality for this special event, which will take place from 9am-2pm on Saturday, August 29th. Look for more details and registration information soon!
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE The next Newsletter will go out mid-August as school gets started. Please have any submissions and suggestions into the church office by Monday, August 10.
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Mark your calendars and get ready for a good time!
⸰ Saturday, August 15th Please join us for an evening with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne at Montreat Camp & Conference Center’s Anderson Auditorium the evening of Saturday, August 15 at 7:30! Dr. Du Mez is known for writing that “explores the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in an ‘urgent and sharp-elbowed’ way that does not refrain from presenting the hard truths that history has to offer Americans—and especially American Christians. Her unflinching examination of the American church, however, is ultimately a call to confession, a call to lament, and a call to greater faithfulness.”
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at montreat.org/events/an-evening-with-kristin-kobes-du-mez. If you’d like to join folks to go dutch for dinner beforehand, please let Pastor Jessica know!
⸰ Thursday, September 3rd we’ll go see The Odd Couple at the Flat Rock Playhouse! Join us for this, “classic cocktail of chaos and charm. Meet Felix: impeccably pressed, emotionally distressed, and suddenly single. Meet Oscar: charmingly rumpled, habitually late, and blissfully allergic to coasters. When Felix moves in with his old pal Oscar after a marital meltdown, neatness meets nonsense and the sparks fly….as laughter fills the living room in Neil Simon’s effervescent comedy of friendship, forgiveness, and the fine art of driving each other crazy.” The show starts at 7:30 and tickets are $58 with a group discount available if we have 15 or more folks sign up. Call or email Pastor Jess to let her know your interest by July 31st! We’ll arrange car-pooling once we have final numbers!
