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: New windows and doors in the Education Building
We remember in prayer: The family of Ernst Laursen following his death April 10. A Celebration of Life is being planned for October ⸰ Natalie Daugherty continuing recovery back home ⸰ Jackie Wintle is doing great after her first surgery! However, she does require more extensive surgery, which will take place on May 13th. Please keep her and her medical team in your prayers ⸰ Cindy Riley and her sister Angie, who are resolving palliative care needs for their mother, Lavada Owenby, as she struggles with ongoing health issues
SUNDAY SCHOOL TIME CHANGE The Adult Education Class has changed their start time to 9:15. Now they meet in the Adult Classroom in the Education Building on Sundays from 9:15-10:15. The class will begin studying “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad. All are welcome!
ICE CREAM SOCIAL The Ice Cream Social is next Sunday (May 3) for Fellowship Time. Let’s celebrate the beginning of summer and the end of the programmatic school year! Please bring your favorite ice cream topping to share! Ice cream, lemonade, and cookies are provided by the Congregational Life Team.
NEWS ABOUT THE CHAPEL ORGAN On March 17 WWPC signed a contract with Angerstein Organ Works, Ltd. to refurbish the Chapel Organ, 60 years from the organ’s construction, well past the normal life of the organ’s extensive leather parts. Work began on March 30. The instrument has been showing signs of needing re-leathering and other needs. Thanks to a generous gift from Steven Williams (final college organist) for care of the organ, we can both refurbish and add some additions that Steven had wished for in 2008. The wind to the organ pipes has been shut off for repairs/restoration, while the digital stops will continue to function without wind. Work on the organ is expected to be completed in 3-4 months. – Ted Stewart, WWPC Music Director
WWC NICARAGUA TRIP WWC Spiritual Life is having an intergenerational trip to Nicaragua August 7-16. More information on the flyer in the narthex.
GUATEMALA TRIP The Presbytery is hosting a trip this November to Guatemala. The contact is Sarah Robinson Bryan who is the PWNC Guatemala Partnership Coordinator. More information in the narthex.
CREATION CARE SYMPOSIUM Creation Care Alliance is gathering people of faith from across the southern Blue Ridge for a conference on creation care, disaster recovery, and building community resilience. This event is happening at the Montreat Conference Center May 1 and 2. More information on the flyer in the narthex or at creationcarealliance.org
