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: The Peace Garden Committee: Chrisann Ohler (chair), Donna Eagle Joslin, Pat & Sherrie Meehan, Beverly Ohler, and Kay Stockdale
We remember in prayer: The family of Warren Wilson Professor James Darr, following his death on August 7 ⸰ Blake Joslin, now homefollowing the death of his father, Brooks Rogers Joslin, in Connecticut ⸰ Pat Crumpler at rehab at Highland Farms following a fall ⸰ The Lytle family, as Isaiah Bullerdick recovers from knee surgery ⸰ for healing and encouragement for Jackie Cole ⸰ 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 and Jackie Wintle ⸰ the extended Lytle family ⸰ Mary Craig ⸰ Jackie Ligon Cole ⸰ Martha Dugger ⸰ Rick Garrison ⸰ Marjorie Hettrick ⸰ Shane Reece (Nancy Garrison’s son) ⸰ Pat Wilson’s son, Kell
WELCOME BACK We welcome the return of members and regular guests who have been traveling this summer! Please take a moment as you depart and sign up to be a liturgist, host coffee hour, or be a greeter.
NEWSLETTER Our next Newsletter will come out as Summer winds down and the Fall schedule takes shape. To be ready, the deadline for submissions and suggestions is Friday, August 22. Please send those to Andrew in the church office or to info@warrenwilsonchurch.org.
CHOIR RESUMES The Chapel Choir starts again on September 3. We always welcome new singers, so if you’ve been wanting to give it a try, this is the time! Rehearsal happens in the choir loft Wednesdays at 7:00.
HELP NEEDEDWe need two volunteers to serve as ushers for Billy Edd Wheeler’s memorial service on October 3. Please contact the church office or e-mail info@warrenwilsonchurch.org if you can help.
FRIENDS MEETING WORKSHOPS The Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting, that meets weekly in our Fellowship Hall, is hosting a series of three workshops designed to prepare all participants to build a strong, sensitive, and healing allyship with our Native American neighbors. They are happening today at 3:30, August 19 at 5:30, and September 21 at 3:30. All will be in the Fellowship Hall and all are free (though you’re encouraged to register for the one today). More information is available on flyers in the narthex.
PEACE GARDEN DEDICATION The Memorial Peace Garden will be dedicated to John E. Koegel (artist, teacher, and friend of the Church and College) at the end of the service on Sunday, August 31. Coffee hour will follow immediately thereafter on the patio of the Fellowship Hall. John’s sisters (Ann and Kitti) are planning to attend.
GUEST PREACHER Dr. April Love-Fordham spent two decades in the corporate world—serving as a tech advisor to both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations and leading award-winning engineering teams—before leaving it all to follow a deeper call. Now an itinerant pastor, author, and joyful troublemaker for love and justice, she writes the Disorderly Parable Bible Studies and lives in the Asheville mountains with her husband Steve and their blue Great Dane, Molli-Pop. She formerly served on the Faith Relations Board at Warren Wilson College, where her son, Kit Fordham, is a proud graduate.
STUDENT LED SERVICE Twice a year we are lucky to have students from WWC lead our worship service! The next such Sunday is September 7 when much of the service will be courtesy of the students! Please make plans to be here and then plan to stay for:
WELCOME STUDENTS POTLUCK On September 7 we are welcoming students back to campus officially with our Potluck Lunch following worship. Please join us as we welcome our friends old and new with some much-missed home cooking! If you know what you are bringing, please sign up in the narthex.
BONE MARROW REGISTRATION DRIVE The Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church-College Relations Team has scheduled a Bone Marrow Registration Drive for September 11, 2025, 11 am – 4:30 pm in Canon Lounge. Bone marrow registration is very simple: in addition to filling out the registration form, each individual will be asked to take 4 cheek swabs. About one in 1000 potential donors will be called to donate their blood cells to help save a life. To increase the chance of patients receiving the life-saving treatment, many registrants are needed. Registrants will be eligible to become donors until the age of 61. We will need volunteers to handle and collect the materials and cheek swabs from the potential donors. More information may be found at projectlifemovement.org.