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.
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 home following 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 ⸰ 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 STUDENTS We welcome WWC students as they are moving into the dorms, with classes starting on August 27.
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.
HANDBELLS The WWPC Handbell Choir is back in action starting September 10. We are always wanting more ringers, so please consider joining us! Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 6 in the Adult Classoom in the Fellowship Hall building. For more information, contact Natalie Daugherty (forestchick07@gmail.com or (336) 413-9071).
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 next Sunday. Coffee hour will follow immediately thereafter on the patio of the Fellowship Hall. John’s sisters (Ann and Kitti) are planning to attend.
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 – 3:00 pm in Canon Lounge. Bone marrow registration is 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.
HOUSE BLESSING TODAY Following coffee hour, join us at Cindy and Dennis Riley’s house at 12:40 for a House Cleansing and Blessing service. The Rileys have been re-building their home at 31 Honeycomb Circle, Swannanoa (off of Bee Tree Road) since Hurricane Helene’s devastation. Come join us as we mark this important occasion with them, as they move back into their home. This will be a very brief gathering and will be over by 1:00 pm.