Announcements for August 31, 2025

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 ⸰ Two new members of the Chapel Work Crew: Eloise Hill and Isabella Love

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

PRAYER REQUESTS With intentionality and caring for our church members, family, and friends; we have developed these guidelines to use for the Celebrations and Concerns Prayer list: To add a recipient’s name to the prayer list, please contact the church office (info@warrenwilsonchurch.org/(828) 298-9092) or the Pastor with the concern. The recipient’s name can be kept on the list for three weeks. You can request an additional 2-3 weeks if you would like to keep the recipient’s name on the list.

CHOIR RESUMES The Chapel Choir starts this Wednesday, September 3.  We always welcome new singers, so if you’ve been wanting to give it a try, this is the time!  Rehearsal is 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).

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 and to increase the chance of patients receiving the life-saving treatment, many registrants are needed and we need volunteers (sign up in the narthex). More information may be found at projectlifemovement.org.

BOOK CLUB CHANGEThe Book Club will NOT be meeting in the Fellowship Hall on September 11, and will instead be meeting at Kathryn’s home in Deerfield. For more information, contact Judi Repman at jrepman@georgiasouthern.edu.

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 today. Coffee hour will follow immediately thereafter on the patio of the Fellowship Hall.

STUDENT LED SERVICE Next week we are lucky to have students from WWC lead our worship service! Much of the service will be courtesy of the students! Please make plans to be here and stay after for our potluck.

WELCOME STUDENTS POTLUCK Next week 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.