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.
WELCOME STUDENTS POTLUCK TODAY! Following worship, please stay to share a potluck lunch in the Fellowship Hall and celebrate the return of students to the campus. There will be plenty of food; just come! And while you are there, please put together a bag for a neighbor who will use the new shower facilities at SVCM. You will see an assembly line off to your left as you enter the Fellowship Hall.
COMMUNITY JOYS AND CONCERNS: If you would like to add or update a prayer request, please contact the church office (298-9092).
We celebrate: the generous leadership of WWC students in worship today ⸰ the return of our WWC Work Crew member, Olivia Crescitelli, who is starting her third (and final) year with us.
We remember in prayer: the family and friends of Edythe May Wiener, who died August 23 in Charlottesville, VA ⸰ the family and friends of Rusty Runholt, Steve’s older brother, who died August 22 ⸰ Brent Roberts and John Bishop as they travel to Cleveland where Brent will have heart valve replacement surgery on September 18. They are expected to be in Cleveland at least 10 days ⸰ Amanda Branscombe, now discharged from the hospital, and recovering slowly from spinal fusion surgery Amanda’s address in
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HOMELESSNESS LEARNING SERIES Debbie Alford, Homeless Strategy Specialist for the City of Asheville will offer a three-part series from 5-6 PM on Sept 24, Oct 1 and Oct 8. This opportunity is being advertised throughout the community. Please register if you would like to come to one or more sessions. More information in the narthex.
2024 SVCM WALK FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR October 13, 2-5 PM at First Baptist Church, Black Mountain. Order a T shirt by Sept. 15. Can’t walk that day? Order a T shirt for someone else! $20. Sign up in the lobby. Look for Jamie Dale or someone with a clipboard. Questions? Contact Jamie Dale, 828-450-3672, samdale2@gmail.com.
CHOIR AND HANDBELLS ARE BACK Both handbells and the Chapel Choir have resumed for the new year. Handbells starts at 6:00 on Wednesdays with choir happening at 7:00. Give Director Ted Stewart a call to give choir a try – (816) 305-1038. Call Natalie Daughterty to try your hand at the bells – (336) 413-9071.
WWC’s ANNUAL SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE will be held on Saturday, October 5th at 9:30 in the cemetery on Dillingham Circle.
CIRCLE OF WELCOME Lutheran Services has rented a house very near the Warren Wilson campus, in order to house a refugee family that is likely to arrive by September 15. Please contact Vicki Collins if you would like to help.
HABITAT VOLUNTEER DAYS IN OCTOBER We have volunteer dates reserved to help with Habitat House of Faith #4 in Arden on Oct. 19 and 25. If you are going to help with this important mission project, please notify Larry Griswold at larrygris@gmail.com soon. No previous experience or special skills are needed, only a willingness to help. Many other dates between Oct. 8 – Nov 23 are available if that would be better for you.
TEACHER REBEKAH WALKER, FUTURE OWNER OF HOUSE OF FAITH #4, WILL BE WITH US FOR A HABITAT MOMENT FOR MISSION ON SEPT. 29. This is our first Habitat homeowner guest since Covid for this annual event where we receive a special offering to help with building the house. Options for contributing to this offering include: 1) through our church website (click Give Online button – top right corner), 2) by check with “Habitat Offering” written on the memo line and dropped in an offering plate or mailed to the church office, or 3) by Qualified Charitable Distribution from an IRA or check from a Donor Advised Gift Fund designated “Habitat Offering.”