Annual Outing: Tourists Baseball Game
Lots of fun, food and baseball at the stadium Friday, August 3. Look for familiar faces from our church family. The team even had a big rally in the bottom of the ninth inning and fireworks followed the game.
Lent Prayer Stations
Experience Lent in a New Way During the season of Lent, we will be holding space in our service for special prayers. During this time, you are invited to go to one of five prayer stations placed around the sanctuary. Below is a description of each of the stations, with suggestions for how you might …
Star Words
Star Words on Epiphany Sunday It is a tradition at Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church to begin every year by selecting a new “Star Word” on Epiphany Sunday. Upon entering the church, each person selects a cut-out of a star that has a word printed on it out of a basket. The idea is to …
Advent – Voice of Love
Love Written by Allee Williams and Sandy Brauer Allee Williams As we focus on the 4th Advent candle of Love, we can know this season does bring us love. Love is the thing that gives you a warm feeling for the everyday. And as we go through difficult times, love is one of the best things to hold you …
Advent – Voice of Joy
Joy Written by Katherine Rouse “Don’t postpone joy” became my mantra at an early age without even knowing it. And then I became an Asheville resident and as soon as I saw that bumper sticker at Laurey’s on Biltmore Avenue I knew I was in the right place. Then I found this wonderful piece of …
Advent – Voice of Peace
Peace Written by Bill Heck Come Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace. Hear our pleas. Do not forget us. Remind us to laugh more often and complain far less. Excise from our vocabulary the pronoun “I” and replace it with “WE”. Reveal to us something each day for which we can be grateful. Inspire us to …
Advent – Voice of Hope
Hope Written by Edythe Wiener Hope…What a grand word that is. I think that life and hope are thoroughly intertwined. Our life needs hope to survive. For without it, living can become dismal and even desperate. We tend to trivialize the word hope and use it by habit much of the time…. I hope it …
A Day of Fellowship
We Get Ready for Advent! Friday, December 1 was a wonderful day of fellowship. Many of us gathered around 2:30pm to clean and decorate the church for the Advent and Christmas seasons. There were snacks for us to enjoy along with some music playing. As you can see in the photos below, the final results …
Thanksgiving Service Tradition
Have you ever wondered how our church’s Thanksgiving tradition began? “All is safely gathered in, now let the winter storms begin” words to a familiar Hymn has set the tone for 83 years the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Bernhard Laursen, a Dane who had immigrated to Boston and became a citizen, came to teach and work …
Steve’s Slant
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French painter from the 19th century. He is most famous for helping to pioneer a style of painting known as pointillism. In this method, the artist applied hundreds of small individual dots of paint to a canvas. Up close these dots looked just like the name implies–like a blotch of tiny …