Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity has just sent a short video introducing the partner family for Presbyterian/Methodist House #28 in Candler, and you can see it at this link: https://youtu.be/MLTMBHLETv0 In late September each year we have a Habitat for Humanity Moment for Mission, and receive a special offering to help with the Habitat mission […]
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A fresh entry from my antiracism journal: Jesus Loves the Little Children. Right? The first thing I learned reading Ibram Kendi’s remarkable book, How To Be An Antiracist, is just how ubiquitous racism is. It has infected every aspect of American life and is present in all of our institutions. The second thing I learned
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Waging Hope: A Field Guide Let me begin with a confession: I have never been more fearful for our country or our shared future than I am right now. (Stick with me, it gets better. But first I need to establish some context.) The Belgian poet and Nobel prize winner, Maurice Maeterlinck, once famously said
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Yes, we are open! Here at the Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church, we are fond of saying that our doors are closed but our church is open. That may sound contradictory, like a non-sequitur. But it’s true: our doors are closed but our church is open. The reason is simple: our church is not the same as
This summer, Grace Boyer invites you to join her in reading Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, and do its 8 chapters/weeks of meditation exercises on your own at home. Step 1) Order the book. Either the older version of it that comes with a cd of 8
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The Eye of the Needle, or Can Capitalists Enter Heaven? Sundays June 14, 21, and 28 at 9:00 am, the Adult Class will meet on Zoom. Feel free to join at your breakfast table with coffee/tea in hand! If you do not normally attend this class, but want to be included, please contact Grace Boyer
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During the pandemic, we are not physically meeting for Children, Youth, and Adult classes, but we are still finding ways to connect through Zoom, YouTube videos, emails, and phone calls. The Adult Class has been doing a book study for Lent/Easter (March 1-May 3)—Rachel Held Evans’ book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving
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Members and Friends of WWPC, The Easter Season is the occasion during which we and many other denominations collect the One Great Hour of Sharing special offering, an offering that is used to help the vulnerable throughout the year. Our denomination uses the funds we give To enable the Presbyterian Disaster Agency to respond immediately
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I’m writing to share our plans for Holy Week, with some specifics about our services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Easter. I’ll do that below. But first, here’s a link to a short message from me this morning, with some updates about what the church staff are up to these days, and then a
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Greetings everyone! Below is a copy of the new ministry plan we’ve developed to provide and support our ministries for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. But first, here’s a short video that I made this morning, the first since the start of the new Stay Home-Stay Safe declaration announced earlier this week: I have
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