August 2016 - Demopolis Presbyterian

F I R S T P R E SB Y T E R I A N C H U RC H
N EWS—D EMOPOLIS, A L
Our Vision
Statement:
The First Presbyterian
Church of Demopolis,
Alabama, is a body of
believers in Jesus
Christ, That wants
God’s love to grow in
us and radiate to all
people through us.
To that end,
Our Mission
Statement:
First
Presbyterian
Church of Demopolis,
Alabama is: a fellowship of believers in
Jesus Christ, striving
to glorify God and
enjoy Him forever, by
making disciples for
Christ, in Demopolis
and beyond by:
•
Exalting God in
authentic biblical
worship and prayer;
•
Building up believers
in
knowledge and
faith
through
biblical preaching,
teaching,
discipleship and
fellowship;
•
Evangelizing the
lost by sharing
Christ and living
according to His
example;
•
Extending God’s
mercy through
sacrificial service
to those in need.
Rev. Tommy R. Carr
Pastor
Established 1839
What a great vacation! We were in six
states we had never visited before: New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, and Vermont. And the train
ride? Well that's an adventure in itself and
you should try it if you get the chance. Of
course, sitting up for twenty-five hours
straight traveling from New York City to Tuscaloosa was a challenge but we survived.
The little town where Erin is working
for the summer is only five miles from the
Canadian border and sits at the edge of a
lake that was gouged out of the earth by a
glacier more than a few years ago. It is thirtytwo miles long, twenty-eight miles of which is
in Canada. There are a lot of lakes in that
part of Vermont and mountains covered with
trees. I guess that's why they call it the Green
Mountain State. It is truly beautiful.
One of the many interesting sights we
were blessed to see is the Haskell Library
and Opera House. It is located in a small
town called Derby Line, Vermont. When you
get off the interstate to go into Derby Line,
you can see the U.S. Border Patrol check
point on the interstate. Derby Line is right on
the border between the U.S. and Canada. Actually, the border passes right through Derby
Line. Well, really the border passes right
through the Haskell Library and Opera House.
You can literally stand on the main floor of
the library with one foot in the U.S. and the
other foot in Canada. Upstairs, in the Opera
House, the actors on stage are in Canada
while most of the audience is in the U.S.
Now we might think that this was an
accident. Perhaps the original survey was
slightly off and this was not discovered until
after the Haskell was built. We would be
wrong. The Haskell was the gift of Martha
Stewart Haskell to the communities of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. She
wanted to provide the people there with a
center for learning and cultural enrichment.
The purpose of the Opera House and the revenue it produces to this day is the support
and maintenance of the library. The building
was completed in 1904.
300 N. Strawberry Ave. ,Demopolis, AL 36732
334-289-3895
[email protected]
www.demopolispresbyterian.com
I can now report to you that I have
been to Canada and I do not have a passport.
The
proof:
The Haskell is interesting because it is
truly unique. Nowhere else in the world can
you sit in one country watching a show performed in another. But the Haskell is also an
illustration of the Christian's dilemma. The
Scripture teaches us that we are in the world
but we are not of the world. In a real sense,
we have one foot in heaven and one foot on
earth. Sometimes we go more into the world
and suffer the consequences. Sometimes we
go more into heaven and receive the blessings. You would think we would always go for
the blessings, but that is not our nature.
When we know Jesus and love Him, our desire is for Him. We want to know Him better
and love Him more. We want to turn from the
world to Him. But these desires are not perfect yet and so we dilly-dally with the world
and all the allurements of the world that
catch our attention and sometimes more of
our hearts than we want to admit. The Christian life is really about learning to live more
and more in heaven than on earth; becoming
more and more like Jesus than like the stars
of culture. One is eternal, the other is ever so
fleeting and while we know that, we still want
to look back, like Lot's wife, at those things
we are leaving behind. Leave them brothers
and sisters! You have to leave them because
they will not leave you. Leave them with a
burning passion to be like Jesus!
2016
August 2016
Received
through
August 7th
Liam Rimes
July 23, 2016
7 lbs 13 oz
22 inches
Congratulations to parents
Josh & Heather Rimes
And grandparents:
Billy & Ruth Symon
Warrior Presbytery
Women’s Ministry
Ridge Haven Camp
Scholarships
Offering used by the Warrior Presbytery Women’s Ministry to offer scholarships to campers within the
Presbytery
ATTENTION LADIES!!
Work Day
Friday, August 5th
9:00 a.m.
Kitchen
We will be preparing the
food for tomorrow’s
luncheon.
All hands needed!
August 2016
FPC Missions Faith Promise Summary
Our mission’s calendar as most of you know runs from April to April so this report will be for the 2016/ 2017 mission’s year.
Total Faith Promise pledged for the coming year is $28,260.00
The breakdown of how that money is distributed to our missionaries is as follows:
Robert Stewart
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Johan Van der Westhuizen
Doug McNutt
Aaron Zapata
Beth Acton
Clete Hux
Sav-A-Life
$1440.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$3120.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
Jonah & Jennifer
Palmer Home
Chris Gill
Jimmy and Nadia Dukes
Guillermo Salinas
Chaplin’s Ministry
Isaiah 55 Sewing Project
Palmer Home Missions Trip
Total
$1440.00/ year
$3120.00/ year
$3120.00/ year
$3120.00/ year
$1440.00/ year
$300.00/ year
$500.00/ one-time gift
$200.00/one-time gift
$26,440.00
•
Uncommitted pledge at this time $1820.00
•
The uncommitted funds are normally used to give one-time special needs gifts to missionaries.
If you have any questions or concerns I invite you to come and join the missions committee. Meeting will be announced in the bulletin
and newsletter.
Thanks for your support!
Dennis Davidson, Missions Committee Chairman
Some have asked why we do not put updates on our missionaries in the newsletter. Well, we do publish updates as they come to us. Some months we get none and other months we receive a lot. This month, we received several so we will split them over the next few newsletters. You can also read them on the bulletin
board in the hallway between the SS building and Fellowship Hall.
Robert and Lisa Stewart—serving with MTW om Shin-Urayasu, Japan
Church planting is very interesting work. My tendency is to become discouraged about how slow things seem to move in our day to day
ministry. However, when you take time to look back at the work as a whole, you see God working in many ways. That is what makes it
exciting.
We are excited about the new Jr. High Youth Group our church started in April. We have had 6-7 boys attending each week. Two of William’s friends from his time in Japanese elementary school have been attending. (Still cannot believe that William will be a teenager
this July.) No girls have come yet, but Isabel and her friends are still in grade five.
I am especially encouraged by Mr. N. He has been attending church for almost a year and he has started coming to men’s Bible study
at our house. He is so close to believing! He asks great questions, and recently said that he feels like the Holy Spirit lives in him. I cannot wait to celebrate his profession of faith.
Yui, Yumi, Yuri, Yuko, and Yuki. Lisa is enjoying meeting with these five young moms and their toddlers to build relationships and to
study the Bible, most for the first time. Another mom, Yuka, is planning to join soon. The group is still looking for a mom to join whose
name doesn’t start with a “Y”!
We are coming to the point where we need to start looking for a larger place for Sunday morning worship. We currently rent an apartment for the church where we have Sunday worship as well as Bible Study groups, Moms and Kids Club, youth group, and team meetings throughout the week. As we get closer to 40 people in the room, it feels overly crowded. We are praying for wisdom for timing, the
perfect place, and the finances to make this next step.
I cannot begin to express how grateful Lisa and I are for your faithful prayers and generous financial support of our ministry in Japan.
Your giving at the end of last year has served to stabilize our ministry finances and given us freedom to concentrate on our work at ShinUrayasu Grace Church. Thank you!
Your partner in the Gospel,
Robert (for all the Stewarts)
Sunday
Monday
1
Tuesday
2
Wednesday
3
Thursday
4
Friday
6
5
Meal prep for
Women’s meeting
9:00 kitchen
7
8
9
15
16
10
11
12
17
18
19
Saturday
Warrior Women’s
Spiritual Connection
Meeting
9:00
Demopolis
13
Ridge Haven
Presbytery
Offering
14
Diaconate/Session
Meeting 8:30
Communion
21
20
Bingo
First Day of
School
22
23
24
25
26
27
29
30
Puddle Jumper
Check-In Day
And room set up
31
Puddle Jumpers
Sept. 1
Puddle Jumpers
Sept. 2
Puddle Jumpers
Sept. 3
Puddle Jumpers
Church Luncheon
28
HOP
2:00
Harris’
Puddle Jumper
Check-in Day
2016
Special dates and committees for August
August
1
3
4
Courtney Lawrence
Maryann McGee
Lydia Buroker
Carly Lawrence
Caty Lawrence
Sara Dukes
Heather Rimes
Madison Solliday
Carrie Morgan Wilson
Ray Evans
Bruce Brown
Karen Davidson
Laura Morgan
Lizzie Johnson (1)
Billy Symon, Jr
Aubrey Ward (2)
Matt Carr
6
7
8
11
15
18
20
23
25
25
26
30
Deacons of the Month
August
Mike Cork
Joey Morgan
BACK TO SCHOOL
PRAYERS
Please be in prayer for
the students, teachers
and administration as
they begin a new school
year this month.
Nursery Schedule
August
September
7
Nadine Coddington
4
Jackie Tripp
14 Joy Mackin
11 Katy Basinger
21 Andrea Ward
18 Patty Kirkpatrick
28 Bess Weltin
25 Ruth Symon
Flowers for August
7
14
21
28
Lashley
Open
Melanie Evans
Open
August 21st
**Billy & Ruth Symon
Glenn & Katy Basinger
Andrea Ward
September 18th
**Bill & Melissa Weltin
Eloise Harris
Beth Lashley
(Need another volunteer)
August
11
17
28
David & Nadine Coddington
Bill & Melissa Weltin
Ozzie & Ann Resto
CJ & Mary Hilchey
(38)
(31)
(26)
(12)
Food Ministry for August
HEAD: ** Elaine Carr
FPC News
August
2016
Church Luncheon Committees
and
Food Ministry Chairman List
located on the bulletin board
in the hallway outside office
areas. Please check to see
when you are on the committee and swap if needed.
Please notify the office of any
changes you make.
Tablecloth Policy
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•
•
Tablecloths MUST be washed and
cleaned of stains after each use.
If a stain cannot be removed - Report it to the church office.
All tablecloths must be rehung after cleaning.
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asks for password, please call the church office.
Treasurer’s Report
Total Contributions for June:
Less Total Expenses
$ 9,168.65
$ 9,018.35
$ 150.30
YTD: $59,127.68
$59,289.21
( $ 161.53 )
FPC News
August
2016
Prayer List
Shut-Ins: Luiza Coburn, Billy Fleming, Betty Krusmark, Frances Lackey Cancer: Betty Jenkins, Nathan Hamilton, Linda Browder, Tom Boggs, Stephen
Gentry, Jody Daughtery, Emily Sawyer, Rita Poole Horton, Varanda Golden, Ava Hunter, Rose Breitling, Luke (Jonah’s son), Kate Carr, Aaron Zapata,
Angela Green, Hope Grace, Angela Green
Illness: Aline Williams, Joey Morgan, Billie-Marie Davis, Laura Morgan, Jennie Husbands, Jennifer, William Burke, Joe Bunn, Cohen Sullivan, Sarah
(Jonah’s daughter), Marlene Chapman, Glenn Shealy, Horacio, Brian Schrieber, Dennis Smith, Cathy Hand, Stanley Bond, Elizabeth Forehand,
Special Needs/Surgery: Joel, Billy, Melinda Walton, CJ Golston, RJ Blount, Joe Lashley, Cam Cameron, Hugo, Charlie, Michael Jacks, Melanie Hulsey,
Susan, Sue Entrekin, Carrie Ramey, Michael Woodham, Liz Bond, Louise Strable, Loretta Strickland Expectant Moms: Katie Gill, Cassie Coddington,
Shannon Carr, Kami Basinger, Abigail Rehbeck
All Military Personnel: Ch William Broderick, Kyle Westbrook, Dan Parsons, Sam Brasfield, Ricky Lee, Kyle Newton, Jason Freeman, Steven Mackin,
Gregory Harrington, Jason Johnson, Jimmy Hart, Aaron Thornton, Jonathan Stephens, William R. Horton, Victor Resto, Daniel Phillips Supported Missionaries/Ministries: Aaron & Leticia Zapata, Guillermo & Jennie Salinas, Robert & Lisa Stewart, Andy & Bev Warren, Clete & Karen Hux, Beth Acton,
Sav-A-Life, Doug & Kelly McNutt, Nathaniel & Alicia Gutierrez, Jimmy & Nadia Dukes, Chris & Katie Gill
Hooked on Prayer List
Allen Joe, 454
Allgood, Louise 125
Aoyagi, Towa 522
Aycock, Chelsea 462
Barkley, Mack 424
Beeler, Peggy 331
Boggs, Ben 142
Boggs, Tom 352
Boswell, Davis 512
Brooker, Chrissy 324
Brooker, Jan135
Browder, Linda 464
Brown, Pearl Joy 255
Burge, Raymond 222
Busby, Rhae 251
Calloway, Terry 225
Cistrunk, Narsis 355
Coburn, Luiza 132
Coker, Jean 121
Coleman, Willie 212
Collins, Bette 431
Collins, Brandon 423
Cook, Darren 224
Cook, Susan 122
Copeland, Roy & Judy 523
Craig, Kaleigh 261
Cross, Margaret 422
Daughtery, Jody 151
Davidson, Karen 361
Davis, Barbara 552
Denson, Leita 144
Douglas, Jerry 365
Duncan, Conner 163
Dykes, Cory 443
Eatmon, Megan 511
Espy, Emily 155
Etheridge, Brooks 563
Etheridge, Mary Ellen 563
Farst, Dick 421
Farst, Maria 412
Finley, Betty 124
Fleming, Billy
Forte, Tony 112
Fuqua, Blake 553
Gentry, Steve 265
Grace, Hope 455
Griffin, Gay 543
Gross, Jane 114
Hamilton, Nathan 233
Harvey, John 241
Heath, Cindy 264
Hedrick, Gail 254
Hilbish, Bette 561
Hogg, Ian 562
Hollinger, Walter 115
Holman, Joann 342
Hudson, Shanna 463
Huizinga, Carol 333
Jarvis, Val 253
Jenkins, Betty 411
Jennifer 513
Jones, Beverly 341
Kelley, Bobbie 234
Krusmark, Betty 544
Kyser, Helen 335
Lackey, Frances 235
Landerfelt, John 314
LaRocca, Dominic 363
Latham, Jeffie 514
Latham, Whit 514
Leascher, Chad 334
Logan, Stevie 531
Hollingsworth, Lynn 325
Mahaffey, Larry 221
Marquis. Alana & Jim 343
McCraw, Beverly 453
McDonald, Nelda 461
McIntier, Jodie 442
McGee, Emily 252
McGiver, Logan 521
McKinley, Pam 244
Miller, Tommie 344
Milsap, Goldie 444
Morgan, Laura 143
Mutisya, Cecilia Ndunge 551
Newberry, Madi 542
Osburn, Beverly 145
Parker, Mary 263
Peacock, Faye 211
Phillips, Max 321
Pickerill, Paula 215
Pickerill, Sharon 524
Plummer, Kaegan 152
Radcliff, Cecil 362
Randall, Rexx 242
Randall, Ruth 213
Ray, Brenda 531
Reynolds, Christy 123
Sakon, Ethan 332
Scott, Kay 165
Sharp, Chris 551
Sims, Sarah 432
Snyder, MaryEllen 111
Stephens, Carol 232
Stephens, Maxine 243
Strable, Louise 451
Stringer, Wilson & Ginny 313
Taff, Cathy 231
Tarrence, Polly 154
Tartt, Tommy 312
Taylor, David & Marie 415
TenHaaf, WM 133
Terry, Pope 532
Thornton, Alaina 413
Trayler, Drew 262
Treadaway, Jean 434
Trotter, Dottie 354
Tucker, Sadie 113
Turnipseed, Stone 364
Van Austin, Inabell 311
Walker, Olivia 433
Walls, Christian 414
Wellman, Glenna 131
West, Ruth 162
Whittington, Judy & Ricky 351
Williams, Ed 223
Williams, Ethel 164
Williams, Jimmy & Joyce 425
Williams, Keith 541
Williams, Mary Lynne 214
Williamson, Trevor 345
Wilson, Christy 323
Wise, Winton & Naomi 315
Womble, Caleb 161
Wrensted, Leah Price 452
Wright, Hettie 245
HOP meets
4th Sunday’s only
2:00
Home of
Eloise Harris
1607 Mauvilla Dr.
Public Sale Dates:
August 31st—September 3rd
Consignors need to register by August 24th.
Applications link found on website or by contacting the church office: 289-3895 [email protected]
Workers needed August 29th-September 3rd
Monday: 3:30-6:00
Wednesday: 3:30-6:00
Friday: 2:30-6:00
First Presbyterian Church
300 N. Strawberry Ave
Demopolis, AL 36732
Tuesday: 3:30-6:00
Thursday: 2:30-6:00
Saturday: 7:30-2:00 (2 shifts)