The First Sunday of Christmas, December 29, 2019

“Witness to Love”

John 1:1-5 (NRSV) (The Message)

• 8:08 a.m. – Contemporary Worship
• 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast served
• 9:45 a.m. – Sunday School
• 11:00 a.m. – Traditional Worship and Baptism of Nico Yancey
  • Liturgist – Walter Gould
  • Children’s Church – Ellen Gould
  • Ushers – Carol Barnes and Jim Ingram

Mission of the Month – December’s mission is the Christmas Joy Offering, which provides assistance to current and retired church workers of the Presbyterian Church USA, and to Presbyterian schools and colleges. The January Mission will be blankets for Church World Service.

Announcements:

No events this week at the church. But the following week will include:

· January 5th – Lindsay Miller preaching
· January 7th – Choir Practice Resumes
· January 8th – Book club at Uptown Café and Midweek Prayer resume; OPC Men’s Supper this evening
· January 9th – Book club at Tobacco Wood resumes
· January 11th – Men’s Community Prayer Breakfast

The second week of January, our local book club will begin reading Marilynne Robinson’s prize winning novel Lila. Come join old friends and make new ones all while indulging your reading pleasure. Please let Alan know if you are interested in attending.

Prayers for: Becky and Isabella Baird, Michael Boyd, Ann Currin, Linda and Mike Diamond, Randy Downey, Julie Gaydon, Diane and Fred Heath, Hannah Hobgood, Sue Huggins, Will Newcomb, family of John Newell, Greg and Kellie Price, Arianna and Cole Roberts, and family of Glen Shelton

Happy Birthday to: Peggy Phillips – 2nd; Nikki Yancey – 3rd; Robin MacDowell – 4th

“I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us,
and the great favor to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
For he said, ‘Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely’;
and he became their savior
in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.” (Isaiah 63:7-9 NRSV)

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