Oxford Presbyterian Church

October 17, 2020

Tomorrow morning we will be introducing Faith 4 Five, a 
five-minute weekly video that will be specially produced for our kids. I
encourage all of our kids to tune in each week and watch. It will be 
five minutes of fun! The video will be posted at 9:00 a.m. every Sunday,
and can be viewed on the church’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Oxford-Presbyterian-Church-152011345379561/. 
You do not need to have a Facebook account to watch.

The live-streamed worship will be broadcast from the sanctuary via Facebook
Live. Worship begins at 10:00 a.m. If you have a computer or tablet or
smartphone with an internet connection, you should be able to receive the
stream. You do not need to have a Facebook account to participate. Our
stream appears on the church’s Facebook page which is here à
https://www.facebook.com/Oxford-Presbyterian-Church-152011345379561/. If you
miss the broadcast, the service will remain on our Facebook page for the
next several days. If you have prayer requests or announcements, please
email them to me (opcpastor@ncrrbiz.com ) or text them to me (919-323-7192), 
and they will be included in the worship.

Our worship is also being broadcast on WCBQ 1340 on the AM radio dial at 3
p.m. on Sundays! If you are not a computer hound, then the radio broadcast
of our worship is an easy way to listen in and participate. If you know of
someone in our community that does not do computers or finds them
frustrating to use, please let them know of this alternative.

The Sunday worship bulletin will appear in your emailbox late Saturday
evening or early Sunday morning, complete with hymns and sermon so that you
may have your own house-church worship. Worship is always critical, but
especially at a time like this. Our faithful witness in this difficult time
and world is nourished by lifting our hearts to the Lord. As always, you can
listen to sermons through our website right here à
https://oxfordpres.org/media/#sermons, and at The Oxford Exchange, found
here à http://theoxfordexchange.blubrry.net/.

Our website, www.oxfordpres.org, has calendars, newsletters, the OPC WEEKLY, 
sermons, and even ways to give your offerings 
(right here à https://oxfordpres.org/give/). It is a great resource in 
times like these.

Oxford Presbyterian Church also has an offerings drop-box situated next to
the door on the back side of the church at the top of the ramp if you want
to drop off an offering. Or, you can mail offerings to Oxford Presbyterian
Church, P.O. Box 652, Oxford, NC 27565. They will be collected and
deposited.

Here is our schedule for the week:

20th Sunday after Pentecost, October 18, 2020:

Scripture readings: Isaiah 45:1-7 and 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon title: “A Presbyterian Moment”

9:00 a.m. – Pennies for Hunger and ACIM donation drive-by

9:00 a.m. – Faith 4 Five video posted at https://www.facebook.com/Oxford-Presbyterian-Church-152011345379561/

10:00 a.m. – Worship via Facebook Live. The stream can be found at
https://www.facebook.com/Oxford-Presbyterian-Church-152011345379561/

3:00 p.m. – Worship broadcast on WCBQ 1340 AM

 
Mission of the Month –   Our October mission emphasis will be donations to the United Nations 
Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Rett and Nick Jackson will be presenting us with details about this 
fund during worship tomorrow morning (Sunday) in worship. So tune in to hear them!

 

Announcements:

• 21st –
  • 10:30 a.m. – Morning Scripture and Prayer on our parking patio behind the church
• ^22nd –
  • 12:00 p.m. – Nominating Committee meets via Zoom
  • 5:30 p.m. – Book Club discussion of Marilynne Robinson’s Jack via Zoom

On Wednesday mornings, we will be gathering for a brief time to read scripture and to pray. If you would like to join your brothers and sisters, we ask that we each bring a chair if possible (if not you can use a folding chair from the church), that we observe our distance (6ft from each other), and that we mask. Please come and take the opportunity to safely fellowship, and to lift up one another and our world to God in prayer.

We will be collecting Pennies for Hunger and ACIM contributions out in front of the church along Gilliam Street tomorrow morning, Sunday the 18^th at 9 a.m. Take the opportunity to go by and participate while also saying hello to those at the collection station. We also have a bin at our back door if you have any canned goods you would like to donate at any time—we will make sure they get to ACIM.

The book club is meeting Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. We are reading Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel in her Gilead series, Jack. Please let Alan know if you are interested in joining the group.

Happy Birthday to: Mark Hamilton – 24th

Prayers for: Becky and Isabella Baird, Betty Baynes, Michael Boyd, Cynthia
Broaddrick, Ann Currin, Larry Delfs, Linda and Mike Diamond, Charlene
Dickey, Randy Downey, Julie Gaydon, Marlene Grenier, Fred Heath, Hannah
Hobgood, Marie Hobgood, Terry Hobgood, Cotina Jones, Sherry West Lanham, Barbara
Laurent, Carlis Laws, Donnie Messer, Ally Milton, Will Newcomb, Jacob Parkin, Greg and
Dottie Price, Mike Reavis, Lynn Stone, Kathy Webb, and Alice Evans Woodlief.

May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (2 Peter 1:2 NRSV)

All blessings in Christ,

Alan

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