Oxford Presbyterian Church

October 2, 2021

Good morning everyone on this beautiful October morning. Our worship options continue to be the following:

At 8:00 a.m. on Sundays, we have our short, outdoor worship service that meets on the parking pad behind our church. If you want to come and remain in your automobile, you may park in the office lot next door and turn your FM radio dial to 89.5 and you will be able to listen to the worship service.

At 11:00 a.m. we gather together in our sanctuary for our Service for the Lord’s Day.

 Our 11:00 a.m. service is also be broadcast via Facebook Live if you are unable to join us. 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.

At 3:00 p.m., our worship is also broadcast on WCBQ 1340 on the AM radio dial. 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. Please note that as we have returned to in-person congregational worship, the radio broadcast of each service is aired the following Sunday.

The Sunday worship bulletin for those who are unable to join us 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. 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/. Sermons are posted the Tuesday following the Sunday they were preached.

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/).

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.

19^th Sunday after Pentecost, October 3, 2021:

Scripture reading: Job 1:1-22

Sermon title: “Living Upright in an Upside Down World”

Thanks to Walter and Ellen Gould, Carolyn Steger, and Kathy Webb for leading our music.

8:00 a.m. – Worship with communion outdoors on the parking pad behind the church

11:00 a.m. – Worship with communion in sanctuary, also broadcast 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 – This month, our mission emphasis is collection donations to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Nick Jackson will be informing us in a couple of weeks as to how this fund is used to address issues of childhood health and poverty in at-risk populations around the world.

Announcements:

• 5^th – 7:00  p.m. – Choir meets in Sanctuary
• 6^th – 10:30 a.m. – Book Club meets at The Strong Arm Baking Company to discuss The Plague by Albert Camus
• 6^th – 12:30 p.m. – Midday prayer in Sanctuary
• 6^th – 6:30 p.m. – OPC Men’s Supper
• 7^th – 5:30 p.m. – Book Club meets at the Tobacco Wood Brewing Company and via Zoom to discuss The Plague by Albert Camus

Book Club – Meets Wednesdays and Thursdays at our normal times and places. We are discussing The Plague by Albert Camus, a moving story about human response and meaning-making as a deadly virus sweeps through an Algerian city in an epidemic. This novel, perhaps more truly than any other, holds up a mirror to us as we ourselves are tasked with response and questions of life’s meaning amid our own pandemic.

Midday Prayer – Meets Wednesdays in the Sanctuary

OPC Men’s Stew! – The return of the OPC Men’s Stew has been a smashing success. In less than one week the stew has sold out. Thanks to all the men who came out to prepare it, to all the women who came out to package it, and to all who purchased the stew. The proceeds are used to fund ministry projects in our church and community.

The Presbyterian Women Circle is again collecting warm new socks and gloves in all sizes and colors for the “Give-Away Shelves” in Fellowship Hall, ACIM, and FLVF. The shelves also need personal care items in small packages and high-protein food in small packages such as nuts, tuna or chicken salad snack packs, peanut butter snacks, etc.  Items may be placed in the large basket near the back entrance or be given to any circle member.

Prayers for: Frank Anderson, Becky and Isabella Baird, Betty Baynes, Michael Boyd, Cynthia Broaddrick, Linda and Mike Diamond, Randy Downey, Julie Gaydon, Marlene Grenier, Mary Hamilton, Fred Heath, Hannah Hobgood, Cotina Jones, Barbara Laurent, Wiley Leonard, BK McCloud, Donnie Messer, Laura Messer, Sheila Moore, Jeanette Owen, Jason Parkin, Greg and Dottie Price, Deelane Reavis, Mike Reavis, Kelly Ann Sterner, Lynn Stone, Melvin Weaver, and Alice Evans Woodlief.

Happy Birthday to: Haley McFee Bott – 4^th; Cobb Huggins – 5^th; Jim McCloud – 5^th; Abigail Juterbock – 7^th; Chris Juterbock – 7^th; Alan Koeneke – 7^th; Chloe Hightower – 9^th

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¹ Vindicate me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
² Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
test my heart and mind.
³ For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
and I walk in faithfulness to you.
⁴ I do not sit with the worthless,
nor do I consort with hypocrites;
⁵ I hate the company of evildoers,
and will not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I wash my hands in innocence,
and go around your altar, O Lord,
⁷ singing aloud a song of thanksgiving,
and telling all your wondrous deeds.
⁸ O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell,
and the place where your glory abides.
⁹ Do not sweep me away with sinners,
nor my life with the bloodthirsty,
¹⁰ those in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.
¹¹ But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
¹² My foot stands on level ground;
in the great congregation I will bless the Lord. (Psalms 26 NRSV)

All blessings in Christ,

Alan