Oxford Presbyterian Church

October 21, 2021

Good evening everyone. I hope you are all enjoying these comfortable fall days with their little dash of evening chill. What a great pleasure and gift from God delightful weather can be!

Here are our worship options each Sunday. Please note that our early service will resume its original start time—8:08!

At 8:08 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.

22^nd Sunday after Pentecost, October 24, 2021:

Scripture reading: Job 42:1-9

Sermon title: “Final Exam: Answering God”

Liturgist: Earron Couch

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

8:08 a.m. – Worship outdoors on the parking pad behind the church

11:00 a.m. – Worship in sanctuary also broadcast via Facebook Live. The stream can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Oxford-Presbyterian-Church-152011345379561/

12:00 p.m. – Nominating Committee meets in Sanctuary

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).

Sunday Special Offering: At the request of the OPC Missions Committee, Session members voted unanimously to receive a special offering in memory and in honor of OPC family members who have dealt with breast cancer over the years. The offering will be donated to organizations that have as their purpose to fight breast cancer and assist those who are fighting the disease. Therefore, this Sunday, October 24^th, we will receive our special offerings. Please remember those who have experienced breast cancer, seek find ways to encourage our sisters and brothers who are currently on their breast cancer journey, and pray for them and the families who love them.

Announcements:

• 26^th – 7:00  p.m. – Choir meets in Sanctuary
• 27^th – 10:30 a.m. – Book Club meets at The Strong Arm Baking Company to discuss The Plague by Albert Camus
• 27^th – 12:30 p.m. – Midday prayer in Sanctuary
• 27^th – 6:30 p.m. – Session meets
• 28^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

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 Owens, Jason Parkin, Greg and Dottie Price, Deelane Reavis, Mike Reavis, Kelly Ann Sterner, Lynn Stone, Melvin Weaver, and Alice Evans Woodlief.

Happy Birthday to: Mark Hamilton – 24^th; Paul Shelton – 29^th

Remember to utilize our website! – www.oxfordpres.org.

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¹ When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
² Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then it was said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
³ The Lord has done great things for us,
and we rejoiced.
⁴ Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like the watercourses in the Negeb.
⁵ May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.
⁶ Those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves. (Psalm 126 NRSV)

All blessings in Christ,

Alan