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SUNDAY Schedule Sunday, July 3 Independence day sunday • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service 8:30 am, Winship Chapel • The Mustard Seed Bookstore 9:00 am - 12:00 pm • Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am • All-Church Hymn Sing - 9:00 am • Worship Service - 10:15 am, Sanctuary • Fellowship Hour - 11:15 pm, Fifield Hall
Sunday, July 10 • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service 8:30 am, Winship Chapel • The Mustard Seed Bookstore 9:00 am - 12:00 pm • Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am • Worship Service - 10:15 am, Sanctuary • Fellowship Hour - 11:15 pm, Fifield Hall
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July 3 & 10, 2011 Christ at the Center
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s we prepared to celebrate the 235th birthday of our nation on July 4, 2011, what continues to inspire you about America? These days I find myself reflecting hard and long on this question. Yet I July 3 - Rev. Charles Black know with in my heart of to preach hearts there is still much for which I am thankful and grateful. And yet there is something unsettled within me. Maybe it has something to do with the work load and seeing people struggling day and day out just to make ends meets. It seems like we as a nation are just not able to get the wheels rolling again so that people can pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We continue to bounce from one extreme to the other, and there is no balance or medium. There is a lot of rhetoric and opinions from all sides but nothing that provide a resolution, rather endless debate. How will history judge us as a nation? It seems to me that we are going to have to make some hard and difficult decisions regarding the future of this beloved county. My eternal hope is that history will judge us as a Nation that continued to welcome the strangers who are different from us and that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. My hope is that you and your families will have a great 235th birthday, Happy 4th of July.
Charles Black
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t is again a great honor to w elcome Rev. Alastair Symington and his lovely wife Eileen to First July 10 - Rev. Alastair Presbyterian Symington to preach Church. Senior Minister at Troon Old Parish Church since 1998, Rev. Symington also serves as Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland, a position that he has held since 1996. Prior to his present dual roles, he had served as Assistant Minister at Wellington Church in Glasgow, as a Royal Air Force Chaplain, as Minister at Craiglockhart Parish Church in Edinburgh, and as Senior Minister at New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden, the largest Presbyterian congregation in all of Scotland. In addition, he is a frequently soughtafter guest preacher in the USA, Canada, Norway and Hungary, and has just served as Chaplain at Chautauqua Institution for June 26 - July 1. Please join us July 10 as we welcome Rev. and Mrs. Symington to our church.
Faithfully yours,
Dr. George B. Wirth