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SUNDAY Schedule Sunday, October 7 World Communion • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service 8:15 am, Winship Chapel
• The Mustard Seed Bookstore - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm • Worship Service - 9:00 am, Sanctuary • Cherub Choir - 9:30 am, Rm 222 • Youth Choir - 9:30 am, Rm 223 • Sunday School for all ages - 10:05 am • Worship Service - 11:15 am, Sanctuary • Fellowship Hour - 12:15 pm, Reception room
Sunday, October 14 • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service 8:15 am, Winship Chapel
• The Mustard Seed Bookstore - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm • Worship Service - 9:00 am, Sanctuary • Cherub Choir - 9:30 am, Rm 222 • Youth Choir - 9:30 am, Rm 223 • Sunday School for all ages - 10:05 am • Worship Service - 11:15 am, Sanctuary
October 7 & 14, 2012 Christ at the Center
October 7, WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY In the winter of 1935, a group of pastors met to study October 7 & 14 - and reflect on the George Wirth to preach spiritual needs and possibilities of the church during the Great Depression, and the result of their gathering helped to launch the first World Communion Sunday on November 1, 1936. Through the Lord’s Supper, those Presbyterian church leaders envisioned a “great opportunity to unite the membership in dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ”, and in 1937, the General Assembly changed the date of World Communion to the first Sunday in October where it remains today. So on this coming October 7, we hope you will join us as we celebrate the Lord’s Supper and begin a sermon series focused on the theme “Renewing Our Strength”, taken from Isaiah 40 which says “they shall renew their strength and mount up with wings like eagles...”. Each of the sermons will begin with a letter from the word WINGS (Worship, Invite, Nurture, Give and Serve), so the title this Sunday is “Let Us Worship God!”. I look forward to seeing you in the sanctuary at 9:00 and 11:15am and hope that you will encourage your family and friends to come on along too!
October 7, BY INVITATION OF JESUS Continuing our sermon series on “Renewing Our Strength” and using the letters of the word WINGS (see previous Sunday’s description), we move to the next dimension of the life of our church as we are invited to participate and become involved in ministry and mission here at the corner of 16th and Peachtree. The title is “By Invitation of Jesus” which comes from a famous sermon preached many years ago by Dr. Peter Marshall in Washington, D.C. and I plan to tell you more about that on Sunday, October 14. What I hope and pray you all will consider is inviting someone to join you for worship and Sunday School that day - a family member or friend, a neighbor or business colleague, a fellow student or somebody you might meet on the street this week. If each and everyone of us did that, imagine how full the sanctuary would be...and more important, just think of the blessings that would come into the lives of those we invite and into our lives as well. I am looking forward to October 14 with great anticipation and to meeting some new folks who will be joining us because you invited them...and By Invitation of Jesus!
Faithfully yours,
George B. Wirth