It is week #46, and we have some updates to share with all of our closest friends (that’s you!).
Advent teaser. Look for this custom design on our side banners. Props to Corrie for the watercolor frame.
Happenings?!
This entire section of the site and communication is a little new, so a quick word on its function. We send out a weekly update email to those of you who have opted in to emails. (If you haven’t, you can do so at the end of this post.) And we loved the content and sharing. However, sometimes emails would slip through the cracks. And what about people who wanted to hear what was happening in our community but were just visiting the website? Plus a ton of our communication was directing you back to our main site for various reasons (teaching audio, giving info, etc). It made sense to bring these elements together in one place where the content could be accessed regardless of spam filters or the general black hole that is your inbox (for those of you with thousands of unread emails).
Think of this “HAPPENINGS” section of the website like a beloved junk drawer of wonderfulness. Each week you will encounter regular entries, like our FBCP FAMILIES, WONDERFUL WEEKLY and LAGNIAPPE posts. Those numbers after the title represent the week of the year (hence the 46 on this one). Other times we will highlight a cool thing that has happened or is about to happen. Like the Town Hall and Moral Mondays Vigil posts you can read right now.
Apparently you can use an RSS feed reader to alert you to new content automatically, and if you know what those words mean and how to do such a thing, please email me and let’s get coffee so I can learn!
Last thing I will mention at this time. In each of these posts you will find a set of staff pictures that move (GIFs). Those staff members are the ones playing a role in the content you see in the post. So for this one, you can see the ministers (worship leadership) and Corrie (advent art). This is just a little bonus tidbit. We love bonus tidbits.
Sunday Worship
This Sunday morning we will be exploring a theology of social responsibility. This is a sticky topic for some strange reason, given how important practical ethics were to Jesus. Take Matthew 23 and 25 as examples. Take Amos 5 for instance. So this week we are going to do something a little different. Rather than a classic monologue teaching, we are going to model improvisational ethics together in worship. So in place of the regular teaching, there will be an AMA (ask me anything) with Pastors Lindsay and John Jay responding to your questions. Is there an ethical quandary you have been wrestling with for years? Bring it to worship. Have you ever wondered how to interpret the morally ambiguous sections of the Bible? Of course you have! Come share a dialogue with us on Sunday. Worship is at 10:30am. Speaking of Sunday…
Gratitude Night & Potluck
On November 17 we will host our annual church meeting affectionately known as Gratitude Night. The Board collaborates with the staff on the event, and we use the time to celebrate where we have been in the last year and prepare for the next season of life at FBCP. We will vote on the 2020 budget and new Board candidates. Gratitude Night is potluck style, so prepare a dish to share. Just a reminder that voting is limited to active members. If you are unsure of your membership status, you can contact us and we will let you know. If you would like to become a member, then for sure contact us!
Two weeks before Gratitude Night we hold a Town Hall. We have synthesized the Town Hall for those who could not attend. You can find that info here.
For other events that are coming up, check out the links below. See you Sunday!
Friends In Deed Christmas Gift Drive
Hey friends, it’s time again for Friends in Deed’s annual Christmas gift drive! As a church we want to bless 80 families with gifts this Christmas. We need help with crafting gift tags this coming week. If you’re interested, please contact Pastor Gretchen.
