Week of November 27, 2011 Sunday 8:30am Worship 9:40am Church School 11:00am Worship 12:15pm Witness Team Meeting 1:30pm Worship at Morningside 3pm Tara Bulger’s Ordination at FP Monday OFFICE CLOSED 8am Covenant Breakfast Club 6pm Boy Scouts Tuesday 11:30 Lunch Bunch at DePalma’s 7:00pm Project Safe 8:00pm New Freedom Wednesday 10am and 6:15pm Adult Bible Study COVENANT CONNECTION

5pm - 5:45pm Music/Group 5:45pm-6:15pm Family Time/Meal

6:15pm-7:00pm Music/Group 7:00pm Vespers 7:25 Adult Choir

Thursday 2pm Knitters & Knotters 8pm New Freedom Friday Global Market “Preview” 1-3pm 6:30pm Progressive Dinner Saturday Global Market 9am - 3pm Presbytery Workshop 9am-3pm

Worship - November 27, 2011 8:30am Reader: Steve Bell Ushers: Steve & Lola Bell 11:00am Reader: Middle or HS Youth Ushers: Middle or HS Youth Greeters: Middle or High School Youth Piano: Betsy Burmeister Congregational Care: Mary Ann Johnson Counter: Caren Snook Flowers: Poinsettias Plant Care: Frank Allen Open Building: Paul Brooks Close Building: Tim Bemisderfer Grounds: Peter Givens ( Nov 28 - Dec 4) Nursery/Super: Don Bower 8:30am: Phil Hale, Rachel Wolfe 11:00am: Birth-Walking: Don Bower Walking - 5 years old : Barbara Parker, Dell Whitehead

Worship - November 20, 2011 8:30am Reader: Jim Smith Ushers: Kent & Heidi Wolfe 11:00am Reader: Steve Follin Ushers: Ross & Allisyn Johnson, Foutz Family Greeters: Anna Holshouser, Missy Green, Wayne Crowell Piano: Marcia Verbrugge & Dolly Barstow Congregational Care: Mary Ann Johnson Counter: Judy Capie Flowers: Juergen & Heide Wiegel Plant Care: Frank Allen Open Building: Alex Clark Close Building: Jim Bowden Grounds: Alex Clark ( Nov 21-27) Nursery/Super: Valerie Maples 8:30am: Kay & Nathan Brooks 11:00am: Birth-Walking: Valerie Maples Walking - 5 years old : Hanna Harper, Brian Herndon

Week of November 20, 2011 Sunday 8:30am Worship 9:40am Church School 11:00am Worship 12:15pm Adult Choir Rehearsal 3:30pm Confirmation 5pm Youth Group Monday OFFICE CLOSED 8am Covenant Breakfast Club 6pm Boy Scouts 7pm S&F Meeting Tuesday 7:00pm Project Safe 8:00pm New Freedom Wednesday No Adult Bible Study No Covenant Connection OFFICE CLOSES at Noon Thursday OFFICE CLOSED 12 noon Covered Dish Luncheon Happy Thanksgiving Friday Office Closed 8pm New Freedom Saturday Fellowship Hall Cleaned

Offering Hope. Changing Lives.

for the week of November 20,2011 - THE COVENANTER THE COVENANTER THE COVENANTER THE COVENANTER

Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1065 Gaines School Road, Athens, Ga. 30605 Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1065 Gaines School Road, Athens, Ga. 30605 Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1065 Gaines School Road, Athens, Ga. 30605 Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1065 Gaines School Road, Athens, Ga. 30605

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Member NE Georgia Presbytery, Synod of the South Atlantic, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

NOTE: Please go to www.covpresathens.org or your email for a link to recent copies. The next newsletter will be published for November 27. Please email your articles to

kwetherington@covpresathens.org before 12 noon, Wednesday, Nov. 23

Purchase a beautiful live Poin-

settia in honor or memory of

someone special! They will be

used in the Worship Center

through the Christmas Season!

Sign up sheet is on the table in front of the

church office and leave your check make out

to Covenant in the drop box - only $10 each.

Thanks! Deadline: December 11th!

Are you staying home for Are you staying home for Are you staying home for Are you staying home for Thanksgiving Day?Thanksgiving Day?Thanksgiving Day?Thanksgiving Day? Then con-sider joining with your Covenant family on Thursday, November 24 at noon for a covered dish luncheon in Fellowship Hall.

You’ll feast on the best of all recipes and enjoy the good company of friends and neighbors. Bring some-one with you - or bring the whole crew. Signup on the table nest to the office to say how many and what dishes you’ll bring - PLUS we need some light setup and cleanup too. It’ll be an easy, breezy day together - giving thanks for God’s bounty and love.

You have the oppor-tunity to help teach,

inspire, and provide for God’s children. Your donation to the Thornwell Home for Children will help give children a safe place to live, nutritional food to eat, the spiritual counsel they need, the love they deserve, and the family bonds they long for. Look for a envelope and flyer in your mailbox & the Children’s Turkeys helpful with your coins.

To remember those less fortunate in our community, please bring canned goods and non perishable items such as soft drinks, cereal, raisins, spaghetti, etc. to be used in the cornucopia display in worship TODAYTODAYTODAYTODAY - Sunday, November 20thSunday, November 20thSunday, November 20thSunday, November 20th, when we celebrate the beginning of Thanksgiving week. Children and adults, please bring items to the front during the Time with the Children or before service - these items will be incorporated into the display.

Happy Thanksgiving from your office staff! Shirley, Karen, Sharon & Judy

The Upper Room class will sponsor the “Feed My Sheep” project for November for the Athens Emergency Food Bank. Donations of items “ready to eat” or “cash” are needed. For example: single

serve pop up cans of Vienna sausages, soups, spaghetti, macaroni with cheese, etc.

Thank you for your generous giving.

Daily Bible Readings

November 21 - 27, 2011

Monday Nov. 21 Isaiah 64:1-9

Tuesday Nov. 22 I Corinthians 1:1-9

Wednesday Nov. 23 I Corinthians 1:10-17

Thursday Nov. 24 I Corinthians 1:18-25

Friday Nov. 25 I Corinthians 1:26-31

Saturday Nov. 26 I Corinthians 2

Sunday Nov. 27 Mark 13:24-37

Who’s Who? Can you guess who is the largest & oldest Protestant denomination in the Mideast? (look elsewhere in the Covenanter for the answer)

Covenant’s Global Marketplace *Preview Date*

Friday, December 2

1pm - 3pm

Saturday, December 3,

9am - 3pm

Sunday, December 4,

after each worship service

Saturday, December 10

9am - 3pm

Sunday, December 11

Before & After Choral worship

Invite your friends and neighbors!

The High School Church School ClassHigh School Church School ClassHigh School Church School ClassHigh School Church School Class is collecting winter coats for

The Sparrow's Nest this season. So look in your closets, attics, & basements for all sizes you no longer use, and put them in the gift-wrapped box near the Gathering

Room. We will be taking them to the Sparrow's Nest during Church School on

Sunday, December 11. As always, thank-you, everyone, for

your support!

UpComing Events at

Covenant Dec. 2-4, 10-11 Global Marketplace at Covenant Sun. Dec.4 final 8:30am worship until Jan.15

IHN hosting begins Mon. Dec. 5 & 19 8am Covenant Breakfast Club at Cracker Barrel

Tues. Dec.6 11:30am, Restaurant Roadtrip Fri. Dec.9 10:00am, PW Christmas Cookie Party

Sat. Dec.10 10:00am, Adult Choir rehearsal 11:30am, Chime Choir rehearsal

Sun. Dec.11 10:45am, Christmas Choral Worship 12:15pm, reception

5:15pm, New Elder Review 6:00pm, Session meeting

Tues. Dec.13 12:30pm, Graduates Luncheon Sun. Dec.18 4:30pm, Benefit Concert by Covenant Folks

6:00pm, Christmas Dinner Sat. Dec.24 5:30pm, ONE Christmas Eve Worship

Sun. Dec.25 NO Church School 11:00am, ONE Christmas Day Worship

1:30pm, Worship at Morningside Dec.26-Jan.2 Beecher on leave

Dec.27-28 Office closed Sun. Jan.1 NO Church School

10:00am, Continental Breakfast for all ages 11:00am, Youth Reunion Worship

Mon. Jan 2 8:00am Breakfast Club Sun. Jan.8 9:40am Church School (resumes) 11:00am, Ordination/Installation of Elders

12:15pm, Lasagna Lunch by Montreat Youth 3:30pm, Confirmation 5:00pm, Youth Group

Wed. Jan.11 Regular activities resume

NEGA Presbytery’s Leadership Development Team will hold an Officer Training Event at

Covenant on Sat. Dec.3 for all our congregations to attend. They are in need of a few

volunteers, who will not be attending workshops, to help in the kitchen - setting out the

catered lunch, putting ice in cups, pouring drinks, and cleaning up afterwards. If you are will-

ing and available to help for a few hours on Dec. 03, please contact Edie Covert by e-mail at

edithcovert@negapby.org or call at her office 706-310-7100. Thanks so much! Let’s be

gracious hosts for our presbytery friends as we welcome Advent! Registration brochures are

available on the Gathering Room table. Anyone interested is invited to attend. Signup on

bulletin board to help! REGISTER WITH PRESBYTERY AT A DISCOUNT BY NOV. 21st.

Covenant’s Annual Christmas Progressive Dinner! Friday, December 2, Appetizer course begins 6:30pm.

Join your Covenant

friends and family for a great time!

Sign up to host and /or attend.

Child care available.

Please contact Jim Whitney with

any questions.

NEW ADDRESS:NEW ADDRESS:NEW ADDRESS:NEW ADDRESS:

DOUG & MINDY HILL P. O. Box 452 Grantham, New Hampshire 03753

Would you like to help prepare and/or

clean up for Holy Communion

in special worship services, like

Christmas Eve or Maundy Thursday?

Please see

Juergen Wiegel, Heidi Nibbelink, or

Debbie Cureton, who can connect you

with someone to show you how.

Highlights of the stated Session meeting on Sun. Nov.13 include: 1) approval of bap-tism for Isaac & Benjamin Carpenter on Nov.20; 2) gratitude for Chris Pope to serve on the Personnel Committee; 3) further study on rental to Impacto de Fe congregation; 4) further study on youth ministry consultation; 5) approval of HS coat drive; 6) approval of benefit concert Dec.18 for WoRM classroom; and 7) Annual Congregational Mtg set for Sun. Jan.22 at noon, after worship. Ongoing copies of the minutes of Session meet-ings, as well as Ministry Team minutes, can be found on the table in the narthex. All Session meetings are open to anyone’s attendance.

Remember in Prayer: June Meyers’ sister Betty in PA, spine cancer; and all those

traveling this holiday season.

The Outreach Committee will soon begin preparing the Christmas baskets for CASA de AMISTAD. Please contribute gloves,

mittens, and scarves for men, women and children.

The basket for this is in the breezeway.

Everyone is invited to Casa de Amistad’s annual Christmas Fiesta on Sunday, December 11, 4pm-6pm at the Quaker

Meeting Place, Commerce Road. Thank you for supporting Casa de Amistad!

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It’s time for Santa Express, sponsored by Presbyterian Women. See the basket in the hallway or the PW bulle-

tin board by the water fountain for a list of items to collect & donate to residents in our Presbyte-

rian Homes of GA for a Merry Christmas! Due date - November 30.November 30.November 30.November 30.

See Marcia Verbrugge with any questions.

Covenant Breakfast Club Monday, November 21- 8am

Join us at the Cracker Barrel on Epps Bridge Road for good food

and conversation among friends!

Will resume November 30 at 7:00pm

Congratulations to Evan Knox and Congratulations to Evan Knox and Jeremy Mote who, as members of Jeremy Mote who, as members of the Cedar Shoals High School the Cedar Shoals High School Varsity Academic team, qualified for Varsity Academic team, qualified for the National Academic Quiz Tour-the National Academic Quiz Tour-nament in Atlanta in May 2012.nament in Atlanta in May 2012. Go Quiz Jags!Go Quiz Jags!

OUR DAILY BREAD needs your help this

Christmas! On Wednesday, Dec 21, Our

Daily Bread will serve its annual Christmas

Meal at First UMC’s Hancock Hall. Because

Athens is so blessed with organizations that

have expertise in gift giving, they plan to

give each of the guests a personal care kit

with items that are always needed and often

asked for. If you wish to participate in this

effort, please put the items found on the list

in your mailbox in a grocery bag and place it

in the collection box in the hallway. There is

no need to gift wrap them. The deadline for

bringing your donations to Covenant is

December 13. Please call Dorothy Newland

at 706-543-3938 is you have any questions.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

The WoRM Sunday School program needs teachers! Please consider sharing your talents and faith with the children of the church for one rotation or several! Volunteer teachers lead the same activity for 2 out of the 4 week rotation, making small changes to accommo-date various aged children. Simply sign up to teach a favorite activity (arts/crafts or drama/storytelling or cooking/science or Bible games) - a lesson plan will be

provided. Also check out the Worm Snack sign up list. Be a blessing and be blessed!

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS! WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS! WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS!

November 30, 2011

Covenant Connection

Grades Kindergarten thru 5th and Sixth thru Twelfth

5:00pm - 5:45pm Choir/Bible & Youth Fellowship

5:45pm - 6:15pm Family Time/Dinner

6:15pm - 7:00pm Choir/Bible & Youth Faith & Film

Theme for November 30: Christmas Carols

6:15pm Adult Bible Study 7:00pm Vespers

7:25pm Adult Choir

YOUTH NEWSYOUTH NEWSYOUTH NEWSYOUTH NEWS

Second Montreat Second Montreat Second Montreat Second Montreat deposit duedeposit duedeposit duedeposit due

December 4 December 4 December 4 December 4 ---- $150$150$150$150

Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday ---- Nov. 20Nov. 20Nov. 20Nov. 20

3:30pm Confirmation

5pm Middle School Youth

5pm High School Youth meet at

Showtime Bowl - back at church by 6pm

Link’Ems answers: 1. Coat 2. Letter 3. Drop

Link’Ems created by Marilyn Brown Find a word which forms 2 phrases, 1 with the first word and 1 with the last. example: North _ _ _ _ light (answer = North Star, star light) 1. over _ _ _ _ of arms 2. love _ _ _ _ _ _ carrier 3. tear _ _ _ _ cloth

Who’s Who: You are! Presbyterians es-tablished congregations in Lebanon in 1853, and spread to Syria & Egypt too.

STEW ARDSHIP CORNER Recycling in a FLASH

Have you ever seen a recycling

flash mob in action? Go to

Youtube.com and type

“recycling flash mob” in the

Search box. You will have sev-

eral videos to choose from. Take a few min-

utes to enjoy them as recyclers take center

stage. You will tap your foot and smile - and

you may just dance your way to the recycling

bin the next time you recycle!

Thank you to

Juergen & Heide Wiegel

for the beautiful

cornucopia in worship this Sunday,

November 20.

The Choir is working on Christ-

mas Music! If you would like to

join in please come on Wednes-

days at 7:25pm (excluding 11/23)

and on Sunday,

November 20

Interfaith Hospitality Network fami-lies are coming to Covenant the week of December 4th. So take the op-portunity to sign up on the board in the hallway. Check to see the many ways you can practice Christian hospi-tality. As always thank you all for your help. Call Shirley Hunt 706-548-2756 or Paula Zimdars 706-354-8381 if you have any questions.

Welcome to our newest member at Covenant! Jim Cooley met with our Session last Sunday, as a transfer from Central in Athens. He’s lived in Athens 40 years, now retired as professor at UGA. A lifelong Presbyterian from his childhood in TN, Jim is an Elder and has taught adult Bible studies for many years. We look forward to many years of work & worship together. Introduce yourselves and put his contact info in your directories.

Plan now to attend Tara Bulger’s ordination service on Sun. Nov. 27 at 3:00pm at Athens First Pres downtown. She has received a call to become pastor at the Acworth Pres Church in NW Atlanta. We know from her year with us as pastoral intern that they will have a wonderful relationship!