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News at Paw Creek
April 26, 2017
Offerings & Attendance
Offerings:
April 16 - $3,229.00 April 23 - $2,323.00
S/S Attendance:
April 16 - 44 April 23- 47
Worship Attendance:
April 16 - 200 April 23- 80
Office Information Rev. Veronica E. Cannon,
Interim Pastor [email protected]
Evie Landrau,
Director of Youth Ministries [email protected]
Kim Whittington,
Administrative Assistant/ Webmaster
Sherry Blevins, Music Director
Mark Burleson, Musician
Clint Shaw, Coordinator of Videography [email protected]
Website: www.pawcreekpc.org
Physical Address:
(no mail received here) 7400 Mt. Holly Rd.
Charlotte, NC 28214
Hours: Monday thru Thursday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Telephone:
(704) 392-0329
Fax: (704) 392-4625
Email: [email protected]
From the Pastor... Psalm 84:1-12 (NRSV) 1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. 4 Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. Selah 5 Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. 6 As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. 7 They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion. 8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah 9 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed. 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand else-where. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wicked-ness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you. Dear Paw Creek Presbyterian Church family, I love Psalms. They are prayers that always bring comfort or joy or peace. This Psalm is one that brings joy. It gives to God what is due: praise and honor. In God’s presence is where we find joy. In God we gain strength. In God, the upright, the faithful find favor and honor. The Lord gives good things (not material things) to those who trust in God. God is great and greatly to be praised. May you find comfort in this Psalm, joy in your heart and peace in your faithfulness to the Creator. Amen and Amen. Rev. Veronica Cannon
Prayer Concerns & Celebrations Prayer Concerns:
•Doris Harrington - Recovering from broken hip at Rehab in Huntersville.
•James Summerlin - In hospital preparing for surgery. Keep Carolyn Summerlin & Robin Wodarski in your prayers as well.
•Grady & Shelby Alexander
•Melinda Shannon
•Evie Landrau - Family member passed.
•Cecil Perkins - Continued prayer.
Keep in Your Prayers:
• Hoyt & Jean Johnston
• Mary Frances Lail
• Flora Mae Love
• Diane Pegram
• Dave Reames
• Marlene Thames
• Melinda Shannon
• President Donald Trump and decisions for our Country.
• Caregivers
• PNC -Pastor Nominating Committee: [The Pastor Nominating Committee is hard at work. Please continue to pray for wisdom and discernment for the PNC: Grady Cathey, Gene Hall, Sarah Kendrick, Victoria Krebs, Eddie McArver, Gerri Ann Shaw, and Debbie Taylor]
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4/30 Greeters: Narthex: Danny McClure & Joy Tyler East Wing: Teresa Painter West Wing: David Padgett
May Greeters: Narthex: Jon Kenley & Amy McGee East Wing: Larry Ramsey West Wing: Melissa Mullis
CD Delivery (Mondays): 5/1 Linda Riggins 5/8 Donna & Gene Hall
Nursery - Crib Room: 4/30 Leslie Joy 5/7 Gloria Caldwell
Nursery - Toddler Room: 4/30 Jan McClure 5/7 Stephanie Sudderth
Count Team: 4/30 Team Leaders: Gene Hall & Leslie Joy 4/30 Team: Grady & Karen Cathey, Victoria Krebs, Tim Sudderth & Barbara Ullem
May Team Leader: Danny McClure May Team: Eddie Chapman, Beth Joy, Kevin Joy & David Padgett
Prayer Team: 4/30 Janie Scott & Margaret White 5/7 Debbie Taylor & Karen Cathey
Ushers: Women’s Sunday: Celia Gray, Donna Hall, Angie Ross & Betty Field
May Team Leader: Frances Lyerly May Team: Frances Lyerly, Betty Field, Donna & Chris Timberman
Visitation Teams for April:
:
Service Assignments
Fellowship Breakfast
Please plan to join us for the Fellowship
Breakfast on April 30th @9:00am in the
CFC. We will be serving a full breakfast
and hope you will join us for food, fun
and fellowship!
Paw Creek Presbyterian Church
Annual Fish Fry & Bake Sale
Saturday, May 6, 2017, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Adults - $9, Kids - $4
Yummy Fish and Fixin's! Bake Sale! Take-out will be available
If you would be willing to help with the Fish Fry (cooking, setting up, serving, or cleaning
up), please call Danny McClure at: (704) 394-8481.
Set-up will be Friday, May 5, at 5:00 PM
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Our children's ministry team is trying to grow the number of children that we reach on a weekly basis, so we are adding a few extra nights of Children Connecting with Christ to our schedules in April and May. If your child cannot attend Wednesday nights, we will be offering the same CCC programming on Monday nights April 17 & 24 and May 15 & 22, and would love to see your child there. For more information on upcoming events for the children of Paw Creek, please visit the church website and check out the children's tab, or request to be added to our new Facebook PCPC CCC - Children Connecting with Christ.
Children’s Ministry
I would like to thank each of you who participated in the 2016-2017 Room in the Inn season. This was our 15th season of hosting our neighbors, and I can’t thank you enough for all you do for our neighbors in preparing the bedding, transporting, cooking and staying overnight. It takes a lot of people to run Room in the Inn each night, and I am thankful for you!
Stay on good terms with each other, held together by love. Be ready with a meal or a bed when it’s needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it! (Hebrews 13:2, The Message)
In His Love and Grace.
Karen Cathey
We are going to have a work day on May 20th focusing mainly on yard work around the church. The work day will be from 8:00 a.m.-until. We would welcome as much help as we can get. Anyone coming to help could also bring any yard tools they might have. For more info, please see Eddie Chapman.
The Presbyterian Women have packed 20 hospital treat bags for delivery to anyone in the hospital. These are available in the Narthex. If you know of anyone who would enjoy such a bag, please feel free to pick one up and take it to them when you do your hospital visit.
Community Outreach Program
The Congregational Care & Missions teams are working together on a Community Outreach Program. We plan to deliver "Break Room Snack Baskets" to the local community police stations, fire stations, and emergency centers. These are expressions of our gratitude for the work they do to support the community. We have some snack items left from the College Student Boxes project but we need more to complete these baskets. So, please consider providing serving size cracker packets, chips, candy bars, etc. that would be appropriate for an office break. Also, if you happen to have a fruit basket that you are not using and would be willing to donate, we would appreciate those too! Please bring these donations to the Parlor by May 14th. Thanks ahead for your donation!
Dear Paw Creek Church Family, The family of Betty Wright Schoettle acknowledges with deep appreciation your kind expression of sympathy. We want to thank you for all the prayers, calls, food, and cards of encouragement and comfort during my mother’s illness and passing. We are so thankful to our Church family. Jan, Danny, Dan, Shaun McClure and Amber & Steve Lamontagne
Property Committee
Hospital Visitation Bags
Congregation Care & Missions Snacks and Baskets
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ALL Women WELCOME to join Presbyterian Women for circle. We meet monthly & are currently studying "Who is Jesus?" Insight from different writings of who Jesus is thru their lens.
If you haven't been able to attend a meeting or if you have missed a month, you will not be behind.
1st Tuesday of each month - Morning Circle @ 10am & Evening Circle @ 7:15pm in Parlor at church
May 2nd - Combined meeting/dinner/officer installation 6pm in CFC Lesson: Linda Sadler
Hospice Seminar Compassion Satisfaction: Self-Care for the Caregiver Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, The Ivey, and The Department of Social Services (DSS) present this seminar on self-care and understanding Alzheimer's disease through lecture, discussion, & music.
Using our 'best practices', in an informal setting, we shall dialogue and connect with others whose loved ones and families are challenged with some aspect of dementia. Our goal for the seminar is to help you understand more about the disease process, how to care for yourself, and offer resources to guide you in your role as a caregiver.
Thursday, May 11th 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Myers Park Baptist Church 1900 Queens Road Phone: 704.624.6643
A continental breakfast and catered lunch will be served. There is no charge for this event but pre-registration is required. Contact Louise Giusto at [email protected] or 704.335.4320.
During the offertory on Women’s Sunday, April 30th, The Presbyterian Women graciously ask that the Congregation contribute to the 2017 PW Birthday Offering. Since the conception of the Birthday Offering in 1922, this offering has helped fund major projects that have improved the lives of women and children around the world. This years donations will be going to the following projects:
First Hand Aid Rural Clinic Development Initiative
Cuba PW’s only international grant for 2017, your gift will help build, fund, stock with supplies and staff six medical clinics located in Presbyterian Churches in impoverished rural Cuba. The clinics will supply food and medicine to some of the neediest people of Cuba.
The Family Justice Center Safe Haven for Domestic Violence
South Carolina The Family Justice Center is the only domestic violence shelter that serves victims of abuse in the counties of Georgetown and Horry. Their current capacity of 11 people is not enough and they need to expand. Your gift will help them build a new shelter that can serve 30-35 individuals in ten suites.
Navajo Water Project New Mexico
Your gift to the 2017 Birthday Offering will provide running water systems to 40 families who live on the Smith Lake Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. Instead of storing water in pots, pans and 655-gallan drums, household will have cisterns, pumps, sinks, and showers. Access to water is an issue of social justice, health and sanitation. Special Envelopes will be provided. Make Checks Payable to Paw Creek Presbyterian Women. If you wish your offering to be in honor or memory of someone, please designate that on the envelope.
Women’s Sunday / Birthday Offering
Mark Your Calendar For These PW Events
Women's Sunday is April 30th. We will be celebrating and blessing our Little Dresses for Africa project and honoring a PW member with a Life Membership. Donnie Mitchem from Christ Methodist will be our guest speaker.
Our final circle meeting for this PW period will be May 2nd at 6:00 PM in the CFC. Please bring a salad or dessert and join everyone for dinner. Following dinner, we will have the last circle lesson on Who Is Jesus. Linda Sadler from Mulberry Presbyterian will be our guest speaker. We will also have a brief installation of the officers for the 2017-18 period. Hope all of you can join us in the celebration!
Also, we have our annual bake sale at the Fish Fry on Saturday, May 6th. Please have your baked goods at the CFC by 3:00 PM so they can be priced. All proceeds go toward the PW Scholarship Fund.
Presbyterian Women
Graduation Sunday - May 21
Attention students and parents of those graduating from high school or college. Paw Creek Presbyterian Church wishes to honor those members graduating this year during the 11 am church services on Sunday, May 21, 2017. Please provide information on where you are graduating from along with any awards or honors received and your plans for the future.. Please send information to the church office so it can be included in the bulletin for that Sunday as well as the following newsletter. Graduates are requested to wear their caps and gowns if available for this service. Thank you!
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AUSTIN'S ARMY Registration: FREE May 20th 9:30am Charlotte, NC ALL AGES ENCOURAGED TO WALK
Link to register: http://fightcf.cff.org/site/TR/GreatStrides/12_Carolinas_Charlotte?fr_id=5965&pg=entry&_ga=1.73721750.544336433.1476460559
Login and Join a Team Austin's Army
Join Austin's Army today and help add tomorrows! Austin is 18 and was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when he was 7 weeks old. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that primarily affects the lungs and digestive system. The most common symptoms of Cystic fibrosis include very salty-tasting skin; persistent coughing, at times with phlegm; frequent lung infections, such as pneumonia or bronchitis; wheezing or shortness of breath; and poor growth or poor weight gain in spite of a good appetite. Austin’s main issue has always been poor growth and no weight gain. Now, he has a lot of lung involvement. As he approaches the end of his first year in college, he has learned what it takes to keep him going in sickness and in health. It hasn't been easy for him. He has had a hospital stay each semester which kept him out of classes. He is very interested in the sciences and would like to one day find a cure for CF. Austin also has Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes. In addition to all of his nebulizer treatments and oral medications which help control the progression of CF, he needs to check his blood sugar four times per day and use insulin through his insulin pump when needed. When he is fighting a lung or sinus infection, he goes on IV antibiotics which can go on for up to 3 weeks! Since CF is considered an Orphan Disease, meaning there is no federal funding available for research because the affected population is not large enough to warrant support from the federal government, there are many fundraisers held across the world. Our family walks each year in the Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis. Because of your donations in the past, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, through its research, is getting VERY close to the cure! Your help is needed again to help fund the research for a cure so CF will stand for CURE FOUND! All money raised goes directly through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to fund the research. Help Austin's Army in the fight to find a Cure and donate today!
Great Strides Cystic Fibrosis Walk
Paw Creek just installed a new playground and is in the process of installing the rubber mulch & fencing. To help raise money for the playground upgrade we are selling brick pavers. The brick pavers will be incorporated in a prayer garden to improve the look of the entrance to the church.
Each brick paver cost $40
Perfect gift for that hard to buy for special person in your life to celebrate their birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation, Anniversary, etc. Wording examples are family names, bible verses, sayings, in honor and in memory of loved ones, to celebrate baptisms, groups, classes, etc.
Order forms are available in the Narthex and the Church Office. Deadline is May 16, 2017
Paw Creek Presbyterian Church Playground Fundraiser
P.O.BOX 64
Paw Creek, NC 28130-0064
Seek ................................. Matthew 6:33
Serve ..................................... 1 Samuel 12:24
Praise ........................................ Psalm 111:1
Love Christ! ............................. 1 John 4:12
Have a Prayer Request? To put
someone on our prayer chain, obtain
permission from the person or family
involved, then call:
Judy Smith (704) 392-2892
-or-
Kay Scearce (704) 825-4446
Know someone Who Needs a Visit?
Please contact the Church Office or Rev.
Cannon (704) 392-0329
Paw Creek Presbyterian Church
Lord, we thank you for...
Each Week...
Sunday
9:30am Session Meeting 9:45am Sunday School
10:55am Worship Service
12:15pm Children’s Choir Practice
Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 3:00pm Church Office Hours
Monday—Friday
11:30am Senior Lunch Program
Monday 7:00pm Girl Scouts
Tuesday
6:30am Men’s Bible Study
9:00am Cardio Fitness
7:00pm Boy Scouts Wednesday
12:00pm Bulletin Deadline
5:30pm Adult Bible Study
6:00pm Children Connecting with Christ 6:00pm MS/HS Youth Group
7:00pm Cub Scouts
Thursday
9:00am Cardio Fitness 6:30pm Chancel Choir Practice
Future Happenings...
Wednesday, April 26 12:00pm Bulletin Deadline 6:00pm Youth Group 6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Sunday, April 30 9:00am Fellowship Breakfast - Traditional 9:45am Combined Sunday School Classes 11:00am Women’s Sunday/Birthday Offering
Tuesday, May 2 6:00pm PW Combined Meeting/Dinner/Officer Installation - CFC
Wednesday, May 3 12:00pm Bulletin Deadline 6:00pm Youth Group 6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Friday, May 5 5:00pm Fish Fry Set-up
Saturday, May 6
5-8pm Fish Fry & PW Bake Sale
Sunday, May 7 11:00am 5th Sunday in Lent/Ten Cents a Meal
Offering/Communion/Youth Taizé
Monday, May 8
12:00pm Newsletter Deadline
7:00pm Christian Ed Committee Mtg.
Wednesday, May 10
12:00pm Bulletin Deadline
6:00pm Youth Group
6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Monday, May 15
6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Wednesday, May 17
12:00pm Bulletin Deadline
6:00pm Youth Group
6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Saturday, May 20
8:00am Men’s Breakfast @ Circle G
8:00am Church Work Day
Sunday, May 21
11:00am Graduation Sunday
12:45pm Long Session Mtg.
Monday, May 22
12:00pm Newsletter Deadline
6:00pm Children Connecting w/Christ
Church Calendar
Sunday, April 30
Women’s Sunday /
Birthday Offering
Sunday, May 7
“The Gatekeeper:
John 10:1-10
Sunday, May 14
“In the Name of Jesus”
John 14:1-14
Sunday, May 21
“If and But Because”
John 14:15-21
Sunday, May 28
“When Jesus Prays for You”
John 17:1-11
Sunday, June 4
Pentecost Sunday
Rev. Larry Hill