NOVEMBER’S SERMON TITLES AND SCRIPTURES

Sermon Title: Scripture:

Nov. 5th: “A Burden, Do We Even Know What it is?” 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Nov. 12th: “Staying Awake (Alert)” Matthew 25:1-13

Nov. 19th: “Use it or Lose It” Matthew 25:14-30

Nov. 26th: “Sheep or Goat?” Matthew 25:31-46

New member classes will be held Nov. 12th and 19th (one more Session for folks who have

never had a church home).

The classes will be held 10:00 to 10:30 in the fellowship hall and will cover how one

becomes a member, the basis for our faith, 'rules for the road" ( our written and unwritten

traditions) and a brief study on what Presbyterians believe. It would be helpful to numbers

of those planning to attend (members also welcome). Please call the church office, respond

to Erica via email or put a piece of paper in the offering plate that says "New Member Class"

with your name on it.

Donated By: In Honor or Memory of: _______________________ ________________________________________ _______________________ ________________________________________ _______________________ ________________________________________ Number Ordered_______ Amount Paid_______ 2017

The Worship Committee is taking orders for poinsettias for Advent. Complete your order and place it in the offering plate. The cost is $8.00 for each poinsettia ordered. The last day for orders will be November 20th noon. Please make your check payable to:

First Presbyterian Church Indicate that it is for poinsettias.

Thank you!

Poinsettias

Staff: Stated Supply Pastor:

Rev. Burt McGlawn

Administrative Assistant:

Erica Salmons

Director of Youth Ministries:

Josh Jones

Custodian:

Jeanie Casada

Financial Secretary:

Carol Henderson

Nursery Attendant:

Linda Slaughter

Pastor Emeritus:

Jack Wilhelm

Pianist/Organist:

Beth Kleppinger

HandBell Director:

Richard Wright

Weekly Activities : Sunday:

9:15am Childcare Opens & Coffee Plus

9:40am Adult Bible Study

10:00am The Thoughtful Christian

10:00am Women’s Sunday School Class

10:30am Choir Warm Ups

11:00am Worship

Tuesday:

5:30-7:30pm Girl Scout Troop (except 2nd

Tuesday of the month)

Wednesday:

5:30pm Dinner

6:00pm Children's Choir

6:00pm Youth Group

6:15pm Hand Bell Choir

6:30pm Children's Crossfit

7:00pm Adult Choir

Thursday:

6:00pm Centering Prayer in the Chapel

Saturday:

8:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous

Office Hours:

Monday—Friday

8:30 am—4:30 pm

Closed for lunch from 12:00pm—1:00pm

Elder of the Month

Hannah Vaught

606-875-1168

hartstop66@gmail.com

Deacon of the Month

Linda Spanier

606-416-4976

lindaspanier@windstream.net

Please contact the Deacon of the month

when someone is ill, hospitalized, has passed away or is in

need of prayer.

Elders Class of 2017

Paul Guffey

Connie Jamieson

Elders Class of 2018

Laura Kamperman

Bruce Wilson

Elders Class of 2019

Wanda Mabry

Hannah Vaught

Norrie Wake

Sherry Brown

Nancy Holland

Deacons

Class of 2017

Doris Ball

Lynn Cain

Liz Isaacs

Class of 2018

Sharon Mandt

Perry Waller

Class of 2019

Paula Burlew

Suzanne Kidd

Linda Spanier

Lay Leaders:

5: Jane Evans

12:Calvin Gates

19: Paula Burlew

26: Nina Wilhelm

Acolytes:

5: Jonna & Chance Stayton

12: Parker & Jenna Phillips

19: Forrest & Jonah Brock

26: Linda Spanier & Tommy York

Ushers:

5: George Joplin, Jo Marshall, Lynn & John Cain

12: Jon & Paula Burlew, Wanda Mabry, and Marshall Judy

19: Rodney Patton, Josh Jones, Kim & Jason King

26: Paul & Sue Guffey, Bruce Wilson, & Olivia (Wilson) Russell

Nursery:

5: Paula Burlew

12: Peggy Tiller

19: Olivia Russell

26: Deanna Wahlman

Coffee Plus

5: Nancy Holland

12: Carol Henderson

19: Marci Randall

26: Annie & Mark Watkins

IISY 1 & 2:

5: TBD

12: Christie Adams & Lynn Cain

19: Autumn Brock & Susanna Hall

26: Christina Ross & Kim King

If an emergency arises and you cannot volunteer on your Sunday, please look at the monthly list at other volunteers,

contact them to see if you can switch dates with one of them first. When you find a replacement or if you are unable

to find a replacement, contact the Elder of the Month, Hannah Vaught 606-875-1168 or hartstop66@gmail.com

as soon as you know so that he/she can find a replacement for you or make note of the changes.

*If we have missed your Birthday

or Anniversary, please call the office at

(606) 678-5731.*

November 2017 Worship Assistants & IISY Teacher Volunteer Calendar:

***The deadline for information of the December Monthly Vine will be November 30th.

Please make sure to contact the office by phone (606)678-5731 or by email

fpcsomersetoffice@gmail.com if you want to insert information into the Vine! Thanks!***

Anniversaries:

November 14th: Clifford & Annetta Clifford

November 25th: Paul & Carol Henderson

Visit our website at fpcsomerset.org Here you will

find calendars, bulletins, sermons, and so much

more about First Presbyterian, Somerset!

Birthdays:

November 2nd: Autumn Brock

November 5th: Ann Haney

November 7th: Beth Hall

November 8th: Joe Ball

November 12th: Dale Morton

November 15th: Linda Spanier & Ed Mick

November 18th: Sharon Mandt

November 26th: Parker Phillips

November 30th: Susanna Hall

Sound System:

5: Terry Randall

12: Sue Guffey

19: Troy Jamieson

26: Steve Vaught

Hold-U-Over Food Boxes Monthly Donation for November:

2 regular size canisters of oatmeal

Donations can be dropped off in the bins in

the atrium hallway going towards the

fellowship hall.

Thank you for helping feed our neighbors

that are in need!

Prayer List Jack, Rev. Burt McGlawn's Father; The family of David Baker due to his death, and David & LaVonna

Snell (grandparents); The PNC; Leslie Phillips; Ronnie Schoolcraft; Carly Lloyd, Lauren Lloyd (Wilhelm)’s daughter; Ruthmary McConnell & her daughter, Susan.

Please remember our homebound members with cards & prayers: Joann Mullen, Virginia McMillen and Odessa Douglass.

God’s Food Pantry

Can you give a couple of hours to help pack food

boxes for the needy and shut-ins

of our community?

Join your Presbyterian Friends at God’s Food

Pantry at 12pm noon on Wednesday,

November 8th .

Thursday, November 9th at 6:30-8:30 PM. Join Josh Jones for a discussion of A Hidden

Wholeness by Parker J. Palmer—here’s the link to learn more about the book and order through

Amazon, if you like https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Wholeness-Journey-Toward-

Undivided/dp/0470453761/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The Hanging of the Greens Wednesday, November 29th

after the Wednesday Nigh Meal!

Join us in decorating the church for the Advent Season, as this is

a special time of year to prepare for the arrival of Jesus’ birth.

Our annual Thanksgiving lunch

will be Sunday, Nov. 19th

in the fellowship hall following

worship. Please plan on joining us

for fun, fellowship and delicious food! The church will provide the

turkey, dressing, gravy and mashed potatoes.

Please bring a vegetable, salad, dessert, etc. to share.

Questions, contact Wanda Mabry.

Somerset Independent Born Learning 2017-2018

KY Race to the Top Bornlearning Academy Workshop Series

The Bornlearning Academy is a series of family workshops for parents of children not enrolled in

school ages 0 to 5. Together, we learn how we can prepare our children for school, starting when

they are born. We have dinner with our families, break out into groups and learn how to Turn

Everyday Moments into Learning Opportunities.

Session 3: November 9th (Thursday)- Ready to Read! Building Your Child's Language Skills:

Learn ways to make reading fun & learn how to connect with songs & games. Children's program:

Hopkins Elementary School Preschool Teachers/Somerset High School Career Students. Dinner

Provided by: FRYSC

Session 4: December 14th (Thursday)- Nutrition & Health: Healthcare, Nutrition & Sleep.

Children’s Program: HES Preschool Teachers/SHS Career Students. Dinner Provided by: FRYSC

Begins at 5:30pm at Hopkins Elementary School. Dinner will be served at 5:30, Workshop (parent

& children craft-time) at 6:00 and door prizes (each meeting prizes will be given out and for every

attendance, thier name goes in a drawing for at TV, a 75.00 gift prize, and a 50.00 gift prize. The

more you come the more chances you have to win) at 7:00

To Register: You may call the FRYSC at 606-678-5821 or our main line at 606-679-8689

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL CHILDREN IN PULASKI COUNTY

Directory Update!

It’s important for our church family to know how to get in touch with each

other, and that information changes a lot and frequently.

A draft of the directory will be on a table near each entry to the church

sanctuary and fellowship hall by Wednesday. Please double-check that your

information is accurate and complete and make necessary changes. You may

also call the church office, 606-678-5731, or email the office at

fpcsomersetoffice@gmail.com, to update any changes.

We need the names of all in your household, your mailing address, phone contact information for

each member of your family—cell and home, email addresses for each member, birthday and any

anniversaries.

With parent’s permission, this year we would like to have the birthdates of all children age 18 and

under. Please also include age or birth year.

If you have any feedback or requests regarding this update, please contact the church office,

(606) 678-5751. We hope to soon have an updated directory to be shared with all.

NOW is the time to begin...

Now is the time to begin... Thinking and planning and opening your heart to Advent and Christmas.

So often the holidays sweep us up and come like a Mack truck and we struggle to just get through

them. It's a relief to get to January 2nd.

Promise yourself ... Not this year.

This year set aside 10 or 15 minutes every morning to pray. To clear your mind and heart and to

listen to God's word for you and your family. Pray alone and pray with your family. It's important for

your children to pray WITH you and to see that prayer is important to you.

The gift we all receive at Christmas is the joy of a tiny baby God-child. We haven't done anything to

earn that love and we surely don't deserve it, but we receive it all the same. We receive it, as

Barrington Bunny taught us, "with no strings attached."

Give yourself the gift of time in prayer and listening quietness, and feel Christ draw near to you.

It is also the time to DO.

Put the focus for you and your family on DOING for others.

Start NOW to talk about CIA Shopping - what it is and why we do it. We as a church family can re-

mind ourselves and teach our children to think and remember those who have little in contrast to our

abundance.

We will take up the CIA Shopping offerings November 19th and November 26th. Start NOW... Put a

bowl on your family dining table and add money to it every day. Encourage your kids to contribute

their money by sharing their allowance and doing chores to EARN what they put in. It doesn't help

your kids to hand them offering money as they walk into church. Use this offering to teach them

how important GIVING is... Giving that means giving up something so others may have.

Try this: after Halloween, no family member gets to buy "stuff" for themselves... Especially the

KIDS. That money instead goes in the bowl. No toys for them, no extra candy treats, no extra

anything...

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Exciting Archaeological Find!

Recent work at an archaeological dig in the Middle East has unearthed 2000-year-old video and

audio recordings which are remarkably well-preserved. The Children's Choir Director has obtained

copies of these artifacts and we will have a viewing of them on Sunday, December 17 at 6:00 p.m.

The events of the Christmas story will be depicted with the help of the historic News Anchor at

WFPC-TV and Roving Reporter at its sister station, WXMS-FM. The Children's Choir will also

assist with the presentation, which is sometimes called the "Christmas Pageant."

All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served following the event.

Have them clear out toys and games that are still nice but no longer played with and let your kids

take them WITH you to donate to Toys for Tots.

Let your kids see you NOT buying an extra coffee or muffin, or a new outfit, or a cute decoration.

Let them see you put that money in the bowl and say where you saved it.

And mark in big letters on your family calendar, CIA SHOPPING on December 3rd. Then we will

gather as a church family at the ungodly hour of 7:30-8:00am to share Baxter's coffee and pastries

and to share hugs and laughter and the annual photo and prayer before we take the names and ages

of children we will shop for..and we GO.

We will go - all of us of all ages - to WalMart to find the "most perfect gifts" for the names we

have been assigned. We will know how much we can spend for each child based on how much

offering we have received. Watch the joy on your kids' faces as they work to find the best gifts.

Feel your heart warm as you shop for your child.

We will bring the gifts back to the Fellowship Hall and, after worship, we will feast again - this

time on pizza and cookies - and we will wrap each gift.

It is the biggest Mission project we do each year and the one closest to our hearts.

Give yourself and your family this gift for Christmas... The pure joy of giving to those in need.

And share this special time with your church family.

November Calendar:

November 2nd: Deacons Meeting, 4:00pm

November 3rd: Men’s Breakfast at Bob Evans

November 7th: Worship Committee Meeting, 4:00pm

November 7th: Alma Tibbals Circle will be on

November 7, at 6:30 p.m.. Naomi Judy will host @ 116 Green Hill Park Drive in Maplewood and will be

serving dessert and beverages. Our Lesson Leader will be Sherry Hughes.

November 8th: God’s Food Pantry, 12pm (noon)

November 16th: Session Meeting, 6:00pm

November 19th: Thanksgiving Dinner

November 22nd: No Wednesday Night Meal or Fellowship

November 23rd & 24th: OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED

November 27th: Meal Share, 6:00pm

November 29th: Hanging of the Greens (after WNF meal)

December 3rd: CIA Christmas Shopping

December 17th: Children’s Pageant

November 1

Nina Joplin

Jane Evans

Kathy Phelps

Sink: Mike Smith

DW: Marshall Judy

3) Susan Jasper

4)Mary Norfleet

November 8

John Joplin

Perry Waller

Brad Schoolcraft

Sink: Brenda Wesley

DW: Paul Guffey

3) Mary Norfleet

4) Mike Smith

November 15

Bruce Wilson

Lynn Snell

Wanda Mabry

Sink: Suzanne Kidd

DW: Carol Wade

3) Marshall Judy

4) Mike Smith

November 22

No Meal

Thanksgiving

November 29

Sherry Brown

Jan Leveridge

John Joplin

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December 6

Linda Spanier

Sue Guffey

Nancy Holland

Sink: Carol Wade

DW:

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December 13

John Joplin

Perry Waller

Brad Schoolcraft

Sink: Brenda Wesley

DW: Paul Guffey

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