Check your email inbox on Sunday

for the LIVESTREAM link

or will visit our website,

www.2ndpres.org, and click the

"Sunday Livestream"

button on the home page.

2nd Edition articles are due Saturday, September 20th.

Please join us after Worship on Sunday, September 21st as we celebrate and honor Nancy Montgomery for her many years of service as Clerk of Session. Please bring a card to thank her, and we will have cake and cookies for Fellowship Time!

This is the Season of the Peace and Global Witness offering – one of four PCUSA offerings. In these days, we certainly need the witness of peace and the call of peacemaking from the Gospel. The PCUSA has a seasonal devotional to accompany the offering called, A Season of Peace. If you would like to subscribe to this seasonal devotional, you may do so here. There is also more information at the link about the offering itself.

The offerings will be on September 28th and October 5th.

Food & Friends is a ministry to college students and young adults. On the 2nd Sunday of the month, all college students and young adults are invited to have lunch together at a local restaurant paid for by the church.

The next Food & Friends is Sunday, October 12th.

If you are interested in being a host, please use the sign-up link by clicking on the above image, or contact the church office at (865) 523-2189.

This Sunday is the last day to order West View Coupon Books! The cost is $20 per book, of which West View Elementary receives 75%! You can also donate to West View directly. You can purchase your coupon book before church in the Atrium or after church at Fellowship Time. If you have any questions or would like to place an order, contact Sandra Butler at SandyB446@comcast.net or (865) 659-4416.

Sunday is the last day to order coupon books!

The Pastor’s Bible Study will resume on Thursday, September 25th at 10:30 a.m. in the Barbour Room.

PLEASE NOTE!!!:

This is a change of day from what was previously announced. We will be meeting on Thursdays, not Tuesdays.

We are re-starting our handbell choir. Rehearsals will be on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. No prior experience is necessary. You don’t even have to read music! As long as you count and are willing to be part of a fun group of people making music together, you can be part of the handbell choir. Let us know of your interest by scanning the QR code, clicking the above image, calling the church office, or letting Matt Mimbs know.

At its most recent meeting, the Worship Team discussed our summer seating arrangement and determined that it has been so successful we will continue it for the foreseeable future.

We are meeting in the Barbour Room at 9:30 a.m. This class studies current events through the lens of faith using a weekly curriculum called The Wired Word.

All are invited – join us!

West View Elementary has a permanent donation bin in the atrium. This bin is for donations and has a list of specific items currently needed for the school. The list of items needed will change as the school’s needs change. The current need list will also be published in church publications.

The NEW list is below!

For the 2025-26 school year, West View needs the following:

Paper towels
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Lysol Wipes
Crayons—Crayolas
Crayola Markers
Colored pencils

Things we do NOT need:

Pencils
Scissors

Helping Address

Food Insecurity in

Knox County!

We are no longer asking for specific household and personal items to be purchased and delivered to the church, and the Fish drop-off bin has been removed. However, we do need specific funding to continue this long-time mission of the church. Once per month, our dedicated Fish volunteers buy, pack, and deliver food and household/personal items to families and individuals all over Knox County who call in need.

To positively impact food insecurity in Knox County, please consider giving directly to our church's Fish designated fund, from which all food, personal, and household item purchases are paid. To contribute, you can do so via Realm (click on "Giving," then "Fish" in the drop-down), or the church website (click on "Giving," then Fish in the drop-down), or by check ("Fish fund" in the memo line). Recurring donations would be most helpful.

If you take pictures at a church event, please send them to

Jack (jrosamond@2ndpres.org) for our newsletter and social media accounts,

so people know about the awesome things going on at 2nd Pres!

Barbara Fields, Mancil Milligan, Mark Jenkins, Fran McLean,

Bill Roach, Jr., Donna Downen, and Arlys Milligan

On the Pastoral Care page of our website, we will share more specific updates regarding those on our prayer list. The church staff will update it frequently.

Please get in touch with the Church Office with prayer concerns to be listed in the weekly email or bulletin (jrosamond@2ndpres.org, 865.523.2189)

Names remain on the prayer list for 4 weeks unless requested by the individual or a close family member of the individual to keep them on longer.