Coffee and Conversation will be returning next Wednesday on July 12th at 10:00am! Come and catch up over a cup of coffee with some of your church family! No need to RSVP, just come drop in!

FPC at Camp Meetings

Salem Campground Meeting will be July 14-21 at 3940 Salem Rd, Covington, GA 30016. Services will be held daily at 11:00am and 7:30pm.

Our very own Alice Walker and her sister Becky Ramsey will be playing dual pianos for each morning and evening service.

Monday, July 17th will feature Neeley offering prayers at both services with the Ambassador Choir singing at the 11:00am service, and the Chancel Choir singing at the 7:30pm service!

Lunch will follow the midday service at 12:15pm and dinner will be served before the evening service at 5:30pm.

Ken and Alice cordially invite any FPC members or singers who can attend to be their guests for lunch or dinner on the 17th. Please let Alice know you will need a reservation by Tuesday, July 14th—770-789-3651.

Get ready for our next sermon series wherein we'll reflect on the lessons of Jesus according to Matthew!

Even though our Finance Team has finalized our 2023 budget, you are always welcome to make a pledge or to volunteer your time and talents to serve!

The FPC Office will be CLOSED on Tuesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

Music Ministry

Regularly scheduled music ministry rehearsals for Joyful Noise, Hallelujah Kids, Carillon Handbell Choir, and Chancel Choir will resume on

August 16th!

We'd love to have you!

Neeley’s Notions is an email offering that gives Neeley the chance to start a conversation about the inspirations and influences she thinks about while writing her weekly sermon. The email will be sent on Friday mornings when the Spirit leads, and you can reply to the email with your thoughts and stories for Neeley to read.

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A thank you from Curtis Watson:

Hello, volunteers of the FPCC Red Cross Blood Drive on 6-29-23. Just to let you know we reached our goal of 20 units of blood for the drive. Several of the folks were repeat donors at First Presbyterian. People like coming to a First Presbyterian drives due to the friendliness, kindness and care displayed by you, the volunteers. The Red Cross techs made note that our volunteers show that they really care about the donors. I send my thanks to each one of you for making the event a very positive experience for the donors, the technicians and for our fellow church member volunteers.

I also would like to ask that if anyone has a suggestion, or suggestions, for improving the experience for either our donors and/or our volunteers, please let me know.

I hope that all of you will "pencil in", Friday, November 17th, to volunteer for our fall Red Cross Blood Drive. I look forward to spending some time with you on Friday, November 17th.

May God bless you and all your loved ones and keep you all safe. 

Curtis Watson

A letter from the Lambs:

Dearest First Presbyterian Covington Family,

Lonnie and I cannot begin to express how much each of you mean to us. What a welcome, loving, accepting community of believers. From the “littles”, the unbelievable music, sermons that speak to your heart, smiling faces (always), the best hugs, and all around love we have felt is hard to say good too so we will just say, “see you later”. The outpouring of love and support we received, leading up to and after, moms passing was amazing and is still felt today. We thank each of you.

Please come see us at Lake Murray! South Carolina is not that far away.

Blessing to each of you that we hold so near to our hearts,

Beth and Lonnie

Please keep the following people and their families in your prayers this week:

Prayers:

• Peni Kehoe - recovering from back surgery
• Meredith Nash, friend of Barbara Martin - four year old with stage IV liver cancer
• Bill Loeble - recovering from kidney removal surgery
• Randy Jones, nephew of Faye Kitchens - lung cancer
• Lucas, Morgan, and baby Nate, friends of Faye and Joel Kitchens - baby going through dialysis
• Taylor Waters, great niece of Gene Wallace
• Lee Morris, friend of Donna Weesner - meningitis
• Bob and Beverly Beasley, friends of Jean Elder - health concerns and care
• Brenda Buckelew, mother of Jennifer Buckelew
• Patrick Carmichael
• Larry Cox, brother-in-law of Randy Layton - cancer
• Bob Darby, friend of Jeff Mackenzie - leg amputated, kidney problems
• Patsy Freeman, sister of Judy Davis - dementia
• Bruce Hamilton, brother of Theodosia Wade - immunotherapy cancer treatment
• Karen Lein Kaasa, sister-in-law of Julie MacKenzie - home health care
• E.W. Sims, great uncle of Robert Lane
• Linda Trenthan, friend of congregation
• Donald Vining, brother of Danny Vining - vision loss
• Joyce Williams, sister of Danny Vining - Alzheimer’s

Independent and Assisted Living

• Penny Blakeney - The Oaks Assisted Living
• Homer Borders - Presbyterian Village Athens
• Jean Elder - Florida with her daughter
• Dot Fincher - Merryvale
• Louly Hay - Presbyterian Village Athens
• Travis Moss - Westbury, Conyers
• Gene Wallace - Merryvale
• Louise White - Merryvale

Military Service

• Billy Scarborough - Marines
• Koen Ardis - Navy

Please click HERE to update your prayer requests or send new prayer requests.

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