Noisy Offering

This Sunday, July 26, will be our Noisy Offering to benefit the backpack program at Coltrane-Webb Elementary.

Bring your change (dollars and checks accepted too!)

Earth Care Congregation Team

The Earth Care Congregation Team will meet in the Fellowship House this Sunday, July 26, following worship. Want to learn about what we do or help out? Join us Sunday!

Summer Reading Program

Our summer reading program friends met at 2 Scoops on Monday to enjoy ice cream, fellowship, and a story. This week we enjoyed the book Baptism Promises and passed around our 3-D baptismal font. Other activities for this book can be found here: 224242BaptismPr_00000169018.pdf

All are invited to join us next week for our final session this summer: Monday, July 27, 1:30 PM in the Children’s Library. We hope to see you there!

Youth Group Ice Cream Social

All Youth, rising 6^th grade and older, are invited to an ice cream social next Monday, July 27, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM in Davis Hall. Drop in or stay the whole time. You are welcome to bring your favorite ice cream or topping or just come and enjoy a refreshing treat! Youth parents are welcome to drop off or join the party!

Some of our new and returning Youth Group volunteers will join us, so Youth will have an opportunity to meet & reconnect with our Youth Group team. Mrs. Prager looks forward to this opportunity to say good-bye before she ends her time on the First Pres campus as the Director of Christian Education. Hope to see you on July 27!

THE BRITISH ARE COMING—and we hope you are too!!!

. . . To Lunch Bunch on JULY 28th that is. . .



July’s guest speaker at Lunch Bunch will be Ed Niven and, though he is a Redcoat, he is 100% American. In fact, he is a card-carrying member of the Sons of the American Revolution. But, somebody has to be the enemy in all of those reenactments! Ed is considered to be a regional expert on King George’s Army during the Revolution. And he will bring some of his collection of artifacts and memorabilia with him. So come and hear about the life of the British soldier in the 18th century and find out how the Revolution looked from the other side as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday in Davis Hall at 11:45 next Tuesday, July 28. 

 Children above the age of 8 and accompanied by responsible adults are invited to take part in this special program. 

We’ll have a special All-American lunch of hot dogs with mustard, ketchup, some chili and slaw, chips, watermelon and brownies for this special intergenerational event. The cost for this little” indoor cookout” will be $12/person. Reservations are due by noon this Thursday, July 23. Call the Reservation line at 704-788-2100 option 7.  Please leave your name, the number of meals needed, and a phone number where you can be reached on the recording. Please feel free to brown bag if this menu does not suit you but we still need to know you are coming but not buying lunch. 

Three volunteers for easy set up and clean up would be welcome. Contact Cathy Floyd with questions.



. . . AND, just so you know whose side we are on, we are working on booking the best American patriot we can find to be with us later this year!!  

CCM Monthly Food Needs

In the month of July, the CCM Food Pantry experienced an up-tick of clients served during the first week of the month. The pantry is low on many items, most of which are detailed in the section below. As we strive towards serving with excellence, giving encouragement, praying for our clients, and being in community together, we would greatly appreciate your prayers over this ministry, our clients, and those we interact with on the daily. As always, God will provide our every need. We pray that the Lord brings the provisions and gives us the wisdom to steward what we have been given.

Here are the items that the CCM Food Program is in need of:

·    Baby Food

·    Baked Beans

·    Broth

·    Black-eyed Peas

·    Carrots

·    Chicken Soup Noodle / Pasta / Rice

·    Chili Beans

·    Low Sodium Corn

·    Regular Corn

·    Dry Rice

·    Fruit Cups

·    Low Sodium Green Beans

·    Regular Green Beans

·    Jelly

·    Mac 'n Cheese

·    Mashed Potatoes

·    Soups of any kind

·    Canned fruit of any kind

·    Mixed / Misc. Vegetables

·    Tomato Paste

·    Tomato Sauce

·    Pasta Sauce

·    Pasta No Meat

·    Pasta with Meat

·    Potatoes

·    Ramen / Instant Soup

·    Red / Kidney Beans

·    Spaghetti

·    Toilet Paper

·    Tuna Fish

·    White Beans

·    Paper Towels

·    Cereal

·    Oatmeal

·    Grits

We remain appreciative of items which are “low-sodium,” “no-added-sugar,” and “whole grain.” Visit https://cooperativeministry.com/wp-content/uploads/CCM-Healthy-Pantry-Donations.pdf for details on nutritional donations.

In addition to our main pantry at 246 Country Club Dr. @ 9:30am-1:00pm Mondays-Fridays, CCM’s satellite pantries also accept grocery donations. They include:

1. Bethel Baptist Helping Hands, Kannapolis @ 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Mondays and Thursdays

2. Westford Methodist, Concord @ 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Saturdays

3. West Point Baptist, Kannapolis @ 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Saturdays

4. Bethel Methodist Church, Midland @ 2 Saturday every month, 8:00 AM-11:00 AM and appointment by phone (704-888-2653)

5. North Kannapolis Baptist, Kannapolis @9:00 AM-11:00 AM Wednesdays and appointment by phone (704-933-2125)

Girl Scouts

“Girl Scout Brownie Troop 323 had a paw-sitively amazing time at Great Wolf Lodge on Saturday, July 18 - Sunday, July 19, 2026!  Scouts and scout paw-rents enjoyed pizza from Hungry as a Wolf after all our swimming (cause we were hungry like a wolf 🫢) 

Scouts and scout paw-rents had fur-real fun at the Summer Camp In-dance party, wolfed down s’mores and then story time in the grand lobby before bed (our own scout Caroline was chosen to help act out the story)! 

Scouts and scout paw-rents also practiced wolf howls, learned about water safety, adopted a wolf cub, and of course, more fun and more fun in the waterpark! 

Scouts and Scout Paw-rents worked hard to earn their cookie rewards and funds and voted to use part of their earned cookie money to go on this trip and to donate part of their money to the Church of God Children’s Home of North Carolina.

A great big awhooooooooo to our adult volunteers who helped to make this trip possible!”