Adult Sunday School Class Update

Introduction to Spiritual Practices will meet at 9:45 AM on October 12^th in room E201. The topic is Sabbath. On October 19^th, we will return to our normal 9:30 AM start time.

The Todd Hobbie class resumes this Sunday in Davis Hall. Dr. Adrian Bird continues his lecture series on Sundays through November 2^nd.

The S & D class meets in the Fellowship House. The Journey class is gathering in The Commons.

Game Night!

Our Youth had fun Sunday evening with Game Night! We even squeezed in a couple rounds of modified sardines after our team building activities. Thank you to the Hobsons for being our special guests and to the Castrodales for a delicious dinner!

10/12 – CROP Walk – we hope Youth and their families will sign-up and participate. There is NO regular evening Youth on 10/12.

10/19 – NO regular Youth group on this Fall Break weekend. We will gather for lunch and the start of the Panthers game on the church lawn, hosted by the Finance & Stewardship committee. See you there!

10/26 – Wear your favorite college apparel! We will be packing care packages AND playing games. Middle School – 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, High School 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.

 2025-2026 Youth: 10/26 Youth Group

Children's Choir and Music & Motion resume October 19th



Thank you to the Children's Choir for helping lead worship with your beautiful voices! We look forward to resuming rehearsal after fall break. No Children's Choir or Music & Motion for Sunday, October 12th. We will see you on October 19th at 9:30 AM!

Cabarrus County Crop Hunger Walk

CROP Walk 2025 will start right here in the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM.

Go to events.crophungerwalk.org to donate and/or register to walk with the FPC/Kirby Bullard team. The money raised will be distributed between local hunger ministries and the worldwide ministry.

Please join us!

 New Books in the Church Library

The Library Team has been busy reviewing and ordering and shelving new books in the church library!

Some of these titles were requested by you --members of the congregation-- so we hope many of you bookworms will drop by the library and check out some interesting things to read this fall.

The library is on the second floor of the Education building, (It is also known as the library/conference room.)

Some of the new titles are:

The Serviceberry                            The Berry Pickers

The AARP Caregiver Answer Book           Chasing Hope by Nicholas Kristof 

My Friends by Fredrik Backman                It's OK That You're Not OK

The Cafe at the End of the World               A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Lunch Bunch - October 21

In January, Pastor Casey and his wife, Jordan, spent almost two weeks together traveling across southern Japan for their honeymoon.

Join us for Lunch Bunch at 11:45 AM on Tuesday, October 21 in Davis Hall to see photos and hear stories about their time in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Kinosaki, and Fukuoka after sharing conversations and Japanese food with your church family.

RSVP by calling the Church reservation line at (704) 788-2100,#7.

Chef Margaret has a special menu planned and we are expecting a larger turnout than usual, so please make your reservation as early as possible. 

*Note: This Lunch Bunch has been shifted from the 4th Tuesday to the 3rd because of First Kids annual Book Fair.

Youth Bake Sale Raises $196.07!

Thank you to the Youth who helped to bake cookies and brownies this fall for the bake sale – and for our special guest bakers!

The bake sale brought in $196.07 which all goes to support Market for Missions.

Girl Scout Troop is Blooming

Troop 334 had an amazing time at Little Farm Midland. They learned about running a small business from a female entrepreneur (Teri Jones). Ms. Jones gave the girls a tour of her spring and fall flower fields and shared a little about her resident pollinators. After sampling some honey, the girls explored Teri’s walk-in flower refrigerator. The evening concluded with flower arranging – starting with fillers and adding in colorful flowers to form beautiful bouquets. The girls all got to bring home their creations.

Blessing of the Animals

What a great time our furry friends and their humans had Sunday afternoon! At first it was like” a meet and greet “with friendly barking and meows., then all God’s creatures were personally blessed by Ellen or Casey.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who brought donations for the Cabarrus Animal Shelter. When the items arrived Monday afternoon, the staff was SO APPRECIATIVE.

Gratitude and love for our pets and all God’s amazing animals.

Blessing Box Restocked as Lesson

The Elementary Sunday School class stocked the Blessing Box on Sunday morning as part of their lesson on Manna for Heaven.