Book Study

Please join us Wednesday mornings on Zoom for study and discussion of the book "Christ in the Rubble: Faith, The Bible, and The Genocide in Gaza" by Munther Isaac.

The first meeting will be Wednesday, October 29, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Any questions can be directed to Claudia Foulkes, 502-939-4129. Please email Claudia at Cfoulkes3@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and be added to the group email list for regular communication.

Congregational Meeting, October 26

The Session has called a congregational meeting to elect new church officers on Sunday, October 26, immediately following worship. The Nominating Committee has been hard at work seeking CHPC members to serve as elders, deacons, and at-large members of next year’s Nominating Committee. We are grateful for those who said Yes to God’s call to lead our congregation!

The slate of nominees is here. If you wish to make nominations from the floor, please make sure to contact the nominee(s) and get their permission. All members are encouraged to stay after worship October 26 for this brief but important meeting.

https://spiritofsophia.org/day-retreat-with-artist-toby-penney/ 

Prayer and Action for Middle East

Feel free to join us Thursdays on Zoom, in-person, or both. This group has enabled such support for one another as we all struggle to cope with the tragedies in the Middle East and the on and off cease fires and prisoner releases. We would be grateful to have others join us. Email Soni at soni.castleberry@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and be added to the group email list for regular communication.

Did You Know? What Presbyterians Believe

Throughout the history of the Christian movement churches have written confessions of faith because they feel that they must do so, not just because they think it would be a good idea. Confessions of faith may result from a sense of urgent need to correct some distortion of the truth and claim of the gospel that threatens the integrity of the church’s faith and life from within the church. They may result from some political or cultural movement outside the church that openly attacks or subtly seeks to compromise its commitment to the gospel. Sometimes the urgency to confess comes from the church’s conviction that it has a great new insight into the promises and demands of the gospel that is desperately needed by both church and world.

Frequently, all three occasions—internal danger, external threat, and great opportunity—are behind the great confessions of the church at the same time. In any case, the church writes confessions of faith when it faces a situation of life or a situation of death so urgent that it cannot remain silent but must speak, even at the cost of its own security, popularity, and success. Or to put it negatively, when all the church has to say is the restatement of what everyone already knows and believes, or when it has no word to speak other than safe generalities that ignore or cover over the concrete, specific issues of a crisis situation—then it is not the time for confession even though what is confessed might be true in itself.

https://pcusa.org/sites/default/files/boc2016.pdf page vii  

October Birthdays

Please remember these wonderful folks in prayer and, if possible, reach out to them with a card, phone call, text, email or however you choose to honor them.

10/1 - Ben Langley, Richard Recob

10/3 - Jack Marcum

10/5 - Lucy D. Steilberg

10/8 - Martha Gee

10/12 - Perry Chang

10/19 - Ginny Brown

10/23 - Brad Castleberry

10/26 - Gayle Collins

10/27 - Luiz Kemmerle, David Wilding

To double-check your listing, contact the office at office@crescenthill.church or call 502-893-5381.