WE WELCOME The Rev. Dr. Humphreys Frackson Zgambo from Malawi as our guest preacher this Sunday. He is the current Synod Moderator for the CCAP Blantyre Synod and serves the Mlombwa Congregation with membership of 2,500 in the Blantyre City Presbytery of the CCAP in Malawi. He and his wife Emily have five children and two grandchildren.

Northmont welcomes our guests from the INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP. We welcome you to participate in the events scheduled while they're in Pittsburgh.

PEACEMAKING SPECIAL OFFERING

October is upon us, and with it comes cooler weather, fall colors, and also the annual Peacemaking Offering. This collection, also known as the Peace and Global Witness Offering, is one of three PCUSA General Assembly Special Offerings that we collect at Northmont throughout the year. The other two are the Eastertime One Great Hour of Sharing Offering and the Christmas Joy Offering. The Peacemaking Offering is typically collected on World Communion Sunday, which is the first Sunday in October, but contributions can be made throughout October. Generally, 25 percent of the offering is retained by each congregation for their own peacemaking use, 25 percent is used by synods and presbyteries, and 50 percent is used by the General Assembly ministries. Gifts to the Offering enable the church to promote the Peace of Christ by addressing systems of conflict and injustice across the world, and can be made using the designated pledge envelope or marking Peacemaking Offering on a pew envelope. Thank you for your consideration for this offering.

-Your Mission Committee

Clef Notes

Music Director, Stephen Schall

stephen@northmontchurch.org

In observance of World Communion Sunday the Chancel Choir will offer music in a variety of languages and from several lands. The introit will be sung in Latin with music by a German composer; the offertory, in Spanish, with music by an American from the Southwest. Both the opening and closing hymns are closely associated with Fred Kaan and Doreen Potter who were a hymn-writing team (he the texts, she the music). Kaan was Dutch, Potter was Panamanian. Both were active in the World Council of Churches. The tune of the middle hymn, In Christ There Is No East or West, is an African-American Spiritual, and the closing hymn tune is Jamaican. While we don’t make it the entire way around the world, may the music be a blessing to you. 

AMOS DINNER will be on Wednesday, October 16. The main course will be grilled cheese (by master grilled cheese chef Rev. Ben Robbins) and chili. Spiritual Formation is looking for assistance from someone in the congregation. They'd like to invite 1 or 2 folks to share their award-winning chili

with everyone that evening.

Please let Cheryl English or anyone on Spiritual Formation know if you are willing to prepare and share!

Calling All Youth!

Grades 6 and up

The Northmont Book Club kicks off their reading series with

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.

They'll meet on Saturday, 10/19 at 9:30 in the Malawi Room.

All are welcome to join! Please email any questions to

Amy Phelps at phelpsa@duq.edu.

NORTHMONT’S DINING OUT GROUP will enjoy dinner at Patron Mexican Grill (11675 Perry Hwy in Wexford) on Monday, Oct. 21 at 6:30.

Everyone is welcome to join. Please text or call Sarah Jane (412-952-0662) to be included in the reservation.

Specialized Ministry

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