Each week we include a recipe in the Church Chimes and we hope that you are enjoying reading and trying them. You can add your favorite recipes to the Chimes by sending them to Cheryl Beck at cabeck@ncsu.edu. This is an ongoing WMU project.
Thanks for participating!
Strider Drum (shown with the Golden Egg at the easter egg hunt this year) and his mom, Brooke, read over five books from the Children’s Library this summer. Great job!
Strider Drum took the reading challenge and read over five books from the Children’s Library this summer! Congratulations! He picked out a neat prize from the prize basket. Keep reading, Strider!
Our children in 1st Explorers and the children of the church who aren’t in the after school program have a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the work of missionaries around the world and how they can be missionaries right where they are. The groups will meet on Wednesdays when school is in session from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Sandi Allen will again lead the GAs (Girls in Action) for 2nd through 5th graders. Beverly Duncan-Midgett is in her second year as Mission Friends leader for children kindergarten through 1st grade. Right now, we are without an RA leader.
The Pastor Search Committee is asking our church family to put Sunday, September 15 on our calendars and to make every effort to be in attendance that day. Before we begin taking resumes, we would like to give you one more opportunity to talk about what you want in a pastor and to do so in small intimate groups that are not rushed and are quieter and more private.
So, please plan to attend this important meeting. A sandwich and chips lunch in the MFC following the worship service will be provided by the Kitchen Team and helpers. Following the meal, we will break up into small groups that will be led by members of the Pastor Search Committee. —Ann Melton
To help raise money for a new van
Skyland Care Center's own “Songbirds” will be the opening group for this event. You don’t want to miss it!
Sponsored by: Secure in Him Ministry
Hosted by: Sheila Blackwell
When: Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Singing Groups Include: Peyton Cathey and New Generation;
His by Grace; The Clarke Kesler Singers; and Isaac’s Well
Place: First Baptist Church of Sylva | Mission and Fellowship Center
Everyone is welcome!
Continuing a tradition begun last year, children and their backpacks will be prayed over at the start of the new school year, at the August 18 service.
Children, youth, and college students are invited to bring their backpacks that day for a special time of blessing. Please come!
Thank you to Carrie Nelson and Beth Moore for their work in the nursery this past Sunday.
You are appreciated!
Families appreciate the newly renovated nursery.
Next Sunday, Nancy McConnell will be in charge of the nursery.
Thank you, Nancy, for your willingness to help.
We are looking for someone to lead our youngest children in Sunday School. Anyone want to love
on these little ones and share God’s love? Contact Cheryl Beck for more information.
I hear dead people. Puritans of the past give voices to the present. They are dead, but through their preserved diaries, poems and sermons I hear them. I will never see their faces, but I hear their thoughts, I will never shake their hands, but clearly see them, pointing me back to the straight and narrow way.
Bradstreet, Mather or Milton—I listen to their struggles to become holy temples and living sacrifices to the Word of God. Windford, Bradford or Edwards—their voices stir my faith to total faithfulness in following our Savior. Anne Hutchinson, the original American Women in Ministry founder, shows by example what Holy Scripture revealed to her.
In present stress and daily questions of staying in The Way, I hear others who have shared the same temptations, who have lived in the same godless society but who have stayed true and given voice to their victories. Their struggles, sometimes against government and sometimes against religion, were great and long-suffering. But they stood their ground for holy living and discipline to God’s way of living out a faith proclaimed verbally.
The struggles for me today can be the same. So I listen and my heart hears dead people who guide, encourage and help me find a living Christ today.
Pray...Give...Go.
If you would like to provide flowers in the sanctuary for Sunday morning services, please contact Gwen Messer at 828-506-8370, or Janice in the church office to be placed on the calendar.