A WARM welcome to our visitors today. We are happy to have you join us for worship. Please take a moment to sign a visitor card, located on the back of the pews. Thank you for visiting Providence!
Kay Starnes; Diane Lowe; Tandy Graham’s friend, Karin Burrows; Jessica Jacks-Turkas, grandmother Bennie
Jacks; Kim Sumrell’s dad, Bob Blake; Jack Matthews cousin, Mary Valinda Smith; Elaine Crusan; Tom Moore;
Walt McCanless’s dad, Charles McCanless; Wally and Cathy French’s one-year old grandson, Nash
Murdock; Howard Murphy; Al Schwint’s brother, Geoff; Frances Davis; Susan Schwint; Rolly Chambers
brother, Brent Chambers; Lynette Sisson; Mike Padgett; Paulette Purgason; Stacy Robinson’s sister,
Carolyn Linebarger, Nancy Threatt’s son, Jordan; Dan Grier; Louis Good.
Covenant Class, Fellowship Hall #101
Facilitated by Beverly Howard
Aging Matters: Finding Your Calling for the Rest of Your
Life by R. Paul Stevens
Faith Foundations Class, AMC #402
Run With Horses by Eugene Peterson
Providence Class, FH Main Room
Sojourners Class, FH Main Room
led by Rod Chamberlain
A Christmas Carol at PPC(3 part series)
PRESENT-please bring a story about how you currently
celebrate Christmas
Advent Festival TODAY!
We invite our families with children 4 years
old through 5th grade to the CLC for the
annual ADVENT FESTIVAL at 10:15 am . We
have fun crafts to make and enjoy all through
this Advent season!
Kenneth Grano from the Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region group will present on the dying
process to our Stephen Ministers on Monday, December 4th at 7:00 PM in the office building. Ken will
address spiritual needs at the end of life along with the dying process. All are welcome to hear Ken’s one-
hour presentation.
December 17th Christmas Brunch during the
Sunday School Hour.
Please bring a dish* (nut free) and
join your friends for a time of
Rejoicing and Fellowship in the
Christian Life Center.
HAVE YOU MADE YOUR PLEDGE FOR 2018??
It’s not too late!!
It’s quick and easy! Go to PPC1767.org
Click on 2018 Annual Pledge Form Fill in First and Last name,
Pledge Amount, Phone
And Email.
Click Submit Pledge!
That’s it!! Now go and make your pledge!
The Charlotte Singers
“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
Helen McCorkle Finch, Director
Sunday, December 3rd, 7 pm
Providence Presbyterian Church
Lal and Alin are MARRIED! To hear
more about the wedding and see
some pictures go to the PPC website
(www.ppc1767.org) and click on
“Reflections” November 17.
Children & Youth MINISTRY Weekly Calendar
PLEASE have articles for the Communiqué to Tricia by Thursday NOON. Sunday, December 3 Advent & Lord’s Supper 9:00 am and 11:15 am Worship 10:15 am Shepherds 12:15 pm 1st Sunday Lunch-Youth 4:30 pm Christmas Pageant 5:30 pm Combined Youth 5:00 pm AA 7:00 pm Charlotte Singers Christmas Concert Monday, December 4 9:15 am Sisters 11:30 am Monday Bible Study 5:30 pm AA 7:00 pm Monday Night Book Club 7:00 pm St. Min Peer S&S Tuesday, December 5 10:00 am Prayer Group 10:00 am Women’s Serenity 5:30 pm AA 6:30 pm Outreach Meeting 7:00 pm Women’s Step Study 7:00 pm Youth Council Wednesday, December 6 5:30 pm AA 7:00 pm Bethel 7:00 pm Wednesday Night Group (AA) 7:00 pm Prayer Shawl Thursday, December 7 10:00 am Women’s Serenity 4:30 pm Yoga (206) 5:00 pm AA 6:00 pm Handbells 7:30 pm Adult Choir Friday, December 8 5:30 pm AA Saturday, December 9 5:30 pm AA Sunday, December 10 9:00 am and 11:15 am Worship 10:15 am Deacon Meeting 2:00 pm Combined Youth 5:00 pm AA
SAVE THE DATES December 17-All Church Christmas Brunch
during SS February 17th, 2018-Attic Sale
February 23-25, 2018-Women’s Retreat
Need inspiration for holiday
parties, dinner or a Christmas
gift? Stop by and pick up a PPC
250th Anniversary Cookbook
($35) for sale TODAY after the
9 am and 11:15 am services or
stop by the office during the week!
Children's Christmas Pageant this Afternoon! Sunday, December 3rd at 4:30 pm in the Sanctuary
Children are invited to participate in this Pageant and should come to the
dress rehearsal at 3:00 pm, an hour and half before the pageant, to get
dressed in costume, learn a few acting tips and practice just a bit.
After the pageant the now traditional cookie party will be held in the
Fellowship Hall. (You bring the cookies! Please remember no nuts or nut
products in the cookies.) We could sure use some parents (and youth) at
3:00 pm to get the children dressed!
January 19-21st, 2018 Winterplace, WV
$200 per person with the following included (price subject to change depending on numbers attending) Rental Van 2 nights lodging - 1 day lifts (Sat 8am-10pm) - 1 day ski or snowboard rental - 2 continental breakfasts at hotel - lunch voucher at slopes Contact Joanna Hipp 704.846.1079 ext14 or [email protected]
Advent Devotional booklets are ready. You may
pick up a copy in the Narthex today. Thank you.
to everyone who contributed to the book.
DECEMBER YOUTH CALENDAR
December 3-Combined Youth –CLC upstairs 5:30-7:30 pm
December 10-ice-skating! 2pm-4:45pm at Ice House in Pineville. Bring $10
to skate, plus extra for snacks/drinks.
December 17-Christmas Caroling and Party. We will meet around 4:30pm
at the church. If you are able and willing to drive for Christmas Caroling,
please let me know.
I am so glad that Jim and I chose to attend
Providence when we moved to Charlotte. We have
been grateful for the leadership, the programs and
the mission many times in the eight years we have
been here. But never so grateful as I have been in the
last month as I have experienced Jim’s death and my spine surgery. The
caring support of so many and the beauty of the Memorial Service led by
our clergy and musicians have supported me when my strength was at a
low ebb. ——Thank You-Elna Hanly
Join the Literary Group as we read Willa Cather’s Death Comes For the
Archbishop (1927) this month. We will be discussing the book in
mid-January. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to
establish a diocese in the New Mexico territory in mid-1850s. Cather
portrays the Hopi and Navajo sympathetically , and her characters express
the near futility of overlaying their religion on a millennial-old native
culture.