ANNOUNCEMENTS
THIS SUNDAY WE WELCOME - FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, GREENVILLE, TN
About our Guest Minister for Sunday, October 11 morning, Rev. Greg Cartwright - We are delighted to welcome Rev. Greg Cartwright, the Associate Pastor for Families at First Presbyterian Church of Greenville as our guest preacher this morning. Greg and his own family love New Orleans, having lived here for years before being called to Greenville, TN. He is here this week leading a mission group from FPC Greenville staying at FPCNO, working on projects around the church as well as helping us get ready to host Presbytery next weekend plus work with Second Harvest and other charitable organizations around town. This is the second group from this church that has come down to help New Orleans this year. The First Pres Greenville work group that was here earlier this summer did an enormous amount of renovation and improvements for the church and the city!
Ten Ways YOU can Make October at FPCNO a Success! - Hello Everyone! It's that time of year again...The Pumpkins are Here! The pumpkin patch is the largest fundraiser for our church and The Program of Hope. Here are 7 ways you can help out:
1. We need someone/s to help keep up with our Volunteer scheduling this year. Please contact Kristy Ruppel at pumpkins.fpcno@gmail.com for more information.
2. Contact Pastor Fred for more information: fpcnopastor@gmail.com
3. Volunteer to help sell pumpkins. Sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/805084dafad2eaa8-sell2
4. Our second batch of pumpkins arrive on Saturday October 17th.Come help us unload more pumpkins to reach our financial goals. Sign up here:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/805084DAFAD2EAA8-pumpkin5
5. Our Annual Costume Contest and Movie Night will be on Saturday, October 24th. The following donations are needed: gently used children's
costumes, small prizes for the contest, candy, and snacks. If you would like to sponsor a child to attend the movie night festivities you can donate $5 per child and a homeless child will be able to enjoy the fun.
6. Volunteer your time to help with the costume contest and movie night. We need volunteers to help children without costumes get ready using our donated costumes. You can also help set up and cleanup after the movie night. Contact: Kristy Ruppel at pumpkins.fpcno@gmail.com or Cheryl Roberts at cherylcookie@hotmail.com for more information.
7. SHARE! Share the invitation to do all this with your family, friends, and co-workers! The more help we have the more success we can enjoy.
Adopt a Salvation Army resident Family for Halloween - We have teamed up with the Salvation Army to provide children who reside there with Halloween costumes and passes to our costume contest/movie night (Saturday, October 24). We are looking for gently used, or new children’s costumes in all sizes. Please bring them to the church office before October 19th. Also, a gift of $25 will provide a movie pass and refreshments to an entire family at our Movie Night. Please see Cheryl Roberts to make your donation!
Looking for Captains for the Saints Day’s Party! - We are continuing our tradition of cheering on the Saints at a Potluck today after church. But we need your help to set up and clean up after the party, so we are asking for volunteers to be "Captain for a Day” to help us with these task. Please sign up in the narthex for the Game for which you would like to be Captain.
FALL PRESBYTERY MEETING at FPCNO — October 16-17 - It is a great honor for First Presbyterian to host the two day Fall Presbytery meeting. We will be opening our doors to over 100 visitors from nearly 60 churches from all over South Louisiana. This is our best shot to show how special and welcoming this congregation is; show how important our survival is to the Presbytery because of our mission, our commitment to diversity and our leadership; and to say thank you for all the things that Presbytery has provided for us over the years; direct funding, building improvements, leadership and fellowship. But we need YOU to help make this weekend run smoothly.
You are invited: Moderator’s Reception/Cuban Salsa Party Friday, October 16 pm, 7:pm in the Fellowship Hall. Presbytery weekend events kick off with the Moderator’s Reception celebrating the National Presbyterian Cuba Partnership. Visitors from all over the US and Caribbean will be joining members of Presbytery for a Cuban dance party at FPCNO. We will need help setting up tables and doing some decorating that Friday afternoon, and cleaning up afterwards to prepare for the big meeting the next day in the Fellowship Hall
Volunteers Needed October 17
• We need breakfast bakery items (preferably homemade) and fruit for about 100 people for Saturday morning October 17.
• We need about 12 volunteers to help Justin Wood prepare and serve food. We also need up setting up (after the Salsa party Friday night) and breaking down tables (1 pm on Saturday) and perhaps some help about 3pm to pack up the Presbytery sound system and tables in the sanctuary and do a quick cleaning before a 6 pm wedding.
OCTOBER CALENDAR
- Square Dancing – Monday, October 12, 7:00pm.
- Deacon meeting – Tuesday, October 13, 6:30pm.
- Presbytery meeting – Friday, October 16 – Saturday, October 18.
- Special Sunday Service (Cuban Partnership Network) – Sunday, October 18, 11:00am.
- Session meeting – Tuesday, October 20, 6:30pm.
- Pumpkin Patch (Costume contest 4:30pm and Movie night "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" begins at 5:15pm) – Saturday, October 24, on the 2nd floor in the Fellowship Hall.
NOVEMBER CALENDAR
- Women United in Prayer – Saturday, October 7, 9:30am.
- WHO DAT Game Day – Sunday, October 8, 12:00pm.
- Deacons meeting – Tuesday, November 10, 6:30pm.
- Fleur de Lys Chamber Orchestra “FALL CONCERT” - November 12, 7:30pm.
- Session meeting – Tuesday, November 17, 6:30pm.
- Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 26(Have A Wonderful Thanksgiving Day).
- Church Office (CLOSED) – Friday, November 27.
