Rev. Dr. Olin McBride

Pastor

Rev. Dr. Rachael Knoll

Associate Pastor

Destiny Williams

Dir. of Youth Ministry

Elizabeth Davis

Dir. of Children’s

Ministry

Julie Garcia Dir. of Children’s Choir

Jason Montague

Director of Music

Jane Robinson - Organist

Wes Shannon - Pianist

ELDERS

Jay Fisher- Clerk

Brian Andrews

Juliet Ashman

Rick Berry

Ginger Irby

Bill Lacy

Warren Nesbit

Lewis Robinson

Angie Ross

Eddy Smith

Cara Welch

Mary Katherine Laverty

(Youth)

DEACONS Eddy Crumbley - Moderator

Wade Burch

Catherine Engelbracht

Chazz Gable

Todd Harvey

Patrick Healy

Cheryl Joyner

Penni Laverty

Tim Peters

Ray Snider

Jill Stroud

Debbie Withers

Charles Wimer (Youth)

MPC News McDonough Presbyterian Church

August 2015

From Olin...

WORSHIP

Worship is a privilege only children of God have.

There are many blessings we receive from faithful at-

tendance in worship. God has commanded us to as-

semble regularly to worship him in spirit and in truth

(John 4:24). Hebrews 10:25-26 says, “Not forsaking the

assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some,

but encouraging one another and so much the more as you

see the day approaching”.

Summertime usually brings to the church lower at-

tendance and that has been very, very true this sum-

mer. I have missed seeing many of you and look for-

ward to renewed activities around MPC beginning in

August so that we can resume “encouraging one an-

other as we see the day approaching.”

Mr. and Mrs. Randall Wayne Adams

request the honour of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Samantha Lyn Adams

to

Olin Watson McBride, Jr.

on Saturday, the twenty-second of August

Two thousand fifteen

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP Membership year-end 2014 582

2015 losses - 8

2015 gains 25

Current membership 599

WEEKLY ATTENDANCE

CHURCH OFFICER

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

It is time for us to consider elders

and deacons for the Class of 2018.

Four elders, one youth elder and

four deacons and one youth dea-

con. Please see the bulletin insert

for placing your recommenda-

tions. Members of this year’s Of-

ficer Nominating Committee are:

Brian Andrews, (Elder), Jay Fish-

er (elder), Wade Burch (deacon),

Ruth Rucker, Tim Wirt, Shelly

Burch, Keith Crowe (all at-large

members).

JULY 2015

8:30 11:00

5-Jul 40 144

12-Jul 53 202

19-Jul 48 164

26-Jul 51 198

MPC News July 2015

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMUNION

The Sacrament of Holy Communion will

be celebrated during both worship ser-

vices on Sunday, August 2.

CLIFTON MEN

We will be hosting the Clifton Men’s

Shelter on Sunday, August 30. If you

would like to help by bringing a dessert

or help with serving the meal, please

contact Tim Wirt.

MISSION TRIP

A mission trip to Honduras is planned for

October 18-25 with members of the Hon-

duras Foundation in South Carolina. This

is a planning/working trip for other trips

in 2016. Contact Olin McBride or Jill

Stroud for more information.

CIRCLE MEETINGS

Saving Grace Circle will meet at Gritz

on the Square on August 13th at 10 a.m.

for a summertime change of pace.

The Friendship circle meets August

27th at Jay Fisher's house.

The Early Risers Circle will meet on

Thursday, August 27th at 8:00 a.m. in

the Fellowship Hall, next to the old

kitchen.

The Annie Ola Sudderth Circle will

meet Tuesday, August 18th at 1:00 in

the Kitchen classroom. Come and join

us to begin our new year. You will re-

ceive your new book and help make

plans for the 2015-16 year. Any ques-

tions please call Judy Alfele 678-772-

9299.

SCRAPBOOK CLASS

If there is anyone in the church interest-

ed in scrapbooking or card making

please contact Chazz Gable at 770-957-

1970.

Go-Go’s Update Senior Adults (55+)

The Go-Go’s will meet

again in September.

Watch the bulletin and

newsletter for more information regard-

ing our trip to the Mayfield Dairy.

Thank you This is a great big thank you to my

church family - for al of your prayers,

calls and visits.

I wish everyone had the privilege of

sharing spiritual lives with folks like

you.

Thanks Again,

Rita Steele

__________________________

To Our MPC Family,

Dorothy & Mark will dearly miss each

of you! We are unable to express our

joy in being part of MPC Family, we

will always cherish MPC and Family.

For once in our lives we are struggling

with what to say and have the right

words, no one would ever think that

Mark was speechless.

To all our family members, we must

praise our Ministers! Olin & Rachel

are a unique & wonderful pair at our

Pulpits each Sunday. They are al-

so extraordinary individuals in the Ser-

vice of Our Lord and we love

them. Please hold them close in your

prayers and your arms, never let them

go!

We will have many memories to put a

smile on our faces and warm our

hearts; Wednesday Night Suppers, Bi-

ble Studies, Supper Club, Our Choir &

Music Program, the Children, Men's

Breakfast and on and on.....

Best Wishes, All our Prayers & God

Bless each and every one of you!

Love,

Dorothy & Mark McLain

Looking ahead September 20 is Theo-

logical Education Sun-

day on our church calen-

dar and these past few

years we have had a guest minister join

us during worship. Some of our past

guests include: Dr. Andrew Purves of

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Dr.

Thomas Long of Candler School of

Theology, and the late Dr. Steve

Hayner, Columbia Theological Semi-

nary.

Dr. Will Willimon will be our guest on

September 20, 2015. Dr. Willimon is

Theologian and Bishop in the United

Methodist Church. He is currently Pro-

fessor of Practice of Ministry at Duke

Divinity school. He is former Dean of

Duke Chapel at Duke University and is

considered one of the best known and

most influential preachers of our time.

A Pulpit & Pew Research on Pastoral

Leadership survey determined that he is

one of the most frequently read writers

by pastor’s of mainline Protestantism

alongside Henri Houwen.

What do a business exec, real estate

appraiser, new Mom, 3 teachers and

2 teens have in common? They all

ring hand bells and you can too!! If

you can read music and would like to

join a fun, dynamic group, call J. G.

Humphries, 678/583-1977.

MPC News August 2015

SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS

Ushers

8:30 Service August 2 Pat & Lewis Robinson

August 9 Lucinda & Tim Wirt

August 16 Cathy & Bob Phillips

August 23 Kathi & Kelly Lee

August 30 Greg Cannon & Peter Thornton

11:00 Service August 2 Todd & Melanie Harvey, Wade & Judy Burch

August 9 Bob & Nola Crane, Elaine Hopkins, Eric Knoll

August 16 Kim & Alecia Braswell, Beth & Patrick Healy

August 23 Virgil & Mollie Cole, Robert & Ginger Irby

August 30 Jim & Jill Stroud, Judy Neal, Jim Stanton

*We are in desperate need of ushers for both services. If you can

help, please contact Elaine Hopkins or the church office*

Officers On-Call - April Elder: Rick Berry Deacon: Ray Snider

Acolyte Cross Bearer August 2 Communion Will Jones

August 9 Jack Knoll Margot Peters

August 16 Jaden Griffin Grace Healy

August 23 Jessica Hawxhurst Rollins Irby

August 30 Tucker Malcom Erin Engelbracht

Open/Close Church

Open Close August 2 Rick Berry Rick Berry

August 9 Kevin Fisher Rodney Bowler

August 16 Bill Lacy Ray Snider

August 23 Kevin Fisher Rodney Bowler

August 30 Brian Andrews David Shedd

JUNE FINANCIAL UPDATE

Don’t hold back - give freely, and you’ll have

plenty poured back into your lap - a good meas-

ure, pressed down, shaken together, brimming

over. You’ll receive in the same measure you

give.

Luke 6:38 (The Voice)

If you would like to sign up for Sanctuary flowers in the

coming year. Please call or stop by the church office to

pick a date.

Flowers can be placed in the two niches (pricing begins at $75), the

Chancel floor (pricing begins at $85) or a Chancel pedestal (pricing be-

gins at $55).

Reminder: Anyone who has old glasses, cases,

phones or hearing aid batteries to drop

them in the Lions Clubs box on the coun-

ter for distribution to the needy.

For more information, please

contact Rick Berry.

Actual YTD

06/30/2015

Budget YTD

06/30/2014 Difference

General Fund Receipts 323,949.00 328,977.00 (5028.00)

Disbursements:

Programs & Missions 33,681.00 38,320.00 4639.00

Personnel 206,354.00 198,696.00 (7658.00)

Operating Expenses 88,512.00 83,896.00 (4616.00)

Payment on Debt 26,136.00 26,136.00 0.00

Total Disbursements 354,683.00 347,048.00 (7635.00)

6/30/2015 12/31/2014 Difference

Debt (Journey of Faith)

Long Term ($4,106.08 per

month) 553,312.00 617,186.00 (63874.00)

Short Term (Lightning Defender) 31,655.00 32,625.00 (970.00)

Total Debt 584,967.00 649,811.00 (64844.00)

MPC News August 2015

Calling all Young Voices The Children’s/Cherub Choir will begin rehearsals again on Wednesday, August 19, from 5:30-6 p.m. in the Choir

room. We also practice at the end of Sunday school from 10:25-10:35 a.m. in room 102. Please give your child (age 4

through 5th grade) the opportunity to share the gift of music with our church.

McYouth Dates:

8/19- Stop Hunger Now

8/23- High School Sunday Night Live

8/26- Parents Meeting 5:45 (youth Room)

8/26- McYouth

8/30- Clifton Men’s Shelter (VMO)

Parents Meeting: On August 26th, there will be a Parent meeting in the Youth room at 5:50 pm. All parents

are encouraged to come, whether you have a child just starting youth or your child has been with us for a

while. This will be a time for you hear what will be going on this coming year.

McYouth Sunday School

We are still looking for 1 more Middle School Sunday School Teacher. You would work on a rotating sched-

ule, so you would be teaching September, November, January, March and May. Please think about and pray

about this wonderful opportunity. Contact Destiny if you are interested.

McYouth

Preschool classes begin on August 11. Please

pray for our students and teachers, that we

have a wonderful and safe school year.

MPC will be collecting Clorox wipes, tissues, copy

paper, hand sanitizer and black, white & pink po-

lo style shirts in various sizes for Henry County’s

new alternative school, Excel Academy. For more

information, please refer to the article under Lo-

cal Ministries.

Rally Day Sunday, August 16 All Elementary age children, (4 yrs. -5th grade) Youth and parents are invited to come kick-off Sunday School on

Sunday, August 16 at 9:40 am in the Chapel. Come find out what we will be learning about this year!

MPC News August 2015

The Stephen Ministry logo tells a story of a care receiver’s journey from brokenness toward wholeness through the cross of Jesus. It is a journey made possible by “Christ caring for people through people,” which is the Stephen Ministry motto. WHAT IS STEPHEN MINISTRY? Stephen Ministry is the caring ministry that takes place in a con-gregation when it implements the Stephen Series system. Ste-phen Series refers to the complete system, including training, re-sources, structure, and ongoing support, that congregations use to equip and empower a team of laypeople to provide high-quality, confidential, one-to-one Christian care to hurting people in and around the congregation. The Stephen Series system is offered by Stephen Ministries St. Louis and is used in thousands of con-

gregations and other organizations worldwide. To better understand Stephen Ministry there are three groups of participants. They are Stephen Leaders, Stephen Ministers and care receivers. A brief definition of each is:

Stephen Leaders are the ones responsible to the congregation for administering Stephen Minis-try.

Stephen Ministers are laypeople from our congregation, both men and women, trained to provide one-to-one care to people experiencing a difficult time in life.

Care receivers are congregation members and others in the community who receive care from a Stephen Minister. These are people struggling through a difficult time in life such as experi-encing grief, divorce, job loss, chronic or terminal illness, or some other life crisis.

Please explore the videos and information on the Stephen Ministries St. Louis website to help gain an understanding of this ministry. These are a few selections from their website: https://www.stephenministries.org/

Our organization draws its name from St. Stephen. In the book of Acts, Chapter 6, Stephen was cho-

sen to provide caring ministry to those in need. Since the days of the Apostles, caring ministry has

been a hallmark of the Christian faith community—and is at the heart of all we do at Stephen Minis-

tries.

The mission of the Stephen Ministries organization is summed up in St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.

“To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come

to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full

stature of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12–13).

Stephen Ministry is not a counseling ministry, but a listening ministry. Stephen Ministers don’t give advice. Stephen Ministers facilitate faith and trust in Jesus as the care receiver works through a diffi-cult time. With Stephen Ministry no one suffers alone. Any time you want more information talk with one of our Stephen Ministry Leaders: Rita Wieland, Michael Wieland or Debby Stellings.

MPC News August 2015

HELPING IN HIS NAME FOOD PANTRY

Items needed this month are: Canned Meats (Chili, Tuna, Stew), Canned Vegetables, Canned Fruit,

Canned Soup, Noodles, Rice or Macaroni. As always, any other non perishable food items as well as per-

sonal hygiene items are always needed.

ROBBIE’S READERS

The kitchen class hopes all will continue to support "Robbie's Readers" with used books. We welcome books that your

children have outgrown. Another resource is Good Will with a senior discount on Tuesday. These books are greatly

appreciated, as new teachers build their classroom libraries to help some less fortunate children. These are young read-

ers ages 5,6,7,and 8 years of age. Thank you for your help.

Helping our neighbors at the new EXCEL Academy

This August Henry County's new alternative school, EXCEL Academy, welcomes students in the former McDonough

Elementary building near MPC.

To welcome our new neighbors MPC is collecting donations of tissues, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, and copy paper

throughout the month of August. We are also accepting donations of white, pink, or black collared shirts in a variety of

sizes. The shirts are for our students who cannot afford to purchase them as part of our dress code.

EXCEL Academy is a small, caring and academically challenging program that has a special campus atmosphere en-

couraging student success.

Thank you for helping our new neighbors get a solid start to the new school year!

LOCAL MINISTRIES

On August 19th, as a church, we will be packing meals with Stop Hunger Now. Donations of $30 per family

will be greatly appreciated. The cost of one packed meal is .29 cents. Our goal is to pack 12,528 meals which

equals $3633.12.

Join us for our first Wonderful Wednesday of the year, as we kick off another year of “Serving others beyond

Sunday Morning!”

Did you know that there are more than a billion people who suffer

from hunger? That’s more than 25,000 people a day.

Did you know that more people die each year from hunger related

causes than AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis combined?

Did you know that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone

4.3 pounds every day? Did you know that each meal only costs the

church 29 cents to prepare?

1 Sandy Nesbit

1 Rollins Irby

2 Mark McLain

2 Rod Meadows

3 Sara Meadows

3 Noni Babb

3 Vivian Smith

5 Heather Pouliot

5 William Simpson

6 Paul Seckinger

6 Caitlen Schmidt

8 Robert Hicks

9 Glenn Golden

9 Marilyn Dyess

10 Birgitta Upchurch

11 Elaine Hopkins

12 Joan Bass

12 Scott Weikle

13 Mary Mellott

13 Angie Simpson

15 Tony Moye

15 Jerry Repp

15 Bill Thomas

15 Jaxon Ewert

16 Michael Dixon

16 Jack Knoll

18 Abigail Engelbracht

19 Rod Oglesby

19 Alicia Braswell

21 Jill Shedd

22 Kelly Lee

22 Dylan Pouliot

22 Liam Williams

23 Tony Okrutny

23 Ryan Gibbs

23 Cassie Shannon

24 Cilla Leed-Tomme

24 Nicci Peters

24 Michelle Burch

25 Julie Griffin

25 Mills McCord

28 Brady Schwadron

30 Kim Raines

30 Taylor Cole

31 Bill Cook

Happy Birthday!

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

Walk Through the Bible Series Tuesday Evenings (6:30 p.m.) and Wednesday Mornings (10a.m.)

This intensive study begins Tuesday, September 8 and is a 30 week Walk Through the Bible. This is a Bible study

course for those who know a lot or a little about the Bible. We will meet almost every Tuesday (with the exception of a

few around Christmas & Lent) and end on April 26. We need 12 to 18 committed folks to make this class a possibility.

Study books are $30.00. Please register by August 16 so the books can be ordered in time for class to begin. Sign-up

sheets will be available in July at the Anchor Desk. If you have questions, please contact Olin McBride.

MPC News August 2015

WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACTIVITIES

RESUME AUGUST 19- COME JOIN US!

DINNER 5:30 - 6:30

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES 6:30-7:30 PM

ALL CLASSES BEGIN AT 6:30

August 19 - Stop Hunger Now!

Everyone is invited to attend and help us reach our goal of packaging over 12,500 meals. There will be NO OTHER children’s activities or youth activities.

August 26 - Normal Activities for Youth & Children

Adult Programs: Knitters meet in the Men’s Classroom

McDonough Mayor, Billy Copeland will be our guest speak-

er.

ON THE DINNER MENU:

Aug 19 Pizza, Salad & Dessert

Prepared by Congregational Care

Aug 26

If you, or your group, would like to prepare a Wonderful

Wednesday meal, please contact Todd Harvey.

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS

McDonough Presbyterian Church

427 McGarity Rd., McDonough, GA 30252

Phone: 770-957-9890 Fax: 770-957-9904

E-mail: officemail@mcdonoughpresbyterian.com

Website: www.mcdonoughpresbyterian.com

“Serving Others

Beyond Sunday Morning”

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Supper Club Reveal

August 16

Varsity Food Truck Dinner will be served from 4-5 p.m.

Cost: $8 for 1 entrée/1 side, $9.50 for 2 en-

trées/1 side

All Church members

are invited to attend. Sign up on ACS or by

calling the church office.

Food is ordered ahead of time -

RESERVATIONS are a must!

Circle of Sisters Brunch All the women of the church are invited to “Circle

of Sisters Brunch” on Saturday, August 29, at 10

a.m., in the Fellowship Hall. Please join us for a

light brunch and help kick off the new year of

women’s ministries through the four circles at

McDonough Presbyterian. Learn about our circles

and how you can get involved! Please RSVP on the

pew pads, on the sign-up sheet at the reception

desk or by calling the church office.

Presbyterian Women’s Ministry