2021 Chicken Pie and Baked Spaghetti Sale to Benefit Local Missions
Payment is due at the time orders are placed. Checks should be made payable to First Presbyterian Church.
Orders may be picked up Saturday, November 6 from 10:00 am-2:00 pm and Sunday, November 7 12:00-1:00 pm in the church fellowship hall.
Wake Forest Divinity School Dean to Preach October 10
He was invited by First Presbyterian Church’s Race Unification Committee (RUC), with valuable help from Pastor Nancy.
Walton has served as dean of the School of Divinity, the holder of the Presidential Chair in Religion and Society, and the Dean of Wait Chapel at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem since 2019.
He grew up in Atlanta and earned a bachelor’s degree at Morehouse, a Historically Black College in that city, in 1996, the same year he was licensed to preach. He then earned a master’s in divinity degree and a Ph.D from Princeton University Theological Seminary, on whose board of trustees he now serves. As a Princeton student, he served as pastor of a Presbyterian church in nearby Newark, New Jersey.
In 2006, he became an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California. In 2010, he was hired as an assistant professor of African American religions in the Divinity School at Harvard University, where in 2012 he became Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
Walton, a social ethicist, is the author of “Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism” (NYU Press, 2009). His second book, “A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World” (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018), explores the Bible from the perspective of the most vulnerable and violated characters toward developing a Christian social ethic of radical inclusion and human affirmation.
He sometimes quotes longtime Morehouse College President Benjamin Elijah Mays on the concept of “One Love,” arguing that loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same love.
He has been an outspoken advocate for civil rights and social justice and is often quoted as an expert in documentaries about religion and race and by national and international news media.
Among other activities in the Triad in the past 15 months, he has met and shared ideas with Salem Presbytery’s Peace and Justice Task Force; served as keynote speaker for High Point University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Worship Service; and interviewed Isabel Wilkerson, author of the book “Caste” on American racism, on Wake Forest’s Face to Face Speaker Forum.
He is married to Cecily Cline Walton, a children’s book author, with whom he has three children.
World Communion Sunday, October 3, 2021
A Call to Prayer for Our Schools
The Greater Lexington Area Minister’s Association (GLAMA) is holding a 3-day prayer call initiative in support of all of our schools in Davidson County. The prayer call has been scheduled to happen September 28th – 30th, via Zoom call. The Prayer Call Schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, September 28
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM – Ledford High & Middle; Friendship, Hasty, and Wallburg Elementary Schools
9:20 AM – 9:35 AM – Oak Grove High & Middle; Friedberg and Midway Elementary Schools
9:40 – 10:00 AM – Davidson County High and Stoner-Thomas Schools; Superintendent
Wednesday, September 29
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM – North Davidson High & Middle; Northwest & Welcome Elementary Schools
10:20 AM – 10:35 AM – East Davidson High, E. Lawson Brown Middle, Brier Creek, Fairgrove, and Pilot Elementary Schools
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM – West Davidson High, Tyro Middle & Elementary, Churchland, and Reeds Elementary Schools
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Lexington Senior High & Middle; Charles England, Pickett Elementary, South Lexington & Development Center, Southwest Elementary, Sheets Memorial, Superintendent, School Board
Thursday, September 20
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM – Central High & Middle, Southwood, Southmont, Davidson Charter Academy, and Davis-Townsend Schools
10:20 AM – 10:35 AM – South High & Middle; Denton & Silver Valley Elementary Schools
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM – Early College, Yadkin Valley, Davidson County School Board
11:00 AM-11:30 AM – Thomasville High, Middle, & Primary; Liberty Drive, Bulldog Academy, Superintendent and School Board
We encourage everyone who is able, to participate in some, or all, of these calls regardless of whether you have a student at the schools listed. If you are unable to participate at all in the Zoom calls, we encourage you to use this list next week and pray for each of these schools. All of our students, faculty & staff, superintendents, and school boards need prayers for protection, guidance, and wisdom as they continue to deal with the pandemic and the many challenges it presents.
Please remember to keep our own Preschool, its students and staff, in your prayers as well.
The link for the Zoom calls is below.
Grace and Peace to you all.
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Memorial Service for Art Gray
Women of the Word Postpones Fall Study
World Communion Sunday 2021: Helpers Needed
2021 Fall Worship Schedule
RACE BOOK STUDY TO BE HELD ON ZOOM; START TIME ADJUSTED
Because of health concerns related to the COVID-19 delta variant, the Race Unification Committee has decided to hold its new Race Book Study on Zoom rather than in person this fall.
Additional copies of the book, Howard Thurman’s “Jesus and the Disinherited,” have arrived and are available for pickup from the church office. Please consider donating to help cover the $13 book cost.
