Special Event: “Pray with Your Whole Life: A Conversation with Barbara Brown Taylor and Sophronia Scott,” The conversation takes place on September 10th from 6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. You must register in advance through the Decatur Book Festival website which is listed below. Rev. Beth Waltemath speaks with two beloved writers about their recent books and the spiritual practices that sustain their writing and their living. Taylor is the bestselling author of Altar in the World and Holy Envy. Sophronia Scott is a journalist, novelist and author of This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World, a book that describes the spiritual practices she and her young son developed to handle his trauma and grief after being present in the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and losing his close friend. This complex conversation will bring together ideas from Barbara Brown Taylor’s work in the anthology, Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide, and Prophet, and Sophfronia Scott’s upcoming book, The Seekers and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton.
https://decaturbookfestival.com/session/pray-with-your-whole-self/
Click Here for the September 6, 2020 Worship Bulletin.
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Musical Offering and Worship:
Prepare for Communion at 10:00 a.m.
How Can I Keep from Singing? This Sunday’s worship service is full of music. We will explore the background of the great hymn “How Can I Keep from Singing?” Don’t miss this special Sunday led by our church musicians. Join us both on Facebook and on zoom immediately afterward as we send off Clinton Miller in NDPC style! We will have communion during worship. So join us. You can find reflection resources and a recording of communion here if you are unable to join us in person.
Join us on Facebook at this link at 10:00 a.m. as we gather together virtually as a worshiping community. We will view the pre-recorded video together, comment, “sign” the welcome register and chat with each other, even during the sermon.
Lemonade and Zoom for Clint’s Final Farewell Activities @ 11:00 a.m.
Make a free-will monetary gift to Clint by Sunday, September 6.
NDPC farewell gift will be presented to Clint on September 6. Your contribution is not tax-deductible. You can give in three ways:
1.) By mailing a check to the church and noting “Clint’s Farewell Gift”
2.) Through Realm, choose “Clint’s gift”
3.) On our website, choose Paypal button and note “Clint’s Farewell Gift.”
Join Clint’s Farewell Reception via Zoom – Sunday, Sept. 6 at 11 a.m.
Join us Sunday, Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. on Zoom to say thank you and Godspeed to Clint Miller, our beloved Music Minister. You will have a chance to see photos of the Clinton years at NDPC, share your brief goodbyes, thank yous, and best wishes with Clint and more. Help us give Clint a fabulous farewell reception – North Decatur style. (Bring your own snacks and beverage.) Zoom link in the Communicator.
Sunday, September 13, 9:30 a.m. via zoom. Have you been enjoying virtual worship with NDPC? We invite you to Get to Know Us: A Zoom conversation hosted by Co-Pastor David Lewicki. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to get the details!. Link here.