Wonderful Wednesday Activities
Wonderful Wednesday Activities will begin on September 4, 2024 with Anne Gee, Beth
Hall, and Laura Montgomery.
4:30-Choir Interns
5:00-Meal
6:00-Small Groups
Children activities
Youth Groups

First Presbyterian Choir Interns Choir Interns will begin their fall semester on Wednesday, September 4, at 4:30-5:15 pm. Children in Grades 1-6 are welcome to attend. Our mission is to develop musical skills to use in our worship service. We learn that worship is for God, and our sessions focus on worship music in many different styles with activities that build skills in diction, singing, rhythm instruments, bells, basic music reading, and working as a group. We open each session with a devotion. This fall we will be using the Growing in Grace music curriculum with the theme of “We Are God’s Masterpiece” based on Ephesians 2:10. A few anthem titles are God’s Masterpiece; I am Wonderfully Made; Praise the Lord Body, Mind, and Soul; You Know I Wanna Be; and Patapan. Hymns include Come, Christians Join and Sing; Take My Life and Let It Be; and O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. We encourage regular weekly attendance since we will be presenting several anthems during fall worship services. Please send Barbara (601-629-8026) a text with your child’s name and grade so folders can be prepared. Reminders and other info will be sent via text. Supper follows Choir Interns (make reservations via church Sign Genius site), and children’s activities continue after supper until 7pm

PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN It is my pleasure to serve as Elder overseeing the operation of our Preschool and Kindergarten Ministry sponsored by our church. It has been in the very capable hands of Jennifer Coulter for the past twenty-four years. The school has been in operation for over fifty-seven years in our church.

I asked Jennifer to share with me what it has meant to her over the past twenty-four years. As follows, this is what she told me: “This program has been touching our church and the community and making an impact on children and adults since August of 1967. The need for quality, affordable childcare in our area has never been more vital. It is becoming harder and harder for our young, working parents to find and afford a suitable childcare center. With God’s love and continued blessing, we are able to offer a program that is not only based in God’s word, but provides a safe loving environment for children to learn and thrive. As Christians providing for God’s children, it is our duty to provide His children with the needed resources and confidence to grow into loving Christian adults. A child that hears God’s word will carry that truth with them their entire life. A child is not a vessel to be filled, but a lamp to be lit. Please support this community outreach mission by praying for us daily, attending our programs and telling others we are here to serve. Help us light a child’s lamp and set them on the path to lifelong success.”

School is out for summer vacation. According to Jennifer, next year’s enrollment has already been filled. As church members, let’s give Jennifer, the 10 staff members and approximately 68 young students our support for the coming year by praying for them and supporting their programs throughout the year.

In His Service, Fred Peyton