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worship bulletin
- Thu, Aug, 13, 2009
• North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike, will holds its homecoming Sunday, Aug. 16, with services beginning at 10:15 a.m.
• Knoxville Christian Center is looking for bluegrass competition contestants, classic cars and crafters to join its Old Fashioned Sunday Weekend, Aug. 29-30. Cash and sponsor-donated prizes will go to the first-, second- and third-place winners of the bluegrass competition and classic car and hot rod shows. Crafters can sell their goods during the festival. For more information, visit www.knoxvillechristiancenter.org. All proceeds from event will go to benefit Knoxville Christian Center and its Neighborhood Bus Ministry.
• Calvary Baptist Church will host its “Wings and Worship” event for men, college and youth, from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the church’s student center. Cost is $5 and gets all-you-can-eat wings.
• All ladies are invited to lunch with Knoxville Christian Women’s Connection at 10:45 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 13, at Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall off Kingston Pike. Special feature is a parade of fashion jewelry by lia sophia, presented by Debra M. Baldwin. Linda McDaniel of Ellenboro, N.C., will speak on “Living At the Day Spa: Is That Realistic?” Complimentary childcare is by reservation only. Cost is $10. To reserve a space, call Maria at 865-850-6842 or Barbara at 865-531-9973 or e-mail smotzen@gmail.com or barbarajeanbrown@aol.com
• Hope Resource Center will hold a “Walk for Life” Saturday, Aug. 29, at Lakeshore Park. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. and walk begins at 9 a.m. “Walk for Life” is a two mile walk to help raise awareness and funds for Hope Resource Center. People are asked to sign up to walk, collect pledges from family and friends to sponsor your walk, and then join together at Lakeshore Park. For more information, visit www.hoperc.org or call 865-525-4673, ext. 112.
• Greg Mortenson, author of the NY Times Bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” will be the guest speaker at a dinner and lecture hosted by the Volunteer Ministry Center. Dinner and lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 1, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Mortenson, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be sharing his experiences of building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the impoverished villages in those countries. Tickets are $100 per person and include dinner and lecture. Sponsorships are available. For more information, call Volunteer Ministry Center at 865-524-3926.
• Westside Unitarian Universalist Church announces its next month of Sunday services: Aug. 16, “Start the Year with a Splash;” Aug. 23, “Sermon Series: Prayers of Confession” and Aug. 30, “A Dialogue on New Birth.” All services begin at 11 a.m.
• For the second consecutive year, First Baptist Concord WestLake has been selected for the 2009 Best of Knoxville Award in the Places of Worship category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The USLBA “Best of Local Business” Award program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country that have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category.
• A grief support group will meet at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, from 7 to 9 p.m., Sept. 3 through Oct. 22. Nursery is available by registration. Group will feature nationally recognized experts on grief and recovery topics and sessions will include “The Journey of Grief,” “The Effects of Grief,” “Why?” and “When Your Spouse Dies.” To register, visit www.cspc.net or call 865-291-5226. Cost is $12.
• Cokesbury United Methodist Church’s children’s center fall and winter clothing sale is back. Full price sale will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Aug. 22, and half-price sale from 1 to 3 p.m. that same day.
• Cokesbury United Methodist Church’s Christian Book Club will meet at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, to discuss “Same Kind of Different as Me,” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. For more information, call the church at 865-693-0353.
• Virtue Cumberland Presbyterian Church holds Wednesday night “Downhome” worship services. Services will focus on bluegrass music, old hymns and preaching. Any local bluegrass gospel groups interested in leading a weekly Wednesday night worship service can call the church at 865-966-1491.
• Memphis Theological Seminary will present “Teaching for Faith Maturity,” a Christian life-long learning seminar, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29, at Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 400 Everett Road. Speaker will be Dr. Stan Wood, associate professor of ministry at MTS. Cost is $30 per person; register by Aug. 20 by calling 901-334-5806 or e-mailing lifetime@memphisseminary.edu
• Cokesbury United Methodist Church announces the first worship service of its West Campus will be held Sept. 13 at Hardin Valley Academy auditorium. For more information, visit www.cclive.org
• Calvary Baptist Church plans its Upward Flag Football League. Practices begin the week of Aug. 17, and games begin Saturday, Sept. 12. For more information visit www.knoxcalvary.com
• Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church will hold its annual bluegrass festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19. The event includes arts and crafts, bluegrass bands, barbecue and games for children. For more information, visit www.unioncpchurch.com
• Abundant Life Kitchen Program celebrated its 12th graduating class Friday, July 10. Program, a partnership between Knox Area Rescue Ministries and Second Harvest Food Bank, is a culinary training program designed to give those in need an opportunity to train for employment in the food services industry. For more information, visit www.karm.org
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