Recent Announcements
Group Fitness has resumed! The group meets on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights from 6:30- 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Contact Allyson Keller for more information.
Attention BPC! Please come out and support Lanier Longhorn Football. Buford Presbyterian has signed up to work the concession stand at the football game on September 9th from 5 - 8pm at Lanier High. If you are able to help, please call or email Jennifer Grieve to sign up and get the details.
Choir Registration - There is still time to register for Cherub, Junior and Handchime Choirs! Choirs will begin on Sunday, September 12. We have a fantastic time and would love to have you!
Save the date! Please join us on Sunday, September 12 for Sunday School Rally Day 2010.
There will be a Congregational Meeting on September 12, at 10:30 am. an update on the financial health of the church.
We will officially kick-off Youth Fellowship on September 12 with a pot luck dinner!
Come, lift up your voice and sing with our Adult Choir this year. Rehearsals begin Wednesdays at 7:15 p.m. in the choir room. We'd love to have you join us. If you have any questions, contact Ron Kauffmann.
Welcome Class: Are you interested in becoming a member of Buford Presbyterian Church? Are you already a member but would like more information about the history of the reformed theological movement and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? Would you like to know more about the history and programs of Buford Presbyterian Church? If any of these questions apply to you, please attend the next Welcome Class that will start at 9:45 a.m. in the church parlor on September 19. If you plan to attend, please notify the church office at 770-945-6711 as soon as possible. The next class will be held on November 7.
Save the date! Van Fund Luncheon on Sunday, September 26th after the 11:00 a.m. service.
Would you like to help with landscape care on a regular basis? A very small group of church members work year around on the landscape projects around the church. If you would like to pitch in, send an email to DaleBargen@gmail.com . A regular time is Wednesday mornings, but the weeds have flexible schedules if that doesn't match yours.
BPC sends a lot of information via email. Are you on the list? You can subscribe multiple addresses - spouse, home, work, child. Even grandma. Send a note with detail to DaleBargen@gmail.com . Mailings include the bulletin, announcements, monthly newsletter, volunteer schedule, ministers' inspirations and the calendar. Some information is also sent via a Facebook page - search for Friends of Buford Presbyterian and join.
Mark your calendar! Amigos for Christ and the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services have partnered to put on the Gwinnett Great Days of Service which will be held October 1 and 2, 2010, in conjunction with the Celebrate Service Music Festival. For more information please go to AmigosforChrist and GwinnettGreatDaysofService.
BPC members Susan Bacon and Sandra Henderson are coordinating two of the Celebrate Service Music Festival athletic events on Saturday, October 2. They need lots of volunteers. Susan’s critical needs for the 30 mile bike ride are: 3 mature volunteers to start the 30 mile bike ride at Suwanee Town Center park (7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. commitment); 2 – 3 more volunteers trained in CPR and first aid at rest stops (7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.); a volunteer at the Ruby Forest entrance to George Pearce park (9:00 – 11:30 a.m.); and several other volunteers to route bikes along the ride. Sandra needs 5 volunteers for the 5 mile bike ride to help on the bike trail (Suwanee Greenway) or at the registration table (12:30 – 2:30). Contact Susan or Sandra as soon as possible.
BPC maintains a photo directory. If you have not had your family photo made recently, see Dale Bargen in the lobby area either before or after the 11am service. To see your current photo, visit www.fotki.com/BufordPres . If the family photo is missing any children, you need a new photo. If you look a lot younger in that photo, perhaps you don't want a new one. Pick up a new directory anytime outside the Church office. Please save and reuse your directory cover. Just take a set of pages if you already have a cover.
Buford Presbyterian has trained Stephen Ministers. Stephen Ministers are lay people from our congregation who are trained to provide distinctly Christian, one-on-one care to those suffering personal crisis. Care receivers reap many blessings throughout this caring ministry. Call the church office (770) 945-6711, or a Stephen Leader.
AMIGOS FOR CHRIST goes local. This is the second year Amigos has awarded a $10,000 grant to the local, participating nonprofit deemed most worthy, in terms of event participation level, enthusiasm, and creativity in presenting its cause at a booth the day of the Celebrate Service Music Festival. Last year Annandale Village (homes for the developmentally delayed) won. For those of you who don’t receive our group emails, there are flyers for the Celebrate Service Music Festival events (biking, 5K run, 3v3 soccer, golf, 2 man corn hole bean bag toss and dessert bake-off on the table in the narthex.
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