Volunteers needed. Please contact Bobbie Morel if you would like to sign up to participate in cooking, distributing and good fellowship.

For  our  cooking dates at St. Bart’s, we would love to have 6 folks from 12-2pm and 4 folks from 2-4ish. On our distribution dates, we meet at St. Bart’s to set up at 3:30pm and distribute from 4:30-6pm. 

PPC is hosting an orientation on Writing to Heal, a free 7-8 session therapeutic writing program. The orientation is Thursday, August 25th in the Sunday school room. The sessions will likely start in September and may be virtual or in-person which will be decided after a poll from participants. If you’re interested in learning more about the program and want to attend the orientation, email the facilitator Mary Barnard.

First Presbyterian Church, Burlington, is sponsoring a special 8 week series of spirituality workshops that explore both the scriptural call for personal transformation and offer practices and frameworks for understanding our own growth. Central in this series is understanding our personality from a Christian perspective. All classes will have a mix of teaching, practice and break-out sessions. Facilitator, Rev. Evan Harrison, pastors Pittsboro Presbyterian Church and has certificates from multiple programs regarding work with spirituality and personality. This class is free, geared towards adults and is open to anyone, so feel free to tell or invite your friends. Please register here (it’s okay if you miss a class sometimes for scheduling).

September 6 – Practicing the Great Command Reclaiming the Importance of Transformation in Christianity and the Practice that Helps this Transformation Occur

Sept. 13 – Husk & Hypocrisy Embracing one of Christ’s most apt parables for understanding our personality.

Sept. 20 – Suburban Contemplatives Why we don’t need to be monks to follow Christ…and yet they were onto something.

Sept. 27 – Assertive Personalities Allowing Christ to Overturn our own Levels of Assertiveness

Oct. 4 – Compliant Personalities Learning how to lovingly obey God, neighbor and self in the right order

Oct. 11 – Withdrawn Personalities Solitude, Socialize or Soapbox? Learning the time for each

Oct. 18 – The Instinct to Live Scripture acknowledges our instincts and reveals paths to wholeness

Oct. 25 – Doing the Work Heeding the call to work out our own salvation trusting that it is God at work in us, enabling us both to will and to work for God’s good pleasure.