BGPC NEWS September 2021
Important Dates in September:
Sundays: 9am: Choir Rehearsal
10 am: Worship (In-Person & Online: Facebook Live & YouTube)
Mondays: 9 am: Sew It’s Monday
Wednesdays: 10 am – noon: Church Office Hours
Other Important Dates:
Sunday, September 5: College Graduate Recognition during Worship + Called Session Meeting at 11:15 am
Tuesday, September 7: Circle #3 at 6 pm at the Church
Sunday, September 12: Homecoming Worship w/ Communion; Luncheon; Cemetery Association Meeting
Sunday, September 19: Adult Sunday School Information Meeting at 9 am
Sunday, September 26: Dimes for Hunger Kick-off Sunday
Tuesday, September 28: Adopt-an-Eagle Mentoring/Snacks at CHS at 6:30 pm
CANCELLED Due to Covid-19 Outbreak:
**Dimes for Hunger Kick-off Dinner at Van Wyck Presbyterian on August 29, 2021
**Presbyterian Women’s Fall Spiritual Retreat at Hermon Presbyterian on October 2, 2021
Support the Weekly Mission Opportunities:
--Rustling Bags of food for the Back-the-Pack Program
--Coins (quarters) for Heifer International.
Want to contribute to our Ministry and/or Mission Opportunities? Please send your check to our Treasurer Kenneth Love, 1442 Love Road, Clover, SC 29710. If you’d like your donation to be designated other than to our Ministry Fund, please clearly mark in the memo section of your check.
We are still Worshipping, Connecting, Growing, Serving, Giving, & Sharing!
CAN YOU SING????
The BGPC Choir meets on Sunday mornings at 9 am in the Fellowship Hall! We would LOVE to have YOUR lovely voice! If you have any questions, please contact De’ or Todd!
Circle #3 meeting, Tuesday, 7th at 6 pm at the church. Susan Jackson will lead lesson #1. Please join this Bible Study as we learn more about “What My Grandmothers Taught Me.”
Homecoming: the return of a group of people usually on a special occasion to a place formerly frequented or regarded as home. That is one definition of homecoming, which is what we are planning for September 12. We hope that you and your family consider Bowling Green as your home church in the Clover area and that you will be attending the events here on Sunday, September 12. We will begin with worship at 10:00 a.m. to be followed by a covered dish luncheon.
Adult Sunday School Information Meeting: Interested in getting back to Sunday School? All adults are invited to an informational meeting to discuss options for restarting the Adult Sunday School Class. The meeting will be held on Sunday, September 19th at 9 am in the Church Library. Dave will open the meeting with prayer and a “lighter side” comment. Lisa will then provide devotion, which will be followed by discussion about the proposed schedule of the Adult Sunday School Class.
Farm Day at the Boling Farm!
All are invited for a day of farm activities and fun on Saturday, September 25 from 11 am – 4 pm! Come on out & feed the Alpacas (don’t let them spit on you!)) There will be some games for kids and sealed snacks and drinks for all. Masks are required, hand sanitizer/hand wipes will be available and socially distancing is encouraged when possible. The farm is located at 1204 Rhyne Road in Clover. More details to follow—including if they will need to postpone the event.
Clover Football’s Mentoring as a Mission Project
CHS Football Coach Brian Lane and his wife Kenya offer a mentoring program with the players each season in hope that members of the community can get to know the players off the field! On Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, the players and their mentors gather for a devotion, a snack, and a few minutes to hang out together.
We have been asked to sponsor this program in a couple of ways:
#1 Mentor: Community Members adopt a Varsity player and join with him each Tuesday at 6:30 pm for the devotion, the snack, and the time together. If you are interested in being a Mentor, please contact Kenya Lane at eagle.adopt@gmail.com.
#2 Snacks: BGPC will sponsor the snacks on Tuesday, September 28. Please bring a snack item from the list below to the church before that date. If you’d prefer to make a monetary donation, we will be glad to do the shopping for you! Be sure to mark your checks “Adopt-an-Eagle.”
#3 Volunteer: On our Tuesday, volunteers will be needed to pack the snacks into individual treat bags and then deliver to the school.
List of Requested Snack Items:
Lance Toast-Chee Crackers
Individual Dorito’s chips
Little Debbie Swiss Rolls
Gatorade (any flavor) 20 oz.
We will need to provide around 115 individual bags of snacks for all Varsity, Junior Varsity, & Coaches. If we want to include the Mentors and other volunteers, we would need around 60 extras. Please be sure to mark your donations with Adopt-an-Eagle.
Basic First Aid & CPR Training Opportunity
BGPC will be hosting an American Red Cross Basic First Aid & CPR Training event soon at the church. BGPC is covering all costs for this event ($80 for each trainee + $100 trainer) for up to 8 church members. Priority, of course, will be given to members of the Safety Team. The training takes around 3 hours and will be scheduled on a Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. The event date/time will depend on the schedules of those most interested. If you are interested in receiving this training, please contact Lisa or John Barnett (803)810-2907.
SAFETY TEAM: We are working hard to be sure that we are prepared to keep our members safe—whether in a medical, fire, threat, or disaster emergency. If you are interested in joining the safety team, please contact Lisa, John Barnett (803)810-2907 or Susan Jackson (803)810-5012. Consider helping us keep everyone safe at BGPC…and beyond!
The Outreach team continues to advertise Bowling Green Presbyterian Church Life by using signs and banners to keep the members and the community aware of what our church is doing. Worship online and outside are highlighted by banners, with our church location at each end of Ridge Road on signs.
Visitor folders are given to new visitors with a brochure and contact information. Sometimes however, a new visitor may be seated where they are not seen as easily. To be sure a visitor does not go unnoticed, there are visitor packets in the Ladies Parlor. Please feel free to offer a packet to our new visitors.
The Outreach Team and the Congregational Care Team are planning to sponsor several fellowship activities. Coming up on Wednesday, October 27th is the "3rd Annual Pumpkin Carving" Contest. A "Veterans Day" luncheon is planned for November 7th and the "Happy Birthday, Jesus" party is to be on December 1st.
Please stay tuned for additional activities and times.
Providence Presbytery News
In September, 2019, Providence Presbytery established a Transition Team for the purpose of setting a clear direction for the future of Providence Presbytery. On Sunday, June 13, 2021, the Transition Team presented their report at the Presbytery Meeting. At the Called Presbytery Meeting on August 22, 2021, the report of the Transition Team was approved.
The team, believing that what we are doing is not working, suggests a more flexible, adaptable structure for us. They propose 5 Communities of Care: Faith, Hope, Love, and Witness which has two concentrations—Ministerial Services and Mission and Advocacy. This new structure was approved to begin in January, 2022.
The Team envisions a new ministry with a different type of facility; a virtual office. The Team recommends selling the Presbytery Office located at 515 Oakland Avenue. The proposal to have this location on the real estate market by March 31, 2023 was approved.
Other items that were approved included the implementation of a new staffing model and facilitation of digitizing the Presbytery Records for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
De’ Patton and Max Russell were members of the Transition Team, so if you have question you may want to talk with them.
THANK YOU FROM:
CLOVER SCHOOL DISTRICT
Dear Bowling Green Presbyterian Church Members: Thank you for your donations of school supplies and disinfectant wipes. Your generous donation will help support students in need. Thank you again for your donation and for the kindness you all have shown. Sincerely, CSD School Social Workers
PS told to Lisa: “We were overwhelmed by the abundance of the supplies that were given this year by your church. We appreciate so much your support in making sure that all children have what they need for the successful start of an already challenging school year!”
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
Dear Friends at BGPC: On behalf of all the families you’ve touched through your generosity, I want to thank you for your recent gift of $800. You are making a life-changing impact around the world. ..Thank you for believing that everyone deserves a life free from hunger and poverty. I am so grateful you are part of the Heifer Family. With Gratitude, Pierre U. Ferrari
PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES OF SC
Dear Friends at BGPC: We are so grateful for your congregation’s generous gift of $255 recently received from Providence Presbytery for the Mother’s Day Offering. This gift will be used solely to provide charitable care to residents who have outlived their life’s savings through no fault of their own, after years of living with us. Thank you to your church for partnering with us and upholding the special tradition of charitable care that is so central to our ministry. Sincerely, Franklin Fant
Sally Mann
Dear Members of BGPC: Thank you for the prayer blanket. It’s beautiful! I will treasure it—I am touched by your kindness. Please continue to pray that my vision returns. Surgery will be on August 24th. May God bless Bowling Green Presbyterian Church! Sincerely, Sally Mann
Looking Ahead to October:
DIMES FOR HUNGER
Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”
Start donating your dimes beginning on October 1! This offering is collected in the month October with more than 1.5 million being donated over 37 years throughout our Presbytery. We encourage our church family to give a dime per meal & snack per day (.40 per day) for 31 days to help hungry people within Providence Presbytery and the larger world. Half of all donations are used to support hunger relief agencies within the bounds of our presbytery, while the other half is given to alleviate hunger in other parts of the world.
Please consider donating $12.40 per person in your household for this offering!
Dimes for Hunger offerings are due on Sunday, November 7th.
August Birthday’s and Anniversaries’!
Birthdays: Anniversaries:
3: Casey Jackson 12: Beth Halford 1: Mack & Linda Henry
5: Connie Adams 16: Marti Caldwell, 2: Lee & Nadine Jackson
7: Amanda Caldwell Caty Jackson 8: Jim & Jane Jones
8: Wit Jackson. 23: Linda Henry 15: Michael & Kim Hughes
Peggy Moore 24: Ella Jackson
10: Mary Love 27: Scottie Munsey
PRAYER LIST
Church Family: Amy Adams, Polly Blair, Janet Burgin, Marti Caldwell, Ed Cockrell, Olivia & Roger Davis, Terri Decker, Mike & Rita Dulin, Rita W. Dulin, Danny Duncan, Danny Jackson, Jane Jones, Joel & Lynn Jones, Betty Love, Clara Love, George & Nina Miriello, Peggy Moore, Becky Munsey, Marshall Petty, and Tracy Spurrier.
Friends and Family: Donna Adams, Bobby Baldwin, Don Baldwin & family, Matthew Bentley, Brenda Bergin, Dominick Beverley, Jackie Blair, Betty Bolin, Mike Bolin, Frances Bowman, Nancy Burgin, Kitty Burgin, Melissa Burns, Margaret Boyd , Julie Cathcart, Greg Chantry, Pat Cherry, John Cieraszynski, Julie Clouse, Doris Comer, Bonnie Dejacimo, Wayne Dial, Gary Eastwood, Ed Farris, Judy Ferguson, Jodie Flanagan, Geoffrey Fox, Katie Goodwin, Theresa Graham, Ellen Green, Kelly Griffin, Judy Herron, Rhett Herron, Ginger Hilderbrand, Rodney Hipe, Betty Hodge, Lyman Holland, Betty Hopper, Larry Hopper, Robbie Hooper, Randy Huffstetler, Sheila Hullett, Nick & Alyson Jackson, Dolores Jones, Charlene Kiser, J.B. Knight, Tommy Krauf, Robert Lowry, Bob & Sally Mann, Carl “Buzz” Mauney, Jr., Andy & Joy McCarter, Annie Mae McDaniel, Beth McDonald, Dennis McFadden, Georgeanna McSwain, Cassie Messer, Paul Miloni, Vivian Mitchell, Teddi Nosek, Peggy Peele, Todd & Shawna Powell, Hannah Smith Rankin, Bob Reece, Lawrence Rhyne, David Robinson, Travis Rousseau, Linda Segrest, Linda & Hollie Sims, Carol Stanford , Lilly Summey, Donnie & Linda Vaughn, Charlie Walker, Peggy & Roy Wells, Beau Whiddon, Christen Whiddon.
Sundays: 9am: Choir Rehearsal
10 am: Worship (In-Person & Online: Facebook Live & YouTube)
Mondays: 9 am: Sew It’s Monday
Wednesdays: 10 am – noon: Church Office Hours
Other Important Dates:
Sunday, September 5: College Graduate Recognition during Worship + Called Session Meeting at 11:15 am
Tuesday, September 7: Circle #3 at 6 pm at the Church
Sunday, September 12: Homecoming Worship w/ Communion; Luncheon; Cemetery Association Meeting
Sunday, September 19: Adult Sunday School Information Meeting at 9 am
Sunday, September 26: Dimes for Hunger Kick-off Sunday
Tuesday, September 28: Adopt-an-Eagle Mentoring/Snacks at CHS at 6:30 pm
CANCELLED Due to Covid-19 Outbreak:
**Dimes for Hunger Kick-off Dinner at Van Wyck Presbyterian on August 29, 2021
**Presbyterian Women’s Fall Spiritual Retreat at Hermon Presbyterian on October 2, 2021
Support the Weekly Mission Opportunities:
--Rustling Bags of food for the Back-the-Pack Program
--Coins (quarters) for Heifer International.
Want to contribute to our Ministry and/or Mission Opportunities? Please send your check to our Treasurer Kenneth Love, 1442 Love Road, Clover, SC 29710. If you’d like your donation to be designated other than to our Ministry Fund, please clearly mark in the memo section of your check.
We are still Worshipping, Connecting, Growing, Serving, Giving, & Sharing!
CAN YOU SING????
The BGPC Choir meets on Sunday mornings at 9 am in the Fellowship Hall! We would LOVE to have YOUR lovely voice! If you have any questions, please contact De’ or Todd!
Circle #3 meeting, Tuesday, 7th at 6 pm at the church. Susan Jackson will lead lesson #1. Please join this Bible Study as we learn more about “What My Grandmothers Taught Me.”
Homecoming: the return of a group of people usually on a special occasion to a place formerly frequented or regarded as home. That is one definition of homecoming, which is what we are planning for September 12. We hope that you and your family consider Bowling Green as your home church in the Clover area and that you will be attending the events here on Sunday, September 12. We will begin with worship at 10:00 a.m. to be followed by a covered dish luncheon.
Adult Sunday School Information Meeting: Interested in getting back to Sunday School? All adults are invited to an informational meeting to discuss options for restarting the Adult Sunday School Class. The meeting will be held on Sunday, September 19th at 9 am in the Church Library. Dave will open the meeting with prayer and a “lighter side” comment. Lisa will then provide devotion, which will be followed by discussion about the proposed schedule of the Adult Sunday School Class.
Farm Day at the Boling Farm!
All are invited for a day of farm activities and fun on Saturday, September 25 from 11 am – 4 pm! Come on out & feed the Alpacas (don’t let them spit on you!)) There will be some games for kids and sealed snacks and drinks for all. Masks are required, hand sanitizer/hand wipes will be available and socially distancing is encouraged when possible. The farm is located at 1204 Rhyne Road in Clover. More details to follow—including if they will need to postpone the event.
Clover Football’s Mentoring as a Mission Project
CHS Football Coach Brian Lane and his wife Kenya offer a mentoring program with the players each season in hope that members of the community can get to know the players off the field! On Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, the players and their mentors gather for a devotion, a snack, and a few minutes to hang out together.
We have been asked to sponsor this program in a couple of ways:
#1 Mentor: Community Members adopt a Varsity player and join with him each Tuesday at 6:30 pm for the devotion, the snack, and the time together. If you are interested in being a Mentor, please contact Kenya Lane at eagle.adopt@gmail.com.
#2 Snacks: BGPC will sponsor the snacks on Tuesday, September 28. Please bring a snack item from the list below to the church before that date. If you’d prefer to make a monetary donation, we will be glad to do the shopping for you! Be sure to mark your checks “Adopt-an-Eagle.”
#3 Volunteer: On our Tuesday, volunteers will be needed to pack the snacks into individual treat bags and then deliver to the school.
List of Requested Snack Items:
Lance Toast-Chee Crackers
Individual Dorito’s chips
Little Debbie Swiss Rolls
Gatorade (any flavor) 20 oz.
We will need to provide around 115 individual bags of snacks for all Varsity, Junior Varsity, & Coaches. If we want to include the Mentors and other volunteers, we would need around 60 extras. Please be sure to mark your donations with Adopt-an-Eagle.
Basic First Aid & CPR Training Opportunity
BGPC will be hosting an American Red Cross Basic First Aid & CPR Training event soon at the church. BGPC is covering all costs for this event ($80 for each trainee + $100 trainer) for up to 8 church members. Priority, of course, will be given to members of the Safety Team. The training takes around 3 hours and will be scheduled on a Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. The event date/time will depend on the schedules of those most interested. If you are interested in receiving this training, please contact Lisa or John Barnett (803)810-2907.
SAFETY TEAM: We are working hard to be sure that we are prepared to keep our members safe—whether in a medical, fire, threat, or disaster emergency. If you are interested in joining the safety team, please contact Lisa, John Barnett (803)810-2907 or Susan Jackson (803)810-5012. Consider helping us keep everyone safe at BGPC…and beyond!
The Outreach team continues to advertise Bowling Green Presbyterian Church Life by using signs and banners to keep the members and the community aware of what our church is doing. Worship online and outside are highlighted by banners, with our church location at each end of Ridge Road on signs.
Visitor folders are given to new visitors with a brochure and contact information. Sometimes however, a new visitor may be seated where they are not seen as easily. To be sure a visitor does not go unnoticed, there are visitor packets in the Ladies Parlor. Please feel free to offer a packet to our new visitors.
The Outreach Team and the Congregational Care Team are planning to sponsor several fellowship activities. Coming up on Wednesday, October 27th is the "3rd Annual Pumpkin Carving" Contest. A "Veterans Day" luncheon is planned for November 7th and the "Happy Birthday, Jesus" party is to be on December 1st.
Please stay tuned for additional activities and times.
Providence Presbytery News
In September, 2019, Providence Presbytery established a Transition Team for the purpose of setting a clear direction for the future of Providence Presbytery. On Sunday, June 13, 2021, the Transition Team presented their report at the Presbytery Meeting. At the Called Presbytery Meeting on August 22, 2021, the report of the Transition Team was approved.
The team, believing that what we are doing is not working, suggests a more flexible, adaptable structure for us. They propose 5 Communities of Care: Faith, Hope, Love, and Witness which has two concentrations—Ministerial Services and Mission and Advocacy. This new structure was approved to begin in January, 2022.
The Team envisions a new ministry with a different type of facility; a virtual office. The Team recommends selling the Presbytery Office located at 515 Oakland Avenue. The proposal to have this location on the real estate market by March 31, 2023 was approved.
Other items that were approved included the implementation of a new staffing model and facilitation of digitizing the Presbytery Records for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
De’ Patton and Max Russell were members of the Transition Team, so if you have question you may want to talk with them.
THANK YOU FROM:
CLOVER SCHOOL DISTRICT
Dear Bowling Green Presbyterian Church Members: Thank you for your donations of school supplies and disinfectant wipes. Your generous donation will help support students in need. Thank you again for your donation and for the kindness you all have shown. Sincerely, CSD School Social Workers
PS told to Lisa: “We were overwhelmed by the abundance of the supplies that were given this year by your church. We appreciate so much your support in making sure that all children have what they need for the successful start of an already challenging school year!”
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
Dear Friends at BGPC: On behalf of all the families you’ve touched through your generosity, I want to thank you for your recent gift of $800. You are making a life-changing impact around the world. ..Thank you for believing that everyone deserves a life free from hunger and poverty. I am so grateful you are part of the Heifer Family. With Gratitude, Pierre U. Ferrari
PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES OF SC
Dear Friends at BGPC: We are so grateful for your congregation’s generous gift of $255 recently received from Providence Presbytery for the Mother’s Day Offering. This gift will be used solely to provide charitable care to residents who have outlived their life’s savings through no fault of their own, after years of living with us. Thank you to your church for partnering with us and upholding the special tradition of charitable care that is so central to our ministry. Sincerely, Franklin Fant
Sally Mann
Dear Members of BGPC: Thank you for the prayer blanket. It’s beautiful! I will treasure it—I am touched by your kindness. Please continue to pray that my vision returns. Surgery will be on August 24th. May God bless Bowling Green Presbyterian Church! Sincerely, Sally Mann
Looking Ahead to October:
DIMES FOR HUNGER
Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”
Start donating your dimes beginning on October 1! This offering is collected in the month October with more than 1.5 million being donated over 37 years throughout our Presbytery. We encourage our church family to give a dime per meal & snack per day (.40 per day) for 31 days to help hungry people within Providence Presbytery and the larger world. Half of all donations are used to support hunger relief agencies within the bounds of our presbytery, while the other half is given to alleviate hunger in other parts of the world.
Please consider donating $12.40 per person in your household for this offering!
Dimes for Hunger offerings are due on Sunday, November 7th.
August Birthday’s and Anniversaries’!
Birthdays: Anniversaries:
3: Casey Jackson 12: Beth Halford 1: Mack & Linda Henry
5: Connie Adams 16: Marti Caldwell, 2: Lee & Nadine Jackson
7: Amanda Caldwell Caty Jackson 8: Jim & Jane Jones
8: Wit Jackson. 23: Linda Henry 15: Michael & Kim Hughes
Peggy Moore 24: Ella Jackson
10: Mary Love 27: Scottie Munsey
PRAYER LIST
Church Family: Amy Adams, Polly Blair, Janet Burgin, Marti Caldwell, Ed Cockrell, Olivia & Roger Davis, Terri Decker, Mike & Rita Dulin, Rita W. Dulin, Danny Duncan, Danny Jackson, Jane Jones, Joel & Lynn Jones, Betty Love, Clara Love, George & Nina Miriello, Peggy Moore, Becky Munsey, Marshall Petty, and Tracy Spurrier.
Friends and Family: Donna Adams, Bobby Baldwin, Don Baldwin & family, Matthew Bentley, Brenda Bergin, Dominick Beverley, Jackie Blair, Betty Bolin, Mike Bolin, Frances Bowman, Nancy Burgin, Kitty Burgin, Melissa Burns, Margaret Boyd , Julie Cathcart, Greg Chantry, Pat Cherry, John Cieraszynski, Julie Clouse, Doris Comer, Bonnie Dejacimo, Wayne Dial, Gary Eastwood, Ed Farris, Judy Ferguson, Jodie Flanagan, Geoffrey Fox, Katie Goodwin, Theresa Graham, Ellen Green, Kelly Griffin, Judy Herron, Rhett Herron, Ginger Hilderbrand, Rodney Hipe, Betty Hodge, Lyman Holland, Betty Hopper, Larry Hopper, Robbie Hooper, Randy Huffstetler, Sheila Hullett, Nick & Alyson Jackson, Dolores Jones, Charlene Kiser, J.B. Knight, Tommy Krauf, Robert Lowry, Bob & Sally Mann, Carl “Buzz” Mauney, Jr., Andy & Joy McCarter, Annie Mae McDaniel, Beth McDonald, Dennis McFadden, Georgeanna McSwain, Cassie Messer, Paul Miloni, Vivian Mitchell, Teddi Nosek, Peggy Peele, Todd & Shawna Powell, Hannah Smith Rankin, Bob Reece, Lawrence Rhyne, David Robinson, Travis Rousseau, Linda Segrest, Linda & Hollie Sims, Carol Stanford , Lilly Summey, Donnie & Linda Vaughn, Charlie Walker, Peggy & Roy Wells, Beau Whiddon, Christen Whiddon.