ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Artists

Dear Friends, I am writing to you on the behalf of a congregation and pastor who have been instrumental to AAIM and the Austin interfaith community: Central Presbyterian Church and Rev. Greg McDonell. The purpose of my letter is to share information about the 4th Annual Austin Interfaith Arts & Music Festival, taking place Friday, October 17 - Sunday, October 19 at Central Presbyterian, 200 E. 8th St. @ Brazos. I urge you to share the information below with your congregations, colleagues, family, and friends. The Interfaith Arts and Music Festival is seeking additional visual artists. Also, please note that tickets for the Friday night concert may be purchased in advance at the Interfaith Festival website (http://austininterfaithfestival.org) or by calling Central Presbyterian at 472-2445. For additional information on the Austin Interfaith Arts & Music Festival, as well as other upcoming Austin faith community events, please visit our AAIM web calendar at: www.aaimaustin.org/calendar In peace, Tom Spencer CEO - AAIM -------------- Call for Artists! Fourth Annual INTERFAITH ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 8TH AND BRAZOS Friday evening, October 17, 8 pm, Special Sacred Music Concert (featuring Beth Nielsen Chapman) Saturday and Sunday, 18 and 19 October 2008 Festival 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, 12 noon - 5 p.m. Sunday Sunday This festival is open to artists of all faiths and beliefs. Artists' work will be displayed in booths and available for sale to the public. The work should be original, spiritually based and inspired. Prior to selection for the festival, all submissions will be juried by a panel of professionals from the art community. If you are interested in participating, registration/application information may be obtained at http://austininterfaithfestival.org or by calling 512-775-3520 or 512-461-6724 Sponsored by Central Presbyterian Church of Austin And Friends There is a $150.00 booth rental fee payable by the artist. Proceeds generated through the festival will be used to establish regular assistance programs for the poor and homeless. Austin Area Interreligious Ministries unites faith and cultural communities to foster mutual respect, partnership and transformation in service of the common good. www.aaimaustin.org/

WANTED: Youth Group Food Volunteers!!

For those with or without Culinary School degrees, we want you! Our wonderful Youth Group, middle school and high school, is great at taking on community projects and learning more about God in their lives every week. Every week, those same youth could really use your support with food for Sunday mornings between services, and Sunday evenings as they meet in prayer and action. Typically we get about 15-20 youth and mentors at each get-together. Interested in supporting? If cooking doesn’t fit in your schedule, there’s more than one way to help out the group. To quote Pastor Sarah, “Anything is great for these kids!! They just need some fuel to keep them going.” Pick up from the market; Sloppy Joe fixin’s in a crock pot; juice and kolaches for breakfast – any and all food groups welcome. If you’re ready to sign up, or need more ideas, please contact Susan Roberts at 346-4068, or dvsrdv@austin.rr.com . Blessings on you for supporting our Youth!!

QPR - Ask A Question Save A Live

QPR - Ask A Question Save A Life Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training will be offered to anyone, over the age of 18, on Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6-8PM, at FPC Rissman Hall. This workshop is considered the CPR for suicide, learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide and how to apply three simple steps that may save a life. For additional information: www.qprinstitute.com. Contact Elizabeth Roebuck nroebuck@ix.netcom.com with RSVP or call 249-2317.

Presbyterian Children's Home and Services

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Greetings! I have a couple things to share with you and I have included several links to our website. First, our children will be starting school next week; I have included a few ideas for how you can be involved in helping us make sure each child has a successful year: · volunteering to tutor one of our children on a weekly basis · providing dinner at one of our homes on a week night so the home parents can concentrate on school work · helping provide social activities (such as sport event or cultural event) · collecting new school supplies (pencils, pens, notebooks, markers, paper, etc.) and backpacks for the 250 kids currently in our care · sharing a skill or talent you have with a child, a family, or a home · making a back-to-school gift at www.pchas.org

First500, September 27

Countdown Begins to Third Annual First500 Now is the time to start thinking about what you want to do Saturday morning, September 27, for our third annual First500 event. This event is FPC’s annual fall outreach to our community and our church, with our goal of giving a collective 500 hours this one morning. We’ll gather at 8:30 a.m. for worship, then begin working on our individual projects, followed by a heavenly lunch provided by the FPC Holy Smokers. Our projects this year (and the FPC saint leading each) are: • Mobile Loaves and Fishes (Cecil Jones), assembling 1000 packets of snack food for homeless folks. This is done at the church, and children love to participate. Lots of hands needed here. • Faith in Action (Ken Wilson, reaching out to our homebound. • Caritas (Linda Doehne), building packets of beans and rice, adding a recipe, and learning about all the good Caritas does for people needing help. Children can help at Caritas. • Susan Koman Foundation (Joni Wackwitz), all ages and abilities assembling information packets or key chains to help promote the Race for the Cure; at the church. • Manos de Cristo (Susan Roberts/Helene Treat), at Manos, help sort and organize food and supplies and bag toiletries. This is a family friendly project. • Austin Parks Foundation (Louise McGinley), cleaning at the Bull Creek Greenbelt; perfect for people who like to be outdoors in hot weather! • Austin Public Library (Stephanie Rodriguez) is opening a used book store and needs people to help sort and label books. • Capital Area Food Bank (Laura Castleberry) is a chance for jr. high and sr. high youth to learn how the food bank operates and to help with all parts of the operation. • FPC Building and Grounds (Roger Drake) needs all ages to help tend the garden, paint doors to the sanctuary, and bring cartons of old documents from the basement storage for shredding. (Did you know we have a basement?) • Ronald McDonald House (Sarah de la Fuente), ten FPC folks are needed to cook and serve lunch to 20 residents. No cleanup included! Good family project. • Holy Smokers (Joe de la Fuente), will cook and serve their world-famous barbeque as folks return from working their projects. Men with tall tales to tell are especially needed. For more information on the event or specific projects, call Nancy Baker at 252-9557, or e-mail nancyabaker@gmail.com. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” Mother Teresa

Women's Retreat, October 24-26, Mo-Ranch

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for October 24-26th!! It has been four long years since our last women’s retreat and the women of FPC are ready to gather once again. This year’s retreat will take place at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Conference Center in the Texas Hill Country. (www.moranch.com) It is sure to be a wonderful time of spiritual growth, fellowship and fun for women of all ages. Our speaker will be Jean Springer, the Executive Director of Eremos, a center for spiritual growth and contemplative worship here in Austin. (www.eremos.org) Registration begins Sunday, September 7th. You can pick up a registration packet in the Narthex on Sunday mornings or in the church office. If you have questions, please contact Leigh Housley at 418-1529 or at leighjeannine@yahoo.com

Men's Weekly Noon Bible Studay - Wednesdays

Join this group for lively discussion each Wednesday in Lower Nelson. Call the church office for more information. 345-8866 x23

IHN

IHN—As part of the Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN), we will host four homeless families in our church during 2008.  They will stay at our Church on three separate occasions for one week each.  Our scheduled weeks begin February 3, April 27, and October 12.  Please mark these weeks on your calendar if you wish to participate in this worthwhile program.  We need sixty volunteers for each of our host weeks, so as you can see, it is an enormous commitment.  It is also a wonderful way for us to show gratitude for our many blessings.  Our first of two scheduled sign-ups for our February host week will be in the FPC narthex on Sunday, January 6 at 9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. and again on the following Sunday, January 13, at the same times. We are also looking for “gently used” queen size sheet sets, blankets, towels and four new pillows or pillow covers or both, to complete our linen closet.  If you would like to donate these items or money to purchase them, please call Deanna Wilson at 346-1304. The IHN Team: John Rebok, Deanna Wilson, Faith Edson, and Don Wolfe, Coordinators.

BikersFirst, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Mornings

Contact Pastor Sam Riccobene for more information. 345-8866

MEN'S BREAKFAST

Men’s Ministry at FPC—Friendship, Inspiration, Living the Christian Life; These are the guiding principals of Men’s Ministry and the Men's Breakfast program is tailored around these principals. Come enjoy food, speakers, the occasional musical guest, and best of all, join us as we come together in Christ. We gather at 8 to 8:15 am, enjoy food and fellowship from 8:15 to 8:30 am followed by a program from 8:45 to 9:30 am. Join us the second Saturday of each month in the Fellowship Hall on the second floor of Rissman Wing.

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