This Week: July 17, 2021

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THISWEEK@PCPC VOL. XXXII, NO. 14 | JULY 17, 2021

Park Cities Presbyterian Church exists to extend the transforming presence of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in Dallas and to the world.

UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR BRENT BAKER Sunday | July 25 | 12:15 p.m. | Fellowship Hall Please join us to say your goodbyes to Brent Baker, Assistant Pastor of Youth and Families. Brent will move to Austin to serve as an Associate Pastor at All Saints Presbyterian Church. Stop by to celebrate with him and his family. Food and refreshments will be provided. pcpc.org/events

NEW MEMBER CLASS Sunday | September 12-October 31 | 9:30-10:40 a.m. | Fellowship Hall Is the Lord calling you to be a member of PCPC? Know someone who might be interested? Our New Member Class gives the opportunity to explore that question as we discuss our church’s beliefs, vision, and mission.

Register online. pcpc.org/events

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HELPING HANDS Saturday | August 7 | 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Oak Lawn West Be the hands and feet of Jesus and join the deacons and other volunteers to help single moms, widows/ers, senior adults, and those with chronic illness by doing odd jobs (light repairs, maintenance, and minor jobs) around their homes. We will meet at PCPC in Oak Lawn West. Register to volunteer online. pcpc.org/events

WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL CLEAN-UP DAY Saturday | August 7 | 8:30-11:30 a.m. | 2300 Canada Drive Join City Missions in extending Christ to West Dallas Community School!

Volunteers of all ages are needed to clean, garden, help with teacher projects, and other tasks. Breakfast will be provided. RSVP to Jenna Tenpenny. jenna.tenpenny@pcpc.org

EXTEND CHRIST

As we open our New Doors, we need you to help welcome and serve our guests! We have volunteer opportunities available in PCPC Kids and our Frontline Ministries. We also partner with organizations like Apartment Life, Bonton Farms, OurCalling, Vickery Trading Company, Mercy Street, and more as we extend the transforming presence of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in Dallas and to the world. pcpc.org/volunteer

ALL-CHURCH PRAYER

THISWEEK@PCPC

VOL. XXXII, NO. 14 | JULY 17, 2021

Sunday | September 12 | 4:00–6:00 p.m. | Sanctuary We long to be a church that abides in Christ through prayer with and for each other. Whether you have a prayer of praise, request, emotional, relational, or spiritual need, come to be prayed with by one of our elders or pastors. pcpc.org/events

Children’s & Youth Choirs Begin Wednesday, September 15

Music is able to plant the Word of God deep into hearts.

Weekly rehearsals for Children’s and Youth choirs are back this fall!

Carol Choir (grades K-1) / 4:30-5:15 p.m.

During his imprisonment in World War II, Dietrich Bonhoeffer found great solace in music. In 1944 he wrote to a dear friend, “It has been a year now since I have heard a hymn sung. But it is strange how the music that we hear inwardly can almost surpass…what we hear physically.” A few months later he wrote to his infant godson, “Music…will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep an underlying [note] of joy alive in you.” In other words, as Lynda Fray would put it, music is able to “plant the Word of God deep into hearts.”

There are numerous anthems and hymns that we sang in our children’s choirs 20 years ago that I still know from memory.

Many Alzheimer’s patients who have forgotten their loved ones’ names can still hear, sing, or play the music that they cherished during their lives. What inward music would you like your children to hear in 20, 40, 80 years?

• Maddie Davis & Jack Bennington on July 3, 2021.

DEATHS

Covenant Choir (grades 5–8) / 5:00-6:00 p.m.

• Glenn A. Garrett (Far Northeast Region Parish), husband of Louise Garrett (Far Northeast Region Parish) on July 2, 2021.

Though we will not have a dedicated High School Ensemble this year, we would love for your high school aged singers to be involved in mentoring our younger choirs and occasionally joining our adult choir.

Register at pcpc.org/music/choirs. katie.little@pcpc.org

– Katie Little, Ministry Leader of Children’s and Youth Choirs

As a covenant child of this church and an alumna of our dear Lynda Fray’s choirs, I could go on forever about why singing in choir is a valuable endeavor. Choir teaches us to read music, to sing well, to participate meaningfully in worship, to listen, to collaborate. Studies show that music making has a myriad of benefits for child development and for our physical and emotional health. In my college career and young adulthood, choir opened the doors to incredible experiences including winning awards at international competitions, recording CDs, performing in 1000-year-old cathedrals, singing with people from all over the world, and making wonderful friendships.

When I joined the PCPC Chapel Choir in 1999, I entered this life full of music. Could joining choir open these kinds of doors to your children? Absolutely. But music will also be there for your children when doors are shut upon them.

MARRIAGES

Chapel Choir (grades 2–4) / 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Join the ministry of Park Cities Presbyterian Church by leading our congregation in worship and glorifying our great God! Choir is an awesome place to make friends, grow musically, and write God’s Word on your heart through song.

Whether you only sing in the shower or are a seasoned performer, we would love to have you with us.

Why Choir?

OUR FAMILY

I first received the gospel through a hymn, and throughout my life, the Lord has consistently ministered to me through music.

Our goal in the PCPC Children’s and Youth Choirs is to give our singers spiritual food that will nourish them in the present and sustain them for the years to come. We want to put a song in their hearts that will keep resonating throughout their lives, so that when they walk through valleys of care and sorrow, like Bonhoeffer, the Apostle Paul, and King David, their inward music would be a spring of the living water that will never run dry.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, and Eberhard Bethge. Letters and Papers from Prison. S.C.M., 1967.

FALL OPPORTUNITIES FALL KICK-OFF September 12-17 Mark your calendar for our upcoming fall line up!

• Midweek Dinner • Men’s and Women’s Bible Studies • Men’s Integrity Groups • DivorceCare • Middle School Small Groups • Children’s Choirs & Musikgarten

RUF-INTERNATIONAL - EXTEND CHRIST • August 20 - SMU RUF-I New Student Welcome Party • September 24 - RUF-I Mid-Autumn Party • November 19 - SMU RUF-I Thanksgiving Feast More detils to come!

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

– Colossians 3:16-17

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2021/2022 operating budget July 1, 2021—July 4, 2021 budget July 1, 2020—July 4, 2021 giving Budget Variance

$14,200,000 $188,560 $169,608 –$18,952