Love Your Neighbors by using fair-trade Coffee, Chocolate and Tea. Climate change is world wide, affecting small farmers everywhere. Your purchase of fair-trade coffee, tea and chocolate is a good way to express love across borders. Order now and participate in the Presbyterian Coffee Project’s effort to support small farmers around the world who provide delicious products for our enjoyment. Place orders with Mary Evans, tmevans@bellsouth.net, 770-493-9489 by February 15. Click here for the list of products.

Town Hall Meeting On Sunday, February 7 at 1:30 p.m., we will hold hall a town hall meeting via Zoom to discuss becoming a Matthew 25 congregation. Please see Wednesday’s email for links with FAQ’s and more information. Click here to join on a computer, tablet or smart phone. To dial in, call 301-715-8592 and enter the Meeting ID: 870 4252 3715.

It’s almost Valentine’s Day and time for the SAPC Presbyterian Women to let our college students and deployed military personnel know that we are thinking about them. We’re working on creative ways for how best to do that during the pandemic but, if you have a college student or deployed military person in your family and would like us to reach out to them this year, please send their name(s), mailing address(es), and email address(es) to Margaret Ellingson at mwellingson@gmail.com or call 770-891-0858 by Monday, February 8th.

If you’ve given us an address before, please let us know if we should keep it on our list, update it or remove it.

Older Adult and Caregiver Ministries Announcement Pat Baker recently acquired 30 copies of the book Journeying with Jeanette- A love story in the land and language of Alzheimer’s by Robert Crick with Brandelan Miller. This is a ministers’ account of his 10-year journey with his wife as he cared for her from the beginning stages of dementia to the end of her life. It is very touching and heart-felt. The author was able to get a publisher to donate the publishing of his story and he wants to give his book away to anyone who would like a copy. Pat is offering them to anyone in the congregation, or to your friends and/or family. There are a few copies at the church and she has lots at home. Please email her at pat@sapctucker.org if you would like to have a copy of this book.   

Church Directories We are updating our church directory. If you have new contact information or would like to include a new picture, please email Gretchen in the office by Monday, February 8th, office@sapctucker.org

Wednesday Lunch and LearnClick this link to join us on Zoom for Lunch and Learn on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. The password is 014584. If dialing in, call 301-715-8592, enter the Meeting ID: 960 5542 9353 and Password: 014584. We will be studying Mark 9:2-9 and 2 Kings 2:1-12.

Sunday, February 7 It is the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany and we will celebrate worship and communion in our homes via Facebook Live and YouTube. You are invited to have your own bread and juice with you while you watch (or as close as you can get with what you have at home), so you can share communion around a great big virtual table. We will have Sunday School before and fellowship after worship on Zoom conference. We will post the recording of our worship service on our website. The Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett will be guest preaching; her sermon is entitled Seeing Jesus. Our hymns for Sunday will be Soon and Very Soon and When the Lord Redeems the Very Least. Our scripture passages are Matthew 25:31–46 and Matthew 5:3-12. For a copy of Sunday’s bulletin, click here.

Horses and Warriors Program At the Calvin Center wounded veterans participate in a therapeutic horseback riding program, staffed mostly by volunteer veterans. Click here to see the complete article in the AJC. Thank you to Paul Burns for bringing this heart-warming article to our notice.