Youth News

Our Youth Director, John, is going to be in Cuba for most of the month of January for a class at Columbia Seminary.

There will be no youth activities on January 5th. Watch your weekly email for details with upcoming fun activities with awesome substitute leaders later this month.

2020 Community Service Opportunity

Our congregation provides dinner for up to 30 men on the 4th Sunday of the each month at Clifton Sanctuary Ministries. Please see our website for more details. This is a great activity for a family or small group within the church to do together. Set up begins at 5:00 pm; meals are served at 6:00 pm, and cleanup is done by the residents. You are invited to eat and talk with the residents during the meal. Feel free to attend with one of our scheduled groups to become familiar with the facility and meal service. Click here to sign up for an upcoming day. Dates for 2020 will be on the Sign-Up page (accessible through our SAPC web site) in early Dec 2019. Questions, contact Mike Bearden, 404-660-8234.

Tech Basics for Churches will be held Saturday, January 25, 2020, 9 am-1 pm, at Peachtree Presbyterian Church (in The Summit, second floor of The Lodge; across the street from the main church and adjacent to the parking deck).

Join Presbyterians to learn and improve skills about general technology use, digital newsletters, websites, social media, Zoom, and file sharing.

Zoe’s Kitchen, a Mediterranean restaurant, will cater lunch. The event cost is $15 per person PLEASE REGISTER NOW! https://app.easytithe.com/App/Form/710793bc-745f-4291-913f-bc828bef3e18 and join us at Peachtree on January 25.

Facing the Rising Sun: Climate Change & Ecowomanist Wisdom is the focus of GIPL’s third annual Green Team Summit, on January 25 from 8:30 am – 2:00 pm, featuring the Rev. Dr. Melanie Harris of Texas Christian University. Join GIPL and Creation care champions across Georgia for this interfaith gathering, open to anyone looking to form (or refresh!) a Green Team in their faith community and people of faith looking to connect around climate action and environmental justice. Tickets will be available soon!

General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church,

458 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE

Atlanta, GA 30308

The Winter 2020 Session  of Aerobics will be: January 6 – March 27, 2020, with Aerobic dance Monday/Thursday 9:00-10:00 a.m. and Aerobic Step

Wednesday 9:00-10:00 a.m. Please contact Diane Hutchinson for more information or to sign up, (770) 491-3394.

All the women of St. Andrews are invited to attend the next meeting of the Presbyterian Women on Tuesday, January 21 at 10:00 a.m. in the Meeting Room. After Bible Study, there will be fellowship and refreshments. For more information about the Presbyterian Women, please contact Jackie Harper, 770-934-3463.

The Light of Grace dance ministry is so blessed that the Pastor and Elders of St. Andrews have welcomed us into this warm and loving congregation. This amazing group of adults with very special abilities has been able to open the eyes and hearts of the Atlanta metro-area to all that they can do, and will continue to accomplish in the future.

We will be providing a Sunday school class at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings in the double room of the education building for anyone with any kind of disability, and our rehearsals will continue in the sanctuary of SAPC on Wednesdays, from 5:00 to 6:15 p.m. We also believe inclusion is good for everyone, so we welcome anyone who would like to learn liturgical dance and be a part of all that God is leading us to do. The first class at SAPC will be on Sunday, January 12.

If you would like to see the video from the 2019 production of A Christmas Story, please click here.

On February 9, 2020, as part of the worship service and with the support of Rise Against Hunger, our congregation will prepare 10,000 meals in Heffner Hall (as we did in 2014, 2016, and 2018) to help fight world hunger.  The school we help to support in Zambia with our Change for Children donations is one of the organizations that benefits from these healthy food donations.

Our congregation is responsible for raising funds to support this endeavor. In anticipation of continuing to do this important mission opportunity every two years, we have established a restricted account to fund our costs for the ingredients for the meals. To donate, click here, and select Mission Fundraiser and type Rise Against Hunger in the note box at the end of the donation page; or place a check in the offering on an upcoming Sunday. Please use the memo line to designate that your check is for Rise against Hunger.

A Socks and Skivvies Tree to support Clifton Sanctuary Ministries will be in the Narthex through December 29. This is a new opportunity for our congregation, and was a long-time mission activity of the Church of the New Covenant. Homeless men coming to Clifton Ministries receive new tee shirts, underwear, and socks. Our congregation’s goal is to help maintain Clifton’s clothing supply closet. We encourage your support by donating: socks (white crew and dark dress socks of sizes 10-13); white short-sleeve tee shirts and underwear (many prefer briefs; in sizes M, especially L and XL, and XXL). Please do not wrap them as Christmas presents. These gifts will be delivered to Clifton in early January. Questions: contact Mike Bearden or Joshua Price.