Please call or email the office if you have a change of address, email or phone number. We are working on an updated directory, 770-938-2833.

We are excited to offer the opportunity to participate in a new confirmation program this year. We are making this available to all youth from 6th through 12th grades who haven’t been through confirmation.

 The main classes will be held on Sunday mornings in the youth lounge from 9 – 9:50 a.m.

The program will run from February 24 through June 9. A course outline with be available by the first class.

 If you are interested in participating, please download the registration form, complete the first page and return to John by Sunday, February 3. The sooner the better!! Hold on to the second page for later.

 On the form you will notice a box requesting names of individuals you think would be good matches for confirmation mentors. Please offer two or three suggestions, but don’t ask the potential mentors yourself. John will use the lists from each participant to match youth with the best adults. (John has found this to be a more helpful approach to ensure potential mentors are not asked by multiple youth and the proper commitment is understood from the adult mentors.)

 CONFIRMATION REGISTRATION FORM

Contact John McCrosky with any questions.

New Year’s resolution to spent more time in the Word? I’ts not too late to join a group for our congregation’s Gospel Reading Project. The latest of materials are available in the narthex or by clicking here.

Sundays 9:00 am, Jane Thomas

Wednesday Evenings, The McFarlan’s Home

Fridays 10:00 am, Rev. Camille, Library

Saturdays Noon, David & Mary McCowan, Meeting Room

Online: see below

For electronic reminders of each day’s passage, or the online group: Visit this website and sign up, or from smartphone, click this link, or you can simply text @readgospel (put this in as the message) to 81010 (put this in for the phone number.)

To join the closed Facebook small group search for “SAPC Closer Walk with Thee: Gospel Reading Project” or click here.

Our congregation provides dinner for up to 30 men on the 4th Sunday & the 5th Friday 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. Questions please contact Mike Bearden.

The Net Food Pantry is located in Tucker Recreation across the street from our church

St. Andrews provides grits, oatmeal and powdered milk year-round for the NET Food Pantry. Donations of these and other non-perishable food items are always welcome and can be placed in the bin in the Narthex. Please consider picking up an item or two for the pantry at your next trip to the store.

• Youth Ski Weekend, February 1-3. (Registrations were due Sunday, Dec. 30)
• Confirmation for 6th – 12th grade youth interested in learning more about what it means to be Presbyterian.
• Montreat Youth Conference, June 2—8, 2019. Registration deadline is past, but if you haven’t let John know you intend to go, you may still do so (but don’t delay).

Our regular Youth Fellowship meeting are on Sunday evenings beginning with choir at 5:00, then supper at 6:00 followed by recreation and programs.

We are looking for a few folks to serve as youth advisers, a one-time or mini-series speaker, drivers, meal coordinators, confirmation mentors, or trip chaperones. If you think God might be calling you to fulfill our baptismal vows in this way, please get in touch with John or Camille.

All of the women of St. Andrews are invited to join the Presbyterian Women on Tuesday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. in the Meeting Room. We will have Bible Study followed by fellowship and refreshments. Contact Jackie Harper with any questions, 770-934-3463.

Potpourri Sunday School class will begin the book Anxious to Talk About It, Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully About Racism, Rev. Carolyn B. Helsel (PC USA pastor and professor), 01/13/19 – 02/17/19.  If talking about racism makes you anxious, afraid, or even angry, you’re not alone.  Rev. Helsel draws on her success with white congregations to offer insight and tools to embrace, explore and work through the anxious feelings that often arise in these hard conversations.  A study guide is available on the SAPC Sunday School web page; e-books and paperback books available from Amazon and Cokesbury.  Questions – Mike Bearden, 404-660-8234; michaelrbearden@bellsouth.net .

If you know what a computer looks like, you can help run our audio-visual equipment on Sunday morning.  With a little training and mentoring you’ll be the envy of your friends as you sit at the console helping St. Andrews run a smooth worship service each Sunday.  Once you’re confident on the AV board, you’ll be on a schedule to serve once every six weeks – not an arduous  task!  Since two of the favorite AV Techs moved to Miami, we really need a few eager (or not eager) volunteers to help out.   We will have a training session after worship on Sunday, Feb. 3.  Once you’ve had training, another AV tech will mentor you for a few Sundays to help you learn the process.  Contact Phyllis Bearden at pbearden47@bellsouth.net or 404-580-8679 or just wave during worship to sign up.