There are several dates available in the coming weeks to bring flowers on Sunday mornings. Flowers can be from the store or from your yard. Please sign up here or in the narthex.

Caring for Creation is offering an opportunity to recycle your old printer cartridges Please look for the recycle box in the narthex on September 30 through October 7.

39ers The 39ers is a group of people that likes to meet and eat and have fellowship together. Everyone is welcome to join them on Monday, October 1^st at the Magnolia Room at noon. (4450 Hugh Howell Rd. #10 Tucker, 30084) Anyone wishing to carpool, meet in the parking lot by the office at St. Andrews at 11:45 a.m.

Visitors/New Members Coffee Sunday, September 30th at 9:00 am. Are you a visitor who’d like to learn more about St. Andrews? Join us in the narthex (sanctuary entrance) parlor for coffee, pastries, and a chance to meet some of our congregation’s leaders. Learn more about what it means to be Presbyterian and get information on opportunities to get engaged in the church’s many activities. Questions: contact Paige at paigemk@gmail.com or 404-895-4210. We look forward to getting to know you better!

On Saturday September 22^nd, youth and adults from St. Andrews gathered at the Friends of Refugees Jolly Avenue Community Garden for the first phase of our congregation’s project there. The volunteers prepared the site, dug holes, poured concrete, and set the posts in place for a bus stop shelter. On October 20^th, we will gather again to complete the project, building the structure and installing landscaping. Many of the refugees in Clarkston board buses each day, taking them to their jobs in poultry plants. This bus shelter and the fruit and shade producing plants that surround it, will offer our neighbors a break from the heat and a comfortable place to wait for the buses each day. Click here if you’d like to join us in October.

If you’d like to know more about our neighbors in Clarkston, you can watch this short video that captures a bit of the beauty of this diverse community. For more information about mission activities at St. Andrews click here.

Partnering with Friends of Refugees is one way St. Andrews is living into God’s call for us to be good neighbors to the refugee community, through the generosity of the time, talent, and treasure that God has given us.

Join us for St. Andrews’ Midweek Intergeneration dinner, fellowship, and learning. All ages are welcome. Dinner will be provided by local restaurants for a cost of $10 for adults, $5 for kids age 5-12, and free for kids under 5. Family max for dinner is $20.

When you register online you can pay for your meals in advance or simply reserve your spot and pay at the door. You can also register online for childcare for your littlest ones. Reservations are not required, but they are helpful.

5:45-6:20 Dinner served
6:20-6:35 Fellowship Activity
6:35-7:30 Programs for children, youth, and adults (childcare for infants and toddlers)

Click here to register to pay or to reserve childcare

This weekend they will help with the Bus Stop Mission at the Jolly Avenue Community Gardens on Saturday, Sept. 22.  On Sunday they have choir right after worship, and then they’ll join us for BBQ in Heffner Hall.  Later in the afternoon they will travel to the Clifton Sanctuary to serve a meal to the clients of this men’s shelter.  They serve, they eat and they sing!

You might not have the time to be a youth leader, but take one Sunday this year and provide a meal for our youth group during their Sunday night fellowship and study time.  Just click here to help!

This year there will be no candy or wrapping paper to buy nor event to attend. The money raised will be used for improvements to the building and needed materials for the preschool. If you would like to participate, you may place your donation in the offering plate; checks may be made out to St. Andrews School or to SAPC, and include SAS Fundraiser in the memo line. Thank you to everyone who has donated do far!

Super Heroes vs. Villains 5K Join us on October 13, for this fun pet-friendly, stroller-friendly walk/run, which benefits our youth missions. To sign up to volunteer by helping with parking click here. A sign up to help at St. Andrews’ table is coming soon. To sign up to run or walk click here. For more information, contact Phyllis Bearden, 404-580-8679.

Eric is also running a donation site at his gym for items to help the victims of Hurricane Florence.  Donate that day or stop by his gym to donate.  Items needed:

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is organizing a response that will help sustain life and restore hope in the coming days. “Our hearts break and rise up in prayer for the people along the Atlantic coast and the inland areas of the Carolinas,” says the Rev. Dr. Laurie Kraus, PDA director. “Right now, we need the church’s prayers and financial assistance.” Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has been in communication with mid councils (Synods) and pastors in the Carolinas to provide resources and guidance. Kraus and her colleagues in the Presbyterian Mission Agency and throughout the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are working with our partners to meet immediate needs and support long-term recovery Text “PDA” to 20222 to give $10 to the General Relief account. The code for flood relief due to Hurricane Florence is: DR000194. Click here to donate online. To donate by phone: 800-872-3283. To send a check, please designate where you want your gift to go on the memo line and mail to:

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

P.O. Box 643700

Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700