Friends,

Remember in the weeks ahead:

• Wednesday, August 20th:  11am Prayer Service in the Sanctuary, Lunch at Katy’s Afterward
• Thursday, August 21st:  Choir Rehearsals Resume at 6:15pm in the Music Room (Weekly)
• Thursday, August 28th:  Jubilee Bell Choir Rehearsals Resume at 5pm (Weekly)
• Thursday, August 28th:  6pm Choirs Potluck Dinner

Bob Fry will be our Guest Preacher this Sunday.  (Emile and kids are headed to Bald Head where Emile is the guest preacher in the chapel.)

Mark Your Calendars:  Rise Against Hunger Food Packing Event will be Sunday, September 28th at 2:30pm.  Invite friends and family to come help!

Mark Your Calendars:  Living Stones Praise Band will be giving a concert at WPPC on Sunday, October 5th from 4pm to 5:30pm.  Many thanks to Amber for setting this up!

Volunteers needed for Diaper Bank “Essentials Hub” distributions.  Come volunteer (with Emile) on one of the following dates.

• Thursday, September 11th at Brunswick Senior Center, Shallotte (we will meet at the church at 10:30)
• Tuesday, October 28th at Creekwood Community (8:30am)
• Tuesday, November 18th at Share the Table in Hampstead  (meet at the church at 8:30am)

Volunteers also needed for home visitations with Emile:

• Tuesday, September 2nd – 11am to 2pm – 2 volunteers needed for Communion visits
• Wednesday, September 10th: 11am to 2pm
• Monday, September 15h:  11am to 2pm
• Wednesday, September 24th:  11am to 2pm

If you wish to volunteer to distribute diapers or go on home visits, please let Emile know!

Grace and Peace!

Emile

William Halyburton, a member of WPPC who served as a US Navy Hosptial Corspman and who died on Okinawa in 1945 while giving aid to a wounded Marine is buried at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Halyburton was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. A member of our church family, Atwood Boyd, visited his grave recently and shared photos that he took there.

The photos in this post include his headstone, his picture among the Medal of Honor recipients memorialized at the cemetery, a photo of the Honolulu Memorial around which the names of all those killed who have no known resting place are inscribed, and an interpretive sign about the history of the cemetery. The National Cemetery of the Pacific is informally known as “The Punchbowl” because it is set in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Many, many thanks to Atwood for sharing these photos with us!

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Jesus says (Matthew 5:14-16): “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.”
Friends, how do we let our light shine? How do we avoid placing bushel baskets?