Happy New Year!  Presbyterian Women Coordinating Team wants to accept Patrick’s challenge.   Patrick challenged the congregation to set at least one goal for 2012.   He encouraged each of us to identify one thing that we can do that will make a difference at NPC or in our community.  PW CT has committed to engaging young women and mothers to find their place at NPC within PW.  We plan to provide childcare at any on site PW event.  We encourage those women to let us know if they are interested and if they have suggestions regarding the programs or events that we offer.

We continue in 2012 to urge the women of PW to come to a Circle Meeting, the Bible Study or join the Book Club.  If your schedule doesn’t permit that level of commitment there are three fellowship gatherings throughout the year.  Another great way to connect and make life long friends is by attending PW’s annual retreat in Dillard, GA.  Sign up now on the PW bulletin board or the NPC website.  Hurry the deadline for the retreat is February 17^th.   If you have any questions you can contact Carol Coulter at .net';h1022731970='comcast.net';document.write('' + linktext + ''); . 

Your sister in Christ,

Carol Coulter

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Circle Meetings

Dates for circle meetings are February 21, at 9:45 am and 7 pm, and February 22, at 9:45am in the Fireside Room. 

 The Rebekah Circle meets at Linda Morningstar’s house.

We are continuing our Bible study Confessing the Beatitudes by Margaret Aymer.  Please know that if you can't make your regular Circle meeting (or if you don’t have a regular Circle), drop in on any Circle.  You are always welcome!  And don’t worry if you can't make Circle every month… join us when you are able!

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 Missions

Send Valentines to College Students and Homebound NPC Members                                                                             

We will send Target gift cards to all our college students.  Any donations towards the cards will be appreciated.  Please bring donations to your circle meeting or put them in the PW box in the workroom marked Valentines.    

We will also send Valentines made by our Way-Cool Sunday School students to our homebound NPC members.    

Collect Paper and Personal Supplies for the Drake House in conjunction with MOE 

Please bring donations of paper towels, toilet paper, Kleenex, personal supplies, etc., to your circle meeting or put them in the PW box in the Fireside Room during the entire month of February.                                                                                         

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Book Club     

PW Book Club                                 

(Meets the 4^th Tuesday of each month)

February’s book is Bogmeadow’s Wish by Terry Kay.  We will meet Tuesday, February 28 in the Fireside Room at 7:00pm, with Arlene Bennett facilitating.  Please contact Pat Kendall at 770-569-4952 or , for more information. Childcare is provided.

January’s book for PWBC was "In the Land of Invisible Women" by Dr. Qanta Ahmed.
This memoir is a journey into a complex world readers will find fascinating and at times repugnant. After being denied a visa to remain in the U.S., British-born Ahmed, a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin, takes advantage of an opportunity, before 9/11, to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. She discovers her new environment is defined by schizophrenic contrasts that create an "absurd clamorous clash of modern and medieval.... It never became less arresting to behold." Ahmeda's introduction to her new environment is shocking. Her first patient is an elderly Bedouin woman. Though naked on the operating table, she still is required by custom to have her face concealed with a veil under which numerous hoses snake their way to hissing machines. Everyday life is laced with bizarre situations created by the rabid
puritanical orthodoxy that among other requirements forbids women to wear seat belts because it results in their breasts being more defined, and oppresses Saudi men as much as women by its archaic rules.

This was a very interesting and enjoyable book.  PWBC rated it 8.3.

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Weekly Bible Study

 Northminster Weekly Bible study is James Mercy Triumphs by Beth Moore.  Please join us on the dates listed below in Room 106 at 9:30 am. 

 February 1, 8, 15, 29; March 7, 14, 28; April 11.

Call Arlene Bennett 770-777-9611 or email at if you are interested. We welcome one and all.  May God bless you in your journey.

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PW Retreat Women's Retreat

Dillard House,  Dillard Ga.

April 20- 22  Speaker is : Rev. Lyndsay Slocum

Theme will be "Grace in the Woods"

We will work through the sessions of being out of sorts with god, out of sorts with self and out of sorts with others.

To find out more and to sign up pick up a brochure from the Fellowship Table Circle Meeting. Registration is Due Early this year - Feb. 17.

Contact Person: Pam Prochaska 770-971-9097/

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