Dear Women of Northminster,

        I hope everyone has had a great summer and happy to get back in a routine.  If you are not currently involved in Presbyterian Women, please consider all the opportunities that PW offers.  You can feel free to participate in any way that fits your schedule.  Our Annual Fall Gathering dinner will kick off the year on September 13th at NPC.  This is a great opportunity to fellowship and to meet the women of the church.  Also, please plan to save the date for the PW Retreat April 20th - 22nd, 2012.  We had a great time this past year and are headed back to North Georgia to The Dillard House for a fun weekend retreat.  Our speaker will be Lyndsay Slocum, Associate Pastor of Children's Ministries at Roswell Presbyterian.  More details to follow. 

Your Sister in Christ,

Carol Coulter

Moderator

 

PW Fall Gathering

 

Please join us for the Annual PW Fall Gathering

as we celebrate the first days of Fall

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall

$7.00 payable by check to NPW or cash

All women of the church and their guests are welcome to attend!

Childcare will be provided by reservation

We will introduce our Bible study on Confessing the Beatitudes

by Margaret Aymer and enjoy a meal with appetizers, chicken and wild rice, salad and dessert!  You can also sign up for your circle.  Hope you can come!

RSVP Toni D'Alessandris 678-585-0508 or by

September 11.

 

 

September Circle Meeting

Monthly Circle Meetings

(Meet the 3rd Tuesday or Wednesday of each month)

Monthly Circle meetings begin on September 20th at 9:45 am and 7 pm, and September 21st at 9:45am in the Fireside Room.  Circle Bible Leaders are very excited to get started on this year's 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!

Missions

September Mission

We are going to coordinate our September mission with other groups in the church and collect Food and Coats for North Fulton Community Charities.   NFCC is a leader in North Fulton offering assistance to over 5,000 families annually.   In 2010 food was distributed over 22,238 times and over 2000 families utilized clothing vouchers.  Their needs are great and will appreciate any donations we can supply.  

 Please place donations in the Blue Box in the Fireside Room during the entire month of September. 

Looking Ahead:  October Mission

Our October Mission will be the celebration of Clergy Appreciation.  Circles will provide lunch and/or gifts for the clergy and staff.  Sign-up sheets and the donation envelope will be available at the September Circle meetings.  There will also be an envelope in the PW box in the workroom.  Donations collected during September will be used to purchase gift cards for both Clergy and Staff.  Cards and notes of appreciation will accompany the gift cards when they are presented during the luncheon.

Please contact Nancy Wade at 770-362-2207 or for any questions. 

 

Wednesday Morning Bible Study

Northminster Bible study is Faithful, Abundant, True, written by Kay Arthur, Priscilla Shirer and Beth Moore. Books may be purchased through LifeWay or on line. The closest LifeWay store is at the Mall of Georgia. The cost of the individual study book is around $14.00. The DVD series has been purchased by the ladies attending the class, although contributions will be accepted towards the next study. It is a six week study with an introductory session.

Dates are: 

 Sept 14, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, Oct. 12, Oct. 26, Nov. 2 and Nov. 9

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.

 

PW Book Club

(Meets the 4^th Tuesday of each month)

                Book Club is underway!  September's book is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.  We will meet Tuesday, Sept. 27^th in the Fireside Room at 7:00pm, with Nan Jansson facilitating.  Please contact Pat Kendall at 770-569-4952 or , for more information. Childcare is provided.   

 

August Book Review

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

 Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Tete is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tete finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.

When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride—but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.

Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tete and Valmorain, and of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.

PWBC rated this book a 7.1.

2011-12 Reading List

AUGUST 23-   Island Beneath the Sea   by Isabel Allende    (Claire Jones)

SEPTEMBER 27-   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   by Betty Smith   (Nan Jansson) 

OCTOBER 25-   Chiefs   by Stuart Woods   (Tina Page)

NOVEMBER 29 (5th Tuesday)-   Prayers for Sale   by Sandra Dallas   (Suzie Prante)

JANUARY 24-   In the Land of Invisible Women   by Qanta Ahmed   (Tina Page)     

FEBRUARY 28-   Bogmeadow's Wish   by Terry Kay   (Arlene Bennett)

MARCH 27-   Elegance of the Hedgehog   by Muriel Barbery   (Nancy Campbell)

APRIL 24-   Room   by Emma Donaghue   (Leslie Jones)

MAY 22-   Mockingbird   by Kathryn Erskine   (Nan Brown)