These announcements are from the October 16, 2020 e-mail. If you are not on the email list, let ltaylor@pearorchard.org know!
Welcome, Luke Zohn Qi!
Luke Zohn Qi, son of Roger and LeAnn Qi, was born in the morning on October 5. He weighed 7 lb, 4 oz, & both son and mom are doing well!
“Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants” (Psalm 144:12).
September Financials
The Session has approved new COVID policies.
At a called Session meeting last week, your elders made some changes to our COVID policies: Beginning this Sunday, masks are required at the 8:30 a.m. worship service in both the Sanctuary and the Gym, and at the 6:00 p.m. worship service in the Sanctuary, and are optional at the 11:00 a.m. worship service in both the Sanctuary and the Gym. Masks are still required in Sunday School. POPC ministries with 20 or less people inside (or 100 or less people outside) where social distancing is possible are allowed to be mask optional. Desiring to help prevent the spread of COVID, while also being careful to maintain health privacy, we ask that if you do test positive for COVID, please alert an elder or member of the pastoral staff, so that we might pray for you and determine if you were in close proximity to anyone else at a particular service or ministry before knowing that you were positive. We will contact by phone those you name, letting them know that an anonymous member who has tested positive for COVID thinks they were in close proximity to them. If a larger scale outbreak were to occur among members who were in the same service or ministry, we would send an email to the entire congregation to alert them of the situation.
Some bittersweet news from the Van Hoosers…
A note from Wilson:
Starting January 1st, Grace and I will be embarking on a new call in ministry as we will be working with RUF at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. We both feel a strong call to minister to college students in their unique season of life amidst all the pressures of school, worldliness, and sin. We have felt very called to go to the "frontier" of reformed theology. We are very excited yet sad at the same time. We have thoroughly enjoyed our 4.5 years at POPC! We have made lifelong and eternal friendships with many of you. Let us never forget that friendship on earth is expanded, continued, and magnified in heaven! It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve you. As I told the youth on Wednesday night, I have had one goal for you (though I have not always done it well!): that you might know the immeasurable love of God in Christ for you. I am so confident in our current youth staff and their leadership. I am also confident in our youth committee and the beginning of their search for the next Student Minister. Please pray for our transition and for the transition for the youth ministry. It is Christ's church; not ours. The best thing we can do is leave a legacy about Him rather than about us. Grace and I love y'all so much!
Please reach out to Wilson and Grace during their last two months with us!
Family Night Picnic is Sunday, October 25!
Family Night Picnic is Sunday evening, October 25, at 5:30 p.m.
We’ll meet in the Multi-Purpose Building.
Each family will bring their own picnic dinner, drinks, dessert, and paper products/utensils.
We’ll hear an update on our Sonbeams Ministry, and learn more about this vital ministry to our neighbors and our members.
Masks will be required except while eating.
Fall Fellowship is coming soon!
Join us on Friday, October 30, for our 7th Annual Fall Fellowship!
Volunteers are needed to make this event wonderful. To provide games, candy donations, or baking treats, please click here or contact Megan Adcock at meganadcock81@gmail.com or Adelle Johnson at ajohnson@ccs.ms.
Due to the close fellowship nature of this event, masks will be required.