HILLSBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

102 West Tryon Street Post Office Box 717 Hillsborough, NC 27278 (919) 732-3131 (Office) (919) 644-1185 Dr. Robert Brizendine, Pastor drbobbriz@hillsboroughpres.org www.hillsboroughpres.org

The Church Mouse August, 2016

Dear Friends,

Hillsborough Presbyterian Church has had twenty-five Ministers serve in its first 200 years. John Knox

Witherspoon was the first Minister. The shortest tenure was our second Minister, Samuel Joseph Price, who served

1834-1835. The longest tenure was that of Dr. Harvey Smith Bradshaw, who served the church at two different

times, for a total of thirty-nine years. His first pastorate was for six years, and then, he came back once more to stay

thirty-three years. Dr. Bradshaw was the third and last minister of the Church to be buried in the Old Town

Cemetery adjoining the church. He also served as Minister of New Hope Presbyterian Church.

Hillsborough Presbyterian Church and New Hope Presbyterian Church shared a Minister for many years.

The last Minister we shared was Dr. Samuel Wilds DuBose, Jr. This yoked relationship ended in 1945. Dr. DuBose

earned his Ph.D at Duke University and later moved to Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia to become

Professor of Bible.

In recognition of this historic connection between our congregations, we have scheduled a Pulpit Exchange

on August 14. New Hope Presbyterian Church will be celebrating its 260th anniversary at Homecoming on August

28, and Hillsborough Presbyterian Church will be celebrating our 200th anniversary on September 25. I will be

preaching at New Hope on August 14, and the Rev. Kerri Hefner will be preaching at HPC on that day. We continue

to share together each year with a joint service on Ash Wednesday.

The demolition for our Renovation Project has begun, and the projected completion date is early March,

2017. During the next few months, we will have reduced space available for meetings and programs, and we will

need to be flexible. We have reached out to the Museum next door about using the room upstairs for Sunday School

this fall. Weaver St. Market has offered us their conference room for session meetings. We will be having VBS at

the Commons Pavilion at Cornwallis Hills. Book Club will meet in the homes of members.

We are planning a special celebration of our 200th anniversary on September 25. Our worship service will

begin at 10:00 AM on that day. We have a number of special guests who will be sharing reflections about our

history. We will have a service of worship with wonderful music, culminating in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,

using the silver service from 1884.

Following our worship on September 25, we will move to New Hope Camp and Conference Center for a

catered lunch at 12:30 PM. The meal will reflect what our forebears may have eaten 200 years ago. The menu

includes grilled chicken, potato salad, salad, potato wedges, black-eyed peas, and rolls. Church members will be

providing pies for dessert. The cost of the lunch is $13 for adults, and $8.50 for children.

We are ordering commemorative plates which have the beautiful photo of “HPC in snow” taken by Alex

Armstrong. Plates are $25 each and the deadline for ordering is August 7. Contact Katherine Cathey or the church

office. During lunch at New Hope, we will be showing the video which Beth Ely is putting together for our 200 th

anniversary. If you would like to order a copy of the video, they are $15 for a standard DVD and $20 for Blu-Ray.

Contact the church office by September 1 to order the video. We need to give New Hope a head-count for the

catered lunch, so please make your reservations for lunch by contacting the church office by September 1. These are

exciting times in the life of our church!

- Bob

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CIRCLE #1 NEWS

We will begin the next study, Who is Jesus?

What a Difference a Lens Makes on Monday,

September 12th

. Lisa Flinn will host. Guests and

visitors are always welcome! Need a study guide?

Have questions? Call Robin Bedingfield.

WHY JESUS? GROUP

The Why Jesus? Group will take a break in

August and resume in September when we start a

new book: “Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic

Parables of a Controversial Rabbi” by Amy-Jill

Levine. Let Carolyn Norris or Marc Fowler know if

you would like a book.

“LAST FRIDAY”

Rock Your Socks! at our "Last Last Friday"

event! What are you doing Friday Aug 26? Come to

HPC's Tryon Stage to dance, sing along and laugh

with "Dr Drill and the Drill Bits". The "Bits" will be

performing their 11th

year gig for us. Time will be

6:30 till 8:30.

You can greet friends and meet others in our

community while helping as a "Scooper" of sweet

cups that we will give out! Let Judy Brown know if

you would like to help!

This is the final “Last Friday” event of

2016! Thanks to all of our “Captains”---The

Vinski’s, the Wisneiwski’s and M&J Browns for

leading! Thanks too, to the volunteers for “being

there” this season.

- Lisa Flinn

PUT THIS ON YOUR LIST!

On Saturday, September 17th

at 4pm,

Constitution Day will be celebrated at HPC, co-

sponsored by the Orange County Historical

Museum and the Magnetic Church Commission.

Our church and the museum are located on

the historic lot 98, where the Constitutional

Congress was hotly debating the Bill of Rights.

Speakers will present both lot 98 history as

well as Constitutional issues. A reception will

follow at the museum next door.

DIACONATE UPDATES

Plastic bins to store Lemonade on the Lawn and

Fellowship event supplies are in the narthex/crying

room near the Sanctuary door. Many thanks to

helpers on recent HPC Work Days!

In the context of Christian nurture, we continue to

celebrate important life events of current HPC

members, and honor young adults who grew up

with our HPC church family:

* Wedding shower for Jordan Wolfe will be

hosted by Barbara Younger and Judy Brown on

Saturday, August 13, at 2:00 pm at the Younger

home. Wedding will be October 15, registry is at

www.myregistry.com.

* Annual Church Picnic at New Hope Camp and

Conference Center will be on Sunday, August 28, at

New Hope Camp and Conference Center (NHCCC).

Gather at 2:00pm to enjoy the pavilion, swimming

pool, and camp grounds. Bring yard & table games.

Covered dish meal will be shared at 5:00pm.

* Caregivers: If you are able to assist with

providing meals and visits to our HPC members in

times of need, please contact Shari Latta, leader for

Caregivers group.

* Need a new picture for HPC Directory?

Contact: Jan McKelvey, Diaconate Moderator.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

200th

Anniversary Celebration - September 25

Worship Service at HPC at 10:00 AM followed by

lunch at New Hope Camp and Conference Center

FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS

OCIM UPDATE

Feed our Neighbors this Summer.

Continue to fill our OCIM

food basket each month.

HPC has committed to giving 200 pounds of food

each month to commemorate our 200th

anniversary.

But there are real reasons why we need to support

OCIM food pantry this summer as well.

School is out: students who normally get

free or reduced lunch and breakfast at school

are no longer getting it. Their parents’

income did not change; but their needs did.

School employees like teacher assistants,

bus drivers, and cafeteria workers do not

earn money in the summer. Each summer,

OCIM gets more requests for food from

these populations.

Donations generally drop in the summer

because people who give regularly during

the year are away and out of their routine.

Church attendance drops, which then

impacts food brought to the food pantry.

As we celebrate our anniversary, let us share our

abundance with those who might otherwise go

hungry.

Jane McIver,

Mission Commission

200th

Anniversary Commemorative Plates

Order your commemorative plate honoring

the 200th

anniversary of HPC for $25 each. The

deadline to place your order is August 7. You may

send your order to me via email, or complete an

order form (available at church), and place it in the

collection plate. Commemorative plates will arrive

mid-September. Please make checks payable to

HPC. Payments may be made in advance or at time

of delivery. Feel free to contact me with any

questions.

-- Katherine Cathey

HEALTHY WALKS ON RIVERWALK

Join us on Tuesday afternoons for Healthy

Walks on Riverwalk at 5:30 PM. Same meeting

place: Riverwalk entrance at the end of Nash and

Kollock Street – beyond Weaver Street Market.

-- Jane Gaede

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Book Club News!

Book Club meets one

Sunday evening most

months of the year at

7:00. Please join us for

discussion of any or all

of these upcoming

selections! Refreshments will be served, and

visitors and guests are always welcome.

On August 14th

we will meet at Robin

Bedingfield’s home to discuss our summer

selection, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk

Kidd “…a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest

for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the

world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in

early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life

beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within

the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s

daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she

is meant to do something large in the world, but she

is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s

eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of

ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid.

We follow their remarkable journeys over the next

thirty five years… Inspired by the historical figure

of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to

flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her

characters, both real and invented… a triumph of

storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a

devastating wound in American history, through

women whose struggles for liberation,

empowerment, and expression will leave no reader

unmoved.”(amazon.com) Call Robin (919-732-

6369) for directions.

September’s selection is Caleb's Crossing: A

Novel by Geraldine Brooks “Bethia Mayfield is a

restless and curious young woman growing up in

Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band

of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she

meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the

two forge a secret bond that draws each into the

alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a

Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native

Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the

contest between old ways and new, eventually

becoming the first Native American graduate of

Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and

narrated by the irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s

Crossing brilliantly captures the triumphs and

turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk

everything in a search for knowledge at a time of

superstition and ignorance.”(amazon.com)

And October’s selection is An Indigenous People’s

History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-

Ortiz

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award

The first history of the United States told from the

perspective of indigenous peoples

“Today in the United States, there are more than

five hundred federally recognized Indigenous

nations comprising nearly three million people,

descendants of the fifteen million Native people who

once inhabited this land. The centuries-long

genocidal program of the US settler-colonial

regimen has largely been omitted from history…”

(from the hardcover edition)

Questions? Call Lisa Flinn.

DONATIONS TO HPC

With Capital Campaign contributions being

made on a regular basis, it is important that your

checks and contributions be clearly marked. When

placing a check in the offering, please be sure to

note on the memo line the breakdown for the

donation. If nothing is on the memo line, it will be

placed in the General Operating Fund.

SERMON SCHEDULE FOR AUGUST

Worship at 11 AM

8/7 Guest Preacher: Dr. Sam Nesbit

8/14 “Everything Old is New Again” (Ecclesiastes 1)

Pulpit Exchange with New Hope Presbyterian

Church – Rev. Kerri Hefner will preach at HPC

8/21 “Known by God” (Jeremiah 1:4-10)

8/28 “Our Stories Matter” (Jeremiah 2:4-13)

FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS

SUNSET GAP REPORT

The Hillsborough Presbyterian Church team worked

from July 4 – 8, 2016.

The house at one time belonged to Jimmy’s brother

and his wife Peggy. We met Peggy in March and

she was so pleased we were fixing her home. She

called several friends to tell them about us and the

future repairs. Sadly, Peggy died in April of this

year and the house transferred to their daughter,

Sandy.

Sandy stopped by a couple of times and she is a

sweet person. She wrote us a long and thoughtful

Thank You card. That means a lot to all of us.

We repaired, taped, and mudded the sheetrock in

the kitchen. It was painted three times and we put

up new crown molding. We repaired, taped, and

mudded the sheetrock in the bathroom ceiling. We

gave the ceiling two coats of paint. In one bedroom,

we put up new sheetrock in the ceiling. We mudded,

taped, and put up a textured ceiling. We painted the

ceiling twice and put up crown molding. We

installed new sheetrock in the hallway ceiling.

Again, we taped and mudded and applied two coats

of paint.

We put new siding on the north side which included

new framing. We put up new trim board on all

corners. We installed new gable vents on the east

and west side. We also installed new soffits. Then

we gave the entire house two coats of paint.

We observed a major drainage problem and

installed a catchment basin and corrugated drainage

pipe to take the water away from the house.

We applied Kool-seal on most of the roof. We

would have finished but Mother Nature didn’t

cooperate.

We installed a new electrical fixture for the

backdoor flood light.

We did lots and lots of cleaning. We repaired and

cleaned the kitchen floor.

Martin, once again, assisted us and what a great

support person he is for us. We really enjoyed his

company and the valuable guidance that he

provides. Matt also helped us obtain materials.

We accomplished all of this work with only nine

people. Bob Brizendine, Joe Crane, Cathy Ely,

Cynthia Latta, Karoline Mathewson, Jim

Mathewson, Sam Nesbit, Grayson Parker, and

James Watts.

FELLOWSHIP / COMMISSION NEWS

HAPPY AUGUST BIRTHDAY TO:

03 Irv Eisen

03 Jackson Fuqua

05 Rosie Summers

05 Sam Stephenson

05 Diana Montgomery

12 Jarrett Barnhill, Sr.

15 Andrea Bernard

18 Nick Burch

21 David Talley

21 Jonathan Talley

25 Buck McGregor 28 Judith Hauser

25 Connor Brown 30 Jason Latta

27 Katie Barnhill 30 William Hildebrandt

To update the Birthday List or Anniversary List

please contact JoAnn in the church office

(732-3131) or hpchurch@hillsboroughpres.org).

AUGUST LECTIONARY

READINGS

7 Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23;

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40

14 Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19;

Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56

21 Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6;

Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17

28 Jeremiah 2:4-13; Psalm 81:1, 10-16;

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14

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GREEN NOTES!

End ‘phantom’ energy loads: Use power

strips to turn off electronics that use energy even

when they are off, like TVs, computer printers and

coffee makers.

(Green Notes are provided by PCUSA’s

Environmental Ministries

and your Stewardship Commission.)

VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE

August 7

Preaching: Sam Nesbit

Liturgist: Robin Bedingfield

Children’s Sermon: Barbara Younger

Acolyte: Jaiden Lytle

Flowers: Remingtons

Lemonade on Lawn: Brenda Morgan, Stephanie

Morgan, Cheryl Maxey

Nursery: Rich Erdosy, Kim Bryant

Greeters: Marc Fowler, Jerry Vinski

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August 14 Pulpit Exchange

Preaching: Rev. Kerri Hefner

Liturgist: Carolyn Norris

Children’s Sermon: Carolyn Norris

Acolyte: Mackenzie Salem

Flowers: Mathewsons

Lemonade on Lawn: Mathewsons

Nursery: Robin Barnhill, Cynthia Latta

Greeters: Marc Fowler, Jerry Vinski

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August 21

Liturgist: Bill Flinn

Children’s Sermon: Karoline Mathewson

Acolyte: Ben Stephenson

Flowers: Johnsons

Lemonade on Lawn:

Nursery: Stephanie Morgan, Lisa Flinn

Greeters: Allen and Ina Phay Johnson

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August 28

Liturgist : Rich Erdosy

Children’s Sermon: Rich Erdosy

Acolyte: Caroline Cathey

Flowers: Talleys

Lemonade on Lawn:

Nursery: Sara Clay, Cathy Ely

Greeters: Allen and Ina Phay Johnson

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August, 2016

SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT

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Preaching: Sam Nesbit

Today is the Deadline for ordering

your 200th

Anniversary HPC

Commemorative Plate

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9

Healthy Walks on

Riverwalk 5:30 PM

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11

12

13

Wedding Shower

Jordan Wolfe

2:00 PM

(Youngers)

14 Pulpit Exchange with New Hope

Presbyterian Church -

Rev. Kerri Hefner Preaching

12:15 PM Mission (#201)

7:00 PM HPC Book Club

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16

Healthy Walks on

Riverwalk 5:30 PM

17

OCIM BBQ

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Exchange Club Park

Nominating 7:30 PM

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VBS at “Commons”

Park at Cornwallis

Hills 5:30 – 8:30 PM

Potluck Supper

& Activities

20

VBS at “Commons”

Park at

Cornwallis Hills

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Fairview Live

Noon – 4 PM

21

9:45 AM VBS at HPC

(outside Sanctuary door)

5:30 PM Session (Weaver Street

Commissary)

22

Deadline for

HPC Newsletter

1:00 PM

23

Healthy Walks on

Riverwalk 5:30 PM

24

Nominating 7:30 PM

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26

“Last Friday”

6:30 – 8:30PM

(Dr. Drill & The Bits”)

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28

HPC Church Picnic at New Hope

Camp & Conference Center

2:00 PM Games/ Fellowship/ Pool

5:00 PM Covered Dish Meal

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30

Healthy Walks on

Riverwalk 5:30 PM

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Nominating 7:30 PM

NOTE: If you have any September calendar dates or articles that you would like included in the newsletter – just send an

email (hpchurch@hillsboroughpres.org) or call the church office (732-3131) – by 1:00 PM on the 22nd

of August!

Join us on Sunday mornings!

Sunday School for Adults/Youth at 9:45 AM

Childcare/Nursery for Children at 9:45 AM

Traditional Worship at 11:00 AM

Lemonade on the Lawn at 12:15 PM

Dr. Bob away July 28 – August 13

Vacation Bible School for HPC Kids!

When: Friday, August 19-5:30 to 8:30 pm –

church-wide potluck supper followed

with activities

Saturday, August 20 – 8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Sunday, August 21 – 9:45 am

Where: “Commons” Park & Pavilion at Cornwallis Hills

(Fri & Sat - located next to 121 Bonaparte Dr.)

Hillsborough Presbyterian Church (Sunday – outside Sanctuary door)

Theme: “Learning about Jesus - Sunday school long ago”

Ages: Children ages 4 years through 5th grade

Please call the HPC office at 919-732-3131 to see if we still have

spots available for your child (children).

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Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

102 West Tryon Street

Post Office Box 717

Hillsborough, NC 27278

(919) 732-3131

E-Mail: HPChurch@hillsboroughpres.org

Web page: www.hillsboroughpres.org

SUMMER SUNDAY WORSHIP

SCHEDULE

Sunday School 9:45 AM (for youth and adults!)

Childcare/Nursery 9:45 AM (for children)

Traditional Worship 11:00 AM

(During the summer a nursery is provided for children

5 and under in Room 101 following the

Conversation with Children )