
Thank you to all for a wonderful homecoming, full of fellowship, worship, and great music!

Thank you to all for a wonderful homecoming, full of fellowship, worship, and great music!

Summertime is in full swing and the weather has been hot, hot, hot! Cool down and join us on August 13, 2017 after worship for hotdogs & ice cream in the fellowship hall.

Where: Lake Benson Park, Garner NC at 921 Buffaloe Rd, Garner, NC 27529 (click here for map)
When: Sunday, July 30, 2017
“White Memorial’s July 30, WORSHIP IN THE PARK, was special in many ways. The perfect weather was a gift from God. The great attendance (50+) was a gift from each of us to the other. Sweet Fellowship! The delicious food represented NC summertime at its finest, fresh vegetables, salads, fruits, casseroles, finger-lickin’ good grilled chicken, and sumptuous deserts.
I love changing things up!
Ed Johnson taught an inter generational Sunday School lesson, using all the kids. After a short break we held worship, modified version of our normal worship. Anne Honeycutt prepared hymn sheets and accompanied the hymns on her guitar.
Ed’s sermon was taken from Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52. If you were there or not, take a few minutes today or tonight and read those verses. Jesus is explaining what the kingdom of heaven is like.
A PERFECT SERMON FOR THE PARK SETTING.
AND here’s the rest of the story.
Our minister, Ed once worked for Parks and Recreation for the TOWN OF GARNER. He was the Assistant Director and was on the design and project management Team for parts of Lake Benson Park and White Deer Park and Centennial Park. He was the primary designer in that project at Lake Benson.
So Ed was right at home with that setting as his pulpit. I am thankful.
Have a blessed week.”
Ann Stephenson.

Hello Church Family,
Anniversaries, homecomings and Churches have a long tradition in our community of faith. White Memorial Presbyterian Church will be celebrating its 74th this year. We will gather together to commemorate the church’s anniversary, honoring our members, both past and present, while encouraging those who have moved away to return home for a reunion.
Our homecoming this year will include preaching from a past Pastor, Rev. Ron Mcmenamin, with prayer and singing followed by a wonderful dinner and music in the fellowship hall. We’ll have tables set up; traditional dishes that will include fried chicken, ham, potato salad, green beans with fat back, deviled eggs, macaroni and cheese, candied yams, cornbread and plenty of pies; cobblers and cakes.
Many families who will gather for this reunion will take the opportunity to visit other family and tend to graves. This is also a wonderful time for honor, reflection and remembrance.
I encourage us all to share in this invitation to come home. Come home to remember those wonderful saints that came before us and celebrate our time together with the wonderful saints that are amongst us.
You and your families are respectfully invited to attend White Memorial Presbyterian Churches homecoming his year on October 15th. The worship service is at 10:30 followed by our gathering in the fellowship hall. I look forward to seeing you then.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Ed