This week we discussed the 2nd of our 3 part mission - explore, celebrate, and serve. Renee shared her reasons to celebrate.This week we discussed the 2nd of our 3 part mission - explore, celebrate, and serve. Renee shared her reasons to celebrate. ...

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 We're back to quilting for the chancel area.  Over the next 3 weeks we'll be adding a different panel each week to reinforce this year's stewardship campaign and our new web site look. Week 1 (October 16) will feature explore.  Take a close look.  Each quilt is made of of hundreds of pictures of our church and church family. ...

Come explore with us!Classes for all ages begin at DHPC this coming Sunday, September 18.Find out more here.Come explore with us!Classes for all ages begin at DHPC this coming Sunday, September 18.Find out more here. ...

  The Month of May is full with youth activities.  Get these on your calendar!   May 6 - Youth Sunday with Rodger Nishioka preaching May 13 - Graduation Sunday (and remember it is Mothers' Day too!) May 18 - Youth Carwash Fundraiser May 25 - Youth End of Year Party   Contact me for more information, and see yo ...

Hey! Most of y'all know about the church Facebook page, but maybe you don't know we have one for our youth ministries as well. Check it out. Hey! Most of y'all know about the church Facebook page, but maybe you don't know we have one for our youth ministries as well. Check it out.  ...

In October, DHPC Youth will begin “Economy of Love,” a compelling five week study.     In October, DHPC Youth will begin “Economy of Love,” a compelling five week study.     ...

  Pray for a peaceful and just resolution to the conflict between Palestine and Israel. More than 1,500 children have been killed since September 29, 2000, when violent hostilities resumed. The names and details about every one of these 1,476 Palestinian and 129 Israeli children are memorialized in Remember These Children. ...

Save the afternoon of May 20 for Lunch on the Lawn, a celebration in honor of ICM Food Pantry and Co-op supporters (i.e. us!):    The sponsoring congregations of Intown Collaborative Ministries (ICM) are pleased to announce the first annual Lunch on the Lawn, an event celebrating the ICM Food Pantry, ICM’s food coops, and the many volun ...

Be sure to stay after church on May 13 for a special Mothers' Day Brunch at DHPC: a delicious affair prepared by Badda Bing:      salad Organic Baby Spinach & Arugula Salad with pear tomatoes, fresh shaved parmesan cheese with lemon juice, cracked black pepper & e.v.o.o. frittatas Country Sausage with carameli ...

Yes, and more in our May Newsletter.Yes, and more in our May Newsletter. ...

Our Easter 2012 offering to One Great Hour of Sharing was $3,156, more than a thousand dollars more than last year. Thank you! See what a difference these funds can make: Our Easter 2012 offering to One Great Hour of Sharing was $3,156, more than a thousand dollars more than last year. Thank you! See what a difference these funds can make: ...

Church Note:  The following is a short biography from new affilate member Carol Seaton. Welcome, Carol!   I was born and reared in Little Rock, Arkansas with two older brothers.  I also have a younger brother, who was adopted when I was in college.  I graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas with a BS in chemist ...

from Carol Seaton and Mickie Williams   Mark 13:24-37 Who’s having a baby? Mary and Joseph, you say. How do you know? I didn’t hear anything about it. You say this baby is the Messiah we’ve been waiting for – but if so, why wasn’t there a big announcement, some flashy display so we would all know. There was no big announcement before ...

  Pray for advocates for human rights around the world.   Check out Swords into Plowshares, the blog for our denomination’s Peacemaking Program and Ministry at the UN, especially its human rights posts.     Pray for advocates for human rights around the world.   Check out Swords into Plowshares, the blog for our ...

Pray for people living in dire poverty in Paraguay who have been hit by a major flood which has destroyed their livelihoods due to loss of animals and crops. Read more about this disaster and what you can do from Chruch World Service, one of our denomination's partners. Pray for people living in dire poverty in Paraguay who have been hit by ...

  Pray for Christians and all people in Sudan and South Sudan.  On April 22 in Sudan, three churches and a Bible School were destroyed by a fundamentalist Islamic group. Fighting continues between Sudan and South Sudan. Read a call to prayer and a statement from the Sudanese Presbyterian Church.     Pray for Christians ...

On Easter Sunday, as one response in gratitude for Jesus' sacrifice for us on the cross, we will receive the special offering for One Great Hour of Sharing. This offering is used to help poor and hungry people, people hit by natural disasters and refugees around the world. We remember that Jesus gave us two commandments to live by: to love God ...

NO PERFECT PEOPLE ALLOWED!!!  If you're a Middle Schooler at Druid Hills Pres, you know that phrase well!  It's the wording on a sign conspicuously placed on our classroom door.  We believe in asking questions about our faith, and there are no questions too "unperfect" to ask!   We meet on Sunday mornings at 9:30 for food and ...

  Twenty-two years ago (1990), the 202nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) witnessed to the agonizing scream coming from what this land’s Declaration of Independence celebrates as “Nature and Nature’s God.”  The 1990 PCUSA Report, Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice, calls upon the church to “recognize and accept r ...

  The second annual SONO LAUS Voices United in Song Invitational Choral Festival was held over the weekend of April 17-18 and culminated in a beautiful performance of Requiem by Gabriel Fauré.   This year’s festival featured singers from 12 different churches and community choirs in the greater metropolitan Atlanta area who joined toge ...

The journey with Jesus toward Jerusalem begins again this week.  During my childhood years in a Lutheran church in south Louisiana, the Lenten season had a definite rhythm and a definite feel.  We enjoyed the festivities, the “last blast” of Mardi Gras, as a reminder that we were moving into a “sober” or “somber” season.    Fo ...

“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.“   We hear these sobering words each Ash Wednesday. It is sobering to hear them as a cross of ash is smudged on our foreheads. And it is sobering as a pastor to say them. They name the mortality we all share. They are even more poignant reminders of that reality when you must look in ...

What does it mean to prepare the way? Who prepares the way? Us? God? Both?   The season of Advent invites us to reflect on what it means that the Way took flesh and came among us, what it means to live as followers of the Way, what it means that God has prepared the Way and that we also have a role in preparing the way for all flesh to see t ...

Hello! My name is Emily Bridwell. Everyone I know, except my husband, ends up calling me Emmy. That may be because I hear the latter better. Outside of the church, I do not know anyone else who is both hearing impaired and below retirement age. Last October, Jason and I celebrated our seventh anniversary. Our son Gavin is four years old and I am de ...

In this economy, we're seeing higher demand -- about seventy to eighty attendees -- for our Community Fellowship program at McIver on Sunday afternoons. Those same economic factors also cause our volunteers to drop out of buying, preparing, and serving the meal. Currently, we have vacancies for the second Sunday of odd-numbered months and for all ...

The Easter lily cross is a longstanding tradition at DHPC.  Filled with lilies at the peak of bloom, the  cross graces the chancel area in the Sanctuary on Easter Sunday.  The Worship Team plans and oversees placing the cross and designing and installing other items of liturgical significance in the Sanctuary for Easter. An ...

  The next meeting of the Book Club is 7:00 PM on Monday, May 14th at the home of Karin Dusenbury.   We will discuss Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet by Jamie Ford.  "Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming ...

  The Education Team would like to start replacing our older modeled cribs with newer ones.  If you would like to donate a new or gently used crib and mattress set, please contact me by email or at 404-550-2115. Fitted crib sheets are also needed. Thank you!  The Education Team would like to start replacing our older mode ...