{"id":4513,"date":"2026-09-11T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:18:45","slug":"announcements-september-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Announcements September 13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welcome!<\/strong> We extend a warm welcome to our guests, and invite you to sign the guest book at the back of the sanctuary. Everyone is invited to remain for coffee and fellowship, downstairs in the Church Hall, following the service. We thank Marg Clark for hosting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank Wilma Shirriff, who is leading our service today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome &amp; Announcements &#8211; Margaret Dunn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greeter this morning is Marg Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reader today is Philip Dunn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Week at First Church:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, 7:00 p.m. &#8211; Bible Study &#8211; beginning study using the book: &#8220;Women of the Old Testament&#8221;, by Gladys Hunt &#8211; by Zoom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>September 30 \u2013 Meal-in-a-Bowl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 4 &#8211; World Communion Sunday &#8211; special service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/13-Sept-2026.pdf\">Full announcements here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Welcome! We extend a warm welcome to our guests, and invite you to sign the guest book at the back of the sanctuary. Everyone is invited to remain for coffee and fellowship, downstairs in the Church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?p=4513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}