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Mt. Zion Family , Due to the extension of phase 2, the rising of COVID-19 cases, and children returning back to school next month, we have decided that we will postpone in-church gathering until the 4th quarter . We will reevaluate before October, the start of the 4th quarter. We may decide to start having outdoor service first if possible since the weather should not be as hot. Your servants in Christ , Pastor Willie Harris Elder Wayne Bullock Elder Sean Cherry Elder Bobby Dunn

Today was our Youth Sunday and Sis. Tracy Dunn delivered a message on the Parable of the Prodigal Son entitled " 3 People. 2 Problems. 1 Promise. " Don't forget to submit your family photo for our  Virtual 155th Church Anniversary Celebration by 5pm on Friday, 7/31. Thanks to all the members who attended our Church Family Meeting today.  We gave an update on our church reopening plans . Due to the extension of phase 2, the rising of COVID-19 cases, and children returning back to school next month, we have decided that we will postpone in-church gathering until the 4th quarter. We will reevaluate before October, the start of the 4th quarter. We may decide to start having outdoor service first if possible since the weather should not be as hot.

We continue in our new series, Praying the Psalms, with "A Psalm of Thanksgiving" based on Psalm 136 . Download the Home Study Guide and Youth Personal Quiet Time to review and apply the sermon.  Praise is to admire or glorify God for who He is (His attributes) while thanksgiving often centers on thanking and showing gratitude to God for what He has done. Yet, praise and thanksgiving are so closely related and interconnected that it's hard to do one without the other. The one who praises God thanks Him too! Our next Church-Wide Prayer Rally is Tuesday, July 21st, at 7:00pm on WebEx . Let's come together and pray. If you can't attend, you can submit your prayer requests online. Next Sunday, we'll take a break from our series to have our Youth Sunday. Following the service, we'll have our Church Family Meeting via WebEx at 11:30 am. We will provide an update on our reopening plans as well as do a Board of Directors election. You'll receive a special We

Today, we started our new series, Praying the Psalms , with "A Psalm of Praise" based on Psalm 8 . Download the Home Study Guide and Youth Personal Quiet Time to review and apply the sermon. We want to recognize our newest member who has completed New Members Orientation: Sis. Ruby Franklin Mark your calendars: My prayer group (Pastors Praying Together) is putting together a Unity Prayer Rally on Saturday, 8/1 at 9 am. It will be outside at Ambassador Presbyterian Church in Apex. More details to come.

With our theme of Being a House of Prayer , we're having a pastoral prayer every Sunday. We'll have a different topic to pray for each month led by an elder. July's prayer topic is Wisdom & Discernment . Today, Elder Sean Cherry read Proverbs 2:6-10 and led us in prayer for wisdom. Mt. Zion is currently in the process of producing a virtual production to commemorate our church’s 155th Anniversary . We would like to add some member photos to the video. If you would like to have your family included, please email the best photo of you if you're single or a group photo of your family to specialevents AT mtzioncary.org. Photos will be accepted until 5:00 pm on July 31st. If you're like me, you may struggle at times with prayer. A lot of our struggle with prayer is because we get bored with praying the same way over and over. Next Sunday, we're starting a new series called Praying the Psalms . We're going to dig into the different types of Psalms and learn