Please join us at NPC tomorrow, March 2nd at 5:30pm for a brief Ash Wednesday Service and the imposition of ashes. Here’s a few words on the significance and opportunity of this Lenten season by my friend Blake Daniel, pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Sylva: “[This] Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of […]

The Newland Presbyterian Church would like to invite our mountain community neighbors to the dedication of the Blue Ridge Memorial Garden located adjacent to the church on 199 Elk Street, Newland. The dedication will be held at 3PM Sunday, August 29. It is our hope that this space will be a blessing to our mountain […]

Worship & Witness @ NEWLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Baptisms, this Sunday at 9am! This Sunday at the 9am service, Jonathan Pritz and Jameson Dascoulias will receive the sacrament of Baptism.  We are so very thankful for the faith that Christ has given these boys, and we look forward to the celebration.   Come, as you are able, so that we might surround them […]

Dear NPC Family,                                       How wonderful it will be to worship together this Sunday, Oct 4th, reminding one another of the Good News of Jesus Christ, and celebrating the Sacraments instituted by our Lord!  Both sacraments, actually.   We’ll celebrate communion, […]

Friends, In the next few weeks we will be welcoming new members at Newland Presbyterian! What an amazing gift to see our congregation grow, and to see the Lord “adding to our number.”  I pray that as our ministry continues to expand numerically, that we will also see God’s ministry in our hearts grow and […]

Communion This Sunday, 10am, NPC Lawn! Dear NPC Family, It was wonderful to worship the Risen Christ with so many of you (91) last Sunday!  I appreciated how well folks observed appropriate physical distancing and how considerate you were to one another.  And I appreciated even more the way that God met us and gathered us and […]

Dear NPC Family, June 2020 It has been a long time since we all were able to gather in person.  Since March, actually.  This was a decision made by the Session in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, North Carolina’s shut down order, and a desire, during this unprecedented time, to demonstrate love of neighbor and […]

Hi there to one and all.  Patti and I have dearly missed the members of our church family and do so hope that you too are finding some blessings during this time. We’ve been keeping busy catching up on household projects, baking rye bread and cookies for friends and watching PBS programs among others.  I […]

 From Marie Gwyn, Clerk of Session – Hi, everyone! Hope you are all doing well during this time of reduced contact and social distancing. I am looking forward to seeing you and praying we can resume normal activities soon. May the Lord be with you until we meet again! I want to update you on […]

~ From Joe Banner Sr., NPC Elder To all our friends and church family, Indeed, these are trying times in our personal and church life! Few, if any of us, have experienced the imposing dangers we are facing and losing so many privileges we take for granted. Our first reaction after being told to close […]