Monday Notes - W&M 2025

Chaperones. Yesterday at check-in we discovered an issue with the chaperone schedules. Please DO NOT use the schedule from your envelope. The button below provides you with the correct chaperone assignments.

Chaperone Assignments

If you would like a corrected paper copy, please stop by the PAM Office in Allen D. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Have questions? Need help finding your classes? Watch for directional signs at major foot-traffic points and volunteers in bright yellow vests. They will answer your questions and point you in the right direction.

Audition Results. The audition results for the adult and senior high chamber choirs, advanced handbell ensemble, and talent show will be available by 7:00 am today on the sliding doors to Assembly Inn, through the Yapp app, and on our website at https://www.presbymusic.org/wmc/audition. You may pre-pay for your chamber choir packet using the links below, so you don’t have to wait in line at Convocation Hall.

Square:  https://square.link/u/CCpRFSVc

Venmo:  https://venmo.com/u/BeethovenAndCompany

Chamber Choirs - Adult and Senior High. Participants must purchase a music packet prior to the first rehearsal on Monday at 8 am. Adult and Senior High packets will ONLY be available in Convocation Hall beginning at 7:15 am.

Talent Show Participants. All participants must attend a mandatory tech check today at 5:20 pm in Anderson Auditorium.    

Transportation Assistance: If you have need of golf cart transport, please go to the PAM office to purchase a pass and sign the liability waver. Space is limited.

Conference App. You do not want to miss announcements, class and schedule changes, or information about pop up events! The best place to find all these things is via the Yapp App. Download Yapp from Google Play or the Apple Store. Use the conference id WM25 to access the conference.

Document Library. Access to the 2025 Worship & Music Conference Document Library is available at the completion of this week to all attendees via the following link: www.presbymusic.org/2025-library. The webpage password will be emailed to all registered adults.

Morning Prayer. Room AI-1 at 7:30 am, no designated leader, written guides provided

Evening Prayer. Online bedtime stories and prayers, books available in AI-1 (do not remove). Today’s story is Stone Soup. presbymusic.org/conference-evening-prayer

Password: CIL2025

Lunch Gathering for First Timers. First-time Attendees are invited to attend lunch together following Monday worship. Bring your lunch or purchase a lunch at The Huck. We will meet adjacent to The Huck as you enter the upper level near Lake Susan.

Dinner Gathering for BIPOC conferees. Bring dinner to Moore Center Upper (next to the Huckleberry Café) at 5:30 pm. The gathering will be hosted by Dé Patton.

Evening Gathering for LGBTQIA+ conferees. Join Brian Lew at Goldfinch (122 Cherry Street in Black Mountain) after tonight’s organ and guitar concert.

All Handbell Participants. Please purchase your music in the Jeffers Store, located in the Way Out Building, before the first rehearsal. Participants are responsible for bringing gloves and a folder.

Family Concert: Six Strings and the King. Tonight at 7:30 pm in Anderson Auditorium, hear organist Tom Trenney and guitarist David LaMotte together in concert.    

Youth Evening Activity. Middler and Senior High conferees are invited to join in tonight’s evening activity in the Upper Moore Center. The fun will start 15 minutes after the Family Concert with David LaMotte and Tom Trenney.

Small Group Locations. Middler and Senior High Small Group meeting rooms are listed on the schedule found in the white envelope. Rooms are Assembly Inn 2, 251, 303, and 334.

Chaperones. If you are registered as a chaperone, you are required to attend the classes listed on your daily schedule to actively assist with supervision of children and youth. Thank you for helping to keep our young ones safe!    

Choral Reading Session: Choristers Guild led by Emily Floyd at 1:30 pm in AA.

Late Check-In. If you still need to register, check-in, or pick up conference materials, please visit the PAM office located in the Allen Building, lower level.

Lend a Helping Hand. If this is your first time at the Worship & Music Conference, we are so glad you’re here! If you have questions about the conference or where to find your classes, feel assured that there is a culture of openness and camaraderie here at Montreat and Worship & Music conferees help one another, so do not be afraid to ask! If you are attending without a group and want someone to sit with during worship, there is a section reserved for first time attendees and singles in the front section on the lake side of AA.

Exhibit Hall. Please visit the conference sponsors in the lobby of Anderson Auditorium. They are here to support you and the important ministry you do in your churches. Exhibitors will be available to connect with you at their booths as follows: Monday 9:30 – 11:00 am & 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Tuesday 9:30 – 11:00 am & 6:30 – 9:30 pm, as well as Monday evening at the dessert reception directly following the Family Concert.

Sponsors' Dessert Reception. This evening in the Exhibit Hall (Anderson Auditorium Lobby) immediately following the Family Concert. Connect with conference sponsors and enjoy some sweet treats! Our sponsors are integral to this conference, and they are here to support you and the important ministry you do in your churches!

PAM Certification. If you are interested in pursuing PAM Certification and would like to meet with a Certification Committee member this week, please contact David Brinson at 704-807-5567.

Interest Sessions.

Jazz Vespers: Worship and Education (Assembly Inn-1) | 10:00 am & 4:30 pm

A New Confession? Let's Talk (Belk Center Upper/Left Bank) | 10:00 am & 4:30 pm

Guest Musicians: Ensure Success! (Assembly Inn-Lakeside) | 10:00 am & 4:30 pm

Second Loaf. Drop off left over food and snacks at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church (117 Montreat Road) and their Second Loaf program on your way out of town Saturday morning from 7 – 11 am. Volunteers will distribute the food throughout the area. Drop off unopened food, produce, and unopened frozen food. Individually wrapped snacks are especially welcome.

Clothed in Love Stoles. Monday's Word-of-the-Day Stole, Compassion, portrays the profound challenge of suffering with others. Its "messy" lettering evokes the beauty and complexity of shared pain, while the aqua water-printed cloth symbolizes the waters of baptism that unite us in grace.