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PFAFFTOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) 3323 Transou Rd. PO Box 130 Pfafftown NC 27040 Phone: 336- 924-9925 Fax: 336- 924-2501 E-mail: [email protected] www.pfafftownchristian.org
Page 1: Connect Groups
Share the Food…
Family Matters
Children’s Connect Group
Congregational Meeting
Page 2: As Way Leads on to Way
Facilities Update
Elder’s Meeting
Yearbook Update
Page 3: Notes from Tim
History of Father’s Day in USA
Page 4: Financial Statement
Page 5: June Calendar
Page 6: The Gathering
Thanks You Notes
Summer Worship Music
Boy Scout Troop 918
Stewardship: Budget Update
& schedule changes
Servers
Page 7: Remembering in Prayer
Ministry Meetings
Church Staff
Rev. Gerald Thomas
Pastor
Rev. Tim Shoaf,
Minister of Music & Programs
Jane K. Hoover, Office Administrator
Volume 1, Number 12
June, 2018
Inside the PCC Visitor
May your Father’s Day
and every day be filled
with delight and honor
in your family!
Join us as we meet on Sunday mornings at
9:45 a.m. in the Downstairs Fellowship
Hall. Food and fellowship included!
Peculiar Treasures:
A Biblical Who’s Who
June 10 - Zaccheus: Beginning at the End
(Read Luke 19:1-10)
June 17 - Mary Magdalene:
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
(Read John 20:1-18)
June 24 – Uriah the Hittite:
“A Straight Arrow” (Read 2 Samuel 11)
Frederick Buechner called them “peculiar
treasures” and then went on to write a
book about them. Folks in the Bible,
some as well-known as Abraham and
Sarah, Peter and Paul. Others more
obscure: Vashti and Belshazzar, Eutycus
and Korah. In preparation, you may pick
up Buechner’s article on a biblical
character and the scripture reference.
Reading these, we’ll be ready for some
interesting conversations on Sundays.
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Share the Food,
Share the Good News! Thank you for your faithfulness to
the needs of our community through
the Crisis Control food pantry. This
month, in honor of Irma Muetzel, we will
collect grits (individually boxed, in small
bags orcanisters). Please place your items
in the box outside the Downstairs Fellow-
ship Hall. If you have questions, please
contact Jackie Romanello. Thank you
Family Matters:
Lessons in Loving
Ourselves and One
Another August 10-12
Doctor Hunter Hay is joining us this
summer to help us understand
healthiness in our relationships. Single
and married. Aunts, uncles, cousins.
Even relationships within our church
“families.” Everyone in our community
will benefit from this time of sharing
and listening.
One cannot overemphasize the
importance of these lessons in our
lives. Please make this investment in
your personal and family life. All
sessions are free. We will gather for
sessions on Friday evening, Saturday
morning and Sunday morning. Dr. Hay
will also preach in Sunday Morning
Worship.
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New Children’s Connect Group This summer, we will form a new
Connect Group for older children. We
already have groups for adults and
nursery/young children. This effort
includes preparing the classroom space
in our Education Wing, gathering
curriculum ideas, and forming a group
of committed teachers. If you will
commit to teach, contact our pastor.
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Congregational Meeting Sunday, July 8, 2018, following
Morning Worship. All PCC
parishioners are invited to attend
as we receive information on our
ministry budget and those who will
serve on various committees in the
coming church year. There will also
be a time to present other business
and information to the church.
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As Way Leads on to Way
Fever of 102. Stomach cartwheeling. But the
Georgia-Auburn score was still close. “Let’s wait this
thing out,” I kept saying. Marlene thought I meant the
illness.
She pushed all afternoon. Need to go to the doctor.
Fever too high. Dehydration setting in. “These things
are hard on your body. Can cause permanent
damage.” In came the descriptions from the internet.
More words from a nursing textbook. The calls from my
mother.
Assured Georgia had Auburn down and out, I gave in.
Her studying for a test interrupted, my nurse-to-be spouse
packed her books and practiced EMS skills while driving
me to a clinic.
The waiting room revealed this to be “clinic lite” for a
Saturday night. I was the sole patient. Filtering through
the receptionist, nurse, and physician’s assistant, the
doctor came in, poked and prodded and listened and came
to his conclusion: Viral Gastroenteritis.
“Uh, huh,” I drowsily acknowledged, teetering on the
edge of the examining table, sounding like I knew exactly
what the doctor meant.
BAM! I was blown off the table by Marlene’s
excited response. “I knew it! I kneeeew that’s what it
was! I said that all along!” The doctor went to write a
prescription. Marlene’s buzzing. “Look here!” Flip,
flip, flip went the pages of the nursing textbook in Mar-
lene’s lap. Whatever I’d been in the past: husband,
son, pastor, Georgia fan----all behind me. Now, I was a
diagnosis! Not some case in a textbook, but a live one!
Geeez.
The Bible is full of case studies, and we are full
of the Bible: dysfunctional families, broken
relationships, substance abuse, power mongers, sick
religion, etc., etc. We come to the place that is church,
sometimes our heads spinning with the fever of our sins,
and sit in the examining rooms of Bible study and
worship. The Word diagnoses us. In the best
moments, we are turned toward healing. In the worst,
some preacher or layperson full of self flips the pages
and screams “BAM! I knew it, That’s old
so-and-so! I knew that’s what he is!”—blowing
teetering folks off the fragile pins of their life
supports. (Continued: next column)
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Facilities Update You’ve probably noticed we have a bit of
construction underway on the roof of
the sanctuary. Our steeple had provided
all the service one could expect and the
Board voted to remove the steeple and
construct a cupola. As you come to
church, make note of the progress. We
look forward to a service of dedication
as when the last nail is hammered.
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Elders’ Meeting Tuesday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Elders serving in both the 2017 - 2018 and
2018 - 2019 church years are invited to attend this
meeting. June’s meeting will focus upon assigning
our families into ministry groups for the new church
year. This years’ and next years’ Elders will discuss
the needs of our families as we approach the new
church year.
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New Yearbook is in Production
In June, we are compiling and printing the 2018-2019
PCC Yearbook. All updated information should be
turned in by Sunday, June 24. Printing and binding
will commence the week of June 24.
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Remembering in Prayer
Hospital in Asheville: June Fulton, Jill Robertson’s friend
Rose Tara: Vallie Cline
Brighton Gardens: Edna Williamson, Martha Williamson
Bereavement: Family of Dawn Surratt, Marlene’s friend
Recovering: Pat Barber, Betty Clodfelter, Hailey Burns,
Harry Nifong: at Evelyn’s home;
Wade Tuttle: Jill Robertson’s uncle.
Church Family: Bud Barker, Mary Ferguson,
Connie Snuffer, Edith Sprinkle,
Others:
Martha Blevins: Marlene Thomas’ family;
Steve Calaway;
Jennifer Durham: Irma and Fred Muetzel’s granddaughter
Geraldine Edwards: Ann Fletcher’s aunt;
Wy Elkins: Gerald’s Uncle;
Norma Goslen: Evelyn Nifong’s sister-in-law
Beth Haddock: Sharon Binkley’s mother
Elfi Haddock: Sharon Binkley’s sister-in-law
Bobby Johnson: Helen Johnson’s son
Cayden Kingsbury: Rodney Stilwell’s grandson
Chuck Kolstad: Evelyn Nifong’s son-in-law
Carol McElveen: Jane’s friend and mentor
Beth Moore-McLean: Jane’s friend
Lacy Mabe: Scott, Jill & Emma Robertson’s uncle
Taylor Manion: Julie and Andy’s Son
Sue Miles: Jo Stanley’s friend: Louise Davis Moore
Angela Joy Neal: Gennie Romanello Sinclair
Mikki Purcell Thomas: Gerald Thomas’ cousin
Judy Sledd: Sue Terry’s cousin;
Darlene Stewart: Ann Fletcher’s sister
Joy Stokes: Jill Robertson’s sister,
Emory and Ella Thomas: Gerald Thomas’ parents
Teresa Tyndale: Edith Sprinkle’s friend
Jon Vickers: Jo & Skip Stanley’s friend
Judy West: Ann Fletcher’s cousin
Loved Ones in the Military:
Sgt. Samantha Goliat, OH, PRAN;
Joshua Hughes, Norfolk, VA;
Chase Lee, Guam; USS Key West;
Major. Hope Poster, NG, Texas;
Cpt. John G. Van Hoy IV, Fort Campbell, KY
PCC Elders
Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 7:00 pm
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Christian Women’s Fellowship Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 6:30 pm.
Please share program ideas for future
meetings of the CWF, and come to
plan them with us!
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PCC Board
Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 pm
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Pastoral Relations Committee Thursday, June 21, 2018, 7:00 pm
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Congregational Meeting Sunday, July 8, 2018, following Worship
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Sunday Schedule for Anna Wilson June 10 - Lynda Bryant
June 24 - Ann Fletcher
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The truth is that I was never relegated to a
diagnosis. I was sick and the doctor gave me
medicine and told me to go and be healed. Marlene
took me home and went above and beyond like
friends and lovers do. I was a diagnosis and she
restored me as a human being.
Behind the diagnosis of sin is the person.
Behind the sinner is somebody’s father.
Somebody’s mother. Somebody’s brother or
sister. Friend. Lover. Beneath the crushing load
of every sin is a child of God. To forget is to turn
the church into some sick game. To remember is to
dispense grace. - GT
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Notes from Tim
Standing on the Rock
My first recollection of this wonderful old hymn
“My Hope is Built” comes when I was about three or
four years old, being in church on a Sunday morning
in Fairview United Methodist Church, hearing the
congregation singing the words to the chorus: “On Christ
the solid rock I stand, all other ground is ‘sinking sand’,
all other ground is sinking sand” and I remember think-
ing to myself, why would we be singing about “sinking
sand” in church! Later that afternoon, I found myself
humming the chorus and remember asking my Dad
about the ‘sinking sand’ and he helped me understand
in children’s terms the great message of what it means
to stand on the solid Rock!
In verse three of this great hymn we sing:
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
Today, as I reflect on these words there are times when
everything around us erodes except for the rock upon
which we stand. You step out in one direction and the
sand gives way, so you step back to the rock. You step
out in another direction and the ground gives way again,
so you step back to the rock. Everywhere you try the
same thing happens. You begin to wonder if the sinking
sand might encroach on your rock. All around you is
giving way, so is the rock going to go too? This kind of
thing has to happen to our faith once in a while in order
for us to trust the rock. This is when you pray, “Lord,
you had better be real, because you are all I have right
now. If you wash away too, I am gone for sure.”
It is in times like these that we find the Rock to be solid.
This is when you learn to trust not in feelings, but in
facts. This is when you go to God’s promises in
Scripture and stand firm on them – opening up the Bible
and let the words be a place you can stand. This is when
you remember that Jesus Christ has made a covenant
with you, a new covenant in His blood. You are His and
He is yours. He will bring you through - His word is his
oath, and he will not turn back on his promises. He is
the solid ground on which you stand. As my Dad
explained to me years ago -- Everything else is sinking
sand.
Blessings to each of you and in gratitude and in loving
memory of my Dad on Father’s Day! --Tim
Father’s Day in the United States
There are two stories of when the first Father’s Day
was celebrated. Some say the first Father’s Day was
celebrated in Washington State, June 19,1910. Sonora
Smart Dodd came up with the idea to honor and
celebrate her father in 1909, while listening to a
Mother’s Day sermon. She felt mother’s were getting
all the acclaim while fathers were equally deserving
of a day of praise.
William Smart, Sonora’s dad, a veteran of the Civil
War, was left a widower when his wife died in
childbirth. He raised six children by himself on
their small farm in Washington. To show her
appreciation for all the hard work and love William
gave to her and her siblings, Sonora thought there
should be a day to pay homage to him and other dads
like him. She suggested June 5, the anniversary of his
death as Father’s Day, but due to some bad planning,
the celebration in Spokane, Washington was deferred
to the third Sunday of June.
The other story took place on the other side of the
country in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908.
Grace Golden Clayton suggested to the minister of the
local Methodist church to hold services to celebrate
fathers after a deadly mine explosion killed 361 men.
Father’s Day was celebrated in several
communities across the country, unofficial support
to declare it a National holiday began almost
immediately. William Jennings Bryant was a
proponent. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge recommended
Father’s Day become a national holiday. No official
action was taken.
In 1966, Lyndon Johnson, through an executive
order designated the third Sunday in June as the offi-
cial Father’s Day celebration. It was not until 1972,
during the Nixon administration, that Father’s Day
was officially recognized as a national holiday.
On Father’s Day, write your Dad a card, let him
know the things you love and admire about him. Tell
him that you’re glad to be his son or daughter.
So much better than a tie !
The Gathering
Wednesday, June 13, 6:00 p.m.
Downstairs Fellowship Hall
Join us for a meal as we gather at tables to pray and
fellowship together! Please sign up in the
Narthex on Sunday mornings or by calling the church
office.
Menu: Hot Dogs & Chili
Baked Beans, Potato Dish
Slaw, Strawberry Cake
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Spring 2018 Yard Sale The spring yard sale was a success!
Thank you so much for your donations and thanks
to all of our helpers. You’re the best!
- Tommy and Kitty
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Thank you! What a wonderful program and picnic we
had for the Memorial Day Lawn
Party. Many thanks to everyone who helped make
this a very successful gift to the community.
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A Summer of Singing the Old Favorites!
During the summer months I thought it
might be great for us to sing some of the
Old-time Hymns in worship! If you
have a favorite old hymn you would like
the congregation to sing or be played
during worship, please contact me at 336-692-5214
with the hymn title and I will try to include it as we
praise God through music and song! Thanks, Tim
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Boy Scout Troop 918
Philmont Camping Adventure
On Sunday, June 10, during the 11:00
am Worship Service we will recognize several Boy
Scouts and Leaders from Troop 918 who will be
attending the Philmont Scout Camping Adventure in
New Mexico, June 16-28. Please join us as we ask
God’s blessings for them on their exciting
adventure. --Tim
2017-2018 Stewardship & Budget Update
As of May 16th when this article was written, I had
received 29 cards containing estimates of giving for
the new church year, which begins July 1, 2018.
Last year I received a total of 40 cards. We
mailed the cards on April 21st and the deadline for
receipt was May 27. We have some increases in
costs from last year and we need more giving than
we estimated for 2017 - 18.
When you receive this newsletter and if you have
not filled out your card…please do so and get it in
ASAP. We must put final touches on our proposed
budget at a Team meeting on Friday, June 1st and
present to the Board on June 20.
SCHEDULE CHANGES:
The Board Meeting to approve a 2018-19 Budget
will be held at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, June 20
The Proposed Budget for 2018-2019 will be
presented to the Congregation at a Congregational
meeting after Church Services on July 8, 2018.
This proposed budget will be available in the
Narthex on Sundays, June 24, July 1 and July 8 for
congregational review.
Blessings to each of you, Bill Simpson,
Stewardship Chair Person
SERVERS for JUNE, 2018
ELDERS: Lynda Bryant, Beth Faircloth
DEACONS: Lorrie Bennett, Jack Bryant
Betty Barker, Robert Flynt
COMMUNION: Jack & Lynda Bryant
OPEN/CLOSE: Kevin Cline