First Church Network MAY 2016

First United Methodist Church 310 N. Main St. | Mocksville, NC 27028

336.751.2503 Fax: 336.751.1120 Preschool/Afterschool 336.753.1900

www.firstumcmocksville.org STAFF

Dr. Glenn L. Myers, Jr. Senior Pastor John Huneycutt Christian Education / Youth Barbara Basham Director of Music Preschool Director Allison Lambert Director of Afterschool Ministries Tommy Dunn Organist/Technology Teresa Lakey Financial Administrator Shane Butcher Financial Assistant Natalie Sanders Custodial Staff Taylor Slye Custodial Staff

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION US POSTAGE

PAID Permit No. 46 Mocksville, NC

8:45 AM 9:50 AM 10:55 AM

Early Light Sunday School Traditional Worship

Family Life Center Various

Sanctuary

MAIL TO:

FIRST CHURCH NETWORK MAY 2016

VBS 2016 - "Deep Sea Discovery" - FUMC will be holding VBS this summer from Sunday, June 12th -

Thursday, June 16th, from 6:30-8:30pm! The theme this year will be "Deep Sea Discovery," and

each night, children will be discovering that God is with them wherever they go through music, crafts,

games, and stories. On Thursday evening, parents are invited to join us for a pizza dinner as the chil-

dren share with them what they learned that week. There will be four age-groups: Pre-K, Kindergar-

ten & 1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grade, and 4th & 5th grade. Child care will be available (for volunteers

only) for children two and under. Parents can enroll their children & volunteers can sign up to help on

our website: http://www.vacationbibleschool.com/deepseadiscoveryatfumc. Please contact us

at DeepSeaDiscoveryatFUMC@gmail.com for more information. We are looking forward to a fun

VBS this summer where children will learn more about their faith and God's love for them!

Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2016

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Trinity Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday, May 1, 2016 - David Kelly, speaker

Memorial Sunday, May 29, 2016

THE CHURCH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, MAY 30, 2016

First Church Network MAY 2016 First Church Network MAY 2016

THOSE WHO SERVE ~ MAY 2016

GREETERS FOR 8:45 AM 1 Mary Anne Peele, Terri Butcher 8 Doris Miller, Shirley Wicker 15 Vickie Hendricks, Sandi Howell 22 Alice Hanes, Mary Anne Peele 29 Nancy Payne, Doris Snyder USHERS 8:45 AM 1 Clayton Peele, Shane Butcher 8 Glenn Miller, Carl Wicker 15 Jerry Hendricks, Charlie Howell 22 Chris Hanes, Wylie Berry 29 Frank Payne, George Snyder MORNING PRAYER 8:45 AM 1 Lynne Byerly 8 Glenn Myers 15 Lynne Byerly 22 John Huneycutt 29 Patsy Brewer CHILDREN’S MOMENT 8:45 AM 1 Debra Stanley 8 Lisa Prillaman 15 Chinera Latham 22 TBD 29 Lynne Byerly

REFRESHMENTS 8:45 AM 1 Alice & Chris Hanes 8 Doris & George Snyder 15 Vickie & Jerry Hendricks 22 Terri & Shane Butcher 29 Phil & Bobbie Morris

CIRCLE OPPORTUNITIES Hannah Circle

GREETERS FOR 10:55 AM 1 Amy & Gary Hatley 8 Amy & Gary Hatley 15 Amy & Gary Hatley 22 Amy & Gary Hatley 29 UMYF USHERS 10:55 AM Charles Crenshaw, Lucia Ellis Steve Laymon, Mike Harrison

PRAYER 10:55 AM 1 Glenn Myers 8 Belinda Brewer 15 Jayne Walker 22 Jerry Banks 29 Angie Jordan CHILDREN’S MOMENT 10:55 AM 1 Tami Walker 8 Angie Jordan 15 Teresa West 22 Belinda Brewer 29 Harold Vickers

ACOLYTE 10:55 AM 1 Lauren O’Connor 8 Nevan Ellis 15 Burke Rosenbaum 22 Patrick Foil 29 Sydney Dirks

NURSERY WORKERS 1 Tiffany Evans 8 Sandy Sheek 15 Sarah Chapman 22 Christy Anderson 29 Amy Hatley

From the Pastor

The last Sunday of April was exciting as we recognized our 2016 Confirmation class and received five of them into full membership in our Church. The following participated in the class that began in early Jan-uary: Jackson Clark, London Dirks, Kaitlyn Foil, Bradley Harris, D.J. Hatley, Ryan O’Connor, and Reece Yount. I appreciate the mentors who worked individually with the confirmands to encourage and sup-port them on their faith journey. I hope you will be in worship on May 1 as I welcome Pastor David Kelly from Honduras. He is a local church pastor and works with the Carolina Honduras Medical Teams that come to work and serve in Honduras. He and Dr. Joel Edwards have been working together to bring much-needed medical service to the people of Honduras. I look forward to participating in the next medical mission team leaving in late June. On Monday, May 2 at 6pm we will offer a Welcome Class for those who have recently joined, are considering joining or just want to know more about our church. Please call the church office to let us know you are coming. May 8 will be a day of celebrating our Moth-ers and recognizing the youngest and oldest mothers. We will also baptize Walker Thomas Evans, son of Matt and Tiffany Evans. Our church cleanup day will be on May 14th. We want to clean out the many things that we have in storage, but have not used recently. If you or your group have things in storage and cannot be there that day, please do your cleaning in advance and identify it as having been purged. Sunday, May 15 is Pentecost Sunday. Our children will help us make it a day of celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the church. On Sunday, May 29 we plan a Fifth Sunday Brunch dur-ing the Sunday School hour in the Family Life Center, and we will welcome and celebrate all those who have joined our church in the past year. Our Building Committee has met and is planning to identify and work with an architect to develop plans to help us meet the objectives we have identified for us to re-main relevant and effective in the years to come. Let us be in prayer that we will be exactly the church God desires us to be. Also be in prayer for the General Conference of the United Methodist Church that meets in Portland, Oregon May 10-20. Updates can be found at www.umc.org. Blessings,

Pastor Glenn

Church Financial Report March 2016 January - March 2016

Total Income $45,215 $120,030

Total Expenses $54,752 $146,035

Difference <$9,537> <$26,005>

THANK YOU for your support in the One Great Hour of Sharing on March 6, 2016. A total of

$700.00 was received. On Mother’s Day, May 8, a special Mother’s Day offering for Arbor

Acres will be received. Special envelopes and information will be available that day.

First Church Network MAY 2016 First Church Network MAY 2016

May 2016

8 – Mother’s Day – No UMYF 22 – 5:00 pm – Parent-Youth Covered Dish Meal and meeting to go over mission trip in-formation & summer schedule 29 – Memorial Day Weekend – No UMYF

SUMMER CAMP

Summer Day Camp Registration is in Full Swing. If you know any children who will be 5 by August 31 all the way up to rising 8th grade, we would love to have them for Summer Day Camp 2016! Please contact Mrs. Allison at 336-753-1900 or email Allison@firstumcmocksville.org for more information! Stay tuned for After School Registration. Right now we currently serve Grades K-8th at Mocksville Elementary and South Davie Middle School. We would love to help meet your after school care needs!

DEEP ROOTS COMMUNITY GARDENS

Miracles Grow

As we look forward to another month – (They are passing by so quickly!) we at Deep Roots continue to find miracles in abundance coming from this church and our wonderful community! Sarah Carter, one of our Early College students did a miniature square foot garden display to demonstrate to her class how we put together the soil in our raised beds. She was hoping to put some plexiglass along one side of the project so the students could see the division of the soil,

compost, straw, newspaper, etc. Mr. Freddie Brewer stepped forward and attached the plexiglass to her project and did it without charge! Sarah was so thankful as were all of us! Just another wonderful display of Christian behavior on the part of our church! Mr. Jesse Ledbetter, a young teacher at the Davie High School also donated enough plants to fill 5 raised beds at the Storehouse garden and plant-ed them for us! Thank you, Jesse! Rebekah Brown also donated many, many plants that she started from scratch for us! This is her second year of doing that for us! Thank you Rebekah! On April 9th Sa-rah Wood held a class for Parents/Children at our Clement Garden sponsored by the Cooperative Ex-tension. We had close to 30 people that attended that class! Sarah was amazing!!! On April 16th we held our first garden work day. We spread wood chips at the Clement Garden and at the Storehouse garden, painted a compost bin donated to us, stained fence markers, got rid of debris and set up our picnic table area! Again, we had about 12 different people at each garden participating in that won-derful work day, including the boy scout troop 732 from Advance, Tess and Katy from the high school and Sarah from the Early College. Thank you all so much! Hope Cain from “Righteous Way” painted a beautiful quilt sign that will grace our Storehouse garden! We do not have it displayed yet, but you will have to take a look soon! Melanie Holloway made a beautiful stepping stone for the Clement Gar-den and displayed it at our dinner held on April 20th in honor of Earth Day! Melanie inscribed a poem on the stone and it touched me deeply as it was the very same poem that was read at my father-in-law’s funeral! He was a Dairy Farmer, and it is his truck that I drive back and forth to the garden! Dave and Betty Poteat donated a new wheel barrow, soaker hose and sprinkler to our gardens! They also helped tremendously with the collecting of 5-gallon pails for us last month! Thanks so much! Laura Flanagan donated the use of her wheel barrow for the summer and continues to supply us with egg shells for our compost bin. Laura is one of our Clement gardeners and is the wonderful lady that does the baking at Ketchie Creek! April 20th was our last dinner for this early Spring season. We will pick up again in August after the busy garden season begins to slow down! We cannot thank all of you enough for your support. Never once did anyone say “no” when we called for donations of any kind. The food donations especially, were soooo good! Truly, God is good to us!

Thank you from the bottom of our roots!!

Newsletter Deadline for June/July

The next newsletter will be combined for June and July. The deadline

for information for this newsletter is Monday, May 23rd. The newslet-

ters will be mailed on May 26, 2016. Please adjust accordingly. The

August newsletter will be mailed on July 28.

May is a busy month for families! Field trips, concerts, testing – all those activities that wind up another year of school. As everyone knows, it is a very busy time! How can we keep our faith focus with our family when we seem to be pulled in so many directions? Remember the little things! May is often a month when we start to look for flowers and signs of new life all around us. This month, when you see a flower, stop and talk to God with your child(ren): “God, thank you for flowers. Help us remember that we are growing too. Guide us as we grow, sharing your love with others.” Be thankful! Make batches of munch mix with your children , package it in small bags, add a note of thanks, and give it to people who are helpful to your family (school staff, mail carriers, librarians, neighbors, baby sitters, trash collectors…) On May 8th participate in the Pentecost Workshop. Talk with your children during the week about Pentecost and then return to worship together on May 15th, Pentecost Sunday.

First Church Network MAY 2016 First Church Network MAY 2016

Charles Hendricks

Autumn Care

1007 Howard Street

Mocksville, NC 27028

Bailey Brewer

Diane Crotts’

Granddaughter

Ann Stayer

PO Box 333

256 North Carolina Circle

Mocksville, NC 27028

Clyde Hendricks

2229 Bermuda Village Drive

Advance, NC 27006

D.C. Blakley

313 Aubrey Merrell Rd.

Mocksville, NC 27028

Jim Anderson 2966 US Hwy 64 W Mocksville NC 27028

Velma Daniel c/o Trinity Elms 3750 Harper Road #601

Clemmons, NC 27012

Margeret Foster c/o Brookstone Terrace

Room # 7

4430 Clinard Road

Clemmons, NC 27012

Tilthia Hanes Clemmons Village #1

6401 Holder Road, Room 4

Clemmons, NC 27012

Isaac & Eli Markland 825 N. Main Street

Mocksville, NC 27028

Jack Corriher

144 N. Wentworth Dr.

Mocksville, NC 27028

Sara Campbell

142 Greenwood Ave.

Mocksville NC 27028

Molly Jo McClamrock Bermuda Commons

Room # 403

316 NC Hwy 801

Advance, NC 27006

Von & Madeline Shelton 153 Woodhaven Drive

Mocksville, NC 27028

Elmer Stoneman 425 Avon Street

Mocksville, NC 27028

Joyce Peak 206 Redwood Drive

Mocksville, NC 27028

Jackson Hendricks 134 Applegate Court

Mocksville, NC 27028

Mary Brock 1276 Jericho Church Rd.

Mocksville, NC 27028

Mary Danner 118 Grey Street

Mocksville NC 27028

Cole & Elva Grace

Tomlinson 1351 Suzanna Wesley Dr.

Winston Salem, NC 27104

Nancy Triplett 248 East Lake Drive

Mocksville, NC 27028

Marie Steed c/o Trinity Elms

3750 Harper Road # 302

Clemmons, NC 27012

Jean Shelton Bermuda Commons

Room # 508

316 NC Hwy 801

Advance, NC 27006

Marty Roberts Bermuda Commons

Advance, NC 27006

Ron Reynolds 221 Spring Street

Mocksville NC

ARMED FORCES

FN Collin Russell

PV2 Connor Carpenter

PROMISES TO KEEP PRAYERS

Please let us know of any addi-tional names to be added or any names which should be removed. We wish for our Prayer List to be current and correct. To contact the Prayer Chain with a prayer request or to become a part of the Prayer Chain, please contact Lillian Sharpe (336.936.9014, bs2005@aol.com) Judy Bailey (336.978.7763, curlyqmom@yadtel.net)

PRAYER TIME

Thursdays at Noon

Family Life Center

Middle School Classroom

UMW Activities for the Month of May Saturday, May 7 – Mother/Daughter Tea On Mother’s Day weekend, there will be a Mother/Daughter Tea for all school age girls—Grades K-12, their mothers and/or grandmothers in the Fellowship Hall on Saturday, May 7 at 2:00 p.m. Please RSVP to Chris-tie Russell. We look forward to an afternoon of “girl time” with you!

Sunday, May 15 – Jeanne Robertson

For those who plan to travel by bus to High Point for the 3:00 p.m. May 15 Jeanne Robertson performance, please plan to have lunch after church on your own. The bus will be leaving the FUMC parking lot at 1:30. Following the show, the group will have dinner at Cracker Barrel in Clemmons as we return to Mocksville. Looking forward to a great time!

Monday, May 16 – UMW Covered Dish Meal

All ladies are invited to attend a UMW Covered Dish meal at 6:00 pm on Monday, May 16 in the Family Life Center. UMW’s primary focus this year is local poverty and hunger. Our guest speaker will be Rev. Beverly Gaska, interim pastor of Union Chapel UMC on 601N, Mocksville. Beverly is a retired Methodist minister who has worked for many years with the homeless. A couple of years ago she started a pocketbook minis-try for homeless women as she volunteered with women at New Story Shelter in Winston-Salem on Trade Mart Blvd. You might wish to bring a pocketbook (filled or unfilled) with you to the meal. Rev. Gaska’s idea is to provide some basic items but keep the purses lightweight.

Krystal Dumas of Just Hope has agreed to be a distributor for our pocketbooks and she has been invit-ed to speak briefly.

Sherri Hendrix will share with us regarding their work with Family Promise of Davie County and the plans that are underway for providing shelter for the homeless in Davie County. Following the meeting, some circles will break into their regular monthly meetings.

Some items you might include in a pocketbook: travel size shampoo and conditioner; sanitary supplies for ladies; sanitary wipes; purse size tissues; comb; small tube of toothpaste and a tooth-brush.

Sunday, May 29 – 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Family Life Center

A Habitat house is being built for our custodian, Natalie Sanders and her family. Their plan is to move into their very first house in mid-May (Hillcrest St. off Campbell Rd. across from Central Davie). On Sunday after-noon, May 29, UMW is sponsoring a floating housewarming. The entire Sanders family is invited: husband, Chuck, and their children (Lilly-11 and Jake-8 years old). Please join us as we show them how special and loved they are by our entire church family. Natalie has registered at Target under college registry (since there is no housewarming option on Target’s registry). This is not a shower so ladies, please bring your hus-band and children as we share the Sanders family’s excitement. Teresa West, UMW President

First Church Network BIRTHDAYS MAY 2016

Steve Smith

Backpack Buddies

By The Fellowship Class

By Don & Sarah Wood

Pastor’s Discretionary Fund

By Mike Hendrix

M.C. & Mary Ellen Deadmon

General Fund

By Mack & Martha Deadmon

Please call the church

office to update the

birthday list. 751.2503

May 01 Charles Crenshaw Ruth Davis Scott Gantt John Walker Matt Walker

May 02 William Berry Donna Duncan Patti Forbes Mike Deal May 03 Mimi Cunningham Melissa O’Connor May 05 Sam Redman May 06 Jake Barnhardt

Russ Clarke May 08 Philip Cartner

Nancy Clarke Carl Wicker Kelly Hobbs

May 9 Lester Cozart May 10 Charlotte Miller May 11 Anne Jones May 12 Brantlee Evans Scotty Seaford May 13 Kathy Boger Sidney Howard Kelly Sales

Parker Shelton

May 14 Chris Boardwine

Sara Campbell

Virginia Coil

Jill Gaither

Barbara Laymon

Jackie Nicholson

May 16 Alyse Bowden

Wooldridge

Tatum Edwards

May 17 Will Rooney

May 18 Nathan Barnes

May 19 Toni Phillips

Emma Boardwine

May 20 Quin Holland

May 21 Mackie Deadmon

Gaye Smith

May 22 Donnie Lakey

Mike Shaw

May 23 Thomas Corriher

Andrew Daniel

Payton Wogatzke

May 24 Joyce Peak

Emery Rosenbaum

Jeff Wyke

May 25 Ruthanna Burton

George Haire

Tess Miller

Ryan Wyke

May 26 Carol Dunn

Silvie Hendrix

Cindy Hess

Bob Ritz

Bill Sell, Jr.

Sarah Wood

May 27 Perie Howard

Mike O’Connor

May 28 Amber Finney

Paulette Hendrix

May 29 Sally Brill

Lynn Howard

Katie Hendricks

Linda Trudgeon

May 30 Chance Anderson

John Brock

Lewis Hall

Robert Hendricks, II

Glenn Miller

Mariam Wright

First Church Network MAY 2016

YOUNG AT HEART at CODY CREEK

2016 High School & College Graduates

Please send your information to the church office with your High School or College

information and future plans to tommy@firstumcmocksville.org.

Please include your full name.

2016 CONFIRMANDS

Bradley Harris, Reece Yount, D.J. Hatley, Ryan O’Connor

Jackson Clark, Kaitlyn Foil. Not pictured: London Dirks

You are invited to the marriage of

Debbie Blackwelder & Chris Hendrix

Sunday, the twenty-second of May

One-thirty in the afternoon

Sanctuary

First Church Network MAY 2016 First Church Network MAY 2016

Sunday , 5/1/16 7:30 AM Fellowship Hall

Breakfast Meeting

Saturday, May 21

UMM NEW RIVER BIKE RIDE

Leave church at 9:00 AM

Bikes are available to rent.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEALS

5/4

No Meal Scheduled

5/11

WHEN Hosting

5/18

Student Services of Davie Co. Schools

5/25

Missions Committee Hosting

for Honduras Mission Trip

TRIP TO LEXINGTON

Thursday, May 19 9:00 AM

Please call the church office to sign up for the trip!

336.751.2503

The WHEN Ministry meets on Thursday afternoons at 3:00 pm in the Family Life

The UMW is sponsoring a Mother/Daughter Tea for all school age girls—Grades K-12, their mothers and/or grandmothers in the Fellowship Hall on Saturday, May 7 at 2:00 p.m. Please RSVP to Christie Russell, crussell@funderamerica.com. We look forward to an afternoon of “girl time” with you!

MARY CIRCLE 5/16 2:00 PM

Conference Room

A special thank you to those of you who took part in the Habitat for Humanity Building Blitz on Friday and Saturday, April 15 & 16. All of your hard work was very much appreciated. Thank you! The Sanders Family

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME! That's right, it's that time of year again! The UMM has sched-uled two church wide games for this year. The dates are June 17th and August 19th so mark your cal-endars now! Come with us to see the Dash play the Salem Red Sox. Both games are on Friday night , and the $12.00 ticket price includes transportation, parking, a free ball cap and fireworks after the game. Tickets must be purchased in advance and the deadline for the first game is May 27th. Bring your cash or check (made out to FUMC UMM) to the church office and get on the list. Please let Tom-my know if you will be riding the bus. QUESTIONS? Call Tim Trudgeon at 336-492-2994

1st UMC / St. Francis Softball Game Schedule

Games are played at Rich Park

May 2 9 pm Fork vs. 1st UMC / St. Francis

May 3 8 pm Bethlehem UMC vs. 1st UMC / St. Francis

May 10 7 pm 1st UMC / St. Francis vs. Camp Manna

May 12 9 pm 1st UMC / St. Francis vs. Redland

May 19 8 pm Courtney Baptist vs. 1st UMC / St. Francis

May 24 9 pm 1st UMC / St. Francis vs. Green Meadows

Family Ministries is excited to offer a workshop during the Sunday school hour on May 8th in the Family Life Center. Children kindergarten through fifth grade, middle school and senior high youth, their Sunday school teachers and parents are invited! We will learn about Pentecost and make a fun craft. Then on Pentecost Sunday, May 15th, the children will use their craft in a Pentecost Parade for both worship ser-vices. Please join us! Red is the color of Pentecost. We invite everyone to wear something red on May 15th in celebration of Pentecost Sunday.

MISSIONS COMMITTEE

MEETS

Tuesday, May 3 6:30 PM

Church-wide

clean-up day

Saturday, may 14

All help is appreciated!