Contribution To the General Fund In Memory of Our Loved Ones from Johnson Family Reunion

Condolences Our love, prayers, and Christian sympathy are extended to Melinda Cornett

and family on the death of her uncle, Bobby Spurgeon Adams. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Our love, prayers, and Christian sympathy are extended to Faye Hudson and family on the death of her aunt, Mae Marie Wolfe Atkins.

A Note of Thanks

Dear Piney Grove Baptist Church,

Thank you for donating the school supplies. We appreciate you supporting our students and school. Dobson Elementary School

Family Roster A copy of the Piney Grove Family Roster has been placed in the narthex. Please verify the contact information listed for you and your family. If changes are needed, please print the corrections on the blank line below your information. If the information is correct as printed, please put a check mark in the left column. Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

THE GROVE Growing in Christ Together

Piney Grove Baptist Church 278 Piney Grove Road Mount Airy, North Carolina 27030

Weekly Newsletter September 15, 2013 Volume VIII, Issue 38

Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Guest Preacher Rev. Jim Hamblen

Homecoming Meal in the Fellowship Hall following Worship Service

Invite your friends and neighbors to join us as we worship, fellowship, and enjoy the meal.

Youth Ministry - Marcus McGill, Minister of Youth

Parents for Youth Meetings Sunday, September 15, 2013 ~ Ray and Shana Dollyhigh Wednesday, September 18, 2013 ~ Jud and Ava Brown

Youth Events

September 20, 2013 Tailgate Party (Surry Central vs. Mount Airy at Surry Central) and lock-in at the church October 18 or 19, 2013 Scarowinds ($35 estimated for the entry fee with food and drinks not included) October 31, 2013 Youth to participate in Trunk or Treat November 9, 2013 WFU CHURCH DAY (Wake Forest vs. Florida State) January 24-26, 2014 Youth Winter Retreat at Great Wolf Lodge

Church Staff

Rev. Mark A. Reece, Jr., Pastor

Rev. Kermit Gray, Pastor Emeritus

Paul Danley, Minister of Music

Marcus McGill, Minister of Youth

Scottie Isaacs, Ministry Assistant

Dawn Marion, Pianist

Ivy Head, Organist Stephen Berrier, Sound

Tommy Haymore, Videographer

278 Piney Grove Road

Mount Airy, North Carolina

27030

Phone (336) 356-4196

www.pgbcmountairy.org

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Birthdays this Week

September 15 Melinda Cornett

David Inman Aiden Haynes

September 16 Jason Settle

September 17 Patti Miller

Sidney Whitaker

September 21 Mark Hooker

Andrew Baldwin

Sermon

“Paths of Totality” Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Activities Today

Sunday School at Dunmore - Odds and Evens Class 9:45 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship Service with Guest Preacher Rev. Will Eads 5:00 PM Youth Meeting

The Week Ahead

Monday, September 16 6:00 PM Church Council

Tuesday, September 17 10:30 AM Fresh Brewed 6:00 PM Conversational Spanish Class

Wednesday, September 18 6:30 PM Worship Seeds with the Pastor 6:30 PM G.R.O.V.E. KIDZ 6:30 PM Youth Meeting 7:30 PM Choir Rehearsal 7:30 PM Trunk or Treat Meeting

Friday, September 20 Youth meet at Surry Central High School for a tailgate party and football game (Surry Central vs. Mount Airy). A lock-in-will be held at the church following the football game.

Saturday, September 21 8:00 AM Operation Katie Workday

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Website Sermon videos can be

viewed via PGBC website or at www.vimeo.com

and type Tommy Haymore in the search block.

Apps are available for Smartphones and iPads

to view the videos.

Discipleship Worship Seeds with the Pastor

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, from 6:30 - 7:30 PM

Annual Brotherhood Fishing Trip October 10 - 13, 2013

Morehead City, North Carolina Men of all ages will travel to Morehead City on Thursday, October 10, 2013, and return Sunday, October 13, 2013. There is a sign-up sheet posted on the bulletin

board. This is a great trip every year. WE CATCH FISH and we have a GREAT TIME DOING IT!

Children’s Ministries/Mission

G.R.O.V.E. KIDZ Meeting

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at 6:30 PM Activity: Music

Children’s Bible Study, Crafts, Games, Music, and FUN.

Kid’s Café Fiesta Mexican Fiesta Covered Dish Meal

Sunday, September 29, 2013, at 12:30 PM

For Kid’s Café students and their parents, tutors and their spouses,

and workers and their spouses Bring your favorite Mexican dish and join us for food and fellowship.

Kid’s Café Tutoring Ministry

Kid’s Café will resume Monday, September 30, 2013. We're currently in need of

healthy snacks for our sessions. If you'd like to contribute snacks or money for

snacks, please contact Kid’s Café Coordinators

Eileen Kidd or Wendy Snow.

Missions “The Grove’s Helping Hand”

"The Grove's Helping Hand” is a plan to give a helping hand to struggling families who run out of groceries before the paycheck arrives, or maybe someone has been in the hospital and just doesn't have strength to tackle the grocery store yet. Perhaps we could give a helping hand to some

elderly person who can't get out at all. A food closet has been constructed in the rear of the chapel. We will be accepting cereal, Pop-tarts, and breakfast bars during the month of September. If you’d like to help with this ministry, please contact the coordinator, Nancy Watson.

Thank you for supporting this mission and helping to feed the hungry.

October = Fill the Pantry Month! An Initiative of “The Grove's Helping Hand”

October is World Hunger Month and we're celebrating it by filling our church food pantry. “The Grove's Helping Hand” ministry feeds families throughout the year as needs arise. We're encouraging every family to bring non-perishable food items to worship every Sunday in October. Just think, if every family brought one can of food per week, we'd have hundreds of cans of food to start the new church year. Thanks for giving back!

The Barnabus Home Instead Ministry

The Sunday school ministry designed for shut-ins and nursing home residents now has a name! Some teams have opted to visit on Sunday mornings prior to Sunday school while others will be going out during the week. If you're interested in visiting our shut-ins and nursing home residents for Sunday school, please contact Carol Snow. Thanks for your prayers as we launch this exciting new ministry.

Dates to Remember

September 21 Operation Katie Workday

September 22 Homecoming with Guest Preacher Rev. Jim Hamblen Deacon and Spouse Dinner

September 26 Kid’s Café Registration Friendship Meal

September 30 Kid’s Café Begins

October 2 Rev. Mark Reece Preaching at Wake Forest University

October 6 World Communion Sunday

October 10-13 Brotherhood Fishing Trip

October 20 Senior Adult Chicken Stew

October 31 Trunk or Treat

November 3 80s and Above Honor Lunch and Old Timey Singing Daylight Saving Time Ends

November 9 WFU Church Day

November 27 Service of Thanksgiving June 22-26, 2014 Vacation Bible School

Student of the Week Harley Atkins

246 Triumph Lane Village of Meadowview

Apt. 106 Boone, NC 28607

Deacons of the Week Tim Creed, 374-4153

Dawayne Bonds, 671-9833

Person of the Week Roger Smith

160 Phillip Branch Road Mount Airy, NC 27030

Stewardship Report Week #50

Budget $247,100.00 YTD Goal: $237,600.00 Offering Budget This week YTD $4,752.00 $5,250.00 $202,613.36 Over/(Under) $498.00 ($29,736.64)

Sunday School Attendance Last Sunday - 145

PRAYER LIST Nursing home and

long-term care Louise Creasy

Nancy Edwards Gertrude Marion Thelma Spurlin

Faye Webb Gladys Hooker

Melba Wright Hutchens Roshell Mayes Claude Branch Sylvia Johnson

Home or hospital Lloyd Hayden Dean Branch Linda Hodges

Avis & Hilda Huff Phyllis Hewitt Lonzo McHone

Roger & Norma Draughn Sharon Hardy

Charles & Blanche Brintle Grover & Oleen Haymore

Rodney Brintle Russell & Banner Combs

Josie Woodruff David White

Cecil & Faye Beasley Todd Tolbert

Phyllis Kidd Biggs Todd Brown

Angie Graham Terry Draughn Leona Huffman Bobby Draughn

Roger Smith Louise Hayden

Samantha Riggs Rev. Jimmy Rogers

Mike Hensley Jackie Wilmoth Seth Beacham Betty Brackett

Michael Stephens Oleane Cornett

Sammie Cornett Patti Miller

Andrew Moore

Military MM3 Lammon, A

2520 Atlantic Palms Lane Apt. # 215

North Charleston, SC 29406

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Patrick Muckey

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Johnson, Justin F.

HQRC – South, CJ2 Kife, 4ID

APO, AE09355

Please contact Scottie Isaacs to add or remove names

from our prayer list. Phone 356-4196

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Special Times, Special Season

I know it is only the middle of September, but it is already time to start thinking about Christmas. There are many special opportunities to serve during the Advent and Christmas season. To kick-off the Advent season, our worship service on Sunday, December 1, 2013, will include several components from our traditional “Hanging of the

Green” service. If you have any suggestions or would love to assist in planning with this service, please let me know as soon as possible. A children’s Christmas program has been planned for Sunday afternoon, December 8, 2013. Our sanctuary choir will perform the Christmas cantata entitled Bethlehem Morning on Sunday morning, December 15, 2013, during the 11:00 service. We welcome anyone who would like to "sing for the season" and join our choir for the cantata. On Wednesday evening, December 18, 2013, we'll have our annual church-wide Christmas caroling. We hope to fill the church bus and church van as we go out into the community and sing about the birth of the one who was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, Jesus. To conclude our special services, a special “Candlelight Christmas Communion” service has been planned for Sunday evening, December 22, 2013. As we prepare for this special time of the year, I hope you will find a way to be involved as we remember "the reason for the season."

Sing for the Season! From Brentwood Music Publications, creators of the best-selling Ready To Sing Series, comes a compelling musical for Christmas entitled Bethlehem Morning. Created by the Dove Award-Winning team of Sue C. Smith and Russell Mauldin and arranged and orchestrated by Mr. Ready To Sing, Russell Mauldin, this celebration of the birth of Christ is an experience that our choir and congregation will never forget.

Bethlehem. We merely say the name and our minds are flooded with images. We may never have been there, but it's our backdrop for the story of Christmas year after year. Bethlehem Morning tells the miraculous story of Christmas through traditional carols and Christmas favorites, but also reminds us that the story of God's love didn't stop there. 1 John 4:10 says, “This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Jesus came for us when He was born in Bethlehem, and it was for us He went to Calvary. Join our sanctuary choir as we take this Gospel message into our community of faith and beyond.

Bethlehem Morning includes: Joy in Bethlehem! Medley (Bethlehem Morning with Joy to the World!) • Children Go Where I Send Thee • Bethlehem Manger Medley (O Little Town of Bethlehem with I Come to the Manger) • Come, Let Us Worship Medley (O Come, All Ye Faithful with Here I Am to Worship) • Bethlehem Morning • This Must Be the Place with We Are the Reason • The Reason for Joy! Finale (We Are the Reason with Joy to the World!)

Our special rehearsals will last from 3:00 - 4:15 PM unless noted otherwise. September 22 ~ October 6 ~ October 20

November 3 ~ November 17 ~ December 1

Musically yours, Paul Danley

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Fresh Brewed

Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at 10:30 AM in the fellowship hall

Topic: "Friendly Strangers"

Lunch: The Copper Pot Restaurant in Mount Airy (Church bus will leave at 11:15)

“We don't want to have so few people that we have to take a Smart car...." Gary Kidd

Menu Pinto Beans

Potatoes Slaw

Corn Bread Desserts

Tea, Milk, and Water

All Friendship Meals are served at no cost to our guests

Trunk or Treat Meeting On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at 7:30 PM, there will be a meeting for anyone interested in helping with Trunk or Treat . Anyone unable to attend the meeting but would like to help, please contact Ruth Ann Lattimore at 374-6985.

Senior Adult Ministry Anyone who is 80 years old or older by Sunday, November 3, 2013, please let us know for a special memento. Please contact Scottie Isaacs, Ministry Assistant, at 356-4196 or e-mail at secretary@pgbcmtairy.org.

Back Pack Meals

The collection point will be in the vestibule outside the chapel and will be labeled Back Pack Meals. Any of the following items can be donated:

beanie wienies canned soup spaghettios jello cups Pop-tarts mini bagels jelly apple sauce cups peanut butter pretzels fruit roll ups gummies fruit cups viennas crackers powdered milk ramon noodles little debbie cakes easy mac and cheese cereal or fruit bars cheese and cracker packs medium size box/bag of cereal vegetable cups (corn, green peas, carrots)

We will take the collected items at the end of each month to the designated schools on a rotating basis.

The schools are Rockford Elementary, Copeland Elementary, White Plains Elementary, Dobson Elementary, and Pilot Mountain Elementary.

Thank you for supporting this program and helping to feed hungry children.

Join us for good food and

fellowship!

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Children’s Committees Meet All members of the Children's Ministry Committee and Children's Christmas Program Committee will meet Thursday, September 26, 2013, at 6:30 PM to set the calendar for the upcoming year. Please make plans to attend.

Deacon and Spouse Dinner The Deacon and Spouse Dinner will be held Sunday, September 22, 2013, at 6:30 PM at 13 Bones in Mount Airy.

Congratulations to Diaconate Members Elected

The four elected on Sunday, September 8, 2013, to serve a three year term are: Garnett Beasley

Clarence Huffman Craig Lawson

Jeff Snow

Community Events

Registration: 9:00 am and the walk begins at 10:00 am Visit the weblink at www.mtnvalleyhospice.org

Blue Ridge CareNet Counseling Center

announces

Thursday, October 17, 2013 Lunch ~ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Dinner ~ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Haymore Memorial Baptist Church Fellowship Hall 319 Rockford Street, Mount Airy, North Carolina

Meal Barbeque, Baked Beans, Slaw, and Roll

Delivery Delivery of meals during the lunch time hours

to local businesses with a minimum purchase of 10 plates. No delivery of meals during the dinner hours.

Catered by Porkey’s Bar-B-Que in Mount Airy

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Take out

plates only!

$8.00

per plate

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