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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: World Communion
Remembering our Saints
Connect Groups
Pfafftown on Mission this Autumn
Page 2: As Way Leads on to Way
Coats for Homeless Veterans
CROP Hunger Walk
Page 3: Remembering in Prayer
Notes from Tim
Page 4: Old Richmond Elementary
Chicken Pie Pick-up
Chicken Pie & other Workshops
Page 5: Fall Bazaar News
Halloween Festival
Page 6: Ministry Meetings
The Gathering
Servers for October
Schedule for Anna Wilson
Updates for Yearbook
Page 7: October Calendar
Church Staff
Rev. Gerald Thomas
Pastor
Rev. Tim Shoaf
Minister of Music & Programs
Volume 2, Number 5
October 2018
Inside the PCC Visitor
World Communion
There are few Sundays in our Christian
year which are more meaningful than World
Communion Sunday. On this day, our church
joins millions of other Christians of many
denominations around the world in sharing
this sacrament which symbolizes hope and
new life in Jesus Christ.
Since 1940, Christians have united each
year on the first Sunday in October to join
together in celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
In worship, people of the Christian faith
are affirming in word and deed the great love
Christ bestows to all people. Our lives find
meaning in His purpose; our hearts find
peace in His forgiveness; our spirits find
strength in His presence.
As we share in the Lord’s Supper on
Sunday October 7, we are affirming our
bond of love and hope which exists between
God and each one of us. I pray that you will
join with Christians all over the world on this
special Sunday and in offering your life to
the Living Christ.
- Tim
Connect Group
Sundays in October
9:45 am, Downstairs Fellowship Hall
So, What’s in a Letter?
In October, our group will explore Paul’s
powerful letter to the churches in the
region of Galatia. Each week, read the
listed chapters in advance of that Sunday’s
lesson. Paul’s “Letter to Freedom” is also
an impassioned confession of his deepest
hope for the people of his day---and of
ours.
October 7: Galatians.
Remember Letters?
October 14: Galatians 1 and 2.
Trust Me, You Can Trust Me.
October 21: Galatians 3 and 4.
The Rules Ain’t What They Used To Be.
October 28: Galatians 5 and 6.
Free to Care.
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Pfafftown On Mission this
Autumn!
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 we will collect boxed
brownie or cakes mix with frosting. We are
also gathering items for Thanksgiving
boxes. Please place your items in the box
outside the Downstairs Fellowship Hall.
If you have questions, contact:
Jackie Romanello.
Thank you!
Remembering our Saints
Sunday, November 4
If you have loved ones or friends
who have passed away since October 31,
2017, and would like to have their
names included in our memorial service
for All Saints Sunday Worship please
give the information to Jo Stanley or
Lynda Bryant or call/e-mail the church
office. Please submit your names no
later than Tuesday, October 23 to have
your loved one remembered in the
service. —The Worship Committee
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As Way Leads on to Way
Fertilizer House
In a generation where edible products are garnished at
the grocery store, it is nice to have grown up in a
community which produced foodstuffs. Kids in my
neighborhood knew milk did not come from a jug and
corn was not grown in a can. In my case, I not only
understood where the food came from, but knew where
the stuff to help it grow was housed. In a fertilizer
house.
The fertilizer house was a way point between the
fertilizer company and the farmers. My grandfather
housed bags of fertilizer and sold them to farmers in the
surrounding area. The fertilizer house was not so much a
house as a clapboard building, roofed with shake
shingles and tin and decorated with rows of deer antlers
from hunts long past. Up on pillars, as the wind
circulated in and around it, the sharp odor of guano and
other fertilizers burned your nostrils.
As farmers would pull their old pickups to the front
door, the bags of fertilizer were dropped in and billing
tickets signed. This took all of a few minutes. What nor-
mally took longer was the conversation. In the door of
the fertilizer house, my grandfather discussed with a
neighbor fortune and failure, health and illness, politics
and religion, and a menagerie of other things which made
us who we were.
When people drone on about the church being full of
hypocrites, liars, cheats, and, well, sinners—I think about
that old fertilizer house and the community gathered
there, and am reminded God does some gracious
work, even in houses and churches that are full of it.
–GT
Pfafftown Christian on Mission this Autumn
Continued from page 1
Coats for Homeless Veterans
Cold weather is on the horizon.
We are gathering coats to be
given to homeless veterans
through the VA Hospital.
Please bring new or softly used
coats and place them on the coatrack outside the
Downstairs Fellowship Hall. It would be wonderful
if each of our families would contribute a coat to a
veteran in need. Please bring your coats by the last
Sunday in October. Then we take them to the VA
Hospital.
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We’re Hoofing It Against Hunger!
2018 CROP Hunger Walk
Bailey Park’s Long Branch Trail
445 Patterson Avenue
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
1:30 p.m. – Registration
2:30 p.m. – Walking (1.66 miles)
See Marlene Thomas to sign up on Sunday mornings
or come by the office and sign up during the week.
You will receive an envelope to collect donations.
All envelopes due back by Sunday, October 14. We
will register our church after this deadline. After the
deadline, you may register individually by going by
the Crisis Control Center or on online at
www.cropwalkforsyth.org.
The purpose of the CROP Hunger Walk is to raise
money and awareness for the fight against hunger
locally and globally. Proceeds are shared with
Church World Service (CWS), Crisis Control
Ministry, and Sunnyside Ministry. Since 1979,
nearly a half-million dollars has gone to support
hunger alleviation programs in Forsyth County.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Elder’s Meeting,
7:00 pm DFH ______________
CWF
Tuesday, October 16
6:30 pm - DFH
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The Gathering Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Serving begins at 6pm
The Menu: :Veggie Beef Soup
Tossed Salad
Crackers and Rolls Apple Cake
Tea and Coffee
Sign up on the sheet is in the Narthex.
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Corrections to the 2018 - 2019 Yearbook The following address got deleted from the yearbook.
Dr. Kent and Joy Doub
3300 Dobbs Parish Lane
Pfafftown, NC 27040
Kent: [email protected]
Joy: [email protected]
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New Address:
Update it in your 2018-19 Yearbook
Hope, Sam & Jerimiah Poster
309 Sundance Drive
Temple, Texas, 76502
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Sunday Schedule for Anna Wilson
October 14 - Lynda Bryant
October 28 - Ann Fletcher
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Notes from Tim
It is no wonder that the Disciples asked Jesus to
teach them to pray. They saw strength, hope and
life which Jesus drew from those quiet moments
of communion with His Father God. And we ourselves
can find spiritual wholeness and power for living if we
spend more intentional time in prayer and communion
with the God who gives us life.
Edwin Brant Frost was for many years Director
of Yerkes Observatory in WiIliams Bay, Wisconsin.
For the last ten years of his life he was blind, yet
he continued at his post with the help of an assistant.
He was able to do this because he had lived with the
stars all his life. His entire career had been one long
time-exposure to the heavens.
Prayer is like that. In prayer, we time-expose our
littleness before the greatness of God. We let the light
from the far reaches of the heavenly places filter into
the dark corners of our days. We accustom ourselves
to looking up instead of looking down. We become at
home with the unseen.
All of this does something to us. For prayer lifts our
vision. It lengthens our outlook. It enlarges our
horizons. It overcomes our blindness. Prayer gets us
out from under the pressures of the day by surrounding
us with eternal things. Prayer builds up our confidence
in God's presence and love so that we are still certain
of Him even when the hard times come and the winds
of adversity blow fiercely against our lives.
Dr. E. Stanley Jones once wrote: "Prayer digs the
channels from the reservoir of God's boundless
resources to the tiny pools of our lives." May we carry
that thought in our heart in the coming days. It can
truly make a difference in everything we do and think
and feel.
God be with you.
Tim
Remembering in Prayer
Baptist Hospital: Lucas Todd Shelton: Scott Robertson
Salemtowne: Julie Tilley
Rose Tara: Vallie Cline
Brighton Gardens: Edna Williamson
Church Family: Bud Barker, John Grice,
Mary Ferguson, Ed Snuffer, Edith Sprinkle
Others: Jason Alexandar: Jack &Mary Groffs’ friend
Martha Blevins: Marlene Thomas’ family
Dot Burghardt: Michelle Clark’s grandmother
Haley Burns: Skip and Jo Stanley
Alice Carr: Gerald Thomas
Jennifer Durham: Irma & Fred Muetzel’s
granddaughter
Geraldine Edwards: Ann Fletcher’s aunt
Wy Elkins: Gerald’s Uncle
Jan Everton: Jo Stanley’s sister
June Fulton: Jill Robertson’s friend
Beth Haddock: Sharon Binkley’s mother
Elfi Haddock: Sharon Binkley’s sister-in-law
Corinne Hedrick: John Grice Cayden Kingsbury: Rodney Stilwell’s grandson
Chuck Kolstad: Evelyn Nifong’s son-in-law
Taylor Manion: Julie and Andy’s son
Beth Moore-McLean: Jane Hoover’s friend
Sue Miles: Jo Stanley’s friend
Louise Davis Moore
Angela Joy Neal: Gennie Romanello Sinclair
Woodrow Poteat: Marlene Thomas
Mikki Purcell Thomas: Gerald Thomas’
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
Jina Wilson: Jill Robertsons’ 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.
SERVERS
OCTOBER
2018
ELDERS: Dinah Myers, Betty
Simpson
DEACONS: Lorrie Bennett, Gerald Fletcher
Alan Fletcher, Robert Flynt
COMMUNION:
Lorrie Bennett, Jackie Romanello
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. Dear Congregation of Pfafftown Christian Church,
We simply cannot thank you enough for
helping us to begin the school on such a positive
note! The August 19th service, including the
blessing of school supplies, was so inspirational.
The children have really enjoyed those supplies!
And thank you for your prayers!
Sincerely,
Christina Organon
(Old Richmond School Counselor)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support
of our students and school. Your school supply
donations will go a long way to supporting our
much needy students and families.
Best wishes,
Brian Brookshire, Principal
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ATTENTION: Chicken Pie Pick-up
If you ordered chicken pies from the September
21-22 Workshop you may pick them up from
Ann Fletcher after Sunday worship on Sunday,
September 23, or call her at 336-918-2147 to
make an appointment to pick them up during the
week. All pies need to be picked up no later than
Monday, October 15, so the freezers can be
available for the second Chicken Pie workshop.
Thank you!
CWF Chicken Pie
and Food Workshop Schedules
October 18, 19, 20
8:00 AM
Second Chicken Pie Workshop
These pies will be sold at the church bazaar
Nov. 10: 9am to 1pm
Thursday, Oct. 18 Set up for workshops
Friday, Oct. 19: Chicken Pie Workshop
Saturday, Oct.20: Chicken Pie Workshop
Workshop sign-up sheets are in the Narthex.
* Turketti
Thursday, October 4 @ 4:00 pm
Contact: Pat Millsaps
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* Lasagna
Saturday, October 6 @ 9:30 am
Contact: Cheryl Johnson
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*Twice Baked Potatoes
Monday, October 15 @ 11:00 am
Contacts: Cheryl Johnson and Betty Simpson
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* Sweet Potato Casserole
Tuesday, October 23 @ 9:00 am
Contact: Evelyn Nifong
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* Chili with Beans
Thursday, November 1 @ 10:00 am
Contact: Betty Kiger
__________________ * Vegetable Beef Soup Workshop
Friday, November 9 @ 8:00 am
Contact: Evelyn Nifong
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The contact person will have all supplies ready for the
workshop you are needed to help at the workshops. We
have sign-up sheets for the chicken pie workshops. Call the
contact person to help with other workshops. Many people
are needed! Many hands make for short work! Thanks.
We are getting closer and closer to Saturday,
November 10, the day of the Bazaar! The doors
will open at 9:00 am and close at 1:00pm. There is
still quite a bit of work for us to do. Check the bazaar
Workshop schedule on page 4 for food workshop
dates.
We need your help to make our food items:
chicken pies, turketti, lasagna, twice baked potatoes,
chess tarts, sweet potato casseroles, chili beans, and
vegetable beef soup.
Thanks in advance for the many pies, cakes and other
homemade goodies you provide.
Other activities that need your help:
Publicity, fliers, contacts with news outlets is being
handled by Dinah Myers. See her to get flyers to
distribute.
If you have baked items that cannot be brought in on
Friday, please have them at the church by 8:00 am
on Saturday morning.
Whew, that’s a lot! The best part, we do have a good
time working together to raise money and help our
friends in the community. So worth it!
Halloween
Fall Festival
and
Trunk or Treat
October 27, 2018
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Something fun and spooky is in the near future…...so
grab your best Halloween costume and come join us at
the church on Saturday. October 27, for a Fall Festival
and Trunk or Treat. . We had an outstanding turn-out
from the community for last year’s event and we want
to offer just as much fun and fellowship again this year.
We will have the “inflatable giant Slide,” Go Fishing,
Ghost Bowling, Witch's Toss, Face Painting, Corn Hole,
Ghostly Basketball, carnival booths and other games,
hotdogs and chips, popcorn, and cotton candy, etc.
Decorated Trunks will line the front parking lot.
This will be a free "Spooktacular" event for all children
including you "young-at-heart" kids. Our entire
community is invited!
The Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops will be
joining us and assisting with this year’s event, so we
can guarantee a ghoul old-time Halloween experience.
Your presence will help make this a true “hallowed”
event for the church and community as we celebrate
Halloween in a fun and safe way.
Please mark your calendars now! Invite your family
and friends to this special event for the children of our
church, Pfafftown, and surrounding communities.
Please call Lorrie Bennett, Jill Robertson, Cheryl
Johnson, Kitty Hunt or Tim Shoaf for more
information, to volunteer, to let us know you will
decorate your car for the Trunk or Treat event, or to
make a monetary donation for candy, supplies, etc. A
sign-up sheet is located in the Narthex. Thanks!
Fall Bazaar News