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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: office@pfafftownchristian.org 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

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