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Volume 3, Number 4
October 2019
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
Church Staff
The Rev. Gerald Thomas
Pastor
The Rev. Tim Shoaf
Minister of Music & Programs
Traci Canter, Office Administrator
Join Us For Halloween Fall Festival
and Trunk or Treat
PCC will be participating in the 2019
Crop Hunger Walk on October 20th.
Registration begins at 1:30 p.m. and the
1.34 mile walk begins at 2:30 p.m. All
money raised is split between three
organizations and used to support hunger
alleviation programs. Please come out
and join our team as we fight hunger and
represent Jesus!!
Remembering our Saints
November 3, 2019
If you have loved ones or friends who have
passed away since October 31, 2018, 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/email the
church office. Please submit your names
no later than Sunday, October 20 to have
your loved one remembered in the service.
October 26, 2019
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Make your plans now to join us for lots of
fun and fellowship on Saturday, October 26
for our Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat.
The Girl Scout Troop will be joining and
assisting us again this year. We will have
the “inflatable giant slide”, Go Fishing,
Ghost Bowling, Witch’s Toss, Face Paint-
ing, Corn Hole, Ghostly Basketball, carni-
val booths and other games then topped off
with hotdogs, chips, popcorn and cotton
candy!
Please invite your family and friends to this
special event as we celebrate the beauty of
fall and Halloween in a fun and safe way.
Please call Jill Robertson, Cheryl Johnson,
Kitty Hunt or Tim Shoaf for more infor-
mation or if you wish to volunteer, decorate
your trunk and/or make a monetary dona-
tion for candy and supplies. A sign-up
sheet is located in the Narthex.
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. 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 6, 2019, we are affirming
our bond of love and hope which exists
between God and each one of us. I pray
you will join with Christians all over the
world on this Special Sunday and in offer-
ing your life to the Living Christ. ~ Tim
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As Way Leads On To Way
“For you were called to freedom, brothers and
sisters; only do not use your freedom as an oppor-
tunity for self-indulgence, but through love be-
come slaves to one another. For the whole law is
summed up in a single commandment, “You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:13-14
Walking across the
Pfafftown Christian
Church parking lot
one night, I looked
up to the silhouette
of our cupola on the
church roof. Light
was pouring out into
the darkness, the
cross illuminated on
that highest of the roof lines. I thought back to the
time of construction when I asked Gerald Fletch-
er, “When will the cupola be done?”
He smiled and said, “When the last nail is driv-
en.” What a happy answer.
The day for that nail came. Now, the light, the
bell, the cross are strong symbols proclaimed by
our cupola.
“When will the work of our cupola be done?” It
will not be done until there is no need in our
world for the light. When there is no need to
sound the good news as a ringing bell. When the
sacrifice of the cross no longer holds sway over
our lives.
As long as we live in a world hungry for these
things, our cupola needs to shine, needs to ring
out, needs to display a cross to say: We who have
religious freedoms are not going to use our
“freedom for self-indulgence.”
It’s a beautiful thing to have a copper-clad cu-
pola on our roof. It’s a hopeful thing to put a cross
on top of this building and say, “We are Jesus-
people.” Here you will be fed and cared for.
When you’re in love, we’ll celebrate the hope of
those outlandish vows. When we can help you
find an answer, we’ll work with you. When life
is all mystery, when life is illness beyond better
days, we will be present if the pain of it breaks
our bones, breaks our hearts.
Our cupola reminds us of our calling as Christians.
I invite anyone daring the deep beauty and the terri-
ble weight of a church to join with us as we gather
to let the Light shine, the gospel ring, the cross be
made real. Your life is a hopeful gift. The church is
you. Jesus taught us, “You are the light of the
world. The kingdom of God is within you.”
I look forward to meeting beneath the cupola.
And out of doors, where we will intersect with this
world’s great needs. – GT
“Each Family Reach a Family” Be aware of those around you who need a church
and invite them to come with you and find a people
to call “home.”
Yearbooks Available
Please take time on Sunday
mornings to pick up your 2019-20
yearbook. Your name will be on
your Yearbook.
A BIG Thank you to the Girl Scouts
for planting the beautiful flowers
around the church! We appreciate it
so much!
Elder’s Ministry Meeting Tuesday, October 8 at 7 p.m.
This month’s ministry meeting will focus upon the
care of yourself as the foundation for caring for
others. I also invite our Elders’ to join the rest of
the church in Sunday morning Connect Group as
we explore this topic each Sunday in October.
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Elders’ Meeting
October 8, 2019 ~ 7:00 p.m./ DFH
The Gathering
October 9, 2019 ~ 6:00 p.m./ DFH
CWF Turketti Workshop
October 12, 2019 ~10:00 a.m. DFH & Kitchen
CWF Chess Tart/CWF Meeting
October 15, 2019 ~ 6:30 p.m./ DFH
Pastor Relations Committee Meeting
October 17, 2019 ~ 7:00 p.m./Pastor’s Study
CWF Twice Baked Potatoes Workshop
October 19, 2019 ~ 10:00 a.m. DFH & Kitchen
2019 Crop Walk
October 20, 2019
Registration @ 1:30 p.m. / Walk @ 2:30 p.m.
Halloween Fall Festival Trunk or Treat
October 26, 2019 ~ 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
(Trunks need to be decorated by 5:00 p.m.)
Choir Singing
October 27, 2019 ~ 6:00 p.m.
Forsyth County Jail
Sundays at 9:45 a.m.
Downstairs Fellowship Hall
PCC has received a very sincere Thank You card
from the Principal and staff at Old Richmond in
recognition of the awesome school supplies donated
by you! Please stop by and see the card located on the
bulletin board outside the church office Thank you for
helping hearts and prayers for the staff and children at
Old Richmond Elementary. “We truly are His hands
and feet!”
Dearest Church Family,
The Lord has truly blessed me with a faithful and
loving church. I just want to thank you for your con-
tinued thoughts, prayers and cards. You help to keep
me going during my continuing healing. Thank you!
Love Through Christ,
Jodi Millsaps Sanders
COMPASSION STARTS
WITH YOURSELF Using Wayne Muller’s compas-
sionate book, Sabbath: Finding
Rest, Renewal, and Delight in
Our Busy Lives, we will explore
the importance of caring for oth-
ers by taking good care of our-
selves.
October 6: Rest.
“There is more to life than merely
increasing its speed”
October 13: Rhythm.
“To everything there is a season…”
October 20: Time.
“Consider the lilies of the field…”
October 27: Happiness. “Just to live is holy.”
The following message appeared
on the WF Medical Center Intra-
net Site. The Intranet site is in-
tended for personnel to give
“shout-outs” to their associates
who have gone the extra mile
for patient care and/or admiration for their services.
Gerald Thomas - Chaplain Services
Gerald has a very sweet and kind spirit. He has been
such an asset to this facility. He always comes and
helps out when called and was especially helpful in a
recent highly emotional situation in our unit. Some-
times I would not know what to do without his help
and spiritual support that he provides to our patients.
Gerald is not only passionate about his work with the
patients, but he also always takes the time to ask us
about our personal lives. It is because of ancillary
staff like him that makes nursing life bearable at times.
He will be truly missed when he finishes his program
this month.
Staff Nurse, Surgical ICU, WFMC
The Bummer Lamb, are you one?
Every once and a while, a ewe will give birth to a lamb and reject it. There are many reasons she may do this. If the lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother may even kick the poor animal away. Once a ewe rejects one of her lambs, she will never change her mind. These little lambs will hang their heads so low that it looks like something is wrong with its neck. Their spirit is broken. These lambs are called “bummer lambs.” Unless the shepherd intervenes, that lamb will die, rejected and alone. So, do you know what the shepherd does? He takes that rejected little one into his home, hand-feeds it and keep it warm by the fire. He will wrap it up with blankets and hold it to his chest so the bummer can hear his heartbeat. Once the lamb is strong enough, the shepherd will place it back in the field with the rest of the flock. But that sheep never forgets how the shep-herd cared for him when his mother rejected him. When the shepherd calls for the flock, guess who runs to him first? That is right, the bummer sheep. He knows his voice intimately. It is not that the bummer lamb is loved more, it just knows intimately the one who loves it. It's not that it is loved more, it just believes it because it has experienced that love one on one. So many of us are bummer lambs, rejected and broken. But He is the good Shepherd. He cares for our every need and holds us close to His heart so we can hear His heart beat. We may be broken but we are deeply loved by the Shepherd.
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October 12 - 10:00 AM Turketti
Workshop
October 15 - 4:00 PM Chess Tarts /
CWF Meeting
October 19 - 10:00 AM Twice Baked
Potatoes
(need 10 helpers)
Date/Time TBD for Chili Bean Workshop
Looking Forward:
November 8- 8:00 AM Beef
Vegetable Soup
Notes from Tim
Remembering in Prayer
Rose Tara: Vallie Cline
Brighton Gardens: Edna Williamson
Church Family: Ann Fletcher,
Sarah Ingram, Marlene Thomas, Bud Barker, Pat & Frank Barber, Tommy
Timmons, Garland Terry, John Grice, Mary
Ferguson, Ed & Connie Snuffer, Julie Tilley,
Jodi Saunders
Others: Ruby Johnson: Cheryl Johnson
Haley Burns: Skip and Jo Stanley’s friend
Doug McClay: Marlene Thomas’ uncle
Heather Stokes : Jill Robertson’s niece
Chuck Burleigh: Skip and Jo Stanley’s friend
John Davis: Ken and Vicki Davis’ friend
Jason Alexander: Jack and Mary Groffs’ friend
Jennifer Durham: Irma & Fred Muetzel’s grand-
daughter
Geraldine Edwards: Ann Fletcher’s aunt
Jan Everton: Jo Stanley’s sister
June Fulton: Jill Robertson’s friend
Corinne Hedrick: John Grice
Cayden Kingsbury: Rodney Stilwell’s grandson
Chuck Kolstad: Evelyn Nifong’s son-in-law
Margaret Laudine: Ann Fletcher’s friend
Sue Miles: Jo Stanley’s friend
Daniel and Lewis Shields (infants) Jill Robertson’s
friends
Darlene Stewart: Ann Fletcher’s sister
Joy Stokes: Jill Robertson’s sister
Emory and Ella Thomas: Gerald Thomas’ parents
Judy West: Ann Fletcher’s cousin
Rhonda Hicks: Traci Canter’s friend
Dene Pitts: Traci Canter’s friend
Loved Ones in the Military:
Joshua Hughes, Norfolk, VA.
Chase Lee, Guam; USS Key West;
Major Hope Poster, NG, Texas;
Cpt. John G. Van Hoy IV, Fort Campbell, KY.
While you are doing your grocery shopping, please
remember to pick up cans of food and bring them to
church to contribute to the Crisis Control Food
Pantry. This month, the pantry most needs bars of
soap. If you have any questions, please contact
Jackie Romanello. Thank you so much!!
SERVERS FOR October, 2019
If you are unable to serve, please
contact someone to switch with you
or call Lynda Bryant (336) 924-4223
or Jo Stanley (336) 813-2522
ELDERS: Steve Clodfelter, Scott Robertson
DEACONS: Emma Robertson, Jill Robertson
Gerald Fletcher, Paul Shropshire
COMMUNION: Lynda Bryant, Jack Bryant
OPENING AND CLOSING: Mike Lee
Thank you for your part in ministry at PCC!
ANNA WILSON SCHEDULE
Oct. 13 - Lynda Bryant
Oct. 27 - Ann Fletcher
CWF News
Arabella Katherine Hankey (1834-1911) grew up in
the family of a wealthy English banker associated with
the evangelical wing of the Anglican Church.
As a teenager she taught a girls' Sunday school class.
Later she traveled to South Africa to serve as a nurse
and to assist her invalid brother. While recovering
from a lengthy illness of her own at age 30, she wrote a
poem on the life of Christ. This poem had two sections,
the first published in January 1866 and entitled The
Story Wanted, the second published later that year in
November under the title The Story Told. Our hymn is
drawn from stanzas in the second section. The text of
the refrain was written by the composer of the music,
William G. Fisher, in 1869.
In 1867, Englishman Major General Russell cited the
text of "I Love to Tell the Story" at a large
international YMCA gathering in Montreal. William
Doane, a composer of more than 2000 gospel songs
including music for many of Fanny Crosby's hymns,
was in the audience. He was so moved by the text that
he had Phillip Bliss and Ira Sankey publish the hymn
and included Fisher's version of the refrain in their
influential Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs (1875), its
fame was assured.
I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love;
I love to tell the story because I know ‘tis true,
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.
I love to tell the story!
‘Twill be my theme in glory—
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and His love.
*I love to tell the story—’tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet;
I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God’s own holy Word.
I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest;
And when in scenes of glory I sing the new, new song,
‘Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long!
What a wonderful hymn and testimony of faith!
God be with each of you ~ Tim
The PCC Choir will be going to Forsyth County Jail to
sing on October 27th at 6:00 p.m. Please be in prayer
for this special event!
Mark your calendars and invite your family and
friends for Pfafftown Christian Church’s Fall Bazaar
to be held November 9 from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue
with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful,
generous or honest” -Maya Angelou
PCC Fall Yard Sale
Friday, Oct. 4th - Saturday, Oct. 5th
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
If anyone needs donations picked up, please call
Kitty Hunt at 336-986-5106 or 336-775-8965.
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