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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.