Join us for Pumpkin Patch Palooza! An epic community-wide celebration of pumpkins

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1 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Please consider volunteering for Pumpkin Patch Palooza! We ll need everyone s help to pull off such a big event. Joining us for a night of Halloween fun! To sign up, please contact Mary Taylor Setliff (marytaylor@maplesprings.org, etx405). Game Volunteer (8 needed) 3:30pm to 6:30pm Food Servers (8 needed) 3:30pm to 6:30pm Welcome Team (16 needed) 3:30pm to 6:30pm Set-up & Clean-up (8 needed) 3:00pm to 4:00pm 6:00pm to 7:00pm Parking (4 needed) 3:30pm to 5:30pm Inside this issue: From the Pastors 2 Late October/November Edition Volume 2014, Issue 5 Join us for Pumpkin Patch Palooza! An epic community-wide celebration of pumpkins This year s Pumpkin Patch Palooza will feature free food, live music, games, prizes, inflatables, trunk-or -treating, and more! Bring your best decorated pumpkin, creative costume, or decked-out trunk for your chance to win prizes! PUMPKIN SALE The Pumpkin Patch at Maple Springs features 10+ varieties of pumpkins and gourds. Prices range from $0.50 to $20, based on size. Proceeds from pumpkin sales benefit Maple Springs Rooted Youth Ministry s summer missions project. CAN THE VAN Although admission to the event is free, attendees are invited to bring canned food to donate to the Maple Springs Food Pantry which serves the needy in our community. Our goal is to fill the food pantry van with cans! TRUNK DECORATING CONTEST Decorate your trunk for a chance at prizes! Drivers please arrive by 4:30pm for set-up and bring your own candy. COSTUME CONTEST Get dressed up in your Halloween best to compete for Best Child, Adult, and Group prizes PUMPKIN DECORAT- ING CONTEST Come early to decorate a pumpkin or bring your already-decorated pumpkin by 6:00pm to enter the contest. Prizes for Scariest, Funniest, Biblethemed, most creative, and best overall pumpkins. Group submissions are allowed and encouraged. WS Missional Network 2 Messages from Staff 3 Our Church Family 4 Announcements/Events 5 Ministry and Missions Updates 6 Childrens Ministry Updates 7 Youth Ministry Updates 7

2 Maple Springs Life STAFF LISTING Pastor: Rev. Jeff Coppley x 403 Pastor: Rev. Bev Coppley x 404 Associate Chinese Pastor: Rev. Vicky Deng x 413 Coordinator of Administration: Phyllis A. Brown x 402 Coordinator of Children & Family: Mary Taylor Setliff x 405 Coordinator of Youth & Next Generation Ministries: Joe Hout x 407 Adult Spiritual Formation: Erin Moses x 408 Director of Traditional Music: Jayson Snipes x 410 Finance Director: A.Q. Cook x 406 Finance Assistant: Lisa Aldhizer x439 Communications Coordinator: Jennifer Kiger Chapman x 434 Director of Children s Music: Beth Juran beth@maplesprings.org x 417 Coordinator of Weekday School: Melicent Hammaker preschool@maplesprings.org x 409 Interim Food Pantry Coordinator: Ashley Cyre ashley@maplesprings.org x 416 Director of Contemporary Music: Jerry Chapman jerry@maplesprings.org Organist: Dennis Raley A Message from the Pastors: Integrity & Unity We were recently introduced to an article in a magazine to which we subscribe called Good News: Leading United Methodists to a Faithful Future. The article is entitled Pastors and Scholars Release Integrity and Unity Statement. This summer a meeting was held in Atlanta whereby a group of leading United Methodist pastors and theologians released a statement calling for the Council of Bishops to restore the unity of the church and the integrity of the vows United Methodist pastors have vowed to keep. This statement is a response to the controversy around same sex unions as well as the ordination of gays and lesbians. This topic as well as others are of great concern to our denominational leaders. Our own Bishop Larry Goodpaster has invited us to into conversation around these and other important topics. The Bishop is scheduling a series of Listening Sessions and also inviting us to complete an online survey, which may be found at: bishopconversations We urge you to be engaged in these conversations. As your pastors, our personal stance is to uphold Wesley s historic Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith, as well as to affirm Paragraph 161 in our Social Principles (relating to human sexuality) and Paragraph 304 (relating to ordained ministry) in the Organization and Administration Section of our Book of Discipline. Being United Methodist means acting out of both integrity and unity. Let us employ these principles not only in our daily living, but also in our congregational decision-making. We are always called to act with grace, but let us also be bold to look at all the facts and even to realize that there is always something more at stake. Sometimes we need to take a risk and be heard. More information about the group which wrote the recent statement may be found at MethodistCrossroads.org. We also encourage you to complete the Survey Monkey survey the Bishop is circulating. We encourage you to read more and to make your voice heard, and to be a dialogue partner with others in important conversations. More information can be found at listening-sessions-future. Looking Forward, Pastor Bev and Pastor Jeff Celebrating the Western Winston-Salem Missional Network This year's annual business meeting of Maple Springs UMC, called "Charge Conference, will take place amidst a group of ten churches in our Western Winston-Salem area. All church officers are expected to attend, and everyone is welcome! Holy Communion will be celebrated. Monday, November24, :00pm Sanctuary of Wesley Memorial UMC (1210 Bolton Street, between Hawthorne Road and Silas Creek Parkway) Page 2

3 A Message From our New Staff Member Greetings! My name is Erin Moses, and I am so grateful and honored to have the opportunity to be your new Coordinator of Adult Spiritual Formation. I have already had the chance to meet some of you, but I hope to meet all of you face to face soon. I m interested and excited to get to know you and learn about your passions, dreams, and different ways we can serve in ministry together. I ll be a face and resource you ll come to recognize and associate with group life in the church. I believe as Christians we are created for communal life together. As one pastor has said, the church is not an organization we join; it is a family, where we belong. Thus I ll be looking to strengthen and enhance adult small groups that already exist It is hard to believe that summer is over. We have been so busy with Summer Camp, and it was a huge success. We made new friends as well as kept in touch with our old friends over the summer. The church has been busy with all its makeover projects. Craven Hall is beautiful. We, as a preschool, are so appreciative of this area and we will do our part to keep the floors beautiful. This is a great opportunity to teach the children to be respectful of God s building and, world. The children have so enjoyed watching the large trucks at work in front of the sanctuary. In the afternoon when they were leaving, they often just and create some opportunities for new ones to form. I m available to meet with you one on one in my office, over coffee, breakfast or lunch, or you can always catch me after one of the services on Sunday. I pray for the opportunity to sit down and get to know each of you on an individual basis, as well as your families. I come with my husband, Robert, and we feel excited and blessed to make Maple Springs our new church family. We live in High Point, where Robert teaches New Testament in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at High Point University. Robert is an ordained minister in the Baptist church, but he is also happy to be among Methodists. I ve been United Methodist my entire life and graduated in 2011 with my stood and watched; especially the cement mixer and fork lift. We too have been involved in some make over projects at the preschool. We have given the 2 s playground a fresh new look with red rubber mulch. Our old mulch was quite dusty and our children had to have hands, faces and legs washed each day we went outside. Now our playground will be safe and clean. We will have also had a change in our entrance door by the time you read this letter. We want the first impression as you come into the preschool to be positive, fun and exciting. We think our front door makes that impression. We also have new toys and supplies as we start the new school year. Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School. Upon graduating, I crossed over and served as a chaplain at UNC Hospitals. I found this vocation richly rewarding and look forward to continuing some pastoral care here at Maple Springs. In the past, I have also served on staff at a large Methodist congregation in Raleigh, where I worked with youth and young adults. I have a huge heart for working with people (young and young at heart), serving in my community, and growing deeper in my Christian faith, and I feel God has called us to the right place at this point in our lives. We ll be praying for all of you, and we hope you will please pray for us, as we journey together to deepen our relationships with God, one another, and our world. A Message from Maple Springs Preschool We are a blessed preschool with all our children, staff, and supporting church behind us. We began our new school year with a prayer asking God to continue to bless us as we try to express His love to the families He has brought through our new entrance. We also prayed for God to bless the body of believers known as Maple Springs Church. May we all be giving God the glory for all the great things He has done as we move throughout this new school year. - Melicent Hammaker, Maple Springs Preschool Coordinator Volume 2014, Issue 5 I ll be looking to strengthen and enhance adult small groups that already exist and create some opportunities for new ones to form. - Erin Moses Page 3 Page 3

4 Maple Springs Life Our Church Family Jerry & Jennifer Chapman were married on August 31, 2014 in Mount Airy, NC KNOWN HOSPITALIZED Stella Abbott SYMPATHY Cathy Watkins & Christine & Daniel Smith in the recent death of their grandmother (Allen s mother) Sara Crawford Smith of Belmont, NC. Ann & Fred Lowe, Mickey and Vance Sprinkle in the death of Ann and Mickey s sister, Blanche Adams Thornton, who died on July 31, Jane Cline & Family in the death of her aunt, Frances Coone (Sue Cartwright s sister) who died August 12, MEMORIALS In memory of Mildred McMichael by Pat & Dan Craver In memory of Alice Brock (Pastor s Discretionary Fund by the family of Alice Jones Brock In memory of Blanche Thornton (sister of Ann Lowe) by Bailey, Lettie & Vicky Howard. In memory of Grover Hooks by Jeffrey Hooks. WEDDINGS Jerry and Jennifer Chapman who were married in Mount Airy, North Carolina on August 31, John Hart 11 Nancy Murray Claude Young Lib Elliott Helen Faris 15 Irene Cranfill 16 Victor Gangwani 17 Bev Coppley 20 Les Collins 21 Bill Elesha Ed Greene 23 Cliff Summey Wanda Stevenson 27 India Mabe November: 1 Ernest Womble 2 Lowell Bradley 9 Brad Bradford 11 Betty Edwards Dottie Gibson 13 Jim Stevenson 15 Martha Walker 19 Hal Hatherly 22 Carol Stephens 24 Wanda Spradling 28 Barbara Sapp MEMBERSHIP NOTES New Address Marci & Daniel Bruno 5210 Seward Circle Pfafftown, NC Jerry & Jennifer Chapman 805 E Country Club Road Mt. Airy, NC Bill & Linda Coleman 210 Jessamine St. Conway, SC (cell) New Address: Lisa Huffman lisa.trinityumc@outlook.com lisa.a.huffman@gmail.com Sara Mecham Sara5445r3@yahoo.com Ginny Mikkola jgmikkola@triad.rr.com40255 Transferred Steve & Dian Cartwright to The Creek UMC, Warsaw, IN ADVENT POINSETTIA MEMORIALS If you would like to place a Poinsettia in the Sanctuary or Craven Hall for Advent, please ill out an order form found in your bulletin or outside the church office and place it in the offering plate or mail it to the church. Orders must be placed by November 23. The red poinsettias will be in the Sanctuary and Craven Hall on December 7 & 14 and the white Poinsettias on December 21 & Christmas Eve. Price is $12.00 each. Payment must accompany order. Please make checks out to Maple Springs UMC. SENIOR ADULT & CLERGY BIRTHDAYS October: Ron Mecham 600 Lansdowne Dr. Blacksburg, VA Page 4 2 Bailey Howard Sr. 3 Vera McAllister 8 Virginia Raines Erin & Rev. Robert Moses 3974 Sorrell Ct. High Point, NC 27265

5 Announcements & Upcoming Events WIDOWS FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON The Widows Fellowship Group will meet for lunch at 11:30am (dates below). Contact Jenny Trivette ( ) to make a reservation. October 21: Milner s (630 S Stratford Road) November 18: The Deacon Tower (475 Deacon Blvd) MAPLE SPRINGERS MONTHLY LUNCHEON October 23 & November 20 12:00pm - 1:00pm Craven Fellowship Hall Join the Maple Springers for their monthly luncheon every 4th Thursday, except November and December due to the holidays. Those months it will be the 3rd Thursday. There is a $5 admission which includes catered lunch and entertainment. Our October 23 entertainment will be the Morning Glories and the November 20 Program will be the Treble Makers. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Candice Back ( , info@maplesprings.org). FIRST WEDNESDAY NIGHT DINNERS November 5:30pm Craven Fellowship Hall Dinner begins at 5:30pm and is $4 for adults and $3 for kids 5th grade and younger. Sign up on the bulletin tear off or online. The menu will be: turkey & dressing w/ gravy, green beans, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin pie, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. CHICKEN PIES The UMW will be making chicken pies on November 10-11, Nine inch deep pies are $10.00 and 8 shallow pies are $6.00. We will be taking orders beginning October 23. All women of the church are needed to help make pies. No experience necessary. Please contact Pat Craver at or your circle leader if you are interested in helping. UNITED METHODIST WOMEN DECEMBER GENERAL MEETING Celebrate Christmas with Maple Springs United Methodist Women and their spouses at the General Meeting on December 8, Dinner will be served at 6:00pm and a World Thank Offering will be taken. Reservations may be given to your Circle Leader or ed to nmmurray1037@windstream.net. SAVE THE DATES: ADVENT 2014 Since many of us plan our Christmas activities around worship opportunities, here are some save-the-dates to keep in mind as you plan family gatherings: Advent Workshops Advent Angel Workshop Sunday, November 4pm Craven Fellowship Hall Our church is starting a new tradition this year! All ages (children, youth, adults) are invited to an Advent Angel Workshop. Advent Angel is something Mary Taylor used to do at her church growing up! Everyone who participates will be assigned a senior friend at Maple Springs for the Advent season. Each person will make gifts for their senior friend for each Sunday of Advent- making a total of 4 gifts. Some ladies from our craft group will assist us with making gifts. You will serve as a secret Advent Angel until the fourth Sunday of Advent when you will tell your senior friend who you are. This will be a great way for us to get to know different people in our congregation and to spread the love of Christ in a special way at Christmas. All are welcome to participatethere is no age limit. Dinner will be served following the workshop at 5:30pm. Make sure to sign up in the bulletin or by ing Mary Taylor by Wednesday, November 12. Dinner will be $4 for adults and $3 for kids, with a family maximum of $15. Advent Family Workshop Sunday, Nov. 9:55am Craven Fellowship Hall Families of all ages are welcome to participate! Each family will have the opportunity to make an Advent wreath for their home. The workshop is free of charge! A light brunch will be served. Sign up in the bulletin or by ing Mary Taylor by Nov 23. There will be no children s Sunday school on this day. Advent Worship Services December 21: A Contemporary Service of Lessons and Carols (BRAND NEW!) at 8:45am and our Chancel Choir Christmas Cantata at 11:00am December 24: Contemporary Candlelight Service with Communion at 5:00pm (Child-Friendly, about 45 minutes) and our Traditional Candlelight Service with Communion at 8:00pm Volume 2014, Issue 5 I am very excited about sharing one of my favorite childhood advent traditions with the families at Maple Springs! - Mary Taylor Setliff Page 5 Page 5

6 Maple Springs Life You can support the Red Bird Mission by simply clipping these labels and depositing them in the collection boxes in Craven Hall and outside the church office. Page 6 Samaritan s Purse Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Project GOOD NEWS. GREAT JOY. This is again the theme of the 2014 Samaritan s Purse Operation Christmas Child shoebox project. For 21 years, beginning in 1993, Samaritan s Purse has delivered shoebox gifts to millions of children. A Rainbow after the Storm On November 8, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippine islands. Over 6,000 people died and 4 million more saw their homes destroyed or damaged. As Christmas approached signs of hope were appearing. Samaritan s Purse responded with 2 jumbo jets loaded with emergency supplies, as well as doctors and relief workers to restore medical and water services. Then came another jumbo jet this one carrying gifts from Operation Christmas Child for 65,000 children! Most of these gifts had been packed in New York by the survivors of Hurricane Sandy! These gift boxes helped make Christmas a reality for thousands of children who thought all hope had been washed away by the floodwaters of Typhoon Haiyan. You too can be a part of this exciting project that brings hope and meaning to hurting children around the world. For Box Tops for Red Bird Mission Only 150 miles east of Winston-Salem the United Methodist Church has its largest mission in the United States. It is Red Bird Mission and Henderson settlement located in one of the ten most impoverished counties in our nation. In the past we have collected clothes, household items, and other needed supplies that assist the people living in the area. Several members of Maple Springs UMC have travelled to Kentucky to see the work that is being done. Maple Springs UMC has supported the Red Bird Mission in eastern Kentucky through the details about how to pack a shoebox, please pick up an Operation Christmas Child brochure at the entrances to the church beginning on Sunday, October 26, The filled boxes are due back at the church by Sunday, November 16, In 2013 we collected 150 boxes at Maple Springs. Let s see if we can match or exceed that number this year! 65,000 children in the Philippines received gifts from Operation Christmas Child following the November 8 typhoon that destroyed their homes. collection of Box Tops education coupons and Campbell s Labels for Education. Thousands of United Methodist churches participate in this endeavor which only takes a moment of your time. These labels enable the largest UM mission in the United States to carry on their work in their school, clinic, children s and youth activities, help to the elderly and assistance to babies. The mission is dependent on these labels for transportation vans, computers for school and office, other school supplies. Without this collection of coupons sent from many churches the work there would be greatly reduced. You can become a part of this mission by clipping these labels and depositing them in the collection boxes in Craven Hall (near the desk) and in the hall outside the church office. As you do this, say a prayer for the missionaries in the Red Bird Mission and the people who need our help. If you wish to learn more about the work of our church in eastern Kentucky there are members who would be happy to share with your Sunday School class or any group more information about this mission.

7 Dirt: Children s Activity Night Volume 2014, Issue 5 Kindergarten through 5th graders are invited to come and be a part of Dirt: Good Soil for a Full Life each Wednesday night! Kids come together for Kid's Club, Club 45 Hang Out, Handchimes, Handbells, and Choir. It is a time each week for our kids to dig into God's word to help them live a full life. A free dinner is served at 6pm each week. Children are welcome to join us for the entire evening or for just certain activities. 4:30: Kid's Club (K-3rd), Handbells (4th/5th) 5:30pm: Handchimes (K- 3rd), Club 45 Hang Out (4th/5th) 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Joyful Noise Choir (K-5th) 6:45pm: Cherub Choir (Preschool) For more information or to sign up, contact Beth Juran (beth@maplesprings.org) or Mary Taylor Setliff (marytaylor@maplesprings.org) Rooted Youth Ministry Updates Please enjoy these photos from recent events and join us at our weekly events! Visit maplesprings.org to see what s going on this week! Special attention and prayers for the youth as they go on their Fall Retreat, November Our goal is to take 54 people (youth and chaperones) for a weekend of growing our roots deeper in Jesus. WEEKLY YOUTH MINISTRY EVENTS* 4:30 5:15pm Amplified Youth Praise Band Rehearsal 5:30 7:30pm The Spring 6:00 7:30pm Psalm Supper 12:30 1:30pm Youth Parent Prayer Meeting Clockwise from upper left: (1) Youth at Sunday Night meeting - The Spring (2) Emily Grace's Psalm 25 image for Psalms Supper - "What do God worshippers look like? Arrows aimed at God's bull's-eye" (3) Youth praying at Psalms Supper 5:45 6:30pm Youth Handbell Rehearsal 6:30 7:30pm Life Group *Weekly events are subject to change due to special church activities, please check maplesprings.org for official schedule of dates, times, and locations. Page 7 Page 7

8 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT Winston Salem, North Carolina Published Semi-Monthly by Maple Springs United Methodist Church 2569 Reynolda Road Winston Salem, NC Postmaster; Send Address Changes to: Maple Springs Life 2569 Reynolda Road Winston Salem, NC Reynolda Road Winston-Salem, NC Phone: Church Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm Worship Times: Sundays 8:45am, 10:30am & 11am Sunday School 9:55am Maple Springs is a place where you can discover who you are in Christ. We recognize that following Jesus is a big decision that has the power to affect all other decisions in your life. We take this seriously and want to be the kind of church that helps to equip you for life. God loves us and has created us all in his image, which means that we have an amazing capacity for the things of God and that we are at our best when we are fully who he has made us to be. We want to help you discover who you are and how you can live the life that God desires! The mission of Maple Springs is to be rooted, growing, and bearing fruit for Christ. You are invited to join in living out this mission. Jeff & Bev Coppley, Pastors Late October/November Worship Schedule October 19 & 26 8:45am Contemporary Worship (Craven Hall) 11:00am Traditional Worship (Sanctuary) Rooted, Growing, and Bearing Fruit for Christ Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30 8:45am Contemporary Worship (Craven Hall) 11:00am Traditional Worship (Sanctuary) F IND US ONLI NE: MAPLE SPRI NGS. ORG Every Sunday 10:30am Chinese Worship (Cokesbury Room)