TABERNACLE TIMES May 14, 2017 ON THIS WEEK S CHURCH CALENDAR Serving May 14 May 21 in Worship Offering Counters Chris Erhardt Chris Erhardt Pete Stephens Pete Stephens CD Delivery Heidi Bradley Sarah Daffron Sound Andy Griffin Brian Williamson Acolytes Hospitality Graham & Riley Yates Olivia Naylor Sofia McKnight 9am- 9am- Chris & Amy Chris & Amy Ehrhardt, Ehrhardt, Steve Redmon, Steve Redmon, Gil Strader, Steve Swain, John Bradley, Bryan Newman Katie Kendrick, 11am- Bruce & Dee Kirston Braxton Wolff, Betty Marley, 11am- Kay Kiger, Jay Gordon Allen Griffin, Jay Gordon SUNDAY (5/14) HAPPY MOTHER S DAY! 9:00am ALIVE Worship Service 9:45am Muffins With Mom in the Commons! 9:30am Communion 10:00am Sunday School 11:00am Traditional Worship Service 4:00pm No Youth Sings Praise 4:30pm No Youth Rings Praise 5:00pm No Youth Group 5:00pm No Children s Choir 5:30pm No Kingdom Kids 7:00pm Alive Band MONDAY (5/15) 6:30pm 7:00pm TUESDAY (5/16) 7:00pm Scouts Sunshine Circle Trustees WEDNESDAY(5/17) 6:30pm 7:45pm THURSDAY (5/18) Chancel Choir Ringers of Faith 11:00am Food Program 6:30pm UMM 7:00pm Evangelism FRIDAY (5/19) 5:30pm Confirmation SUNDAY (5/21) MEMORIAL SUNDAY & LUNCHEON 9:30am Sunday School 10:30am Memorial Sunday Service 11:30 Luncheon in the Fellowship Hall 2:45pm End of Year Party @ Spare Time for Kingdom Kids & Youth 4:00pm No Youth Sings Praise 4:30pm No Youth Rings Praise 5:00pm No Youth Group 5:00pm No Children s Choir 5:30pm No Kingdom Kids 7:00pm Alive Band COMING UP SUNDAY, JUNE 4TH IS PENTECOST CONFIRMATION & GRADUATION SUNDAY! 9:30am 10:30am Sunday School Tabernacle United Service for Confirmation & Graduation Sunday 11:30am Confirmand Luncheon 5:00pm Graduate Luncheon
2017 SPECIAL MOTHER S DAY OFFERING for ARBOR ACRES A unique opportunity for missions and ministry will take place Mother s Day, May 14th, as we take up a special Mother s Day offering which will provide financial assistance for residents of our Methodist Retirement Home (Arbor Acres in Winston-Salem) who, for various and unforeseen circumstances, have found themselves facing overwhelming financial and/or emotional obstacles. Every penny of your gift of compassion will help residents receive needed medical or dental care, prescriptions, groceries or meals in the dining room, clothing and much more. Please give as you can. Mothers, please come by the Commons on Sunday, May 14th between 9:30am and 11:00am for muffins, juice, coffee, and a special treat! We want to show our love and appreciation for you on this very special day! Sponsored by The Education Committee Meal Preparation for Community Table, May 18th @ Pleasant Garden UMC! This will be the 3rd year TUMC youth have participated and we need your help! Parents of youth, please consider making monetary donations as we need to fee 250 people. Please contact Sarah or Jennifer Little at 336-420-1488 or Teresa Ehrhardt at 336-312-0431 if you can help. There are also youth volunteers needed to help serve the meal on the evening of May 18th. Look for more information coming soon! A BIG THANK YOU FOR A SUCCESSFUL APPLE PIE WEEK! The Friendship Circle would like to thank all members of the UMW Circles, the UMM, and all others who gave time to help make Apple Pie Week a HUGE success! We made 5,180 pies and sold out! We could not have done it without your flexibility, support and attentiveness, so THANK YOU!
MEMORIAL SUNDAY is coming up next week, May 21st! To commemorate and remember our family and friends who have passed, we will have a special service, and Church-Wide Luncheon immediately following the service, in the Fellowship Hall. Please join us! Kingdom Kids End of Year Party! When: May 21st Time: 2:45pm drop-off at church, 6:00pm pick-up Where: going to SPARE TIME GREENSBORO Who: Kingdom Kids & Youth (parents welcome) Cost: $10/adult or child, includes $5 game card for arcade, 2 hours bowling, shoe rental, pizza & soda! Please RSVP, with number of adults & children who plan to attend, to Kim Cripps: 336-207-3073 or by email at kcripps@tabernacle-umc.org. Adult Fellowship going to Shallowford Farms Popcorn Factory! On Thursday, May 25th, at 8:30am, the Adult Fellowship Group will be going to the Shallowford Popcorn Farm in Yadkinville Afterward, they will have lunch at the Battle Branch Café. Tour price is $5. Please contact Patsy Phillips at 674-5147 or Gaynell Faulk at 674-5028 by Monday, May 22nd if you plan to go with us! Community Hot Dog/Ice Cream Supper- June 1st, 5-7pm Mark your calendars, you won t want to miss this yummy evangelism opportunity! Sponsored by the Evangelism Committee, meet with other members in our community in the Fellowship Hall bring a friend or neighbor, and welcome them to Tabernacle! 2017 GRADUATION SUNDAY will be June 4th! Info is needed by May 24th! Please send all graduation information to the office administrator, Ashley Walters, and include the graduate s name, school, degree(s) earned, award(s) received, future plans, favorite scriptures, and a recent photo. You may also email this information to Ashley at tabernacle@tabernacle-umc.org!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS JUNE 4TH IS CONFIRMATION SUNDAY, AND GRADUATION SUNDAY, AND PENTECOST (WEAR RED)! In celebration of all of these joyous events, we will have one TABERNACLE UNITED SERVICE at 10:30am; Sunday School will begin at 9:30am. A Confirmand Luncheon will follow the United Service in the Fellowship Hall. We will later celebrate our 2017 graduates with a dinner in the Fellowship Hall at 5:00pm. If your youth are participating in either of these events, please join us for these special times of celebration around a meal! Planning for this summer s VBS is underway! For the past several years, our church has generously given each child who attends VBS a free t-shirt. Local businesses sponsor our shirts by giving a donation towards the total cost and in return their logo is placed on the back of the t-shirt or advertisement. We welcome any donation but if you would like to be a sponsor, and include your company logo, we ask for a minimum donation of $75. If you would like a logo advertisement please let us know by June 1st and contact Kevin Cripps at crippskt@gmail.com or 336-420-0167. If you would like to personally donate to the cost of the shirts but don t have a business that requires advertising, feel free to place a check in the collection plate or give the donation to the church office directly marked "VBS fund". We have such a generous congregation! Thank you for all the support of our Children s Programs here at Tabernacle! VBS IS JUNE 25-29, AND REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Register by June 1st for a FREE t-shirt! Forms are located in the Narthex, Commons and outside the Office, and will be available during Sunday School and Kingdom Kids, or you can register online @ vbspro.events/p/events/tumcvbs2017.
May 14 Diane Rebertus May 15 Judy Blake Alex Bradley Rebecca Collins May 16 Kathy Edmondson May 17 David Lambe Wanda Swain John Woodard May 18 James Moore May 20 Nancy Fisher Connor Kendrick May 21 Alec Bradley Alexander Wohletz Southeast Middle School needs YOUR help! We need PROCTORS for NC End-of-Grade testing, May 30th-June 12th, 2017. If you can help, please contact Linda Aydelette in the SEMS Counseling Office at aydelel@gcsnc.com or by phone at 336-674-4280, ext. 1220. Help Provide Church World Service Refugee Welcome Kits! We are collecting Welcome Kits for our local Church World Service office which helps relocate refugees in Greensboro. We are asking TUMC Sunday School classes, and individuals alike, to consider sponsoring a kit, and donating the items listed in that kit; there are many kits to choose from and are listed on the insert in the bulletin. Place completed kits in either a kitchen or garbage bag and label it, and place them in the collection box in the Commons until June 11th. CWS also needs fully functional adult bicycles; (bikes needing minor repairs are accepted also). Call Lynn Hale at 336-339-1683 for pick up of bicycles or if you have any questions. Monetary gifts can be mailed directly to the address on the flier. And, thank you for loving your neighbor by following the teachings of our Lord! The Food Supplement Program is in it s fifth month of smooth operation thanks to the volunteers from our congregation! We are now seeking additional volunteers who could relieve some of the original volunteers who have been working once a month on a Thursday since January. Please contact Sarah Daffron at 336-674-3540 to volunteer. You will attend a current Food Pantry session to review the paperwork process and to make you ready for volunteering beginning in July, one Thursday per month. Your continued support of this community-oriented ministry is greatly appreciated! If you know of anyone buried in an unmarked grave, please contact Rachel McCulloch at 336-285-9494 or by email at TimMcc@cyberdude.com. We would like to order grave markers for all unmarked graves, but need to verify who is buried in which plot.
ONGOING PRAYER CONCERNS Carolyn Allred, Dorothy Batson, Katie Berrier, Jessica Blake, Steve Blake, Larry Bowden, Harold Bowman, Averi Burke, Gail Causey, April Chance, Shirley Christopher, Matthew Coiner, Carolyn Cox, Geraldine Crenshaw, Lauren Doyle, Carol Dyson, Brookie Eddinger, Henry Gray, Sandra Greeson, Sandra Guffey, Paige Hedrick, Pearline Hicks, Faye Holt, Melinda Housh, Susan King, Darrell Lashley, Martha Love, Don Marlow, Emory McClintock, Debra McKinney, Carol McGuire, Michael Nelson, Larry Nordan, Bill Price, Christopher Seaman, Dana Smith, Doris Sizemore, Ron Straughan, Jean Stafford, John & Shirley Woodard, Kelly Younts, Molly Zimmerman Ministers: The Tabernacle Congregation Pastor: Rev. John Woods (cell: 336-480-4550) Church Office: 336-674-2941 Daycare: 336-674-0335 Website: www.tabernacle-umc.org EMAIL Rev. John Woods (Pastor) jwoods@tabernacle-umc.org Kimberly Cripps (Children s Ministries) kcripps@tabernacle-umc.org Carla Ely (Music Ministries) cely@tabernacle-umc.org Richard Dunn II (Worship Leader) richardldunn@me.com Antonela Frashëri (Pianist) afrasheri@tabernacle-umc.org Joyce Sosnowski (Finances) jsosnowski@tabernacle-umc.org Allen Haywood (Maintenance) ahaywood@tabernacle-umc.org OUR SUPPORTED MISSIONARIES: Gary Locklear (Lumberton,NC) Sandra Raasch (Honduras), Kenya Partners, Alger & Joyce Morris (Cambodia) Ashley Walters (Office Administrator) tabernacle@tabernacle-umc.org OUR MILITARY: Luke Rebertus, Jason Caesar Wolff, Joel Woods, Conner Worthington OUR SHUT INS: Irene Blake, Bill Early (Abbottswood, Apt B315), Nancy & Lee Fisher (Abbottswood, Apt. C 306), Meralyn Meadows (The Laurels), Julia Sosnowski (Morningview), Frances Whitt Stephen Ministers are available each Sunday after the 11:00am service, in the Dyar Library. Sometimes all you need is for someone to be there, even if they can t solve your problems. Just knowing there is someone who cares makes all the difference. Stephen Ministers NEWSLETTER/BULLETIN DEADLINES: The deadline for the Friday Newsletter (prayer list, announcements, etc.) is Thursday at 12pm noon. The deadline for the Sunday Bulletin is Wednesday at 12pm noon. The deadline for the Monthly Newsletter is the 20th of the month prior to the month of the newsletter. Please make requests to the Office Administrator for all upcoming events/meetings (even if it is an annual event). Please specify date/time, what area of the building will be used, sound (including any specific equipment needed), or if kitchen facilities are needed. Due to quite a few of our staff members being new to TUMC this will help to ensure all details are clear, staff/committee members are in place, and there are no conflicts in dates.