GREENBRIER GREETINGS Contact Us Greenbrier District P O Box 764 Lewisburg, WV 24901 304.645.1357 greenbrierdis- [email protected][email protected]Visit us on the web at: greenbrierwvumc.org Melissa Shortridge, D. S. March & April 2017 Walk Thru the Bible New Testament Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:00 am (promptly) till 4:00 pm Lewisburg United Methodist Church 214 E. Washington Street Lewisburg, WV 24901 (Registration begins at 7:30 am and closes at 8:45 am) The cost is $25.00 per person ($12 for ages 6-12) and includes a light breakfast, lunch, after- noon snack, book & materials. Scholarships are available through the District Office. Please call or e-mail for more information. Child care will be available for children under 6. Registration for Walk Thru the Bible Name___________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________ E-mail__________________________________________________ Phone________________________Church_____________________ Dietary Restrictions/Concerns_______________________________ Mail registration and non-refundable fee to: Greenbrier District Office, P O Box 764, Lewisburg, WV 24901
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Flooding Victim Receives Home Built by Spring Valley Students
HUNTINGTON - After being one of thousands who lost their homes in the historic June flooding in West Virginia, one Monroe County resident was given a place of her own Monday. The project known as Big Hearts, Tiny Houses, made possible through a partnership between the West Vir-ginia Department of Education and Greater Recovery and Community Empowerment, sought to build more than a dozen tiny houses by relying on the skills of students in vocational schools across West Virginia. Brenda Rivers, 69, was among one of the first to receive her tiny house, which was delivered to her daughter's property in Monroe County. Her home in Talcott, West Virginia, was destroyed by the June floods. Since then, she has been living in a camper on her daughter's property. The tiny house Rivers now calls home was built by students at Spring Val-ley High School. "It was a real highlight of our disaster response ministry to see this first ti-ny house reach its destination and to celebrate the new owner's recovery," the Rev. John "Jack" Lipphardt said. Lipphardt served as the director for the West Virginia United Methodist Disaster Response, which has provided funds to transport the tiny homes to families as well as paid to have utilities hooked up. Thanks to the generosity and hard work of students at Spring Valley High School. —-The Herald-Dispatch
The Rev. John W. (Jack) Lipphardt (left) and Rev. J. F. Lacaria (right) deliver a tiny home to Brenda Rivers (center) who lost her home in the historic WV flooding
The Nicholas Charge with pastors John McKee & Tom King has been conducting
the “Lighthouse Club”, an afterschool outreach program for the students of the
local Glade Creek Elementary School in Nicholas County.
This is the 6th year of this successful program with 66 children currently en-
rolled. The children enjoy activities each Tuesday after school, which include Bi-
ble study, crafts, games, a snack and memorizing Bible verses.
Glad Creek teachers, parents and church members of the Nicholas Charge all
work together. Funding comes from special offerings from Bennett, Dotson,
Simpson and Muddlety United Methodist Churches. Nearly half of the enroll-
ment of the school participate in this program!
2017 Celebration of Mission Event
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Frankford UMC, Frankford
And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tu-
nics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do
likewise.” Luke 3:11
The last four years we have experienced great success with the weekly collections in
the local churches for our emphasis projects. Below are some suggestions for collec-
tions of needed items for Heart and Hand House (HHH) and Upshur Parish House
(UPH). Volunteers in Mission requests monetary gifts.
Our annual Greenbrier District Celebration of Mission Event for 2017 will have three em-
phasis missions: Heart and Hand House, Inc. #883 Upshur Parish House #889
and Volunteers in Mission #892
Date Contributions Missions
January 1, 2017 garbage bags HHH & UPH
January 8, 2017 peanut butter & jelly UPH & HHH
January 15, 2017 paper towels & toilet paper UPH & HHH
The weather outside feels like Spring and it won’t be long until our 2017 season begins at the oldest standing Protestant church West of the Alleghenies. It is time to be thinking about planning a visit to Old Rehoboth Church and Muse-um. Church picnics and family reunions are always fun, in our picnic shelter. Individual visits can be enjoyable and informative, as you take a guided tour. The grounds are peaceful if you just want to get away for a while. We will be planning some Friday Family Fun nights this season and we will be hosting an-other gravestone cleaning workshop in late summer. Think about joining us this season. We are located just off Route 3 East, 1.5 miles from Union, in beautiful Monroe County, WV. Our hours: April-October Thursday – Saturday: 11:00 am – 5:00pm Sunday: 2:00pm – 5:00pm Other times by appointment Call to reserve the picnic shelter or conference room. (304) 772-3518 We hope to see you soon.
Eleven Boy Scouts visited the Edray UMC on Scout Sunday, February 5th, with their scout
master, Chris Bartley.
They had a flag ceremony & displayed some
of their symbols. It was a pleasure to have them as part of our service!
The James Chapel United Methodist Church wishes to invite everyone to a Gospel Sing featuring the
“Announcers Quartet”. This is a well-known southern gospel men’s quartet who have been spreading God’s word through song for over 40 years.
Please join us for an evening of song, praise & worship.
Saturday, April 8th at 7 pm James Chapel United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall 488 Asbury Methodist Church Road Asbury, WV 24916
INVITATION TO THE UNITED METHODIST WOMEN SPRING MEETING-APRIL 8
The United Methodist Women District Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday, April 8 at
Richlands Calvary United Methodist Church. Registration starts at 9:30 AM with the meeting
beginning at 10 AM. Lunch will be served.
Our speakers that day will be Revs. Dan and Sue Lowther, Conference Disaster Response
Coordinators. They in partnership with emergency response teams help assess needs in the
days following a disaster, recruit work teams, and help organize and collect materials such as
cleaning buckets, health kits and other materials as needed. These materials are housed in the
New Vision Depot in Beaver WV. They will be speaking that day on Winds of Love In Action.
Our ingathering for this meeting is UMCOR school kits. Please contact Becky Adkins at 872-
0158 if you need more information.
The District Team looks forward to seeing many women from the Greenbrier District
for a day of spiritual renewal, fellowship, food and fun! Safe travels to Richlands Calvary United
Methodist Church which is located on Route 60 on the outskirts of Lewisburg.
Dates to Remember in 2017
March 16-17 and March 18-19. Spiritual Growth Retreat at Cedar Lakes March 23 Donations to the Legacy Fund are matched April 8. Spring Meeting at Richlands Calvary UMC near Lewisburg. Dan and Sue Lowther
will be our speakers. The school kit ingathering information was sent last November. If you need this, please contact Becky at 304-872-0158
April 22 C.O.M.E at Frankford UMCMay 5, 6, and 7. Burlington Family Services July 20, 21, 22. Mission U at WV Wesleyan College September 21, Thursday. Fall Meeting at St. Paul’s UMC in Ansted. This will be a half day
CRAIGSVILLE — For a couple years, Quinn Raffo has waged a small battle against childhood hunger.
Now, thanks to a $2,000 grant from US Cellular, the 13-year-old Richwood Middle School student can continue her Hungry Heroes backpack program.
“It’s really an important program,” she said of Hungry Heroes. The Mountaineer Food Bank statistics show 37 West Virginia counties are classified as either At-Risk or Distressed, meaning those areas rank in the worst 25 percent of the nation’s counties according to eco-nomic status indicators. Overall, West Virginia suffers from a food insecurity rate of more than 15 percent. Statistics pertaining to Nicholas County were not readily available over the weekend.
The idea came to Quinn after being required to fast for 24 hours for medical tests. She was allowed to eat Jell-O and popsicles. “I thought it was really going to be awesome, but it wasn’t, because I really got hungry,” she said.
After the medical testing, she approached a local church about creating a backpack pro-gram to feed less fortunate youths. At first she raised money by holding a car wash for a food pantry, recruiting many of her friends. That fundraiser brought in about $1,200 for the food pantry, enough to provide food for 35 youths for six weeks.
This inspired Quinn, but she was worried the program only served two elementary schools in Nicholas County. She was determined to start a backpack program to include as many schools in Nicholas County as she could. Quinn, with the help of community leaders and her parents, wrote and received grants from local organizations and the United Way of Southern West Virginia. She met with the pastor and congregation of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, asking to use their building to pack the backpacks.
St. Luke’s Pastor Corbet May remembers meeting with Quinn. She came in, pulled up a chair and outlined what she wanted to do.
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Youth wins grant to fight hunger
By Daniel Tyson REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER Jan 30, 2017
Chris Jackson/The Register-Herald Quinn Raffo, a Richwood eighth-grader, has received a grant for her Hungry Heroes backpack program.
Bethel (Camden) kids making valentines . (After a sermon on
loving others as God loves us.)
“She explained her vision. It’s really great when you see a vision become a reality,” he said in a YouTube video posted by former Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s office.
That first year, 50 children were helped. Since then the Hungry Heroes backpack program has expanded significantly. Quinn estimated over the last couple years hundreds of stu-dents were fed by Hungry Heroes, which provides each participant a bag with enough food to cover breakfast, lunch and snack one day a week. The bags are filled with oatmeal, indi-vidual cereals, Pop Tarts and Go gurt for breakfast. Lunch can be noodles, crackers, and mac and cheese, and snacks can include Gold Fish, fruit and Cheez Its, she said.
Quinn understands transportation is an issue for some students, so often she meets stu-dents and families at the Craigsville Dollar General to distribute the bags.
The latest grant, she said, will help greatly. She’s aware of the county’s struggling economy – layoffs in the mining industry, June’s flooding – and she expects an uptick in demand for the food bags when school ends.
“I expect an increase in need this summer,” she said. “I would like to expand to other plac-es, like Richwood.”
The US Cellular grant will probably purchase enough food for the summer season, she said, adding she usually buys food from Walmart and in bulk.
Quinn said the response to handing out the bags is a study in psychology. “They come in and say ‘thank you,’ but not really much more. Sometimes we get a hug,” she said.
Gary Gordon / Paulette Jones 9 Charlotte Stockwell
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Toby Mann 11 Gary & Dottie Phillips/Frank Naglic
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13 Alisha Dierdorff
Sonny Painter 14 Von & Kathy Sadler
Harold Duskey / Elise Moll 15
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Cheryl Vallandingham 17
18 Debbie Wilson
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20 Rosemary Furr
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22 Jay Cook
Ronnie Buckland 23 Ken Stockwell
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25 Debbie Pope
Nicki Felton 26 Bob & Betty Shields/Linda Peyton
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Herman Jones 29
Gary & Louetta Gordon 30 Charles Wilson
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
2017 UMVIM/UMCOR Training Academy
Pocono Plateau Camp & Retreat Center Cresco, PA March 26-29
From the Coordinator:
We will gather United Methodists interested in mission and disaster response from around the Northeast for workshops, classes, plenary addresses, wor-ship and fellowship. This is a time of equipping and renewal for you and your ministry. Consider recruiting someone else from your church or conference to
join you.
This year we will be evaluating how systemic racism and privilege impart our
work in disaster response and mission within and beyond the US.
We will have partners in this conversation from Global Ministries, GCORR and
the non-profit world.
We will also be shining a light on navigating the tricky waters of the transition from relief to recovery in disaster situations. With hard hard-won experience responding to Superstorm Sandy, the West Virginia 1000-year floods and vari-
ous localized disasters, we will have plenty of experts in the room!
We also hope to be able to introduce the new Assistant General Secretary for US Disaster Response at the Academy this year. So please pre-register today!
Justice in Everyday Life This Lay Servant Ministries advanced course, takes
an in-depth look at the Social Principles of The United Methodist Church — the church's attempt to speak on contemporary issues with which it is confronted today. The class covers topics such as the following: Natural World, Social Community, Economic Community, Political Community, Biblical Foundations of the Social Princi-ples, and Teaching the Social Principles. It is not only for Lay Servants but is for any-one interested in studying the Social Principles in greater detail. Class date: Satur-day, Aug. 26th at Marlinton UMC.
Transforming Evangelism Evangelism is about our relationship to God and
those we come in contact with daily. This course connects witness with spiritual for-mation, leading participants to a greater understanding of the importance of evange-lism for all involved. Participants are led to learn from John Wesley how to practice relational evangelism. They will discover that evangelism involves not only sharing our faith with others but also welcoming people into a community where they can grow in faith. Class date: Saturday, Aug. 26th at Marlinton UMC.
The Basic Course This is a new course and is foundational for all courses in
Lay Servant Ministries and is required for everyone. If you haven’t taken the Basic Course in the last 2 years, you probably should plan to take this class. Participants are encouraged to discover and employ personal spiritual gifts as God intended and to consider the importance of exercising servant leadership, developing future lead-ers, remaining rooted in consistent spiritual practices, and being part of a group that holds members accountable in their discipleship. Class date: Saturday, Sept 9th at Lewisburg UMC.
Lay Pastoral Care Giving Expressing care to someone in need - whether with-
in the community of faith or beyond - may seem the most natural thing in the world. For some, it is; for others, it's less so. This practical course will teach you how to reach out with God's love to care for others. Many clergy care feel overwhelmed with the challenges of pastoral care in addition to their other responsibilities. The class will train and empower laity to partner with clergy in caring for one another. Class date: Saturday, Sept 9th at Lewisburg UMC.
(All of these classes are open to anyone, even if you are not seeking
Lay Servant or continuing education credits.)
Registration Cut off is one week before each class. This is to allow
time to receive and study the required course material.
2017 Greenbrier District Lay Servant Classes
2017 Greenbrier District
Lay Servant Ministries Academy
Registration
The classes are limited to 20 participants and will be on a first come basis.
Registration cut off is one week before each class.
Name of Course _______________________________________________________________
Date of Course________________________________________________________________
To register for either the basic course or an advanced course, please complete this form.
Course books are available for pick-up at the District Office or will be mailed upon receipt of the registration and payment.