Trinity Talk · 2019-09-10 · Meet and Greet Coffee - 8:30am - Fellowship Hall Early Worship - 8:45am - Fellowship Hall Sunday School -9:45am Worship -11:00am - Sanctuary Sympathy

HOLY WEEK EVENTS April 18 - Holy Thursday Study/Communion at 6:30.

April 19 - Good Friday Community Cross Walk at 11 am in downtown Winston-Salem. Starting at LOAVES & FISHES, 657 West 5th Street, the Building across the street from the Downtown Library. Parking is available in the Centenary UMC lot next to Loaves & Fishes. Gather in the open lot between Loaves & Fishes and Bib’s Restaurant. Arrive between 10:30 am and 11:00 am. The Walk will begin at 11:00 promptly. The route is about 1 mile in length. We walk slowly and will take 40 minutes or more. It concludes at Salem Square, where Walkers will be greeted by a Moravian Band, and join in a Good Friday closing service. Return shuttle service available. April 21 – Easter Sunday: 7:30 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service. Pastor Doug’s father, the Rev. William “Bill” Miller, will be preaching at our Sunrise Service in the Prayer Garden. Breakfast will follow the Sunrise Service in the Fellowship Hall at 8:00 a.m., 9:45 Sunday School and 11:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary. Join us for this special worship opportunities.

Easter Lilies are available to order by filling out a form found throughout the church or by calling the church office. The price is $8.00 each and the deadline is April 12. These may be in honor or in memory of your family, friends etc. Payment should accompany orders.

Trinity Talk APRIL 2019 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Proverbs 22:17 “A merry heart does good like medicine”

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

3819 Country Club Road Winston-Salem, NC 27104

336-765-0150

Pastor: Rev. Doug Miller Cell: 336-765-0150 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 10:00am - 2:00 pm

Assistant Pastor John Nelson Cell: 336-287-2256

Lay Leader: Deb Ham

Administrative Assistant: Phyllis Brown Church Office Hours: M. - Th 9 am -2 pm

Director of Music Ministry: Jordyn Burton

Disbursing Treasurer: Veneta Rosbach Contact: [email protected]

Sign Language Interpreter: Amanda Greer

Nursery Worker, Donna Nichols

Custodian: Barbara Patterson

Church Email: [email protected]

Website: trinityumc.church

SUNDAY SCHEDULE

Meet and Greet Coffee - 8:30am -

Fellowship Hall

Early Worship - 8:45am - Fellowship Hall

Sunday School -9:45am Worship -11:00am - Sanctuary

Sympathy To…. Rev. Clay Manning and family in the death of his wife, Betty Manning who died, February 24, 2019. ____________________________________________ HONOR GIFTS In honor of Dorothy Murphy Frank & Mary Margaret Lucas - Stephen Ministry In honor of Frankie Jones’ Birthday Larry & Dorothy Murphy - Prayer Garden Lenora Henley - Budget Janet Yates - Budget In honor of Cynthia Blair Ruth Hill - Budget In honor of Wilma Neubach Janet Yates - Rays of Sonshine MEMORIAL GIFT In memory of Be y Manning Ruth Hill - Budget

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Spring Ah, Yes! It’s Lovely

Ah yes, I’ll say it’s lovely

This Spring you write about

It is so very lovely

Makes me want to shout!

To all the things awakening

Won’t you just hurry up

You pre y purple violet

You dazzling bu ercup!

Ah, yes I’d say it’s lovely

For this Springs we’ve waited long

For Mother Nature’s awakening

For robin’s old sweet song!

Mary Sue Bailey Bones

Circa 1948 in West Virginia

Mary Catherine’s Mother

Pastor’s Pen Gra tude, Joy and Generosity.

A week ago I was having brunch in the beau ful main dinning room aboard the “Empress of the Sea.” Mary and I were on our belated 30th anniversary trip and were par cularly enjoying the wonderful food. We were placed at our table with four other people; a couple from New Jersey and two young ladies from California.

As we introduced ourselves, Jim from New Jersey started sharing his disappointment with the ship, the food, the service, the pool, the entertainment and so on. I didn’t agree with Jim’s assess-ment. The food was wonderful, the service excep onal, the ship was in mate and the entertain-ment enjoyable.

How could each of us see things so differently? I was reminded of our focus as a congrega on in 2019: Gra tude. The path to joy in life comes through gra tude. You and I will never experience true joy in life if we don’t start with gra tude.

What we see in the New Testament is that thanksgiving becomes a way of life for Chris ans—in the good mes and the bad. To give thanks includes praising God for who He is and what he has done for you, and it also involve a general expression of gra tude through generosity.

As we are growing in gra tude I have been encouraged to see our prayer list change week by week. God is answering prayers and our worship is acknowledging this. However, I would remind you that gra tude is ul mately expressed in generosity. God loves the joyful giver.

Prayerfully consider your giving as we enter the Easter season. There will be a special offering for our general budget on Easter Sunday. This is much needed as we have seen a short fall in weekly giving during the first quarter of 2019. The ministries of Trinity need our support in order to con nue at the level they are at. May God bless you and may we express that in our worship and generosity.

Pastor Doug Miller

Easter Offering Envelopes

will be provided in April for your Easter Offerings.

The Lord will bless the works of our hands.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS Friday Night Jam & Dinner- April 5th at 5:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Make plans now to attend this fun night. Monday Night Bingo - April 8th & 22nd. Free Bingo for everyone. Come and enjoy a time of fellowship, snacks prizes and laughter. Don’t miss it!

MISSION TRIP - Genera on for Hope Larry & Dorothy Murphy will be going on a Mission Trip with “Genera on 4 Hope on April 25-27th. Please help them collect the following items: (a collec on box is in the narthex and in the fellowship hall on the table against the wall) Co on balls, q- ps, band aids, toothpaste, toothpaste, toothbrushes, empty medicine bo les, deodorant, hand soap, bodywash, washcloths, feminine products, socks & underwear for kids 5-18, monetary dona ons.

United Methodist Men’s April Mee ng

All Trinity Methodist Men will gather in the Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. Come prepared to eat and have a good me. Bring a friend.

Mission Altar Call Offering for April

The 4th Sunday (April 28th) Altar Call Offering will be Hygiene Bag Items ex. soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb/brush, wet wipes, chap s ck, deodorant and razors.

Lenten Bible Study Our Lenten Bible Study en tled “It is Finished” con nues on Wednesdays evenings at 6:30 p.m. It will conclude on Maundy Thursday. This study is built around the final words of Jesus from the cross. Desserts will be served.

TIME TO SHINE CHOIR This is a women’s choir that has a purpose to have fun singing and to minister to Nursing Homes. We meet from 3-4 p.m. each Thursday afternoon at Trinity. Contact Jean Alfano at 336-701-9556 if interested.

_________________________________________ January 2019 Donation Totals Mission Altar Call Offering Good Neighbor Fund $ 170 Food Pantry 185 Helping Hands 161 Undie Sunday 114 items + 25 Sonshine Circle 240 UMCOR 100 Project Agape 10 Hats 848 Rescue Mission 25 Bags New Story 34 Bags Bears to FCSC 54 Blankets 61 Prayer Shawls 4 Gift Bags 16 Food Pantry Average 60 per Friday February 2019 Donation Totals Mission Altar Call Offering Good Neighbor Fund $ 1350 Food Pantry 1135 “Undie Sunday” 13 Children & Youth 25 Sonshine Circle 50 Agape Project 10 UMCOR 50 “Sock It To Me” socks 192 +$115 Scarves 26 Hats 157 Gift Bags 2 ——————————————————————————- 2019 Church Directories are available for pick up throughout the church. Contact the church of-fice for corrections.

Free Upper Room Devotionals available throughout the church.

_______________________________________ 2019 Church Directory Corrections Judy Cook - Home - 336-602-1469 Cell - 336-655-7397 Hunter & Donna Link 509-Spindrift Lane Columbia, SC 29209

Kenneth & Selenia Raynor 111 Prospect Dr. Richlands NC 28574

Barbara Miller: Meal That Heal page...mark out her cell number, the correct number to call is 336-768-3638.

Doris Good 203-I Park Ridge Circle Winston-Salem, NC 27104

Address Unknown: Amanda Barnes Sharon Crosby Contact the church office if you have addresses for those in your directory with no address.

Welcome New Members - joined March 10,2019

Ruth Overby and Lenda Fisher.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own; And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

Prayer Garden Work Days in April are: Saturday, April 6 & Saturday, April 13.

Deadline for the Bulletin

is Tuesday at noon.

The Newsletter Deadline

is always the 15th of

each month by noon

Contact the church of-

fice to make a submittal.

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Following God’s lead Jazz musician Thomas Dorsey traveled an unlikely road to be-come the “father of black gos-pel music.” At age 11, he dropped out of school to be a vaudeville performer and blues pianist. While Dorsey recovered from a nervous breakdown at age 21, his mother urged him to serve the Lord with his tal-ents. It took several years, but the musician committed to composing spiritual songs — re-jected by many mainstream churches as “the devil’s mu-sic.” In 1932, after Dorsey’s wife and infant son died during child-birth, he channeled his grief into the piano, writing “Precious Lord, Take My Hand.” Known to be a favorite song of Martin Luther King Jr., it ends with these lyrics: “Through the storm, through the night, lead me on to the light. Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home.”

SERVANTS IN

MINISTRY FOR

April

Church Lockup

John Nelson

Greeters Jane Wynne

Chuck Burkleo

Ushers Jane Wynne

Wilma Neubach Mary Catherine Bones

Richard Harding

Hospital Visitors (Weeks of April) 7– John Nelson

14—Deb Ham 21-Vernell Springs

28—JoAnn & Leill Adams

2- Chandler Tyler

3-Deb Ham

4-Lou G. Kingsbury

Joe Mar n

5-Mar Angel

John Nelson

6-Kenneth Raynor

7-Nancy Marshall

10-Caitlin Phillips

13-Madge Evans

14-Robin Boyd

Michael Ragsdale

Barbara Pa erson

15-Neal Baldwin

16-Liz Lawson

Preston Oldham

17-Shelby Dinkins

Jody Erwin

Jean Johnson

Narda Marvin

19-Alaric Hahn

20-Tyler Collins

24-Melannie Kirsch

25-Delores Creech

27-April Roscana

29-Becky P. Alexiou

Trinity United Methodist Church 3819 Country Club Road

Winston-Salem, NC 27104

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP AND SUNDAY SCHOOL on Palm Sunday, April 14. This promises to be a special time of worship as we celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Coffee and a continental breakfast is served in the Fellowship Hall at 8:30 a.m. with Early Worship beginning at 8:45 a.m. Sunday School begins at 9:45 in the Education Building and Traditional Worship begins at 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary. In-vite your family, friends and neighbors to attend worship with YOU!