JUNE 2019

Monthly Newsletter of Salem UMC, Morganton, NC

Salem Scoop

1206 Salem Road / Morganton, NC 28655 / www.sumcm.org / 828-433-6600

FAITH FORMATION ON VACATION "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding

you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise" (Deuteronomy 6:5-7).

Does it feel like everyone in your congregation takes a vacation when summer rolls around? As summer begins, attend-ance often becomes even more erratic as families take vacation, go to family reunions, or simply take a break. However, the Scripture from Deuteronomy reminds us that our task of faith formation is not even just a weekly task, but a daily task at home or away. Here are a few helpful examples for families of ways to continue faith formation in the summer:

Attend other congregations when you travel. Bring back a worship bulletin from the church you attend and complete these sentences on the front of the bulletin: "We saw……." "We heard….." "We thank God for….."

Get a stuffed animal and attach to it a journal. Take the "travel animals" with you on your trip. Along the way, record in the journal where you were and what blessings you experienced in that place.

Pick a service project parents and kids can do together during the summer months. (take food for a food pantry, help at a soup kitchen, visit a care facility, give up a snack each day and send the money to a service project, etc). Name the blessings you receive through your experience serving together.

Remember your home congregation through prayer and giving even when you are away. Pray for those who will gather and support ministry expenses while you aren’t present.

Take advantage of the daily devotional link d365 on our website at www.sumcm.org. Share it as a family devotional before you head out each morning or around the table at dinner.

Kids use the daily scripture readings from POCKETS Magazine and adopt the “Do 1 Thing” suggestions for each week to make a difference where you are. Adults take an Upper Room Devotional with you as you travel.

We hope to see you at Salem UMC. But, wherever your travels take you this summer, may you find encouraging ways

to nurture your love for God and neighbor. (adapted from Discipleship Ministries online)

WHAT AREAS OF MISSION INTEREST YOU?

Check all that apply. Any details or ideas?

CHILDREN / SCHOOLS

EDUCATION

PRISON

HOMELESS / HUNGER

HOME REPAIR/BLDG team

SHUT-INS / VISITATION

OTHER

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES AND TALENTS?

Check all that apply. Any details or specifics?

EDUCATION

MUSIC

ATHLETICS

CARPENTRY / PAINTING

CRAFTS / NEEDLEWORK

COOKING / HOSPITALITY

DRAMA / ARTS

OTHER

NAME: _________________________________________

PHONE: ____________________________ TEXT? Y / N

(Circle all that apply.) I am available to serve: ONCE A WEEK / MONTHLY / AS NEEDED

MORNINGS / AFTERNOONS / NIGHTS / WEEKENDS

Our Outreach & Witness Team is looking for your input! Please take a moment to respond to the following sur-vey online, in your worship bulletin, or submit a hard copy to the office this month. Thanks for your insight!

God has gifted me with talents, interests, and passions so I can participate in God’s mission thru Salem UMC. You are needed!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/37B85NV

Last month our confirmands partici-pated in an exciting Spring Retreat at Lake Junaluska. Pictured here are Brady Keller, Ellie Shuping, Faith Pons, Ronin Smith, and Sara Pons grabbing dinner, posing with Chief Ju-naluska, and hanging out with session leader Ed Kilbourne. The group, which meets Wednesday evenings to explore faith, will resume this fall.

SCHOOL’s OUT & The ICE CREAM IS ON US!

Friday, June 7: 11am – until

SUMC and the Witness Ministry Team will sponsor a drive-thru Ice

Cream giveaway.

If you would like to help bless students as they begin their sum-mer with a simple act of kindness, please email Pastor Norm or call the church office. Servants are needed to handout ice cream btwn. 11-12 that day. Donations are also appreciated to cover our cost.

If you have children under 12, be sure to pick up a copy each month for your family to use at home daily. POCKETS is a family devotional magazine for you and your children to use and enjoy together! It includes short stories, a family scripture reading plan, weekly ideas to make a differ-ence, family activities, a different coun-try spotlight each month, recipes, games and ways to incorporate faith and service daily.

2019 Graduates Congratulations! Your SUMC family is so proud of you.

Carrigan and Catherine Causby graduate from Patton HS as Northwestern Scholar Athletes, Honor Students, NC Scholars, An-chor Club Society, and National Honor Society honors. Catherine will attend Wingate University. Carrigan will attend Warren Wil-son College.

Cameron Whitener graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in Political Science and minor in Spanish. Cameron

hopes to work in the Spanish field in some way.

Zach Smith graduates from Patton HS as Northwestern Scholar Athlete, Honor Student, NC Scholar, and National Honor Society honors. Zach will attend and play baseball at Emory & Henry College.

David Carl Stroup graduated on May 10 from Western Caro-lina University with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy and is considering positions in Charlotte or the Winston-Salem area. He is the son of Ernest & Susan Stroup.

Autumn Wellman will graduate from Grimsley High School in Greensboro. She is the daughter of Dawn and Clint Wellman and great granddaughter of Joann & Troy Patton.

12 Ways to Begin Taking Church to Your Community Embrace an expansive concept of community 1. Learn to regard your community as an extension of your congregation. A church’s mission field goes beyond its membership to in-clude all the people God calls it to serve. You are connected to individuals who never set foot in your building. 2. Know that what’s happening within the church is no longer enough to attract people. 3. Don’t sit in your church building waiting for people to come. Be prepared to meet people where they are.

Prepare spiritually 4. Acknowledge the synergy between the Great Commandment in Matthew 22 and the Great Commission in Matthew 28. Evangelistic outreach expresses our love of others. 5. Remember Jesus primarily engaged people through everyday encounters, rather than in the Temple or synagogues. 6. Express love and compassion for your community in big and small ways. Avoid judgmentalism. 7. Pray regularly for your neighbors and lift up community concerns. 8. Attend to the faith formation of existing members and it will foster a desire to reach out to others.

Get to know the community surrounding your church 9. Review demographic data but don’t assume statistics alone will tell the whole story. 10. Get out in your neighborhood. Walk the streets. Map the area, and record your observations. How is it changing? 11. Assess community needs and assets. What are the needs of your context? Who are your neighbors, and how can you serve them? 12. Be attuned to where God is already at work in your community. (Excerpted from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership)

Weekly/Monthly Happenings at Salem

UMW meet first Thursdays of each month. June 6 at 7 pm Cora Ora in the home of Lara Autrey Sadie Rosemary at church FH Mary Alice in the home of Dawn Hutchins

Lois Velna– Meets 3rd Tuesdays in the FH at 10 am

Deeper Water Bible Study Meets Wed. at 10 :30am in youth room. All are welcome!

Burke United Christian Ministries

Join us 1st Tuesday of each month at 3:30pm as we serve

dinner at BUCM. 1st Sundays of each month we encour-age you to bring food for their pantry. (305 West Union St.)

www.bucm.net

Prayer Shawls are tangible reminders of God's love, comfort, and peace. The group meets Monday from 10 - 11:30am All are welcome.

If you know who needs a shawl contact Barbara Harbour or Margaret Carswell

Christ Bread A monthly program for all retirees and older adults on 4th Tuesdays @ 11am. Note: Christ Bread will break for the summer and meet again in September.

Our Financial Stewardship:

Thru May 28 2019

Budgeted Need: $89,509.77 Total Received for Budget: $77,638.00 Ministry Expenses to Date: $82,712.18

Other Ministry Gifts Received to Date: Backpack Ministry: $275.00 Building Fund: $225.00 Cemetery: $3,055.00 Youth Fund: $590.00

Gifts given in Honor or Memory (May) In memory of Tony Causby given by Beulah Duckworth by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth by Doris Ingram In memory of Charles Garrison given by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth by Charles & Cheryle Garrison In memory of Elsie Roper given by Charles & Cheryl Garrison by Doris H Garrison by Beulah Duckworth by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth In memory of Sarah Garrison given by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth by Edwin & Sue Ellen Hollar In memory of Norman Duckworth given by Charles & Cheryl Garrison In memory of Jay & Jane Scarboro given by Charles & Cheryl Garrison In memory of Ruby Dale given by L.P. Dale and Family In memory of Raymond Carswell given by John & Mary Anderson In memory of Kettie Carswell given by John & Mary Anderson In memory of Jack Carswell given by John & Mary Anderson In memory of past members of our SS Class given by the Mens Class In memory of Brendle Duckworth given by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth In memory of Clarence Duckworth given by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth In memory of Velna Duckworth given by Fred & Kathryn Duckworth In memory of Freddie Duckworth Jr. given by Fred & Kathryn Duck-worth - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In honor of Margaret Carswell given by Margaret Shell by Charles & Cheryl Garrison In honor of Leota Garrison given by Charles & Cheryl Garrison In honor of Beulah Duckworth given by Charles & Cheryl Garrison In honor of Cam, Carrigan, Catherine, David, & Zach by Norm & Kathryn

Salem UMC Blood Drive Friday June 14,

2:30-7 pm

Consider giving the gift of life. To make an appointment call 1-800-733-2767

or go to Redcrossblood.org

Our Salem Elementary Backpack ministry is gearing up for summer home deliveries. We anticipate having 8 families this summer. During the summer, we deliver weekly on Sunday afternoons and can accept larger items and glass jars or fresh vege-tables. If you’d like to assist with packing or delivering this summer, contact Nina Horton at 828-438-4638. Thank you for continuing to support this ministry with your food items and helping feed our school children.

Dear Lord, hear our prayers….

Servant Leaders for June

Acolytes: Usher Captains: 2– Brady Keller 2 - Jack Bridges 9– Faith Pons 9- 16– Connor Wellman 16- Bruce Pollard 23– Isabel Jones 23 - Tim Keller 30– Ellie Shuping 30– Kay Pollard

Reader for 11 am 2 – Charles Autrey 9 - Gordon Ronk 16 - Kevin Reinke 23 - Jodi Brown 30 - Jerry Carroll

Nursery 2- 11 am– Edith Dale & Rebecca Shuping 9- 11 am– Joyce Gibson & De’Nae Huffman 16- 11 am - Kathryn Jones & Liz Smith 23- 11 am– Muriel McNeilly & Courtney Hampton 30– 11 am - Josh & Brenna Call & Nina Horton

Prayers & Concerns: Tom Carlson, Gary Whitener, Jason Koon, Keith

Ollis, Sandra Durain, Todd Huss, Lisa Propst, Ruthie Riddick, Baby

Tony Dean, Kevin Patton, Toni Smith, Graylin Reece,

Homebound: Millie Avery, Mildred Mull, Mary Wilson,

Jean Jarrell, Leota Garrison, James Carswell, Fred Duckworth

Nursing Home Residents:

~Grace Heights– Mable Hoke

~College Pines– Avis Williams, Doris Garrison,

~The Brian Center of Spruce Pine– Helen McGee

~Hope Ridge Family Care– Nell Causby

~Autumn Care - Janette Dale

1 Margaret Gordon 2 Kathryn Jones 7 Gilbert Kincaid 8 Janet Davis 10 Brenda Duckworth, Ashley St. Louis 12 Shirley Simmons 14 Claire St. Louis 15 Tom Jarrell 16 Jackie D. Pruett, Rebecca Shuping 19 Doris H. Garrison 20 Joyce Gibson 21 Naaman Jones 22 Lucas Brown 23 Chris Causby 26 Mary Ann Propst 28 Rex Huffman, Charles Autrey ANNIVERSARIES 10 Jon & Sara Pons 14 Chris & Cindy Ross 17 Norm & Kathryn Jones 29 Hamilton & Jodi Brown

CHURCH STAFF Norm Jones, Jr.—Pastor (rev.norm@alumni.duke.edu) Virginia Robinson, Dir. of Music (robinsonva62@gmail.com) Sue Bunch, Pianist (s_bunch@att.net) Zachary Cagle, Office Admin. (salemumchurch@ymail.com)

WNC Annual Conference June 21-24 @

Lake Junaluska

Please be in prayer for this annual gather-ing, delegates attending, and the business and worship which takes place. Lara Autrey – SUMC Lay Delegate Norm Jones – SUMC Clergy Delegate

Summer Personal Enrichment Classes

-Excel with Excel- learn basics of Microsoft Excel for managing finances, databases and addresses, or per-sonal projects. Cost $50 Dates: July 8, 15, 22, 26 (6-8pm) Register by 7/1/19

-Teen Guitar Camp– Learn how to play guitar and write original songs (Ages13-20) Register by 6/12/19 Cost: $55 Dates: June 19 & 26, July 10, 17, 24, 31, Aug 7 & 14 (6-8pm)

Register: www.wpcc.edu/personal-enrichment/ acanterbury@wpcc.edu or 828-448-6715

Youth Mission Trip June 9-15 Conway, SC Team Effort is an inter-denominational minis-try that hosts groups from across the U.S. Please be in prayer for our team (Christina Benfield, Henry Call, Reid Pons, Triston Overton, Jessica Al-len, Norm Jones). We will be staying at St. Paul An-glican Church in Conway, SC and assist with Hurricane Florence rebuilding efforts during the week.

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10:30am Bible Study (Yth Rm) 6:15 pm Praise Team 6:30 pm Confirm 7 pm Choir

10:30am Bible Study (Yth Rm) 6:15 pm Praise Team 7 pm Choir

9:30 Sunday School 10:30 am Worship

6:30pm - Outreach/Witness Mtg (FH)

10 am Louis Velna Circle (FH)

10 am Prayer Shawl (Ed Bldg)

10 am Prayer Shawl (Ed Bldg)

10 am Prayer Shawl (Ed Bldg)

9:30 Sunday School 10:30 am Worship 4pm Church Council (parlor)

10:30am Bible Study (Yth Rm) 6:15 pm Praise Team 7 pm Choir

9:30 Sunday School 10:30 am Worship

FH Reserved

10-3pm Card Class (FH)

7 pm UMW Meetings

3:30pm BUCM meal FH Reserved

9:30 Sunday School 10:30 am Worship

10 am Prayer Shawl (Ed Bldg)

10:30am Bible Study (Yth Rm) 6:15 pm Praise Team 7 pm Choir

11am School Out Ice Cream Give-away

Pastor Norm on vacation June 24-29

AC @ LJA

Youth Mission Trip—Horry County, SC

2:30-7 pm Blood Drive FH)

9:30 Sunday School 10:30 am Worship

Annual Conference @ LJA