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The Fairview Christian NewsletterOffice : (434) 845 - 6031

E-Mail: [email protected]

Pastor Curtis Wheeler - Senior MinisterChris Harris - Youth Coordinator

Emilee Houser - Music CoordinatorPaula Card & Judee Bogle - Administrative Assistants

Vol. 30 August 1, 2015 No. 08

Office Hours:Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sunday Services:Sunday School - 9:40 a.m.

Blended Worship - 10:45 a.m.

In This Issue:

Birthday/Anniversary Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . pg 7Community Dinner Update

. . . . . . . . . pg 7August Calendar. . . . . . . . . . pg 6August Sermons. . . . . . . . . . pg 2August Serving Schedule

. . . Back CoverNotes & News.. . . . . . . . . . pg 4 Office Hours. . . . . . . . . . . CoverPastoral Pondering. . . . . . . . pg 2Pot Luck Lunch.. . . . . . . . CoverPrayers/Concerns.. . . . . . . . pg 3Secretary’s Note. . . . . . . . . . pg 3Thank You Notes. . . . . . . . . pg 7Verse for Month. . . . . . . . CoverWorship Dept News. . . . . . . pg 3Youth & Kid’s Page.. . . . . . . pg 5

Verse for the Month:

For the eyes of the Lordare on the righteous and

his ears are attentive totheir prayer, but the face

of the Lord is againstthose who do evil.

1 Peter 3:12 NIV

PICTURE DIRECTORY PLANNED

An in-house pictorial directory of the churchmembership will be completed this fall. To help in this,we are asking that you sign up to have your family andyour (or just “you,” if single) picture taken - there is no

cost involved and no pressure to buy a photo, just afew minutes of your time.

On Sunday, August 9 and August 23, Jennifer Toler will be taking pictures

in the Parlor during the Sunday School time and in the Narthex after the worship service.

For our shut-ins, we are asking that a family member,caregiver or friend provide us with a digital photo with

complete address information on the individual(s). We also are asking thatour faithful non-member attendees join us in this project.

It will be wonderful to have a directory with pictures of everyone in itso we can easily identify a person.

We hope to have the directory ready by Rally Day/Homecoming Weekend. There will be accessibility of this directory for apps on smart phones as well

as a hard copy to give to families/individuals.

5TH

SUNDAY POT LUCK LUNCH is Sunday, August 30 after the worship service.

There is no need to run out to a local restaurant afterchurch when you can stay to sample some of the besthome cooking around! Membership Department willsupply paper products, tea & lemonade to drink, and

chicken. Members are asked to bring a side dish. People with namesbeginning with A-F, please bring a salad dish; names beginning G-P, please

bring a vegetable dish, and names starting with Q-Z, please bring a dessert.

PASTOR’S PONDERINGS

First, let me get a couple thank you’s out of theway.

I want to thank everyone that has been sowonderful to both Betty and I as she continues to deal withher Bladder Cancer and other health issues. This iscertainly one of those hard times to be over three hoursapart.

Also, I want to thank the co-Directors and all theworkers that made Day-Camp fun, safe and a greatministry this year. Each of you are very appreciated as youstepped up to help keep a wonderful ministry going andflourishing. Thank You.

General Assembly:

General Assembly of our denomination occurredin Columbus, OH on July 18-22. Many things havechanged since my first GA in St. Louis in 1993. In 1993,there were about 8,000 delegates at GA; in Columbusthere were just less than 4,000. Many other Discipleschurches have seen similar or even much more drasticdecline than our own. One could be very discouraged.But... There is hope. There are new congregations beingborn. Some congregations are bravely facing the futureand saying, "Here we are, use us."

We as Disciples in the USA now speak 128languages. We meet in many converted , rented andhome church settings. The "Great Commission" is literallybeing fulfilled here and among Disciples.

Churches are finding some very creative ways toraise moneys for Week of Compassion that I could nothelp but smile and think of Fairview’s talent show andcoffee house. One such new way is Wine to Water, a fundraiser where a wine tasting is used to help support thebuilding of a water well or system in a village somewherein the world. This reduces violence against women whooften carry fresh water miles daily and much more. Whilethat particular fundraiser would raise eye brows, how canwe help provide water, food, emergency aid, etc... Theanswer is very simple and can be complex. We can simplygive to Week of Compassion or we can design our ownfund raiser true to us (like a stew).

Amy Gopp, former head of Week of Compassionand now on staff of Church Wold Services, gave apowerful message at the Peace Fellowship Breakfast. Shereminded us all of the needs for Peace around the worldand God's faithfulness through churches working together.

Close to home, Lynchburg College, one of ourDisciple colleges, officially will begin investigatingbecoming an University this fall. For the size of the school,their sports teams have had incredible success, includinga National title for the Girls Soccer Team. They also will beadding a Physician’s Assistant degree this fall.

It seems our schools are all doing pretty well.Phillips University in Oklahoma, a school that closed a fewyears ago, now have turned its resources into scholarshipmonies for Disciples attending Disciple schools.

Christmount, our national retreat in Black

Mountain, NC, is in the search process for a new director.The current director is retiring, They have someincredable programs scheduled through the remainder ofthe summer and fall. See me or the bulletin board bychurch office for details.

The docket (business) items can still be viewed atwww.disciples.org. Most are reports from variousagencies responsible to report to the church. Others arepeace and justice declarations sent forth bycongregations or groups within our church. The importantthing to remember when reading any resolution is thatwithin the Disciple church a wide range of views andsensitivities exist. We agree on one thing - that Christ isSavior.

Our next GA will be in Indianapolis, IN in 2017and then Des Moines, IW in 2019. Like the local church,we as a denomination are struggling with how to befaithfully smaller. One of our resolutions involved lookingat ways to do future GA at our new size.

Over all, the Columbus Assembly was well puttogether, great convention hall, convenient to food andhotels. The community was welcoming to us as a group.One could clearly see hope in that there were more youngpeople present than in Orlando two years ago. HunterMoore did a great job representing Lynchburg College attheir booth.

Foot-Note:On the way home from General Assembly in

Lexington, Virginia, I totaled my car and not hurting thedriver of the other car or myself. I'd like to thank themembers who expressed their love and concern in thedifficult days.

Blessing,

Pastor Curtis

SERMON SERIES for AUGUST

August 02: “One Church, Many Faces” Ephesians 4:1-16

August 09: “The Real Bread of Life” John 6:35-51

August 16: “Living to the Lord” Ephesians 5:15-20

August 23: “Communion: Flesh vs Spirit” John 6:56-69

August 30: “Blest by Doing” James 1:17-27

WORSHIP DEPARTMENT NEWS

Meet and Greet in Worship

Some of you have come to the WorshipDepartment and to the Boardcomplaining about the length of timefor our Meet and Greet during theworship service. Basically, we haveheard, “It’s too long!” No, it is not.The point of meet and greet is to greet guests who arethere for the first time OR to say hello to someone nearyou, not on the other side of the sanctuary. And if you have“business” to conduct with a member, it should wait untilAFTER the service. The fact is, many of you are ignoringthis two minute time span.

Our bulletin clearly states this:

Ours is a caring congregation and our Meet and Greettime provides an opportunity to meet someone you do notknow and to pass along a little “Godly love” through a hand

shake or a hug. Please take a minute or two to greet someone near

you, then as the music begins to play to draw us backinto worship, return to your seat.

Also, our praise team, when they complete themusic at the beginning to the service, tells us to take thesefew minutes to greet someone and when you hear themusic, to return to your seat and be prepared to singagain. Many of you have told us how much they like thisnew addition to our worship service and we are happy thatyou do. We also understand the frustration you havebrought to us and it is because of this we of the WorshipDepartment ask that YOU help US in controlling the lengthof meet and greet. We ask that you listen for when thepraise team begins to play again and to return to your seatand prepare to worship our Lord.

We look forward to seeing you in church thisSunday!

PRAYERS / CONCERNS

HOME: Beckie ShyEthel Perrow

SYMPATHY TO: To the family of Floyd Vernell Martin,husband of Patricia Martin.

To the family to Dorothy “Dot” Hurt, widow ofthe late Robert Hurt.ACTIVE MILITARY: Bryson Lipscomb, Jessica Mays,Shawn Riley, Shawn WilsonCONCERNS: Sarah Augis, Al & Frances Cheatham, Ed &Alice Clark, Jennifer Colbert, Pat Cox, Kathy Coleman,Arlene Davis, David Doss, David Dudley, LawrenceFalwell, Melissa Franklin, Terry & Liz Garrett, DoreneGraybill, Tillie Godsie, Cyndi Hodnett, Carolyn & JuniorHudson, AG Jefferson 3rd, Mary Large, Delores Linn,Pauline Marshall, Ruby O'Donnell, Daphaney Parker,Sherry Pugh, Louise Rigney, Beckie Rowland, BeckieShy, Joyce Shifflet Taylor, Ryland Tuck, Katherine Vest,Emma WillisSPECIAL CONCERNS: Dawn Schmitz, Sabrina Jones,Edward Lee, Doris KaisarPRAYER CHAIN: If you need to activate the prayer chain,call Shirley Fleshman (239-5083) or church office.AFTER HOURS EMERGENCY NUMBERS:

Pastor Curtis Wheeleror the presiding elder for the week

(found on the last page of the newsletter)

THANK YOU NOTES

Thank you to Sylvia and Lowell Clark for their weeklyvisits. The visits help us feel connected to our churchfamily in so many ways. Thanks also to everyone for themany kindnesses shown toward us since we have beenunable to attend. We continue to ask for your prayers aswe face our health issues and continue the healingprocess. Much Love, Liz & Terry Garrett

NOTE FROM THE SECRETARY:

I want thank everyone for the cards and prayersfollowing my shoulder surgery. It is improving daily,working on home physical therapy (the doc and Idisagreed on the paid variety), and will beback in the office on Monday, August 3. In the middle of the two to four weeksthe doctor wanted me off from workwas my vacation week, so I planned itso that I could be back at “just the righttime.” Again, thanks so much for the concerns. It wasgreatly appreciated. Paula

NOTES and NEWS

BIBLE READING BOOKMARKS for August were inserted into the July 26 worshipbulletins. If you were not here that Sunday,additional copies of the bookmark can befound on the table in the Narthex andoutside the church office. Share with afriend!

ELDERS: Communion , to our home bound andcare facility member residents will be

served Sunday, August 2. Please signyour name by those to whom you willvisit

ELDERS MEETING is Monday, August 10 at 6:30 p.m. Allelders are encouraged to attend.

CABINET MEETING is Monday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m. inthe Sunshine Class room. All department and committeechairpersons as well as well as representative or presidentof the Christian Men’s/Women’s Fellowships are expectedto attend.

ATTENTION LOYAL SONS & DAUGHTERS CLASS: Theclass annual picnic will be Saturday, August 22 in theFellowship Hall. Come early for fellowship, plan to eataround 1 p.m. Picnic is being held at the church to allowthose of us with less mobility the chance to attend and beable to move around without fear of falling.

FOOD CLOSET NEEDS: There is a continual need inrestocking the shelves of our food panty.

While all nonperishable foods arewelcome, we specifically need jello/gelatin

(mix with hot/cold water), any kind ofbreakfast items that can be shelved (no breads)

like instant oatmeal (packet kind), breakfast bars, or drycereal, vegetables of all kinds, muffin mixes, beans,rice, spaghetti sauce, canned meats (tuna, salmon,chicken, ham, etc.), crackers (sleeve kind), peanutbutter, and ramen noodles. Two items we ask that you donot bring is sloppy joe cans/mixes or salad dressings.Please bring items to the basket outside the church office. Also, please do not bring any items that have been openedfor consumption. We cannot give these out due to healthlaws. If you have an opened bag or canister of anything,please keep it at home.

NEWSLETTER UPDATE: The September issue of thechurch newsletter will be published theweek of August 23. If you havesomething that needs to be promoted,please leave the information in writingon the secretary’s desk or send it by email by Sunday,August 23. To aid you in your written notice, there is aform in the rack by the church office which will prompt youfor all the needed information - the who, what, when,where, why, time and how.

WANTED: Volunteers are needed for afterworship lock-up. Months needing a volunteerare September, November and December. Please check the list posted on the bulletinboard to sign up.

THE HEAT IS ON - DON’T FORGETTO CHECK ON YOUR OLDERFRIENDS: Please check on you olderrelatives and friends who live at homealone to make sure they are stayingcool and are getting plenty of fluids

during the hot summer months. This is an excellent freehealth check for them while giving you a mental boost witha visit - which is good for you too!

NATIONAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION of theChristian Church (DoC) welcomes Sarah Jones,daughter of Irby & Stacey Jones and granddaughter ofJohnny & Brenda Nuckles, to its 2015-2016 XPLOREresidents program. XPLORE is a visionary movement ofand for young adults ages 21-30 years old with a callinginto the ministry to figure out what they want to do. The10-month Residency provides professional developmentand vocational understanding opportunities to engage indirect service and justice work. Through NBA XPLOR,Residents are partnered with Disciples hostcongregations, regions, general ministries, and widercommunities – positively impacting all involved. NBAXPLOR host teams include a rich collaboration ofpartners, including Disciples’ churches, regions, affiliatedhigher education institutions, and historic care providers

Sarah will be working with a nonprofit Mondaythrough Thursday called Breaking Traffik which deals withhuman trafficking and helping to educate teens in theschool systems about the dangers of human trafficking.. She will have a home church in the area that she will workwith however they need her. Sarah will be living inDavenport, Iowa for 10 months. She leaves on August15, 2015.

A GOING AWAY PARTY,hosted by family and friends, will beheld at the church farm on Sunday,August 2, 2015, at 1 p.m., eating by2 p.m. We will be havinghamburgers and hotdogs with allthe fixin’s. Everyone is invited.

Youth & Kids Corner*

*And the Young At Heart

CHILDREN’S & YOUTH GROUPS: Check with your leaders to confirm yourmeeting.

ACLOYTES SERVING IN AUGUST: August 02: Tori Harvey & Russell Benway

August 09: Harrison Toler &, Maia TolerAugust 16: Shawn Haskins & Tori HarveyAugust 23: Shawn Haskins & Harrison TolerAugust 30: Maia Toler & Russell Benway

FAMILY SUNDAY: Fifth Sundays are designated as FamilySunday. On these Sundays, the children will sit with theirfamily through the entire worship service rather than godownstairs for children’s church. By doing this, it will providean opportunity for families to sit together during the worshipservice and allow our teachers an opportunity to worship withtheir family.

SCHOOLS BEGIN SOON! Summer may not be over, but formany of you, school will resume soon. We hope you have a funyear during the 2015-2016 session. Adults who are reading this:it’s time to watch out for those big yellow buses, especially sinceBass Elementary has resumed for the year.

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

Happy Birthday To:

1 Lowell Clark, Ray New, Jr. 3 Tracey Wallower, Allyson Gordon 4 Brandie Reynolds 6 Bernice Maddox, Joan Powell Bateman 7 Wesley Stanley, Judy Browning10 William Hardwick11 Bill Alvis, Jr., Kenneth Snider, Ruby Van Scoten, Hannah Moore12 Dorothy Seldomridge, Dakota Roach 13 Robbie Fitzgerald, Jane Robertson, Allison Krantz14 Carolyn Brown, Gail Stokes17 Wayne Beeler, Adam New, Allison Elder19 Tracey Fix Stump, Conner21 Marie Snider22 Irene Morrell, Pauline Marshall, Mike Gordon24 Dianne Johnston, Damian Carwile,25 Dennis Campbell26 Roger Earles27 Jerry Austin, Jean Krantz29 Jane Merricks, Christine Hudson, Gloria Spain31 Gwen Evans, Jathan Martin

Happy Anniversary To:

03: Bill & Mary Wayne Hardwick07: Milton & Nancy Gregory Bobby & Donna Moore,09: Warren & Winn Bell12: Barry & Deborah Creasy (their 20th!)15: Terry & Liz Garrett18: Jack & Vivian Hamilton19: Melvin & Sharon Jamerson H.D. & Vida Trent20: Paul & Beth Ann Wright26: Jay & Jennifer Baumgardner

TUESDAY COMMUNITY DINNER UPDATE

June 23: 79 dinners served 2 meals homebound members13 volunteers

June 30: 82 dinners served10 meals homebound members15 volunteers

July 07: 70 dinners served10 meals homebound members16 volunteers

July 14: 72 dinners served10 meals homebound members17 volunteers

July 21: 80 dinners11 meals homebound members17 volunteers

Reverse economy

In Love Does (Thomas Nelson), Bob Goffdescribes his childhood interactions with a storekeeper.Goff would choose some candy, spread his change on thecounter and let the man count out what was owed. Onemorning, judging by the man’s face, Goff could tell therewasn’t enough money.

“We’re one penny short,” the storekeeper said.After a long pause, he took one of Goff’s pennies, rubbedit with some vinegar and revealed a coin that looked brandnew. Returning it to the pile, the man said, “In my store,shiny pennies are worth double.”

Goff says that was an important lesson aboutChristians’ role in Jesus’ economy, where the poor are richand we must give to receive: “We get to decide thatpeople, including ourselves, are worth more than othersmight figure and that following Jesus means doing themath differently sometimes,” he writes. “Because actuallywe’re all on the same side of the counter when it comes toneeding a little help and grace and a shiny penny now andthen.”

The Lord's day

O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair,How welcome to the weary and the old!Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly care!Day of te Lord, as all our days should be!

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fairview Christian Newsletter

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SERVING SCHEDULE for AUGUST

Elder/Deacon Teams: August 02: Team 5 - Al Krantz III

August 09: Team 3 - Mike McKeeAugust 16: Team 4 - Gary HarveyAugust 23: Team 6 - Bobby St. JohnAugust 30: Team 1 - Patty Gordon

Greeters: August 02: Elmo Torrence

August 09: Bu & Debbie MartinAugust 16: Gloria Dossry HarveyAugust 23: Martha Dodson August 30: Shirley Fleshman

Lay Leaders: August 02: Gloria SpainKrantz III

August 09: Doris Dodsone McKeeAugust 16: Bill Hubbardy HarveyAugust 23: Virginia Hubbardt. JohnAugust 30: Boboby Moorety Gordon

Acolytes: See Youth PageBus/Car Driver: Winn BellSunday Lock-Up: