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Clemmons Presbyterian Church

3930 Clemmons Road

Clemmons, NC 27012

336-766-4631

www.clemmonspresbyterian.org

A gift to the Pentecost Offering helps the church encour-age, develop, and support its young people, and also

address the needs of at-risk children. 40% of the Pente-cost offering can be retained by individual congregations wanting to make an impact in the lives of young people within their own community. The remaining 60% is used to support ministries of the Presbyterian Mission Agency:

Young Adult Volunteers

Ministries for Youth

Children-at-Risk

Pentecost Offering Financials

Thank you to everyone who came to Team Up on Clean Up Day!

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Believing, Belonging, Becoming and Branching Out

May 2018

Dear Friends,

You are receiving this May newsletter a little early, which gives us the opportunity to share the excite-

ment about two important and exciting events at the end of April.

First, the Children's Choir will be presenting a "dinner theater" style musical at 6:15 on Wednesday

April 25. You can come for a delicious spaghetti dinner from 5:30 - 6:15, served by the Fellowship

Committee in the fellowship hall, and stay for the musical, or come at 6:10 and take an available seat

in the fellowship hall. The musical "I Am A Promise!" is directed by Terri Queen and has a great

message. It is on my calendar and I hope it will be on yours.

For almost 20 years now members of CPC have traveled to southernmost

Mexico to engage in important and meaningful mission experiences. Our

members have led Bible schools, taught, learned, mixed cement and even

gotten married (!) there. As part of our mission tithe this year CPC donated

$12,500 to support the health clinic that some of our members helped build

in Ocasingo. The leaders of this Presbyterian ministry are Pablo Feliciano

- Cruz and his wife Jan. Their ministry is a powerful and far-reaching

one. The Session has invited Pablo to preach in our worship services on

April 29th and to share about this ministry during the 9:30 education

hour. When I first met with the Session of CPC, in Carole and Jimmy Kausch's backyard, I remem-

ber Russ Vroom telling me about his learning to sleep in a hammock on one of these trips to Mexi-

co. It was quite a story! We are also participating with other churches in the Presbytery to send

folks this year. The Mission Committee will help fund your travel costs. Please speak with Diane

Hightower, Tracey or Jeff Martin or me if you are interested in learning more.

Mother's Day is always a big day in worship and it will be even bigger this

year when our mission partner in Taiwan and my friend John McCall visits

with us in both services and in the 9:30 education hour. John is a teacher

at the Taiwan seminary and works with indigenous pastors throughout the

island. John served as the Pastor of the Black Mountain Presbyterian

Church and the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, where

he served on a Presbytery committee with me. He is a great preacher

with an inspiring message. This is a Sunday to bring your Mom and the

whole family and friends to the worship service and the 9:30 education hour!

We got back last week from visiting our son Jacob in San Francisco. We found this child of our

church well and happy being a scientist in a beautiful city.

Faithfully yours,

Bill

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Samaritan Inn 2018 Dates May 4

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August 3rd

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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat... I was a stranger and you invited me in... Matthew 25:35

The Samaritan Inn men's shelter in downtown Winston-Salem depends on volunteer help. CPC is committed to providing 6 volunteers to the Samaritan Inn one Friday night each quarter.

Volunteers will:

• Arrive on a Friday at 6:15 PM to serve them dinner

• Attend a short time of devotion led by Samaritan Leader

• Operate in 2 person shifts throughout the night to watch security monitors

• Serve breakfast Saturday morning

• Depart no later than 7:30 AM Saturday

Contact Russ Vroom at 336-813-1898 or rvroom@jroyal.com if you have questions or wish to sign up for this rewarding experience.

Mission Ministry

Habitat for Humanity May 12. Please mark your calendars now and go on the Habitat Forsyth volunteer website to register to spend a terrific Saturday with your CPC family building or renovating a house for a needy family. Habitat for Humanity is an international organization that helps provide safe and decent housing for fami-lies. Our own Bob Geyer was one of the first dozen people that started Habitat in Americus, Georgia in the 1970’s. Now almost 10 million habitat homes have been built, mostly by volunteers, around the world. Habitat Forsyth has built 385 homes since 1985. Families must provide “sweat equity” by working on their own or anoth-

er Habitat House. Families may then purchase the house with a no interest loan by participating in home ownership classes. What will we be doing? Painting, hammering, tearing out, caulking, rak-ing, roofing, flooring? We really won’t know until the time we arrive because of the work completed by the volunteers the days and weeks before us. Habitat provides all the tools you need, but has some suggestions on the volunteer website where you have to go to register. If you have questions, please contact Bill Hoyle.

Our next blood drive will be Thursday, May 10, from 2:30-7:00 PM. The drive is

now “live” on the Red Cross website, meaning anyone can sign up. If you have a time

slot you prefer, you might want to sign up now before someone else gets it. The sign

up sheet is on the bulletin board outside the choir room. You can also sign up at

www.redcrossblood.org or on the Red Cross blood donor app (free at your app store).

May 1, 2018 Hope du Jour returns to help Crisis Control. Eat out for a good cause! Have breakfast, lunch or dinner at one of the many local restau-rants that donate 10% of their sales to Crisis Control Ministries. CPC has been a long-time supporter of CCM. Find the list of restaurants at www.hopedujour.org.

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May Calendar of Events – Go online for Details of Events

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Capital Campaign

Personnel Committee

AED Demonstration . . .

Help Wanted: Sound Technician

Are you interested in working as a sound technician for church services? Are you reliable, willing to learn a new skill, and able to follow instructions? If you think you might be interested in this job, please e-mail Mary McElwee (mmcelwee@triad.rr.com) for more information.

Live Streaming Worship! The new Members and Evangelism committee is putting the

10:45 AM service on YouTube. We need some folks to help. Please contact Bob Maclin or Ellen Hertz.

There will be a brief demonstration of our AED devices led by Alex Holton, RN, BSN, CCRN on

Sunday, May 20, 2018 immediately following the second worship service. This will be held in the

parlor. Anyone interested in learning how to use this device is welcome.

GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS from the Con-nection Team of the Together in Faith Capital Cam-paign! The new 3 year campaign has started off with a bang. Our generous First Fruits Offering received in December effectively steered us in the right direc-tion. These early funds have allowed the church to make a nice principal reduction payment on the debt for our new fellowship hall – which in turn reduces our interest expenses. We must keep up the good work by keeping our pledges current. If you were unable to make a commitment to the campaign, please remember to give when you can, as every dollar counts. Whether paying to-wards your pledge or giving when you can, please make sure to mark your checks or online contri-butions “Capital Fund” so your gift will be accounted for as you intended. Remember, through Christ, all things are possible. Thank you for your support!

To our bookkeeper, Inessa Sarkisov, for 16 years of service.

To our office manager, Megan, who got married on April 22nd and is now Mrs. Megan Gwaltney.

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Fellowship Ministry:

Wednesday Nights: 5:30 to 6:15 Dinner Menus

May 2nd: Hamburgers, French fries, salad and cookies

May 9th: Spaghetti, garlic bread, salad and ice cream

May 16th: Taco Night, and ice cream

Kids Menu: Rotation of hot dogs or chicken nuggets and chips

Coffee Hour: Sunday, May 6, 2018 after both the 8:30 & 10:45 service hosted by your Elders. Plan to linger after worship in the atrium to snack & chat.

National Day of Prayer Breakfast.

This FREE event for all YMCA and community members will include prayer, reflection and fellowship.

Mark your calendars to have breakfast with the YMCA and start your day inspired.

Program begins at 7:00 am

Keynote speaker: Jonathan Lotz

Please RSVP at the Member Services Desk by Monday, April 30.

Questions? Contact Gina Daugherty at 336.245.5824 or g.daugherty@ymcanwnc.org.

Please remember your church in your will.

You can leave a legacy at CPC giving future generations opportunities in worship and service.

www.presbyterianfoundation.org/wills-legacy-giving/

Memorial Day and Pot Luck Sunday, May 27th 9:30- 10:30 am

Bring your favorite breakfast item. Fellowship Ministry will provide coffee and orange juice.

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The Ruth Circle will meet on Tuesday, May 15, at 10 am in the parlor. We will complete this year's study with a discussion of lesson 9 and plan the annual circle picnic. Please bring any cards, plastic bags. or any other project items that might be needed throughout the summer months. If anyone would like to join this group, please call Frankie Muse at 336-766-9950 for more information, or just come to the meeting.

Men’s Breakfast will meet on Saturday, May 12th

at Clemmons Presbyterian

Fellowship Hall at 8:00 AM. A big breakfast will accompany the fat chewing con-

test. All men of CPC are welcome. Come meet some good guys and enjoy good

food and fellowship. If you have any questions please contact Bob Maclin 336 -794-

5399 or bbmac40471@gmail.com.

Ministry Highlights Join the very open and welcoming CPC Lunch Bunch for lunch on Thursday, May

3rd at 12 noon at Villa Grill beside Harris Teeter in Clemmons. It is a great time

for fellowship and eating with friends. If you have any questions please contact Wil-

lie Garvin or Nancy Terry.

Empty Nesters will meet at Szechuan Palace, 3040 Healy Dr, Winston Salem,

NC, on Thursday, May 10th

at 6:00 PM. For best service please RSVP your intent

to come to: Bob Maclin, 336 486-0811 by Tuesday, May 8th.

July 16-19

It’s time to register for VBS at

https://rrr.cokesburyvbs.com/

clemmonspresbyterian/

Leaders are needed also and can

register at the same website!

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May Birthdays

2 Shannon Spencer

Reed Bain

Jean Reilly

3 Jacob Humphrey

Kathryn Sherwood

Lemuel Garcia

Pat Boger

4 Chip Vaughn

Alexander Swaim

Samantha Ingraham

6 Kevin Sherwood

Syd Cuningham

7 Chris Campbell

Eric Ringer

Barry Holmes

Scott Sheldon

Emily Lovell

8 Vickie Yokeley

Roger Smith

9 Jill Caputi

Ivey Chatham

Natalie Lyons

10 Stacey Abrams

11 Kathy Harrold

Tate Smith

Isaiah Milam

13 Patty Chidester

14 Julia Juhasz

15 Tom Allred

Kathy Hedrick

Dana Hind

Logan Chidester

Lindsay Jones

16 Kathryn Badorrek

Bruce Wold

18 Nathan Ault

20 Don Baker

Margaret Moore

Kim Ridings

21 Stacia Cromwell

Virginia Slaughter

22 Max Jacobs

Will Perkins

Andrew Seiwell

23 Mara Carlton

24 Zachary Hyman

Neal Duncan

25 Peggy Hinshaw

Bonnie Nicol

26 Luke Smith

Morgan Shaw

27 Sarah Lambert

29 George Fitzgerald

Colleen Brown

David Rhyne

Reva Oakley

Michael Rhyne

30 Norm Gleason

John Cosgrove

Anne McGehee

Ted Boyer

Music Ministry

Ring and Sing - As we enter into the summer months, we have a standing tradition in this church where our music ministry highlights some of their favorite songs they have performed throughout the year. We call this the Ring and Sing! This is a final concert for the 2017-2018 year that will end our Wednesday night activities until the fall of 2018. This year, it will be held in our new fellowship hall on Wednesday, May 16th at 6:30 PM following dinner. You will hear the Children's Choir, Youth Choir, Youth Handbell Choir, Sanctuary Bells, and Sanctuary Choir. Come out for a memorable dinner and a show as we support our music ministry here at CPC!

Join us on Wednesday, April 25th in the fellowship hall at

5:30 p.m. for a spaghetti dinner, which will also include garlic

bread, salad and cookies. That will be followed at 6:30 p.m.

by the CPC Children's Choir performing the musical, "I

Am A Promise."

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Clemmons Presbyterian Prayers CPC Members to Remember in Your Prayers Jeannine and Bill Caldwell, Martha Artz, Jane Keyser, Ralph Cornwell, Charlie Braswell, Ann Courtenay, Betsy Davis, Burl Shore, Nancy Shelton, Martha Jones, Arlene Louis, Jan Royer, John Herrmann, Chris Sparrow, Bruce Wold, Bill Wesely, Evelyn Church and Willie Garvin.

Relatives & Friends: Adam Figel (Judy and Steve Figel's son) Karol Glick (Kim Weber's sister)

Mike Easter (Chapman family) Greg Easter (Chapman family) Cindy Collins (Mark and Leigh Ann Smith) Lee Maness (Leigh Ann Smith's father) Lori Duckworth (Tom King) Blake Johnson (Fred Baker) Don Hall (Charlie Kausch) Tom Williams (Charlie Kausch's brother) David Townsend (Christy Sherman's father) Johnathan Pack (Tracey Martin)

Lisa Hutcheson (Christy Sherman's sister) Jan Gardner (Jenny McCoy's mother) Christel Ingle (Nanita Heasley's godchild) Ellen Binkley (Edita Sciortino) Judy Hockaday (Kloha family)

Linda Banks (Cherie Hardy’s aunt) Mark Smith's father (Smith family) George Latham (Patricia Leftwich)

Jim Secord (Scott Sheldon)

Gary Hanesworth (Chapman family) Glenn Williamson (Carolyn Brown’s brother-in-law)

Ralph Berger (Bob Kisel’s brother-in-law)

Bruce VanNort (Lisa Sheehan’s brother)

William VanNort (Lisa Sheehan’s father)

James Doby (Sees family)

Cathy Olker (Patricia Nielsen’s sister)

Kevin (Cosgrove family)

Ashley Morris (Linda Register)

Lattie Bowman (Edita Sciortino’s friend)

Joanne Mavilia (Linda Eaton’s sister)

Sandy Holt (Julie Holmes)

Beverly Goodman (Charlie Kausch)

Kathleen Fitzgerald and family Joyce (Rick Yokeley’s sister) Brooke Simpson (Doreen & Hoy Bohanon’s daughter)

Dwight Roope (Ulysee Roope’s brother)

Brent Smith (friend of Cecilia & Sam Marshall

Lori Calgaro (Jim & Bobbie Calgaro’s sister-in-law)

Margaret Slaughter (Ken Slaughter’s mother)

Mark Slaughter (Ken Slaughter’s brother) Judy Myers (Cherie Hardy’s aunt)

Wayne Aker (Tony Sarro’s)

Margie Carter (Eve Shaw)

Cameron Overman (Bessie Belcher’s great grandson)

Sylvia Everhardt Lagle (Robin Allison and Tony Sarro)

John Fox (Tony Sarro)

Mako and her mother (Hartsfield’s daughter-in-law)

Brenda Sechrist (Ellen Hertz)

Elizabeth Speight (Ellen Hertz)

Special Prayer Concerns: Peace, all military service people & their families, Salem Presbytery Hispanic Mission, CPC members seeking jobs, Rev. John McCall (News from Rev. McCall, the PCUSA Mission Worker CPC helps sup-port in Taiwan, is on our website).

Thank You To the wonderful staff and congregation of Clemmons Presbyterian Church.

Debbie enjoyed a very full church life at CPC, worshiping and socializing with loving friends, teach-ing Bible studies and singing in the choir that she so loved.

Thank you all for your tenderness and hospitality shown to me, our family, and all our visiting friends as we celebrated Debbie’s life on Friday and Saturday.

Keeping you all in my prayers,

F.M. Hagan

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you Clemmons Presbyterian Church for your concern, prayers, and good wishes. The food, telephone calls, visit, etc. have been so important to me following my surgery and recovery. I look forward to being able to return to worship with you very soon. Thank you again for being the caring congregation I know and love.

Willie Garvin

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Christian Education

On May 6 the second graders of CPC will receive a Bible from the church. These young people have been participating in a 3 week class where they learned Bible basics such as how the Bible is organized, the Pentateuch, the Gospels, and how to use the Bible during worship. We are grateful to their parents for supporting their children as they learn and we are excited that they are more comfortable with the Bible and more confident in how to use the Bible as a tool to nurture their Chris-tian life and faith. The second graders receiving Bibles this year are Caleb Klinger, Adeline Sullivan, Anna Hedrick, and Sarah Zacharias.

Summer Sunday School: May 20 is the last day of our regular Christian Education Sunday

school schedule. There is no Sunday school on May 27 (Memorial Day). The summer schedule will

begin on June 3. There will be two adult classes. The Bible Study class will continue to study The

Present Word in room 206. The summer Sunday class will meet in 301-C. There will be Sunday

school for children as well.

New Way to Connect to the church and each other. Clemmons Presbyterian Church has been using a data-base program called ACS for over 17 years. As times and technology has changed, we have realized the im-portance for members, leaders, elders, and staff to com-municate information to each other in a timely manner. In doing this we have moved to a new system with ACS called REALM. REALM is a database just like ACS but now the members can connect to each other, see their giving statements in real time, and be able to reply to their ministry groups directly to the whole group through RSVP, resources, and messaging each other. It is similar to Facebook, the white pages, and a giving accounting system – but much simpler. Do you have an address change? You can do it yourself. Need to contact someone? You can look it up through REALM. On May 14th you will receive an email inviting you to join the REALM community of Clemmons Pres-byterian Church. Please check your spam folder in case it went in there. Once you receive that email log in with your email address and create your own password. You will officially be part of REALM. I will be holding a training session in May to help people navigate through the program. Please look in the announcement sheet for upcoming training sessions. If you need help with REALM please email cpcrealmhelp@gmail.com. REALM will be the main way we communicate things. Come and join us on the new way of collabo-rating to share the love of Jesus. Megan Loomis Office Manager

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Upcoming Events – Mark your GOOTH Calendar

May 6 – Awareness Banquet

May 13 – Clemmons Food Pantry Night

May 20 – End of the Year Roller Skating Party

May 27 – No GOOTH, enjoy Memorial Day with your family

June 3 – Senior Graduation Celebration

June 3 – Summer Trips Meeting

Questions/concerns about GOOTH, please contact Patrick McElwaine pmcelwaine@clemmonspresbyterian.org or Barbara Evans, Elder, at evans0003@gmail.com

Spruce Up the GOOTH Room. At the annual spring cleaning, our group

cleaned, dusted, vacuumed and organized the GOOTH Room.

Egg-Cellent Time at the Easter Egg Hunt. GOOTH

helped hide eggs for all the children who participated in

the Easter egg hunt!

GOOTH Can Cook! Thanks to everyone who helped cook and deliver din-

ner to the SECU House! It was fun to serve as Jesus’ hands and feet to-

gether.

Welcome Soon-to-be-GOOTH!

Fun games were played and we welcomed the rising 6th

graders who will join GOOTH next year! We’re so excited

that you got experience GOOTH!

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A Note From Patrick McElwaine

CPC Youth Endowment Scholarship

There were 3 outstanding applicants for the Clemmons Presbyterian Church Youth Endowment Scholarship this year. After making some tough decisions, the Board of Trustees (Marv Dickerson, Leighton McGill, Elizabeth Morris, Frankie Muse and Charlie Stone) selected Laura Cain to receive a $3,000 scholarship. Marv Dickerson, presi-dent of the Board, presented the check to Laura during the Sunday April 8, 10:45 service. The Board agreed that all three applicants will be successful in their chosen endeavors.

The CPC Office will be closed on Monday, May 28th in observance of the

Memorial Day Holiday.

Wishing you a happy and safe holiday!

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, and named it Ebenezer; for

he said, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.” - 1 Samuel 7:12

The other morning while I was praying the most unexpected words popped into my head. Without

realizing it, I suddenly found myself saying, “OK God, you’ve gotten me this far. This prayer is my

Ebenezer.” It must have been the Spirit because those words surprised even me as they came out

of my mouth.

Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “Ebenezer,” and when I say that I don’t mean “Scrooge.”

Ebenezer is the name of a monument that Samuel raised to remember a time where God helped

him and the Israelites out of a tough situation. Samuel called on God for help and God answered. In

thanksgiving, Samuel set up a monument so the people would always remember and he named it

Ebenezer, which in Hebrew means “stone of help.”

I wonder if we follow Samuel’s lead often enough. How do we share reminders of God’s faithfulness

and steadfast care with the world? Not that setting up physical monuments everywhere is a good

idea, but what about our stories? Are we open and vulnerable enough with others to share the sto-

ries of how God has been present in our lives? Stories of how God has helped us through when life

was at its most difficult?

These stories are powerful and they are important. Think of a moment where God has been present

in your life. What would it look like for you to “set up” your own Ebenezer?

Yours in Christ,

Patrick