CHURCH STAFF & BOARD MEMBERS

The Reverend John G. Rights Pastor jgrights@embarqmail.com The Reverend Lisa Mullen Director of Christian Education kmcdce@embarqmail.com Gwyn Grubbs Financial Secretary kmcfisec@embarqmail.com Jennifer Bragg Administrative Assistant kmchurch@embarqmail.com Jill Englebretson Preschool Director kmc.preschool504@gmail.com The Reverend Dr. Daniel At-kins Acolyte Betty Körner-Atkins Sacristan Barbara Carter, RN Parish Nurse Jeremy Truhel Director of Music Chris Shepard Organist Cathryn Cabaniss Band Director Rod Hall Archivist Wayne Leupold Organist Emeritus BOARD OF ELDERS Harold Atkins Judith Bullock Rod Hall Lois Nieuwenhuis Kathy Osborne Janet Smith Don Vance, Secretary Ruth Williard Lynn Zimmerman, Vice Chair BOARD OF TRUSTEES Connie Angel, Secretary Eddie Boyce Roy Bredal Sylvia Ford Lansing Hewitt Alan Hyde, Chair Heather Smitherman, Vice Chair Ron Smith David Teague

October 2016

Newsletter for Church Family and Friends

504 South Main Street, Kernersville NC 27284

Office: 336.993-3620 - FAX: 336-993-7052 - Preschool: 336.993-2379

kernersvillemoravian.org, Email: kmchurch@embarqmail.com

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION NEWS

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE COWS FLY!

Passing on the gift: This year all of our children’s Sunday School mission projects will

be coordinated as we participate with Heifer International. One of the core, Christian principles

of Heifer is that after their projects are established, families that received resources from Heif-

er—such as livestock, seeds or training—pass on these gifts to other families in need in their

community. This allows them to help others as they have been helped, and to share the re-

sources that they now have in abundance. During our season of stewardship, Nurturing Glad

and Generous Hearts Campaign and throughout the rest of the year, your children will be sav-

ing their pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars helping people around the world achieve

a sustainable livelihood. Please look for their Christmas cards and calendars during Advent.

Screen Agers: Growing up in the Digital Age October 2nd, 2016 at 4pm KMC Parents, Grandparents, Teachers, Youth Leaders, Youth and Older Elementary Children are invited to New Philadelphia. Our youth fellowship groups will be going and we will be car-pooling as many folks as we can so that we can all be part of this conversation. For families with younger children, a program will be available for your children, but you will need to R.S.V.P. For more information you can go to screenagersmovie.com RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/npmc-screenagers or 336-765-2331 TICKETS: $5 (to be collected at the door) Dinner and Panel Discussion: 5:15-6:30pm, $5 per person October 9th Youth Fellowship meeting at 5:30 October 16th Youth Fellowship groups will meet at 12:15 to go to lunch and then will join in the CROP Walk will be in Winston-Salem, starting at the Corpening Plaza October 23rd Youth Fellowship meeting at 5:30 October 30th Youth Fellowship meeting at 2:00 to go to a Corn Maze *SAVE THE DATES: Saturday, November 5th (9:00-12:00) Stop Hunger Now: Everyone, in addition to our Youth Fellowship in invited to Moravia Moravian Church to participate in this mission Saturday, November 12th (10:00-2:00) Grave Matters: Everyone is invited to come together and share in conversation about how we as Moravian write our lebenslauf, (your spiritual auto-biography), and talk about end of life issues, and funeral planning. Saturday, November 12th (10:00-1:00) Missions Shredding: The Global Missions Commit-tee and Youth Fellowship is hosting a shredding for your papers and documents as a fundrais-er Yours in Christ, Rev. Lisa Mullen

Women's Fellowship is busy with our plans for our Shopping Spree on Saturday, November 5. We will be making chicken pies one last time on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, beginning at 8:00 a.m. Along with the chicken pies being sold at the Shopping Spree, we will be having a bake sale. Donations for the bake sale would be greatly appreciat-ed. We are still accepting crafters for the Spree. Please contact Paula Neal at blazeneal19@gmail.com for more information.

Kernersville Moravian Church’s

3rd Annual Shopping Spree

Saturday, November 5, 2016

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

504 South Main Street, Kernersville, NC 27284

Shopping Includes:

Moravian chicken pies Jewelry

Moravian Stars Handmade crafts

Baked goods Bird houses

Cook books Soap

Cards Honey

Wood crafts Wreaths

Home party vendors and more

Lunch will be available on site

OVER 30 vendors! Shop for Christmas with us!

October Birthdays

MILLER, Joey 10/01

WILMOTH, Tom 10/01

LARRIMORE, Jo 10/02

OERTER, Neil 10/02

COX, Patrick 10/03

HARBOUR, Luke 10/03

KINCAID, Leigh 10/03

VALENTINE, Nikolai 10/03

O'BRIEN, Davis 10/05

SHORE, Hellen 10/05

SPRING, Gary 10/05

BINKLEY, Jean 10/06

SMITH, Laura 10/07

ECHOLS, Karen 10/08

KIRK, Marlana 10/08

SEXTON, Dana 10/08

SMITH, Susan 10/08

WATERS, Karen 10/10

PARKS III, Ben 10/11

KINCAID, Chloe 10/13

STEPHENS, Daniel 10/13

OERTER, Rusha 10/15

GUTHRIE, Miriam 10/16

ROWLEY, Carol 10/16

SHREWSBURY, Mary 10/17

SIMMONS, Ryan 10/17

BOYCE, Darlene 10/18

HARPER, Thomas 10/18

FORD, John 10/20

KERNER, William 10/20

SWAIN, Melissa 10/20

CAMPBELL, Kay 10/21

DAVIS, Elise 10/23

MINTZ, Jacob 10/23

LEISER, George 10/24

MARTZ, Arthur 10/25

HUTCHINS, Michael 10/26

WILKINSON, Johnsie 10/26

CRUMPACKER, Joyce 10/29

RISING, Kayla 10/29

TURNER, Aaron 10/29

BALLOU, Lois 10/30

HOLBROOK, Jack 10/30

OSBORNE, Judy 10/30

VANCE, Eric 10/30

STULTZ, Justin 10/31

Our KMC Membership Committee wishes to express heartfelt gratitude to all who participated and supported our Greeter Program, adults and children; these last months. Summer is now over, fall approaching; we need all current greeters and anyone new interested in being a greeter going forward to continue all efforts to make sure our members, potential new members, visitors are greet-ed and welcomed into our Lord's House!!! Also, a huge reminder to all members and visitors to wear name tags. Remember this is a way for our new members and visitors to identify, learn our names, get to know us and vice-versa! Another important gesture is making sure we sign the Pew Register every Sunday, and make sure we pass to our Visitors, encouraging them to sign and share their contact information! These simple tasks (though small) are HUGE to the potential growth of our congregation and seek-ing God's will for each of us and whatever our service to HIM may be! Please prayerfully consider these requests and do your part faithfully as our Lord & Saviour shows us HIS leadership, guidance and direction on the path that he is taking us these next months ahead. Again, if you are interested in becoming a Greeter and WILLING to receive a GREAT blessing while blessing others, please contact our church office or anyone on the Membership Committee.

From our Parish Nurse: Rabies We humans are encroaching on wild animal habitats. So as a result we are seeing small wild ani-mals in our yards etc. It made me think about rabies and the expectations of our domesticated ani-mals getting rabies vaccinations. Descriptions of rabies go back thousands of years as rabies has classically been one of the most feared infections of all time. It is caused by a bullet-shaped rhabdovirus that is relatively unstable in the environment; establishing infection requires direct con-tact with infected mucous membranes. In most cases, disease is transmitted through a bite wound. Only mammals are susceptible to infection, and wildlife is the primary animal group where infection occurs. When wildlife comes into contact with humans or domestic animals, rabies becomes a public health problem. Despite vaccination being readily available, every year the U.S. reports hundreds of dog and cat deaths from rabies, not to mention several human deaths. Worldwide some 55,000 hu-man deaths from rabies occur and rabies remains an important and nearly untreatable illness even now in the 21st century. Rabies is nearly untreatable once symptoms begin despite all the resources of modern medicine and it is important to take its threat seriously. It is because of rabies that most municipalities have dog licensing requirements in order to ensure that the community's dogs are vaccinated. Happily, rabies prevention is accomplished with vaccination and limiting exposure to wildlife. The standard killed-virus vaccines are available for both dogs and cats and after the initial dose which is good for one year, subsequent doses are generally good for three years. Because of an association with tumor development in cats with killed virus vaccine, a recombinant product is now available that uses a portion of rabies viral DNA cloned into a harmless canary pox virus. This vaccine is just as effective as the traditional vaccines but must be administered annually. Rabies vaccination protocols are typically controlled by municipal regulations. Most communities legally require vaccination of all dogs. The American Association of Feline Practitioners recommends rabies vaccination for all cats. For pets not current on rabies vaccination that have been exposed to biting wildlife, the Texas Post-Exposure Rabies Prophylaxis Protocol has been particularly helpful. In this situation, the pet should be vaccinated for rabies as soon as possible after the wildlife bite with booster vaccines given 3 weeks post-bite and 8 weeks post-bite. The pet should be strictly isolated for 90 days (in California, the law requires a 180-day isolation period). This protocol has been extremely successful in prevent-ing rabies symptoms and contagion when normal rabies vaccination had lapsed.

Community Outreach Committee

October is CROP Hunger Walk month. The CROP Hunger Walk in Forsyth County is 2 miles long through Old Salem. The purpose is to raise money to fight hunger locally and globally. CROP Hun-ger Walk began in 1946 when farmers came together to share their crops with people in Europe who were suffering the devastation from World War II. The first walk in Winston-Salem was held in 1979, and has raised over $1.7 million, bringing together people of different faith communities, cultures, and ages.

The walk is a special opportunity for Moravian congregations in Forsyth County because we have an interest in all three of the ministries supported by the CROP Walk: our own Sunnyside Ministry, Cri-sis Control Ministry, and Church World Service (the Moravian Church is one of the 37 member de-nominations). Through the years the combined total received for Sunnyside and Crisis Control is $426,983. Join the KMC walkers for a fun filled afternoon for the 35

th annual Forsyth County CROP

Hunger Walk on Sunday, October 16, at Corpening Plaza, in downtown Winston-Salem. The walk begins at 2:30 p.m. In addition to walking, there will be other activities including face painting, snow-cones, snacks and music. Sign-up sheets and donation envelopes are available in the office, or by calling Vicky Yates (336-595-9466) or any Community Outreach Team Member. You can also visit www.crophungerwalk.org If you can’t walk that day, you can make a donation or volunteer to help with the event.

The kick-off for the Samaritan Ministries Annual Penny Campaign is this month. In 2015, Penny Campaign raised $57,047. This money is used to provide food and necessities for the shelter located in Winston-Salem. We will provide change jars for each Sunday School class and we will have jars available if you want one for your home. The campaign runs through December 3. Help us to FILL THE JAR! Next Step Ministries Baby Wipes, Baby Powder, Feminine Products, Shampoo & Conditioner, Hair Spray, Hair Brushes, Mousse, Lotion, Deodorant, Soap, Body Spray, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Dental Floss, Mouth-wash, Razors, Fingernail/Toenail Clippers Sunnyside Ministry Canned Fruit, Canned Meat, Macaroni & Cheese On-Going needs: Peanut Butter, Saltine Crackers, Dry Pasta Noodles Non-food needs: Toilet Paper, Soap, Laundry Detergent, Shampoo, Toothbrushes, and Toothpaste Crisis Control Macaroni & Cheese, Saltine Crackers, Hamburger Helper Samaritan Ministries your pocket CHANGE for the Penny Campaign Lowes Foods Gift Card Fundraiser 8 years - $8,086 raised! Thank you to all who have supported this fundraiser. Donations thus far: $4,085.27 to local needs, $1,975.00 to international needs, $1,804.73 to Pastor’s Discretionary Fund, $221 not yet donated. Under this program, we buy the cards at a 6% discount. You buy the card from us and then spend the entire face value. Your receipt shows your remaining balance. Use your rewards card as usual to receive specials and gas rewards. I normally have $25, $50, & $100 cards available, but I can order cards in any amount. They make great gifts! See Sylvia Ford, call 908-2334 or email at sylviaford@earthlink.net This fundraiser is so wonderful. If you are a Lowes Foods customer anyway, please buy gift cards (from us) to use! College Students &/or parents please let us know any new address for fall 2016! Provide the full address and exact name we should use. Include your email address (one you actually check!) and your cell phone number. We want to stay in touch! Please call the church office at 336 993 3620 or email us at kmchurch@embarqmail.com

Please remember if you would like to place an ad, event, article or photograph in the newsletter or bulle-tin, it must be given to Jen by the 21st of every month. No late entries will be accepted. The Tuesday Morning Prayer Group will be attending a prayer rally with Franklin Graham in Raleigh on October 13. Anyone who is interested in attending may contact Angelica Steelman. Moravian Stars' Trip to Barn Dinner Theatre - Thursday, December 15, 2016, 6:00 p.m. Show "How the Buckner Family Saved Christmas" DEADLINE FOR SHOW TICKETS IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2016. Cost per person $46.00, if we have at least 20 people to sign up to attend. Sheets are on Moravian Stars' board in lower hallway for signing up. If we don't have 20 the cost per person will go up. Congratulations to Ryen Haskins for passing his Eagle Board of Review! Recently, six boys from Troop 944 successfully completed their Ordeals for Order of the Arrow at Camp Raven Knob. This honor society for Boy Scouts focuses on service and giving back to the camp that so many young men enjoy. The Troop took a trip to go whitewater rafting at the French Broad River and also returned to the Virginia Creeper Trail for the 17 mile bike ride and camping trip. Upcoming camping trips include an adventure to the beach where the boys will go to Fort Fisher. The Troop will also be working with other local Boy Scout Troops to clean up the historic cemetery here in Kernersville. October brings Boy Scout Popcorn sales, thank you for always generously supporting this endeavor. Any boy in 5th grade who is interested in be-coming a Boy Scout next year is invited to visit our Troop. We meet on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. and would love to talk to him about Scouting. Thank you to the congregation at Kernersville Moravian for its continued support of our boys and the Scouting Program. Mission Sunday will be October 23. Our Reverend Cindy Williams will be guest speaker at both ser-vices. The entire congregation is invited to a pot luck luncheon after the 11:00 service. Cindy Williams and Don Vance have a very informative and interesting presentation from their mission trip this summer to Ray of Hope Orphanage, in Kenya, Africa. Please make plans to come and support our KMC Team. KMC-Shredding Event - Start cleaning out those important papers that need to be shredded. The event will be on Saturday, November 12 from 10 a.m - 1 p.m. Proceeds go to support Youth Missions and Global Missions. Help spread the word to your family and neighbors. Nursery Information - This has been a year of change for our nursery area. Our goal is to provide a safe, happy environment for our young families. To that end, we decided to continue to have a paid em-ployee available each Sunday morning, usually the same person. To assist her, we are asking for congre-gational volunteers. We have two time slots – from 8:30 a.m. until Sunday School starts and from 10:45 a.m. until church is over. During this time, we simply engage the children, encouraging them as they create Lego masterpieces, play with puzzles, read, draw, or serve up fancy meals, usually hotdogs. We also decided to provide childcare two nights a week so that our parents with young children could more fully participate in church life. We have hired someone to be available during those times, but we also want to provide a congregational volunteer to assist her. Again, the primary role of the volunteer is to be another set of eyes and hands, actively playing with the children. This is still fairly new and we may continue to make changes, but our current time slots are each Monday, from 6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (or when children are gone) and each Wednesday, from 5:55 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (or when children are gone). Who can volunteer? We are working towards using the guidelines provided in our Safe Sanctuary policy and we will ask that each volunteer undergo drug testing and a criminal background check. If you have not yet done this, please let Lisa Mullen know. This process will take time, so you may continue to volun-teer in the interim. We are looking for additional people to volunteer in the nursery. Come with gladness in your heart and you will be amazed by our children. This is not a hard job, but it is very important. We recognize that evenings are hard for most of us – we all eagerly long for soft, fuzzy slippers and com-fy couches – but if we wait for our ideal time to volunteer, we may miss a wonderful opportunity. To volun-teer, simply sign-up on the sheet provided outside the nursery, or call the church office.

Trustees Meeting Minutes for September

The church telephone system is not working properly. Quotes to replace with current technology are being obtained.

Preschool will install a raised bed planter outside a classroom window to help with their curriculum.

Concrete work behind chapel leading to graveyard has been replaced.

The bridge from Activity Building to Family Shelter is being replaced as an Eagle Scout project.

Lower level carpets are scheduled for clean-ing in October.

Fellowship Hall, Youth center, and Preschool floors all need to be cleaned with a Swiffer and vinegar water rather than a mop and bucket of water to prevent damage to floor tiles.

Community Outreach is gearing up for Christmas Stocking. Crop Walk will be Octo-ber 16

th.

Trustees are working on a Long Term Plan-ning agenda for anticipated expenditures.

Both bathrooms downstairs will be designat-ed for unisex usage. They will be painted, and have new flooring installed.

All church windows, except stained glass, will be professionally cleaned inside and out.

Next Trustee meeting will be October 9th.

Elders Meeting Minutes for September

Groups continuing to clean and re arrange clos-ets of the church

Appointed Ron Manring and Cletra Wormley for members at large for nominating committee

Began discussion for new church picture directo-ry

Approved motion to begin process for Cindy Williams to be an Acolyte of church

October Volunteers Greeters October 2, 2016 8:45 - Susan Hough 11:00 - Duane & Julia Long, Chris & Heather Smitherman, Linda Holder October 9, 2016 8:45 - Rod Hall 11:00 - Sandra Jennings, Brenda Teague, Justin & Lauren Stultz October 16, 2016 8:45 - Roy Bredal 11:00 - Charlene Surratt, Larry & Bobby Hayes, John & Sylvia Ford October 23, 2016 8:45 - Andy & Charlotte Smith 11:00 - Susan Butler, Gary & Sylvia Lewis, Jim & Alisha Webb October 30, 2016 8:45 - Barbara Carter 11:00 - Suzy Fuehler, Sara Vestich, Rick & Gwyn Grubbs Nursery & *Godly Play October 2, 2016 8:45 - Darlene & Eddie Boyce 11:00 - Linda Kirkman *No Godly Play October 9, 2016 8:45 - David Teague 11:00 - Melissa Swain *Suzy Fuehler, Clara Fuehler October 16, 2016 8:45 - Kathleen O’Brien 11:00 - Open *Brandi Rights, Lisa Mullen October 23, 2016 8:45 - Marsha Flynt 11:00 - Open *Alisha Webb October 30, 2016 8:45 - Suellen Thompson 11:00 - Brenda Teague *Stephanie Helsabeck Ushers & *Sound October 2, 2016 8:45 - Open 11:00 - Sara Vestich *Steve Ebert October 9, 2016 8:45 - Ron Smith 11:00 - Open *Preston Steelman October 16, 2016 8:45 - Open 11:00 - Open *Steve Ebert October 23, 2016 8:45 - Open 11:00 - Vance O’Brien, J Van Williard *Preston Steelman October 30, 2016 8:45 - Open 11:00 - Larry & Bobby Hayes *Steve Mann Church Sign: Susan Kerner & Lansing Hewitt

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CANDLE TEA UPDATE

SAVE THE DATE

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Begin now to invite friends and neighbors to save this date for celebrating the 2016 new and exciting Candle Tea. The committee is continuing with plans to involve the congregation in all aspects of the Candle Tea and as usual, we will need folks to participate in the following:

CRAFTS WORKSHOP - See related article below.

BAKED GOODS - We would appreciate the usual cakes, pies, breads, etc. but would like to add small amounts of homemade candies, peanut brittle, cheese straws, pickles, jellies, Russian Tea and hot chocolate mixes if possible.

SIGN UP SHEETS - will be circulated to classes and groups during November and we hope you will be able to take part in this event.

The Candle Tea was organized more than 25 years ago as a gift to the Kernersville Community. It has been a wonderful way to introduce who we are as Moravians to folks who move to our area. We hope you will make plans to participate and attend this “Kernersville Christmas Tradition” with family and friends.

CANDLE TEA CRAFT WORKSHOP

A workshop to make crafts for sale at Candle Tea will be held on Wednesday, October 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Carol Vance has agreed to lead the group in making artifi-cial advent wreaths as well as a brief bow making session. Some smaller crafts items will be made during the evening. Nursery provided. Please make plans to attend all or any part of the workshop to assist us in making items to enhance our Candle Tea.