Live and Love as Christ August 2018 Vol. 18, Issue 8

The Parables and Pura Vida 2018 Kings Mountain Community

Vacation Bible School August 5th-9th at CUMC 5:00-8:00pm

For more information, please contact the church office at 704-739-2471, see Mallory Brown

or visit our Facebook page.

Family Fellowship for August will be a Central Game Night! During our time, we will have several different games set up at tables

in the CAC as we eat dinner. If you don’t know how to play a certain game, someone will teach you! Some games included are:

Scrabble, Bananagrams, Checkers, and Uno.

If you have a game you love and think others would catch on, bring it along.

There will be special games for children as well that Mallory Brown will lead. So, please join together to have a little gaming fun on

August 15th at 6:15 in the CAC. To RSVP, please contact the church office at

704-739-2471 or central@cumckm.org by August 13th.

We value educators of all kinds at CUMC. Please join us for a special Sunday before school begins on August 26 during both services. We will honor both educators in our schools and in our church with a prayer and gift.

Family Fellowship

Game Night

Wednesday,

August 15, 2018

6:15pm

Pork Butt Sale Fundraiser Choose Whole or Chopped

Cost: $40 each

Tickets now available, see a member of the Costa Rica Mission Team to place your order. Make checks payable to Central United Methodist Church

and the memo line should read donation.

Pork Butts can be picked up on Saturday, September 1st around noon at CUMC

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Central United Methodist Church of Kings Mountain

113 S. Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, NC 28086

central@cumckm.org www.cumckm.org

704-739-2471

Office Hours:

Monday-Friday 8:30am —12:30pm

1:00pm—4:30pm

Staff: Pastor, Billy Towery

Youth Ministry & Director of Discipleship, Aaron Simmons

Children’s Minister & Christian Education, Mallory Brown

Organist, Doug Parker

Music Director, Carlos Zamora

Handbell/Drama Director, Teresa Williams

Preschool Director, Lindsay Romesberg

Administrative Assistant, Candy Love

Fall Book Study Beginning in September

Starting this September, Mallory Brown invites you to meet her on Tuesday evenings at 6:00pm in the Asbury Room for a group book study of Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. This book explores the classic spiritual disciplines that make for a

balanced spiritual life. Together, we will read this book and pull in key biblical passages that illuminate the different practices in which Foster writes. The study will be 8-12 weeks long. If you are interested, please let Mallory know. You will purchase the book yourself. It can be found on Amazon and other online platforms and perhaps even in the used book store in Shelby on Washington Street. For the study, all you need is a willingness to learn, the book, your Bible, a pen, and notebook. Snacks, coffee, and water will be provided.

A History Minute by Libby Putnam

When Judy Norwood,

husband Odell, and sons

Roy and Mike moved to

Kings Mountain from

Belmont in 1966, they

moved their church

membership from Park

Street Methodist to

Central. Rev. Howard Jordan was the minister at

that time and services were being held in the

fellowship hall while the present sanctuary was

under construction. Both Judy and Odell were soon

involved with the children and youth at

Central. Mary Kleeper started a play school where

Maude Harper (Patterson) and Judy worked. Judy

remembers the Hamilton boys, O'Kelly Smith, Paul

Hendricks, Carrie Dilling, and Julie Rhea being the

youngest child. Odell not only taught the Young

Adult Class, but he also worked with the youth and

on occasion was called on to preach when one of

the preachers was away. Judy was a member of the

church choir and was active in the United Methodist

Women. A special memory for her was when her

granddaughter, Nikki, was baptized by Rev. Bob

Little and he carried her down the aisle so everyone

could see her, a new tradition for our church. Judy

cherishes the love shown to her and her family by

our church family when Odell, who had touched so

many lives, passed in 1993. Judy acknowledges

that the church has grown a lot since her family first

became members in 1966 and she feels sure it will

continue to grow.

We have had many wonderful responses to our project of gathering the history of our church and our members. These responses will be shared in the History Minute each month, and can be seen in a notebook we are compiling.

CENTRALPRAYERPARTNERS

We covenant to pray daily for Central

United Methodist Church, our leaders, our

ministries and our witness. Together we will

seek the presence and power of God to

fashion and develop this church and our

very lives with a culture of discipleship, a

heart for missions, authentic relationships,

divine discernment, faithful proclamation,

passionate witnessing and anointed

leadership—that the kingdom of God, as

revealed through the person of Jesus

Christ and expressed through the witness

of the Holy Spirit, may grow and be made

manifest in our midst.

Judy Norwood

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Hello! I'm excited about this summer. Below is our schedule of events. We will very possibly throw in some spontaneous outing but these are what's on the calendar: Aug 5th-9th VBS Aug 14th Knights Game Aug 22nd Wed Night Meet Up 6pm-7pm Aug 27th First day of School CCS Thank you so much for letting me work with your children! Aaron Simmons Youth Director/Director of Discipleship 704-472-1725

CENTRAL UMC NEWS SAVE THE DATE! Our Annual Fall Festival will be on Sunday, October 28, 2018. KM COMMUNITY KITCHEN NEWS We are in need of Thursday afternoon delivery drivers (weekly or rotating). The time commitment is about 1 hour. Please contact church office for more information. We are also in need of plastic shopping bags. Please bring your donations to the church office, or drop off in the Community Kitchen. Thanks for your support! DONATIONS NEEDED The Blessing Box was Gracie Plonk's Senior Project and it is now being used daily by many people in the community! Most needed items are for personal hygiene. The Blessing Box is open 24/7 and you can put your donations directly into the box or take what you need. UNCLAIMED DISHES We have a few unclaimed dishes from previous covered dish dinners. They are located on a table in the CAC if you’d like to claim them. After August they will be donated. STORAGE/LINEN CLOSET If you have borrowed anything from our linen/storage closet for an event or party, please return as soon as you can. KINGS MOUNTAIN CRISIS MINISTRY We are continuing to collect oatmeal and cornflakes to donate to Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry. Your donation will help so many people in our community. The collection box is located in front of the Youth Director’s office. Thanks for your support! COMMODITY APPLICATIONS We are accepting Commodity Applications now through August 13th by noon. Applicants must live in Cleveland County and meet income guidelines. Applications are available in the church office and during Community Kitchen.

The UMYF visited Jacksonville, Florida and completed mission work in the surrounding community. UMYF members painted houses, helped clean up yards and did some light carpentry. Below are some photos of their travels. They also got to visit a state park and an aquarium.

Central United Methodist Church 113 South Piedmont Avenue Kings Mountain, NC 28086

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Peggy Ramey c/o White Oak Maner 716 Sites Street Room 101 Kings Mountain NC 28086

A Message from Mallory Brown...

This summer, I have had the privilege of having three different

guilds on various days throughout the week. Some are still going

on. However, the Little Ones Guild ended July 25. This guild, for

ages 3-5, occurred three consecutive Wednesdays in July.

During our time, I got to know two sweet 5-year-old boys and

one 4-year-old-girl. If you have not taken the time to get to know

the children at CUMC, you are missing out.

Each week, we met on the playground in the cool of the summer

morning and continued our day from there. Our playground is a

host to so much laughter, play, and community. It is truly a

sacred space. Thankfully, Mauney Memorial Library offers such

fantastic programs each Wednesday in which we participated.

After lunch, I told a Godly Play story to our group. These

sessions were my first opportunities to tell Godly Play stories

with the children at our church. Each story was a holy moment

for me and, I hope, for the children. The stories I told were:

Creation, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the Parable of the Sower. My three participants

asked the most intriguing questions regarding each story such as, “Why would someone be so

mean to the man on the road?” and “My favorite day is when God made sharks,” and “Why would

the sower plant seeds in the thorns?” Hearing children wonder aloud is something we all need to

bear witness to.

As VBS is only a few days away, I ask you to pray for our children, the ones involved in our church

and the ones in our community at large. Each night during VBS, I will tell four parables using the

Godly Play method of storytelling. I am excited for VBS but more excited to hear the questions and

wondering of our children. I learn most about faith from children. I invite you to learn from them as

well. Mallory Brown Children’s Minister & Christian Education

Little Ones Guild during story time.