JUNE 2018JUNE 2018

FAIRVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFAIRVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

The FlameThe Flame

† Go and Make Disciples † Commission on a Way Forward † Youth

Mission Trip † 2018 Graduates † Annual Conference † Shipwrecked:

Rescued by Jesus † 2018 Confirmands † Father’s Day Fundraiser

Fairview family and friends,

It’s hard to believe that summer is almost here! School is out, the

temperatures are getting hotter, and now we long for those cool fall days (and

perhaps are even wishing for some snow again)! At the end of this month we will

hold Vacation Bible School (VBS) for a week of teaching, music and fun for

children of all ages. (Many hands and feet are needed to help make this ministry

happen, so remember, when Katherine Lewis calls asking you to serve, “just say yes!”) VBS is a chance for

children in our community to hear the good news of Jesus Christ and experience the love of Christ. For some

of these children, this may be the first time they’ll have the gospel shared with them, and for others this may

be the only time they come to church all year.

These truths remind me of just how important it is for us to take seriously the call of Christ to “go and

make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20). We live in the city of

churches and yet there are children, youth and adults in our community who do not know the love of Christ in

their hearts and lives. There are families struggling with addiction, hunger, violence, and more. These families

need to know the good news of Jesus’ crucifixion, death, and resurrection in their lives so they can experience

the freedom, forgiveness, and new life that is possible today.

This begins with our willingness and eagerness to share God’s love with others. Our youth mission team

is in Kentucky the first week of this month doing this very work through the UM ARMY. As they help with

construction and other projects they are also sharing their faith and the love of God through Christ with others.

We will do this important life-changing work with the children who gather at the end of the month for VBS,

but our call is not limited to these couple of opportunities.

Last year, the Evangelism Committee challenged the congregation to bring a friend to church for our

church picnic – and you all responded faithfully to it! Our church picnic was an awesome morning of worship

followed by a great meal, music, fun, fellowship, and pies for our staff for each friend who came! This fall the

Evangelism Committee will be challenging you to invite a friend again for our church picnic (date TBA), but I

want to challenge you to do this each week. Invite a friend, neighbor, co-worker, or family member who

doesn’t know Jesus Christ as their savior to come worship with you, attend your Sunday School class or Bible

study, come to youth group or JUMP, or other ministries and events at Fairview.

With so much hurt, pain, and suffering in the world, we can be part of spreading God’s love by sharing

hope and caring for others in their time of need, but we must be intentional, devoted, committed followers of

Christ to do so. Think of where you would be today — how you would face each day — without a personal

relationship with Jesus Christ. Be in prayer for all those who feel hopeless, lost and broken each day and ask

God to open the door for you to share Christ with them in the coming days. And as you do, remember Christ’s

promise in the last verse of Matthew 28, “and surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Thanks be to God!

Grace & Peace,

Pastor Coffey

June 15-17, Virginia United Methodist lay delegates and clergy will gather in Hampton for the 2018

VAUMC Annual Conference. Along with annual business, reports, worship, and more, this year’s gathering will

include a day of service in and around the Hampton area. Please keep our Fairview delegates and pastor in your

prayers for Annual Conference.

In 2019, the UMC will hold a special general conference to look at the work and discernment of the Council

of Bishops and Commission on a Way Forward.

At their most recent meeting, the Council of Bishops approved a motion from their process of prayer and

discernment which will be submitted in July as a proposal for the special called general conference in 2019. The

motion is a One Church Plan which provides conferences, churches, and pastors the flexibility to reach their

missional context and remain connected as one UMC. In this plan, the restrictive language around human sexuality

would be removed from the Book of Discipline while providing assurance that no pastors or conferences would be

required to perform same-sex weddings or ordain homosexuals against their theological convictions. This motion

will be outlined more fully in July when it is submitted for general conference, and this motion along with any

others received will be considered and voted on in 2019 at the special general conference. More information and

updates can be found at https://vaumc.org/WayForward and http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/commission-on-a-way

-forward.

In addition, the Danville District will hold informational meetings on Sunday June 3 to share more about

this upcoming special general conference. There will be one from 2:00-3:30 pm at First UMC in Martinsville and

from 4:30-6:00 pm at Rocky Mount UMC in Rocky Mount. All are invited to come learn more as we pray and look

ahead at the mission and ministry of the UMC.

Mission Trip Mission Trip Mission Trip

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Annual Conference Annual Conference Annual Conference

VBS VBS VBS

Please be in prayer for our Mission Team as we travel to Kentucky with

UM ARMY. We will be doing mission work June 3-8.

Jackson Boles, Shaffer Boles, Madisyn Grogan, Cole Grogan,

Ben Woodard, Meghan Harden, Dylan Aron, Nick Langley,

Austin Salmon, Aaron Salmon, Parker Holt, Hallie Holt,

Chaz Nickens, Austin Scearce, Desirae Cramer, Jackson Jones,

Peyton McBride, Elisabeth McBride, Jamie Holt, Michelle Holt,

Robert Dickerson, Kaitlyn Sage, Juli Odell, Miranda Harden

We will be sharing our testimonies in worship on June 10.

BACKPACK MINISTRY

Jesus said in Luke 22:26-27, “. . .but let him who is the greatest among

you become as the youngest and the leader, as the servant. . .I am among

you as one who serves.”

What a joy and privilege it has been to see how our congregation, whether

older or younger, became servants as we lifted up and served the hungry children

from Park Avenue Elementary School. This ministry has delivered 104 bags to be placed in the backpacks of

104 children every week from September through May. The last 104 bags for this school year have been

delivered!

It is with great gratitude that we thank each “servant” who participated, set up, packed, delivered bags

or served as captains, built our food closet and purchased, delivered, and stocked all the food!

This ministry will continue and I encourage each of us to live out the example of our servant, Jesus.

Please continue to support the Backpack Ministry with your prayers, participation, and financial pledges as

we plan for the next school year. Thank you again.

Please call Lynn Clark 434-792-6514 or Suzanne Giffen 434-822-1727 to join a team for the fall.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

LOVE GOD, SHARE HOPE, SERVE ALL!

School’s out for summer! I’m so glad to be into summer time full swing. There

is so much fun to be had during the summer months. The next 10 weeks will have lots

of intentional fellowship times that I pray you will plan to be a part of.

JUMP will continue to run through the summer. We meet each Sunday night

from 6-8. I am excited that the kids are working on a series about emotions and feelings

using emojis. I plan for us to have fun while we learn a lot as well. This program is

continuing to be a blessing to me each week. We could use a few more adults to add to

our rotations for dinner and supervision. Let me know if you can help. JUMP will meet

June 3, 10 and 17.

I am thrilled that we will once again have our Wonderful Wednesday Program.

Planning is almost complete for the whole summer and we will have so much fun on our

adventures. If you would like a front row seat to watch our kids be the hands and feet of Jesus, plan to join us! We can

always use more hands and eyes to help! For the month of June we will meet June 6, 13, and 20.

Our other big outreach opportunity is Vacation Bible School. That will be the week of June 24-28th. If you

have not already registered your child, please do so as soon as possible. That makes it so much easier on our ladies

doing registration. It will also help us with our t-shirt order to make it as accurate as possible. Join us as we meet a

shipwrecked castaway who will share stories of Jesus and how he saved us. Dr. Nosa is also planning on being back

with us for the science experiments, we will have yummy snacks, lots of fun games, awesome worship music, and fun

crafts to round out each night. I am also working on some ideas for the last night……we’ll see what that looks like!

Thanks in advance to all who will serve this week. It takes so many hands to make this machine work smoothly. I am

thankful for each of you and your willingness to serve.

Keep watching for more info on other events and exciting happenings here at Fairview! We are already

working on planning for fall as well so if you have ideas I would love to hear them!

Blessings to each of you!

Kate

We would like to offer our most sincere thanks for

the visits, prayers, kind words, meals, flowers,

cards, and other kindnesses you shared with Anne

and with our family over the past few months.

Thank you so very much for your love, care, prayer,

and support during this most difficult of times.

The Family of Anne Mitchell

Each of you should use whatever gift you have

received to serve others, as faithful stewards of

God’s grace in its various forms.

I Peter 4:10

Livestreaming of Conference Sessions and Sunday Worship Annual Conference will be available on livestream again this year and local churches will also be invited

to participate in Sunday morning worship led by Bishop Sharma Lewis. The Annual Conference

Committee is working on details. Information will be shared as it is made available.

The link to the live stream will be available beginning Friday, June 15 at 9 a.m.

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1 Jonathan Coffey

Linda Jarosz

Brian Wiles

6 Sharon Campbell

Jamie McBride

7 Cayla Fuqua

Brian Salmon

8 Jim Jennings

Jack Soyars

9 Bobbie Nordon

11 Francis Berger

13 Kayren Turner

Kenneth Turner

14 Kristen Aron

16 Hallie Holt

18 Jackson Boles

19 Dylan Aron

21 Kolby Ferris

24 Annette McQuinn

25 Steven Ashworth

26 Bonny Shelton

27 Acie Brooks, III

Sue Phillips

28 Peyton McBride

29 Rev. Jennifer Coffey

Bethany Dillion

Gary Knick

Bill Traynham

1 Vic & Lindsey Brooks

3 Jamie & Michele Holt

5 Stephen & Rev. Jennifer Coffey

12 Carl & Alice Evans

14 Buford & Dot Wright

15 Marvin & Holly Fuqua

16 Jerry & Peggy Soyars

17 James & June Scheier

18 Michael & Holly Connor

19 Garland & Liza Walker

21 Saunders & Wendy Brooks

25 Kevin & Ashley Ferrell

28 Sam & Barbara Swanson

28 Roy & Martha Younger

Trustees June 4 at 6:00 pm

Finance June 11 at 7:00 pm

Worship June 12 at 11:00 am

Education June 14 at 7:00 pm

Becky’s Kiddie Kollege (BKK) Board

June 18 at 12:30 pm

Administrative Council

June 18 at 7:00 pm

Join us each 3rd Saturday from 12-1 pm in the pavilion

behind the church as we serve lunch and provide free

clothes and supplies to those in need in our community.

Our next event will be on Saturday, June 16. We are

now collecting spring/summer clothing, especially

men’s clothing and shoes. See Martha Mitchell if you

would like to volunteer in any capacity.

April 2018 10:00 Third Option Offering

29 123 n/a $ 9,732.00

May 2018 8:30 11:00 Third Option Offering

6 85 57 4 $ 13,159.00

13 108 52 6 $ 11,860.00

20 74 84 9 $ 8,992.40

27 76 60 7 $ 3,493.00

Average Weekly Giving in May 2018:

$ 9,376.10

Average weekly giving Year to Date 2018:

$ 8,543.93

Weekly Contributions Needed to Meet Budget:

$ 9,665.56

2018 Budget amended by Admin Board :

$ 502,609.00

June 1 Psalm 119:89-176

June 2 Song of Solomon 1-8

June 3 Proverbs 1-3

June 4 Proverbs 4-6

June 5 Proverbs 7-9

June 6 Proverbs 10-12

June 7 Proverbs 13-15

June 8 Proverbs 16-18

June 9 Proverbs 19-21

June 10 Proverbs 22-24

June 11 1 Kings 5-6,

2 Chronicles 2-3

June 12 1 Kings 7,

2 Chronicles 4

June 13 1 Kings 8,

2 Chronicles 5

June 14 2 Chronicles 6-7,

Psalm 136

June 15 Psalm 134, 146-150

June 16 1 Kings 9,

2 Chronicles 8

June 17 Proverbs 25-26

June 18 Proverbs 27-29

June 19 Ecclesiastes 1-6

June 20 Ecclesiastes 7-12

June 21 1 Kings 10-11,

2 Chronicles 9

June 22 Proverbs 30-31

June 23 1 Kings 12-14

June 24 2 Chronicles 10-12

June 25 1 Kings 15:1-24,

2 Chronicles 13-16

June 26 1 Kings 15:25-16:34,

2 Chronicles 17

June 27 1 Kings 17-19

June 28 1 Kings 20-21

June 29 1 Kings 22,

2 Chronicles 18

June 30 2 Chronicles 19-23

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