04/21/12
Desserts Needed for Auction!
Calling all wonderful St. Paul cooks and the rest of us who know how to get to the nearest bakery! We will need lots of great dessert items to finish off our spaghetti dinner on Saturday, April 21. Please bring your dessert to the dinner on Saturday or they can be dropped off at the church on Friday the 20th and left in the kitchen. Please label items left in the kitchen "Auction dinner". Thank you! Contact Lee Gray @ 738-3910 with any questions.
Remember Gray Southern?
Have you heard the news about our former Associate Pastor Gray Southern? The North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church has nominated Gray to serve in the office of Bishop. That is about as high a rank as it gets in the Methodist Church. Gray is both humbled and honored to be nominated. If elected, he would not actually serve in North Carolina but would instead lead another Conference in the southeastern United States. Gray is one of approximately 10 nominees to fill 5 positions.
To promote Gray as their nominee, the Conference will spend approximately $7,000 to $10,000 to “introduce” Gray to the delegates of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The funds will be used for mailings, video productions, and publications. To that end, the Conference is asking that anyone who wishes make a contribution to this effort to get Gray elected. If you would like to help him, please make a check out to “North Carolina Conference, United Methodist Church” and put “Episcopal Nominee” on the memo line. The check should be mailed to Christine Dodson, Conference Treasurer, PO Box 1970, Garner NC 27529.
Additionally, please keep Gray in your prayers in the months ahead. The actual election will occur this summer. He will certainly be grateful for the prayers and support from his old friends from St. Paul.
Charlie Rouse, Church Council Chairman
MUSIC FUND
The high quality gift wrap, chocolates and gift items sold by the Sanctuary Choir in September are available all year long at: www.innisbrook.com
Simply click on “Shop the Innisbrook Online Store” link, enter “Goldsboro” and “NC” on the search page, then select St. Paul from the list. Place your order online and our choir will get credit for your purchase!
Youth Ministry Needs
- A new basic dishwasher in our kitchen.
- A new basic refrigerator w/ ice maker.
- New laminate flooring for hallway. (approx. 151 sq feet)
- New drop ceiling for hallway with lighting. (approx. 151 sq feet)
we need a new Children's Church area!
Looking for a service project? We are expanding our Children’s Church area to include a second room! Rev. Beth for details and to volunteer to help.We need: cleaners, organizers and painters!
The Grounds Committee is in need of help-
If you have one to three hours a week available and would like to be of help, please contact Rufus Brown @ 735-8560.
Join the AUDIO/VIDEO TEAM!
We need additional people to join an amazing group of people who work behind the scenes to make sure our worship services and events are seen and heard! If you have A/V experience, great; if not, don’t worry. We will teach you all you need to know. It’s easy and you may only need to help out once a month. We have two major venues: the Fellowship Hall working with Contemporary Worship and the Sanctuary working with Traditional Worship. We have needs in both areas, plus we need additional help to edit the TV broadcast. Contact Bill Gaines or Brian Gurley for more information.
A MASSIVE UPGRADE! Over the past few weeks we have been upgrading the audio and video systems in the Fellowship Hall. The video system is complete and the additional sound upgrades should be installed this week. These upgrades and been sorely needed and a little costly.
Please help us offset the cost of these projects by marking your donations: ST. PAUL AV.
We are also adding new speakers under the balcony of the sanctuary to boost the signal from the main speakers. We are constantly working to improve and upgrade our systems to make all worship experiences the best they can be.
Be sure to thank all those who serve on the AV TEAM!
MIDDLE SCHOOL MAYHEM! With our continued growth in middle school youth, we have decided to expand into another space within the Youth Suite — that’s the good news! The bad news is — we still have to remodel the new space. It needs a new suspended ceiling, walls repaired and painted and a really cool wood floor refinished. We need donations to make this space ready for our youth. Can you help? See Brian for more details.
UMYF Needs:
A standard cabinet mount dishwasher for the Youth Suite kitchen
Additional volunteer Youth Counselors
Middle School Sunday School teachers
21” + flat screen stage monitor
Donations for the middle school Youth Room
Sallie Irby Youth Scholarship Fund
Would you like to help a youth attend a trip or retreat? Maybe that person wants to go but lacks the funds to do it. In comes Sallie Irby! With this fund, we help meet the need to pay for those who want to attend a trip or retreat. Speak to someone in the church office to donate to this fund!
we need some help...here-
WE STILL NEED YOU!
We have had a few responses to our needs, but we still need help in the following areas. Please contact Rev. Beth this week to become a team player!
∗ Children’s Sunday School substitute (as needed on Sundays, 9:45 — 10:30 AM)
∗ Welcome Center host (Sundays, before and after worship times)
∗ Children’s Church leaders (Sundays, 11:20 AM — 12 noon)
∗ Classroom organizer (put the crayons back in the boxes, etc., at your convenience)
Leave a Legacy
Do you want to contribute to God’s Kingdom for Eternity?
Call John Best, St. Paul Legacy Leader @ 919-440-0107!
We need help with the television ministry team. Can you edit or run a camera? If not, we can train you and it's so simple! We also need members to learn to run the sound board. Contact Brian for more information on joining this ministry of St. Paul UMC.
Want to help with emergency aid?
Here are some ways to do so: