2022 YEAR OF MINISTRY A
ADULT FORMATION
RECAP OF THE
• Over 100 people participated in our weekday course offerings this fall.
• Sunday School ministry grew with the addition of the Parents Foundation class.
• Chapel Class – crossed $400,000 in Christmas collections for Salvation Army over 25 years.
CHILDREN’S
MINISTRY
• VBS 2022 was Monumental in many ways. We shared the Good News of God’s love with 97 kids with the help of 74 volunteers and fully lived into our renovated building for the first time offering two separate opening celebrations to help our kids have the best start to their days.
CONGREGATIONAL CARE
viewership in 17 states each week in 52 cities with 299 unique page views.
• We continue to celebrate the importance and growth of our church website not only to our membership but to the Winston-Salem community and world. As of December 22, the website home page has been visited 21,255 times. Other top links on our website include live stream (17,164), ministries (3,367), engage (3,120), worship services (3,119) and ministry team (2,275).
EVANGELISM
• Stephen Ministry, Shining Light on Mental Health ministry, and GriefShare seminars offered support and care to dozens within our congregation and community experiencing difficult seasons of life.
COMMUNICATIONS
• Bridges Special Needs Ministry got off the ground offering monthly Kids Night In. These events are for kids with special needs and their typically developing siblings. This adventure began in June and has so far served approximately 12 different families.
• Angel Tree ministry provided gifts for over 200 children and had a wrapping party to wrap all of the gifts. 40 church family members wrapped all of these gifts!
• In 2022, our podcast, “Heart, Mind & Soul,” was played/ listened to 16,194 times. Our audience is not only in the United States but in at least 36 countries across the globe.
• The Sunday morning 11am live stream worship service continues to be a vital link to a growing audience across the United States and around the world. The Live Stream averages
• Held a community-wide Block Party with Engagement Fair, Bounce House, Food Trucks and Martha Bassett Band.
• 10 families joined our church by the end of the year. Not including confirmands or baptisms.
JUSTICE & RECONCILIATION
•As part of our efforts to create a Men’s program, we have been actively inviting men to participate in local mission work with:
• Overflow Shelter Bus driver/ rider • Samaritan Lowes Food Pick Up • WS Street SchoolServe Lunch • Theology on Tap • Forsyth Jail & Prison Ministries-Support Sunday
• Night Worship • UMAR Basketball Outing • UMAR Christmas Decoration of 2 Homes • Salvation Army Bell Ringers • Potters HouseTanglewood/Dinner.
MEN’S MINISTRY MISSIONS
• $206,300 given in Mission Grants. That doesn’t include everything else that was given to those who didn’t apply like “A Bed and A Book” or “Rise Against Hunger.”
• Over 18,000 meals packaged at “Rise Against Hunger.”
• 40 beds built for children in Forsyth county.
• Voter registration and election awareness
God is glorified that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. (John 15:8)
• Loaves and Fishes
Food: We gave out 17,718 pounds of food to 295 households representing 504 individuals.
Financial Aid: $122,941.58 to 362 clients
MUSIC & THE ARTS
• Our LISTEN events averaged 70 people.
• Inaugural Children’s Music & Art Camp (August)
• Inception (March) of Community Kindermusik Collaborative, partnering with W-S Childcare Resource Center and other downtown service organizations
• Launch (September) of Art in the Atrium Series
SENIOR ADULTS
• Partnership with the Street School to form the Twin City Basketball Conference. There are three other churches that have come alongside us for this inaugural year (St Paul’s Episcopal, First Presbyterian, and the Greek Orthodox Church). We have 15 boys and 3 coaches. The conference has approximately 70 players.
• We sent 80 college and boarding school care packages for winter exams. We had 20 college students for College Friendsgiving.
• Love Thy Neighbor has finally come back in full force. Our Justice and Reconciliation ministry team partnered with us to help neighbors register to vote. Our Chancel Choir came to our December LTN where we served 175 meals and we saw 25 patients in the clinic.
• Monthly in-person luncheons including the following:
• Dr. Werner Bischoff, Professor, Infectious Diseases at Wake Forest School of Medicine
• Margaret Ann Zintner, soloist
• Eric Aft, the Chief Executive Officer of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC
• Deanna Kaplan, the chairwoman of the WinstonSalem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education
• Dr. Frank Rayburn, retired professor from the University of Alabama
• Katherine Watts, Vice-President for Strategic Initiatives at Salem College
• Jon Roethling, Director of Reynolda Gardens
• Catrina A. Thompson, Winston-Salem Chief of Police
• Terry Taylor, President and CEO of Old Salem
UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH
2022 MINISTRY BY THE NUMBERS
MEMBERSHIP 2302
RECEIVED ON PROFESSION OF FAITH
26 BAPTISMS
17
AVERAGE WORSHIP ATTENDANCE 734
CHILDREN, YOUTH, & ADULTS PARTICIPATING IN FAITH FORMATION GROUPS 659
NUMBER OF SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES AND SMALL GROUPS ON A SUNDAY 24
NUMBER OF SMALL GROUPS OR SUPPORT GROUPS
7
NUMBER OF SHORT-TERM CLASSES AND GROUPS
15
NUMBER OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES SUPPORTED
31
27 of which help the poor/socially marginalized
NUMBER OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN MISSIONS 250
• UWF/UMW met obligations and additional giving during the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 COVID-19 years. We did not meet in person in part of 2019, 2020, and 2021.
• In 2022, UWF gave a combined financial support of $23,109 to global, national and local ministries.
• Circles provided contributions and services to 27 local agencies.
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF PERSONS HELPED BY OUR MISSION EFFORTS 20,000 Centenary
