SUNDAY • OCTOBER 20, 2024
“Conversations Across the Aisle: Our Public Witness”
Matthew 5:3-16
Preaching
Rev. Dr. P. Glenn Kinken III Senior Minister
Liturgist
Tammy Pollock Director of Youth Ministries
Music
Keith Byrd Alternative Music Leader
Zakiyyah Niang, vocals
Ahmad Johnson, vocals
Rodney Archie, vocals
Noah Clark, guitar
Doug Wright, bass
Jacob Anflick, drums
CELEBRATIONS & CONCERNS
Today we celebrate the baptism of Barnes Walker Burr, son of Tyler and Meg Burr and brother of Rooney Burr.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY
STUDENTS WITH FULL BELLIES ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL
Centenary has the privilege of partnering with the Backpack Program organized by Second Harvest Food Bank. We are currently partnered with Brunson Elementary, Wiley Middle School, Reynolds High School and the Winston-Salem Street School. This program helps provide food for students who receive free breakfast and lunch at school through the year, but may not have access to food over the weekends. For just $200, you can feed a child on the weekends for a whole school year! If you’re interested in getting involved, please contact Anna Thomas (athomas@ centenary-ws.org/ext. 1332).
ANGEL TREE HELPERS NEEDED
If you are interested in helping us with this amazing opportunity to show God’s love to kids in our city, besides adopting angels once they’re on the trees, we are looking for people to help enter data, set up trees with angels on them, help people choose and sign out angels on Sunday mornings, organize gifts and pick up assistance! Contact Anna Thomas (athomas@centenary-ws.org/ext. 1332) for more information.
SAVE THE DATES FOR SUMMER
VBS: June 16-19
Camp Tekoa: July 14-17
OEMW: July 22-24
CONGREGATIONAL CARE
REFRESH PRAYER MINISTRY
WEDNESDAYS • NOON-12:45 PM
SANCTUARY
Join the Refresh Prayer Ministry for a midweek service of reflection, music, and prayer. From Noon-12:15 pm there will be a time for quiet reflection with music, and then the service will begin at 12:15 pm and finish by 12:45 pm. Parking will be available in the Fifth Street parking lot, and you may enter from the Fifth Street entrance to the sanctuary. Services begin November 6, continue through December 11, and will resume in January. For more information, contact Rev. Oliver Helsabeck or Becky Tate.
MUSIC & ARTS
CHILCOTT REQUIEM
SUNDAY • NOVEMBER 3 • 11:00 AM
Join us in worship as we observe All Saints’ Day with a service featuring Bob Chilcott’s Requiem, a multi-movement work for chorus, soloists, and chamber orchestra.
UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH
SANCTUARY ORNAMENT
Centenary United Methodist United Women in Faith (UWF) are offering a limitededition Centenary Sanctuary ornament. The ornaments are hand-painted and made of blown glass. They include a historically accurate depiction of Centenary’s Sanctuary stained-glass windows. The measurements are 5 ¾” (length) x 3” (width) x 3 ¼” (height).
Cost: $40 per ornament. Cash or check accepted. Must pay at time of order. Vist the UWF page on the church website to order.
YOUTH MINISTRY
Today
10:00 am: Youth Sunday school Noon – 11:30 pm: ALL youth trip to Carowinds & Scarowinds!
October 27
10:00 am: Youth Sunday school with David Magee 10:00 am: Coffee & Conversation about “Things Have Changed” 5:00 pm: LISTEN event with David Magee
NOURISH YOUTH BIBLE STUDY ‘THE WAY OF LOVE’
All youth (6th-12th grades) are invited to join us as we explore what it means to follow the Way of Jesus. The way Jesus lived, and the way Jesus loved. We all know that scripture calls us to love God and love neighbor... however, together we will explore how to do just as Jesus did by spending each Wednesday looking at a word a week that will help us understand the Way of Jesus better. Those words? Turn. Learn. Pray. Worship. Bless. God. Rest. We are so excited to grow in our understanding of Jesus and how he invites us to live and hope you will be too!
TWIN CITY CONFERENCE SENIOR HIGH BASKETBALL
For a third season, we are partnering with the Winston Salem Street School for the Twin City Conference, a Senior High Boys basketball league. Our first game will be November 12, 2024, at 6:00 pm (vs. WSSS) at Fulton YMCA with the season ending in a tournament on January 28, 2025 (just in time for school spring sports).
If you are a Senior High boy (9th-12th grade) and NOT on your school’s varsity basketball team, we invite you to be part of our church basketball team and this amazing league (and yes, friends are welcome too!). The cost to join the league will be $50 and you must be registered to play. Contact Tammy Pollock, Director of Youth Ministries for more information. Watch your weekly Youth email blast for ways you can register.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED WITH DAVID MAGEE
Centenary Youth ministry and Shining Light on Mental Health welcomes David Magee to our church and community Sunday, October 27 at 10:00 am for youth Sunday school (@ Youth Commons) and then again at 5:00 pm for a LISTEN event (@Memorial Auditorium) for our church community. We hope anyone who is a teenager, who has a teenager, loves a teenager, or wants to understand the challenges they face in today’s culture, will join us for these free events.
CONFIRMATION 2025
Starting on January 8, 2025 (through May 18), we invite all 7th graders to join our Confirmation class. We will meet each Wednesday night from 6:00 pm—7:30 pm to learn about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the spiritual life, and how they form us and help us to change the way we live our lives. The hope is that through these experiences, you will come to encounter Jesus in a very real way and that encounter will change the way you live your life! For more information contact Tammy Pollock (tpollock@centenary-ws.org).
LOOKING AHEAD
October 27: LISTEN event with guest, David Magee
November 1: 2025 Senior High Mission trip registration opens November 6: 2025 Confirmation registration opens (7th graders)
November 12: 2024-2025 Twin City Conference Basketball season begins January 10 & 11: Junior/Senior Retreat to Blowing Rock
January 8: 2025 Confirmation begins
For more information or to sign up to receive Youth Ministry updates by email, contact Tammy Pollock (tpollock@centenary-ws.org). Follow us on Instagram @centenary_youth.
