A monthly newsletter of Trinity United Methodist Church ...a Stephen Ministry Congregation

Volume 21, Issue 4 April 2021

Come & See …

Unexpected Glory

The Easter Cross

Holy Week Events

Easter Egg Hunt

Children’s Sunday School Lessons

Sunday School Class Map

Easter Lilies

HomeTouch Reading

Memorials/Honoraria

Thank You Notes

Egg-stra Facts

We Care for One Another

Sympathies

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Righteousness

Believing In

… Go & Tell

Open Hearts Open Minds Open Open Doors Hearts Open Minds Open Doors At Easter, we celebrate the unexpected glory of Jesus’ resurrection. We gather as a community of believers to share this amazing story. Our proclamation is little different today than when Mary proclaimed her story to the disciples. They bury Jesus in a borrowed tomb. Jesus’ friends came to the tomb on the first day of the week. The stone was rolled away. It was not rolled away that he might come out, but that they might go in. Jesus was not there. Jesus appears to Mary. Mary follows Jesus’ calling to tell her story. From that day, Jesus has been calling men and women to share their stories, to preach the good news of the resurrection of Christ. Are you willing to look for God working in the world in surprising ways? How can we on this Easer Sunday experience the Resurrected Christ anew? As the morning sun rises in the east, let us remember that wonderful day when Mary and the disciples arrived at the empty tomb. Jesus called Mary to share in the unexpected glory of that first Easter. Jesus is still calling us today to share in Christ’s unexpected glories. Tresco E. Shannon

THE EASTER CROSS

We will begin placing flowers on the cross located on the front lawn of the church on Saturday, April 3, at 5:30 PM. Bring your flowers and join us. If you cannot come, leave your flowers at the foot of the cross. If you do not have flowers at home to share for the cross, your grocery store has beautiful bouquets!

If you cannot join us on Saturday, we will be at the cross again at 8:30 AM on Easter morning. Come, bring your flowers and your children and/or grandchildren, and help complete the beautiful resurrection cross!

Thank you from your Worship Committee! Lana Hudson, Chairperson

Palm Sunday Services Maundy/Holy Thursday Service Sunday, March 28 Thursday, April 1, 7:00 PM 8:45 AM and 11:00 AM Worship Service with Holy Communion

Easter Sunday Services Sunday, April 4 8:45 AM and 11:00 AM

Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 AM

Calling all children ages 3 through 5th grade!

We would like for you to join us in our Annual Easter Egg Hunt! Bring your Easter baskets and meet us at Easter Candy Needed!! the Cordie Page Building!

If you are a child in 6th grade through age 90, please feel free We need your help providing candy to fill eggs to join the fun by helping hide eggs, providing non-chocolate for the Easter Egg Hunt! candy by Thursday, April 1, to the church office, or bringing Please bring individually wrapped, non- refreshments to share on April 3. chocolate candy by the church office no later Hop on over to Trinity!! than Thursday, April 1.

Thank you! Children’s Sunday School Lessons for April

Week 1: What does Easter mean? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8R158Ujp4&list=PLYn06r4leL_RguA_6LO- 11rkjEsNb21oa&index=7 Song to sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn84AYtFUSM Family Suggestion: Have a nice big meal together and share all the reasons you’re thankful for God, kinda like Thanksgiving but focused on God!

Week 2: Balaam’s Donkey Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfIng59exg Song to Sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EVh1RlGBnxQ&list=PLIrwxXyh4FZgO89UAULHE23cP3B_z-pWe&index=27 Family Suggestion: Go on a walk with your dog or spend quality time with another pet and talk about how weird it would be if they started talking to you!

Week 3: Rahab Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWkbq50tH5A Song to Sing: https://youtu.be/2C_9oOoaWB8 Family Suggestion: Bake something together and talk about how every single part(even the parts that only require 1 tsp) are very important to the final result, just as each and every one of us, no matter our mis- takes, is important to the church of God.

Week 4: The Israelites Cross the Jordan Lesson: https://youtu.be/FVDU4XnbolI Song to Sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyp7WNusPDg Family Suggestion: Watch an episode of a show where people do unbelievable things(ie man v food) and talk about how crazy it is that people are capable of so much but how even CRAZIER it is what God can do with us when we follow.

Little Fish Minnows Class

Big Fish Class

First Floor

In-person Sunday School is tentatively scheduled to resume on Sunday, May 2. Check the maps on this page to see where your class will be meeting. The Joy Class is not pictured, but it will meet in Ladies Purpose the Fellowship Hall. Seekers Class

Second Floor

Ladies Fellowship Men’s Toddlers Nursery Class Fellowship Class Class

Choir

Middle Faith School Purpose Class Y’ALL Youth Driven Class Class Class

High Handbells School Youth Class

Easter Lilies Given in Memory of…

Amy Metts, by Robert & Irene Booth Patrick Henry, by Marvis & Pat Henry Tracy Graham & her dad Grier Johnson, Jr, by Shirley Long Johnson Alyson Iglesias, by Bryan & Nancy Hopkins Cyril & Frances Anderson, by Cindy Mills Their son, Charles Fox, by Bill and Alta Fox Robert & Louise McCord, by Bryan & Nancy Hopkins Alan Nagy, by Joe & Lana Hudson Elbert Long, by Athene Long & family Terry Long Anderson, by Athene Long & family Carlisle & Frances Floyd, by Olivia Garren & Karen Nobles Barry Garren, by Olivia Garren & family Bob Fortson, by his wife, children & grandchildren Billy Dillard, by the Webster family Hilda Talbert, by the Fortson & Webster families Mr & Mrs Howard Webster, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Capt. & Mrs Nelson Fortson, by the Fortson & Webster families Wilson Webb, by Craig & Melinda Hyman Evelyn Dunn, by Pete & Genie Peterson Charles Cutts, by Pete & Genie Peterson Margaret Nixon, by Russ Nixon L. R. Nixon, by Russ Nixon Given in Honor of…

Robyn Culbertson, by Robert & Irene Booth Angela Booth, by Robert & Irene Booth Her Children and Grandchildren, by Shirley Long Johnson Trinity’s Music Ministry, by Dale & Patty Grunsky Lana Fortson, by her children and grandchildren Nicholas Webster, by his parents David Webster, by Kellah & Nicholas Webster Gage Jr., Grace & Gage Fortson, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Bryn, Bret, Lana, & Lilly Ginn, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Ward Johnson, by Audrey V. Johnson Lee Faulconbridge, by Audrey V. Johnson

Her sister, Barbara, by Margaret Henry Their grandchildren, by Don & Brenda Murphy

Girl Scout Dear Trinity Church family, Recognition We are deeply grateful for your many acts of kindness during the unexpected illness and death of our brother Sunday Charles. Your prayers and God’s presence comforted us on this April 25 bitter-sweet journey.

With love, Genie Peterson Buck & Edward Cutts

April

4 Easter lilies Chancel Vases— Anonymous donor 11 In honor of their grandchildren with love, by Stan and Martha Cross 18 In memory of Ed Kemm by Gail Kemm & son Ned 25 In memory of Henry Davis by Barbara Davis

Egg-stra facts

• Although Easter eggs were once part of pagan spring festivals, they’ve become Christian symbols of new life. A cracked-open shell also represents Jesus’ empty tomb on Easter morning.

• The early Christians of Mesopotamia began staining eggs red in honor of Jesus’ blood shed on the cross. Red eggs remain part of Greek Orthodox celebrations today.

• For Lent, some families used to give up eggs and dairy, so they prepared a pancake feast on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. They solved the egg surplus by hard-boiling them in various broths, which led to colored eggs.

• In medieval times, churches held “egg-throwing” festivals. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg toward the choir boys, who tossed it back and forth. When the clock struck 12, whoever was holding the egg got to keep it.

• In some European countries, children go from house to house to collect Easter eggs.

• Each year, the PAAS Dye Co. sells more than 10 million egg-coloring kits, which consumers use to decorate 180 million eggs.

• The tallest chocolate Easter egg ever produced weighed 16,000 pounds — more than an elephant!

Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-7

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be content with what he would like to have. ―Socrates

One day, my wife and I were traveling through the southwest en route to Fort Worth, Texas. We stopped in Albuquerque one afternoon where we booked a room to relax for the rest of the day.

I took a walk and saw many interesting things, including a pottery shop, an art museum and a precious metals store that featured fine turquoise jewelry. And then I saw a flea market.

It was amazing! I saw furniture, clothing, fruit, vegetables, shoes, leather goods, collectibles, toys, books, cars, artwork, tools, toiletries, cosmetics and cookware, among other things.

And then I saw this sign: “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it!”

Wonderful! It was as though the Lord was speaking to me about my own life: “Timothy, if you don’t have it, you don’t need it. Trust Me!”

I decided to do some research. I learned that the first version of this marketing expression appeared in 1907 in The Dallas Morning News in an ad for the Palace Drug Store. The ad said: “If you need it, we have it!”

Well, that’s true, too, isn’t it? If I really need something, don’t you think that the good Lord has it? The Bible says that “my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).

Flash forward now almost 50 years to Centralia, Washington, where on May 30, 1955, The Daily Chronicle carried a notice that a “local store posted this sign in its window the past week: ‘If you need it, we have it.’ Across the street a competitor flashed back: ‘If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.’”

Sadly, there are untold millions of people around the world who are marginalized, unfortunate, living in abject poverty and often at the mercy of a corrupt government. They have many needs, and that’s why good people everywhere try to be God’s hands and feet to help them have what they truly need.

For most of us reading these words, however, I suspect that there are many times when we may think we need something, when in fact we really don’t. This is a matter for you to ponder: If you need it, God will provide, just as God provided for the Israelites as they wandered through the wilderness. God gave them manna in the morning, and quail in the evening.

Let us have faith in God’s loving providence. —Timothy Merrill

Prayer: Loving God, I praise you for providing for my needs. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Betty Reid Memorials Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Given in memory of….

Lloyd Davis Lois Merzke Mr. & Mrs. Michael Heinz Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Merilyn Holcombe Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Hopkins George Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. Pat Howle Amy Booth Metts Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Mr. & Mrs. Sid Blackwelder Mr. & Mrs. Stan Cross Mr. & Mrs. Pete Peterson Jim Reddick Lib Pearce Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Virginia Gantt Merilyn Holcombe Athene S. Long Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Annie Lou Spivey Barbara G. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hyman Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Linda V. Carmichael Jac Cannon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Holmes Donald Sweeney Janice M. Causey Merilyn Holcombe Bob Fortson Mr. & Mrs. Furman Long Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Vivian E. Chestnut Sara Carmichael’s Grandmother Brenda A. Allen Merilyn Holcombe Randy Pearce Sara P. Reddick Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Hill Mozelle Goldfinch Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Hucks Merilyn Holcombe Lucy Olson Wally & Geoffrey Gantt Mr. & Mrs. Pat Howle Mr. & Mrs. Don Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Pat Howle Jac Cannon Mr. & Mrs. Gray Strogen Conway National Bank Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Glynn Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Don Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Epps Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Johnson Evelyn Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Ed McNew Mary S. Phillips Olivia Garren Jerry Sanders Martha M. Cline Mr. & Mrs. Bill Copeland Olivia Garren Alan Nagy Harriet R. Hearl Joe Howard Charles Cutts Dr. & Mrs. Richard Eisenman Mr. & Mrs. John Winn Brenda A. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hyman Mr. & Mrs. Sid Blackwelder Mr. & Mrs. Pat Howle Mr. & Mrs. Pete Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Ed McNew Jac Cannon Olivia Garren

Missing! Two Handbell cases.

The cases are hard shell black cases and they are full of handbells. Also, there are a few individual bells (outside of the cases) that are missing as well. Please contact the church office if you have information about these handbells. Thank you!

Trinity’s Music Ministry

Thank you to all who have shown interest in joining the Music Ministry at Trinity. We are getting clos- er to more normal worship settings, so we will be singing and ringing soon. If you would like to sing in a quartet for a worship service, please let me know. We will be singing hymns and well-known praise songs and will meet prior to the Sunday service to warm up.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord!

Andy We Care for One Another Ellen Nagy Pete & Lettie Byrdic Lynn Spires Allen & Phyllis Koch ARMED FORCES Jimmy McLain Michael Merzke (Diane Fouquet’s nephew) Alan Edwards Matthew Merzke (Diane Fouquet’s nephew) Tom Scott Capt. Joseph O’Brien (Barbara Davis’ cousin) Mary Miller Jackson Schade (Genie Peterson’s cousin) Helene Stamm Major Matthew Linton (Beth Linton’s grandson) Gloria & Mike Moyer Gene Austin Norris, Jr. (Gene & Carolyn Norris’ son) Don Murphy Ray Davis (Gene & Carolyn Norris’ son-in-law) Doug Williams Dax Battaglia (Mary Ann Mehl’s nephew) Bruce Glass Alex Kann (Mary Ann Mehl’s granddaughter) Are there any among you sick? Gwen Winn Linda Hendrick They should call for the elders of Matti Oliver SPECIAL REQUESTS the church and have them pray over Robert & Irene Booth them. James 5:14 Patti Herbert All in our church and community who were affected by the flooding. MEMBERS’ PARENTS Molly Nobles (Wayne Nobles’ mother) Samaritan Counseling Service Rebecca Suggs (Gregg Suggs’ mother) Rolling Green Village, Mary Hopkins (Bryan Hopkins’ mother) 4 Hoke Smith Blvd Greenville, SC 29615 Carol Reis Starr (Erik Reis’ mother) Eloise Smith Rm. 238 864-371-6829, Carolyn Holden (Carol Baker’s mother) Alex Strogen (Gray Strogen’s father) Conway Manor Barbara Nagy (Alan Nagy’s mother) 3300 4th Ave., Conway, 29526 Marilyn Johnston (Elaine Hyman & Joey Johnston’s Angell Pettit (Room 410) mother) Molly Robertson (Steve Robertson’s mother) Laurel Crest Betty & Alan Taylor (Rick Taylor’s parents) 406 Joseph Walker Drive W. Columbia, SC 29169 Beverly Mason (Margo Strong’s mother) Jane MacDonald 803-828-9396 Maxine Moore (Diane Ginty’s mother)

The Palmettos of Garden City MEMBERS’ FAMILY 9415 Frontage Road, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576 Caroline Robertson (Cheryl & Steve’s granddaughter) Davis McNeill (Room 208) Finn Brown (grandson of Sara Newton Reddick) Christine Kennerly (Pat Rose’s daughter) Claiborne at W. Lake Vincent McLean (Lana Fortson’s brother-in-law) 557 Furys Ferry Rd, Martinez, Georgia 30907 Chuck Johnson (Pete & Martha Johnson’s son) Janet Mayers Allen & Fay McNew (Wayne Hill’s brother & sister-in-law) Arbor Landing Mark Peters (husband of Patti Herbert’s niece) 3105 Dick Pond Rd., Myrtle Beach, SC 29588 Cynthia Inman (Donna Cartrette’s sister) Carrie Raymor (Apt. 101) 843-902-7032 Tonya Hawkins (Allen & Phyllis Koch’s daughter)

Mullins Nursing Center Marie Finkenbiner (Iva Finkenbiner’s 518 S. Main, Mullins, SC 29574 granddaughter) Ruby Pittman Michael Calhoun (Janice Hardwick’s brother-in-law)

Homebound Jay Elston (Wally & Cookie Elston’s son) Barbara Thompson Alan Weiler (Wally & Cookie Elston’s son-in-law) 9613 Captain Smith Lane, Corryton, TN 37721 Karl Cates (Barry Cates’ brother) Marie Fox (Bill & Alta Fox’s daughter-in-law) Pat Rose Joan Gainey Adams (Boyd Gainey’s sister) 1011 Moore Lane, Conway, SC 29526 Willie Henderson (Betty Ackley’s son-in-law)

Jac Cannon Bill Roberts (Betty Ackley’s daughter’s boyfriend) 207 Park Ave., Conway, SC 29526-3636 Virginia Buck (Genie Peterson’s cousin)

MEMBERS MEMBERS’ FRIENDS & FRIENDS Wayne & Karen Nobles OF THE CHURCH Pete & Martha Johnson Rock Smith (Joe Hudson’s friend) Please let us know if your Iva Finkenbiner Mac & Carolyn McCormick(Iva Finkenbiner’s friends) phone number has Sara Reddick Rev. Julian Riddle (Russ Nixon’s friend) changed and/or if you Diane & Dale Ginty Janice & Danny Elmer (Jerri Woodle’s friends) Joe & Saundra Parler Marie Freeman (Lana Fortson’s friend) have dropped a land line. Tina Hubbard Barbara Jenkins (Lana Fortson’s friend) Please update your Cheryl Robertson Beth Milcheck (Lana Fortson’s friend) Dolly Updegraff Patty Springle (Pete & Martha Johnson’s friend) preferred phone numbers. Larry & Dorothy Deitrich Karen Coats (friend of Russ Nixon) We Care and we want to Wally & Cookie Elston Wayne McGinn (Wally & Cookie Elston’s friend) stay connected!! Robbie Yarborough Jessica Putnam (Carolyn Causey’s friend) Emma Lou Johnson Susan Johnson (friend of Carolyn Causey & mother Betty Ackley of Scott Johnson, pastor of The Rock) B.G. Gantt Gary Bernson (Meredith Hyman’s friend) Lana Fortson Curtis & Kendra (David Sweeney’s friends) Athene Long Edward Hejna (Ralph Fields’ father-in-law) Marti & George Hubbard

1 Brenda & Don Murphy Rev. Shannon joins the 19 Xavier Campbell 2 Saundra Crosland Todd Browning entire Trinity Church family in William Gainey expressing our deepest 20 Kathy & Ken Anderson Irene & Robert Booth sympathy and Christian love to: Sharon Bailey 21 Janie Barnes

3 Rick Taylor Ford Graves The family of Jenny Gantt. A. J. Wysong Barrett Grooms

22 Brent Glasgow The family of Lucy Olson. 4 Katie Fox Ann Campbell Barry Cates Marti Hubbard & family, following the death of her Greg Smith Trisha & Grant Cates brother-in-law, Alvin Larrimore. Cheryl & Mike Landry Brett Johnson 23 Linda & Boyd Gainey 5 Bonnie Silk Alex Marshall 24 Jerri & Joe Woodle Deborah & William Gainey 6 Jared Cochell Donnie Brown

Patty Grunsky 7 Beth & Ken Calhoun Carol & John Bunn 25 Jennifer Grooms

Cynthia & Dave Evans 9 Charles Gidney Drake Owens 26 Melanie & Reid Murdock Jessica & Bob Rogers Please meet Trinity’s Shepherds Todd Marshall Anne & John Stewart 10 Karen Nobles Mandy Tobin Barbara Davis Karen Johnston Genie Peterson 27 David Covington Patty Grunsky 11 Ann Bedwell Patti Herbert Karen Watts 29 Dottie Brown Brenda Plaugher Jim Green Elaine & Terry Hyman Brenda Murphy Ella Wysong 30 Molly Hopkins Diane Ginty 12 Caleb Boyd

If you have someone on our prayer list, one of these 13 Stoney Harrelson ladies will be calling to check with you each month. 14 Samantha Hogan If you have a need or a prayer request you can call: Lynette Hedgepath Church Office Gary & Kristi Updegraff Carolyn Causey Pastor Tresco 15 Harrell Hardwick Brenda Murphy Sid Blackwelder Miles Feldner One of us will get back with you. Gina Hucks Todd Cox Mike Landry

16 Abby Freudiger

17 Cynthia Evans Larry Hyman TUMC Mailing address : Stella Gore

P.O. Box 1072, 18 Becky & Mike Smith Conway, SC, 29528-1072 Beth & Travis Hyman

Be loyal to your church. Uphold it by your prayers, your presence, your gifts, your service, and your witness. Righteousness

“You haven’t got it right!” says the exasperated piano teacher. Junior is holding his hands the way he’s been told. His fingering is unexceptionable. He has memorized the piece perfectly. He has hit all the proper notes with deadly accuracy. But his heart’s not in it, only his fingers. What he’s playing is a sort of music, but nothing that will start voices singing or feet tapping. He has succeeded in boring everybody to death, including himself. Jesus said to his disciples, “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20). The scribes and Pharisees were playing it by the book. They didn’t slip up on a single do or don’t. But they were getting it all wrong. Righteousness is getting it all right. It you play it the way it’s supposed to be played, there shouldn’t be a still foot in the house. -Frederick Buechner

Believing in

Sometimes we get caught up in thinking we need to understand God in order to have faith. But faith is more about trust than knowledge; it’s more about believing in someone than believing information. A child, for instance, doesn’t have to know the precise roads to Grandma’s house; he only needs to believe in his parents and their ability and desire to get him there safely. Similarly, we need not understand all the intricacies of how God works; we can take a cue from the disciples and let belief in the risen Christ transform and empower us.

In the words of Madeleine L’Engle (The Rock That Is Higher): “The disciples did not bother to try to understand the resurrection body. They doubted, and then they believed. They believed something so wonderful that it changed this broken, fragmented, beaten-down little group of men and women in a moment from depression to enthusiasm, from despair to new life, vibrant and unafraid.”

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REV. TRESCO E. SHANNON, Pastor 843-248-2343, parsonage or 803-260-0723, cell [email protected] ELIZA EDGE, Program Director 843-504-6089 or [email protected], DR. ANDREW FOWLER, Director of Music 843-457-9686 or [email protected] CAROLYN CAUSEY, Business Administrator 843-907-0030 or [email protected] ANNE STEELE, Financial Administrator/Internal Auditor RALPH FIELDS, Facilities Maintenance