Upcoming Events and Announcements

Tryon UMC is no longer live streaming its Sunday morning worship service, but will record and upload each week’s worship service to our church’s website as well as to Facebook. Online viewers can watch each Sunday worship service anytime they wish during the week. Every effort will be made to have each Sunday’s worship service video available to view online no later than Monday at 6:00 PM.

On our church website, www.tryonumc.org, use the dropdown menu and select “Worship Video”. On our church’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/tumctryon, click on the menu item “Video”.

➢ We continue to encourage you to make your offerings to the church so that we can continue to operate and take care of the essential day-to-

day things to keep us functioning as a church. You can mail in your offering or come by and drop it in our locked mailbox. You can also give on-

line with your credit card. Click on the link on our website under Giving.

➢ Please check the Prayer List each week for those who have asked for our prayers. And please help us

keep our list up-to-date.

If there are names that need to be added or taken off the list, please contact the office at 828-859-9218 or

send an email to tumc1@tryonumc.net

➢SOUPer Bowl February - bring cans of soup foSee r Outreach

➢ Girl Scout Cookies available - sign up sheet outside office.

➢ Invitation from St. Luke CME Church (See below for more information

➢ Page Turners, February 25, 12 noon, Library (See below for more information

➢ Leadership Team meeting Tuesday, February 25, 1:00 p.m., Library

➢ Chancel Choir - Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m. Choir Room All are welcome to come and

“lift a joyful noise unto the Lord”!

➢ Handbells -Wednesdays, 5:00 p.m., Handbell Room. All are welcome to come and

➢ Comfort Shawls. Every second and fourth Tuesday. 10:00 a.m. Comfort Shawl Room.

➢ Qi Gong. Monday’s and Fridays. 10:00—11:00 a.m. Fellowship Hall

➢ AA Meetings: Meets on Monday evenings at 5:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

➢ Girl Scouts: Thursday. 4:30 p.m. Education Rooms, 2nd Floor (Not meeting during the summer.

➢ Living Clean. Thursday. 6:00 p.m. Fellowship Hall.

OPERATIONS BUDGET

Giving for February 9, 2025 $720.00 Weekly Goal $2,785.44

Total Giving through February 2, 2025 $16,970.70 Monthly Goal $12,068.50

ATTENDANCE

February 9, 2025 IN PERSON: 39 ON-LINE: 108 TOTAL: 147

Stewardship for the 2025 Budget

Amount Pledged to date: $57,792.00 Total Budget for 2025: $144,822

Inserted in your announcements this week is information on giving for the first four months of 2024. In our Gathering Meeting on April 23rd, some of you mentioned you would like to see more information about giving and how we are doing regarding making our budget for the year.

The insert includes weekly and monthly giving for January through April and what we need each week and month to meet our budget. Going forward, you will get a summary each week in the bulletin to let you track how we are doing.

If you have any questions about this information, please contact Lynn Montgomery, our church treasurer, or Pastor Lynnette.

➢ in-person during Sunday worship services.

➢ Drop off your offering in our locked mailbox outside the church office.

➢ Give on-line with your credit card. See our website at www.tryonumc.org Click on “Giving” link. NOTE: Make sure you identify our church as

Tryon UMC in Tryon, NC in the Blue Ridge District (there is a Tryon Methodist Church in Charlotte in the Metro District. Sometimes we get

confused with them).

On behalf of our staff, thank you to everyone for the cards, gifts, and contributions during the holiday season. They were very much appreciated.

Thank you, especially to all of those who have helped in this process.

Tryon United Methodist Church

Mission Statement: The people of Tryon United Methodist Church seek to answer God’s call to be disciples of Christ

Vision Statement: As Disciples of Christ we come together as a loving, caring family of faith:

To share the hope, peace, grace, and love of Jesus Christ.

To worship God and nurture spiritual growth.

To grow in understanding of the Bible and its revelation of Jesus Christ.

To serve the needs of our neighbors near and far.

Weekly Gatherings after Worship

Each week after worship we meet in the Gathering Area outside the Sanctuary to enjoy some delicious homemade goodies and beverages. Many thanks to those who make this happen each week.

Please join us for that time of fellowship.

2024 Giving Statements

Your 2024 Giving Statements have been distributed. If you have any questions about your statement,

please contact Judy Banks, Linda Robison or Pam Monterisi.

“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can, In all the places you can,

At all the times you can, To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.”

― John Wesley

Page Turners

February 24, 2025 • 12 Noon • Library

“How the Light Gets In” is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.

Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Please join us!

~Invitation from St. Luke CME Church~

The women of St. Luke CME Church will sponsor a “Love in Action” Pew Rally on Sunday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. Your church is cordially invited to join us as we take a closer look at the acts of love and friendship displayed in the Bible. Our own fabulous St. Luke women will reflect on the friendships and love actions reflected in the Bible and show us how they are relevant today. Please come and sit on the pew of your choice as we learn how we can show more love and friendship on our daily routines and lives. Proceeds obtained through the love offering will benefit the St. Luke CME Church Woman’s Day Department.
We look forward to seeing you.

— Kimberly Porter, and Alisha Suber, Woman’s Day Co-Chairs, Rev. Carl Wanamaker, Pastor

Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible.

Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame.

And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world.

Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.

~L. R. Knost~

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”

–John 12:35-