Upcoming Events
❖ Sunday Morning Coffee and Conversations . No Bible Study November 12th. Conversations resume
Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 9:45 a.m. Parlor.
❖ Learning and Lunch: Food for Thought and Lunch with Friends. November 15, 2023. 11:00 a.m.
Upcoming Church Committee Meetings
❖ Staff/Parish Committee Meeting. November 13, 2023. 10:00 a.m.
UPCOMING CHURCH MEETINGS
❖ Comfort Shawl. November 28. Comfort Shawl Room.
➢ If you have an announcement about something you are involved with in the community,
please share that with us and we will share that with the congregation. Announcements
should be received by 12:00 p.m. each Wednesday in order to be printed in the announcements
for Sunday.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Regular Gatherings
➢ Chancel Choir. Practice resumes on Wednesday evenings at 5:00 p.m. in the Choir Room.
➢ Handbell Choir. Practice resumes on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Handbell Room.
➢ 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.
➢ Men’s Group. Resuming of meetings this fall.
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TRYON UMC GIVING DASHBOARD 2023
OPERATIONS BUDGET
Giving for November 19, 2023 $1,880.00 Weekly Goal $3,758.90
Total Giving for November $8,285.00 Monthly Goal $16,288.58
Total Pledges and Gifts thru November 12, 2023 $149,972.58 2023 Budget $195,463.00
ATTENDANCE
(ONLINE AND IN-PERSON) FOR NOVEMBER 19, 2023: 229
(ONLINE AND IN-PERSON) COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING: 73
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Anniversaries: Birthdays: (No anniversaries to celebrate this month.) 11/10--Carol McCall
11/17--Sparrow C.
11/25--Mark Dacey
11/30--Charlotte Holly
HOW YOU CAN MAKE YOUR GIFTS TO TRYON UMC MINISTRIES:
Offering given during worship services.
Drop off offerings in the locked mailbox outside the church office.
Give on-line with your credit card. See our website at www.tryonumc.org Click on “Giving” link.
Here’s how you can join us for worship at Tryon UMC:
➢In-person worship is held each Sunday at 11:00 a.m. in our Sanctuary.
➢View our recorded worship service on our website at www.tryonumc.org. Use the dropdown menu and select “Worship Vide
➢ Recorded services are available on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tumctryon Click the menu item “video”.
Support the Ministries at Tryon UMC
Your offering and gifts to Tryon UMC make it possible for us to do the work and ministry
God calls us to do in our community, as well as continue the day-to-day operations of the church
Your Giving Matters
Inserted in your announcements this week is information on giving for the first four months of 2023. 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.
Here’s how you can give:
➢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
Advent Bible Study Begins on Sunday, November 26th at 9:45 a.m.
The first Sunday of Advent this year is not until December 3rd, but we will begin a new Sunday morning study one Sunday earlier as we being the new liturgical year and prepare for the birth of Jesus. Our study will be based on Will Willemon’s book Heaven and Earth: Advent and the Incarnation.
Decorating for Advent and Christmas
November 26th at 12:30 p.m.
You are invited to help decorate the church as we prepare for the holidays. All are welcomed to stay and help out. Lunch will be served in the Prayer Shawl Room before we begin. We’ll share the meal and then work on decorating until 2:30 p.m.
Tryon Christmas Parade Wednesday, December 13, 2023
· Tryon UMC will have a float! Join us in the TUMC parking lot for the parade line-up at 4:00 p.m.
· Parade begins at 5:00 p.m.
Holiday Concert: An Afternoon of Peace
with Pianist Wade Morgan
Tryon United Methodist Church
Sunday, December 17, 2023
3:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Join us for beautiful music offered by an accomplished local performer. Wade Morgan is currently studying collaborative
piano at Arizona State University. He is a graduate of Bob Jones University with a degree in Keyboard Performance.
Wade is grateful for and attributes his successful studies to his private piano teachers which include Amye Ranck,
Dr. Elizabeth Child, Dr. Peter Davis and Mr. David Lehman. He has performed several recitals in the Tryon,
Greenville and Spartanburg areas and competed in competitions in South Carolina.
Please join us for a reception and dessert following the concert.