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.

➢ 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 April 20, 2025 $1,115.00 Weekly Goal $2,785.44

Total Giving through April 20, 2025 $39,610.80 Monthly Goal $12,068.50

ATTENDANCE

April 20, 2025 IN PERSON: 54 ON-LINE: 176 TOTAL: 230

Stewardship for the 2025 Budget

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

Dear Tryon United Methodist Church Family, May 2025

I want to express my deepest gratitude for your unwavering support of our Shepherd Program over the past nearly two decades. This initiative has been a beacon of love, care and connection, as we’ve faithfully cared for one another in Christian love. Your dedication to this ministry has been a testament to the spirit of community and the heart of Christ within our congregations. While the Shepherd Program will now be put on hold, this doesn’t diminish the importance of continuing to care for one another individually. We are all called to love one another as Christ has loved us in a shepherd flock relationship with or without an intentional ministry area.

Should God lead our church to grow once more, I trust that this ministry can be re-imagined and restructured in alignment with His will and vision. Thank you for being part of this journey, and may we continue to walk together in faith and love.

With heartfelt thanks, Pam Monterisi

PAGE TURNERS~

Monday, May 19, 2025 • 10:00 a.m. • Library

“The Women ” by Kristin Hannah.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these

words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.

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-