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A shower curtain ... and new sight  
 
Triune Mercy Center / February 2013
 From the pastor:

          Sometimes I marvel at the work our mental health worker and nurse do. Besides listening and counseling, their jobs consist of assembling puzzle pieces into a new picture for their clients. 
     
         In mid-January, our mental health worker, Shannon McGaugh, moved one of our frequent dinner guests from a tent in the woods to Reedy Place, an apartment complex for the chronically homeless funded by Greenville Mental Health and the Upstate Homeless Coalition. "Happy," she reported, didn't begin to cover his excitement.
        As she hung his shower curtain, she said, he was dumbstruck and asked what it was. She explained it was to keep water from drenching the entire bathroom.
       "Do you mean he'd never seen a shower curtain?" I asked her later.
       She shrugged. "If he had, it had been so long, he had no memory of it."
       
       During the last week in January, one of our Triune ladies organized a Girls' Night Out at our "beach house" in the next block of Rutherford Street. I'd had a busy day, and so was 20 minutes late in leaving the church. I saw a light still on in the office of our  Bon Secours-sponsored nurse, Jean Lilley, so I stopped in to take her with me.
       Jean was on the phone with six scribble-covered Post-It notes spread out before her. She was arranging bus transportation and a motel reservation for a Greenville woman to get to Charleston for eye surgery.   
         Jean never did make it to the party, and never complained about it. She was just glad this woman -- who was suffering from a tumor that caused progressive blindness -- would get the treatment she needed.
          "By the way, you're paying for the motel," she told me the next day.
          It was the least I could do.
        
Blessings,

 

Deb Richardson-Moore

 

 
January at Triune:     

Worship and Bible Studies (Average Attendance):

Sun AM ..... 249              Sun PM ....  42            Tues PM  .... 103           

 

Meals and Assistance Programs:

Hot meals ............   2,030                               Adult clothing recipients ... 365                     

Grocery boxes.........   223 households             Child  clothing recipients...  94              

Pop-top groceries....  141 individuals              Coats ................................. 87 

Laundry loads ..........   88                                  Blankets ...........................116     

Bikes ..........................   2         

                                                                

People admitted to drug rehabilitation.......  10           

     

Mental health consultations........................  199 

 

Medical consultations................................... 104  

 

Volunteer hours  ...........................................  865                    

 
Worship with us at Triune Chapel: 

Our worship service is always open to visitors. Come see us!

 

February 3, 11 AM -- Soloist Denise Smith and the Voices of Mercy will sing for this communion service. Elaine Nocks will preach on "Assumptions."     

6 PM --  Rev. Jerry Hill will speak. 

 

February 10, 11 AM --  Singer Julie Childers will join us, and Deb will preach on "The next day."   

6 PM --  Rev. Jerry Hill will speak.

 

February 17, 11 AM -- The Voices of Mercy will sing, and Deb will preach on ''Fakes and forgeries." 

6 PM -- Rev. Laura Bratton of Laurens UMC will speak.   

 

February 24 , 11 AM --  The Voices of Mercy will sing.

 6 PM -- Kathy Sharp, Triune's volunteer coordinator, will speak.  

 

 City Prayer - Each Wednesday at noon       

  

Wish List:

Our most pressing needs are listed below.
 
Hammond organ, A, B or C, with leslie
Office desks and chairs
Art canvases
Men's and women's underwear, small and medium sizes
Copy paper                                                              
Paper towels
Toilet paper
Backpacks
Washcloths
Peanut butter
 

Recovery Meetings:

 

Monday      Noon         Narcotics Anonymous

Tuesday       Noon        Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous  

Wednesday Noon        Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous

                    8 PM         Alcoholics Anonymous

Thursday      Noon        Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous 

                   7 PM          Narcotics Anonymous

Friday          Noon         Narcotics Anonymous

Saturday     9 AM          Alcoholics Anonymous

                  10:30AM      Women's Recovery  

                   7 PM           Narcotics Anonymous

Serving in February:   

 

Brookwood Church                                 Prince of Peace Catholic

Buncombe Street UMC                            Reedy Fork Baptist

First Baptist of Mauldin                             St. Mary Magdalene Catholic

Food for Life Ministries                              Trinity Church

Grace Covenant Presbyterian                 Triune Mercy Center                

Mauldin UMC                                           Valley Brook Outreach Baptist

Pelham Road Baptist 


Monetary Gifts:   

 

In memory of Caroline Previdi - Brandee Sponseller

In memory of John S. Zekler, Jr. - Bill & Pat Traxler

In memory of K.A. (Andy) Baker, Jr. - Mattie Ouzts, Rebecca Warner, and Paul Warner

In memory of Mandy Easterby - Douglas & Barbara Kennemore

In memory of Martha Holroyd Ellison - Buck & Betty Chiles

In memory of Mary Cobb Anderson - Goudy & Fredna Miller

In memory of Reeves Echerd -- Tom and Janet Huskey

 

In honor of Charles Anderson - Debra & Roger Ray

In honor of Baxter & Paula Wynn and Gordon & Sarah Herring - Mary Alice Ingram Busch

In honor of Ethel Heinrich's 99th Birthday - Steve & Rhonda Rutterbush

In honor of the marriage of Bill & Jo Brown - Elaine Nocks

In honor of Lynn & Linda Tompkins - Diane Croxton

In honor of Pan Little's birthday - Patricia Rex and Margaret Coward

In honor of Sallie Eskew - Tracy & Harold Smathers

In honor of Sally Reid & Tom Tauterio - Mr. & Mrs. Don Hudson

 

Advent UMC

Aldersgate UMC

Mary Barnes

Joyce & Troy Barton

Mr. & Mrs. C. Brock Bauknight

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence B. Bauknight

Baya Wellness Yoga & Nutrition

Berea Friendship UMC

Jill Bishop

Debbie Blume

Steve & Erin Brackbill

Susan Brady

Virginia Brockner

Jim & Sandra Cain

Anne Cargill

Bruce & Candy Carlson

City Church

Lyndall C. Coker

Paul & Karen Coombs

Darrell & Sandra Corder

Robert and Dawn Coyne

Crazy 8 Circle - First Baptist Church

Farroll Daniels

Earle Street Baptist Church

Sallie Eskew

Carla Felton

First Presbyterian Church of Greer

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Fulk, Jr.

Carolyn Giles

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Gilreath

Mr. & Mrs. Julius A. Gilreath

Gleaners Sunday School Class - Covenant UMC

Bonita Gossett

Tim & Debbie Gresham

Mike & Trish Harrison

Margaret Heatherly

Mary Ann Henderson

Holiday Sunshine Fund of The Greenville News

Basil Manly, IV, M.D.

Holly & Sean Martin

Jane Ella Matthews

Victoria McGuire

Don & Cheryl McMahan

T. Goudy Miller

Kenneth Moody

Gene & Betty Morin

Revelation Sunday School Class - Buncombe Street UMC

St. Giles Presbyterian Church

Bernard & Cynthia Showman

Dwight Smith

Virgil Story

Pamela Swain

The Gridley Club

Mr. & Mrs. Irv Welling

Hans Wiegert

Mary Frances Willingham

Jane & Michael Wilson

Floyd & Nancy Woods

Plus, thanks to all our faithful worshippers!

 

And thanks to: Advent UMC, David Batson, Amanda Shearer Benci, Berea Friendship UMC, Blue Ribbon Nuts, Ann & Steve Bollinger, Leanne Boone, Thayer Fleming Brown, Dottie Bryan, Robert Compton, Darrell Corder, Minnie Sue Douglas, Chamberlain Edmunds, Herlane Edwards, Leslie Fairfax, Margy Foody, Bianca Godbee, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Jean Greer, Gayle Guest, Harriet Caldwell Circle - Greer First Presbyterian Church, Mike & Trish Harrison, Kathy Houston, Janice Jeter, Joe Keith, Stacey & Gray Kitchens, John Korybski, Jim League, John Lewis, Bob Lloyd, W. Frances Marion, Kayce McKroskey, Mary McGee, Nancy McKittrick, Mark McMahan, Michael & Karen Medlin, Sheely Miller, Teeci Morgan, Linda Nowlin, Judy Olson, Tom Owens, Nanda Price, Kay Read, Sally Reid, Keri Rogers, James Rumrill, Frank Salamone, Dan & Betty Shearer, Erik Sproges, G.R. Sutton, Janey Thern, Larry Titus, Carolyn Tomlinson, Tom Vanderbloemen, Claudia Ware, Ryan Whitaker and Elizabeth Woods for donations of clothes, food, and other items.

 

 
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