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'I am with thee always'  
Triune Mercy Center / November 2013
From the pastor:
  
       For many years, one of my favorite women at Triune has been Lois. She is always polite, always clean, always dependable. 
       To my surprise, early in our relationship I learned she slept most nights behind a dumpster in a business area of Pleasantburg Drive. It was hard to picture: This was a woman who attended Greenville Tech and studied hard most days at the public library. But at night, she hid out behind a dumpster.
        I think of this paradox when I look at our holiday honor card, painted by Charles Graham in our art room. It shows a homeless man sleeping beside a dumpster with his dog. 
      "I am with thee always," Charles wrote above the scene. 
        Charles' card is available for the holiday season for a minimum $10 donation.
       Inside, the card says....

A gift has been given in your honor 
to Triune Mercy Center.
This holiday gift will spread the joy of Jesus Christ 
to the homeless and hurting people Triune serves.

        You may purchase the cards by coming to Triune's reception area or by sending in the order form below. Then you mail the cards. 
         If you want us to address, stamp and send them, enclose your mailing list as well as the signature you want on the card and an extra $1 per card, please.
      Your gift to Triune will help us reach homeless people with mental health care, community nursing, drug rehab, job coaching, art, music, theater, gardening, table fellowship and an encouraging worship community. 
       Oh, and Lois? With help from our friends at Greenville Mental Health and Hopes of Hope, we moved her into housing this fall.

* * * * * * * *
 
         Looking for another Christmas gift idea? How about The Weight of Mercy, the memoir about my first three years at Triune? Many book clubs, Sunday school classes, mission circles and entire churches have chosen it for study or just a fun read. 
       The Weight of Mercy is available in our reception area, Fiction Addiction, 10,000 Villages, Mr. K's, Gage's, The Cafe at Williams Hardware or online at www.amazon.com.
           
Blessings,

Deb Richardson-Moore

 

 

Holiday Honor Card Order Form
Honor Card 2012
Your Name: _________________________________________________ 
 
Your Address:________________________________________________
 
City, State, Zip: ______________________________________________

Please print out and cut, or otherwise duplicate, this form.

1)  Honor Cards: Qty:___________     (minimum $10 each)  We will mail them to you.

2) Honor Cards signed & mailed by Triune: Qty:  ________     (minimum $11 each)                                                                                                       (I have enclosed my mailing list.)                                                                             
Sign my name as follows:                                                                                              

 _______________________________________________________________________________


Total Donation: $__________

Send this completed form, along with your donation to:
Triune Mercy Center, P.O. Box 3844, Greenville, SC 29608.
 
October at Triune:     

Worship and Bible Studies (Average Attendance):

Sun AM ..... 267                    Sun PM ....  27            

 

Meals and Assistance Programs:

Hot meals ................  1,434                           Adult clothing recipients ...  259

Grocery boxes............   247   households       Child  clothing recipients... 127   

Pop-top groceries ...     134 Individuals          Laundry loads ...................    90                

Blankets ........................ 41                             Coats ...............................    20

                    

People placed in rehab ............................................... 6  

 

Jobs ............................................................................   2 

 

Mental health contacts ...........................................    31

 

Bon Secours St. Francis nursing consultations .............  90

 

Bon Secours St. Francis social work consultations ....... 31

 

Bon Secours St. Francis mammograms ....................... 13

 

Bon Secours St. Francis eye screenings......................... 21

 

Volunteer hours ........................................................... 1,040  

  

Worship with us at Triune Chapel: 
  

November 3, 11 AM -- You don't want to miss All Saints Sunday at Triune. Trombonist Brad Jepson will lead us on "When the Saints Go Marching In," and Jen St. Stjarna will sing "Wayfaring Stranger."  Deb will preach on "I'm going there..."  

6 PM -- Robbie Boman will lead a service on "The Ministry of Blessing Prayers."

 

November 10, 11 AM -- Our friend Anna Sheehan will perform, and Deb will preach on the Zacchaeus story.  

 6 PM --   Rev. Jerry Hill will speak.

 

November 17, 11 AM --  Voices of Mercy will lead worship.  

6 PM - -  Rev. Jerry Hill will speak.

 

November 24, 11 AM --   The Triune Gospel Band will lead our Thanksgiving service.

6 PM -- Playback Cafe, our improvisational acting ministry that shares the stories of homeless parishioners, will perform as our evening service. 

  

City Prayer - Each Wednesday at noon       

  

Wish List:   
High-efficiency laundry detergent
Postage stamps
Bus tickets 
New and used jeans
Heavy coats
Warm gloves (not hand-knit, please)
Fleece caps (not hand-knit ones, please) 
Copy paper 
Peanut butter
Recovery Bibles (A case may be purchased for $135. Call David Gay at 233-8020, ext. 130.) 

Recovery Meetings:

Monday          Noon          Narcotics Anonymous

Tuesday           Noon         Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous  

Wednesday   Noon         Narcotics Anonymous

                          6:30 PM     Celebrate Recovery

                          8 PM           Alcoholics Anonymous

Thursday         Noon          Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous 

                         7 PM            Narcotics Anonymous

Friday              Noon          Narcotics Anonymous

Saturday       9 AM            Alcoholics Anonymous

                       10:30 AM      Women's Recovery  

                         7 PM            Narcotics Anonymous

Serving in November:   

Brookwood Church                                       Pelham Road Baptist

Buncombe Street UMC                                   Prince of Peace Catholic 

Earle Street Baptist                                          St. Mary Magdalene Catholic

First Baptist of Mauldin                                    St. Matthew UMC

Grace Covenant Presbyterian                        Trinity Church

Holland Park Church of Christ                        Triune Mercy Center

                                    Valley Brook Outreach Baptist

Monetary Gifts:   

In memory of Andy Bindewalde, Jr. - Alvin & Sarah Drake

In memory of Richard B. Kale, Sr. - Harold & Suzanne Willson

 

In memory of Betty Chiles - Apphia Sinday school class of First Baptist Greenville, Charlie & Jackie Barber, Nilly & Terry Barr, Ray & Molene Childers, Mac & Barbara Christopher, Doris Clanton, Dorothy Dill, Joe & Gretchen Erwin, Tom & Kitty Hawpe, Joanne Hinton, Milton & Angela Holcombe,  Andrea Hudson, Austin & Gaines Huguley, Kenneth & Jean Johnson, M.T. Anderson Class of  First Baptist Greenville, Ralph & Lucy McBride, Carolyn Monroe, Kathleen Ortlund, Edith & Bob Patterson, Connie Queen,  Donna & Tim Rhyne, Doris Richardson, Nancy B. Stanton, Sandy & Spike Vance, Michael & Jane Wilson, Mary & Jerry Wylie.

 

In memory of Jim Smart - Charles Alford, Bill & Linda Bartlett, Deb Bucci, Mac & Barbara Christopher, Cindy Clanton, Glen & Greer Clayton, Dorothy Dill, Furman University Office of the Chaplains, Ronald & Tommie Reece, Jimmy & Corrine Stewart, Judy & Bing Vick, Terry Walters.   

 

In honor of David & Audrey Gay's anniversary - Dotti Gauntlett

In honor of Charles Anderson's art - Marge Powell 

 

Aldersgate UMC

Anonymous

Sam & Suzanne Barton

Mr. & Mrs. C. Brock Bauknight

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence B. Bauknight

Lou Ellen Beckham-Davis

Thomas L. Bruce

Buncombe Street UMC

Jim & Sandra Cain

Linda Carroll

Charity Ball Board of Greenville

Cathy Chipolone-Collins

D. Barry Coleman

Covenant UMC Youth Mission Day

Robert & Dawn Coyne

Farroll Daniels

Catherine Edwards

Glenda & Calder Ehrmann

Susan Eller

Sallie Eskew

Anne Howard Farrar

Susan Fender

First Presbyterian Church of Greer

Foothills Presbytery

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

Full Circle Public Relations

Gleaners Sunday School Class - Covenant UMC

Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Angela Grell

Barbara D. Hall

Stephen Harclerode

Mike & Trish Harrison

Margaret Heatherly

Jean Johnson

Fran Jordan

Joyce Kemp

Holly and Sean Martin

Jane Ella Matthews

Mauldin UMC

Don & Cheryl McMahan

Kenneth Moody

Betty Morin

Praise Cathedral Church of God

James H. Price III

Stephen Root

Susan Scace

Second Monday Club - Mauldin UMC

Bernard & Cynthia Showman

Simpsonville UMC

Jessica Smith

Frank Spann

Spaulding Farms Women's Book Club

W. David Sutherland

Scott Timpanelli

Cooper & June White

Hans Wiegert

Mary Frances Willingham

Jane & Michael Wilson

Women of Trinity Presbyterian Church

 

Plus, thanks to all our faithful worshippers!

 

A special thanks to Resurgent Capital Services for two stackable washer/dryer units for our laundry room.

 

And thanks to: Deb Adams, Amanda Shearer Benci, Jan Brewer, Laurie Brown, Harold DeWitt, Teri Ficicchy, Gleaners Sunday School Class of Covenant UMC, Barbara Hall, Amanda Hanna, Peggy Hendricks, Pat Hendrix, Henkel Corp, Holland Park Church, Greg Koon, Kevin Lynch, Karen & Michael Medlin, Mission Action Circle of Earle Street Baptist Church, Luis and Dianne Moreno, Judy Olson, Marge Powell, Questers Class of Aldersgate UMC, Kate Reed, Jordan Scott, Mike Senn, Dan & Betty Shearer, Paul Sheller, Spaulding Farms Women's Book Club, Eric & Mindi Steele, Taylors First Baptist Church WMU, Elizabeth Union, Andy Welchel, Wham Auctions & Estates, Howard Wimmer, and David Yearwood for donations of clothes, food, and other items.

  
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