UCM Walk-A-Thon

Sylva FBC children and their families are invited to participate in a Walk-A-Thon event at the Recreation Park in Cullowhee on Saturday, March 18, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. There will be prizes, a raffle, music, and a contest for the best dressed green costume.

The Children's Ministry Advisory Committee is forming a team to walk that day and all children, teens, and adults are welcome to take part in this special fundraiser for United Christian Ministries.

The registration fee will be covered for children but adults pay a $20.00 fee. Participants will seek pledges to raise more money for UCM.

Please let Cheryl Beck know by March 5 if you can join us on the walk.

Pen Pal Project Underway

This is the third year for the Pen Pal Project sponsored by the Children's Ministry and WMU. Adult participants should receive their information this week and can begin corresponding with their younger pen pal friend who attends After School and/or our church.

Have fun writing your friend and sharing the gift of friendship in this special way.

Heck-Jones Mission Offering

Two Sundays ago, the GA’s handed out envelopes and information on the Heck-Jones Mission Offering. If you have not returned your donation, please do it as soon as possible by placing the envelope in the offering plate on Sunday or leaving it in the office with Janice. The WMU office in Greensboro uses these donations to be self supportive of Cooperative Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union. The staff uses these funds to help with education for the churches in NC. They do a wonderful job!

Mission Circle Meeting

All ladies are invited and encouraged to come to the Mission Circle Meeting on Tuesday, March 14 at 10:30 a.m.  Amanda McCoy, who is with The Sufficient Grace Ministry in Swananoa, will be speaking to us about human trafficking.  Please plan to attend.  We will meet in the Gathering Place Room.

Hurray for Our Nursery Workers of the Week!

Thank you Judy Henderson and Mary Lou Millwood for working in the nursery last Sunday.  We appreciate the two of you working together.

On March 12th, Melanie and Rob Stokely will be in the nursery.  Thank you!

There is still room on the schedule to serve “the least of these”
on Sunday mornings.  It is a blessing to see their smiles and enthusiasm as you spend
time with our infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 
Please contact Cheryl Beck (cabeck@ncsu.edu) if you would like to help.

Church Service at Hermitage Nursing Center

The ladies of the church will be leading a church service for the residents at the Hermitage Nursing Center on Sunday, March 19 at 3:00 p.m.  The GA's will be assisting with the service also.  This is a very special time of ministry to these dear folk.  Please come and be a blessing.

Youth Newsletter

Click HERE to view the spring youth newsletter!

Learning, Sharing, Listening, Growing

Beginning TONIGHT, March 8 at 6:00 PM 
in the Gathering Place Room

Join us for a season of discovery as we learn how our personal narrative has shaped and influenced our lives. With the help of the enneagram and the book, The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self by Ian Cron, we will learn the joy of knowing that God helps us write a new and healthier story to live by. This multi-week experience will serve as both an introduction and enrichment to the enneagram as a tool for better understanding ourselves in relationship to the world around us. Please RSVP by Monday, March 6 at noon for childcare in advance by contacting our church office: 828-586-2095,  fbcsylva@gmail.com.

Run and Tell!

Children in grades 1-5 and their families at Sylva FBC have started a 40-day Lenten journey to be more like Jesus everyday. Families have received a RUN AND TELL! kit with family devotionals, a 40-day scratch off calendar of activities, flower seeds, and stickers. There is even a recipe for Resurrection Rolls which Lucie Moore and her mom made on Sunday afternoon. 

If you haven’t received your RUN AND TELL kit yet, let Cheryl Beck know and she will get it to you. Run and Tell!

Urgent Need for Volunteers!

The 1st Explorers After School Ministry college staff will be on Spring Break, March 6-10.  Luckily, Jackson County Schools will be closed March 9th and 10th, too.  Help is needed for the first part of the week when the program will be short staffed.  If you could help on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday (1 or more days) of that week from 2:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., please let Cheryl Beck know.  You can enjoy interacting with the children,playing on the playground, helping serve snacks, being a friendly face from our church, etc.  

You will be blessed, and the children will, too!