Two summer picnics have been scheduled. The first one will be Sunday, July 21 at East LaPorte Park from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. The next one will be Sunday, August 25 at Deep Creek Pavilion from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Please plan to attend one or both of these events for fellowship and family fun!
Banana Pudding
Ingredients
3 boxes instant vanilla pudding
5 cups milk
8 ounces sour cream
9 ounce container Cool Whip
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Dash of salt
1 box vanilla wafers
6 good bananas
Instructions
Add milk, one cup at a time to the pudding mix and beat well. Add sour cream and then add about 7 ounces of the Cool Whip, leaving the other 2 ounces to go on the top. Add flavoring and salt.
Layer the vanilla wafers on the bottom of a 9”x13” pan. Then add pudding and bananas in 2 layers. Cover with remaining Cool Whip and sprinkle with a few vanilla wafer crumbs.
– Provided by Othello Crawford
Banana Pudding
Click here to download a printable version.
-Provided by Othello Crawford
Recipes Appreciated!
Each week we include a recipe in the Church Chimes and we hope that you are enjoying reading and trying them. You can add your favorite recipes to the Chimes by sending them to Cheryl Beck at cabeck@ncsu.edu. This is an ongoing WMU project.
Thanks for participating!
Hurray for Our Nursery Workers of the Week!
There was a lot of activity in the nursery last Sunday!
Thank you to Heather and Jeremy Ellenburg for coordinating the
nursery along with several helpers including Abby Pittman, Layla Stillwell,
and Carrie Nelson. Thank you so much for your good work!
Next Sunday, Janelle Messer will serve in the nursery. Thanks, Janelle!
The new Nursery Workers List will be emailed soon.
Mission Moment to 6.19.24
Elket Rodríguez
CBF Field Personnel, U.S.–Mexico Border
If there is a biblical character whose story with which I identify, it is Simon Peter. Passionate, impulsive, impatient, brave and yet cowardly at the same time. Deeply human and yet profoundly spiritual. When he seems lost, he is found. Confused, but convinced. Simply, perfectly imperfect.
Peter was Jesus’ artwork for us to see and enjoy the effects of the planting and the sowing of the word and the power of the Holy Spirit. Peter’s shortcomings were always compensated for by the precious power of God’s grace. Like me, Peter knows that when all the anxiety and the noise dissipate, there is only one place to find satisfaction. We can either go to “the place” or “the place” can pursue us with steadfast love—like Peter experienced when Jesus appeared to him on a beach. When all is said and done, Peter and I remember that only Jesus has the words of eternal life.
Two Summer Picnics
Two summer picnics have been scheduled. The first one will be Sunday, July 21 at East LaPorte Park from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. The next one will be Sunday, August 25 at Deep Creek Pavilion from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Please plan to attend one or both of these events for fellowship and family fun!
Mission Moment 5.12.24
Lavonia Winford
Active Duty Air Force Chaplain; Installation Chaplain; Pituffik Space Base, Greenland
This piece is a reflection on the influence and power of women, most notably, Eve as an Ezer*—a helper; women in the genealogy of Jesus as listed in Matthew [Tamar (Matthew 1:3); Rahab (1:5); Ruth (1:5); and the wife of Uriah the Hittite (1:6)]; and the unnamed women who influenced countless generations of prophets. The power of a woman’s influence is reflected in this tribute and poem of thanksgiving to the women who influenced my life.
To: My Momma, Momma Green (adopted grandmother), Granny (maternal grandmother), Cousin Elsie (paternal matriarch), Granny Scott (family friend), Miz Granny (elder I met along the way), and all the women who have poured into me along the journey. At the time of this writing, all of these listed, except for my mom, reside in my great cloud of witnesses.
Thank you from a mother-ed child.
El Shaddai, another name for God, means the breasted one, the nurturer. How grateful I am for every breast that has nurtured me.
You held me in your arms physically and figuratively, rocking and sheltering me from a world designed to harm me (or to not let me be me). Your words and ways to live by have nurtured and sustained my soul. Your love fed my heart and paved the way to make me whole. You are still my help in the time of the storm, the soft space I run to when I fall, the strong force that pushes and prods me along, the hard (stern) face that allows me to do no harm. Healer, helper, friend, a momma, this girl’s deepest friend.
Thank you for loving me the best way you knew how, for giving me the best parts of you, the parts flawed, time-tested and true. The parts of your heart given to me; the help as I struggle in learning how to be. Perfection did not know your name, yet in your love I perfectly remain.
The God in you built up the God in me. You hold me up when I falter and fumble; you help me to navigate paths (this journey or world) full of danger. Healer, helper, friend, a momma, this girl’s deepest friend.
I lean into your grace as I run my race thankful that a part of you is reflected in my face. Though all of your life was NOT wonderful, because of you I am a wonder to behold. A mother-ed child.
Thank you, from a mother-ed child. Healer, lover, friend, a momma, this girl’s deepest friend.
Pray…Give…Go.
Cinnamon Roll Bundt Cake
Ingredients
1 white cake mix
2 boxes instant vanilla pudding mix
1/2 c oil
1 1/4 c water
4 eggs
4 Tbs cinnamon (divided)
1 cup brown sugar
Glaze
3 cups powdered sugar
3-4 Tbs milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350. Grease pan. Combine mix, puddings, water, oil, eggs, and 2 Tbs cinnamon and mix well. Pour half of the mixture into greased pan. Combine brown sugar and 2 Tbs cinnamon and sprinkle over mixture. cover with remaining batter. Bake 40-45 minand let cool for 10 minutes before taking out of the pan. After cake cools, pour glaze on top.
– Provided by Amy Cook
Cinnamon Roll Bundt Cake
Click here to download a printable version.
-Provided by Amy Cook
New Church Safety Team
The Deacons of our Church support the idea of establishing a safety team to address any emergencies that we may be faced with in the future. I have been in touch with our local Sheriff’s Department and they are willing to help establish and train a Safety Team for our church. The first step is to see who would be interested in being part of this team. There are many different needs to be filled to establish such a team. Thus many different skill sets will be needed. If you are interested in being part of the very first Safety Team established at Sylva First and are willing to participate in the required training please contact me at jddills1@gmail.com or by phone at 828-506-3815.
Thank you,
John Dills
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