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.

➢ Please check the Prayer List each week for those who have asked for our prayers. And please help us

keep our list up-to-date.

If there are names that need to be added or taken off the list, please contact the office at 828-859-9218 or

send an email to tumc1@tryonumc.net

•Monday, June 15, 5:30 p.m. - United Methodist Men Meet at Calvert’s.(See Below for more informartion)

• Monday, June 16, 10:00 a.m. - Page Turner.(See Below for more informartion)

•A Note From Pastor Gerald Davis.(See Below for more information)

➢ Chancel Choir - Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Choir Room (Summer Choir 10:30 Sundays)

➢ Handbells -Wednesdays, 5:00 p.m., Handbell Room (Re-starts in September)

➢ Comfort Shawls. Every second and fourth Tuesday. 10:00 a.m. Comfort Shawl Room.

➢ Qi Gong. Fridays. 9:30—10:30 a.m. Fellowship Hall (Temporarily suspended)

➢ AA Meetings: Monday. 5:30 p.m. Fellowship Hall.

➢ Girl Scouts: Thursday. 4:30 p.m. Education Rooms, 2nd Floor

➢ Living Clean. Thursday. 6:00 p.m. Fellowship Hall.

OPERATIONS BUDGET

Giving for June 8, 2025 $290 Weeky Goal $2,785.44

Total Giving through June 8, 2025 $1,350 Monthly Goa; $12,068.50

ATTENDANCE

June 8, 2025 IN PERSON:30 ON- LINE: 115 TOTAL :145

Stewardship for the 2025 Budget

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

HOW YOU CAN MAKE YOUR GIFTS TO TRYON UMC MINISTRIES:

Offering given during worship services.

➢ Drop off offerings in the locked mailbox outside the church office.

➢ Give on-line with your credit card. Use the QR code on the right or see our website at www.tryonumc.org Click on “Giving” link. NOTE: Make sure you identify our church as Tryon UMC in Tryon, NC in the Blue Ridge District (there is a Tryon Methodist Church in Charlotte in the Metro District.)

Tryon United Methodist Church

Mission Statement: The people of Tryon United Methodist Church seek to answer God’s call to be disciples of Christ

Vision Statement: As Disciples of Christ we come together as a loving, caring family of faith:

➢ To share the hope, peace, grace, and love of Jesus Christ.

➢ To worship God and nurture spiritual growth.

➢ To grow in understanding of the Bible and its revelation of Jesus Christ.

To serve the needs of our neighbors near and far.

We welcome Reverend Gerald Davis to TUMC!

A Few Thoughts….

Someone said to me awhile, “Wait until you become a grandfather - then your life will change!”

Wow - was that ever true!

Kathy and I have been grandparents for over two years! Every week, we reaffirm the unusual blend of joy

and exhaustion that comes with loving our grandchildren! Indeed,

this is the toughest job you can ever love!

As we gather this Sunday to celebrate Trinity

Sunday and Father’s Day, let’s praise God for

the many ways our heavenly Father reveals His

love to us, as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer!

Look forward to seeing you Sunday!

Rev. Gerald and wife Kathy

Rev. Gerald Davis and Bennie

The Holy Spirit at Work in Your Life………..

Where is the Holy Spirit today?

When we recognize the Spirit evident in love, we begin to see a witness to the Spirit across our United Methodist connection. We observe evidence of the Spirit in our practice of the three General Rules: To do no harm, do good, and attend to the ordinances of God.

Often, the Spirit prompts us to do something. When we feel a pull to check-in on a neighbor, we might attribute that to the work of the Spirit. Or when we spontaneously lift our voices in prayer for a hurting loved one, we call that a movement of the Spirit. But the Holy Spirt might also call us into inaction: inviting us to love by not participating in systems of harm.

Ryan Dunn is a Minister of Online Engagement for United Methodist Communications. Sourced from UM Now

In the same way, we witness the Spirit moving us towards acts of goodness. The compulsion we feel to feed a stranger’s expired parking meter might be evidence of the Spirit. So, too, is the shared support received by United Methodist disaster relief workers at work in hurricane-ravaged areas.

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-