" I so enjoy the Sunday  morning messages.  I makes me feel a little closer to 'home' and definitely closer to our Lord!"

"God challenged me this morning.  I want to go deeper
and Fair View helped me do just that"

"Fair View  made me feel like they wanted to know me.  
Its my new favorite place to go!"

How Can We Help our Brothers and Sisters?

The Appalachian District is still working out the details but our District Superintendent, Rev. Lori Beth Huffman,  is making Appalachian District Office a staging area to get supplies to most devastated areas. 
  • We need Truck Drivers and Folks with Trailers to deliver the materials to the District Office. Reach out to Church office to get more details about this.
  • We can collect the mentioned items in the need list.  
    • The Wesley building here at Fair View is a drop off point for any items you would like to donate.  If you come by the church during office hours you can also drop off items in the workroom. This are the first step of many that we will be engaging in over the next weeks, months and possibly years to help our mountain brothers and sisters through this disaster.    We also will be partnering with some of sister churches in Avery and Watauga County to reach specific needs.  Once we know those needs, we will add them to the listed needs.  I thank you all for you passionate outpour of generosity in face of such devastation.
  • You can Donate to Disaster Relief Fund
    • Click Here to Donate
    • You can join in our Conference Wide Offering, October 6th.
    • you can drop  your monetary donation by the church office during office hours (Mon-Fri. 9-2pm)
  • Early Response Team Training:
    Folks have asked about how they can help – we are not ready for teams yet but we will – so please keep this desire to help so that when we are ready to send teams, you can make time to go.  For those who do want to be part of an Early Response Team, we require training first.  This is dangerous work and we need trained volunteers at this first level of response.  Here are details as they are available.  Other trainings are being planned so the ask is to sign up if you are interested and the Missions Response Team will be in touch with you with training options.  
     
    Early Response Team Training: We are planning a “Just-in-Time” Early Response Team (ERT) Training in the Asheville area on Monday, October 7. Volunteers must have ERT training to assist in recovery efforts. Please help spread the word to interested churches and individuals. Register here: ERTTraining-InitialSign-Up
  •  We can Pray
Please continue to be in prayer for our all the people in the midst of this tragedy:   The people that lost loved ones and friends. The people who lost their homes, businesses, and livelihood.   Those people that have already stepped up on the frontline to respond to get them to safety, care for the medical needs, and gain some semblance of order in the chaos.  Please be in prayer for the pastors, churches and communities they are serving.  It's only been 3 days, but the emotional, physical and spiritual toll each has been through is extreme.

Lord, help us be the church in this season and at this moment for those most in need!
Listed needs
  • Flood Buckets (click this link to a video of items and how to pack them) https://umcmission.org/umcor-cleaning-kit/
  • Propane cans
  • Stove top cookers or table top grills
  • Charcoal
  • Batteries  – AA, AAA especially 
  • Children’s resources 
    • coloring books, activities, kid friendly snacks
Updated Reports from the DS (As of 10/9/24)
  • Collection Opportunities-   Because of everyone’s generosity from within and beyond North Carolina, we are calling for a weeklong Donation Sabbath because ALL of our distribution centers are beyond full of supplies to give away.  Some of our distribution centers are moving away from giving out commodities and focusing just on Flood Buckets.  We will do the same.  The Appalachian District is no longer receiving water, food, diapers, etc at this time.  If you have already gathered items, then go ahead and bring them, we will receive them this week.  But please, no new collections of these items on your end. The only items we will be continuing to gather in the future are limited to the following:
     -Flood Buckets
    -Propane cans
    -Stove top cookers or table top grills
    -Charcoal
    -Batteries
    - Children’s resources (coloring books, activities, kid friendly snacks) 
SPECIAL ITEMS: (For Rev. Ken Anderson – Disaster Response Coordinator in Watauga County)
  • Honda 2000 Generator

Hands on Mission for Hurricane Helene Relief 
UPDATE

We gathered with the local United Methodist Churches in the Mooresville Missional network, along with other missional networks in Iredell County to put together flood buckets for the people of Western North Carolina  Mountains.  We had a specific task of putting together as many as we could to meet the need of 500 buckets by yesterday, Tuesday 10/8, needed in Spruce Pine community.  With all hands on deck we were able to put together 110 completed buckets and sent 90 home with a few missing items to complete to make the goal of 200 from our local area to help meet that need.
I am please to announce that with all were brought back in and we delivered on our goal of 200 buckets from the Mooresville  and surrounding areas.  Thank you to all that came out to serve and those who donated generously to make it happen.

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Worship and So Much More

Want to watch online or even get caught up on this past weeks service.  Check out our online library of worship, Refuel devotions and addition digital media.  More and more are added weekly.  
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Friday Worship
Song

This weeks worship song is entitled, "Tell your Heart to Beat Again", by Danny Gokey.  Perhaps you feel like the person from the song.  Like your heart is broken, unable to beat because of the damage done by this world.  God is speaks life over you today and is telling you, "come alive again!"  Will you tell your heart to beat again as you walk in agreement with God's future for you this day?
 We are partnering with RightNow Media to bring over 25,000 Biblical Studies and teaching from well know authors to you and your small group.  You can use them for personal devotion, couple studies, or group studies, at church or in your homes.  We will be offering this to you at no cost to you.  We just want to get this tool into your hands so that God can use them to build and strengthen your spiritual walk with Him. 

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