Children Our well supervised Nursery and Children’s programs offer a warm and caring atmosphere. The nursery and pre-school classrooms are located along the entry hallway and Junior Church for 1st -5th graders is upstairs.

Communion Jesus gave this memorial to remind us of the price He paid for our sins – death on a cross. Christians are invited to meditate on God’s love and grace as they participate.

Offering We give out of our love for God to support His work here on earth. If you are a guest we welcome you to express your gratitude but do not feel pressured.

Decisions At the end of the service an invitation is extended and is an opportunity for you to walk forward to accept Jesus as your Savior, rededicate your life, transfer your membership or ask for prayer and spiritual counsel.

Baptism Immersion in water pictures the death and burial of our old life without Jesus and the beginning of our new life as His follower. It is the moment when God’s grace unites with our faith providing forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For your safety and the safety of our children, security recording devices are in use in this building. Please Note!!

Where are you? What is the next step YOU need to take to grow closer to Christ and increase your involvement at Towne South?

Our Story Continues is a 2-year capital campaign to raise funds for the new addition and parking lot.

Our Story Continues - October Last Week ....................................$865.00 Monthly Total .......................... $4,120.00

Monthly Budget .............. $11,913.76 Percentage Met ......................... 35%

Financial Stewardship General Fund - October Last Week ................................ $3,968.00 Monthly Total ........................ $16,194.73 Monthly Budget .................... $22,677.24 Percentage Met ................................. 71%

Budget through end of September Budgeted Income ......................$221,103 Actual Income ...........................$211,614 Over/Under ...................................$9,389

Gifts to $Club through August ....$11,010

Attendance Last Week Sunday School ........................... N/A 1st Service .................................. 212 2nd Service ................................. N/A Total minus duplicates .............. 212

Average for 2015 Sunday School ............................. 92 Morning Worship ...................... 285

October Average Morning Worship ..................... 264

Communion Cleaning Teams

Nov Catlin October 31 Lisa Romano, Bonnie Smailes, Pat/Pam Hagan, Scott Fenwick, Janice Provost

Dec Lane November 1 Margie Eckert, Heather Riley, Geanine Bullock, Erica Garvin, Debbie Priddy, Joan Sawyer

Greeters

Entrance First Service Second Service

October 25 Main Gragg & Laura Harkins Xanda & Frank Harris (or daughter)

Side Lee & Julie Fields Clyde & Lisa Tillman

November 1 Main Bob & Lori White, (Marion Everett) Gloria Rogers & Patsy Huffman

Side Doug & Lisa Romano Mike Fambro & Mary Ellen Fletcher

Nursery

October 25 8:45 Kelly/Alana Whidbee, Lorna Smith 10:15 Katie Anderson, Kaylin Shields 11:15 Ken/Shelley/Emily Greene

November 1 8:45 Winnie Wiseman, Janel Shaw, Kayla Clark 10:15 Xanda Harris, Alex James 11:15 Kris, Todd, & Hailey Pelton

Sunday School

Have you joined one our Sunday School classes yet? Check one out! We start at 10:15.

College Age Class: Ivy Brothers :: “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren :: Meets in Room 203.

Ladies' Class: Beth Bondurant :: The Gospel of Mark :: Meets in Room 107.

Adult Class: Dr. Lee Fields & Dr. Bob Smith :: "The Glory Story" :: Meets in Room 103.

Adult Class: Dan Lease :: “Fearless Conversation: How Can We Be Fully Faithful When We’re Fully Flawed?” :: Meets in the auditorium.

Adult Class: Jonathan Snoots :: “The Heart of the Artist” :: Meets in the Green Room to the left of the stage.

High School Class: Corbin Kuhn :: “A Year with Jesus” :: Meets in the Faith Café

Middle School Class: Carol Adams :: Meets in Room 205.

1-5th Grade: JAM (Jesus And Me)

Pre-K Class: ARK (Anchoring ouR Kids).

October 25, 2015

Class This Week Next Week

8:45am PreK

Susanne E, Shelby, Kerrie M, Jillian PreK Mid JAM (SS): Susanne, Rachel

Sissy, Jillian, Amy Mc, Kassidy PreK Mid JAM: Nicole S, Amy Mc

8:45am K-5th

Melissa S, Emily B Elem.Mid JAM (SS): Sissy

Darren & Stephanie G Elem. Mid JAM: Sissy

11:15am PreK Courtney S, Elaina G, Geanine, Jillian Nicole, Faith S, Haley G, Jillian

11:15am K-5th Melissa S, Faith S Darren & Stephanie G

College Preview Weekend at MACU

Details on the November 20-22, 2015 College Preview Weekend for juniors and seniors can be found at: http://macuniversity.edu/college-preview-weekend-2015.

Audio Adrenaline in Concert at MACU Tickets for Audio Adrenaline November 20th can be found at https://event.attendstar.com/event/show/audio-adrenalin/.

Student Ministry

Community

Special Meeting Looking for Foster Parents We are working to grow our foster parent program, as right now we have too many children in need of a home and not enough good parents in the area. Families from every county are invited to attend, learn about our program and hopefully, we can get some really great people who truly want to help a child in need. Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015 - Time: 6pm to 8-pm - Location: ACI Support Specialists, Inc, 407-J South Griffin St, Elizabeth City, NC 27909.

Welcome Center First Service Second Service

November 1 Barbra and Ed Griffin Help needed!!

November 8 Whitney and Jacob Brannen Clara Thomas

Registration for CCYC Carolina Christian Youth Conference (CCYC) will be here before you know it! Mark your calendars for February 26-28th. We’ll be heading to Greensboro, NC to spend the week with thousands of other students from around North Carolina. The total cost for this endeavor is $155/person which includes conference registration, hotel room, fuel, and some food. The registration cost is $62 at this point, but will increase at the end of November. Please have your $62 paid by November 22nd if you plan on going. You can pay for your registration cost online at https://squareup.com/market/tscoc/ccyc. Contact Corbin Kuhn for more information at corbin@tscoc.com.

Reach.Grow.Serve

Towne South Church of Christ 2224 Peartree Road Elizabeth City, North Carolina 27909

(252) 338-2248 info@tscoc.com www.tscoc.com

Elders Mike Baker : Bill Griffin : Glenn McGinnis (Chair)

Rod Sershen : Bob Smith : Jeff Wood Brad Giffin

Senior Minister Home: 330-9994

Cell: 619-4303 bjg@tscoc.com

Jonathan Snoots Associate Minister

Cell: 312-3232 jasnoots@tscoc.com

Kristine “Sissy” Giffin Children’s Director

Home: 330-9994 Cell: 619-2592

sgiffin@tscoc.com

Corbin Kuhn Student Minister Cell: (757)407-2355 corbin@tscoc.com Sunday Morning Worship

1st Service – 8:45 am Sunday School – 10:15 am 2nd Service – 11:15 am

First Time Guests Our minister wants to meet you; he’ll be at the Welcome Table just for you immediately after the benediction. Also, there’s a gift for you at the table!

Monday ........................................................................... Discovery 201 @ 6:00pm Financial Peace University (through Nov 2) @ 7:00pm Wednesday ............................................................... Men’s Bible Study @ 6:15am Church History, Ladies’ Study, Children’s Christmas Program Practice & Youth @ 6:30pm

Friday ............................................................................................... Attic @ 7:00pm Children’s Christmas Program Practice Saturday .................................................................... Men’s Bible Study @ 8:00am ICOM in Richmond @ 6:00am

Upcoming Activities

Nov 1 .............................................................................................. Time Falls BACK Nov 8 ........................................................................................................... Fall Fest Nov 10 ........................................................................... Climbing higher Day Camp Nov 20-22 ........................................................... MACU College Preview Weekend Nov 20 .......................................................................................... Audio Adrenaline Feb 26-28 ......................................................................................................... CCYC

This Week’s Activities

Outreach

Ladies' Ministry

Ladies' Wednesday Night Study Wednesday night Bible study is back on Wednesdays at 6:30pm here at the church. Julie Fields is teaching a course on Revelation using the book More Than Conquerors by William Hendriksen.

The Attic is Back! The first time back was superb. We look forward to more kids this Friday. Remember, it’s for grades 6-12 and is from 7 pm to 10 pm, $5 admission.

Growth

Sign Up For Bus Trip to ICOM We want to take a large group to the International Conference on Missions in Richmond on Saturday, October 31. The bus will leave at 6 am from the church’s parking lot and return at 10 pm that evening. The church is underwriting a major part of the cost of the bus (and the church has already paid the registration fee); however, we are asking each rider to pay $10 (with a cap of $30 per family). You may sign up either online or at the Welcome Center. If you sign up online, you may use a card to pay there; if you sign at the Welcome Center, you may leave a check there or place the payment in the offering plate, but it needs to be designated so it will be properly credited. Remember that’s the Saturday night that we get an extra hour of sleep—what wonderful planning!

Crash Course on Church History Wednesday Evenings, 10/14-11/18 Bill Griffin will teach a “run-through” of Church History, starting with the late first century and coming somewhat to the present, with some strong attention given to the Restoration Movement—all of this in six weeks! So, you know we can’t get “bogged down.” Why not plan to join us for this study on Wednesday evenings?

Volunteers Needed for Nursery Gay Murray sends this plea: I am happy to say that our Nursery attendance continues to grow, and we count that as such a blessing. With that being said, we need more workers. If you are interested in working with our Babies and/or Toddlers, please contact Sissy Giffin, Gay Murray or let them know at the Information Center. Thanks for your consideration in this ministry.

Children’s Ministry

Children’s Christmas Program Yay!!! We had a great start this past week with this year’s Children’s Christmas Musical, The Night Shift Before Christmas. If your children were not able to make it, it is not too late to get involved! We will have practices on most Wednesday and Friday evenings. Schedules of all the practices are available. It will definitely take most of them to pull it all together, so we need all the kids at as many of the practices as possible. The kids need to bring their script notebooks back if they took them home. If you have any questions, please contact Sissy Giffin at sgiffin@tscoc.com or 619-2592.

Men’s Bible Study The men at Towne South gather two times during the week to study and

fellowship around God’s word. One group meets on Wednesday mornings at 6:15 am (Hebrews) and our second group meets on Saturday mornings from 8-9 am (Revolutionary Manhood). Join us as we learn how to help each other become more consistent and godlier men. These meetings are open to all men!

Men’s Ministry

Nursery

Climbing Higher Ministries - Thanks You!!! On behalf of Climbing Higher Ministries, I would like to thank everyone that helped with “Prom” last Friday Night. We had approximately 190 in attendance: 85 Special guests, along with their family and staff and over 50 volunteers from Towne South. You guys are awesome! I love being part of a church family that is so willing to share God’s Love. Thanks again. Gay Murray (Also Tuesday November the 10th will be “Day Camp” so mark your calendars!!!)

Fall Family Fest This is a wonderful opportunity for us to reach out to our community! Towne South invites all families out on Sunday, November 8th from 6-8pm for fall festivities with family and friends. The menu will consist of a variety of hot soups, chili, crackers, and hotdogs. The festivities will include carnival type games throughout the building, as well as outdoor activities which include hayrides, inflatables and a bond fire for roasting (yum…smores). Hey, why not get one more use out of that costume? We invite the children to dress in costume, if they’d like. Please, nothing evil. We need plenty of folks to help prepare soups and chili, as well as those who will oversee the games. Please check out the back table and find a spot to share and serve for this community outreach event. Any questions, please contact Sissy at sgiffin@tscoc.com or 338-2248.

Reflections on Great Day of Service IV Wow! Last Sunday was amazing! Thank you to all who served and made a difference. It is amazing to be a part of a church that knows how to serve like Jesus. We had 150 people serving in 15 different areas throughout Elizabeth City and Hertford. It is the prayer of our leadership that our church will continue to serve, not just one day, but every day of the year. Maybe the place you served could be a place you and your family could serve on a regular basis? Let’s be hands and feet of Jesus!

Time/Talent Sheets – Remember The Times Today you will find bright yellow Time and Talent sheets in the chairs of the auditorium. If you have not had an opportunity to fill one out before, now is your chance! These will be used to find a place for you to serve in the areas of your interests, utilizing your specific talents. Towne South wants to help you grow in your spiritual development, by serving God and His kingdom. Just turn them in at the Welcome Center after you’ve completed both sides.

Service Ministry

Towne South T-shirts, etc. Many of you missed the last opportunity to buy some TS apparel and were asking me about it Sunday. We are going to do another order this week only! Visit our online store below and get your order in by this SUNDAY! The link will be active through Sunday. https://squareup.com/market/tscoc