Elders: Paul Kearns, and Richard McLane, Elbert Colston
  Deacons: Richard Konzelman, Shelton Poythress, Jeff Wiggins, Corey Mayle,
     Roland Stewart
  Minister: Jerry Weldon
Rich Konzelman
Rich Konzelman
336-570-2295
konzelr@triad.rr.com		 Youth Ministry (along with Jeff Wiggins & Roland Stewart)
   Because our children are indeed our future, the Youth Ministry plays a vital role in our church. Our Youth Ministry seeks to bring up our children to have a meaningful relationship with God and our church family as a whole.
   Our youth program is organized according to a family based youth ministry model. In our youth ministry, we organize at least twelve youth events per year. These events are either of a spiritual, service, or a social nature. These events are divided among four core organizing teams. Each team is responsible for planning and carrying out their respective events.
 

Benevolence Ministry
   The Benevolence Ministry group is charged with meeting specific material needs of the community as well as needs of members of the church. In doing so we strive to make a positive impact in these peoples’ lives and expose them to the Church.
   Our goal is to turn the focus of the Benevolence Ministry from reactive, someone contacting the church asking for help, to proactive by identifying a need in the community and addressing it. We will continue to respond to unsolicited requests for assistance where we can.
   Initially the Benevolence Ministry Group will be focusing on the following three areas:

  • Homeless Shelter - Every second Saturday of the month one of 3 teams prepares and serves an evening meal at the homeless shelter. There is always a need for members to prepare food and/or assist with serving at the shelter.
  • Yard Sale - This will be new to Mebane Street and will be one of the ways we hope to be more proactive. This will be a little different than your normal Yard Sale in that everything is free. The objective is to reach out to those in need by providing, in a Yard Sale atmosphere, excess items that members have and/or collect from neighbors or friends.
  • Adopt a Family - This also will be a new Benevolence project at Mebane Street this year. The objective here is to not just address an emergency or immediate need a family may be having but to get involved in their lives and proactively provide assistance throughout the year. This assistance may be in the form of food, paying for part or all of some bills, helping around the house, helping with transportation, or any other way of helping a family in need.
How you can get involved:
   One way we intend to address grocery needs of the Adopt a Family project is by utilizing the services of the Angel Food Ministries (http://www.angelfoodministries.org). We will need people willing to collect the groceries from the distribution points (all in Burlington) and deliver them to the recipients.
   The Yard Sale is going to need organization, items will need to be collected and prepped, people will be needed the day of the sale to man the tables, and, of course, we will need plenty of items to “sell.”    If you are able and willing to assist others on short notice by running errands, paying bills (church supplies the funds), or helping around the house, we can use your help. If the short notice is a problem, we will have the same needs with longer notice with our Adopt a Family project.
   The Homeless Shelter Teams can always use help. If you have the time, even if it is just for a single month, please sign up.
   Last but not least, there is a need for men and women to lead in all of these three areas. For this ministry to grow and these projects to be successful, strong leadership is needed.
   If you are interested in serving in any way in the Benevolence Ministry, please indicate so on the sign-up sheet at the end of the booklet.