WELCOME FROM HAYWOOD STREET:


UPDATES:


Another wonderful Golf For Awareness. Click here for results and photos!
What a gift the Downtown Welcome Table received this week. Thanks to
the generosity of the folks at East Fork Pottery, Wednesday and Sunday
meals will now be served on these beautiful, handmade plates. Another
incredible display of love from the Asheville community.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:


1. Click HERE for details on nearby parking and our Wednesday shuttle option.

2. The next Haywood Street companion orientation is Monday, October 1 at 5:00. Please Contact Hannah if you have any questions.

3. A reminder that Haywood Street is on Instagram and Facebook. Follow along for weekly menus, events and lots of great photos!

4. “Growing Younger” — sermon by Rev. Brian Combs, 9/23/18


COMPANION CORNER:


For more information about any of the following, please contact Hannah, Haywood Street Companion Coordinator, at hannah@haywoodstreet.org or 828.575.2477 [ext. 106].

Welcome Table:
Food prep and information sheet

Clothing Closet:
Current needs: diapers (size 5/6), men’s clothing, t-shirts & underwear

Respite:
Wanting to prepare a dinner for those in Respite? Click here to access Mealtrain!

Additional Need:
We are looking for a group of companions to start Tuesday Walmart commodity pick ups (11:15-noon). Please contact Hannah if you are interested in helping!


Make a gift to Haywood St.

A HAYWOOD STREET REFLECTION BY: TERRY

                                                         BEAUTY

Often, when I am at Haywood Street, my heart is so full that it overflows…and sneaks down my cheeks.   I know.  I cry a lot. The emotions just bubble up and spill over.  My red nose is a dead give away!  Like Rudolph, you can see me coming a mile away. The red nose looks pretty good on that sweet reindeer. Maybe it looks okay on me too! Beauty. I am learning to see it now.  I have been looking at what the world calls beauty for way too long, but they have it all wrong!

I am making progress seeing true beauty.  I have spent years being ashamed of my tears. Feeling weak, unable to control my emotions.  Since being at Haywood Street, I have learned that God only made one of me, (and only one of you)  and we are beautifully and wonderfully made. (God said that about EACH of us. He calls us BELOVED!) I am beautiful! Never thought I would say that about myself. But if God, our designer and creator made us in God’s likeness and image,  we must be acceptable…good enough….just as we are!  Yes.  You and I can even say…we are beautiful!

We all can see God’s handiwork in others, why is it so hard to see it in ourselves? Beauty surrounds me as I look at my Haywood Street family.  As a Companion on Wednesdays, I am privileged to spend time with some of the most real, determined, gifted people that I have ever met.  Whether I hear a story of survival, pain, tragedy or triumph, it is shared by someone that I treasure.  Someone that God treasures. And I see beauty.

Often a friend will share a talent in worship.  An Original song played on the piano by Larry,  a Rap presented by Delo that takes your breath away, or John playing the harmonica and dancing and so many more.  Too many to name, but every one treasured. Held. Remembered. Every week someone gives a gift to us all.  They simply give themselves and it is more than enough! The beauty touches us all and our hearts cry.

Beauty. Simple beauty.  So much beauty that it makes my heart come out of my eyes, and makes my nose red…that’s okay!  When I cry, I feel alive.  I feel the overwhelming love of God around me. I see Christ in every face.  It makes me overflow with the awareness of God’s presence in every person and everything. Sometimes the beauty is just too much. I can not contain it. And so I cry.

YOU are beautiful my Haywood Street Family.
YOU have shown me the beauty in each of you.
YOU have helped me see the beauty in myself.

YOU, I thank God for YOU, and the gift of weeping at your boundless beauty.

Terry

For more faces & stories from our Congregation, click here.