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April 2003
The AC Phoenix
Rev. and Mrs. Rayfield Medcalf
Mechanics & Farmers Bank Church of the
Month Hanes Memorial CME Church
"Fishers of Men”
By Paula McCoy
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
recognizes Hanes Memorial
Christian Methodist Episcopal
(CME) Church as their Church of the
Month. “We recognize Hanes
Memorial CME Church for their
evangelical outreach”, says Evelyn
Acree, city executive for Mechanics
and Farmers Bank. “Their love
journey’s are a unique ministry for
communicating the mission of the
church to the community. We wish
them much success in their efforts,
says Acree.
Hanes CME Church has begun love journeys, an evangelistic vehicle or
strategy that allows the church to effectively communicate the
message of the gospel. Members from the church walk door-to-door with
hearts in hand, demonstrating their love. The love journeys allow for
‘two-way’ communication where a sermon or evangelistic address may
not. “The purpose of the love journeys is to win souls for Christ,” says
Rev, Rayfield Medcalf, current pastor of Hanes CME Church. “One way
the church can be felt in the community is when the church moves out of
its four walls and go to them,” Medcalf says. The love journeys are a way
for the church to communicate or interact with community people over
common ground - a place where they can be talked to, not preached at.
One of the goals of the love journeys is to reach many people who might
not ever come to the church. The church plans to do the love journeys at
different intervals and make their presence felt in the community.
The focus that the church has on evangelism comes out of their
doctrine that believes that evangelism is the main purpose of the church.
“God called us to be ‘fishers of men’, says Medcalf, “and to go out and
make disciples. If we are not winning souls to Christ, we are not doing
what we are commissioned to do”. Medcalf explained the difference
between making disciples and having church members. “A disciple is a
learner that studies and continues in the Word”, he says. “Continuing in
the Word gives us a personal relationship with Jesus; people do not have
to beg you [to serve], you do it out of your heart’. Medcalf says that the
church has to take church members and make disciples of them by
studying the Word everyday not just one day a week. “You shall know the
truth, and the truth shall set you free”, quotes Medcalf.
Hanes CME also ministers to the community’s ‘felt needs’. A felt need
is anything in the area of people’s lives that they perceive as a need.
These issues may be around marriage, parenting, jobs, etc. “Anybody can
come into the church and fill out an application stating their need”, says
Medcalf.
Regular services at Hanes CME Church are Sunday’s 8:00 a.m. and
11:00 a.m., Sunday School, Bible Study every Wednesday, 11:30 - 1:00
and Thursday 6:30 p.m. The church is located on
Reverend Rayfield Medcalf has been with Hanes CME church for two
years. A native of Dallas, Texas, Medcalf’s last charge was in Charlotte,
NC where he pastored at Parkwood Institutional CME Church for 19 years.
Parkwood Church had just completed the construction of a 2.5 million
dollar sanctuary when the Carolina CME Conference asked Medcalf to
take the Winston-Salem church. Rev. Medcalf’s wife is Eva and they have
four children; one daughter, Angela, 4 years old and three sons, Andrew
Brown, age 22 (NC A&T), Christopher Brown, age 20 (Barber Scotia)'and
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Phone: (336) 744-7833
Pastor; Bishop Claude D. Thomas
“A Ministry of New Beginnings - Growing in Love”
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