• Grief Share will meet for 14 weeks at 6 p.m. each Monday starting Monday, June 6, at Catalyst Church, 1762 U.S. 64 E. in Hayesville. Anyone who has lost a loved one and is grieving is welcome to attend. For details, call (706) 944-2513 or Linda Hoefsmit at (828) 644-4750.
• First Freewill Baptist Church will host a Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 16. Crafters are needed. Space, inside or outside, $30 registration; no other cost charged. Registration fee will support Franklin Graham’s Christmas Child Shoebox Ministry. Food for sale on site all day. To receive application with all details, call Mary Adams (828) 557-2718 or (828) 389-4777.
• Martin Hill Baptist Church will be having homecoming beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 22. There will be special singing and lunch following the service.
• Come shop this weekend at the New Life Church Yard Sale from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday May 21. All donations go towards church and youth mission work. New Life Church, 34 Sunrise Place. For details call (828) 389-7094.
•Truett Conference Center and Camp, 177 Truett Lane, Hayesville. For details email: kadcock@truettcamp.org; call (828) 389-8828 ext. 5904 and visit: www.truettcamp.org. Owned and operated by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Girls Camp Week No. 1: June 13-17, $215, ages 7-17. Adventure. Faith. Community.
Boys Camp Week No. 1: June 20-24, $215: Ages 7-17. Young men will venture outside into a world of fun that awaits in God’s Creation.
• Soaking Prayer is held at 6:30 p.m. every second and fourth Monday at Meadow Grove Baptist Church, 19 Meadow Grove Lane. In the healing ministry it has become apparent that the deeper the need is for healing, the more prayer time the healing usually requires. Soaking prayer is listening to, loving and praying for longer periods of time. It is a beautiful opportunity to wait restfully in the Lord’s presence while the prayer ministers quietly intercede on your behalf. Our hope is that you will encounter Jesus, the Healer and Redeemer, in a deep and healing way.
• Any help in locating markers at Union Hill Cemetery on Burnt Schoolhouse Road would be appreciated. Contact Eddie Burch, (828) 389-3365. Some people have put in markers for plots. A lot of the markers are visible and others are covered over. I ask for help in locating those that I can’t find. There are also several temporary grave markers that have been there too long and need to be replaced by permanent markers and some graves have no marker at all.
• Truett Memorial First Baptist Church offers a study of Southern Baptist doctrine. Materials for the class are $20. Contact the church (828) 389-1053 to reserve your place.
• Are you troubled by someone’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meet at 12 p.m. every Tuesday at Sharpe Memorial Methodist Church, 1114 Main St. Room 105, Young Harris, Ga. For details call (404) 687-0467 or visit: www.ga-al-anon.org.
• Broken Shells Ministry is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday at 115 Tennessee Street in Murphy. Divorce Care, a support group that features practical information and teaching for recovering from divorce and\or separation meets from 6:30-8 p.m. every Monday. For details on all classes call (828) 837-8777.
• Awake America meetings are held at 11:59 a.m. at different locations: first Thursdays: Blairsville City Hall, Blairsville, Ga.; second Thursdays: Blue Ridge City Park, Blue Ridge, Ga.; Towns County Civic Center, Hiawassee, Ga. (currently meeting at City Park Gazebo adjacent to City Hall) Community Partners Realty, Winder, Ga.; third Thursday: Cherokee County Courthouse, Murphy, N.C., currently closed due to state guidelines.
• The Hayesville Buddhist Meditation Group meets every Wednesday at Iona Integrative Health; 1091 US-64 W, Suite 1 Hayesville. Seated meditation begins at 6:30 p.m. Anyone who would like instruction is welcome to come early at 6 p.m. For details email: hayesville.meditation@gmail.com.
• An Antiochian Orthodox Mission is now forming in Blue Ridge, Ga. Initially, services are being held at 3 p.m. on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 7 Ewing Street, Blue Ridge, Ga. For those of the Orthodox Faith as well as those interested in the original church as established by Jesus Christ, all are invited to visit and experience formal worship in a loving atmosphere. For details email: OrthodoxBlueRidge@yahoo.com or call (706) 455-8903.