Scott Robert CARNELLI^[1]

• Name	Scott Robert CARNELLI  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  HIST	Moore-Carnelli Mr. and Mrs. Paul Leslie Moore of Sumter announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa Gayle Moore of Sumter, to Scott Robert Carnelli, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas Carnelli III of New Britain, Conn. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Matthews and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coke Moore, all of Olanta. She graduated from the University of South Carolina and Central Carolina Technical College with an associate's degree in nursing. She is employed as a registered nurse case manager and community relations coordinator for Beacon Hospice in Sumter. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mrs. Ruth Eva Prill and the late Herman Prill of Newington, Conn., and the late Anthony Thomas Carnelli Jr. of Newington and the late Nancy Ann Carnelli of New Britain. He graduated from Bob Jones University with a bachelor of arts in youth ministry. He is the owner and operator of Carnelli Painting in Sumter. The wedding is planned for April 12, 2014, at First Baptist Church in Sumter. Posted in Engagements on Sunday, December 8, 2013 Unity in separation: Social media initiative puts crosses online as services stay virtual for Easter in Sumter The Carnelli home in Sumter burned Feb. 2, and owners Scott and Missy Carnelli made a cross for the front yard with some of the wood from the house. Thousands have placed crosses in their yards as a show of Christian unity amid online services because of COVID-19. MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM Posted Saturday, April 11, 2020 6:00 am BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com All our coronavirus coverage is free to the public. It’s the right thing to do as a public service to our community. If you find this article helpful or informative and want to support our continued coverage, please support us with a tax-deductible donation. To find all our coronavirus coverage, including helpful local resources and website links, click here. --- Marcus Johnston and his father-in-law, Dennis Bolen, were pondering ways that would make Easter special this year since it is certainly going to be different. The mitigation and social distancing requests made by local, state and federal governments due to the coronavirus pandemic have limited the overwhelming majority of church congregations to online services the past few weeks. That will be the case this Sunday, as well, when Christian denominations will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "He said what if we could get people to put crosses up (in their yards) between now and Easter around Sumter," Johnston recalled his father saying to him last week. Johnston, who is the associate pastor at Aldersgate United Methodist Church at 211 Alice Drive, and Bolen have been successful. Through the Sumter Cross Project, they have helped make over 1,000 small crosses to go in peoples' yards while hundreds of others have made their own crosses. "We put something out on Facebook and asked people to make crosses out of whatever they had. Sticks, whatever. It didn't matter," Johnston said. "Then people started asking did we have any crosses, so we started making them - some smaller ones - and putting them up there at the church (for people to pick up)." Bolen said the idea came to him while he was talking to his 91-year-old mother, Rivie Bolen. She told him she can't remember not being in church on Easter Sunday even though she's lived through the Great Depression and a number of wars. "We decided to make crosses, and that would be our Easter together," Bolen said. "That is how we came across that idea. Nothing's going to stop us from worshiping, not even the virus." When a cross is placed a yard, Johnston has asked that a photograph be placed on the Facebook page with the hashtag #sumtercrossproject or #thesumtercrossproject. A view of the respective pages shows that many, many people have heeded that request. A husband and wife who have done that are Scott and Missy Carnelli. The couple, who will be celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday, have a special cross placed at 439 W. Calhoun St. That's where their home was located before it caught fire on Sunday, Feb. 2. Half of the house was destroyed, and what remains was heavily damaged. In their Facebook post, Missy said she took wood from the house to make the cross, old purple scrubs that smell like soot to represent the cloth and a half-melted wreath as the crown. The Carnellis not only lost their house, but their two dogs, as well. Add to the fact that Missy had lost both of her parents, Scott said, "It has been a pretty rough time for the past two years." In the post, Missy said, "We decided to put up a cross at our old house because God in the resurrecting business!" The Carnellis will be having their house resurrected, so to speak, according to Scott. They just found out this week that their insurance company determined it will do a complete rebuild, and it will be done at 439 W. Calhoun St. "The people of Sumter have been unbelievable to us," Scott said. "As Christians, we know that God is good. I've never seen so many kindhearted people. A lot of people have helped us through this." Johnston said asking people to place crosses in their yards was done to bring the community together in a time when they've been asked not to gather in big groups. "With everything that was going on it was important for us to make sure that we stay connected, not only as a church family, but in the community of Sumter," Johnston said. "I think people want to be connected, and we need to be connected with each other, but with everything that is going on people are kind of struggling with how to do that." Don Smith, Norm Nichol and Rusty Ard have been helping Johnston and Bolen in producing the crosses that have popped up around Sumter from the beginning. Others have joined in since then. Ryan Shirah and his family have a cross in their yard, and Shirah has added to it by posting drawings of crosses on Facebook. "We're just trying to support and share on Facebook," said Shirah, who has been friends with Johnston since their days at Furman High School. "One of the drawings has a theme toward everyone on front lines working inside of medicine. The second drawing of the cross was for all of small businesses who we're praying for. It was basically just trying to find inspiration in it." Aldersgate's Johnston said he's been made aware of similar cross projects coming up in Orangeburg, in Covington, Georgia, and in the state of New York. Johnston said what this has shown him is that the Christian faith goes beyond the four walls of the church. "Honestly, it's a reminder to us," he said. "One of the things that's struck me through this whole time is we have the buildings, and we gather in the buildings, and that's OK, but it's a reminder that those buildings are only the church because of the people that are in them. "It's a reminder to us as a people that we are all one in Christ, and it's very special to me to connect in this way in a time that we can't be together. So, even though physically we aren't together, we are still together at this time." Johnston tried to illustrate this during one of his online sermons when he showed the empty pews behind him while he was preaching. "Everything since the beginning has pointed to that God will dwell in His people, not the buildings," he said in the sermon. Johnston admits surprise at just how much the project has caught on around Sumter. "You never know how things are going to go," he said. "It speaks to our desire and need to be connected. What better way for people to be connected than around the cross of Christ, especially at this time of year, Easter. "I'm overjoyed that people caught on. Sumter is a very caring place, and there are a lot of caring people here. It's a testament of the Christian faith that people want to come alongside each other regardless of which building we attend on Sunday." "I never thought of how much it meant to people," Bolen said. "It's kind of a neat thing. This might be the best Easter I've ever had."  [1, 2]
  HIST	Moore-Carnelli Mr. and Mrs. Paul Leslie Moore of Sumter announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa Gayle Moore of Sumter, to Scott Robert Carnelli, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas Carnelli III of New Britain, Conn. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Matthews and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coke Moore, all of Olanta. She graduated from the University of South Carolina and Central Carolina Technical College with an associate's degree in nursing. She is employed as a registered nurse case manager and community relations coordinator for Beacon Hospice in Sumter. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mrs. Ruth Eva Prill and the late Herman Prill of Newington, Conn., and the late Anthony Thomas Carnelli Jr. of Newington and the late Nancy Ann Carnelli of New Britain. He graduated from Bob Jones University with a bachelor of arts in youth ministry. He is the owner and operator of Carnelli Painting in Sumter. The wedding is planned for April 12, 2014, at First Baptist Church in Sumter. Posted in Engagements on Sunday, December 8, 2013 Unity in separation: Social media initiative puts crosses online as services stay virtual for Easter in Sumter The Carnelli home in Sumter burned Feb. 2, and owners Scott and Missy Carnelli made a cross for the front yard with some of the wood from the house. Thousands have placed crosses in their yards as a show of Christian unity amid online services because of COVID-19. MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM Posted Saturday, April 11, 2020 6:00 am BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com All our coronavirus coverage is free to the public. It’s the right thing to do as a public service to our community. If you find this article helpful or informative and want to support our continued coverage, please support us with a tax-deductible donation. To find all our coronavirus coverage, including helpful local resources and website links, click here. --- Marcus Johnston and his father-in-law, Dennis Bolen, were pondering ways that would make Easter special this year since it is certainly going to be different. The mitigation and social distancing requests made by local, state and federal governments due to the coronavirus pandemic have limited the overwhelming majority of church congregations to online services the past few weeks. That will be the case this Sunday, as well, when Christian denominations will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "He said what if we could get people to put crosses up (in their yards) between now and Easter around Sumter," Johnston recalled his father saying to him last week. Johnston, who is the associate pastor at Aldersgate United Methodist Church at 211 Alice Drive, and Bolen have been successful. Through the Sumter Cross Project, they have helped make over 1,000 small crosses to go in peoples' yards while hundreds of others have made their own crosses. "We put something out on Facebook and asked people to make crosses out of whatever they had. Sticks, whatever. It didn't matter," Johnston said. "Then people started asking did we have any crosses, so we started making them - some smaller ones - and putting them up there at the church (for people to pick up)." Bolen said the idea came to him while he was talking to his 91-year-old mother, Rivie Bolen. She told him she can't remember not being in church on Easter Sunday even though she's lived through the Great Depression and a number of wars. "We decided to make crosses, and that would be our Easter together," Bolen said. "That is how we came across that idea. Nothing's going to stop us from worshiping, not even the virus." When a cross is placed a yard, Johnston has asked that a photograph be placed on the Facebook page with the hashtag #sumtercrossproject or #thesumtercrossproject. A view of the respective pages shows that many, many people have heeded that request. A husband and wife who have done that are Scott and Missy Carnelli. The couple, who will be celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday, have a special cross placed at 439 W. Calhoun St. That's where their home was located before it caught fire on Sunday, Feb. 2. Half of the house was destroyed, and what remains was heavily damaged. In their Facebook post, Missy said she took wood from the house to make the cross, old purple scrubs that smell like soot to represent the cloth and a half-melted wreath as the crown. The Carnellis not only lost their house, but their two dogs, as well. Add to the fact that Missy had lost both of her parents, Scott said, "It has been a pretty rough time for the past two years." In the post, Missy said, "We decided to put up a cross at our old house because God in the resurrecting business!" The Carnellis will be having their house resurrected, so to speak, according to Scott. They just found out this week that their insurance company determined it will do a complete rebuild, and it will be done at 439 W. Calhoun St. "The people of Sumter have been unbelievable to us," Scott said. "As Christians, we know that God is good. I've never seen so many kindhearted people. A lot of people have helped us through this." Johnston said asking people to place crosses in their yards was done to bring the community together in a time when they've been asked not to gather in big groups. "With everything that was going on it was important for us to make sure that we stay connected, not only as a church family, but in the community of Sumter," Johnston said. "I think people want to be connected, and we need to be connected with each other, but with everything that is going on people are kind of struggling with how to do that." Don Smith, Norm Nichol and Rusty Ard have been helping Johnston and Bolen in producing the crosses that have popped up around Sumter from the beginning. Others have joined in since then. Ryan Shirah and his family have a cross in their yard, and Shirah has added to it by posting drawings of crosses on Facebook. "We're just trying to support and share on Facebook," said Shirah, who has been friends with Johnston since their days at Furman High School. "One of the drawings has a theme toward everyone on front lines working inside of medicine. The second drawing of the cross was for all of small businesses who we're praying for. It was basically just trying to find inspiration in it." Aldersgate's Johnston said he's been made aware of similar cross projects coming up in Orangeburg, in Covington, Georgia, and in the state of New York. Johnston said what this has shown him is that the Christian faith goes beyond the four walls of the church. "Honestly, it's a reminder to us," he said. "One of the things that's struck me through this whole time is we have the buildings, and we gather in the buildings, and that's OK, but it's a reminder that those buildings are only the church because of the people that are in them. "It's a reminder to us as a people that we are all one in Christ, and it's very special to me to connect in this way in a time that we can't be together. So, even though physically we aren't together, we are still together at this time." Johnston tried to illustrate this during one of his online sermons when he showed the empty pews behind him while he was preaching. "Everything since the beginning has pointed to that God will dwell in His people, not the buildings," he said in the sermon. Johnston admits surprise at just how much the project has caught on around Sumter. "You never know how things are going to go," he said. "It speaks to our desire and need to be connected. What better way for people to be connected than around the cross of Christ, especially at this time of year, Easter. "I'm overjoyed that people caught on. Sumter is a very caring place, and there are a lot of caring people here. It's a testament of the Christian faith that people want to come alongside each other regardless of which building we attend on Sunday." "I never thought of how much it meant to people," Bolen said. "It's kind of a neat thing. This might be the best Easter I've ever had."
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  Father	Anthony Thomas CARNELLI, III
  Mother	PRILL
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  Family	Melissa Gayle “Missy” MOORE
  Marriage	12 Apr 2014	First Baptist Church, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina   [2]
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  Family ID	F115682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2014

  
  

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