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FELLOWSHIP TIME When: After 8:30AM Service Where: Activity Building Please notice that we will meet in the Activity Building for fellowship time beginning this week. Join us for coffee, donuts, milk, juice and great fellowship!
FELLOWSHIP HALL IS A TEMPORARY SANCTUARY! Beginning this Sunday, October 16th, worship services will be held in the Fellowship Hall. Our Sanctuary needs to be emptied in order to start the renovation project. Meetings previously scheduled for the Fellowship Hall will be moved to Room 403 in the Activity Building. Please check with the Secretary concerning your next meeting if you have any questions. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
IT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! The Chancel Choir has begun rehearsal on Robert Shaw’s The Many Moods of Christmas. We’d like to invite YOU to JOIN US and sing these medleys of familiar carols in exciting arrangements! The Chancel Choir rehearses every Wednesday evening from 7-8:45 PM in the Choir Room. Call the office ahead of time to arrange for a nursery if you need one (868-7787).
UNITED METHODIST MEN United Methodist Men will meet on Tuesday, October 18, at 6:30PM in the Activity Building Kitchen.
WE’D LIKE TO THANK BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS UMC We’d like to thank the Berryville UMC Prayer Shawl Ministry for a shipment of lovely handmade shawls that will be used for our Shut-In Ministry. Thank you, friends!
SUNDAY SCHOOL IS FOR LIFE! Itty-Bitty-Three-year-olds are with Mrs. Mary in Nursery. Four-year-olds are with Miss Maddie in Room 109. Kindergarten-Sixth Grade will be in the Science Center with Miss Jeanne and Miss Lori. This is the last week in our present Unit called Lost and Found. Our next Power X-Press unit will be on the topic of Christmas Around the World. Anyone wishing to volunteer for one of the Centers, call Jeanne at the church (868-7787).
TRUNK OR TREAT IS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES! When: October 31 Where: First United Methodist Church Grounds Time: 5:30-6:00PM Cars park in their assigned places. 6:00-8:00PM Trunk or Treat Come and park your car in the back parking lot with LOTS OF CANDY in your trunk! David drew up the event’s poster, so come in and sign up for your parking space NOW! The poster is in the Fellowship Hall. We do NEED a lot of participants! We are reaching out to our families at the Civic Center as well as the Community. In order to prepare for the increased number of Trunk or Treaters, donations of candy or monetary donations will gladly be accepted. Bring your family and friends! Enjoy the fun and fellowship! There will be a Space Walk, a Costume Contest for family, adult, youth and child, as well as a Car Decorating Contest. Be sure to remember your parking space number! -David West, Chairman
YOUTH NEWS * Saturday, October 8th, four youth and two adults attended a district mission event at Asbury Methodist Church in Lafayette. It was a great day filled with fun, food and mission work. * All 7th and 8th graders interested in attending Junior High Retreat on October 28-30, please come by and pick up a registration form. Forms and $75.00 are due Sunday, October 16th. * Youth Council Meeting–Sunday, October 16th, 11:15 AM in the Youth Room. All youth council members, parents, and adult counselors are encouraged to attend this meeting . Please bring fundraising ideas. * Movie Night–Saturday, October 15th. We are going to see Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Please be at church by 4:45 PM. Mrs. Martha’s Sunday school lesson for this week is based on the movie. Bring money for movie and dinner. COMING SOON—GAME NIGHT!
FLOOD BUCKETS DELIVERED! Thanks to everyone who donated to the flood bucket project. A total of 45 buckets along with some mops and brooms were delivered to the Dulac Community Center. The buckets were desperately needed. On one of our trips we quickly unloaded from our vehicle to a waiting U-Haul trailer used by volunteers who were helping with the cleaning process. Thanks again for your generosity and we will continue collecting supplies until November 1st. -Julie and Cindy Craft
Our Stewardship Sunday, October 9, 2005 Attendance Gifts Worship SS This week YTD Budget 233 62 $5,559 $332,100 $458,990 Building Fund $ 677 $194, 396
WORSHIP Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:30 AM Special Music 11:00 AM “Prayer for America” The Chancel Choir The Sermon: “Citizenship” Rev. Barry Hoekstra The Scripture: Exodus 33:12-23; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 The Gospel: Matthew 22:15-22
THANK YOU FOR THESE GIFTS OF LOVE TO THE : Operating Fund in memory of Lucy Schrader from John and Jennifer Schrader-Yeaw. Fellowship Sunday School Class in memory of Evelyn Stevens by Billie Garlington. Bishop’s Hurricane Appeal by UMY and M/M Bill Thibodeaux. Flood Buckets in memory of Hazel Berger by Raymond Berger and Charlene Shrigley. Landscape Fund in honor of Hideo Koike by the Discovery Sunday School Class. Apportionments in honor of Cecil Bordelon’s birthday by M/M Paul Craft and family. Building Fund by M/M Richard Walker, M/M David McMath, M/M Charles Jenkins, M/M John Walton, M/M Don Murphy, M/M Ed South, M/M Larry Babin, M/M Tillman Gillaspie, M/M Wayne Ledet, M/M Richard Simons, and in memory of Lillian Farley by Anita Weeks.
PLEASE BE IN PRAYER FOR PEACE AND FOR THE SAFETY OF THOSE WHO ARE SERVING OUR COUNTRY: Jerry St. Pierre, John Parks, Jason Babin, Andy Weaver, Kevin Adams, Brian Ratcliff, Brandon Ratcliff, Charles Arabie, Bryan McDonald, Brian Medaris, Chad Campbell, Ryan Kurras, Chris Pollard, Michael Wegler, Brent Hollingfield, Bryan Patton, Kristopher Pugh, James Lyle, Jarod Martin, Richard Schandorff, Paul Tholen, Don Adams, Jeremy Brunet, Jerry Troy Cooper, Robert Cooper, Jamie Authement, Allison Foreman, Eddie Doiron, Lance Chatagnier, Bryan Stringer, Ben White, Joseph Frisella, Jr., Billy Odom, B.J. Guidroz, Travis Twiggs and the 2/156(M) Infantry-Houma National Guard. Soldiers of the TN 278th.
PLEASE HELP US UPDATE THE PRAYER LIST! If you or a loved one needs to be added to the prayer list, please call the Church Secretary or put the name on a prayer card in the offering plate on Sunday. Thank you!
TUESDAY MORNING PRAYER GROUP Become a part of our Prayer Group that meets on Tuesday mornings at 7:00 AM in the Fellowship Hall.
UMW SHUT-IN MINISTRY We are taking donations to buy personal hygiene products for homebound people and nursing home residents. Please mark your donations “Shut-In Ministry.”
YOUR FAVORITE SALSA IS IN!! We’ve gotten in a shipment of your favorite kind of Salsa made by Methodist Children’s Home in Ruston, LA.!
ALTAR FLOWERS If you would like to place Altar Flowers one Sunday, please call Judy Navarre at 879-1924
ITEMS NEEDED FOR FLOOD BUCKETS If you would like to donate any items, please place them in the buckets located inside the Fellowship Hall or the Sanctuary entry doors. Monetary donations may be placed in the collection plate or dropped off at the church office. THANKS to all who have donated! -Julie and Cindy Craft
DO YOU LIKE OLD DISHES? There is a set of Caribe China dishes that the church no longer uses in the Fellowship Hall. They are offwhite with red stripes. If you would like to adopt them and provide them with a good home, you may do so for a donation to the building fund. We have available 22 coffee cups, 70 coffee cup plates, 4 sugar bowls, 6 cereal bowls, 62 10" compartment plates, 13 3" bowls, 20 4" bowls, 99 dessert plates. If you are interested in some or all of these, please contact Pam in the Church Office. |
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