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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 coffee, donuts, milk, juice and great fellowship!
CHURCH SERVICES HELD IN FELLOWSHIP HALL! Our church services are now being held in the Fellowship Hall. Our Sanctuary will gradually be emptied in order to start the building 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.
YOUTH NEWS Game Night is coming soon! The youth room is in need of equipment for our game room. Equipment needed: TV’s with video connections, PS2, XBOX, Game Cube, and games to go with the video systems. If you have any of these items, or would like to donate money for us to purchase this equipment, please contact Phyliss Martin @ 868-7787.
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN Nov. 1 General Meeting 6:30PM AB/403 “Then and Now, 136 Years of Mission.” Leader: Lisa Hoekstra Hostesses: Shirley Hebert, Martha Hebert Nov. 5 Acadiana District UMW Annual Meeting 9:00AM FUMC Lafayette For information, call Joyce @ 868-0100 Nov. 8 Faith Circle 9:30AM in AB/403 Nov. 12 La. Conference UMW Annual Meeting 9:00AM in Pineville
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 with Miss Jeanne and Miss Lori in Room 206. 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).
Let’s Talk About It SS Class now meets in Room 205.
TRUNK OR TREAT IS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES! When: Monday, October 31 Where: First United Methodist Church Grounds Time: 5:30-6:00PM Participants set up in their space 6:00-8:00PM Trunk or Treat David West is the chairman of this event and has drawn up a parking plan poster, so come into the Fellowship Hall and sign up for your parking space NOW! Be sure to remember your parking space number on Halloween night! Be here for 5:30PM to set up. We do NEED a lot of participants! We are reaching out to our Church family as well as the Community. In order to prepare for the increased number of Trunk or Treaters, donations of candy or money to purchase treats will gladly be accepted. COME and park your car in the back parking lot with LOTS OF CANDY in your trunk! BRING your family and friends! ENJOY the fun and fellowship! There will be a Space Walk, a Costume Contest for family, adult, youth and children, as well as a Car Decorating Contest.
MANY THANKS TO CHARLOTTE LILL! United Methodist Women would like to thank Charlotte Lill for her tireless efforts to create beautiful handmade crocheted and knitted works of art which were sold at the Fall Rummage Sale here at church. Charlotte donated the proceeds of the sales of these items to the UMW’s Shut-In Ministry.
WE’VE HEARD FROM OUR FRIENDS, THE EINSELS! Barbara and Alan Einsel have sent us a card updating us on their personal experience, and Bogalusa’s experience with Hurricane Katrina. That area was hit VERY HARD! They ask that we pray for Bogalusa! Their card will be on the bulletin board in the back foyer. Stop by and read it at your convenience! They still have no phones or Internet at home, so communications are limited. You may send mail to 202 Cedar Road, Bogalusa, 70427.
IMPORTANT MEETINGS Staff Parish Relations Committee will meet on Thursday, October 20th, 6:00PM in the church office. Lay Leadership Committee on Monday, October 24th, 6:00PM in Room 403.
Our Stewardship Sunday, October 16, 2005 Attendance Gifts Worship SS This week YTD Budget 234 67 $7,718 $342,225 $458,990 Building Fund $1,050 $194, 396
WORSHIP Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:30 AM Special Music The Sermon: “Love” Rev. Barry Hoekstra The Scripture: Deuteronomy 34:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 The Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46
THANK YOU FOR THESE GIFTS OF LOVE TO THE : Piano Fund by the Fellowship Sunday School Class. Music Ministry by M/M David McMath. Contingency Fund by M/M John Woodard. Operating Fund in honor of Dixie Brown by Al Cowan. Flood Buckets by M/M Mike Tingle. Building Fund by M/M Ed South, M/M William Brunet, M/M Charles Jenkins, M/M Tillman Gillaspie, M/M George Shely, M/M John Woodard, M/M Tom Becnel, MM Melvin Childers, and M/M Will Williams. Discovery SS Class gave a gift to the family of Peggy Gaienne.
UMW SHUT-IN MINISTRY We are taking donations to buy personal hygiene products for homebound people and nursing home residents. Please mark donations “Shut-In Ministry.”
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.
TUESDAY MORNING PRAYER GROUP Become a part of our Prayer Group that meets on Tuesday mornings at 7:00 AM in the Fellowship Hall.
SALSA IS AVAILABLE! 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
FLOOD BUCKETS GATHERED THRU OCTOBER! If you would like to donate any items, please place them in the buckets located inside the Fellowship Hall doors. Monetary donations may be placed in the collection plate or dropped off at the church office. THANKS to all who have donated to this project! -Julie and Cindy Craft
DO YOU NEED EXTRA DISHES? There is a set of Caribe China dishes (offwhite with red stripes) that the church no longer uses in the Fellowship Hall. If you would like to adopt them (or some of 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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