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Parker United
Newsletter
JANUARY MMVIII
The Fayetteville District Website is finally up after over a year in the
making. You can access it at http://www.fayettevilledistrictumc.org/ or from the web link on our own
website home page. The District site has a calendar of events, church
directory, newsletter, missions and ministries.
Happy New Year and may God’s richest blessings be with you throughout this year.
A new year is always a mystery to us because we don’t know what the new year will bring. 2008 can be a very challenging year for us where our faith is tested from one valley experience to another. Also, 2008 can be a year with many mountaintop experiences. It can be a year that holds many blessings for us and for others. When we think of our accomplishments in 2007, I believe we can agree with the hymn writer who said “Count your many blessings and name them one by one count your many blessings and see what God has done.” As we begin a new year I encourage you to let prayer, daily mediations, scripture readings, denying self, trusting God, quality family time, and weekly worship services become a dominant part of our lives.
In
2008 we hope to work harder as a team and to improve our ministry in
Missions and Evangelism. The
PPRC and I evaluated our
church’s
ministry and agreed that we need to do more in the areas of Missions and
Evangelism. In the area of
missions we plan to continue our financial support locally
and abroad. The more we are
blessed, I believe the more we should be a blessing to others. May we strive
harder this year reaching out to the poor, needy,
hungry, and homeless. In the
area of evangelism we plan to invite the Fayetteville District Evangelistic
Team to come and provide training to help us become more effective in
reaching out to others. Our goal is to invite and inspire church members who
do not attend on a regular basis to become more actively involved.
We also want to reach out to the unchurched and invite them to become
a part of the community of faith. To
accomplish our goals, we certainly need God’s help and we need to work
together as a team. I encourage
you to continue to pray for one another that God may bless us to do His will
in 2008. May God’s peace,
love, joy and mercy be us as we work together in 2008.
Your
Pastor:
Richard
UNITED
METHODIST MEN
“Men are called to model the servant leadership of Jesus Christ”
The men of Parker UMC met on Sunday, December 2nd and discussed placing sod around the new parking slab as well as installing a new flagpole. The sod has been installed and the UMM will meet next on January 6th.
UNITED
METHODIST WOMEN
The
ladies of
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The Annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner will be held at the Church on Thursday
November 22nd from 2-4pm. The ladies decorated the fellowship hall for the
occasion.
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The annual shoe box ministry has been completed,
the
drop off dates were November 12th-19th.
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We turned in raffle tickets and monies for the Rachel Frizzell Scholarship
Fund. The drawing will be held at the Thanksgiving Day Dinner at the church.
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Sheri will get the ball rolling on the Fayetteville District Congregational
Healthcare, after the Christmas holidays.
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The ladies would like to get feedback from the
congregation
to see if there is any interest in a "Parents Friday Night Out",
December 7th, from 6;00-9:00 pm.
We
would like to invite all of the ladies in the congregation to come and join
us at our meetings. The busy holidays usually causes us to skip our December
meeting. The next meeting date will be held January 20th @ 3:00 pm.
UNITED
METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
Upcoming
events for the youth are the District youth Council meeting scheduled for
January 6th at 2:30 to be held at Solid Rock UMC north of
The
Youth Service Fund Task Force is searching for a design/logo for YSF
T-shirts and hoodies of 2008. YSF T-shirts and hoodies are made
available at Conference youth events Rally Day, Breakaway, ACS and
Pilgrimage to raise money for Youth Service Fund. The YSF Task Force
extends an invitation to youth in the
Requirements:
the design/logo should not use more than 2 colors and should fit on the back
of a T-shirt. The design/logo should in some way present and promote
Youth Service Fund and be undated. Designs/logos may be submitted for
front only, back only or front and back. The designs must be submitted
on 8 ½ x 11 paper and received by December 31, 2007. Designs may be
mailed to Sue Ellen Nicholson-Youth Ministry,
The
Youth Service Fund Task Force will select the design/logo at their early
January meeting.
Reward:
the artist of the design/logo selected will receive a free YSF T-shirt and a
scholarship to the Conference youth event of their choice (Kaleidoscope,
Breakaway or ACS only).
E V E N T S
Regular Events
Sundays-UMYF
meeting at 5PM
Wednesday-Bible
Study at 6PM
Choir
Practice at 7PM
1st
Sunday-UMM Meeting at 8:20AM
2nd
Sunday-Holy Communion during
the morning service.
3rd
Sunday-UMW Meeting at 3PM
20th
of each month-newsletter
submissions
due.
January
1-New
Year’s Day
6-UMM
meeting at 8:00 AM
27-Laity
training workshops at
February
1-2
Youth Lock-in at MU
3-Soup-R-Bowl
Youth led fund-
raiser
for the hungry
9-
Youth Lay Speaker training
In
16-Lay
Speaker training
session
at Grace UMC in
March
2-Lay
Rally at Campground UMC
BIRTHDAYS
For December
10-Helga
17-Amanda
20-Patti
26-Christofer
28-William
H. 30-Ty
For
January
4-Melissa
12-Jason
18-Gloria
For
February
6-Eric
6-Branda Nicole
7-James
G.
Remember
our friends and family in
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Eric Bechard
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Scott Skala
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Sonya Shaw
Reeves
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John
O’Regan
ADDRESSES
LTC
Sonya C. Shaw
566th
ASMC
Eric
Bechard
B-Co,
82d DSTB
82d
ABN DIV BAF
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