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October 2006

UNITED METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP

Welcome to the 2006 Homecoming! The Parker Youth Fellowship have had a great and blessed year! We have worked for our Lord by helping to feed the hungry at the Fayetteville Rescue Mission, worked to be good stewards of His earth by picking up litter along highway 401 and recycling aluminum cans. We have led the worship service 3 times this year and have written our own skits to convey our interpretations of what God’s Word means to us today and will perform them on the fifth Sunday in October. During Vacation Bible School this year we helped supervise the younger children as well as participating in confirmation classes with Ashley O’Regan and Rev. Jackson. We have been active in fellowship with other Christian teens though the conference Pilgrimage, conference and district rallies and through our activities like rock-climbing, softball and lock-ins. But our big project this year has been to build a new playground. The Lawrence and Margaret Pannell Playground will be built on the east side of the church between the driveway and cemetery. We have raised over $3000.00 towards our goal with several fundraisers including card and calendar sales, car washes, and a Valentines Day Steak and Pasta Dinner. On October 31^st we will have a Fall Festival Fundraiser with a bake-sale, cake-walk, games, and activities to go towards our goal of having a large, durable, fun area for the children that we can all be proud of.

We want to say thank you very much to all of those who

continue to support our efforts as we continue to glorify God in all that we do.

-Shannon Strub

UMYF President

UNITED METHODIST

WOMEN

Hello everyone. We had a great meeting this month. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend, but I have wonderful women helping me out. They discussed the chrismons, by next meeting we hope to get together and make those. We also decided that we would sell cakes at the Parker UMC Fall Festival that the youth group is putting on. We are still working on finding a place that we can donate the eyeglasses that we have acquired. Don’t forget about the boxes that we will be sending over to less fortunate children in countries all over the world, including the US . Grab a list at the front of the church to find out what you can put in them; be sure to pack the items in a plastic box, please. We need your boxes by the end of October. These boxes are for ‘Christmas Child’ a ministry of Samaritans Purse. The women are hoping to plan a Thanksgiving dinner for the whole church, so think about what and who you would like to bring. All are welcome. We are still planning to recycle the bulletins, so don’t forget that when the service is over on Sundays, to bring your bulletin out of the Sanctuary and put in the recycling box. This will also help keep our Sanctuary looking clean and beautiful. That is all I have for now. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Ashley O’Regan

President, Parker UMW

UNITED METHODIST MEN

“Men are called to model the servant leadership of Jesus Christ”

Mike Tredway and Monte have the plans for the structures for the new playground the UMYF has been raising money for. Monte will begin breaking ground for it since the Trustees have voted to approve the placement of it. The UMM will join the teens in building the wooden structures and assembling the equipment so we will need your help. All men are welcome to join us when we meet on the first Sunday of every month at 8:00 AM. You do not have to be a church member to join UMM and you do not have to be a UMM member to join us for fellowship.

We ask your help in keeping up to date on events in the church and community. E-mail submissions can be photos, poems, or articles of interest. To add items to the newsletter, parkerumcnewsletter@yahoo.com or give your contribution to any of the UMM. Please submit items before the 20^th of each month.

We are also asking for photos of service members in uniform. Any current or former church member who served our country should be recognized for their service. The UMM are going to work on a proper tribute and need your pictures. If you have them in digital format e-mail them to the address above.

James Garner

President UMM

From the United Methodist Archives this is the 4^th in a 14 Part series about the history of the United Methodist Church

The Churches Grow (page 2),

1817–1843

The earlier years of the nineteenth century were also marked by the spread of the Sunday school movement in America . By 1835 Sunday schools were encouraged in every place where they could be started and maintained. The Sunday school became a principal source of prospective members for the church.

The churches’ interest in education was also evident in their establishment of secondary schools and colleges. By 1845 Methodists, Evangelicals, and United Brethren had also instituted courses of study for their preachers to ensure that they had a basic knowledge of the Bible, theology, and pastoral Richard Allen ministry.

Richard Allen

To supply their members, preachers, and Sunday schools with Christian literature, the churches established publishing operations. The Methodist Book Concern, organized in 1789, was the first church publishing house in America . The Evangelical Association and United Brethren also authorized the formation of publishing agencies in the early nineteenth century. From the presses of their printing plants came a succession of hymnals, Disciplines, newspapers, magazines, Sunday school materials, and other literature to nurture their memberships. Profits were usually designated for the support and welfare of retired and indigent preachers and their families.

The churches were also increasingly committed to missionary work. By 1841 each of them had started denominational missionary societies to develop strategies and provide funds for work in the United States and abroad. John Stewart’s mission to the Wyandots marked a beginning of the important presence of Native Americans in Methodism.

The founding period was not without serious problems, especially for the Methodists. Richard Allen (1760–1831), an emancipated slave and Methodist preacher who had been mistreated because of his race, left the church and in 1816 organized The African Methodist Episcopal Church. For similar reasons, The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was begun in 1821. In 1830 another rupture occurred in The Methodist Episcopal Church. About 5,000 preachers and laypeople left the denomination because it would not grant representation to the laity or permit the election of presiding elders (district superintendents). The new body was called The Methodist Protestant Church. It remained a strong church until 1939, when it united with The Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to become The Methodist Church.

Birthdays

For September

2-Summer 10-Justyce

10-Mike 13-Kendra

19-Michael 28-Catherine

For October

10-Robert W. 20- Ms. Lois

21-Luther

For November

4-Julianna 9-Cleo

11-Clinton 20-Shane

23-Faith

EVENTS

September

24-Homecoming Service and Fellowship Meal

October

1-UMM Meeting & Breakfast

8-District Youth Rally

15-UMW meeting

29-Daylight Savings ends

29-5^th Sunday Youth Worship Service

29-Charge Conference, 7PM at Sandy Grove UMC

31-UMYF Fall Festival 5-8PM

November

4- Sandy Grove UMC Fall Festival

5-UMM meeting & breakfast

10-12 NC Conference Youth Pilgrimage at the Crown Coliseum.

19-UMW Meeting

Visitation Committee

Please consider joining the visitation committee on the first Wednesday of each month to minister to the members of our church and community and serve God as commanded by the “Great Commission” Matthew 28:19. Shirley Gleason is the chairperson of the visitation committee if you have any questions.

Our Pastor’s Corner

PARKER’S HOMECOMING AND REVIVAL CELEBRATION

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! The members and pastor of Parker United Methodist Church would like to invite you to join us in celebrating our annual Homecoming service on September 24, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. morning worship.

Homecoming is a special time of the year. It is a time to give thanks to God for the enormous blessings He has given to us. Homecoming is a special

time to invite church members and friends who live out of town back home. It is a special time for great fellowship and delicious food. Our Homecoming celebration would not be complete without the traditional covered dish “feast” after our worship along with a chance to greet and meet others we have not seen in a long time.

If you have not worshipped with us lately, we truly hope that you will come on this special occasion to give God thanks, to glorify His name, and to have great fellowship. We will have good singing, delicious food, and great preaching.

Our Homecoming leads into our Fall Revival, which starts Sunday, September

24-26 nightly at 7 p.m. We would like to encourage you to come back that evening for the first night of our revival. Chaplain (Retired) Archie Barringer a former Army Chaplain who presently serves as the Chief of Chaplain Service at the Veterans Hospital , Fayetteville , North Carolina , is our revival preacher. If you want to be encouraged, have more faith, a greater commitment to serve God, and trust God more, we invite you to come and be a part of our Homecoming and Fall Revival celebration.