T H E WITNESS January 2, 2013

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1 The Wylie United Methodist Church T H E WITNESS January 2, 2013 Mandatory MinistrySafe Training Do you work with children or youth in ANY kind of capacity in the church building or in the name of WUMC? If so, you MUST complete your MinistrySafe training (takes about minutes) online. Non-trained adults cannot work with children or youth in the church building or on behalf of the church until the training is complete. (If you can t find the from MinistrySafe, check your junk folder.) For information, call the church office at BIG meeting for parents and future parents of youth School is starting back and we are now in 2013! We want to remind you that Sunday, January 6, we are having a BIG meeting for parents and future parents of youth to cover some of the major events of We do this to allow parents to get information about future youth events but also to give a forum for parents to ask questions about all things related to the youth ministry. We will have an opportunity for parents to sign up for all sorts of volunteering opportunities as well. The meeting will be less then 30 minutes with Q&A following. Stick around for a half hour and join us! Topics will include: 2013 Mission Trips and Retreats; Volunteer Opportunities; Safety Requirements. Parents of current Confirmation students are very much encouraged to attend as well! Wanna Be a Lay Reader? On Sunday, January 6, there will be a 5-7 minute training for anyone wanting to be a lay reader in the worship services. Come to the front rows of the worship center immediately following the 9:30 or 10:45 service to learn what to do and sign up for your month. Questions? In the 9:30 service talk to Peggy Wilson. In the 10:45 service talk to Teri Harrington. United Methodist Men We had a good first year. We went as a group to Promise Keepers, we had a Fish Fry, Bar-B-Q, Pancake Breakfast, built a garden for UMW, ate out as a group at Slackers and Spring Creek Bar-B-Q, participated in Wylie Christmas parade with the youth band and had a fun gift exchange at our Christmas party. All men of Wylie UMC are invited to join us for our 1st meeting of 2013 on January 8th at 7 PM. We will have our first big activity February 9th - A Sweetheart Dance at Bart Peddicord Center. Get your tickets!! April 20th will be our Golf Tournament at Woodbridge. Some of our UMM members now have their caps, shirts or pins. They will be reaching out and inviting you to join them. WHY NOT COME ALONG and see what UMM is all about. Billy Crow, President grandpacrow@yahoo.com Family Pajama/Movie/Game night January 18th - 6:30-8:30 Family Pajama/Movie/Game night at Wylie UMC. Put on your jammies and head to church for an evening of family fun! There will be rotating stations of board games in the foyer and Veggie Tales movies in the worship center along with popcorn and water bottles to help kick off some great family memories for 2013!

2 Wylie United Methodist 1401 FM 1378 (Country Club Rd.) Wylie Tx Office Phone Fax Number Church Website Church Office Hours Monday ~ Thursday, 8:30am - 5pm Fridays 8:30am - Noon Worship Services 8:30-8:45 Holy Communion Served 9:30 Traditional with Hymns, Organ and Choir 10:45 Contemporary with the Filthy Rags Band W U M C S t a f f Kathryn Strempke, Senior Pastor kathryn.strempke@wylieumc.org John Taylor, Associate Pastor jetvct@att.net Chuck Church, Director of Youth Ministry chuck.church@wylieumc.org Scott Wilson, Director of Music scott@foyinc.com Linda Nelson, Accompanist Colleen Driggers, Director of Children & Family Ministries colleen.driggers@wylieumc.org Sherry London, Director of Preschool Education sherry.london@wylieumc.org Jan Beamer, Director of Child Care jan.beamer@wylieumc.org Debbie Willis. Church Administrator debbie.willis@wylieumc.org Vickie Jones, Financial Administrator vickie.jones@wylieumc.org Debbie O Neal, Administrative Asst. debora.oneal@wylieumc.org Table of Contents 3-4 Thanks from Pastor Kathryn 5 Thanks from the Church Staff 6 Thank You from Preschool & Children s Program 7 Thanks for the Youth 8-9 Wylie United Methodist Church Music Sunday Part II 11 B.I.G. Tree Thanks Causey Family Thank You Tuesday at Goodfella s Thanks to our Military To place information in the next edition of The Witness, articles to Debbie Willis at debbie.willis@wylieumc.org Articles for January 16 edition are due Sunday, January 13

3 Thanks From Pastor Kathryn Page 3 This whole newsletter is filled with names. Odds are good we ve left a name or two or three out. We WANT to say a personal thanks. So sidle up to your nearest staff member and drop a name or two or three and we ll make sure they are included in the next newsletter. Special thanks to ~ Jenn Smith, Mark & Courtney Fisher for their hard work on Mission Market. Ben Brown and Mitch Swan for making slideshows for worship every week. Ben Brown, Mitch Swan, Dan Smith, and Tony Driggers for audio-visual work every Sunday. Barbara Morrison, Debbie Crow, Brad & Belinda Feuerbacher, Larry & Janet Parker, Phil Hoy, Bob London, Jeanine Stevens, and Sandy Heard for their hard work with the Messiah Among Us Christmas invitations. Stan and Deanna Hensley for changing out banners and paraments each Church season and keeping the candles in the Worship Center filled with oil. Pam Wells for always trying to coordinate the flowers with the season/occasion. Brian Beamer and Linda Staller for teaching Confirmation. Bill Grimes for all his hard work in greeting. Bill Grimes, Bo & Dixie Burns, Kim Johnson, George Whitley and Neil Brown for their coordination and execution of the B.I.G. Feed. Ken Lenoir, Sue Bradley, Debbie & Neil Brown, Bill Grimes, Jamie Crumley, Bob Raber, Judy Douthit, et al. who so faithfully come to the pastor s bible study on Wednesdays. Russell Nunnelly for teaching Sunday School. Elaine Causey for her work with the CCC Thanksgiving Bake Sale. Kelly Robinson for her ministry through 39ers. Billy Crow for creating and president-ing the United Methodist Men. Linda & Roger Shanahan and Billy & Debbie Crow for putting together Round-Up Sunday. Katie Milholland, Jodi Jesser, George Whitley, and Frank Dirnbauer for prison ministry. Sandy & Don Donovan (and their substitutes) for flower delivery ministry. Penny Trammell, George & Gail Whitley, (and occasionally the Heard Family) for Communion stewardship. Teri Harrington and Peggy Wilson for recruiting lay leadership in the worship services all year long. Continued on page 4

4 Kathryn, continued Page 4 Debbie Crow for learning the demographic church website and teaching church leadership the right questions to ask. Dave Hahn for rescuing the church dryer from birds nests. Jamie Whitney for the portico! Larry Johnson & Co for a non-leaky building! Roy Harrington for keeping Pastor John off ladders. Merry Howard for the beautiful liturgical dancing. Jodi Jesser for coordinating the manger scene display. Rena Swan for sharing her talent for decorating. Bob London for handymanning around the place. Patrick & Wynda McGarity for running Financial Peace University. Patrick McGarity, Scott Wilson, Ben Brown, Sean Reynolds, Rena & Mitch Swan, Jeff Smith, Randy Mitchell, and Bob Ess for being our awesome Filthy Rags Band. Randy Mitchell for heading up the two youth praise bands. Linda Nelson for faithful accompanying (including THREE Christmas Eve services in 2012!). Doug Moses, Brad Feuerbacher, Roy Harrington, Mark Robinson, Jim Clark, Chuck Church, Cary Betts, Clark Sutton, Mitch Swan, James Heard, Phil Hoy, Merrill Young, and Jeff Smith for being disciples in the Living Last Supper. Scott Wilson for all his extra work for Living Last Supper (building the stage, wrestling with lights) and coordinating and rehearsing extra Christmas music (particularly Messiah in 2012). Anna and Delcia Rogers for leading Threads of Love. Jody Johannsen for creating Cards of Love and keeping the staff stocked with special postcards. Beth Snider for riding herd over the poinsettias for years. Terri Sommerfeldt & Co. for leading the church through Relay for Life. Toni & Merrill Young, Paula & John Scanlan, Rona Pfaffle, Randy Mitchell, Tom & Suzie Fendrick, Julie Fendrick, Sandy & Ben Brown, Sherry & Cary Betts for designing and coordinating the Blue Christmas service.

5 Thanks from the Church Staff Page 5 Thank You Office Volunteers There is no I in team! And what a team they are Joyce Cox, Barbara Morrison, Judi Standley and Ginger Taylor. The office staff has been blessed with their smiles and giggles, their caring and concern, and their consistent group effort to help out in the office. This is the group of ladies those of you who receive a mailed copy of The Witness need to thank. They are at the church every other week collating, stapling, folding, taping, labeling, and stamping. What a blessing each of them is! They also take turns covering the front office on Mondays while the church staff has their weekly meetings. We are grateful for their presence and blessed by their friendship. Thank you Mark Spaulding A very big thank you to Mark Spaulding for the many hours of work, repairs and research he has provided on the staff computers and the church website. The staff is surprised he still takes their calls! Thank you Mark for the can do attitude and for never giving up. Thank you Allen Miner Have you ever met someone who just knows how to fix things? I mean everything? Allen Miner has consistently and repeatedly been our go-to man. We usually save the hard things for him or else we would be calling on him all the time. For years now Allen has helped repair and fix probably every interior door lock in our building: taking them apart; putting them back together; and possibly on a few occasions hand making parts for them. And every single time he accepts the challenge with a smile (or at least he does in our presence). Thank you, Allen, for always being there for us! Thank you Beverly & Christy Beverly Lenoir and Christy King said yes. And we are so thankful they did. They organized the Southfork Christmas this year and did a wonderful job! With that said there would not have been anything for them to organize and distribute without the generosity of Wylie UMC. We are continually humbled and amazed by the kindness and compassion the people of Wylie UMC exhibit not only at Christmas but all year long.

6 Thank You from our Preschool & Children s Program Page 6 Learning Academy Preschool L.A.P. is so grateful for your time, your talents, your presence, your gifts, and your witness. We love being associated with such a supportive church family and want that known! Thank you for your time as you have served on the LAP Council, attended programs, and stopped in the halls to let our line of bubbles and tails go first. Thanks to James Heard who has been checking smoke and carbon monoxide detectors each month. Thanks to Roy Harrington and Phil Hoy who have made the lights shine brighter in the preschool wing. We appreciate the very talented Ben Brown, Driggers family, and Dan Smith who have worked the sound booth for preschool programs. What a huge difference your skills make in keeping lights, screens, and microphones functioning properly so the teaching staff can concentrate on petrified or escaping performers. LAP gives many thanks to Bob London for his presence whenever it was needed. He recruited Greg Johannsen to help with stage prep, mowed before outdoor events, painted the playground posts, spot cleaned carpets, worked on the furnishings for room 213 with Henry Luman, moved gravel more than once, helped paint in the preschool wing, assembled a fleet of Cozy Coupes, and lots more. LAP could not offer scholarships without the help of the gifts offered by this congregation. Our anonymous donors and rail offerings keep children attending when tough times hit their families. LAP thanks you for the help you give. Many names do not appear here of others who have helped but all are appreciated. Thank you all for your witness and spreading the Word and knowing how important it is to guide these littlest babes into their love of Jesus. Thank you for telling our community that you believe in this church and this preschool. LAP is blessed by each of you! Happy New Year! Children s Ministry Each Sunday Morning your children are met by a group of amazing adults who lead them in learning about Christ. The Children's Ministry of Wylie UMC would like to THANK the following folks for their time, energy and dedication to our children! Brian Beamer, Kristen Best, Bobby & Shanna Biltz, Robyn & Debbie Brown, Patty Celis, Sue Clayton, Will & Kimberly Clayton, Bill & Melissa Compton, Amanda Cortez, Lynnetta Cox, Jeana Crews, Julie Fendrick, Dennis & Melanie Fuson, Julie Gray, Shelia Green, Monica Hallam, Jeremy & Kelley Hudgeons, Julie Janson, Jody Johannsen, Josh & Courtney Jones, Betty King, Jerry & Wendy Norman, Nicole Oliver, Wendy Prater, Michael Watson, Nancy Spaulding, Renae Spiegel, Katelyn Staller, Linda Staller, Tina Thibodeaux, Pam Wilson, Peggy Wilson, Sue Wilson, Jacob & Elizabeth Wiseman.

7 Thank You from the Youth Page 7 Wylie UMC Youth Ministry would like to give a BIG thank you to all our wonderful adults who have volunteered in 2012: Mission Trip Volunteers: (these adults gave a week of their summer to spend with our kids on mission trips across Texas). Cary Betts, Cory Feuerbacher, Steve Hoegger, Kenny Nickell, Stephanie Oliver, Mark Robinson, Beth Snider, Mark Spaulding, Sean Reynolds and Pam Wilson Momentum Sunday Night Youth Volunteers: (These adults have given their time on Sunday nights to drive, chaperone, hang out, and serve snack-supper to our youth.) Brian Beamer, Barbara Beebe, Willie Beebe, Cary Betts, Sherry Betts, Colleen Driggers, Julie Gray, Amy Hon, Terry Hon, Merry Howard, Veronica Johns, Steven Jones, Vickie Jones, Shelly Nickell, Jerry Norman, Wendy Norman, Katie Milholland, Kenny Nickell, Janet Parker, Beth Snider, Teri Sommerfeldt, Mark Spaulding, Nancy Spaulding, Rebecca Spiegel, Kelly Robinson, Mark Robinson, Wayne Vermillion, Pam Wilson and Elizabeth Wiseman Wednesday Night Small Group Leaders: (These adults have lead our youth in small group meetings) Teri Harrington, Stephanie Oliver, Mark Spaulding Sunday School Teachers: (These 4 adults have been teaching Jr. High & High School Sunday Schools all year without a break!) Beth Snider, Cary Betts, Mark Robinson & Mark Spaulding Youth Praise Band: (These adults have lead and travelled with our youth praise bands on tour.) Randy Mitchell (coordinator of the 2 youth bands), Rena Swan, and Barbara Beebe

8 Wylie United Methodist Church 2013 Page 8 We give thanks for those at WUMC who have the time (or do a good job of finding the time) and the talents to contribute towards the business, the ministries, and the missions of the church. Please take the time to look over and pray for the following people who will be serving in Chair: Teri Harrington Recording Sec: Jenn Smith Trustee Chair: TBD Lay Leader: John Scanlan Lay Delegate, Annual Conference: Kim Johnson Administrator: Debbie Willis Financial Administrator: Vickie Jones Chair: Sr. Pastor (Kathryn) Debbie Brown Don Donovan Larry Johnson Betty King Gary Mahagan Linda Buddin Joyce Cox Beth Craighead Dennis Fuson Lay Delegate to Annual Conference & Finance Chair: Kim Johnson Bob London Brian Manning Steve Oliver Dave Hahn Roy Harrington Larry Haynes James Heard Kathy Milton Administrative Board Lay Leadership (Nominating) Finance Trustees IT Group (Sub-committee of Trustees) Mitch Swan, Chair Council On Ministries Chair: Chuck Church Staff Parish Relations Chair: Sandy Heard Endowment Chair: Beverly Lenoir Finance Chair: Kim Johnson At Large Members: Mitch Swan, George Whitley, and Debbie Crow Helayna Trask George Whitley Peggy Wilson Elizabeth Wiseman Lay Leader: John Scanlan Administrator: Debbie Willis Trisha Roy Ron Sellars Lay Leader: John Scanlan Administrative Board Chair: Teri Harrington Staff Parish Relations Chair: Sandy Heard Trustees: TBD Council on Ministries Chair: Chuck Church Finance Administrator: Vickie Jones Doug Moses Mike Standley Wendy Wirtz Administrator: Debbie Willis Finance Administrator: Vickie Jones Ben Brown, Mark Spaulding Barbara Beebe Sandy Brown John Dunlap Chair: Sandy Heard Ken Lenoir Tena Oliver Staff Parish Relations James Rice Russ Trask Peggy Wilson Lay Delegates to Annual Conference: Kim Johnson & John Scanlan

9 Wylie United Methodist Church 2013 Page 9 Debbie Hazelwood Chair: Beverly Lenoir Brian Manning Patrick McGarity Endowment Janet Parker Trustee Chair: TBD Administrative Board Chair: Teri Harrington Finance Chair: Kim Johnson Council on Ministries Chair: Chuck Church Director Children s Min: Colleen Driggers Lay Leader: John Scanlan Director Youth Min: Chuck Church Girl Scout Rep: Debbie Brown LAP Director: Sherry London Children s Council: Jan Beamer Communications: Jeanine Stevens Director Child Care: Jan Beamer UMW: Phyllis Hubeny Boy & Cub Scout Rep: David Stevens UMM: Billy Crow Missions Coordinating Team: Ann & Clark Sutton LAP Council Chair: TBD Willie Beebe Sue Bradley Dixie Burns Amy Gulseth Phil Hoy Laurie Reynolds Learning Academy Preschool Council Pam Wilson LAP Director: Sherry London Treasurer: Vickie Jones Senior Pastor: Kathryn Strempke Children s Director: Colleen Driggers Adult Ministries Funeral Meal Coordinators: John Scanlan & Betty King Kelly Robinson & Peggy Tsukahara Prayer Shawl Coordinator: Anna Rogers Illness Meal Coordinator: Laurie Reynolds Cards of Love: Jody Johannsen New Baby Meal Coordinator: Kathy Milton 39ers Coordinator: Kelly Robinson Prayer Chair Coordinator: Communications Team Community News/Ads & Chair: Jeanine Stevens Website: Mark Spaulding At large: Sandy Heard Missions Coordination Team Clark & Ann Sutton Roy & Teri Harrington James Heard

10 Music Sunday Part II Page 10 Music Sunday Part II on Dec 23 was delightful! Thanks to the Liturgical Dancers, PBJ & J Team youth bands, and the special ensemble from the Children's Choir for a delightful morning.

11 We Give Thanks Page 11 THANK YOU, Wylie UMC, for your generous sharing with our neighbors at SouthFork Modular Home Park. Your giving from the B.I.G. tree made a merrier Christmas for 10 families. Thank you from the Causey Family Thank you for your prayers, visits, flowers, calls and cards while Bob was in the hospital. Thank you, Pastor Kathryn, for your visit and caring heart. We feel blessed to be a part of such a caring church family. May God Bless, Bob & Irene Causey Tuesday at EVERY TUESDAY 5% of the total purchases made by WUMC customers at Goodfella s comes back to the church to be applied to our Abundant Needs account. Goodfella s is located at 2260 Country Club Rd. (corner of Country Club and Lakeway Drive) in St. Paul, Texas. The phone number is To view their website and menu go to 1) Place your order with Goodfella's on Tuesday. This can be a dine-in, pick-up, or delivery order. 2) Identify the order as a Wylie United Methodist Church order. 3) If you dine-in or pick-up an order, drop your receipt in the WUMC jar. If it s a delivery remind the driver it s a WUMC order. 4) Friends and neighbors can also apply their receipts! We give thanks for our church friends & neighbors serving in the military Navy Sean O Connor Coast Guard Chris Hunt Army Blake Brown Brett Carver Jerad Christy Chris Cutliff Brandon Kinslow Jonathan Mix Caitlin Plumlee Lauren Shackelford Steven Solaja Ted Whitley Air Force Scott Albers Steve Duffy Colin McGarity Casey Plumlee Matt Schoomaker Jared Webber Joe Webber Marines Tyler Bradley Landel Sutton Steven Curtis Michael Delpey Zane Dickerson Josh Ewing If you know of someone who needs to be added to this list, please notify the church office.

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