First United Methodist Church 103 W Main Street P.O. Box 72. Phone (731) Fax (731) February 2013

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1 First United Methodist Church 103 W Main Street P.O. Box 72 Phone (731) Fax (731) February 2013 Message from Rev. Lea On February 3rd, we will have a congregational service of Remembering our Baptism. This will be an opportunity for all congregation members who have been baptized to come forward at the conclusion of the service, to touch the water, and to remember their baptism. This is an important and very meaningful service - a way to remember our baptisms. In the next weeks we will be thinking together about how we can symbolically remember (even if we cannot literally because we were baptized as infants). The Sacrament of Baptism is centrally important to our understanding of faith and what it means to be a true disciple. It is at our baptism, that we are named and claimed by God - and from that moment we are called to continually live more and more into our baptism as we witness to our faith and point others to God. As we focus intentionally on baptism, during these next few weeks if there are those that have not been baptized (infants or self-professing) that would like to be, the invitation is always available to you. I invite you to join us during this time, as we step into the living water together. Think this week especially about the ways God is calling you to witness to your faith in and through your baptism. NFUMC Services Sunday Adult Sunday School: 9:45 am Worship Service: 11:00 am Nursery and Children s Worship (Pre K to Grade 3): 11:00 am Tuesday Wednesday A.C.T.S. Mount Carmel UMC Sunday Services Worship Service: 9:30 am Sunday School: 10:30 am 2200 Grills Road Mailing address: Mt. Carmel UMC Pamela Hassell 187 Loys Johnson Road Blessings, Rev. Lea Kibbles & Bits... Woo hoo! I love to run in the ice and snow! But it does make my feet REALLY COLD! When I come in from playing, Momma lets me sit with her by the heater to get warm. I m excited Momma says more snow might come tonight. Maybe Momma will buy me some boots to wear in the snow. Woof! Ellie

2 Nursery Schedule February 3 Pattye Williams February 10 Nancy Davis February 17 Laura Carnell February 24 Judy Gregory Children s Church February 3 Nell Smith February 10 Tiffany Rogers February 17 Melba Moore February 24 Dottie Leach 2013 Officers for UMW Dorcas Circle Chairperson Jane Edwards Vice Chair Alma Ruth Michael Secretary/Treasurer Anne Williams Treasurer (Care Fund) Patsy Simmons Card Secretary Marilyn Schlabach Outreach Focus for February The A.C.T.S. service project for February will be to make valentine cards for the residents of Oakwood Nursing Home and Canterbury Place. They plan to visit these facilities and deliver the valentines to the residents on February 13 th. February 3 rd and 10 th we will be collecting school supplies for Newbern Elementary School (see list). February 17 th will begin our Lenten Giving. February 17 th and 24 th we will collect items and/or money for health kits. Our A.C.T.S. youth will assemble the health kits (see list). 1 Jane Edwards 3 Paul Hamblin 8 Leon Williams 11 Janie Austin 12 Patsy Simmons 15 Amy Travis Davis 20 Tanna Canada 21 Rev. Richard Denton 22 Pattye Williams 28 Becky Mitchell We have a Birthday Celebration on the first Sunday of each month. Please inform Gail Mann of birthdays not listed. Contact her at gailmann38059@gmail.com. Please welcome the Greene Family, (Tony, Faye, Eric & Sarah), who joined our church family on January 6, 2013 Address 2102 Crowne Ridge Drive Birthdays Tony September 5 Faye June 19 Eric August 13 Sarah August 13

3 School Supplies Regular Sized, plastic pencil storage school box (< $1 each) Packs, regular pencils #2 Fiskar scissors (blunt edge) 8 or 10 pack color 'classic' markers Composition notebooks (50<t) Regular sized glue sticks pack Baby wipes Clorox Wipes 4 pack regular sized Play-Doh 2 pack dry erase markers 2 pack paper towels 1 QT. size ziploc storage bags 1 GALLON size ziploc storage bags Liquid Soap Germ-X Kleenex tissues Notebook paper (WIDE-RULED) Expo Dry Erasers Backpacks Pocket/Brad folders Health Kit Supplies (Value: $12.00) 1 hand towel (15 x 25 to 17 x 27 no kitchen, cleaning or microfiber towels) 1 wash cloth 1 comb (needs to be sturdy. No pocket combs or picks. Rattail combs and combs without handles are acceptable) 1 metal nail file or clipper (no emery boards or toenail clippers) 1 bath size soap (3 oz. and larger sizes only. Do not remove from original packaging) 1 toothbrush (adult size only. Do not remove from original packaging) 6 adhesive bandages (3/4 1 sized common household band aids 1 plastic bag (1 gallon sealable) $1.00 to purchase toothpaste Wanted you to know that our donation closet is getting low. We have plenty of crayons but are in need of pencils, glue sticks, pocket/brad folders and a few plastic pencil boxes. We so appreciate the church's donations. It is amazing how many students have benefited from your generosity. We are getting in new students every week and many times they come in with little or no supplies. The teachers love coming down and getting what they need for these students and others that just cannot afford to replenish that supply list. Thank you so much! B Jackson, Principal, Newbern Grammar School PAINTING OF PRODIGAL SON This is the hour to receive God s favor, today is the day of salvation! (2 Corinthians 6:2) There is a painting by Thomas Hart Benton entitled The Prodigal Son, which hangs in the Dallas Art Museum. It features an old man returning to his rural home. You can see the bus down the road which has brought him. He stands in the weeds at the side of the road, his suitcase in hand, his other hand touching a shock of gray hair as he looks in disappointment and dismay at the old homestead. The house is a fallen down shamble of its former self. The bleached skeleton of a steer symbolizing the decline of the family s fortune lays in the front yard. No one runs down the road to greet the returning prodigal. No father is there to welcome home his wayward son. Obviously no one lives there any longer. The painting speaks its silent admonition: Friend, don t wait too long to come home. There are countless people, even people we know, who believe there is plenty of time to get serious about their relationship with God and the church. Let us commit ourselves during this year to so live the faith and love God s people that the door to the kingdom will swing open wide for those who are passing by. Send a card, make a call or stop by and touch a life for Christ this week and see the working of God. Our calling is to be faithful with the good news we have received then the prodigals will be able to find their way to their Father s house. - Copied-

4 A.C.T.S. NEWS Donations of Grocery, Hygiene and Cleaning items for Reelfoot Rural Ministries will continue for a few more weeks. (Please pick up a list of requested items in the foyer) The A.C.T.S. theme for February is Lent and the service project will be to deliver Valentine's Cards to Oakwood Manor and Canterbury Place on Feb 13. The A.C.T.S. children and youth are making the cards. Adults are welcome to help make cards on Wednesday nights at 6. Please see Amy Davis if you would like to volunteer to drive the A.C.T.S. children/youth to Dyersburg for the service project. Easter Egg Hunt is March 23...details to come! Thank you to Nell Smith and Janie Austin for organizing and providing the A.C.T.S. meal for January. We had over 45 people in attendance, and half were children/youth ages. If you would like to volunteer your time, talents, snacks, ideas for our A.C.T.S. program, please see Amy Davis. Direct prayer concerns, updates & praises to leathornton@gmail.com or With Sympathy To the family and friends of Monica Dale Thompson Permenter, who passed away on Monday, January 21, 2013 Pray for restored health, comfort and peace for: Raymond Benyo (Bobbie Valentine) chest pains Amanda Carruth Caldwell (Amy Davis) Jason Caldwell (Amy Davis) Mary Virginia Palmer Clossen (Jane Yarbro s niece) John Combes (friend of Joe Holland) Brain surgery Katie Bondurant Creech (Amy Davis) brain tumor John Dykes bone cancer Paul Enochs (Brother of Penny Gean) Sheila Fesmire (Judy Gregory) David Hunter Throat Cancer Haley Johnston (Amy Davis)-Encephalitis Roger Jowers (Judy Gregory) Heart complications Mary Helen Ladd Broken hip Tripp McNeil The McCewen Family Tommy McDowell (Alma Ruth Michael) Carolyn Potter cancer Herman Rabalais has been in hospital with pneumonia Suzanne Sellers (Sue McEwen) Charlotte Vaughn (Judy Gregory) stomach replacement Edith Walker (Mt. Carmel) James Wilkerson Please continue to pray for our friends /family, homebound, in rehabilitation, assisted living or nursing homes; Lois Austin Room 26, Canterbury Place, 900 Hwy 51 Bypass N., Dyersburg, TN. Mary Helen Ladd Covington Manor, Hwy 51 S., Covington, TN, Marjorie Lindley Room 219, The Highlands Lucille Parker 810 W Main Street, Newbern, TN Herman Rabalais Room 14A, Oakwood Community Living Center, 1636 Woodlawn Ave., Dyersburg Richard T. Moore, Sr. Waterford Assisted Living, 8118B Sawyer Brown Rd, #409, Nashville, TN Etta Caldwell Pearson 5518 Freret, New Orleans, LA Dorothy Enochs Canterbury Place, 900 Hwy 51 Bypass N., Dyersburg, TN. Jean Forrester 614 West Main Street, Newbern, TN

5 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Collecting School Supplies 4 5:30 pm - Trustees 6:30 pm- Finance 7:00 pm Council 5 6 ACTS Outreach Meeting Collecting School Supplies ACTS (Valentine Visits) Begin Lenten Offering Collecting for Health Kits 24 Collecting for Health Kits 18 1:30 pm- Dorcas Circle 25 7:00 pm Esther Circle :30 am Ladies Dominoes ACTS 27 ACTS First United Methodist Church 103 W Main Street P.O. Box 72 Place Stamp Here YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME We welcome you! Join us for worship and fellowship as we worship the Lord together. Come explore with us what it means to Make disciples of Jesus Christ. If you are a guest with us, we ask that you complete an information card and place it in the offering plate. If you do not have a church home, please consider worshiping with us every Sunday.