FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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1 FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Jesus calls us to be vibrant, loving and of service to all. Hello Church Members and Friends! With Thanksgiving right around the corner I want to challenge everyone to do something. I am calling it the What are you Thankful For Challenge! During this month I will be asking you from the pulpit, in Text Messages, in s and on Facebook for what SPECIFICALLY you want to give God thanks. You might be saying to yourself at this point, Come on Pastor Mark, that is what we do every year! I pray that is true for everyone. However, do you write them all down? On the lines below I want you to start writing down all of your blessings. Don t forget to be SPECIFIC...don t just write down the word EVERYTHING Now that you are done, go back and pray for the people who have made all of these blessings possible! I know you have more than 10 blessings so keep writing your blessing on our What are you Thankful For Challenge poster board when you come to church, or we will add blessings to it that we receive in texts, s or posts. Pastor Mark 501 North Main Street Grand Saline, TX Worship Times: Continental Breakfast 9:15 am Sunday School 9:45 am Sunday at 10:55 am Sunday Night Live at 6:30 pm Office Hours: Mon. Thurs. 10am- Noon, 1-3pm Office Phone Number (903) gsfumc2016@gmail.com Website: Facebook: Pastor Mark M. Pedersen Office: (903) Cell: (903) mpedersen47@gmail.com

2 Please make sure your cell phone Wi-Fi is turned off when you enter the Sanctuary, Sunday mornings. Thank you! Join us November 12th we recognize our veterans Nell Wheat sold her home use Address Updates: Peggy s address:1299 VZCR 1803, Grand Saline, TX Also, Julia Long has moved. Her correct address: 5334 S OSO PKWY, Corpus Christi, TX PRAYER REQUESTS : Prayer list for family, friends, and others. Our Nation, President, Government Leaders, Men & Women of our Armed Forces and their Families. Mutt & Nancy Pugh, Della Houy, Randy Willmon, Nell Wheat, Betty Adamson, Ann Berry, Melissa Brown and her sister, Jane Currey, Becky Kindle, Lana Kirby, Gwen Hughes, Debbie Mills Middleton, Wil Ferguson and Melissa Brown. The Flower Chart for 2017 is up if you would like to sign up to put flowers in the church on a special Sunday. You can either sign up on the flower chart outside the office or call the church office and we will put your name on the chart. Stewardship Report The Sunday 10/1 10/8 10/15 10/22 10/29 Sunday School Worship RECEIVED 10/01...$3, RECEIVED 10/08...$7, RECEIVED 10/15...$2, RECEIVED 10/22... $2, RECEIVED 10/ $2, Received through October... $150, Needed through October... $158,620.00

3 November Give Thanks As we begin our month of Thanksgiving, we reflect and are thankful for all of our wonderful events in October. I especially am grateful for the opportunity to serve as your Music Director. It is a blessing each week to work with so many talented people. Our SNL nights have been a real inspiration and have showcased such wonderful talent. This has been a real blessing for our church, our community and especially to me. As tragedy unfolded in Las Vegas, God had given Kay Sherbert the perfect music to play for our Offertory. Her beautiful piano solo of People Need the Lord could not have been more needed and appropriate.so true and so beautiful. Our first SNL group, Buddy and Ina Gore, gave us a wonderful night of gospel music. such a sweet Christian couple. Ina is an amazing song writer with a gift of storytelling. Despite being sick, she sang beautifully, as she and Buddy blessed us with their talent. Great start for our SNL. That morning we had a beautiful solo by Liz Riveire. She and Martha did a contemporary rendition of Rock of Ages. It was wonderful to hear Liz as a soloist, since she is usually doing an alto part with others. She has a wonderfully clear, beautiful voice. She must sing again, soon. Our next SNL was David Crain. What a fun and inspiring evening! We had a great crowd of our congregation and lots of Baptist! Ha! It was nice to see the response to David. Hope he will come back again. His humor and music are a marvelous way to present God and His Word in a memorable way. Maxine Moore, my sister, was soloist that morning. She has had a great singing career in several symphony chorales. Maxine is a teacher in the alternative school in Jacksonville, since retiring from teaching in the prison system in Palestine. Needless to say, she has lots of patience. She and my other sisters were in town to visit and I am thrilled she agreed to sing for us. Maxine sang with the Tyler Civic Chorale at their 50th Anniversary concert on Oct. 29th. Dorcie is always a blessing and we loved hearing her organ solo on Youth Sunday. The beautiful music Dorcie and Martha play each week is so wonderful. Thank you both for the joy you provide. Oct. 22nd our youth were in charge of the morning service and did a great job, as did the moms singing And All the People Said Amen. Chad Chaney Band was our SNL feature. Chad and Victor are very talented Christian musicians and were so eager to share their music and story with us at FUMC. Chad writes and sings his own songs and also sang several songs of Chris Tomlin, his mentor. The youth and the mature in the service really enjoyed the Spirit of the Lord in Chad and Victor s music. Oct 29th was Gospel / Story night. We sang lots of spirituals and heard the story of their origin. Congregation sang and had a joyous time together. We had 3 visitors. So, far we have had about 3 people come to SNL, just because they happened to see the sign that something was happening at our church! If you have not attended, please do so this month. You are missing a great blessing from all these talented people. Our music for November includes, Jarvis Christian College, Ashley Lagunas ( Christian song writer and evangelist/musician from DFW), Tyler Junior College and our own, McAdams Family. Don t miss any of these. The music and the performers are all amazing and will truly be a blessing to you. You will be humming some of these tunes and repeating stories for weeks to come. Thankful to be serving GOD at FUMC, Jaye Academy News, A Time to Give Thanks It is the time of year that we get to take a moment and count all of our blessings. We will learn about "our community" this month and have visits from the fire and police departments, as well as other local community helpers. Watch our Facebook page for lots of cute pictures! Many Blessing, Jennifer

4 Hello All, Thank you to the ladies who came to our October meeting. We enjoyed fellowship and refreshments. We made 14 Blessing Bags for our area homeless. We planned to make 10 but with our donations of items we were able to stretch it. Please pick up a Blessing Bag from the church foyer if you think you may come in contact with someone who can use it. We plan to ring The Salvation Army bell the first full week of December: December 2 nd 9 th. I will place a sign up sheet in the church foyer. The first day will be at the Grand Saline Library during the Cocoa and Carols event (if we are approved) and the days after that will be at Brookshires. Last year was very successful let s do it again! Hopefully, it won t be so cold! We will not meet again until the spring. That is when we will plan our spring Movie Night. I will let you know when that meeting is on the schedule. Blessings to All, Marilyn From the Pulpit This Month November 5 Mark Woodward with Heartspring Foundation Matthew 6:33 Bold Idea November 12 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Matthew 25: 1-13 Will You Be Ready? November 19 Matt Idom from Lakeview November 26 Ephesians 1: Corinthians 15: What Have You Done So Far? MYF Facebook page: Academy Facebook page: ChildrensChristianAcademy/ For November Jim Berry & Kathy Lea Help us promote our church and events for FREE!!

5 What a MONTH! Now to be fair, I've always just adored October, but this year was really special for me. The Tribe and our MYF had an unusually busy month! Every single member of MYF came to National Night Out--it was News great to see them out being part of our community. We made and served 42 kettles of popcorn, and Kailey's balloon animals were a big hit! The Tribe stayed busy this month. Earlier this month, they hosted the Mineola UMC kids for a night of games, play, and a pizza before hearing Chad Chaney sing at our Sunday Night Live service. They prayed about and prepared for their Youth Service. Planning and delivering a worship service is really quite something. Public speaking is daunting in and of itself, but to be charged with leading your friends and family in historic recitations, prayers, and the reading of God's Holy Word is an awesome responsibility. To stand with trembling knees and deliver those words took lots of courage and faith. I am so proud of them all. The haunted barn and barbecue made it the perfect Halloween for me. So many happy memories--sweet Diane Ingrim, after being tapped on the shoulder by a spook in a pitch black hallway, turning to her innocent husband and hissing, "Did you do that? Stop it!"--ron Sherbert comforting a sweet little cowgirl throughout the haunted house--liz, who giggles when frightened--and Gavin Pedersen's triumphant, "I'm 100%!" after scaring/surprising every person who went through. I loved it that the kids wanted to stay after it was over. The time in the kitchen with them was really special to me. I think the kids had a ball, and I can only hope that Danny had half as much fun as I had! I'd like to thank you all for supporting our youth groups! I love you all!! Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, Blair But set an example for the believers in speech, In conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. 1 Tim 4:12

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7 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Church office hours are Mon-Thursday 10 am - 12 pm & 1 pm 3pm Lunch 12-1pm Wednesday s 10am Children's Academy Chapel Time Jesus calls us to be Vibrant, loving and of service to all! 1 Game Night 6pm In Youth Building Please bring a side or a dessert. 2 Ministerial Alliance Mtg. 7:30-9 am Kathy Caddel 3. 4 Choir Practice 7pm Food Pantry 4-6pm 5 9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship w/ Mark Woodward 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- Jarvis College 12 9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55am Worship 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- Ashley Lagunas 19 9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship w/mad Idom 2:00 pm Charge Canton First 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- TJC Choir 26 9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- The McAdams Family 6 Nancy Pugh & Crystallyn Ulrick s Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm 13 Lana Kirby s Pastor Quadrant Mtg. 1st Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm 20 Parker Boyles Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm 27 Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm 7 Diane Ingrim Craft Meeting 6:00 pm MYF Jr High 5:30 pm Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm Pastor KFC Edgewood 6 8 pm 14 Marilyn Smith s MYF Jr High 5:30 pm Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm Pastor KFC Edgewood 6 8 pm 21 MYF Jr High 5:30 pm Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm Craft Meeting 6:00 pm 28 Bruce & Janet Cheatham s Anniversary MYF Jr High 5:30 pm Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm Pastor KFC Edgewood 6 8 pm 8 Finance Meeting 6pm in Youth building Choir Practice 7pm 15 Church Council Mtg. 6 pm Youth Building Scouts Committee Meeting 6pm Choir Practice 7pm 22 Choir Practice? 29 Choir Practice 7pm 9 Nell Latta Academy Board Mtg. 6pm in Parlor Worship Committee Mtg. 6:30 pm in Youth bldg. 16 Food Pantry 4-6pm 23 Happy Thanksgiving! Dine In at Noon 30 Chamber Luncheon Noon Mary Jane Hollowell Gwen Hughes Meghann Neubauer

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