2017 (Pastor s Note: A lot has happened since the last newsletter: The violence in Charlottesville; schools are now in session; hurricane Harvey has devastated Texas and Louisiana; and the Lay Leadership team is looking at leadership opportunities for members of the church for the upcoming year. If you would like to help in reaching out in any of these areas of interest, please let me know? We have ministries teams in place waiting for your support.) Church growth does not happen in a vacuum but growth must begin with prayer and hard work. Do you remember the first time you visited this church? Did you walk in not knowing anybody? Did you encounter unknown faces, music, and habits? What made you feel welcome? What brought you back? Since you received this newsletter you most likely worshipped with us; probably more than once. Some of you are longtime members. Many have recently started to worship and serve with us. Others are in the process of checking things out. Each of us was at one time a visitor. Continued on page 2
We are a congregation built upon honest relationships with God and each other not pretense or false piety. Because we know we are sinners saved by grace we seek to extend that grace towards others. Each person participates and contributes as they are able. People are involved rather than spectators a family rather than an audience. The concerns and joys of each person are shared by the others. Our greatest coordinated efforts are to serve others in Jesus name rather than ourselves. These are marks of the body of Christ. God s call is for us to invite people to take part in what God is doing in and through us. Signs, websites, special events, and follow-up programs all have their place but if love, relationships, and participation are distinguishing marks of this congregation then love, personal relationships, and involvement are the ways that we will grow and bear fruit for the kingdom of God. Each member of the congregation reaching out to their neighbors and coworkers is far more effective than the most costly advertising campaigns. Personal contact and care by the people of the church towards visitors and newcomers are far more effective than fancy brochures and unwanted mail stuffed in a mailbox. Let us continue to dedicate ourselves to reaching out to those God brings in our doors on Sunday mornings. Here are a couple of ways you can help. When you see someone you don t know introduce yourself. If you forgot someone s name ask. Try sitting in different places so you can meet different people. Invite a visitor or someone you do not know to sit with you. Don t ask, Is this your first time? Instead, just introduce yourself and say that you are glad that they are here. Say hello to a few people you don t know before spending time with your good friends. If someone wants to help let them! If you can t think of anything for them to do then invite them to do what you were doing. For bonus points, try contacting someone you recently met during the week instead of waiting until Sunday. Churches don t grow by accident and neither do relationships. I rejoice that Jesus left his comforts and privileges to reach out to us. I pray that we will continue to demonstrate this love to others. Robert
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Exxon Parking 2 Exxon & BB&T Parking 3 Exxon & BB&T Parking 4 Church Office Closed Exxon Parking 5 Happy Senior Meal - Noon Dinner Bell Weight Watchers 6 Wonderful Wednesdays 7 CCMA FP Scouts 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14th Sunday After Pentecost Weight Watchers UMW Meeting @ Noon Dinner Bell Wonderful Wednesdays CCMA FP Scouts Gideon Meal 12-8 17 Disability Awareness Sunday 18 Weight Watchers 19 Dinner Bell 20 Wonderful Wednesdays Finance Committee Meeting 21 CCMA FP Scouts 22 Lions Club Yard Sale 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Betsy King Speaking Weight Watchers Health Fair Dinner Bell CCMA FP Wonderful Wednesdays CCMA FP Scouts Family Camp Weekend Family Camp Weekend CCMA Food Pantry (Thurs. 9:30-12) (Tuesday 4-6 PM) - Dinner Bell (4-6 PM) - Finance Committee Meeting (6:30 PM Library) - Health Fair (4-6 PM) - Scouts (6:30 PM) - Weight Watchers (4 PM) - Wonderful Wednesdays (5 PM)
DATE USHER/GREETER TEAM September 3 Ty Coalson Team Tilda Mullins & Susan Kirkland September 10 Dana Osborne-White Team Brenda Harmon & Nell Scott September 17 Joe Harmon Team Steve & Judy Martin September 24 Adam Joyce Team Marlin & Mary Surratt DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 SCRIPTURE READER Carolyn Webb Ed Howard Martha Stineback Mark Strauss DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 ACOLYTE Ella Coalson Mason Coalson Cole Ward Junior Huerta-Zepeda DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 FLOWERS Communion Sunday Shirley Uber & Shirley Varn Vivian McBride Marilyn Rand
DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 Commonwealth Assisted Living Audrey Burnette Esther Taylor Jim Parker Dennis Ward DATE Worship Leader Assistant Sermon Nursery September 3 Nate & Chelsea Rita Parker Ben Mullins Tilda Mullins September 10 Nate & Chelsea Kim Reitzel Leona Brown Rita Parker September 17 Nate & Chelsea Lora Terry Janie Napier Kim Reitzel September 24 Nate & Chelsea Sara Byrne Nate & Chelsea Tammy Quesenberry DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 DATE September 3 September 10 September 17 September 24 MEDIA Bill Webb & Justin Lintecum Bill Webb & Bill Brown S.C. Cox & Bill Webb Bill Webb & Bill Brown Adult Sunday School Class Upper Room Challengers Seekers Fellowship
Ollie Newman 9.1 Bonnie Burnett 9.1 David Quesenberry 9.3 Bob Towles 9.3 Ray Burnette 9.8 Bill Webb 9.11 Esther Taylor 9.12 Helen Reynolds 9.14 Davis Reitzel 9.14 Roger Bond 9.15 Barrett Iroler 9.15 Cole Ward 9.17 Kenneth Young 9.18 Jean Kidd 9.19 Allan Young 9.20 Paris Stilwell 9.20 Beverly Towles 9.21 Justin Montgomery 9.21 Norine Pelkey 9.22 Katie Carter 9.23 Judy Martin 9.25 Brenda Harmon 9.27 Dennis Newman 9.26 Kim Reitzel 9.27 David & Susan Cannaday 9.13 RJ & Helen Reynolds 9.13 Richard & Daryl Price 9.18 Chad & Keisha Carter 9.24 Rob & Betsy King 9.29
HEALTH FAIR sponsored by The Rotary Club, will be held on September 26, between 4 PM - 6 PM in the Fellowship Hall here at FUMC. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS who will kick off Sunday Morning Worship Services each week. Beginning with the Welcome & Announcements, Call to Worship, and Invocation. If you would like to be a part of this please contact Jenna in the church office at fumcjenna@gmail.com Thank you! Food, Fun, and Lots of Fellowship Come enjoy Camp Dickenson with your church family September 29-Oct 1. Canoe trip on Saturday! Camp sites available! Come for the whole weekend or just for the evening. See any of the Mullins or Rick and Judy Beasley for more information and to reserve your camping spot.
Begins this. The first meal will be served at 6:00 PM 6:30 PM; made by the Young Adults Group. *Please do not forget to sign your children in and out every Wednesday night.*
The preschool held its Open House on August 28th, and 29th. We enjoyed meeting our new parents and their children and seeing our returning students and their families. We will begin classes on Wednesday, September 6, 2017; we have a lot of fun-filled activities planned for the upcoming school year. We are looking forward to a great year. We are blessed this year to have all of our classes full, with others on the waiting list. We had to throw out some of our toys on the playground due to them being damaged. If you have any playground equipment in good condition that you would like to sell at a reasonable price or get rid of, please keep the preschool program in mind. We do ask for everyone to help us in keeping the playground safe and fun for everyone, The playground is designed for children under 12, and we do ask that all children be supervised when they are on the playground.. We appreciate your help in this matter. A special thanks to Susan Fairhurst for donating new books to the children! September Birthdays! Issac Williams 3rd Sadie Mabry 3rd Abram Perrin 13th Renee Daubach 21st Larken Parris 23rd Dalton Quesenberry 26th Silas Allen 30th Yours in Preschool
Happy Sunday! Enjoyed catching up with everyone. Thank you for your prayers during the recent passing of my great aunt and hospitalization of my grandfather. Please continue to keep Karlene's family in your prayers. Happy Birthday on Wednesday this week to Diane!! Below is information for Children's Sunday School in September. There are two different plans, one for Labor Day Sunday (9/3) and one for the remaining Sundays of the month. Overview: Memory Verse: "I will write my laws on their hearts and minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people." Jeremiah 31:33b (CEV) Song: Ten Commandments to the tune of "Flintstones" (a cappella) [Cindy & Janie, let me know if you think slides would be helpful to display.] Plan for 9/3: 1. Meet in sanctuary for opening song & introduction of memory verse. Announce Wonderful Wednesday's Kick Off. 2. Go to Children's Worship Center or Nursery with Nate, Chelsea, & all available teachers and shepards for Drama Workshop. 3. Shepards, pick up printouts of the bible background from Nate & Chelsea. I left copies of these with teachers today. Plan for 9/10, 9/17, 9/24: 1. Meet in the sanctuary for opening song, story review, and introduction of memory verse. 2. Remind about Wonderful Wednesday's. 3. Split up for Group Rotations: a. Cooking (Diane Webb): Commandment Cakes & Red Sea Sippers with Fortunetellers - Children will cut up and decorate sections of pound cake to help them remember each commandment. Then, they will enjoy them while drinking Red Sea sippers (similar to strawberry milk). b. Art (Karlene Dalton): Ten Commandments Accordion Craft - Children will transform popsicle sticks into an accordion where they record the Ten Commandments. c. Games (Candi Iroler): Ten Commandments in Candyland, Ten Pin Commandments, In/Not in Hula Ring - Students will play a modified version of the board game Candyland, an adaptation of bowling, and a jumping game with hula hoops to help them review the Ten Commandments. Schedule (Nate & Chelsea, correct me if I've messed up groups. I think this is how we split up in August after Promotion Sunday. Pre-K/K (Katie Carter): Art, Cooking, Games Grades 1-3 (Lori Craig): Games, Art, Cooking Grades 4-5 (Brian Craig, Susan Clark): Cooking, Games, Art
YOUTH I hope that everyone is off to a quick start of the school year. I know it has been a whirlwind for me. Just wanted to give you all a quick update on youth. We are starting back next Wednesday 9/6/17 at 6:30pm (doors will open at 6pm)! We will have pizza and drinks. If you can bring a little side or desert to kick things off. Some may be wondering why we are not selling drinks at the flea market. Last year we had a hard time getting youth there for all of the time slots so we are going to try another fundraiser this year in place of the flea market. We will attempt the flea market again NEXT year though. Mark your calendars for Jan. 19th- 21st. This is the date for Rez 18!! More information will be out soon about that. Devanie and I can not wait to get youth started this year! See you all on the 6th of Sept. Ben and Devanie Youth Directors FUMC Hillsville EXTRA MILE GIVING Fellowship Hall a/c repairs are complete just in time for the summer heat wave! Trustees authorized new condensers to be purchased for the broken fellowship hall cooling units. The cost of these new units was $3,600. WE ONLY OWE $1,780 on the Fellowship Hall A/C repair PRAISE GOD!. If you would like to donate towards this please label your contribution check to FUMC and note Building Repair and Maintenance #1-8120 in the memo line. Thank you to everyone that has given. EXTRA MILE GIVING THANK YOU CHURCH! Everyone came together and THE WHITE VAN IS NOW COMPLETELY PAID OFF, PRAISE GOD!!! This vehicle will be used for many years to do God's work and faith, generosity and passion for acting together as the body of Christ made this possible. FUMC is alive and covering our community with HIS word!
HAPPY SENIOR MEAL will be held Tuesday, September 5, beginning at Noon Our guest speaker will be Nick Fairhurst The meal will consist of: Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Green Beans, Salad, Rolls, Apple Crisp, and Ice Cream "First United Methodist Church, Thank you so much for the prayer bear you sent my daughter, Shelly Bolen Dixson. This brought a smile to her face and is helping her to recover from a serious back surgery. Love & Prayers, Delta B. Bolen" ZULA S FAMOUS RELISH AND CHOW CHOW is available for purchase for only $6 per jar. All proceeds will go to Local Missions. Please place your order with Zula directly at (276) 733-6487. Get yours while they last!
Monday Morning Bible Study Date: Every Monday beginning September 11th Time: 10:00 AM Location: Upper Room Hosted by: Carl and Debbie Ginder Coffee served. Please sign up on clip board during Sunday Service or contact Janie Napier. We are so grateful to you, the members of FUMC of Hillsville, for taking part in our annual baby bottle campaign. Please know that your participation in our campaign was truly a blessing to the pregnancy center. Your contributions totaled $322.63. Warmest regards and with much gratitude, Judy Houston, Executive Director, Tri-Area Pregnancy Resource Center, Galax, VA Children s Choir will begin September 6th at 6:30 PM. The theme for this year is All Creation Sings
Flood Buckets for Texas Cleaning Kit Materials 5 Gallon Bucket with resalable lid Buckets from fast-food restaurants or bakeries can be used if washed and cleaned Do not use buckets that have stored chemicals such as paint or pool cleaner Advertisements on the outside are acceptable Liquid Laundry Detergent Liquid Household Cleaner Dish Soap One 50-oz. or two 25-oz. bottle(s) only 12 16 oz. liquid cleaner that can be mixed with water No spray cleaners 16-28 oz. bottle any brand 1 Can Air Freshener Aerosol or pump 1 Insect Repellant Spray 6-14 oz. Aerosol or Spray Pump with Protective 1 Scrub Brush Plastic or Wooden Handle 18 Cleaning Wipes Handi Wipes or Reusable Wipes No Terry Cleaning Towels Remove from Wrapper 5 Scouring Pads Remove from Wrapper 50 Clothespins No Stainless Steel, Brillo Pads, or SOS Pads (Nothing with soap built in) Clothesline 1 100-ft. or 2 50-ft. lines Cotton or Plastic 24 Roll Heavy Duty Trash Bags 33-45 Gallon Sizes 5 Dust Masks 2 Pairs Kitchen Dishwashing Gloves Remove from the Box Should be durable enough for multiple uses Remove from packaging 1 Pair Work Gloves Cotton with leather palm or all leather
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P LEASE REMEMBER AND P RAY FOR OUR HOMEBOUND, S HUT IN AND N URSING HOME CHURCH Rhea Akers PO BOX 762 Hillsville VA 24343 Judy Bond Commonwealth Assisted Living Room A6 Hillsville VA 24343 Grace Cox Commonwealth Assisted Living Room A5 Hillsville VA 24343 Lucille Newman 154 Lyn Ave Mount Airy NC 27030 Helen Notchie Waddell Nursing 202 Painter St Room 218B Galax VA 24333 Mildred Palmer 295 Freemont Rd Hillsville VA 24343 Elliott Ridge 1527 Grandin Ave Roanoke VA 24015 Ruth Sisson Commonwealth Assisted Living Room D11 Hillsville VA 24343 Kitty Smith Trinity Mission 222 Fulcher St Room 204 Hillsville VA 24343 Aylene Lois Wade Trinity Mission 222 Fulcher St Room 213 Hillsville VA 24343 Joyce Webb Waddell Nursing 202 Painter St Room 119A Galax VA 24333 Pat Webb Waddell Nursing 202 Painter St Room 16A Galax VA 24333
The Messenger First United Methodist Church 225 Fulcher St. PO Box 356 Hillsville, VA 24343 Return Service Requested Mary Virgina Taylor, Bishop Kim Goddard, District Superintendent Robert Smith, Pastor Saul Huerta Barba, Hispanic Lay Pastor TO: Called to Be and Make Disciples for Jesus Christ First United Methodist Church Website: hillsvillefumc.com Facebook: facebook.com/fumchillsville Phone: 276-728-2434 Street Address: 225 Fulcher Street, Hillsville VA 24343 Mailing Address: PO Box 356, Hillsville, VA 24343 Phone numbers: Church:276-728-2434 Parsonage: 276-728-2654 Church Fax: 276-728-9291 Emails: Pastor Robert Smith: rsmith24343@gmail.com Administrative Financial Secretary: fumcafs@gmail.com Office Assistant: fumcjenna@gmail.com Website: www.hillsvillefumc.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fumchillsville/