November Newsletter FUMC, Sterling City, Tx THIS ISSUE: Welcome! -Services -Prayer Requests -Calendar- Birthdays, Anniversaries -Pastor s Pen -Church Activities -Important dates -Preschool CHURCH SERVICES Sunday School 10am Worship Service 11am (Childcare provided during worship) -High School Youth Please look through this newsletter, attend, worship, and follow us @ www.sterlingmethodists.com or check out our Facebook page Sterling City First United Methodist Church
2016 Presidential Election Betty Fields - Hand nerve damage Carl & Sandy Martin - Brain surgery Charles Grossman - Brain tumor Jerry Gibbs (Robert Lee) - Cancer Hunsley Strickland Carmen Copeland - Eyes Janis Noble - Eyesight Jackie Brown - Eyesight Adela Dehoyos Bailey Pitman - Mission Trip Mike & Jaynell Bodine Haley Stallings Clinton Hodges Donnie Hinderliter - Cancer Morris Hinshaw Sue McClure Nate Alvie Randy Peel - Leukemia Sid Long - Stroke recovery Lexis McCrea - Travels Debby Bynum - Knee LaVerne Hoelscher - BP Carol Cotton - Cancer /Hospice Our Nation, Troops, & the World Kent Beard - Neck/Spine Helen Radde Grace Copeland Bill & Judy Eubank James Thompson Amy Brown - Cancer Carol Brown - Cancer Ella Nelson - aka Big Ella Hadlee Holik - Brain Cancer Dolly Rauch - Cancer Karen Cox - Cancer Jessie Cornelius Sr. - Cancer Jena Janek - Foot / hip Susan Wyatt
Anniversaries 18th B.J. & Julie Thomason Friends of Merle and James Thompson! Please join the family in celebrating their 80th Birthdays 20th Leonard & Debbie Horwood WHEN: November 5th WHERE: Sterling City Community Center WHEN: 2pm to 4pm 22nd Herman & Diana Fox (No gifts please) Birthdays 1st Erica Miller 18th Grace Copeland 2nd J im Copeland 19th Jean Bircher 6th Bryan Davis 20th Jessie Foley 11th Skipper Michulka 22nd Johnny Copeland 13th Betty Jo Madrid 23rd Dick West 14th Amy Broome 25th Maggie Terry 14th Patti May 15th Doug McCombs 18th Cindy Foster 18th Skeete Foster 25th 26th 28th 29th Raymond Bratton Shari Copeland Traci Majors Garrett McClure
October 31, 2016 I m writing you from a training session related to our General Council on Finance & Administration in Jacksonville, Florida. I have been to Jacksonville before, but not the riverside portion. We are right on the river and it is quite nice! I am excited about this training as part of my oversight (along with many other great servants) of our conference finances. We had a great opening plenary session on stewardship this morning. The presenter asked a great question, Who taught you to be generous? I would love to hear your answers to this question! I learned some things about generosity from my parents, and a great deal from my faith-walk and my study of Scripture. And I m still learning! It is a lifetime pursuit. Two other great questions come to mind. Do you feel that others give you an opportunity to be generous? Do you give others opportunity to be generous? I have memories (probably exaggerated) of my mother, father, and grandmother arguing over meal checks for extended periods of time. Nobody wanted to let anybody be generous! I want you to know how profoundly we appreciate the generosity of you all! We have received many cards, gifts, prayers, and good wishes during our ministry here. We appreciate all of it and we appreciate the incredible ways this community is generous to one another and to the world. I encourage you to be generous and to give others the opportunity to be generous. It s ok if they aren t, you ve given the chance. As I checked into our hotel here at zero dark thirty early this morning, I gave a small tip to the front desk worker assisting me. It seemed to really make her day/ morning! She gave a huge smile and a thank you. I didn t ask for anything. Yet, I ll be darned, she was generous in return. She put me on nearly the top floor in a king suite! I look forward to getting back to Sterling City and seeing you all later this week! Blessings, Rev. Jim Noble
November 5th - 80th Birthday celebration for Merle and James Thompson from 2pm to 4pm at the Community Center November 10th - Join the residents at the Sterling Co. Senior Citizen Center for a Thanksgiving Luncheon 11am to 1pm. Adult plates $10 Sr. Citizens (60+) $5 All students & children $5 November 11th - Veteran s Day Program on Friday at 10am in the school auditorium. November 12th - Senior Class Bingo at 6PM in the Elementary School Cafeteria November 13th - The Purple Heart Lunch Fundraiser After church service at the Community Center November 16th - Pre-School You ve Been Gobbled Program at 2:30pm in the Family Life Center November 19th - Hunters Appreciation Dinner- 6PM at the Community Center November 20th - The Community Thanksgiving Service : Lexis McCrea will be preaching at 11am service. The Community Thanksgiving Meal - 6:30 at the First Baptist Church
Please join the FUMC Pre-School for The ABC s of Thanksgiving and BINGO - You ve Been Gobbled Program on Thursday, Nov. 16 th at 2:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church Family Life Center. Cookies and punch will be served. November 6th - November 13th - Packing shoeboxes! Purple Heart Lunch Fundraiser Youth will: *Set up tables, serve drinks / desserts, take down tables and clean up :)
Please join us in expressing our gratitude to our Veterans VETERAN S DAY PROGRAM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2016 SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 10:00AM IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE PAST...IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO PROTECT US NOW.