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FUMC Vol. 11, No. 16
YOUTH GARAGE SALE We are kicking off our fundraising efforts for our 2003 Summer Mission Trip by holding a garage sale. We welcome shoppers and donations for our garage sale! If needed, we will pick items up. Please contact Anne Hof, Youth Director, at the Church, 237-3158. The sale will be held at Anne Hof’s home at 1304 East 42ND Street (Corner of Avenue N & 42nd Street) on Friday, August 16TH from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, August 17TH from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Mark your calendars! We will worship in Harmon Park on Sunday, September 8th at 10:30 a.m. Lunch (free will offering) will be served at Noon following the service. The Family Life Council will have games for the entire family beginning at 1:00 p.m., with ice cream served at 2:00 p.m! There will be an 8:30 service at the Church that day only. The 9:45 and 11:00 services will be combined at the park. Rev. William M. Williams, Jr., our District Superintendent, will speak at the 8:30 and 10:30 services that day. The Praise Bands and Chancel Choir will provide music and the "Serious Fun" puppeteers will perform also. Worship in the Park will commemorate the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Military personnel, along with Fire Department personnel and local Law Enforcement personnel (past and present) will be honored during the service. Please call the church office at 237-3158 with the name of any active military persons from this congregation so that we may honor them. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PLEASE HELP US! "No one from the Church came to see me in the hospital. They must not care". Of course we care! One of our pastors, Rev. Dr. Marvin Koelling or Rev. Ron Harris, and parish visitor, Winona Whitney, visit the hospital every day to check on members and friends of First Church. They check at the front desk to see who is listed as "Methodist", then they make their rounds, visiting everyone on their list. However, sometimes names are not on the list. They have no way of knowing that someone is in the hospital unless they have been told. Please help us help you! If you are admitted to the hospital for any reason, please let the staff at the hospital know that they need to call us. If no one has come to see you within 24 hours, please tell them again. The secretarial staff reads the newspaper everyday to check for births, baby names, deaths and newsworthy items about our members. We find out a lot of information this way, but we don’t find out everything we sometimes need to know. With lawsuits about privacy issues becoming more prevalent, hospitals are becoming more hesitant about giving out any information. We need your help! If you need a minister to visit you, please call us at 237-3158 or have a family member or friend call for you. Thank you!
Congratulations to: Julie Youngquist and Mike Jorgensen, who were married at First Church on August 11, 2002.
Congratulations to: Lucille Fisher and Joyce Brennan, who are great-grandmothers to Peyton Richard Brennan, born July 11, 2002 to Kyle Brennan and Sarah Ostrander of Kearney.
First Church extends its sympathy to: Janeen Vokoun and the family of Nellie Donaly, who died July 30, 2002. Services were held at First Church on August 3, 2002. PASS IT ON MINISTRY Ministry Group #14, chaired by Ploma Geiser and Jan Fern, served 38 persons following the funeral of Nellie Donaly on August 3, 2002. Those who helped set up, donate food, serve or clean up were: Jan Fern, Donna Lindgren, Joyce Brennan, Arlette Neal, Ploma Geiser, Margaret Klimek, Vicki Bailey, Kathy Carpenter, Eleanore Anderson, Elda Rodgers, Sue Cudaback, Nancy Coakley, Eva Green, Judy Kouba, Crystle McCarty, Dorothy Peterson, Lisa Liesinger, Jackie Mercer, Brenda Weimer, Sharon Whitney, Kelly Peterson and Janene Schake.
We want to thank Rev. Ron Harris and Rev. Dr. Marvin Koelling for the memorial service for Keith Gulden. Also, thanks to the ladies who prepared and served the meal. We would like to thank Winona for the many times she stopped to visit and have prayer for Keith, and all of you who prayed for him.
We would like to thank everyone for the care you showed us during Deb's father's illness and passing on. Your prayers, calls, cards, flowers and memorials were meant a lot to us. How great it is to belong to a loving church. Thank you all for caring. George, Deb, Bryan and Jason Volz
July 27 & 28, 2002 Saturday night service 31 Sunday 8:30 service 135 Sunday 9:45 service 141 Sunday 11:00 service 174 TOTAL 481 Sunday School 07-28-2002 Nursery 03 Children (2-yrs-old-5thgrade) 26 6th grade-High School 02 (Ten) Adult Classes 104 Teachers 12 TOTAL 147 August 3 & 4, 2002 Saturday night service 15 Sunday 8:30 service 141 Sunday 9:45 service 168 Sunday 11:00 service 161 TOTAL 485 Sunday School 08-04-2002 Nursery 08 Children (2-yrs-old-5thgrade) 25 6th grade-High School 00 (Ten) Adult Classes 95 Teachers 09 TOTAL 137
Note: This corner is being designated the AMEN corner for "an audible alert that something special was (is) being done." *In Memory of Maurice Holt, 1907-1997
 Promotion
Sunday will be held August 18th at the 9:45 service. Children who
will be in Third Grade this year will receive bibles from the Church at this
service. All Sunday School classes will be promoted to their new classes at this
service. Parents should take their children to their old classroom and their
teachers will take them to the Sanctuary.
Chancel Choir will resume their practices on Wednesday, August 28th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Choir Room. Everyone who is interested in singing is invited. We will have an "open house" so everyone can meet, and we will be practicing some patriotic songs to sing for the Worship in the Park. Please join us to see what choir is all about!
Pumpkin Patch Preschool is looking for a motivated person to be the assistant preschool teacher. This is about 25 hours per week and follows the elementary school calendar. Please apply by calling Lori or Regan at 237-4220.
SOCIABLE SENIORS UPCOMING EVENTS August 31st—Callaway Kite Flight. We will leave the north parking lot of the Church at 9:00 a.m. and return at around 5:30 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and an umbrella. We will have lunch (on your own) on the grounds. Concessions are available. Cost is $2.00. Please register by August 27th with Merv Roeder at 237-5486.
Attention: Parents of College Students! Please call the Church office with your college student’s address. The Higher Education Committee has mailings planned during the year, and we send a condensed version of the newsletter, called the Spirelight, to college students. Please call the church office at 237-3158 with your student’s information so that we may keep in touch with them. Thank you!
ARE YOU MISSING A DISH? Several people have pans and containers in Fellowship Hall. These were left after furnishing food for funerals. If you have a container, please check under the counter next to the dishwasher. Thank you!
Ushers for August
GREETERS FOR AUGUST August 18— Vernice Smith, Mike & Michele Baxter, Russ & Corinne HoweAugust 25—Loyd & Peggy Howsden, Rod & Janna Wiederspan, Gene & Tammy Tillotson
Look What The Education Committee Has Been Doing! We had two excellent sessions of VBS this Summer, with between 120-130 children. The Health and Wellness Committee gave us a safety tip each day, we made and ate bug-related snacks, learned some rousing songs, enjoyed games and sports, saw Bible re-enactments, watched a video, and best of all, we learned more about God’s love while we were having fun. Promotion Sunday will be celebrated on August 18th, at the 9:45 service. Attendance awards will be presented and 3rd Grade Bibles will be given to those going into 3rd Grade this year. 3rd Graders not present on August 18th will receive their Bibles on the following Sunday, August 25th. Gina Crosby said she would round up fabric and a willing group to make Bible covers. Stand by for her phone call! For the upcoming semester, we need: · More Sunday SchoolTeachers · A teacher for the Challengers Class to teach with Virginia Britton· Extra music teachers· Someone with leadership skills to lead TLC, the Wednesday afternoon program for children from Kindergarten through 5th Grade· Youth/adults to help the Puppeteers with stage management, lighting, etc.
Gina Crosby and Connie Kniep have come up with a format for our Christmas Celebration!! Details to follow.
The Fall Curriculum for children’s Sunday School classes is here. If you know you are going to teach, please contact Valerie to pick up your books. We hope you all had a good Summer and are rested and ready for the fall. Valerie
Family Friends Neighbors Co-workers DIVORCE
Someone You Know Is Hurting DIVORCECARE SESSION TO BEGIN It’s hard to know how to help someone who is going through a divorce. It takes a long time and a lot of work to heal the pain that comes with the breakup of a marriage. DivorceCare is a special weekly seminar and support group just for people who are separated or divorced. If you know someone going through a divorce, make sure they know about DivorceCare. It might just be the best thing you could do to help. A new session of DivorceCare will begin on Monday, September 9, 2002. The group meets in the Seekers Room of First United Methodist Church, 4500 Linden Drive from 7:00-8:30 p.m. every Monday evening for 13 weeks. Charge for the class is $15.00. Free Child Care is provided. For more information, please call Ken and Mary George at 237-1956.
Food Pantry items for the Jubilee Center may be brought at any time and placed in the shopping cart in Fellowship Hall. Please bring non-perishable food items or paper items, such as tissues, toilet paper, or women’s sanitary items, as these items cannot be purchased with food stamps. THANK YOU!!
Addresses needed: We have had mail returned for the following persons and are in need of addresses for them. Please call the Church office at 237-3158 if you have a new address for: Patricia Buehler Barbara Hansen Greg Johnson Teena Seybold
Confirmation pictures and Cradle Roll pictures are in the office to be picked up. If you purchased a Confirmation picture or provided pictures for the Cradle Roll graduation, please pick them up in the Church office between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. We will not be mailing the photos. Thank you!
Thank you to our radio sponsors for their generosity this year! We have all the sponsors needed for 2002! We do not know what the price for next year’s broadcast will be, but we already have several dates that have been spoken for. Look ahead on your 2003 calendar. Is there a special event, such as an anniversary or birthday that you would like to recognize? If so, please call Sharron Altmaier at 234-2163 to save your spot on 2003 list. We have no way of knowing how many people we reach each Sunday, but we have heard from many people who listen to the radio each Sunday because they are unable to attend worship services. This is a wonderful ministry, especially to those people who are homebound for one reason or another. If you listen to the radio regularly and would like a bulletin mailed to you, please call the Church office. |
