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WELCOME TO
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF JACKSONVILLE |
August 3, 2008
8:30 and 10:50 Traditional - located in the sanctuary
8:30 New Community - located in the McWhorter Activity Center
8:30 New Community & 10:50 Traditional
John Simmons
Scripture: I Corinthians 11:23-32Sermon: The "Holy" in Holy Communion
8:30 Traditional
Ted Anderson
Scripture: John 4:29
Sermon: Come See a Man
VISIT THE PRAYER GARDEN
See message below!
CROSSWALK WILL RESUME
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3!!!
YOUTH MISSION WEEK REFLECTIONS
See message below!
BACK TO SCHOOL RETREAT
Save the date for our back to school retreat on August 1-3! More details to follow soon!
NEW FROM THE MISSIONS COMMITTEEVIM SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION http://www.jaxfumc.org/pmimages/Mission_Scholarship_Application[1].pdf
We, each individual who is a member of the community of faith, are called to be servants of Christ. Each of us are given talents and abilities the church needs and can use to grow the kingdom of God. Dr. David Cunningham has been blessed with the talent and gift of being a Christian Counselor. David would like to offer that gift to our church family. I personally want to thank David for answering the call to be a servant through offering his service.
COUNSELING SERVICE AVAILABLE
Dr. David Cunningham, Licensed Professional Counselor, will be offering free short-term services for members of our church family every Monday afternoon from 3 to 5. Services will include personal, couples, and family counseling or maybe just to recharge your life. All calls, contacts, and direct services will be stricly confidential and will fall under Alabama State licensure guidelines. Walk-ins are welcome, but to insure some time, please call David at 282-8333 for an appointment.
MESSAGE OF HOPE
If you are a subscriber of Guideposts or Angels on Earth magazines, why not share these stories of hope with the clients served by JCOC? Just turn in old copies of these magazines (with address cut off or marked through) to the church office. JCOC will include a magazine with each bag of groceries distributed. Thank you for sharing God's message of hope with others.
FREE RESPITE CARE SATURDAY!
For primary caregivers of adult loved ones with a disability or chronic illness.
THE FOURTH SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH
2:00-5:00 p.m. in the MAC
19 years and older. Applications available on site
Caregivers may leave the church or stay to participate in activities for caregivers.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Stan Englehart
Nancy Simmons
Marion McCool
Gene and Janice Howard
We welcome each of them to our church family!
JCOC NEEDS
Cake mix, frosting, kids cereal, crackers, cookies
Check out the Committees Pages for Information
Regarding Committees Chairpeople
Upcoming Events & Meetings
Check the Online Church Calendar for more detail
July 20 - Trustees Meeting 2:30 p.m.
July 20 - Finance Committee Meeting - 5:00 p.m.
August 10 - Emmaus Gathering - 6:00 p.m.
Our church is handicapped accessible. We have parking available in front of the church (enter using the ramp in the front of the sanctuary), the side parking lot (enter through the lobby of the McWhorter Activity Center or the front office entrance) and the rear parking lot (enter throught the door under the portico).
*Members, thank you for leaving the handicap parking spaces available for our members and visitors with special needs. *We also have several wheel chairs available. A motorized wheelchair is located in the Pathfinders/JOY classroom and three standard wheelchairs in the front stairway area. Also, if you are able to use the stairs, please do so instead of using the elevator--this saves wear and tear on the elevator and makes it available for those who truly need its service.
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SERVICE TIMES |
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SUNDAY
Traditional
8:30 and 10:50 in Sanctuary
Contemporary
8:30 in McWhorter Activity Center
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
Crosswalk Academy (3:30-4:30)
Crosswalk Kids (4:30-5:30)
Crosswalk Cafe (5:30-6:00)
Crosswalk Choir & Worship Arts (6:00-7:00)
Adult Bible Study - 6:00 p.m.
Chancel Choir Rehearsal - 7:00 p.m.
Praise Team Rehearsal - 7:00 p.m.
CHURCH OFFICE HOURS:
8am-4:30 pm ~ Monday-Thursday
8 am - noon ~ Friday
IN MINISTRY THIS WEEK
Pastor on Call - Ted Anderson
Lay Leader
8:30 - Jan Evans
8:30 NC - Pat Borstorff
10:50 - David Dempsey
Acolytes
8:30 - TBA
10:50 - TBA
Nursery Care Team:
8:30 - Nursery Staff
10:50 - Nursery Staff
Visitation Teams:
Mike & Janet Hindman
Ushers:
8:30 - Bruce & Evonne Cunningham
10:50 - Jim Howard, Carolyn Kellogg
Ken & Paula Hoffman
Newsletter Helpers:
Betty Bishop
Marcelline Barry
Paula Hoffman
Carolyn Lynch
Andrea MacTaggart
Martha Tredaway
Peggy Willman
FC Collection Volunteers:
8:30 - Gene Rhodes
New Community - Ronnie Clayton
10:50 - Floyd Kirby
NOTE:
All entries for the printed
newsletter must be in to
the office no later than
11:00 a.m.
Wednesday mornings!
YOUR STAFF
Pastors
John Simmons, Pastor
Ted Anderson, Associate Pastor
Youth Ministry Director
Rachael Brock
Children's Ministry Director
Stacey Harris
JOY Director
Mary Luallen
Chancel Choir Director
Dan Marsengill
Praise Team Director
Steve Boullemet
Children's Choir Directors
Susie Dempsey
David Dempsey
Pianist
Judy Anderson
Organist
Jan Rhodes
Administrator
Earl Lockette
Secretary
Amy Travis
Kids 1st Director
Kim Knott
Campus Minister
Jay Robinson
Custodian
Melissa Small
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CHURCH NEWS |
CHURCH DIRECTORY
| Our church will be producing a new pictorial directory through Olan Mills. Please plan to have your picture taken. Photography dates are August 18-19. Reserve you appointment time on or after July 27 at one of the sign-up locations throughout the church. Each family/household that comes for photography and portrait viewing at the church will receive a complimentary directory and 8x10 Custom Color Portrait. You will be able to view and select your portraits electronically from a variety of poses. Additional Olan Mills portraits will be available for purchase. Your entire appointment should normally take less than one hour.
The photography dates for our pictorial directory are coming up. If you have not reserved a time to be photographed, be sure to do so today while there is still a good selection of appointments. Our goal is 100% participation. It just won't be complete without you! |
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RECYCLE THOSE USED CELL PHONES
| Please recycle your used cell phones to help Second Chance with their fundraising and emergency assistance. There is a special container beside their regular container for phones. Thank you for your help! |
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ICE CREAM DISCIPLES NEED YOU
| When was the last time you sang songs with a dozen or so troubled teenage girls, listened to their concerns, prayed with them and then served them ice cream? This is what the Ice Cream Disciples do on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. A group of us go to the Coosa Valley Youth Services Attention Home to share our faith through music, devotionals, prayer, fellowship and ice cream. The Ice Cream Disciples include: Ralph Drake, Chris Brightbill, Robin Hodges, Cathy Rose, Debbie Mosakowski, Ken Lege, and Bruce and Evonne Cunningham. We would love to have some new blood join us for this special time of sharing and receiving blessings. Watch for the date in our church neewsletter and join us. |
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DEVOTIONAL
| Acts 5:12-14 “And by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch. And none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly. And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women”
Biblical spirituality inspires acts of courage born of commitment to God.
Such courage does not call persons to do the impossible but faithfully and selflessly to do what they can when they could have chosen otherwise. Lent recalls the courage of Jesus who “set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51), in spite of understanding what awaited him there. Jesus’ example invokes courage today as you and I translate words of commitment to God into freely chosen actions that place others above self-and God above all, for trust of God opens the door to courage. –from Neglected Voices by John Indermark
Sometimes, God changes the way we feel about our circumstances. A physician describing the tendency of persons to come back again and again to a certain type of drug, said, “They are attracted to it because of its mood-altering capability. They become addicted to the mood alteration that they experience.” Pharmaceuticals are not the only elements capable of mood alterations. Alcohol can alter mood. Exercise can alter mood. Prayer can alter mood. In addition to encouraging people to stay away from mood-altering drugs, perhaps we should urge them to develop a positive addiction to the mood-altering states that come through exercise and prayer. People who regularly practice prayer are much less likely to need drugs. Their mood is already altered, and in a much healthier manner.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the great Riverside Church, New York City, was standing by the rail admiring Niagara Falls. The man next to him said, “You know, right there is the greatest unused power in all the world.”
Fosdick replied, “No, I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree with you. The greatest unused power in all the world is prayer!”
Embedded in Jesus’ parable about the friend who came knocking at the door at midnight to ask for three loaves of bread is a one-word prescription that unlocks the power of prayer. The word is PERSISTENCE (Luke 11:8). The rest of the N.T. expands on and illustrates that word in various ways. The Thessalonian writer, for example, puts it this way: “Pray without ceasing” (I Thess. 5:17). However we put it, the key to prayer is doing it. If prayer is the power, persistence is the prescription for its use. God already knows what we need, but he does not begin reorganizing our circumstances and the way we feel about our circumstances unless we persistently ask. When John Wesley said that God does nothing except by prayer, he did not mean that God is helpless without us. He meant that prayer, like conversation, requires two people. When one stops talking, the other stops listening. --From “How Not to Reinvent the Wheel(barrow)” by Herb Miller
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KIDS 1ST
| My name is Ethan and I have been going to Kids 1st for a long time. I am in elementary school now so I only come when "big" school is out. I like to come to Kids 1st because we do a lot of fun stuff. We go outside, have lunch together and go on good trips! I like everything mostly. The teachers are really nice. Ms.Kim is my favorite. We get to make crafts. I don't want to go to any other school than Kids 1st and of course my big school! I like shapel because we get to sing songs, say the pledges and meet new people sometimes. These are the words of one of our students...what a blessing to know we are affecting lives everyday in such a positive way! "Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fititng to prais him!" Psalm 147 |
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CHLDREN'S CHOIR NOTES
| Hope your summer has started off with lots of activities and some family travel. We are back from a worshop focused on children's choirs and the Worship and Music Conference at Montreat where we heard a large children's choir and were privileged to sing in a 600 voice choir for five days. Now I am in the process of planning to use some of these new ideas to enhance our own Crosswalk Choir program. Hope to see you at church soon!
Musically yours in Christ,
Susie Dempsey |
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