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May 25, 2006
Pentecost Special Offering
“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together
in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like
the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. …And the Lord added to their
number day by day those who were being saved.” Acts 2:1-2,
47b (NRSV)
Gifts made through the Pentecost Offering directly support
new Disciples faith communities, providing for assessments,
training, coaching, project funding, congregational
materials and extensive assistance that help new
congregations at the beginning of their life cycle.
The Pentecost Offering directly supports the development of
new churches all across North America and in every region.
Half of the offering remains in the region from which it
originates, usually going directly to new church plants.
The remaining half supports the work of this movement
across the life of the church, with training, coaching and
other church-wide efforts to empower new churches. Like the
early church, God calls us to respond faithfully to those
who seek. Today’s Disciples are called to support the new
church movement with new levels of commitment and
enthusiasm! We act in faith…and God adds the growth.
For more information, log on to:
www.newchurchministry.org.
The Pentecost Special Offering will be received at First
Christian Church on Sunday, May 28th. Enclosed is the
envelope for this offering. Please be praying about how God
would have you respond to this giving opportunity.
Offering Envelopes
Envelopes for the new church year are available for those
of you who like to use the dated offering envelopes for
your weekly offerings. You can pick them up in the narthex
of the church or on the table at the 23rd ave. entrance
The new Secret Place devotional booklets are now available.
They are on the second floor of the church and in the
Merritt House. Please leave $1.00 for the booklet when you
pick one up.The new Secret Place devotional booklets are
now available. They are on the second floor of the church
and in the Merritt House. Please leave $1.00 for the
booklet when you pick one up.The new Secret Place
devotional booklets are now available. They are on the
second floor of the church and in the Merritt House. Please
leave $1.00 for the booklet when you pick one up.The new
Secret Place devotional booklets are now available. They
are on the second floor of the church and in the Merritt
House. Please leave $1.00 for the booklet when you pick one
up.
Refuge Recovery
Sunday afternoon from 3 P.M.-4 P.M.
In the Merritt House
Beth Moore Bible Study
Tuesdays at 10 A.M.
in the
Fellowship Hall
FCC Relay for Life Team Update
There will be a final team meeting Sunday, May 28th at 5
P.M. in the Merritt House as we make final preparations for
the Relay for Life event Friday, June 9th. All team members
and anyone who can participate please join in. Remember we
are all one team!
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!
Here’s your chance to win a Charlie Busler original
painting entitled “Katrina’s Magnolia.” This is a custom
framed magnificent rendering on a 24” x 48” canvas. Tickets
are $5.00 each, available from team members and the church
office.
Your help in selling tickets and t-shirts is very much
needed and appreciated. You can still pick up tickets to
sell at the church office, but we need all tickets and
money turned in by Friday, June 2nd.
NEW RELAY-FOR-LIFE T-SHIRTS ARE IN
Our cool FCC t-shirts, with our team theme “Walking for a
cure leads to life” are available now. All adult and youth
sizes are $18 each and can be purchased from the church
office or in the narthex after church on Sunday.
Hats, Hats, Hats
Those of you ladies who were able to wear a hat last
Sunday, Barbara Bosarge, Eleanor Hinson, Mickey Shaw, Lynn
Stewart, Barbara Royal and Suzie Sulkowski, were the ones
that I saw. Thank You!! If there is anyone that I missed,
please let me know.
I have always enjoyed seeing ladies in hats, and it happens
soooo seldom anymore. Just know this, anytime you wear a
hat to church, I am going to enjoy it. You know what?
Others do too. I know that for a fact.
All of this was simply a selfish, out loud, expression of
who I am. There are ideas that I would like to have talked
about regarding the Hats, but that didn’t seem quite
appropriate at the time. Carol thought I was going to use
hats as a part of the Sermon. As you discovered, that was
not the case.
Thanks for the Fun
Lucian
The flowers for Sunday are given to the glory of God and in
honor of the Church staff by the Bethany Sunday school
class.
Serving Sunday, May 28th
At the Table: Elder Robin Johnson and Elder Joe Johnson
Serving communion and collecting the offering: Bo Bosarge,
David Nettles, Kyle Temple, Eleanor Hinson, Rick Courtney,
Lynn Stewart, Sarai Ann Webb, Fred Feinstein
Lector: Charlie Busler
Acolyte: Savanna Boyd
No Youth Groups
In Our Prayers
Prayer concerns: Becky McDade; Nat Washburn, friend of
Sonny & Gail Gilmore; Bobby Merritt, son of Lillian
Merritt, brother of Myra Mabry and Sally Brown; Cliff
Walker; Robert Van Morrison, friend of Preston Davison;
Father Elvin Sunds, friend of Sandra Newell; Charlie
Harper, friend of Billy Moore; Rhonda Hawkins, friend of
the McDonald family; Lynn Bowers, friend of Maxine
Sinclair; Bill Hudson, father of Rev. Henry Hudson; Abby
McCardle; Dylan, 6 year old grandson of Clint Fletcher; Ira
Jack Covert, friend of Olivia Wurner; Brendon Penny, great
grandson of Mike and Wanda Sullivan; Larry Williams; Louise
Mabry, mother of Joe Mabry; Gloria Hughes and family,
friends of the Buslers and the Bosarges; Jennifer Parsons,
friend of the Thomas Webb family; Heather Bean, friend of
Buddy & Cindy Bennett; Jessie Feazell, friend of Cathy
Feinstein;; Esma Canfield , mother of Sarai Ann Webb; Ford
Walker, son of Cliff & Martha Walker; Cole Bacot, nephew of
Kerby & Jennifer McDonald; Marie Harrington; Buddy
Stephens, friend of Jeff Holloway; Ruby Easter, friend of
Ruth Fletcher; Lynn Bowers, friend of Penny Purnell; Leon
Nason, friend of the Bennett family; Alan Pankiewicz,
brother of David Pankiewicz; Gilbert Shank, son of Jack
Shank; Pat Barber; Lisa Grantham, friend of Barbara Royal;
Patti Bresler, cousin-in-law to Michael Longmeier; Bill
Doughty, father of Jennifer McDonald; Oscar Burt Sr.,
father of Von Burt; Sal Macaluso, nephew of Barbara
Bosarge; W.M. Gray, father of Eleanor Umphlett; Martha
Miller, mother of Scott Morgan; Glenn Ball; Harold
Harrington; Midge Meeker, aunt of Patti Pankiewicz; Mary
Perkins, grandmother of Jason Briggs; Karen Strader, friend
of Barbara Bosarge; Pansy Light; Ellen Little, friend of
Pastor Tom; Bebe Freeman, friend of the McDonald family
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