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October 12, 2006
Parson’s Page
Dear FCC Family,
This Sunday you are invited around the MONOPOLY
board! Pick your monopoly piece, seek your properties, and
let's go around the board together with Jesus! It will be a
refreshing sermon after the last few messages that have
been heavy I know! Come to Sunday School at 9:30am for
donuts and coffee and then a devotional time at 9:45am in
the Fellowship Hall. Then enjoy your SS class and discover
the joys of STUDY!
Have you signed up yet for the Church RETREAT at
Pinelake Camp in West Meridian? Led by the CMF (Marcus
Willis), we will have family activities including
basketball, football, paddleboating, canoeing, fishing,
camping, sunset reflections, smores, and a Sunday morning
communion service by the lake! Sign up in the FELLOWSHIP
HALL this Sunday!
FCC has some great news! The Health Department
building and LEMA offices next door are now owned by FCC!
We have expanded our property for future mission in our
community. The Board has already voted to purchase the
building if available for $190,000 thanks to your faithful
and fruitful stewardship through the years! A special thank
you to the Long Range Planning Teams led by BB Archer and
Andrew Covington!
See you at the Table.
Selah.
Parson
Serving Sunday, October 15th
At the Table: Elder B.B. Archer and Elder Robin Johnson
Serving communion and collecting the offering: Sally
Archer, Will Ballou, Jason Briggs, Christy Brown, Tommy
Eldridge, Rick Justice, John Mayfield
Lector: Libby Bounds
Acolyte: Melissa Moore
CYF and Chi-Rho meet at the home of David & Mary Gilmore.
Welcome Gerald and Sandy Clearman
Sunday we welcomed another new family into our
congregation. Gerald and Sandy Clearman have recently moved
back here from California where Gerald was a steel mill
engineer and Sandy was a tutor/teacher. They are both
retired now.
While in California the Clearmans attended the First
Congregational Church of San Bernardino, CA where Gerald
served as Moderator.
Gerald and Sandy make their home at 11253 Townsend Byrd
Road in Collinsville. Their phone number is 601-737-5824
Outreach Team Request
The Outreach Mission Team is supplying snacks for the Boys
and Girls Club again this year. We are asking the entire
church for help in this project. We need snacks, individual
packages of cookies, nabs, crackers, etc. or if you would
like to purchase an entire box of individually wrapped
goodies, that would be greatly appreciated. These will be
collected on the third Sunday of each month so we can get
them delivered to the Boys and Girls Club on the first
Tuesday of each month.
Boxes will be available at all Church entrances this Sunday
for you to drop off your snacks. Thank you for helping in
this worthwhile project.
The annual retreat and picnic at Pine Lake Fellowship camp
will be October 21-22. There will be fishing,
paddle-boating, football, volleyball, hiking and having
great fellowship. Sunday evening we will have our annual
fish fry.
The cost will be $6.50 per day or $10 if you stay overnight
(this is per person).
There is a sign up sheet in the Fellowship Hall.
ATTENTION!! Choir news
The choir will be starting rehearsal for the Christmas
cantata, which will be performed on December 17th. If you
would like to sing in this production please come to choir
practice at 9 A.M. on Sunday mornings.
The cantata will include chimes this year. If anyone is
interested in playing them, please contact Wynne a.s.a.p.
Ability to read notes is preferred, but not necessary.
For those of you with young children, the church is going
to begin providing a babysitter during choir practice.
Hattie Altman, one of the regular helpers, will be coming
in at 9 A.M on Sunday mornings for this purpose.
The Flowers at the baptistry are given to the glory of God
and in loving memory of Marjorie Potter Griffin by the
Marjorie Griffin Circle.
Halloween Carnival
October 29th
5-7 P.M.
Needed: donations of prizes and candy,
Cakes and cookies for the cake walk
The Youth team is also asking for volunteers to help work
some of the games. You will not have to work all night.
They are going to schedule shifts. Please contact Bill
Autry or Genie Feltenstein if you are willing to assist in
this worthwhile cause.
Proceeds from the carnival benefit the Youth Mission Fund.
In Our Prayers
Prayer concerns: The Holloway Family; The Feltenstein
Family; Frances Porter, friend of Ruth Fletcher; Ray
McDade; William M. Gray, father of Eleanor Umphlett; Denise
Armstrong; William Kalinowski, friend of Jack Shank; Dr.
David W. Griffin, brother of Gail Gilmore; Kenneth Davis,
friend of Dr. W.M. (Sonny) Gilmore; Renee Ivey, daughter of
Bo and Barbara Bosarge; Conner Harwell, father-in-law of
Steve Dennis; Joe Boswell; Sara Meyer, mother of Lee
Meyer; Laura Dement, friend of Jennifer McDonald; Ryan
Nance, son of Randy and Nancy Nance; Joe Skinner; Randolph
Smith; Rick, Claire and Katie Hassell, friends of Susie
Morgan; Robin Davis; Kenneth Winter, nephew of Madge
Glenn/cousin of Rose Justice; 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; 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; Gloria Hughes and family, friends of the
Buslers and the Bosarges; Heather Bean, friend of Buddy &
Cindy Bennett; Ford Walker, son of Cliff & Martha Walker;
Cole Bacot, nephew of Kerby & Jennifer McDonald; Marie
Harrington; 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
October 9th Weekly Offerings $6,583
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