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Sunday Morning Worship: 8:15 AM & 10:45 AM
Apple Fest will be October 4th
Sloppy Joe’s will be made Thursday, October 2nd around
9:00 am under Betty Brown’s supervision. Pies will be
made Friday, October 3rd around 9:00 am with Janet Cole
in charge. We will need peelers, crust makers etc. You
will want to be here just to bask in the aroma, Mmmmm!
Any ’mistakes’ must be eaten before leaving the
premises, Darn! If you wish to donate toward the cost of
supplies or supplies themselves we still need 20 lbs of
ground
Sonny Days
God is good! Our three year old class is full with nine
children coming two days a week. They have a new teacher
this year, Valerie Kucenski. If you were to stop in the
church on a Monday or Wednesday, you will meet Val.
Another new face to our preschool is Tammy McConnell,
she was a substitute for us last year and this year is
teaching one of the pre-k classes. Returning from
previous years, is Tammy Kuntz, pre-K teacher, and Dina
Kirkwood, our floating aide. I handle administrative
duties as well as a part-time aide in the three year old
classroom.
Thank you for praying for Sonny Days and please continue
to keep the children and the staff in your prayers. Look
for October preschool news and events in the November
newsletter. -Andrea Beck-DePue
Nursery News
We are excited about the nursery coming back to FUM!
A crib has been donated that meets safety standards,
(Thank you, Thank you!) but we are in need of a new crib
mattress. The changing station is already set up in the
back corner of the large preschool room (with the
castle). If you would like to serve by babysitting
during the worship services, there is a pink sign-up
sheet right outside the nursery door. Please sign your
name and phone number on any date you choose. You will
need to arrive in the Nursery 10 minutes before service
time. If there are no babies by 20 minutes into the
service you may go to the sanctuary and sit in the back,
but please be alert to parents taking their children to
the back or out of the sanctuary so that you are
standing by to help them. Please see Andrea Beck-DePue
or Suzanne Miller for more information.
Birthdays
1 Edwin Wiles
3 Noah Gaus
3 Kim Leitzel
3 Edye Stewart
4 Madelyn Lee
5 Nate Cole
5 Boots Crawford
5 John Fetzer
7 Don Bailey
Anniversaries
8 Dave & Patti Maholtz
18 Rev Jim & Suzanne Miller
23 Dave & Eve Penhollow
11 Jenna Yoder
11 Janet Shobert
12 Millie Adcock
12 Sarah Cole
14 Joann Yohe
15 Nancy Sheesley
15 Libby Shindledecker
18 Margaret Kessler
19 Jo Caylor
20 Barb Woods
21 Mary Adamson
Compliments of the Book Worm...
White Christmas Pie By: Wanda E Brunstetter
Abandoned by his father, Will Henderson was raised by
an Amish couple. Now he's about to marry Karen Yoder but
is having second thoughts. Can Will overcome the
bitterness of his past in order to secure his future?
Karen cannot break through the barrier her fiance has
suddenly constructed around his heart. When she seeks
the advice of an old boyfriend, Will begins to see
green. Has he already lost his chance for happiness?
When an accident threatens Will's life, the strength of
blood ties is tested. Will a recipe for White
Heaven By: Randy Alcorn
As
the years pass and we watch more and more of our family,
friends and mentors pass away, it is only natural to ask
questions about heaven. However, our understanding of
heaven is often limited to a few half-forgotten Sunday
school lessons and the insubstantial images provided by
popular movies and T.V. Fortunately, in Heaven Randy
Alcorn provides us with a thoroughly researched and
biblically definitive description of heaven. As Alcorn
addresses our most serious questions about heaven,
including the nature of judgment, and answers a few of
our less serious questions as well, including the
accessibility of cafe mochas the sweet by and by, we
will develop a deeper understanding of our eternal
destination and will find the courage to strive for
heaven while we're living on earth.
Blessings, Sommerfeld Trilogy Series #3 By: Kim Vogel
Sawyer
Trina Muller has always had a passion for healing
abandoned and injured animals. Her parents encourage
this tenderness towards God's creatures until Trina
confesses her dream of going to veterinary college. Why
can't she accept that God's will is for her to be a wife
and mother? Graham Ortmann loves Trina, but how can he
possibly marry someone who is determined to go against
the dictates of the Old Order Mennonite fellowship?
Trina can never be happy if she is outside of God's will
for her life. But which life will she choose-one with
Graham or one in pursuit of her heart's calling?
The Longing, Courtship of Nellie Fisher Series #3 By:
Beverly Lewis
Although she still prays for Caleb, Nellie Mae Fisher
has broken up with her beau. Now, her heart's greatest
longing is for more knowledge of the Lord. Caleb yearns
for freedom, as his plans to leave Honeybrook have been
thwarted. He must stay on as caretaker for his father,
who was crippled in a wintertime accident. He also longs
for Nellie Mae, still hoping that she will return to
the Old Order, and to him.
All Things
New October Youth News:
Are you confused about how to share the gospel message?
Better yet, are you confused about the gospel message?
We at ATN have teamed up with Dare 2 Share ministries to
take the youth group on ‚The Gospel Journey‛. What is
the GOSPEL Journey you ask?
Sharing the gospel with someone else is like taking them
on a journey with six stops along the way. The
evangelist becomes a guide of sorts who brings their
fellow sojourners to six stops along the way to pause
and ponder the landscape of the story of the Bible, the
gospel message. This journey begins in Genesis chapter
one with the creation of humanity and concludes with the
last chapter of the Bible, Revelation chapter twenty
two. In between there are twists and turns, break ups
and make ups, mystery and intrigue but the driving
message of the plot is that from the ashes of sin comes
the redemption of mankind through the death of Christ
and His resurrection from the dead.
In many ways this journey is like a fairy tale that just
happens to be true. It could begin "Once upon a time"
and conclude "and they lived happily ever after." This
journey through the storyline of the Bible is filled
with mankind's weak attempts at reconciliation toward a
God whose heart humanity had broken. Much of the Old
Testament is filled with examples of how sinful humanity
attempted to gain God's acceptance through good deeds
(Cain and his vegetables), obedience to God's command-ments
and a seemingly endless array of blood sacrifices. But
all of these failed attempts prepared the way for the
coming of Christ and the hope that He offered by His
once and for all sacrifice on the cross.
The irreducible minimum of the gospel message can be
communicated in an acrostic with six letters in it that
happen to spell out the word "gospel".
God created us to be with him. (Genesis 1-2)
Our sin separated us from God. (Genesis 3)
Sins cannot be removed by good deeds. (Genesis 4 -
Malachi 4)
Other plans for October
October 4, 4-7 pm is Apple Fest. Contact Bill Brown for
your ticket or if you can help in any way.
On 19th Thursday, October 23 at 7pm the youth group will
show a Christian film from John Hagaii ministries called
"Escape from Hell" in the church
sanctuary. (No school on Friday).
Wednesday, October 29 ATN will have a Harvest Party.
You may dress up for the ocassion. (Please dress
appropriately...no scarey costumes).
Upcoming Youth Events . . .
December
-Movie Night showing "MOST"
-Christmas Party
-Peanut brittle delivered (Dec. 7)
January
-Prepare for Spark
-Begin collecting second hand prom gowns
for fundraiser (to support charity)
German Methodist Brass Band Concert! Wednesday,
October 1, 2008 at 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church, 504 Jackson Street,
Reynoldsville, PA.
The twenty piece touring band is a music ministry of
the Eastern German Conference. German musical groups are
known for their precision, versatility, and joy in
sharing in their faith. The brass band’s program will
include sacred, popular, classic, and other musical
genres. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy and
evening of special music.
For more information: Judy Reiter, First UMC:
Reynoldsville, 653-8593.
Vivian Brown Class News…..
On September 28, 2008 we had our first monthly
meeting in the church social hall. It was a tureen lunch
and the food was great. It was previously stated we
would go to the home of Betty Brown for a picnic, but
changed our plans because we were wrapping shoe boxes
for Samaritans Purse and it seemed easier at the church.
Please feel free to pick up a wrapped box or 2 or 3 to
fill up and return to the church by the beginning of
November. It’s for an excellent cause as you know when
you see pictures of those little kids opening up their
Christmas boxes. Please help us make this a successful
project FUMC.
Our next meeting will be at the home of Rheva Chapman
at Narrows Creek. Our program will be presented by Erin
Shaffer and it is about their missionary group, ‘Won by
One’. We welcome guests anytime at our monthly meetings
and our Sunday School Class and hope you will become
regular members. Our Sunday School Class meets every
Sunday at 9:30 am in the church parlor and our monthly
meetings are held on the fourth Monday of every month at
Noon in the church social hall.
Lord Prop Us Up!
I think of the old deacon who always prayed, 'Lord,
prop us up on our leanin' side.
After hearing him pray that prayer many times,
someone asked him why he prayed it so fervently.
He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this...I
got an old barn out back. It's been there a long time;
it's withstood a lot of weather; it's gone through a lot
of storms, and it's stood for many years. It's still
standing. But one day I noticed it was leaning to one
side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and
propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was
like that old barn. I've been around a long time. I've
withstood a lot of life's storms. I've withstood a lot
of bad weather in life, I've withstood a lot of hard
times, and I'm still standing too. But I find myself
leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask
the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, 'cause I
figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.
Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning
toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward
cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that we
shouldn't. So we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our
leaning side, so we will stand straight and tall
again, to glorify the Lord.''
Nursery Attendants
5 8:15 Vi Davis ~ 10:45 Barb Brown
12 8:15 (no volunteer) ~ 10:45 Joyce Beck
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