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Pastor's Weekly Message  

Dear Members and Friends of Hope

 

Thank you for you attention to worship during this busy summer season.  Remember our Thursday evening worship at 7:00 p.m.   It may work out better for you some weeks.  We at Hope are trying to meet your schedules and needs.  Please let us know how we are doing.

The 7th Annual Hispanic Ministry’s Clothing and Backpack give-away is quickly approaching.  Please drop off your new or gently-used clothing and backpacks at Hope by August 1st.  If you can help set up or assist with the give-away, please contact Beth Agnew at 245-0371.

It’s summer, and time for our annual Hope UMC Tom Parks Memorial Golf Tournament!!  The ability to golf is nice but not required, while the ability to have fun is both nice and required!!  The tournament will be held on Sunday 8/10/08 at Eagle Rock Golf Course.  We use a scramble format with teams of four golfers.  This is an 18 hole event with the first tee time at 12:00 PM.  Fees are $40 per golfer with a cart and $29 per golfer for walkers; these fees are paid directly to Eagle Rock when you sign in to play on 8/10.  In addition, all golfers pay $10 for the HUMC Tom Parks landscaping fund.  If you have preferred playing partners please indicate your preference when you sign up.  There is a post-tournament potluck dinner (no further guidance is required for this part - we all know how a classic United Methodist potluck works!!) at the Church starting at 6:00 PM.  Non-golfers will be afforded a freewill opportunity to add to Tom's landscaping fund at the dinner.  Everyone is welcome at the potluck, so even if you don't golf please join us for some great fun, food, and fellowship in the grandest United Methodist tradition.  Anyone and everyone is welcome at the golf tournament and the potluck - affiliation with or membership in HUMC is NOT required.  If you have friends who would like to participate in either or both parts, please invite them.  If you know friends of the Parks family who would like to honor Tom's memory by playing golf or sharing some potluck fellowship, please invite them.  Please indicate your wish to participate by e-mail or phone call to the church - there is also a sign up sheet that will be at the church between now and the tournament.  Please call John Felton at 259-7801 with any questions.

Also a reminder:  The deadline for the August newsletter is noon on 7/24.

Enjoy your summer.  It is passing quickly.  Soon school will start and we will be back to our full schedule (I don’t want it to sneak up on you!).

See you in worship!

Pastor Gary

Once an acorn fell in a forest glade and God's rain and warm earth nurtured it. Over years, it was a sapling, then a sturdy young tree, and finally a magnificent oak.
Just shows you what a nut can do, with a little time and a little help.

 

Hope United Methodist Church
244 Wicks Lane (Heights) Billings Montana 59105
(406)259-HOPE (4673) hopeumc@imt.net