If you do not have a church family I invite you to join us on Sunday morning starting at 9:30am for worship and 10:30am for Sunday school in Kalvesta or 10:00am for Sunday school and 11:00am for worship at the Cimarron church. You are welcome here.
It’s one of the ways we seek to be faithful here in the churches where you are one of the family. Here, at the “Crossing,” where life and faith meet and there is always an open door, a comfortable seat, and a place at the table.
Pastor: Kent Little
Cimarron UMC: 620-855-3363
Parsonage: 620-855-3842
Cell Phone: 620-855-0448
Church Office Fax: 620-855-3092
cimumc@ucom.net
Pastor's Blog: http://littlerev.wordpress.com/
Web page: http:www.gbgm-umc.org/cimkalumc
From the Pastor The coming of November always turns our thoughts to the
Holiday Season and in particular Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful
for here in our corner of the world, here in our churches.
As I ponder thanksgiving and thankfulness I wonder what to say
that has not already been said time and time again. We are called in our scriptures
to be thankful in all things. In other words, no matter how hard things get
we are encouraged to look for, seek out, and be mindful of even the smallest
thing that might cause us to be thankful.
So today, this month I encourage us to not only be thankful for
the big things, the life changing events and blessings of our lives, but the
little things that sometimes go unnoticed. Take a moment the next time you
see a sunrise or sunset to say thanks. Take a moment the next time you hear
a child or see a smile to say thanks. Take a moment the next time you see a
flower pop up in an unlikely place, or little ones playing in the yard, or
your dog or cat or favorite pet who loves you unconditionally to say thanks.
Take a moment the next time you feel the warmth of the sun on your face or
the breeze through your hair, or the turning leaves on the tree to say thanks.
German theologian, philosopher and mystic Meister
Eckhart (1260-1328 c.e.) spoke to this notion of thanks in a profound and meaningful
way when he said, “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank
you,’ that would suffice.” Take a moment this month to call a long lost friend
or family member just to say, “Thanks.” It is good for our souls.
I pray your November and Thanksgiving is filled to the brim with
thankfulness and thanksgiving. That is the word from the place where you are
one of the family. Where there is always an open door, a comfortable seat,
and a place at the table. A place where you are never alone, a place to call
home.
Thankfully yours,
Pastor Kent
Special Dates
Daylight-Saving Time ends November 1, 2009
Veterans Day, November 11, 2009
Pheasant Hunter's Dinner November 14, 2009 at Cimarron and Kalvest United
Methodist Churches server from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009
First Sunday of Advent November 29, 2009. hanging of the greens at 5:00
pm