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Edom United Methodist Church

PASTOR’S CORNER

May 2008

It is hard to believe that it is May already! This is a busy time for a lot of people. Some of us are planning our family vacations. Teachers and students are both looking forward to the end of the school year. Seniors are looking forward to graduation. Some members are even getting ready to go to Annual Conference.

With all that is going on, I wanted to take this opportunity to give you a few highlights of what is coming up in the next month or so. First, beginning on May 18^th we will put the choir’s and preacher’s robes away for the summer and invite everyone to come as they are. Second, as we move into a more relaxed feel for our summer services, we are going to explore what it means to be the church by looking at the way that the early church developed as I present a sermon series out of the book of Acts. In addition to this sermon series beginning on Pentecost Sunday and the stowing away of our robes, we will celebrate Mothers in our community.

The youth group will be busy this May as well. Beginning in May, we will begin our work together preparing supplies to be shipped and then distributed in the Line Islands later this summer. We have committed to help two schools with Bibles and school supplies that are necessary for continuing education in the high schools. Additionally, on May 30^th and 31^st we will be having another garage sale! We have already accumulated several truck and trailer loads of furniture, knick knacks, and other assorted goodies to sell over that weekend. If you have something that you would like to donate or would be able to contribute your time that weekend to work with us, please contact Russell at the church.

If you were in service last weekend, then you were probably surprised by a challenge that I placed before the congregation. For those of you not in service, I want to let you in on the challenge. I have challenged the congregation to have 100 people in worship at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday June 8^th! Typically, on normal Sundays, our attendance hovers between 45 and 55 people. That means if everyone invites and brings one person with them on the 8^th of June, we will have no problem meeting this goal. As an incentive, I have asked Kerri Crocker to join us that morning and lead us in worship. Kerri is a gifted singer and songwriter who will be a guest at Annual Conference this year; and she has agreed to join us in Edom for worship on June 8^th. If ever there was a great time to invite a friend, family member, or neighbor to our church, this is it! This will take everyone’s effort to accomplish, but I am confident that with God’s help, the goal is well within reach!

Finally, the day before Kerri arrives we will be celebrating community as we gather at Edom’s Community Center for a Fun Day in the Park. We will have food, games, a slip and slide, a bounce house, and live music provided by Teen Mania’s School of Worship. Please tell all of your friends about this great weekend!

With school drawing to a close and the summer getting ready to begin, I could not be more excited about what the Spirit is doing in our midst and all of the great horizons that we have to cross in the months to come!

In Christ’s Service,

Russell Hall