Sunday:
8:10 - 8:25 -- AGAPE fellowship
8:00 a.m. Service broadcast
on WGRN 89.5 FM
8:30 a.m. Fresh Start
service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:10 - 10:25 AGAPE
fellowship
10:10 - 10:25 Fellowship
Coffee
10:30 a.m. Morning
Worship
3rd Monday of each month
--
Lydia Circle, 7 p.m.
Last Tuesday of each month:
The Children's Council will
now meet on Tuesday evenings instad of Sunday mornings. The meetings
will be the last Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. unless we elect to
skip a month if there is not much going on.
Wednesday:
1st Wednesday of
each month -- Susannah Circle, 9:30 a.m.
Every Wednesday --
2 p.m. Service Broadcast on Channel 3.
1st Wednesday of
each month -- Dorcas Circle, 2 p.m.
3:15
- 4:45 p.m. Jr. High Youth (grades 6 through 8)[Jr. High Youth will be
picked up after school.] [The last meeting
for this spring semester will be on Wed., May 21st. Meetings
will resume when school starts in the fall.]
6:30
- 7:30 p.m. Senior High Youth
7:00 - 8:00 Choir Rehearsal
[Suspended
for the summer season. Choir will resume when school starts in the
fall.]
Thursday:
7:00 a.m. Custodial
Helpers
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.Thursday
Night ALIVE (Kindergarten through 5th grade)
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Missions Committee 2008
Tentative Monthly Missions
Projects
Jan. -- Collect supplies
for health kits for Midwest Distribution in Springfield
Feb. -- Youth Camperships,
Food Pantry Workers
Mar. -- Youth Fundraiser--mission
trip and Compassion Child
Apr. -- Finalize Camperships
May -- Selling shares (@$5)
for youth mission trip
Jun. -- Collect supplies
for flood buckets
Jul. -- Christmas in July
Aug. -- Pregnancy Support
Center, Food Pantry Workers
Sep. -- Red Bird Mission
Oct. -- Collect Wish List
items for Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House
Nov. -- Harvest Festival,
Salvation Army Bell Ringers
Dec. -- March to the Manger
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Fair
Oaks
Activity
Department
needs
volunteers for special events and daily activities. Everyone welcome.
Call Ruthanne or Maxine at 664-0808 ext 3706.
Greenville
FUMC worship service at Fair Oaks monthly.
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Help Build Our Website
If you'd like your name and
email address to appear in the Greenville First United Methodist Church
online directory, please click here
and send this message: Yes! Please add my name and email address
to the online directory. Please type UMC in the subject line of your email.
Note that you can access the directory via the " AboutUs"
page.
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Eagles
Nest Ministries
A collection box for used
Sunday School quarterlies, Bibles, daily devotionals, any Christian books,
paperbacks, cassettes, reference books, commentaires, and videos is in
the narthex. The materials are for Eagles
Nest Ministries in Butler. Through their "Love Packages" ministry
our usable Christian literature is sent to missionaries and Christian workers
around the world. Thanks for your help!
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CANS
The
youth are again collecting aluminum cans for recycling to raise money for
this summer's Mission Trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. You may leave
your cans in a plastic bag in the big trash can in Pam's office.
We will also gratefully accept cash donations for gas and other expenses.
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Need
help? Call
HELPING
HANDS.
Gutters
need cleaning, light bulbs need changing, bushes need trimming, yard work?
Call Helping Hands! We are here to help you! Please call
664-2481 or 664-0915 for any household chores. Give us a call . .
. We do it all!
We
need volunteers who are willing to pick up and return people for Sunday
morning services. We no longer run the van and there are some individuals
who would appreciate a ride to and/or from our services. Please call
the church office if you can help!
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The Food Pantry at
the Bond County Senior Center is always in need of food. If you can
help, please take the following items to the Senior Center: peanut butter
& jelly, soup, canned fruit, cereal, instant potatoes, instant pudding,
canned meals such as Spaghettios, beef stew, etc., spaghetti and sauce,
tuna, canned vegetables, macaroni and cheese, crackers, and Jello.
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YOUTH NEWS
Red
Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, needs band instruments for their
K-12 Christian School. Do you have a band instrument you would consider
donating to them? Carl's Pro Band Instrument Repair in Bloomington,
IL, will donate any necessary repairs. Please see the notice on the
bulletin board for details.
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Thursday Night
Alive
Also if anyone would
like to donate snacks for our children or youth programs, it would be a
big help to the budget. Soda, cookies, juice boxes, Kool-Aid, chips,
candy bars, cheese and crackers and, of course, any baked items would be
greatly appreciated. Contact Pam if you would like to contribute.
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Compassion Child
Anyone interested in
sponsoring a Compassion Child please check in with Pam Chase. The
cost is approximately $32 per month until the child is 18 years old.
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The
kitchen is in need of a microwave oven
that has a turntable. If you would like to donate one, please contact
the church office.
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Remaining
Communion Dates
for
2008 are as follows:
June
1, July 13, August 24, October 5, November 16, and December 28.
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1.
Sunday, May 25th
-- Our Memorial Day service will include a tribute to our veterans.
We are asking that anyone who has a flag in a case representing someone
who is now or has ever been in any branch of service to our country to
please bring them to the office. We would also appreciate a picture
of the veteran to put with the display, and information as to their rank
and service record.
2.
On Sunday, June 1,
we will honor our graduates. Please make sure we have the names and
degrees of every graduate you know of!
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Sunset
Home
A
Retirement Community
418
Washington
Quincy,
IL 62301
"Offering
their eight room home to the St. Louis German Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1889, Charles and Augusta Pfeiffer founded Sunset Home
as a home for the aging. It became the first institution of its kind
in Methodism west of Chicago."
"The
mission of Sunset Home is to share the love of Jesus Christ through services
to the aging, without regard to race, color or creed. Further, our mission
is to administer the care for those served with compassion and with charity,
insofar as the finances of the corporation may be reasonably allocated.
In accordance therewith, Sunset Home provides these services based upon
the individual's ability to pay and when necessary, will reduce or waive
fees in order to provide services for those in need."
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Help!
We
have a mission and
We
Need You!
Please
help us make a difference in our residents' lives. Please join
The
United
Methodist Village Auxiliary
Lawrenceville,
IL
Annual
dues $3 per person.
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Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Ministry
of the
Illinois Great Rivers
Annual Conference
2 Rainbow Dr.
Pekin, IL 61554-2427
309-353-5792 V/TTY
email: ckeller@mtco.com
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For
those who may have difficulty hearing the worship services, we now have
hearing devices available; the units may be obtained from an usher and
we encourage you to request one for your use during the service.
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Church History
We are trying to update
our church history. The last written records go only into the 1950s.
What we need most are accounts from past youth events (especially the trip
to Washington, D.C.), Women's Society, Sunday School classes, individual
church-related achievements, and other interesting memories. You may leave
your materials at the church office or call Margaret Brown at 664-0327.
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Need
a gift? We still have the glass ornaments with the church on them
for $12.50 each. Please contact the church office for details.
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