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Praise Service!

Everyone is welcome to join us each Saturday at 6 pm for a Praise Service.  What is our Praise Service?  Our Praise service has two purposes.  First, it is an opportunity for Lakehills UMC members to meet on Saturday nights, sing songs and celebrate our love of God. Second, it is an outreach program of this church to reach the un-churched and get them to participate at Lakehills UMC. 

The Praise and Worship service can only be successful if the congregation supports our efforts.  We need the congregation to bring their neighbors and friends to this service.  We need the congregation to help spread the word so we can get more people to attend.  This program is not the new 8 am service and all that went with that service.  The Praise Service is informal, fun, lively and upbeat fellowship that needs YOUR help to succeed.

All coordination and planning of the Praise Service goes through Everett McCarley.  If you have any questions or suggestions, please call him on his cell phone at 210-286-7001.

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2009 Buoy Awards

Do you know who donated the land for the little league baseball fields in Lakehills?  How about the person who donated the land for the Heliport and fire department in Mico?  Do you know whose vision it was to have a library in Lakehills?  The Medina Lake Preservation Society (MLPS) Board of Directors knows these lake neighbors and wants publicly to say “Thank You.”

  The MLPS Board of Directors is going to show its appreciation for these charitable contributions made to the Medina Lake community at its 2009 Buoy Awards Gala on November 14, 2009, at the Lakehills Civic Center.  The Buoy Award was created to honor citizens who contribute to keeping the Medina LakePlex communities (Lakehills, Mico, Pipe Creek, Rio Medina & others) “afloat.”  Recipients of the award have demonstrated through their unselfish gifts of time, resources, creative vision or leadership, a willingness to advance the community’s best interest and to showcase its positive characteristics.  

Lakehills United Methodist Church members Cappi and Stanley Phillips, Loy Ed Alanis, and Betty Baxter are among this year’s Buoy recipients. Please join us in congratulating these deserving members of the LakePlex community.  

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Church Wide Workday

On Saturday, November 14th from 8 am to 12 pm, we will have a church wide workday.  Everyone is invited to come help spiffy up Lakehills UMC inside and out.  There will be jobs for all skills and ages, and everyone is needed to pitch in! 

A stew will be provided for lunch.  Below is a list of things that need to be done:

Clean icemaker
Clean shelves in refrigerator
Pick up trash on church grounds
Mow & weed
Put up & paint fence behind playground
Paint outside handrails
Clean out florescent light fixtures
Clean out gutters on all buildings
Clean up around carport of Office II Building
Clean stove top and ovens

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2009 Church Conference

 Each year, our District Superintendent goes to each church in his district to meet with committee chairs and go over the past year.  The chairpersons will have the opportunity to present an oral report on what they have accomplished in the past year and goals for the future. 

 There is a membership audit, during which the names of those who have not attended worship during the year are read, and those attending can let the membership secretary know their whereabouts.  Members whose names are read off for two consecutive years will be removed from the roles due to inactivity. 

 A report showing operating and program expenses will be presented, as well as the pastor’s compensation report.

 The names of those who are nominated for various committees will be presented by the Nominations Committee for approval and the goals for the coming year will be discussed.

 We have a new candidate for the Local Pastor Program.  Everett McCarley is beginning his journey to become a Local Pastor.  Once done with the program, Everett will be authorized to perform all the duties of an ordained minister, including the sacraments, while assigned to a particular church under the supervision of a district superintendent.  We as a congregation will take a vote to recommend him to the district committee on ordained ministry.

 Our Church Conference will be Tuesday, November 17th at 7 pm.  There’s a lot that will be going on.  Everyone has important input.  All members are invited to attend, and will have a vote on all issues that are discussed. 

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Advent

Ever wonder about advent and what it means?  The word “advent” is Latin and it means “to come”.  The season of Advent marks the beginning of the church year and comprises the four weeks before Christmas.  The church has observed a season of preparation before Christmas since the appearance of regulations on fasting issued by Bishop Perpetuus of Tours in 490 AD.

The principal themes of advent are hope, darkness and light, repentance, watchfulness, preparation, expectation of the incarnation of Christ on Christmas and anticipation of the fullness of time at Christ's second coming.

Here at Lakehills UMC, we celebrate with four special Sunday worship services.  On the first Sunday, a candle in the advent wheel is lit for hope, the second, peace, the third, joy and the fourth, love.  The last candle, the Christ candle, is lit on Christmas Eve. 

Sunday, November 29th is the 1st Sunday of Advent this year during which we will have a Hanging of the Greens celebration.  This is when the Christmas decorations are put up.  We hope you can join us!

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This page updated 11/4/2009