Text Box: Greater Things John 14:12 June 12, 2007 Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church 4809 Bell Hill Road, Bessemer, AL 35022 Fax: (205) 428-6135 Office: 428-4056 Parsonage: 425-5388 FLC: 428-4920 e-mail: Pleasant Hill4809@aol.com Bobby Scales, Minister e-mail:RobtScales@aol.com Cell Phone: 746-4547 Monica Hararger, Student Minister e-mail: PHImpactyouth@aol.com Web Page Address: www.ph-umc.com

Text Box: Mission News Eyeglasses/Cell Phone Collection – Are you gathering up all those old eyeglasses and cell phones? Don’t forget during the month of June we will be collecting old eyeglasses and cell phones. The Lion’s Club will get the old eyeglasses cleaned and ready to be used by people in third world countries to help them see better. The cell phones are reprogrammed to only dial 911 and are given to battered women to assist them in calling for help. The collection box is located in the Family Life Center under the bulletin board. Collection will end Wednesday, June 27. Thank you for supporting this mission project. Mission Trips – Please be in prayer for our summer mission trips. Currently, Lynn Rocksvold is on a mission trip to Mexico. I am sure when she returns she will have much to share with us about how God used her. Holli Vining will be leaving in a few weeks for Africa. What an awesome calling for such a young person. Many of you supported Holli monetarily to be able to go on this trip through the Wesleyan Foundation. Now I ask that you support her with your prayers. John Fillebaum has mission trips planned each month to assist the Gulf Coast still recovering from the hurricanes. See the bulletin board for the schedule. Lastly, a team from our church will leave on July 21 for our ASP mission trip. God is using our church in many ways to reach out to others. Remember, you are a missionary each day in the way you show God’s love to others – maybe with a smile, maybe by letting someone come ahead of you in traffic when it is backed up, by being a listening ear for someone hurting, sending a card to someone who needs to be cheered, so many ways we can show others we care. With Jesus All Things Are Possible, Delbra Rivers, Missions Coordinator

Text Box: A new church directory will soon be printed which will include the addresses of all our new members.
Text Box: Our deepest sympathy and Christian love go to the family of Mr. Edwin Calhoun on his death, June 6, 2007 Our Christian love and deep sympathy is also extended to Mrs. Pat Brasher and her family on the death of her brother, Mr. George Wyatt, on June 6, 2007

Text Box: Thank You I would like to thank the members of Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church for your generous gift of flags and holders for classrooms at Enterprise High School. Your gift is appreciated so much, and thank you for making us a part of your missions work this year. Your generosity is another display of the love, care, and concern that I have personally witnessed at your church. Beverly Sublette
Text Box: COMPLETES COURSE Our Youth Minister, Monica Harvarger, has completed the Academy for Student Ministry (ASM) training seminars. The ASM is comprised of five weekend training events designed to provide training for youth ministers in local United Methodist churches. As such it requires a significant time commitment from each student as they attend all of the weekend workshops, finish all assigned readings, and complete take home assignments. The successful completion of this Academy represents a significant step in Monica’s ministry career. Congratulations to Monica for completing this course
Text Box: TERQUASQUICENTENNIAL PLATES (175 years) ORDER NOW - PRICE $15.00 Make checks payable to PHUMC-Plate Fund Put order form and money in offering plate or give to Margaret Lloyd -424-2346. You may also send it to the church office.

Text Box: Thank You Thanks to my church family for the thoughts, cards, visits, flowers and especially your prayers, during and after my surgery. I thank the Lord daily for being associated with loving people such as you. -Barbara Clinton
Text Box: New Member Dinner Wednesday, June 20, 6:00 pm Our church family is growing! Join us as we get to know our new minister, his family and those who have joined the church during 2007. Laura Jean will be preparing a special meal featuring beef tips and rice. ($6.00 adults/ $3.00 children). New members will be our guests, but everyone should make a reservation. Alan, Missy, Zac, Katy & Kelsey Hear Donna Pitts Mel & Carolyn Campbell Emma Campbell Aaron Bailey Will Beavers Matt Douglas Sam Harless Bethany Huggins Colby Jeffries Russell McBee Tucker Parsons Dylan Simmons Austin Swindal Jake Thompson Rachel Waters

Text Box: Calling all Brass Players Dear Brass Player, We will have our first rehearsal on Wednesday, June 20th at 8:30 P.M. (following Chancel Choir rehearsal). We will rehearse about 45 minutes. I will give you the selections that we will be playing for Sunday, July 1st. If you would like them ahead of time, just call me or email me at 410-4224, or email me at LAB4U@aol.com. I can probably round up some instruments for those of you that don’t have an instrument or don’t know what happened to your instrument. -Alan
Text Box: Boy Scout Troop 84 Grimes Canoe Base Your Boy Scout Troop 84 is as active as ever. In just this past year we’ve bicycled the Long Leaf Trace from Prentiss to Hattiesburg, MS, attended summer camp at Camp Sequoyah, explored Tumbling Rock cave (a wild cave where we were lost for a time), been bowling, mountain bike riding, camping of course, won second place in the District Camporee, earned our Polar Bear award for camping in 17 degree weather, backpacked into the Walls of Jericho area of North Alabama - South Tennessee, worked with the Buck Creek Trail Association building a trail in Alabaster, practiced our canoeing skills thanks to the Gilmore’s for the use of their lake and great camping facilities. We’ve raised over $1,200.00 with fund raisers and logged over a hundred hours of service work helping our community. This past weekend May 18 – 20, 2007 we were at the Grimes Canoe Base where we canoed along a section of the Buffalo River in Tennessee. The Troop will be at Camp Sequoyah June 17 – 23 where your thoughts and prayers will as always be appreciated. We have a deep sea fishing trip planned for July 28 – 29 and snorkeling planned for July and August. Look for some of our Scouts who will be organizing their Eagle Projects. These service projects will likely involve work around our church and I’m sure the boys will need help with ideas, encouragement, and donations of money, materials, machinery, manpower and equipment. Boy Scouts is for boys 11 to 18 years of age. Our Troop meets every Tuesday night at 7pm. Tom Adams

Text Box: MEN’S BREAKFAST - JUNE 17 7:00 a.m.
Text Box: Kid's News The kids had a blast at our Summer Kick-off on Sunday, June 3. Thanks to all the parents that helped that day. We had about 10 people show up for our first Vacation Bible School meeting. We will have another meeting later on so if you are planning to volunteer for VBS, please come to the next meeting. We will be working on decorations for VBS on Saturday, June 16 at 3:00pm in the FLC. If your gifts are in this area, come join the decorating team on that day. I will be ordering t-shirts for the volunteers at VBS. Please let me know, as soon as possible, what size I need to order for you. You can contact me (Tonya Koll) email me at tkoll@comcast.net

Text Box: JOIN THE CHOIR You know, the Chinese saying -”A long journey begins with the first step.” I have found that most things in life begin with that first step. When I decided to work on my master’s degree in music, I kept coming up with excuses tht kept me from starting my course work. Then I had a friend that explained to me that “time” only runs one way and you can never recover it once it has come and gone. He went on to say that the hardest thing about any project or idea was getting started and that once you take that first step, then the rest of the project or idea just seem to fall in place and the task becomes easier. Well, I am again appealing to the singers in our church that are not singing in the choir. The hardest part about singing in the choir is taking that first step toward the choir room. We meet on Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30 pm. If you need someone to encourage you to take that first step, we have choir members waiting to assist you!! With Christian love, Alan

Text Box: Annual 4th of July Picnic Sunday, July 1 ! Wear your Pleasant Hill T-Shirt or red, white and blue and help us celebrate! Come for fellowship at 6:30p.m, Enjoy the music of the group, Son Rise! We will be eating inside and will begin serving around 7:00. Children should plan to participate in the traditional wagon parade. We cannot have our trational fireworks display this year, but the party is still on. Come, join the fun!! Our neighbors in the community are invited. Please assist with donations. How can you help? Sign up at church to be on the Set-Up or Clean-Up Crew. Volunteer to provide any of the following: Freezer of Home-made ice cream We need a LOT! These are very important!! Desserts Canned Drinks (Canned drinks only- no bottles please.) They need to be left in the kitchen any time between now and Sunday, June 23, so that we can ice them down.)