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JULY 29, 2018

7/31/2018

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July 29, 2018
   
     5th Sunday Singing was so joyful.  Julia Broussard blessed our congregation with an old time Gospel medley.  Then the Gideon Quartet kept our toes tapping when they led off with “Step into the Water.”  Wendell Gideon, Joe Lane, Dag Pendleton, and Randy Sharp performed several other uplifting songs.  Leta Sage accompanied them on the piano and she was wonderful.
     What a splendid ministry that folks such as the Gideon Quartet and Julia do to glorify God and their Savior, Jesus Christ.  Many thanks for sharing your talent with us.
     A large group of ladies started decorating for the vacation Bible school.  I’ll let you know how much fun we had next week!
     Community Table served 244 meals last week. We are thankful for the volunteers that come by to help. If you have never eaten at Community Table, you are missing tasty food and lots of fun.  Many people who come to eat or to help go on to their own churches for Wednesday night services. 
     We still have several members that are ill and need our prayers. 
     D.J Klutts served as Worship Leader and read the scripture lesson from John 6:1-21. 
     At Laurel St. UMC, Rev. Ken Lunsford titled his sermon, “What Can You Offer Jesus?”
      This story from John tells about the miracle of the loaves and fish.  Jesus took five barley loaves and two fish and fed five thousand people. The people of that region followed Jesus from place to place, they were anxious to hear Him preach and tell parables.  They had heard He was healing the lame and the blind.
     It was the apostle Andrew, who noticed the young fellow with the loaves of bread and two fish. Children didn’t count for much in those days, and neither did women.  Jesus changed all that.  Andrew said, “here is a boy” who has something to offer to the Master.
     I want all boys and girls to know that they are an important part of our church. They are worth whatever effort we put into supplying them with a first-rate Christian education. Children matter in our lives and they matter to the church.
     We are also thankful for our middle-aged and senior adults.  Many persons have their most productive years late in life.
      Jesus is looking for persons whose influence He can magnify and multiply.
Each one of us, whether young or old can offer ourselves to Christ.  We can find that one gift or more that we have, to offer Him and see it through until we see His victory.  
     Our website is http://fumcdublintx.com .
 
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JULY 22, 2018

7/24/2018

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First United Methodist Church News
July 22, 2018
     Preregistration is tomorrow (Friday) for vacation Bible school, we will be at Perry Hall, 709 Sheehan in the housing authority area.  It starts at 5:00 p.m.   You can register your children at our church office on Friday morning and on the night of bible school held at Perry Hall. 
     Be there for our Polar Blast on Tuesday, 7-31 and Wednesday, 8-1. The hours are 5:30 till 8:30 p.m. An evening meal will be served to the children.
     Community Table was delicious!  Taco Salad hit the spot after all this hot weather.  The desserts were scrumptious.    
     This coming Sunday will be singing, no sermon!  The Gideon Quartet are coming back to perform southern gospel and they will get your blood circulating.  Also, Julia Broussard will do a special for us.  Please attend and enjoy yourself.   
 Our congregation extends sympathy to family and many friends of Neal Tompkins.  Such a tragedy to occur so soon after his father, Harry’s death.
      We received a letter from our Bishop, Mike Lowery, informing us that this district has raised $32,000 to renovate the Wesleyan Building near the Tarleton University campus.  The work was started this week with volunteers from many United Methodist Churches.  Stephenville First United Methodist Church was hosting the breakfasts and lunches for the workers.
     I served as Worship Leader last Sunday and read the scripture lesson from Ephesians 2:11-22.
      In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians he tells the church they were once aliens rather than citizens of Israel and strangers to the covenants of God’s promise. Paul said, “You had no hope and no God.”  He said “Thanks to Jesus, you who were once so far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.  Paul tells us we are fellow citizens with the Jews and we belong to God’s household. “You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit.”
     Mac McKinnon visited with us last Sunday.  Mac is a Gideon and he came to speak to us about the world-wide effort of Gideon International.
     Mac told us the Aboriginal people of Australia have no written language, but the Gideons and other groups are attempting to translate the Bible into a language the Aboriginals can understand. 
     The Gideons give out little New Testaments to schools, colleges, and the military. 3,200 New Testaments were given out to Tarleton students this past year. The Gideons place larger Bibles that contain the Old and New Testament in motels, hotels, and hospitals.  Last year 93 million Bibles were given away!
     Mac told our congregation that the world has had five billion Bibles printed and put “into circulation” and that two billion were distributed by Gideons!
     The Gideons only go where they are invited, all funds collected by the group go to the manufacturing and distributing of the Holy Bible.  All other costs and expenses are funded by the Gideons themselves.
     Mac McKinnon ask that our congregation members help the Gideons carry the salvation of Jesus Christ to the world.
     We believe God’s infinite love is available to all, call us at 254-445-2157 or email at fumcdublintxsecretary@gmail.com .
Our Web site Address is:  http://fumcdublintx.com
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JULY 15, 2018

7/18/2018

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First United Methodist Church News
July 15, 2018
 
     There is a planning session tonight at First United Methodist for the joint VBS with Primera Iglesia Bautista Church.  Roxy Volkmer is chairman of organizing the bible school.  The “Polar Blast” will be at Perry Hall at 709 Sheehan St. in the Dublin Housing Authority.  We are doing an evening school on a Tuesday and Wednesday, from 5:30 pm till 8pm.  Supper will be provided.
      Some of the items needed for the “blast” are mittens, caps, empty cardboard boxes, floating Noodles, wading pools, and small fleece blankets in matching pairs in size 3X4 ft. Please donate any of these items to our school.  Also put your name and phone number on the items.
    Community Table is on July 25 and we still need volunteers.  The VBS starts on July 31 so we are burning our candle at both ends this summer.
    Stormy Armstrong and her son, Bradley, were in town this past week cleaning and working on the family building on Patrick St.  They stay in the vacation house built on the Humphries family farm located west of Dublin.
    The Sanders Family Reunion was held in our fellowship hall recently.  Kathy Sanders Logan attended the gathering and said hello to her Dublin friends.
    Barbra Stevens brought her daughter Dana to church last Sunday.  Dana came in from Oklahoma to take the four youngest children of Andy and Debbie Harrell back home with her.  What fun that will be for the youngsters and Dana. 
     Robert and Irene Sohm will have their grandson, Robert, with them for a nice visit.  Young Robert lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  
     Cliff Wooldridge was care flighted to Harris Southwest Hospital with complications from an infection.  He is continuing to improve, and his wife Nancy asked that we keep Cliff in our prayers.
     Pat Leatherwood has been very ill and in a lot of discomfort at home.  Lisa requests we add Pat to our prayers.
     James Sage is “under the weather” with allergies and his wife Leta, is out of town caring for their granddaughters!  Our Methodist men are having a rough summer.
     Our friend, Joe Charles Logan, has been ill but is recuperating at home.
     Laura Leatherwood read the scripture lesson from Ephesians 1: 3-14
     Rev. Ken Lunsford preached on what it means to be blessed.
     Paul wrote in the first Chapter of Ephesians: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”  Paul says God predestined us for adoption to be His children through Jesus.
      Paul did not mean blessed with money, fame, or good looks. You can have those things and still lose your soul.  Paul meant the fruits of the Spirit as listed in Galatians 6: 22-23.  They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  You can find other blessings in the Beatitudes.  Being blessed so much doesn’t mean life is going to be smoother or that God loves us more than others.  It means our lives have meaning and purpose.  We are the children of God and the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
 
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JULY 3, 2018

7/3/2018

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First United Methodist Church News
July 1, 2018
 
     First United Methodist and Primera Iglesia Bautista Church are joining together for VBS at Perry Hall.  It will be on Tuesday, July 31 and Wednesday, August 1, the times are 5:30 pm till 8pm.  We will provide a meal on both evenings for the youngsters.  Please pray for us in this endeavor to reach out to the families in the far south-side of Dublin.
     This coming Monday will be a planning session for bible school.  We will meet in the church foyer at 7 p.m. Wednesday our Trustee Committee will meet at 6 p.m.    
     We got the final head-count for Community Table served on June 27, we fed 259 folks. Many of those eating at the Clay Annex that night ate more than one hot dog, so we really put a dent in the nation’s wiener supply.  D.J. Klutts is doing a great job of coordinating the food orders, cooking, and volunteers, thank you so much.
     We miss our friend, Stormy Armstrong, who has moved to Kerrville, but she trained us well to cook in large amounts.  You can probably visit with Stormy most week-ends at her shop in Fredericksburg.
      Happy July birthdays to D. J. Klutts, Conner Moore, Jack Parks, Judy Beckham, Eddie Raley, and Deborah Hammonds. July anniversaries are, Pat and Lisa Leatherwood, Jon and Roxy Volkmer, and Michael and Mary Haley.  Give all these sweet people a phone call or send a card.
      Leta Sage asked for prayers for Jerry Westmoreland.  (NOTICE) Jerry Passed Tuesday July 3 at 1:30am.  His Services will be at the Harrell Funeral Home on Friday July 6th at 11:30am with burial at Siloam Cemetery.  Our prayers and sympathy are with his family.
      Our congregation extends sympathy to family and many friends of Harry Tompkins. Now someone should write a book about the extraordinary life that Harry lived.
     Lisa Leatherwood served as Worship Leader last Sunday.  Laura read the scripture lesson from 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 and assisted Pastor Ken Lunsford in serving Holy Communion.  Cole Moore served as acolyte.
     Rev. Ken Lunsford preached on sharing with our brothers and sisters.
     St. Paul was writing with great emotion about the sacrifices made by the impoverished churches in Macedonia. They were happy to give money to the persecuted mother church in Jerusalem. The Macedonians were not waiting to be asked but begging to take part in the relief effort.
      The love of Christ brought together the former antagonists: the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem and the Gentiles.
      These early churches helped establish a distinctive badge for the followers of Jesus. That is giving and sharing what you have with others less fortunate became the distinguishing mark of a Christian.
      We are still giving to the hungry, but now most of the funds are spent in solving the cause of hunger.  Self-help projects are conducted all around the globe.
In Haiti, 50,000 food-bearing trees have been planted.  In other countries food-for-work projects are building roads, installing irrigation, digging wells, and growing improved crops. Mission work that makes a world full of brothers and sisters in Christ is a safer, better place to live.
       Eating better improves the mental ability, it raises the I.Q. of children by up to 13 points. This has a direct bearing on peace.
       Paul says this about the Macedonians, “But first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.” 
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