St. Paul is Praying for You!
We express our deepest Christian sympathy to the family and friends of Sue Pierce who passed away this last week. Special Concerns: (92709) Marie Bridges, families struggling financially, Diana Quinn (The Marlow’s daughter in law), Kathy Loveless (Phil & Debbie Loveless’ daughter in law), Jack Wilson, Joye Jones, Bill & Linda Thompson & family, Brenda Poole (Brenda Bryant’s sister in law), Guy McClure (Mary Jo McClure’s husband), Roy Syme (Dave Syme’s brother), Sydney Bolkelmen (friend of Sara Thomas), Kay Cowherd, Susan Daughtery, Garland Hosch, Vivian Lewis, Nadine Johnson, Alberto Diaz (student at SH Middle School), Veronica (friend of Kathy Thomas), Tim Stewart , Don Norris (Tracey Kell’s father), Aiden Calcutt (relative of Kathy Thomas), Bill & Marie Bennett (grandparents of Ruby Shafer), Judy Carlton Ongoing Concerns: Larry Aldridge, Gladys Bramlett, Lessie Brewer, Dianne Brown, John Cagle, Kate Cochran, Carrie Driskell, Joanne Forni, Guy & Boyce Edwards, Zack Green, Sug Hamrick, Clarence Hawkins, Jordan Hopkins (Janet Thorpe’s nephew), Miles Irwin, Mildred Lothridge, Mary Martin, Norman Moore, Ava Muter, Imogene Ramsey, Doug Richardson, Charlie Robocker, Dennis Sims, Betty Thompson, John Turner (Mary Martin’s grandson-inlaw), Mary Tyner, Andy Witham, Missy Lathop, Kelly Comeau, Sybil Underwood, George Pickard , Jerry Tipton (friend of the Maxeys), Fran Hurley, Opal Harper Serving Overseas: Missions - Melanie Martin (Nigeria), Alan & Kristin Wheeler (Southeast Asia) Military - Andy Sullens (Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA) A.J. Spiess (Japan) (grandson of Laurie Spiess) Jeff Register (Afghanistan) (Rebecca Gurr’s nephew) Major Katie Sunderland (Iraq) ( The Sunderland’s daughter) Mike Bengochea (Afganistan) (friend of the Rues) ****Please note that in order to keep our prayer list up to date, effective immediately, names will remain on the prayer list for 3 weeks, unless you call in with an update.****
Rev. Calvin Haney, Pastor Parsonage 770-534-7001 Cell 770-713-3678 St. Paul United Methodist Church 404 Washington Street NW, Gainesville, GA 30501-3532 770-532-2977 770-532-4406 (fax) office@st-paul-umc.org
We believe that God has placed St. Paul UMC in the heart of Gainesville so we can share His Word, show His love and serve His people.
Our parents used to say, “The world is going to hell in a hand basket.” However, today we would come closer to the truth to say, “The world is going to hell in a shopping cart.” Your soul . . .not to mention your budget . . .is in mortal danger as you approach the checkout lane. “How?” you ask. You’ve carefully filled your cart with items on your list. You approach the checkout line, always seeming to pick the one that’s slowest. By the time the clerk begins tallying up the items in your cart, while waiting in line, you’ve added a pack of gum, a box of Tic-Tacs, a new TV Guide, a four-pack of AA batteries, three candy bars and a magazine for the inquiring mind and a gift card for Sister Sue. Now if your five year old child or grandchild is along, you may have also purchased a new Pez dispenser, a balloon with a Disney character on it and a plastic “cellular” telephone filled with tiny pieces of bubble gum. Merchants purposefully pack this kind of junky, funky, consumer gunk into the narrow lanes we must pass through to get checked out. Things we would never intentionally have gone in search of now languish under our fingertips inviting . . .NO INSISTING . . .that we grab them. This they call “marketing”! Impulsively buying a pack of gum or a candy bar hardly seems earth shattering or soul threatening; however, the truth is that the increasing appetites of this consumer culture places much emphasis on “things” and how they can bring about “happiness”. In worship and praise, let us forget about “stuff” and center our lives in a relationship with the One who gives life and in Him we can find fulfillment and true happiness.
Sunday, October 11 8:45 - 9:45 9:45 - 10:00 Morning Worship Service Morning Fellowship
10:00 - 10:45 Sunday School 11:00 - 12:00 Morning Worship Service NO YOUTH Tuesday, October 13 6:30 - 7:30 Truth Project Class (P) 7:00 - 8:00 Joy/Peace Circle Wednesday, October 14 10:00 - 12:00 F.L.O.W. 5:15 - 7:30 Wonderful Wednesday Thursday, October 15 10:30 - 12:00 Parkinson’s Group Saturday, October 17 8:00 - done Church Work Day 8:30 - 10:30 Angel Food Pick up
UPCOMING EVENTS October 18 Homecoming Sunday/one service October 28 Trunk N Treat website: www.st-paul-umc.org Rev. Calvin Haney Pastor
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GOD’S SUNDAY SERVANTS
October 11, 2009
HEAD USHERS 8:45 Donald Wright 11:00 Brad Patten GREETERS 8:45 Tom & Jo Davis 11:00 Ouida Clayton, Laura Eberhardt, Joe Wang WELCOMERS 8:45 Bob Holbrook 11:00 Patricia Zaudtke ACOLYTES 8:45 Elizabeth Gale 11:00 Will Cely, Sydney Simonton INFANT NURSERY Staff 2 - 3 YR OLD NURSERY Staff CHILDREN’S CHURCH Staff MORNING FELLOWSHIP Tee Hayes, Beth Leasure,. Angie Whitley
Our Tithes and Offerings: October 4, 2009
Attendance - Worship 8:45 11:00 Hispanic 95 121 88 120 $ 14,219.00 $377,443.95 $419,313.28 $13,214.70 $10,604.00
St. Paul Happenings
Senior Adult Luncheon October 25. Reservations due by October 18. Disciple 3 Introductory class will be held on October 13 in Mixed Blessings Class. Please note date change. Thanks to Jan Zumwalt for volunteering to take blood pressure at First Monday Café. Homecoming is scheduled for October 18. We will have one service that day only beginning at 10:30. The Gainesville District UMW will be having their Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 11, at 3 p.m. at the Cleveland UMC. Please make every effort to attend as the Minute and Rainbow women will be honored, the 2010 budget will be presented and of course there will be refreshments. If you can, bring items for the Cookson Hills Health Clinic, our Social Action project this year or just bring an offering as the offering collected at the meeting will go to the Cookson Hills Health Clinic Also, if anyone needs a ride please contact Sue Castner at 678-617-1767. Contact the Church office if . . . • You have a change of address, phone number, or email.
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Sunday School General Funds Received General Funds Rec’d YTD General Funds Expended Debt Reduction: Debt Reduction Req’d Debt Reduction Rec’d
You have a specific prayer request. You need to meet with one of the staff, or the Pastor. You have a birth or death in your family. You are having surgery or a serious health problem. You would like to update us about someone already on our prayer list. Special Prayer Concern requests are removed every 3 - 4 weeks unless you call and request it stay on for longer. Phone number is 770-532-2977 or office@st-paul-umc.org.
Wonderful Wednesday Menu October 14, 2009 Breakfast for Dinner Bacon, Sausage, Eggs Biscuits, Butter, Jelly Gravy, Grits Fruit
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UMW BAKE SALE OCTOBER 25 9:00 - 10:25 A.M. IN FELLOWSHIP HALL
Food Pantry Food Drive - November 10 - 20 is St. Paul’s next opportunity to stock & serve at the Community Food Pantry. Please bring canned goods and non-perishables to the Food Pantry bins located in the foyer near the Fellowship Hall and near the church office. Monetary donations directed to the Food Pantry are always welcomed. “A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor. Proverbs 22:9 Thanks, Emily Rue
OCTOBER IS BRING A FRIEND TO CHURCH MONTH Invite someone to church who does not have a church home. Lemonade and cookies will be served for our guests. And invite people who used to attend St Paul to Homecoming!!!
Adult Bible Studies
FaithLink - Wednesday evening beginning at 6:30 in the Fellowship Hall.
Fully Alive!!!
Fully alive in Your Spirit, Lord, Make me fully alive! Fully aware of Your Presence, Lord. Totally, fully alive.
Calvin Haney & Jim Sapp are facilitating. Truth Project - Tuesday evening at 6:30 in the Conference Room. Mary Bosco is facilitating. Christian Believer - Tuesday evening at 6:30 in Mixed Blessings Classroom. David Martin is facilitating. Disciple III will begin Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 a.m. in Mixed Blessings Classroom. Facilitators are Tom Davis & Robert Clayton
Don’t let me miss all the glories around me, Waiting for heaven someday to come. Open my eyes to Miraculous Monday And make my feet march to eternity’s drum.
Homecoming 2009
Homecoming Sunday is October 18. There will be one service only at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School will begin at 9:30 and there will be a church wide Covered Dish Luncheon. Meat and drinks will be provided.
Fully alive in Your Spirit, Lord, Make me fully alive! Fully aware of Your Presence, Lord. Totally, fully alive. Wednesday, October 28 5:15 - 7:00 p.m. Don’t let me wait for some far off forever To say what I feel to the ones I hold dear. Risking the pain and the joy of loving Keep me awake and alive while I’m here. Spooky trunks, Games, Candy, Costumes!!!! Come, bring your kids, your friends kids, and join in the fun!!!
Trunk N Treat
Save the date
Young Adult Dinner, Sunday, November 15 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
St. Paul United Methodist Church
October 11, 2009
PRELUDE ANNOUNCEMENTS WELCOME INTROIT CALL TO WORSHIP (8:45) Leader: The call to discipleship is often interrupted by other things which draw our devotion. People: The attraction of wealth is a real threat to our Christian discipleship. Leader: Money will not condemn us; but if devotion to wealth hinders our commitment to Christ, then we have a real obstacle. People: We do not want our possessions to keep us from giving ourselves in full surrender to Christ. INVOCATION HYMN No. 110 AFFIRMATION OF FAITH No. 881 GLORIA PATRI CHILDREN’S MOMENTS ACTS OF PRAYER CONCERNS AND CELEBRATIONS PASTORAL PRAYER LORD’S PRAYER “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” “Sing A Jubilant Song”
CHORUS No. 601 OUR OFFERINGS +DOXOLOGY No. 95 ANTHEM SCRIPTURE SERMON +HYMN No. 378 +BENEDICTION
“Thy Word Is a Lamp”
8:45 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
“Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” “Eternal Life” Mark 10:17-31 “Money and the Good News” “Amazing Grace”
+CLOSING RESPONSE “Holy Ground” “We are standing on Holy Ground. And I know that there are angels all around. Let us praise Jesus now, we are standing in His presence on Holy Ground.” +POSTLUDE
*STAND AS YOU ARE ABLE
DUE TO FALL BREAK AT SCHOOL, THERE WILL BE NO CHILDREN’S CHURCH. PLEASE KEEP YOUR CHILDREN WITH YOU.
Flowers are placed in the Narthex on the large round table to the glory of God And in memory of Charlie Humphries By his family Flowers are placed in the Narthex on the small round table to the glory of God And in honor and appreciation of all First Monday Café volunteers