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What’s Inside
MID YEAR BOOSTER We started the year with a new tag line that centers and unites us as a church…
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“Moved by Jesus. Loving People. Serving All.”
Fall Reveal
I can easily point to places and ways where we already were living into this tag line in ways that are significant. One of those was happening as I wrote this… Family Promise. Our Missions Ministry Team has kept our church connected to this joint effort across the community. One or two families at a time enter weeks of support, training, care, and assistance to take steps out of homelessness and into a more secure set of circumstances.
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When we sponsor these families, volunteers from raig urry across our congregation take food, offer support, serve, visit, and meet their needs. This is one example of how Jesus’ appeal to us in Matthew 25 to meet human need for “the least of these” is our impetus to love and service.
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Pressing question: what other forms do we as a church need to add so we live even more into “Moved by Jesus. Loving People. Serving All”?
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As we enter August and last half of 2019, let’s be in prayer about expanding our stories of how we are “Moved by Jesus. Loving People. Serving All!” See you in worship! Pastor Craig
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Our mission is to create a grace-filled environment in which Christ transforms lives.
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Join us for Fall Reveal! First LBK will host a church-wide Fall Reveal of the upcoming semester on Sunday, August from 9-11a.m. on 13th Street between Avenues M and N. Fall Reveal is a wonderful way to become acquainted with all the different ways to become involved in the church, including small groups and ministry opportunities. The fall calendar will be available. There will also be booths, snacks and games for everyone to enjoy.
Fall Reveal
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MINISTRY INFO MISSIONS INFO FALL CALENDAR
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To ensure the safety of all children in our care, the children’s ministry leaders will remain in the classrooms with the Join us on 13th Street between Avenues M & N children during the Sunday school hour. Children’s Sunday School and Nursery will continue as usual. We would love for your family to take part in the festivities together prior to or following the Sunday school hour!
How is Jesus moving you?
ALL ARE INVITED Parents will take their children, 5th grade and under, to Fall Reveal to get food, then will take them to Sunday School. Youth will go upstairs as normal and attend Fall Reveal by class.
Our youth will go to class as normal and will visit Fall Reveal together as classes. Please make plans to visit the different ministry tables and learn about all the wonderful opportunities we have to serve our church, our community, and Jesus. — Tessa Armes, Director of Children’s Ministry
Welcome Week
UPCOMING EVENTS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4TH: Doʼs & Donuts of Youth @ 9:45 AM First Youth from 6 - 8 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 5TH: Milkshake Monday at Sonic from 8 - 9 PM // 50th & Indiana WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7TH: Study & Swim from 6:45 - 8 PM at the Kellersʼ // 4009 95th St. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH: First Youth Lock-in at the church from 7 PM - 7 AM
Confirmation Orientation
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 18TH: All 6th graders & their parents are invited to attend 2019-2020 Confirmation Orientation 9:45 AM in the Wesley room (2nd floor of CLC) to receive information & register to participate in this yearsʼ Confirmation experience!
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Fall Kick-Off
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25TH: All youth and parents are invited to enjoy free dinner, swim & play games, and learn about opportunities for the 2019-2020 school year at from 6 - 8 PM at the Trewsʼ // 7005 50th St.
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SUNDAY NIGHTS STARTING Come enjoy food, fun, and friends from SEPTEMBER 8TH 6 - 8 PM in the Wesley Room!
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THE BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY CORE
Shera Atkinson Minister of Spiritual Formation and Congregational Care
Many of our movements originate from our core. A healthy core helps to strengthen and stabilize the body, enhances posture, improves balance, enriches performance, and protects against injury. There is a correlation between a strong spiritual core and health as well. Often, our daily decisions, actions and conversations originate from our spiritual core. A healthy spiritual core strengthens faith, guards against falling, improves decision making, regulates our relationships, and enhances our posture of worship.
A healthy spiritual core is developed through a focus on Christian Story, Christian Belief, Christian Formation and Christian Application. This four-pronged approach to core development emphasizes:
1. Knowing the Christian story through studying the Bible as a united story of faith 2. Understanding, the basic confessions of the Christian faith 3. Growing through support, accountability, and corporate worship within the Christian community 4. Applying the Christian story, faith and formation through community to engage in missional living. This fall we encourage you to join in worship, Sunday school, Bible study, service and community as we seek to develop a healthy core. Bible studies will focus on either Christian story, belief or application and new opportunities for service and community will be available. Let’s make a commitment to developing a healthy core! Soli Deo Gloria Shera
TREASURED TIMES
Treasured Times will resume in September. If you have someone in your family, a friend or acquaintance in need of respite while taking care of someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s, please tell them about Treasured Times. This ministry began four years ago and has been a blessing to those caring for someone 24/7. Our church offers this ministry each Wednesday, September through May, from 9:30 to 1:30. Caregivers leave their loved one with us so they can have some well-deserved free time. We have the opportunity to offer their loved ones’ music, seated exercise, memory matters (remembering the past), arts and crafts, and games. We’ve found that our participants enjoy being in this social situation. It is a win-win situation for caregiver and participant.
If you know of someone in need of this ministry, please call Challa Goedeke, 806.799.7421 or GeorgeAnn Benson, 806.786.8015. We are now accepting applications. There is no charge to families for this program and they do not have to be a member of FUMC. If you have a heart for helping others, we are looking for volunteers to help with this ministry. Each participant must have a friend (volunteer) with them at all times. We also need other volunteers to help with arrival and dismissal as well as floaters to do what is needed. Please email Challa Goedeke, cjgoedeke@hotmail. com or call 806.799.7421 or email GeorgeAnn Benson, bensonga@aol. com or call 806.786.8015. – Challa Goedeke
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Backpack Blessing Back-to-school season is an extra busy and exciting season of the year. We love partnering with parents and kids during this time. We will be praying a special blessing over the kids in each of the Sunday morning services on August 18. Be sure to bring backpacks! — Tessa Armes Director of Children’s Ministry
Blessing Backpacks
August 18 • All Services Pre-K thru College
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Promotion Sunday
PROMOTION
It’s hard to believe we already thinking about a new school year! Our children’s department will go to their new classes on August 18. Children will go to their old classes and then be taken to their new classes.
SUNDAY AUGUST 18
— Tessa Armes Director of Children’s Ministry
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Bring your backpacks to worship.
SUMMER CAMP
Summer camp at Ceta Canyon was a blast! Our church had 35 1st5th grade kids who attended two camps this summer. Whoz-We-R, for 4-6th grades and Lil’ Ceta for 2-3rd grades. We had tons of fun swimming, hiking, memorizing scripture, building lifelong friendships and learning more about God.
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DENVER
MIDDLE SCHOOL MISSION TRIP
One activity the middle school group participated in on their recent mission trip, was walking around downtown Denver in groups and pretending to be homeless. They had to find resources that homeless people have access to.
Ella Barkley served at the Food Bank of the Rockies along with 20 other middle school students from First LBK.
June was our Middle School Mission trip and Sara Lattimore said it was a blessing to serve alongside 21 middle school students and watch them be the hands and feet of Christ to the people and communities in Denver, CO. She said, “They served with joy and enthusiasm, sorting frozen meats at the food bank, cleaning up a soda spill at the food bank, and meeting people who work to help the homeless population in Denver.” 6
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Ella Barkley and her group found a laundry truck parked on the side of the street where a lot of homeless people hang out. Ella said she introduced herself to the man who was running the truck. He showed her around the truck and how it worked. He showed her how they get water for the laundry. As they were talking, she asked him about his story. He had once been homeless in downtown Denver, but now has a job working for the non-profit laundry truck. According to Ella, he was taught how to manage his feelings and now has money and a place to live. Ella said her favorite part of that day was talking to the “laundry guy.” According to https://www. bayaudenterprises.org/communityindividual-services/laundry-truck/, in the Spring of 2016, Bayaud Enterprises retired a commercial truck that was used in their paper shredding business. Rather than sell the truck, which was in good condition, they saw an opportunity to create a mobile laundry truck. TLT’s goals in this project are three-fold:
1. To alleviate the cost, health, and safety issues associated with laundry services for people experiencing extreme poverty and/ or homelessness. 2. To provide job training for people experiencing extreme poverty and/ or homelessness (0-30% AMI). The Laundry Truck will also provide an opportunity for small business development through the generation of earned income. 3. To educate and do outreach using the Laundry Truck as a point of contact to build trust with individuals who experience severe persistent mental illness and homelessness. The mission of Bayaud Enterprises: Our mission is to create Hope, Opportunity and Choice, with work as the means through which people with disabilities and other barriers to employment can more fully participate in the mainstream of life. Their various programs include paid job training opportunities for individuals who qualify for their services. They also provide full-time employment for 180 people, of whom 75% have severe disabilities including physical, mental and emotional.
– Karen Flores Director of Communications
The Middle School Mission Trip Team thanks you for your prayers, as we were on our trip to Colorado. It was transformative and so much fun! 21 Middle Schoolers tackled 7,375 pounds of frozen food at the Food Bank at the Rockies- feeding over 5,000 families in need in the Denver community. The mission team experienced God’s character in so many ways, August 2019 | Thethrough Windowhiking 7 including exploring His creation and whitewater rafting.
THE BAHAMAS
FAMILY MISSION TRIP
Our group worked hard roofing a house and building and painting benches.
July was our Family Mission Trip to Eleuthera, The Bahamas. When we think of The Bahamas, we think of cruise ships, resorts, vacation, shopping and beaches. While this is true in some places, there is another side to life on the islands. Food and necessities are much more expensive than in the states. The minimum wage is around $5 an hour and a quart of milk is $13. The Bahamian dollar is equal to the US dollar. Poverty is real and on non-tourist islands like Eleuthera access to goods and services is limited. To see a doctor often8 means a flight to another island and August 2019 | The Window
additional expenses. Materials for roofing we found were double the cost of those in the states. All of this means there are great needs. Bahamas Methodist Habitat started on the Islands after Hurricane Andrew as a response to the devastation. They have since stayed trying to repair and strengthen homes to prepare for future storms. Our team of 12 people from four families, ranging in age 6 years old to around 50, worked on a roof that was collapsing and leaked in every rainstorm. The family was kind and generous towards our team supporting our work by lending a hand or a snack. It was humbling to receive their gifts. We witnessed the Bahamas 46th year of Independence celebration. This young country is building its identity and its systems.
God showed up to our team and opened our eyes to the reality of life on an island. It is complicated and can be isolating. Community is a valuable thing on the island. Families and friends rally around each other sharing what they have. We joined in the community as we alongside local individuals showed the love of Christ through our actions to a family in need of a safe and dry place to call home.
We left Eleuthera changed and wondering when we might get to return. Some lessons we learned: Looking deeper than the preconceived ideas reveals the truth about the struggle. Serving as a family is super special. Everyone no matter their age or size can do something. Community is a necessity. Love and hospitality is a gift worth giving and receiving. – Sara Lattimore Director of Missions & Outreach
CHANCEL CHOIR PERFORMS PRE-SHOW AT TEXAS MUSICAL
The Chancel Choir performed two musical selections at the Pioneer Amphitheater before the “Texas” musical in Palo Duro Canyon on Saturday, July 13. The choir sang “America, the Beautiful” and a spiritual entitled, “Ain’a that Good News” by William Dawson in front of over 2,000 people before the show began. This opportunity provided a chance to witness to a large group of people
and also provided great exposure for FUMC. In addition, it allowed Chancel Choir members the opportunity for Christian fellowship and community building. Participating members: Michelle Alexander, Sandy Anderson, Clint, Jeannie, and Rachel Barrick; Pitts and Cynthia Davis; Dale and Linda Duhan; Challa Goedeke, Sue Lewis, Cheryl Sevigny, Bryan, Ross and
Carol-Anne Smitherman; Brian Spruill, David, Tamara, Jackson, Turner, and Priscilla Speer; Jeri Strange, and David Warren.
– Jeannie Barrick
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2. Smartphone Download the SecureGive app on your smartphone, or go fumc.com/giving.
3. Kiosks SecureGive Kiosks access either of the two in the church using your credit or debit card • Just outside the business office • At the CLC Welcome Desk
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Our Life Together – July 2019 BAPTISMS Congratulations to Michael and Lauren Uryasz on the baptism of their daughter, Caroline Emory Uryasz on June 309 in the 11 a.m. traditional service by Dr. Shera Atkinson and Dr. Craig Curry. Caroline has an older brother, William.
a member of the Generations Sunday School, and a member of FUMC since October 17, 2004.
Sympathies to Marilyn Murfee on the death of her mother, Shirley Neunaber. Shirley passed away July 5. A private burial service was held on Wednesday, Congratulations to Jeremy and Amelia July 10 led by Rev. Elizabeth Abraham McKnight on the baptism of their son, of Hospice of Lubbock. Family and Harrison Henry McKnight. Harrison friends were invited to share a special was baptized July 21, in the 11 a.m. time for visiting and memories also on traditional service by Dr. Shera July 10, in the Parish Hall of Historic Atkinson. Harrison’s proud grandparents Redeemer Lutheran Church. Marilyn has are Eric and Cheryl McKnight and been a member of FUMC since May Richard and Malinda Standefer. 8, 1977 as well as part of the Chancel Jeremy and Amelia are members of Choir and Friends of Music. Chapelwood UMC in Houston. Sympathies to Joyce Fields and family CONGRATULATIONS on the death of her husband, Dan. He Congratulations to Adam and Kelsey passed away July 5. A time of fellowship Reker, daughter of Alan and Leslie and remembrance was held July 12 Marcom and granddaughter of Jere at Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial and Marisue Smith on the birth of their Designers. Family and friends gathered grandson and great-grandson, Beau to celebrate his life of 92 years July 13, Alan Reker. Beau was born June 25. He at Lake Ridge Chapel. Dan had been weighed 4 pounds, 2 ounces and was a member of FUMC since October 24, 18 inches long. 1993 and a member of the McMillan Sunday School class. NEW MEMBERS Congratulations to to Sam and Sympathies to the Rowlette family on Amanda Krier on joining FUMC. They the death of Mary Frances Rowlette. joined Sunday July 23, in the 9:30 She passed away July 13 in Red Oak. A contemporary service with Rev. Bailey memorial service was held on July 20, at Barkley. Sam and Amanda have three Sanders Funeral Home officiated by Dr. children Ava, Elly, and Karsyn. Sam is Keith Wiseman. Mary had been a memtransferring from Christ the King and ber of FUMC since September 14, 1986. Amanda is transferring from Indiana Avenue Baptist. SYMPATHIES Sympathies to Dee Craig on the death of her son, Dick Craig. Dick passed away June 24. A memorial service was held on July 9, 2019 in Bowman Chapel with Dr. Shera Atkinson officiating. Sympathies to Allison Quisenberry and family on the death of her husband, Todd. Todd passed away June 29. A memorial service was held July 20 in the sanctuary officiated by Dr. Shera Atkinson. Todd had been a part of the Friends of Music,
Memorials & Honorariums – July 15, 2019 BOY SCOUT TROOP #402 In memory of Dick Craig by Dr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson
GORDON MCMILLAN ORGAN CONSOLE FUND In memory of LaWanda Murfee by Jerry and Tobie Bailey
In memory of Dick Craig by Edward and Jo Anne Smith
In memory of Wendell Howard by Jerry and Tobie Bailey
EVERLIVING CHURCH TRUST In memory of Eileen Garrett by Robert and Sharen Musselman
In honor of Reverend Cliff and Amy Wright by Jerry and Tobie Bailey
In memory of Wendell Howard by Robert and Sharen Musselman In memory of LaWanda Murfee by Robert and Sharen Musselman In memory of Larry Neal by Robert and Sharen Musselman
HELPING HANDS In memory of Todd Quisenberry by Generations Sunday School In memory of Todd Quisenberry by Frank and Kathy Phillips In memory of Larry Neal by Frank and Kathy Phillips
In memory of Tom and Margaret Nivens by Robert and Sharen Musselman In memory of Margaret Turner by Robert and Sharen Musselman
MUSIC MINISTRY In memory of Larry Neal by Richard and Cheri Toogood
In memory of LaWanda Murfee by Monte and Cynthia Chitwood
In memory of Larry Neal by Barry and Jana Johnston
In honor of Cate Bibb celebrating your birthday July 19 as a special day by Ben and Robin Lock
In memory of Larry Neal by Dr. and Mrs. Teb Thames
In memory of Jimmie Mason by Quentin and Sue Hancock In memory of Dick Craig by Quentin and Sue Hancock In honor of HI Robinson Sunday School and Thursday Morning Bible Study by Quentin and Sue Hancock
In memory of Larry Neal by Pat and Martha Ginn
In memory of Dan Fields by Jerry and Tobie Bailey In memory of Larry Neal and Kathryn Grinnell by Marcia Evans
In memory of Dan Fields by McMillan Sunday School class
SECOND HELPINGS In memory of Dick Craig by Joe and Pam Murfee
In memory of Dick Craig by HI Robinson Sunday School class
In memory of Dick Craig by Jim Bob and Wanda Bryan In memory of Dick Craig by Hannah Tipps & Shelby Cox
FRIENDS OF MUSIC In memory of Larry Neal by Waldeen Pearson
In memory of Temple Dean Johnson by Phyllis Underwood and Juanita Johnson
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