VOLUME 44 No. 37 OCTOBER 22, 2014 Five practices of Fruitful congregations cultivating The Invitation Traditional Worship 8:45 - Wesley Hall 8:45 & 11 a.m. Worship - Sanctuary Stewardship Sunday, October 26 Extravagant Generosity Stewardship Sunday, October 26 Cultivating Preparation – Matthew 25:1-13 Pledge Cards were mailed to you this week. Please bring completed cards to worship on Sunday. REFRESH Wednesday, October 29: 5:45 p.m. Revelation Study with Jim NO DINNER Adult Gift Response 2015 FORMS ARE AVAILABLE NOW! Forms will be available for the next few weeks. Place your form in the offering plate or turn it in to the church office on or before worship on October 26, 2014. If you have a question about any of the ministry areas, please contact the church office at 662-690-8100 or sapada@fumctupelo.com.Thanks for serving! Begin bringing your plastic gallon jugs for our Christmas Eve Luminaries to the Old Fellowship Hall. Rinse them out and discard the tops. I am participating in the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend to support the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I am running in honor of Magnolia Jane Reed, a 2-year-old cancer patient who is receiving treatment at St. Jude right now. She is also the greatgranddaughter of Janice and Ray Reed from our congregation. As a St. Jude Hero, I have a personal goal to raise $5,000 for the kids of St. Jude by December 31. Will you help me support St. Jude by donating today? You can donate on my website listed below, or simply send a check to the school with my name on the envelope. You can make checks directly payable to St. Jude. How your donation helps: • • • Thanks to donors like you, no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for anything, including treatment, travel, hosing, and food. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90%, by 2020. They won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% since it opened 50 years ago. Please visit my St. Jude Heroes fundraising page and make a donation: http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Heroes/Heroes? px=2855127&pg=personal&fr_id=20445 Thanks for your support! Sincerely, Brock Kelly (7th Grader at FUMC) Dinner plates will be available and donations will be accepted to offset the cost of the food. KEEP BRINGING CANDY! Deadline to register your vehicle: October 23, 2014 Please email kristen@fumctupelo.com or call her at the church (690-8100) to register. The Prayers and Squares Ministry, a new, developing FUMC ministry promoting prayer through the use of quilts, needs 100% cotton fabric—big or small pieces in any color—and men’s dress shirts. Please leave any of these items in the church office. Thank you for your support of this ministry. Children's Ministry is offering “A Night like No Other”, a wonderful family Christmas devotion and activity set. Each set will include an “A Night like No Other” Family Activity sticks & Tumbler set featuring 48 different activities/ conversation starters for families, “A Night like No Other” soft cover book, a pair of fun Prism glasses, 4 weeks worth of devotions and a 16 page activity book that reinforces the devotions. These will be available for our families at no cost! However, to be good stewards of our finances, we are asking families to sign up to receive a goody bag including all the “A Night like No Other” items. Sign up sheets will be available in the Younger Children’s Wing and in the Older Children’s wing. If you would like to see the kit, we have one available for preview. For those families with multiple children, additional tumblers and prism glasses can be ordered! The deadline to sign up will be November 2 and we will have them for you before Advent begins on November 30! LIBRARY NEWS Leading Lives That Matter by Mark R. Schwehn and Dorothy C. Bass, Editors This anthology seeks to make easily available to readers some of the best thinking and writing that human beings have done over the centuries about the very questions that most trouble human beings when they wonder about how to lead lives of substance and significance. It offers guidance about who we should be and what we should do if we are to lead lives that truly matter. THE UNITED METHODIST WOMEN INVITE YOU TO A FALL LUNCHEON EVENT Plants of the Bible WITH MASTER GARDENER: KAY MARTIN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - 11:30 A.M. WESLEY HALL - $5 LUNCH EVERYONE IS INVITED! RESERVATIONS TO 690-8100 ARE APPRECIATED BY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.–Song of Solomon 2:12 SERVING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 ACOLYTES & CRUCIFERS: 8:45 Traditional: Ashton Collins (a), Massie Eckard (c) The Invitation: Elizabeth Gaines (a) 11:00: Grace Pitcock (a), Trip Wilson (c) TV OPERATORS: David Dillard, Jim Holder, Lee McKenzie GREETERS: 8:45 Traditional: Costa Hill The Invitation: Eddie Warren, David Bell 11:00: Jodie/Sean Thompson USHERS: 8:45 Traditional: Jim Black, Jim Denton, Ron Stephens, Phillip Williams The Invitation: Chan Brown, Jack Foster, Lynn Holland, David Pace, Shipman Sloan 11:00: Mickey Akers, Marshall Briscoe, Randy Daniel, Phil Ruff STEWARDSHIP 2014 Budget Goal...................................... $2,453,889.00 Needed Weekly ............................................. $47,190.18 Last Sunday 2014 Budget Offering................ $36,633.98 2014 Ten Month Budgeted Amount.......... $2,044,907.32 Received to Date for 2014......................... $1,835,306.99 Spent to Date for 2014............................... $1,863,907.29 FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH—TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 1, 2014 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 8:45 Worship, Sanctuary 8:45 The Invitation, WH 10:00 Sunday School 11:00 Worship, Sanctuary 5:00 Earthkeepers, CH 5:00 Youth Choir 6:00 Youth Small Groups 6:00 6th Grade Small Group MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten 2:30 CASA, CLC 5:30 Divorce Recovery, WH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 8:00-11:30 Clothes Closet Open for Donations 9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten 10:00 Faithbuilders 11:00 Program Staff, CR 2:30 CASA, CLC 3:00 Carol Choir WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 7:00 Youth Prayer Breakfast, Connie’s 9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten 2:30 CASA, CLC 3:00 Children’s Choir 4:30 Homework Helps, GR 5:15 Refresh Dinner/Study, WH 6:00 Sanctuary Handbells 6:00 Youth Worship 7:00 Chancel Choir THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 8:00-11:30 Clothes Closet Open for Donations 9:00 Inv. Planning, WH 9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten 1:15 Traceway Van 2:30 CASA, CLC FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten 2:30 CASA, CLC 5:30 Trunk or Treat SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 9:00 Helping Hands Open