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VOLUME 45 No. 8
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
JOURNEY TO
WHOLENESS
DAWN OF A
NEW DAY
Traditional Worship
8:45 and 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Based on the last 7 sayings of Jesus on the cross
The Invitation Worship—8:45 a.m.—Wesley Hall
Sunday, March 1
Sunday, March 1
John 9:1-41
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise”
Sunday, March 8
John 4
Sunday, March 8
“Woman, this is your son”
Sunday, March 15
John 3:14-21
Sunday, March 15
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me”
Sunday, March 22
John 11
Sunday, March 22
“I Thirst”
Palm/Passion Sunday, March 29
Luke 22
Palm/Passion Sunday, March 29
“It is finished”
Wednesday, February 25
5:15 p.m. Dinner
6 p.m. Healing Service, Sanctuary
Wednesday, March 4
5:15 p.m. Dinner
Menu: Black Bean & Pumpkin Soup, Potato Soup,
Pasta Primavera, Rolls, Salad Bar, Cheese Cake
6 p.m. Taizé Service, Sanctuary
Wednesday, March 11
No Programming due to Spring Break
Wednesday, March 25
TBA
Wednesday, April 1
No Programming due to Holy Week
Maundy Thursday, April 2
7 p.m. Communion Service, Sanctuary
Good Friday, April 3
7 p.m. Tenebrae Service, Sanctuary
Wednesday, March 18
5:15 p.m. Dinner
6 p.m. Service of Mission, Wesley Hall
WEDNESDAY COMMUNION & PRAYER SERVICES: 12:05-12:20 P.M.
February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1
LENTEN LUNCHEON SERIES
Thursday, February 26: St. James Catholic Church – 845 Lakeshire Drive
Thursday, March 5: All Saints Episcopal Church – 608 West Jefferson Street
Thursday, March 12: First Presbyterian Church – 400 West Jefferson Street
Thursday, March 19: Lawndale Presbyterian Church – 1500 Lawndale Drive
Thursday, March 26: St. Luke United Methodist Church – 1400 Clayton Avenue
The community will gather at noon and a light lunch will be served.
Donations accepted to offset the cost of lunch.
Primetimers MOVIE NIGHT!
6 p.m. in Wesley Hall
$2 includes movie, popcorn and drink
The Littlest Angel Choir
will present a special program
On Sunday, March 1
at 4 p.m. in the Chapel.
Tuesday, March 3: And So It Goes
Thursday, March 19; The Queen
Thursday, April 23: Enchanted April
Call Kathryn (213-1337) to reserve a seat!
FUMC TV Ministry:
More Channels! More Systems!
Our TV Ministry is expanding to include more channels
and cable systems! Beginning this Sunday, you can view
First United Methodist Church’s 11 a.m. service on the
following channels and systems:
Comcast - Channel 4; Metrocast – Channel 20;
Cable One – Channel 11; DISH Network – Channel 49;
and with an over-the-air antenna on Channel 49.
For further information, please contact Shannon Turner
at 690-8100 or Shannon @fumctupelo.com
What is the Divorce Recovery Workshop?
•
A 25+ year successful FUMC Outreach Ministry, helping hundreds from all over north Mississippi
•
Eleven weeks of support for anyone experiencing divorce or separation
•
Led by former participants of this workshop, who, because of their belief in this ministry, volunteer
as small group leaders and facilitators
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Speakers from a variety of support professions including pastors, counselors, former leaders,
and financial experts offer help & support
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Broken Rainbows is offered for children of participants, as well as child care for the youngest
Once again we will offer this workshop beginning March 2. Encourage someone you know who might benefit from this opportunity, to contact the church office for information at 662.690.8100.
FIRST FRIDAY
FELLOWSHIP
March 6 at 11:30 a.m.
Wesley Hall
Lunch $5
Program: Patricia Neely-Dorsey is a graduate of
Tupelo High School and Boston University. She is
the author of Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia - A Life in Poems and My Magnolia Memories and
Musins - In Poems. She calls her books “a celebration
of the south and things southern.”
Music of the Soul
Day Retreat
March 7
10 a.m.—3 p.m.
FUMC will sponsor and build a Habitat for Humanity house September 12 -19, 2015. Please put
this date on your calendar. We will need as many
volunteers as we can to help us build this house
and give hope to a family. More information will
be provided in the months to come. If you need
information before that time please contact Sapada Thomas: sapada@fumctupelo.com or
Wesley Partin (662) 679-0380.
The “Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life”
will attend the “Music of the Soul” Day Retreat at the Duncan Gray Conference Center
in Canton, MS on Saturday March 7 from 10
a.m.—3 p.m. Mark and Jennifer Shepherd
will help lead this retreat. There will be various opportunities to practices spiritual disciplines on this retreat. The church bus will
leave from the church at 6:45 a.m. and return
around 7 p.m. Cost for the retreat is $30.
For more information contact
Sapada sapada@fumctupelo.com or
Mark Shepherd: m.shepherd@bellsouth.net
1
J.D. Bailey
Hayden Buckley
Susannah Eidt
Mattie Hughes
2
Emma Atkinson
Christopher Lippincott
Natasha Morrison
Will Murphree
Grace Pitcock
John Pryor
Alexis Rather
Rachel Spencer
3
Kylee Foster
Kay Giles
Susan Hester
Julie Hinds
Michelle Johnson
Robyn Kelly
Blake Love
Bo Morrison
Lilly Pace
Green Smith
Carol Threadgill
Meg Wise
4
Pam Brekke
Conner Collins
Dennis Wright
5
Lacy Bailey
Charlie Davis
Carolyn Green
Julian Prince
Rob Rice
6
David Baker
Paula Bingham
Harrison Eidt
Todd Hunt
Harold Kay
Bill Prater
Lilla Ann Reed
David A. White, Sr.
1
M/M Roger Bland
M/M Don Leathers
4
M/M Chris Bray
5
M/M Andy Anderson
9
M/M Jay Collins
M/M Charles Grace
10
M/M Brandon Turney
Angela Wildmon
7
Fuller Alvarez
Matt Asters
Todd Beadles
Melinda Bell
Kathy Hamilton
8
Polly Bailey
Tommye Carver
Ken Lippincott
Janice Lomenick
Maddie Russell
9
Patrick Beasley
June Harrison
Sylvia McCurdy
Chad West
10
Wyatt Barrow
Jack Foster
Emma Gousset
Steve McAlilly
Wesley McCullough
Caitlyn Wilson
11
Carter Brown
Boatner Calhoun
Murphy Cook
12
Mitch Lowe
Jane Alice Moore
13
Lauren Barber
Chris Cole
Tom Murry
Elizabeth Russell
14
Blake Harris
Jay Jourdan
Georgia Marlin
Jennifer Shepherd
15
Will Beasley
Kyle Coffin
Kelly Gregory
Cindy Harris
Carrie Vail
Whitney Williams
16
Will Darsey
Drew Garrett
Adam Paxton
17
Betsy Davis
Andrew Emig
Dane Hagemann
Allie West
18
Allan Ezell
Regan Hawkins
Mike Hester
Susan Lann
Riley Macklin
James Pilgrim
19
Mary Dawson Buskirk
Patrick Green
Mary Frances Osbirn
Eddie Parker
Charles Talley
Calvin White
20
Jeff Green
Austin Turner
21
Melba Dill
22
Lori Greer
Sarah Karrant
Haydn Truett
23
Sidney Darsey
Sally Gillentine
Clay Short
Ann Douglas Stone
24
Keith Adams
Patrick Bland
John M. Crabtree
Lacy Morse
Betty Robbins
11
M/M Todd Buskirk
12
M/M Stacy Simmons
15
M/M Felix Rutledge, Jr.
16
M/M Troy Beck
M/M Jim Gilmore
D/M Dick White
17
M/M Chuck Foote
Jocelyn Smith
Adrian Thompson
25
David Atkins
Jay Collins
Andy Mulkey
George Rutledge
26
Ashton Collins
Lilli McGraw
Caroline Turney
27
Peiffer Adams
Callahan Beall
Sanders Beall
Morgan Brekke
Abby Condit
Louise Harris
Maddie Hewitt
Elizabeth West
Jan Yarbrough
28
Baxter Bray
Jim Curtis
Charlie English
Ben Gatlin
Butch Harris
Jan McGreger
Susan Presley
Andy Short
Bev Stroup
29
Reneé Baldwin
Peggy Carter
Urcle Lomenick
Merilee McCurdy
30
Mike Asters
31
Clay Hewitt
Martha Whitehead
18
M/M Richie Swinney
22
M/M Gary Hawkins
25
M/M Randy Ivy
M/M Mike Oliver
27
M/M Jamie Osbirn
M/M Donnie Bridges
29
M/M Jim McGraw
...Rick Showalter
By:
Charlotte Westbrook
M/M David Brevard
Donna Timmons
Lynn Collier
Mona Broadaway
Carla Brooks
Kayla Fisackenly
Sheila Kelly
Angela Coggins
M/M Todd Wheeler
M/M Jim Diffee
Super Sagless Co.
Roberta Brown
Joyce Showalter
M/M Steven Mills
Leggett & Platt HFCU Grp
M/M Paul Johnston
…Dr. Lee Rogers
By:
Gayle Kinsey
M/M Gerald Wages
F.L. Lummus family
M/M Mitchell Taub
Dr. James Holbrook
D/M Eldridge Fleming
M/M Jameson Rogers
Jo Wright
Carolyn Boggan
Jo Anne Harris
Helen Collins
M/M Steven Strode
D/M Roy Ryan
M/M Tim Polk
…Peter Whitehead
By:
The Westbrook family
…Buck Buchanan
…Robert Smith
By:
M/M Rick Caldwell
…Herbert Denton, Jr.
By:
Carolyn Perry
M/M David Brevard
Carolyn Boggan
…Kelly Clark Putt
By:
D/M Fayette Williams
…Suzanne Raper
By:
Carolyn Boggan
…Mary Hall Stinson
By:
M/M Henry Dodge
…Alan Nunnelee
By:
M/M Allan Ezell
SYMPATHY
SERVING SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015
•
...Bobbye McCormick, who passed away February
17 in Oxford, MS. She was the step-mother of Sandra Wright (Dennis).
•
...Kitty Reed, who passed away February 22 in Tupelo, MS. She was the mother of Susan Nelson
(Edward), Anne Strickland (Peter), and Helen
Collins. She was the grandmother of Bill Richards,
Leigh Richards, Amy Nelson, Laura Collins, and
Will Collins.
ACOLYTE & CRUCIFER:
8:45 Traditional: Brock Kelly (c), Abrielle Carnathan (a)
8:45 The Invitation: Lilee Rose (a)
11 Traditional: Trip Wilson (c), Jake Weir (a)
SANCTUARY SOUND:
8:45: David Dillard 11: Jim Karrant
TV OPERATORS:
Steve Lesley, Lee McKenzie, Jason Pannell
GREETERS:
8:45 Traditional: Jean Harper
The Invitation: David Bell, Eddie Warren
11:00: Polly/Richard Crenshaw
USHERS:
8:45 Traditional: Raymond Jourdan, Fred Mothershed,
Jim Rish, Stacy Simmons
The Invitation: Carl Bragenberg, Mitch Hester, Mike
Marlin, Eddie Warren, Ken Wilson
11:00: Bill Beasley, Scooter Carr, Mac Curlee, John
Holliday
STEWARDSHIP
2015 Budget Goal ..................................$2,411,501.20
2015 Needed Weekly .................................$46,375.03
2015 Two Month Budgeted Amount .............$401,916.30
Last Week’s Offering through 2/12 ............$32,867.08
2015 Offering through 2/12 ......................$363,657.48
Spent to Date 2015 through 2/12 ..............$353,155.69
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH—TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
CALENDAR FOR MARCH 1-7, 2015
SUNDAY, MARCH 1
8:45 Worship, Sanctuary
8:45 The Invitation, WH
10:00 Sunday School
11:00 Worship, Sanctuary
4:00 Cub Scouts, FH
4:00 Littlest Angel Program, Chapel
5:00 Earthkeepers, CH
5:00 Youth Choir
6:00 6th Grade Small Group
MONDAY, MARCH 2
9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten
9:00 Invitation Planning, 313
2:30 CASA, Gym
5:00 Book Group, CR
5:30 Divorce Recovery, WH
TUESDAY, MARCH 3
8:00-11:30 Clothes Closet Open for Donations
9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten
10:00 Faithbuilders
11:00 Program Staff, CR
2:00 Littlest Angel Choir
2:30 CASA, CLC
3:00 Carol Choir
6:00 Senior Movie Night, CLC
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
7:00 Youth Prayer Breakfast, Connie’s
9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten
12:05 Communion, Chapel
2:30 CASA, CLC
3:00 Children’s Choir
4:30 Homework Helps
5:30 Refresh Meal
6:00 Taize' Service, Sanctuary
6:00 Youth Worship
6:00 Sanctuary Handbells
7:00 Chancel Choir
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
8:00-11:30 Clothes Closet Open for Donations
9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten
9:00 Invitation Worship Planning
1:15 Traceway Van
2:30 CASA, CLC
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
9:00 Preschool/Kindergarten
11:30 First Friday Fellowship, WH
2:30 CASA, CLC
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
9:00-12:00 Helping Hands Open