Eugene First United

Methodist Church

1376 Olive Street, Eugene Oregon 97401

Phone: 541-345-8764 Fax: 541-485-5025

January 7, 2018

New Bible Study For 2018 Has Begun

 

We have an amazing “Adult Transformation Team” that is hard at work designing and organizing opportunities for adult Christian formation here at the First United Methodist Church of Eugene. In the past members have brought us engaging connecting small group topics, and interesting symposiums. In the new year, your Adult Transformations Team is going to try something new after worship. 

 

We want to be intentional about making adult Bible study available on a day and at a time that is accessible to you! So in the new year we will have an Adult Bible Study, every Sunday, at 11:30am, in the chapel.     

If you have young children, this is an opportunity for you to advance your own faith formation while your kids are in Sunday School.

We think this will be an important opportunity to connect with people visiting our church. If a person or a family goes to the trouble of finding out when and where we worship on Sunday, and then comes to worship with us, they may also expect to find an opportunity for study and small group connection. If our current Thursday morning theology discussion group doesn’t fit with their schedule, our hope is that a Sunday morning study opportunity will be something of interest to our visitors. 

This study group will be fresh every Sunday  - there will be no expectation that you attended the Sunday before, or that you will attend the next week. Our goal is every Sunday provide visitor-friendly opportunities for faith formation. 

    

All are welcome! A core value of our community, something discussed at length at our last Joel’s Cafe experience, is our love for “connection.” We want visitors to come and find a group of welcoming and engaged adults excited for some good discussion around our Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament. 

So bring your coffee with you! In the next few weeks, we will be looking at the various parables that Jesus works with in the Gospels.  

Great News From Uganda!!!!

Pat and Willie Knaus shared pictures of opening day of the Mothers Children's Medical Center in Uganda. It is wonderful to see all of the hard work of the Willugembe's and countless others come to fruition!! Stay tuned for more more information soon.

Clean, Dry Bread Bags Needed



The Thursday Community Lobby Breakfast needs clean and dry bread bags. You may leave them in the marked box on the kitchen counter. Thank you for supporting this worthwhile ministry of FUMC!!

Our Forgotten Item Pile Is Getting Too Big

If any of the items in the picture below live at your house, please remember to re-claim them soon. Anything left after 1/14/2018 will be lovingly donated to new homes.

2018 Kitchen Etiquette

As we move into the new year we are going to remind everyone of some not so new kitchen etiquette requests.

1) Please label items you leave in the kitchen, refrigerator, freezer, or cabinets. The label needs to state what the items are meant to be used for and the date. This helps us to determine what to do with items that are left over. We never like to throw out any usable food, so anything not marked is subject to be used for Thursday morning breakfast or to give out with our daily food bags.

2) Please remember to retrieve your pots, pans, plates, utensils, etc... that you bring to events, preferably by the next week. While we love adding items to our kitchen, we do not want to do it by taking away from your personal kitchen.

3) Please leave the kitchen clean when you depart. Our custodians will usually take care of the dishes the next morning but in every other way, the kitchen should be left clean and orderly when you leave.

In addition, this year we will begin purging the refrigerator each Friday afternoon. As everyone knows, we only have one refrigerator and it is usually packed full so please promptly remove or mark leftovers so we know how to use them.

Thank you to everyone for helping keep our kitchen clean, tidy, and manageable.

Pat's Ukes To Continue

Each Wednesday, January 10-31, Pat's Ukes will meet at 5:30 in Room 19 . Also, be on the lookout for an announcement for the next beginning uke class.

Theology Thursday Has Resumed

The Thursday Theology Group Has resumed and will meet each Thursday at 9:45 a.m. in the Library . We look forward to seeing you there.

For Maxine Pilon and James Pontious who both broke their hips and had to have hip replacements; Laura Stanton prays that her Grandmother has a happy 70th Birthday on January 11th; By Glenn Biehl , continued progress for Nina Rogers & Kathie Wiper with health issues in 2018 and many thanks to Debby Collins who is #1 in Nina’s life; by Dody Hansen that the new year will bring joy and the opportunity to serve each other; by Carolyn Abbott for Janie Fry for peace and healing; Cleo Mapfumo gives thanks to FUMC for all of the love and support during this difficult time for their family & for 2018 to be a blessed and peaceful year & for peace and love for the world; for Bren Nukles in rehab; for Patti Hine’s niece with stage 4 cancer; by Barbara Garner for Mick Gough as he continues chemo; for Penny Palmer’s family as they move through the season of her brother Larry Palmer's death; for those going through treatment for cancer: Valerie Stewart, Tama Rowan, Laurie Granger, & Mick Gough… Gracious God, hear our prayers. 

This Week At First

Monday:

4:00 p.m. 350 Eugene in the Heritage Room

4:00 p.m. Prayer Shawls in the Library

7:00 p.m. Ruth Fellowship in the Library

Tuesday:

Noon Reading Fellowship in the Library

1:00 p.m. Ruth Fellowship in the Library

Wednesday:

9:30 a.m. Deborah/Lydia Fellowship in the Library

6:30 p.m. Choir in the Chapel

Thursday:

9:00 a.m. Community Breakfast in the Lobby

9:45 a.m. Theology Thursday in the Library

10:45 a.m. Backpacks in Fellowship Hall

5:30 p.m. 350 Eugene in Fellowship Hall

6:30 p.m. Lay Reader Training in the Chapel

Friday:

1:00 p.m. Raging Grannies in the chapel

Saturday:

11:00 a.m. Choir Retreat in the Chapel

Sunday:

8:30 a.m. Men's Group in the Library

10:00 a.m. Worship

11:15 a.m. Blood Pressure Clinic in Fellowship Hall

11:20 a.m. Caregivers Support Group in the Library

11:30 a.m. Sunday School (Kids and Adults)

5:00 p.m. Restore (Location TBA)