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Issue: 20
May 16, 2018
In This Issue
Greeters & Ushers
Happy Birthday!
Children
Care & Prayer Concerns
Quick Links
Human Trafficking Speaker
Sunday a t 12:00 p.m.

Katie Little, Director of Advancement for Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking (CCAHT), will speak at FFUMC on Sunday at noon.  The title of her presentation is "Human Trafficking 101."

The Church and Society Committee invites you and your friends to attend.  A light lunch will be provided  for those attending.  To reserve a lunch, please contact  the church office  865-966-8430, sign up at the Missions' table, or contact  Laura Derr  TODAY .

Topics to be discussed: prevention-based knowledge, common misconceptions, identify potential victims, and response strategies.
Thank you to Jeanette Krupski for sending our college students goody packages! The packages were delivered before exams. Please email Randee  if your college student graduated. Don't forget to email your updated address for the 2018-19 year. Have a great summer!
If you love to help, volunteer for Vacation Bible School!
Please email Paige for details about different opportunities.
Our VBS donation board is up! Please stop by  and take home a sticky note and bring your donations by June 3rd.
Thank you!
Mark your calendars for VBS!


June 25-28
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
 
  "Shipwrecked Rescued by Jesus"
Youth

United Methodist  Youth Fellowship   (UMYF)
Questions? Email Chuck Powell.
 
Today at 4 p.m. Pool Party
Mission Trip - July 8-13, 2018
Thursday, May 31 
Dinner at Lakeside Tavern
at 6:30 p.m.  Please RSVP
t o  Anita  Oberdecker at (865)  675-1415 by Sunday,  May 27th. 
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Information Desk
9:00 a.m. -  Gail Duncan
10:00 a.m. - Jeanne Huie

Greeters
9:00 a.m. -   Betty Collins & Gail Hulme
11:00 a.m. - open
Please contact if would like to greet on Sundays.  Lara Burn

Ushers
9:00 a.m. -  Doug Hulme, Calvin Harris
& Earl Hall
11:00 a.m. - Sign up with this  link!
Rolling Schedule: Todd Bocik, Robin Herrington & Ryan Reddick
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Congratulations to the following 
who will have birthdays this week!

May:
 18  - Scott Blazer
         Tess Mallison
         La Gonda Mapes
 19 - Bill Mackebee
 23 - Clark Brekke
         Dave Love
FINANCIAL PULSE
As of April 30, 2018

YTD Total Contributions:     $205,607.39
YTD Total Expenses:             $187,295.07
YTD Net Operating Total:      $ 18,312.32
YTD Total Capital Gifts:         $ 62,221.50
Attention Kroger Shoppers!
Don't forget to re-enroll!
  If you shop at Kroger, please click here to visit the Kroger Community Rewards secure website and click on "Enroll" to register your individual Kroger Plus card to First Farragut UMC's account 
(# 84417).  
 
We received $159.56 from your shopping last quarter!

Thank you for your generosity in supporting the mission endeavors 
for the 2018 session of the Holston Annual Conference, to be held 
June 10-13, at Lake Junaluska, NC. The response for the hands-on mission project for the Ishe Anesu Project for Underprivileged Children
in Zimbabwe is gratifying. Full or partial kits are to be brought to the church on or before Sunday, June 3. Your pastors, and lay members Cookie Spillers and Necia Carter, will be a part of the send-off at the Monday morning session.
 
I am asking your support for the Annual Conference 2018 Mission Offering, supporting South Sudanese Brothers and Sisters in Exile in Northern Uganda. Please submit a financial gift on or before June 3, made out FFUMC, noted " Annual Conference 2018." I was a part of Holston Conference teams to Yei, South Sudan in March of 2008 and 2009. It was a time of relative peace after a 50-year period of civil war. My teams, and following teams were instrumental in supporting churches and schools, pastor's training, providing wells, and building an orphanage for the children of warfare. Now, warfare has erupted again in South Sudan, and United Methodist brothers and sisters remain caught in the conflict, or are in exile in three different refugee camps in Northern Uganda. The children of the Grace Home for Children are safe there. 
I humbly invite your response.
 
You have heard the refrain and response, "God is good/all the time. All the time/God is good." Two Holston Conference missioners were visiting the refugee camps in February of this year. There they saw, inscribed in chalk on the cracked mud wall of one of our church buildings, these words of affirmation: Jesus is good. So, get ready to hear and respond to "Jesus is Good/all the time. All the time/Jesus is good." And I add the response of the children on my 2009 experience, "And that is His nature. Wow!"

Don

Pentecost is almost here! 
 
Pentecost  is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Easter -- S unday, May 20.
 
Why does Pentecost  Sunday matter? 
1.       Pentecost is the day when Christians
commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and others gathered in Jerusalem.  Witnesses were unified by the power of the Holy spirit and saw "tongues, as of fire" (Acts 2:3).
2.     It also marks the birthday of the Christian church.
 
In addition, this year is the 50th Anniversary of The United Methodist  Church .   Did you know the red flames in the UMC emblem are a reminder of Pentecost ? 
 
This Sunday, come to church ready to celebrate by wearing red, the liturgical color for Pentecost .   It's going to be a great day of joyful worship!  Before Sunday school, join us to celebrate the 50th a nniversary with cake provided by the Church and Society Committee.   
      
CHILDREN

Summer Sunday School   (Pre-K - 5th grade)
Different theme each Sunday!
May 27 - Doughnut breakfast with a movie
June 3 - "Inside Out Day"

Vacation Bible School
June 25-28 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Register today!

Want to be "in the loop" on all Children's Wing activities? 
Be sure to join our Facebook group 
(FFUMC Children's Ministry)!
Holston Annual Conference -  Hands  on Mission

The Tennessee Valley District (formerly the Oak Ridge District)  is collecting health kits that will be sent to Ishe Anesu Project for 

Underprivileged Children in Zimbabwe. If you can help, please stop by the Serving Team table on Main Street to pick up a bag with a complete list of items needed for the health kits.

Please return your kit no later than Sunday, June 3rd. The Tennessee Valley District has set a goal of collecting 400 kits for this year's conference mission.
NEW RESOURCES
First Farragut UMC's Footprints Ministry serves  as a bridge to connect church and home. Click  here  for our current recommendations.

Care and 
Prayer 
Concerns

Please remember the following  care 
and prayer concerns  this week:
  • Christian Missionaries Everywhere
  • Gaelyn Amick (Joyce Judge's granddaughter)
  • Brian Bartosik
  • Richard Bartosik 
  • Suzanne Bilbrey (death of husband Dewie)
  • Karen Blazer
  • Bruce Burr (in remission from throat cancer, Debbie & John Salzer's son-in-laws' stepfather)
  • Necia Carter (death of 88-year-old sister, Geraldine Groner)
  • Troy Cato (colon cancer, son of Renee Alley's friend)
  • Lee Collins
  • Lisa Davis (brain cancer, friend of Carrie Linn)
  • J.T. Hankins
  • John Hankins  (defibrillator replacement 3/23)
  • Charlie Helms
  • Kenneth Henderson  (hospice, Marilyn Halas' father)
  • Kris Lane (son-in-law of Steve & Jeanette Krupski)
  • Cheryl Lewis & Family  (chemo shots continue, friend of Harden Family)
  • La Gonda & Lee Mapes  (death of uncle, Wilfred Haun )
  • Bill & Sherry Purdy (friends of Alvin Jenkins)
  • Evelyn Rainwater (mother of Michael Rainwater)
  • Michael Rainwater 
  • Jolanda Rice (cancer, mother of Jeanette Krupski)
  • Sarah Roberto
  • Julianne Schoolcraft
  • Melody Schwab  (breast cancer, friend of Jean Fowler)
  • Randy Sedlacek (hospice, Jodie Petersen's father)
  • Becky Luther Tannehill (breast cancer, Carrie Linn's aunt)
  • Jimmy Taylor ( Clinical Research Participation)
  • Judah Thacker (brain cancer, Molly Veness' friend's nephew) 
  • Trecia Walters (cancer, Mark Overbay's cousin)  
  • Virginia Zanti  (cancer)
  • Military Personnel & their families
Intermediate and long-term concerns are held in prayer daily through our 
prayer chain and prayer groups. 
If you have a prayer concern, 
please contact 
the church office  at 966-8430 or admin@ffumc.org.
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