First Church News & Updates - June 7, 2019
|
|
How blessed we are to have Charles Mallory as our organist. What a beautiful way to begin worship last Sunday! Listen again as Charles plays "Fanfare” by Nicolas Jacques Lemmens.
|
|
Enjoy this First Church news.
|
|
Experience Love. Spread Hope.
|
|
On this Pentecost Sunday, we conclude our sermon series this week entitled
"The Fire Within." We will be celebrating the sacrament of
Holy Communion at all services.
Sermon: “The Fired-Up, Multi-Lingual Church"
Please join us in worship at 8:30 am (Sanctuary), 9:40 am (Family Life Center) and 11 am (Sanctuary) this Sunday.
You are encouraged to wear red to celebrate Pentecost.
|
|
A Note from Pat McCain...
My office is just like I found it last summer!
I remember checking out my office here at the church last summer just before I joined the First Church team. It looks very much like it did almost a year ago! There are suitcases lined up all along the walls and boxes of medical supplies all over my office ready to go on our
Mission Panama Trip this month.
This clutter is a beautiful sight! It’s actually an expression of the love of our Church for our global village and it is also a tangible way to share the love of Jesus Christ with others. Thank you to all who have donated items for this mission. We are accepting donations until June 16.
Please pray for the 20 First Church members going on this trip—they are doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, a pharmacist, lay volunteers, and me! We all want to be used by God to bring healing to souls and bodies in the name of Jesus, the Great Physician.
We will be passing around the chicken buckets to support the local mission work in Panama both this Sunday and next Sunday. I know you will give generously...it is one of the many ways we bring our vision to life, and
Boldly Spread the Love of Jesus Christ to Bring Hope to the World!
Read the Mission Panama article below for more details.
Make no mistake about it—the people of First Church have a heart for Jesus Christ and a heart for the world. Our Student Ministry teams are living out this heart for mission by serving the poor in Sunflower, Mississippi this week. Seventy youth and adults are spending their first week of summer repairing homes and improving the living conditions of the area’s most needy residents. This team will return home tomorrow—bodies tired, but souls filled.
Thank you, First Church, for sharing the love of Jesus Christ with the world—boldly, courageously, and extravagantly!
In Christ,
|
|
Dr. Pat McCain
Associate Pastor
|
|
Giving this Week: $25,318.84
YTD Revenue: $916,504.59
YTD Expenses: $992,435.57
2019 Budget: $2,481,068.00
|
|
Save the date! Watermelon, Baseball & Fun, July 14
|
|
This year’s team will be taking 20 First Church members plus a guest team member from Hamburg UMC New York. There are 4 doctors, 2 nurse practitioners, 5 nurses, a pharmacist along with 8 lay people and Dr. Pat McCain who will be working in clinics near Santa Fe, serving the local indigenous community as an expression of the love of Jesus Christ. Over 400 Panamanian men, women and children will receive care from our team in remote areas where doctors are scarce and medicine is expensive or unavailable. To do this we need your help!
Our mission team raises funds to purchase common antibiotics and medicines to take with us for the doctors and nurses to use in the clinic. Each team member will also take one extra suitcase filled with over-the-counter items such as
liquid medications (Tylenol, ibuprofen, Benadryl, Claritin, Zyrtec) , hydrocortisone cream, Lotrimin (generic) cream, adult multivitamins, artificial tears, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
If you are able to donate any of these over-the-counter items, please leave them in the sanctuary and Family Life Center foyers or the church office any time between now and Sunday, June 16. We also need a few more suitcases. If you have a large, wheeled suitcase that you’d like to donate, please let Rae Frenette know, 512.255.3336.
In addition to physical donations, we also need your prayers for a safe and effective journey. We will be passing the chicken buckets during our worship services on Sunday, June 9 and 16. We will also have our prayer bracelets available in the foyers before each service beginning next week. Make a donation and choose a bracelet that you can wear as a reminder to pray for us.
Thank you for supporting this worthy cause!
|
|
BEE a Ringer! Children's Chime Camps are coming up! July 16 – 18 & August 6 – 8.
Sign up for one of our summer chime camps for children in grades 3 - 5. Three days of reading, rhythm and fun.
More details...
|
|
Our High School Mission Team has been on the job in Sunflower, MS this week. Check their
Facebook page for photos and updates.
|
|
This week at First Church...
|
|
Saturday, June 8
Sunday, June 9
- 8:30, 9:40 & 11 am – Worship Services
- 12:15 pm – VBS Crew Leader Meeting, Bldg. 232/234
Monday, June 10
- 6:00 pm – Trustees meeting, Bldg. 5-136
- 7:00 pm – Boy Scout Troop #157, FLC
Tuesday, June 11
- 8:30 am – UMM Tuesday Breakfast Group, Juarez Bakery
- 9:30 am – First Church Crafters, 115 Winsted
- 6:30 pm – UMW Lydia Circle Salad Supper, Bldg. 3/FLC
Wednesday, June 12
- 6:15 am – UMM Breakfast, fellowship, & devotional, FLC/Bldg. 3
- 9:00 am – VBS T-shirt sorting, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 6:00 pm – HeartSong Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 7:15 pm – Chancel Choir rehearsal, South Suite
Thursday, June 13
- 9:30 am – Heart to Heart Quilters, 115 Winsted
Friday, June 14
- 8:30 am – Round Rock Helpers, Bldg. 4-2
- 8:00 pm – Narcotics Anonymous-Right Stuff, Bldg. 4
Saturday, June 15
- 7:00 pm – First Church Bridge Club, Bldg, 5-127
|
|
Betty Robertson
Communication
First United Methodist Church Round Rock
|
|
Just a reminder... You're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in First United Methodist Church. Don't forget to add
newsletter@fumc-rr.org
to your address book so we'll be sure to land in your inbox!
|
|
First United Methodist Church | Round Rock, TX
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
