First Church News & Updates - November 23, 2018
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We hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends.
This issue of E-News is all about the many opportunities coming up during the Advent Season. Enjoy!
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Vision 2025 - Experience Love. Spread Hope.
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This Week in Worship - Christ the King Sunday
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Sermon: "Can I Get a Witness?"
Rev. David Johnson will be preaching at all three worship services. Please join us in worship this weekend. The 8:30 and 11 am services will be in the Sanctuary. The 9:40 am service will be in the Family Life Center.
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The Fifth Dimension
- Witness
I began this series by playing a short track of the Fifth Dimension singing
"Let the Sunshine In." This Sunday, we look at what it means to be a witness (the fifth dimension of our promise to God)...someone who offers testimony of the love of God in words and action. Witnesses in a courtroom provide evidence that something is true. We provide evidence by our lives that the gospel is real and life-changing. Witnesses also make something visible that others may not have seen. As Christians we invite people to see and experience the grace of God. What we offer becomes invigorating and liberating.
But we also invite them to see an alternative way of life and a way to a better world. It is what Jesus calls the kingdom of God, a kingdom governed by holiness and love. That will sometimes make us controversial. But witnesses go further than all of this by offering their very lives for the sake of Christ. I remember a preacher saying,
"The love of God comes to us freely, but following in that love will cost us everything."
Your relationship with God is personal, but it is not private. The world around you is in desperate need of what you have in Christ.
Don't hide your light, share it!
Ssee you Sunday!
Sincerely in Christ,
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Dr. Will Cotton
Senior Pastor
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P.S. If you have not done so, you can still make your financial commitment for 2019 at First Church. You may do so by 1) bringing the commitment brochure to church, 2) putting it in the mail or 3) making it online at
myFirstChurch on our website.
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What's coming up in Advent?
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Advent Classes and Studies...
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Advent Mission Opportunities...
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There are still angels available for adoption in all age groups.
Please contact Kerstin at
kerstin@fumc-rr.org
if you are interested in helping out as an individual or as part of a Sunday School class or other church group.
A big "Thank You" to those who already adopted an angel this past Sunday!
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First Church is baking cookies to be sent with love to the troops overseas for Christmas! Instructions, boxes and everything you need to package your cookies will be available for pick up on Sundays, December 2 and 9. Take a box home and bake basic, sturdy and delicious cookies that will last for the trip to the overseas troops.
Click for more info...
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It's not too late to order a poinsettia...
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This week at First Church...
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Saturday, November 24
Sunday, November 25
- 8:40 am - Life Group - Be Awesome, Bldg. 4-2
- 8:30, 9:40 and 11 am - Worship services
- 11:00 am - LifeGroups, Bldg. 5-124, 148, & 222
- 11:40 am - Alleluia Chorus Children's Choir rehearsal, Bldg. 4-2
- 12 noon - Middle School Leadership Team meeting, Bldg. 5-222
- 4:30 pm - Youth Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 5:00 pm - Grief Support Group, Bldg. 5-148
- 5:30 pm - Ignite Student Ministry Snack Supper, Bldg. 5-2nd floor
- 6:00 pm - Ignite Student Ministry, Bldg. 3/FLC
Monday, November 26
- 8:45 am – Ring of Joy, South Suite
- 3:45 pm – Kids of the Kingdom Chimes, Bldg. 3/FLC
- 7:00 pm - Boy Scout Troop #157, Bldg. 3/FLC
Tuesday, November 27
- 8:30 am - UMM Tuesday Breakfast group, Juárez Restaurant on South Mays
- 9:30 am -Women’s Bible Study, Bldg. 5-122
- 9:30 am - First Church Crafters, 115 Winsted
- 12:30 pm - Brown Bag Theologians, Bldg. 5-122
- 6:00 pm - LifeGroup Committee, Bldg. 5-122
- 6:00 pm - Stephen Ministry Training, Bldg. 5-148
- 6:30 pm - Community Bible Study, Bldg. 5-223
- 7:00 pm - Church Council, Bldg. 5-124
Wednesday, November 28
- 6:15 am - UMM Breakfast, fellowship, & devotional, FLC/Bldg.3
- 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 5:00 pm – Revelation Ringers, FLC East Cry Room
- 6:00 pm - HeartSong Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 6:30 pm - Women's Bible Study, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 6:30 pm - Jubilation Bells Rehearsal, North Suite
- 6:30 pm – MS Wildfire Bible Study, Bldg. 5-222
- 7:15 pm – Chancel Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 8:00 pm – HS Wildfire Bible Study, Bldg. 5-223/224
Thursday, November 29
- 9:30 am - Heart to Heart Quilters, 115 Winsted
- 7:00 pm - Council Oak Bell rehearsal, North Suite
Friday, November 30
- 8:30 am - Round Rock Helpers, Bldg. 4-2
- 9:30 am - MOM Weekly Gathering, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 8:00 pm - Narcotics Anonymous-Right Stuff, Bldg. 4
Saturday, December 1
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Betty Robertson
Communication
First United Methodist Church Round Rock
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