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God desires FFUMC to be an intentional, vibrant,  growing faith community transformed through prayer, scripture, worship, and study.

 

ffumclogo God wants us to make a real difference in the lives of our neighbors  and each other as we  invite, accept, connect,  serve,  and share the love of Christ.  

In This Issue
Register for VBS
Greeters & Ushers
Happy Birthday!
Children
Care & Prayer Concerns
Quick Links

VBS
June 24 - 27
6 p.m - 8:30 p.m. 
Click here to register.

Sunday, May 19th at 2 p.m.
(meet at Noon in church parking lot) 
Steel Magnolias at the  Oak Ridge Playhouse $24/ticket. Please sign up by Sunday, May 5. Please write check to FFUMC with "Joy-May 9th" on memo line.

Questions? Email John and Tracy Houser at  HouserJohnF@yahoo.com  or call them at (865) 771-4905.
Youth
United Methodist  Youth Fellowship   (UMYF)


Questions? Email Chuck Powell.
UMYF @ 5:30 p.m. 
April 28, May 5 & 19
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Information Desk
   9:00 a.m. -  Nancy Roberts
   10:00 a.m. - Judy Westenhaver
Greeters
9:00 a.m. -   Ann Walker & Judy Westenhaver
11:00 a.m. - Sara Epperson
             
Please contact Lara Burn if you would to sign up to greet on Sundays.

Security Ushers
8:45 a.m. - Robert Hill
10:30 a.m. - Mackenzie Quesenberry

Ushers
9:00 a.m. -  Ned Rayson, Barry Goss, Kelly Clancy

11:00 a.m. - open
We need you! Sign up here!
Below is list on usher rolling schedule.  
John Matson, Randy Kirchner, Marty Layman
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Happy birthday to members   who  have birthdays this week!
April:
26 - Dave Sutton, Sr.
27 - Holly Clancy
28 - Ashley Quesenberry
         Mark Waugh
30 - Anita Oberdecker
        Evelyn Frankhouser
We need you!  Any adult at FFUMC can join the security usher team. Please consider serving in the way. Contact Steve Krupski if you are interested in helping on Sunday mornings.

Come learn a new way to
serve at FFUMC!

If you can push a button or click a mouse, you can help with  visual or audio on Sunday mornings. We are looking for more  volunteers to help! If you would like to join the team or have questions, please email Tom Derr or Mark Veness.
Stop by and pick up a  "Welcome to Your Home  B ucket" for a  new neighbor. They  are available at the Information Desk.
NEW RESOURCES
First Farragut UMC's Footprints Ministry serves  as a bridge to connect church and home. Click  here  for our current recommendations.
FINANCIAL PULSE
As of March 31, 2019

YTD Total Contributions:     $166,416.17
YTD Total Expenses:              $144,403.57
YTD Net Operating Total:     $ 22,012.60
YTD Total Capital Gifts:        $ 25,720.00
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 
(EY756).  
 
We received $129.70 from your shopping last quarter!
  

Easter Hourglass - a retelling
 
Her name was Harriet. She lived near the coast. She had a grandfather that she loved very much, and she always looked forward to visiting him. Her grandfather had a collection of hourglasses. The little girl always had fun turning them  upside
down and watching the sand sift down. She asked her grandfather why he had all those hourglasses. He said, it reminded him that time was the most important thing in the world.
 
Well, it was Easter and the little girl had not seen granddad for weeks. Eventually her mother told her that granddad was in the hospital, that he was very sick. He might die. The little girl wasn't sure what death was. Mother said life was like one of granddad's hourglasses and that granddad had very little time left. The sand in his life's hourglass was running out. She said, "We'll go visit granddad this afternoon; would you make him a special Easter present?" And she spent all afternoon preparing the present.
 
When they got to the hospital, the little girl gave granddad a beautifully wrapped box. Her grandfather slowly unwrapped his present and looked inside and smiled. The little girl had filled the box with sand.
 
Easter is the gift of an eternal hourglass - Jesus, who said and says, "I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in me shall never die."
 
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Live as Easter people, and know the joy and the peace of life eternal.
 
(Don's Easter file, source unknown)
 
    
CHILDREN

VBS Registration is open! Sign up today.
VBS - June 24-27 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
 
Want to be "in the loop" on all Children's Wing activities?
Be sure to join our Facebook group
(FFUMC Children's Ministry)!
 
2019 Hands-On Mission Project 
or Tennessee Valley District

This spring the UMC Tennessee Valley District is collecting items for food buckets to send to the Holston Annual Conference. These buckets will be shipped to the Ishe Anesu Project for Underprivileged Children in Zimbabwe.

Please check the Missions table for flyers with a list of items needed for buckets. The average cost to fill a bucket is about $25. You may fill a bucket or purchase individual items.

The Serving Team will provide buckets, lids and shipping costs for buckets. All donations are needed by Sunday, June 2.
Carson Ryan Sangid Memorial Scholarship 
If you are a member of First Farragut United Methodist Church and a high school graduating senior, be sure to pick up an application for the "Carson Ryan Sangid Memorial Scholarship" at the Information Desk on Main Street. The 2019 award will be $2,000 for the freshman year. You may also apply if you are a previous recipient. Seniors who attended Wesley House may also apply.  Applications must be returned to FFUMC Monday, May 20, by at 2 p.m.
Changing the Course of Homeless Families
Golf Tournament Benefiting Family Promise
Willows Creek Golf Course - May 17, 2019 

9:00 am Shotgun (again in afternoon wave if am fills) 
Format: Four Person "Power Ball Scramble" 
Cost: $75 per person or $275 per team 
Includes: Golf, Cart, Lunch, and Range Balls 
Putting contest: $10.00 - 2 mulligans $20 TEAM REGISTRATION  
Send names and check to Family Promise of Knoxville, P.O. Box 10184, Knoxville TN 37939 or register online at Eventbrite .

Become a sponsor: 
$2000 Presenting Sponsor- Entry for one team, prominent Web and Social media recognition, Logo Banner on ONE of the following locations, Driving Range, Beverage station, Cart, Tee Gifts, or Hospitality.  

$1,000 Contest Sponsor-prominent Web and Social media recognition, Logo Banner on the Putting Contest or the Closest to the Pin hole.  

$250 Hole Sponsor-Logo signage on the designated hole.

Family PromiseSend your check for the sponsorship level of your choice to Family Promise of Knoxville, P.O. Box 10184 Knoxville, TN 37939. Email your logo to director@familypromiseknoxville.org . Call For further information call 
865-584-2822.  Family Promise is a 501 (c) (3) providing shelter and continuing support to children and their families who are experiencing homelessness.

Care and 
Prayer 
Concerns

Please remember the following  care 
and prayer concerns  this week:
  • Christian Missionaries Everywhere
  • Richard Bartosik
  • Barbara Bird (home, friend of Renni & John Morris)
  • Karen Blazer
  • Donna Bocik
  • Troy Cato (colon cancer, son of Renee Alley's friend)
  • Lee Collins
  • Daughtry Family - Morgan (born premature),
    Kayla & Chris (parents) (friends of Bob & Lara Burn)
  • Lisa Davis (brain cancer, Carrie Lawson's friend)
  • John Hankins (Drema Harden's brother)
  • Charlie Helms
  • Doug Jenkins (son of Alvin & Marjorie Jenkins) 
  • Jeanette Jenkins (acute myeloid leukemia, wife of David Jenkins, daughter-in-law of Alvin & Marjorie Jenkins)
  • Addilyn Levinge (born at 21 weeks, Joe Bradford's cousin)
  • Cheryl Lewis & Family  (chemo treatments continue, friend of Harden Family)
  • Deanne Lucas' sister
  • Phillip Luster (husband of Brenda Bradford's niece)
  • The Family of Mike McLeod (Mike passed away after recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Mike was Cindy Galyon's brother-in-law.)
  • Dot Morris (John Morris' mother)
  • Jack O'Brien (stage four lung cancer, Jim O'Brien's brother)
  • Kevin O'Brien (end stage renal failure, Jim O'Brien's brother)
  • Noel Pietranski (chemical imbalance affecting ability to process) & His Family (friends of Bob Burn)
  • Bryson Presnell (outpatient rehab, son of Jen Braun's friend)
  •  Jerry Preston (hospice care, Randee Schoenike's uncle)
  • Tyler Pritchard (seizures, Tara Mallison's cousin)
  • Michael Rainwater 
  • Jolanda Rice (hospice, Jeanette Krupski's mother)
  • Julianne Schoolcraft
  • Brent Shumaker
  • Mendi Smitherman (cancer, Barb Collins' friend)
  • Becky Luther Tannehill (breast cancer, Carrie Linn's aunt)
  • Jimmy Taylor (clinical trial)
  • Judah Thacker (brain cancer, Molly Veness' friend's nephew)  
  • Teresa Tomlinson (kidney failure, Patti Parker's sister) 
  • Susan Trammell (cancer, Julie Alexander's great aunt)
  • Trecia Walters (cancer, Mark Overbay's cousin)  
  • Jon Wilson (aggressive cancer diagnosis, Tessa Cortes' uncle) 
  • 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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