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This Sunday's Message: All Things New
Sermon Text: Revelation 21:1-7
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Melissa and I, like many of you, are preparing to send our children off to school next week. My son Connor is heading off to college, and my daughter Emma is beginning her senior year at Aledo High School. They are both excited, but I suspect a little anxious as well. The same is...
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August 18th, 11:00am
We will all worship together in one service at 11:00 this Sunday, August 18th. The Communion Service will be at 9:30.
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Sunday, August 18th, Noon
Join us for Back to School Bash! Blessing of the Backpacks will take place at 11:00 (bring your backpack!). At 12:00, join us outside for lunch, bounce houses and a water slide! Make sure your child is wearing clothes that can get wet or bring a swimsuit to change into to. Questions? Email Megan.
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Be A Sponsor
Do you own a business? Would you like your business featured before and during our Lord's Acre festival? Sponsorships are available, but time is short. Contact Susan Schoolfield.
Auction Items Needed
We are seeking items for the Live and Silent Auctions. Gift baskets, game tickets, vacations, collectibles, baked goods, home wear, gift cards...are all great items for the auctions. Donations are tax deductible.
Contact Richele Gift for silent auction items and Linda Belota for live auction items.
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Beginning Wednesday, August 28th, 6:00pm
Do you like music? Do you like percussion? Then handbells are for you! Come learn how easy handbells really are! This stress-free, non-performing four week class goes over handbell basics. This four week class is open to high school students to adults! Sign up at the connection center or email
Thomas.
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Beginning Wednesday, August 28th, 6:00-7:00pm
This Fall, children in Grades K-4 will meet in the Gathering Room on Wednesday evenings to study and explore Emoji Bible Lessons. God gave us many emotions and these lessons will help us learn how to express our emotions appropriately. Area 56 will meet in the Rock House for Emoji Bible Lessons and mission projects.
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August 30th-September 2nd
Please sign-up at the Connection Center to pray for the upcoming Epiphany, a 3-day prison ministry weekend (Labor Day) at the girl's unit in Brownwood. Each "prayer link" is a reminder to these incarcerated young people that they are not alone - they are being prayed for by Christians everywhere! You are also welcome to purchase a meal ticket ($5 donation) for the girls. Please support this life-changing ministry! Contact Trudy for more information.
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Tuesday Morning Bible Study
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Beginning September 10th, 10:00am
The first book we study will be Paul vs. James: What We've Been Missing in the Faith and Works Debate by Chris Bruno. Bruno brings a Biblical exploration of faith and works. He sets the matter in both its wider Biblical context at the same time as he makes clear its relevance and importance to faithful Christian living today.
The second book will be, The Moment of Lift, by Melinda Gates. She tells the stories of the inspiring people she's met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention-from child marriage and family planning to prevent poverty, to gender inequity in the workplace.
If you wish to join us, please order both of these books. They are available at Amazon, Cokesbury or Christianbooks.com. You do not need to read them before September 10th. Scholarships to pay for the books or for more information, please contact Sussie Jordan at 512-923-9268 or sussie@twojordans.com.
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For the month of August we are requesting only the following items
to round out our weekly packed bags:
* Pasta * Spaghetti Sauce * Canned Pasta/Ravioli * Cereal/Oatmeal Thank you for your faithfulness in helping feed our hungry neighbors!
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We're Reading the New Testament in 2019!
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Are you ready to learn more about Jesus? Start the New Year with your church family as we embark on a yearlong commitment to read the entire New Testament together. Each weekday (Monday through Friday) we will read one chapter from the New Testament. Each Sunday Pastor Lee will be preaching from one of the five chapters we read that week.
August 19 -
Luke 2
August 20 -
Luke 3
August 21 -
Luke 4
August 22 -
Luke 5
August 23 - Luke 6
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Are you taking advantage of electronic giving?
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When we join the church, we pledge to support the life and ministry of the church with our financial gifts. That can get complicated on those weeks when we can't be here as the offering plate comes around. But through electronic giving, you remain faithful to your membership vows, even on those weeks when life takes you elsewhere. It's easy. It's safe. And it benefits both you and your church family. Setting it up is easy and only takes a few minutes. Contact
Shari Birchell to set up an automatic transfer from your checking account. Or go to
Aledo UMC to use your credit or debit card.
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In your times of prayer throughout the week, please remember the people named below.
Concerns: Gene and Sherry Swenson; Mira Schmidt; Lynne Barnes; Brett Dryden
Special members who are unable to worship with us: C.D. and Mattie Graham; Barbara Moore; Stella Lee; Bobbie Wooten; jody Young; Geneyne Clark; Diane Smith
Sympathies: Sue and Fred Van Valkenberg on the death of her nephew, Chris
Long-term prayer concerns: DeeAnn Day's mother Lou Ann Pate; Kikee Kupper's dad Briscoe Dunn; Sylvia Larson's mother Norma Blake; Emma Vidal; Davis Mazzei; Linda Parker's mother Shirley Riff; Rachelle Moreland's sister Jennifer Ortiz & family, and niece Emily; Rita Potter; Jayne Dawson's nephew Marco Cassarino; Fanci Coyle's mother Emma Horton; Sarah Rives; Bill Bradle; Gavin Trietsch; Carrie Hester; Jennifer Kirkpatrick's mother Judy Wendt; Kristin Bryan's parents Mike and Pat Brady; Matt Grantham; Kathy Mayotte's nephew Jeremy Hartle; Jim Barnes; Steve Moore; Sherroll Shirley; JoAnne Cole; All Military Personnel
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