First United Methodist Church, Clinton MS.
A Ministry of First United Methodist Church
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
From 10:30-12:30, come enjoy a delicious spaghetti lunch in the FUMC gym. Eat in the gym with your church family or take it home with you. Homeless US Veterans staying at Isaiah House in South Jackson will be preparing and serving the meal. All proceeds will go directly to help the veterans. $5.00 tickets are available from the church office or Rev. David Greene.
Volunteers are needed for sorting, pricing, some cleaning, setting up and other simple tasks. Please contact Lisa Bullock if you are able to help with pricing and organizing the donations.
The trailer is at the church and ready for storing your items to sell. The sale will be Friday and Saturday, April 13th & 14th. Friday hours are 4-8 p.m., with an early bird entry from 2-4 that will cost $5.00. Saturday hours are from 6 a.m. until noon.
Volunteer Sign Up Form
Thank you for your help with this garage sale – last year was the best year so far, let’s make 2012 even better so we can raise even more money for the FUMC missions programs and help the community at the same time.
We hope you will join us at one of our Christmas services this season. Our Advent theme is “Outside the Box – The Gift that Can’t be Contained”. Please take a few minutes to look at the sermon information or even listen to one of the sermons from our pastor, Mitchell Hedgepeth. We look forward to seeing you at one of our services!
Christmas Eve – Dec. 24, 2011
Come and Go Communion 4:00 – 5:30p.m.
Full Service 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Service – Dec. 25, 2011
10:00 a.m. in the sanctuary
Volunteers are needed for packing meals on Wednesday, December 7th in the FUMC gym. This fun event lets you get “hands on” to help feed the hungry around the wold. Come and make a difference!
Our Troop 88 Boy Scouts are selling firewood this year from their house at 602 Rock Glenn, behind the church campus. If you would like a stack, put $100 in an envelope and slip it through the slot in the door, then help yourself to the firewood. Call the troop master, Kevin Rundlett, if you have any questions at 601-750-0070.
On Sunday, July 31, a dream came true for Revival UMC in the village of Latnaya, Russia, and for people around the Mississippi Conference. Rev. Galina Kolesnikova led her people into their new church building for the first worship service.
In 1999, Pastor Galina started a Bible study in the village about 300 miles south of Moscow. The little group met in people’s homes, moving every few weeks to a new location carrying their Bibles, hymnals and cross as they went. They dreamed of a permanent church home.
Through friends in the Rural Chaplains Association and with help from several churches in the Mississippi Conference, an ongoing effort has built the new church. Land was purchased and an old house fixed up for temporary use. Over six years, plans were drawn, legal requirements met, the foundation dug, concrete poured, solid brick walls laid, and the roof installed. Through generous gifts from a number of churches this spring, the windows and doors were installed and the first worship service in the building made possible.
Due to Pastor Galina’s leading a Bible study with men in a maximum-security prison nearby, the congregation is made up of released prisoners who have become members of the church, as well as elderly widows and children from the village. Revival UMC is a church where everyone is important and welcomed.
The challenge now is to finish the inside of the building. Having moved into their new home to worship, they don’t want to go back, even when winter comes, although the building does not presently have water or electricity and is unfinished on the inside. At this time it is estimated the immediate need is about $5,000 to securely fence the property, $3,000 to roof the area around the entrance room, and $1,000 to finish the stairs inside the building.
If you would like to help, please contact 228-860-4384, write 317 Washington Ave., Ocean Springs, MS 39564 or send your gift to Rural Chaplains Association Treasurer, 297 Rosemont Gardens, Lexington, KY 40503, marked to be used for Revival UMC. All gifts go through the General Board of Global Ministries Russia Initiative program.
Our belief is if we all do whatever we can do, God will bless it and we will finish Revival Church’s new home.
Come enjoy a delicious BBQ Chicken lunch on April 30th in the FUMC gym. Sponsored by the United Methodist Men and benefitting the FUMC Troop 88 Scouts, your purchase will help a great cause! See members of the UMM or call the church office for tickets.
10:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M. IN THE GYM—$7.00 PER PLATE
Relief needs in Japan and elsewhere related to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami will be the focus of the United Methodist Committee on Relief, which is in contact with partners in the region, said Melissa Crutchfield, UMCOR executive for international disaster response. The Rev. Cynthia Fierro Harvey, UMCOR’s top executive, urged prayers for those affected by the disaster. “Once again, in the wake of disaster and in the face of widespread need, we rely on the ever-expansive generosity of United Methodists and all people of goodwill to help us respond to those whose lives have suddenly been turned upside down,” she said. Emergency response staff members at Church World Service are in contact with the agency’s office in Bangkok, which is monitoring the situation in Japan and across the region. Tsunami warnings are in effect for North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and two local partners for CWS there have been contacted.
Habitat Build News below:
March 4, 2011
We have just made the decision to cancel the site for tomorrow due to the terrible weather expected. I will call those of you scheduled to have volunteers. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we will be back out on Friday, March 11th ready to frame some walls and raise trusses. So far we have 6 signed up for Friday the 11th and 13 signed up for Saturday the 12th. Lunch is taken care of for all days except the 16th-18th. Hopefully the weather will cooperate for the rest of the build!
March 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
The dates for the Clinton build for Habitat for Humanity have been set! Please choose one or more dates to come help out, any skill level is welcome. Slots are filled on a first come/first served basis. You will be notified if the date you pick is not available. Please call Clint at 601-850-7568 if you need more information.
In January some female college students and a few senior high students went to the Methodist Children’s Home to hang out with some of the girls that are living there. Not only has our church been extremely involved in the process of remodeling, but they have been involved relationally with the girls living there. Each month the girls will take a team out on a Saturday morning to spend time ministering to the girls at the children’s home. If you are interested in helping with this or just learning more about it, please contact Casey Combest.
