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 Last Call: Our Expedition
Leaves in 10 Days!
We’re going on a High Seas Expedition - a Weekend Extravaganza!
5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 30
and
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 31
You can learn more about
our voyage,
and sign up on-line at http://bit.ly/First_UMC_VBS.
Signing up in advance can help us make sure our VBS is a success!
VBS Volunteer Meeting
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 28
Talk about VBS & Expectations then stay to help decorate!
Questions? See Kaylea!
Kaylea@fumcss.arcoxmail.com or 479.524.6111
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Ozark Mission Project - Our 2010 Team
The following members our youth ministry team
leave at 6 a.m. Sunday, July 25, for the OMP camp
at El Dorado, Ark., (July 25 to 31.)
Elizabeth Reisbeck - Anna Rowlan - Scott Huggins
Riley McCarver - Dylan Henson - Micah Banks
Jim Huggins (adult sponsor)
Please keep them in prayer!
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Joint Worship Service
10:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 1
In celebration of our VBS Weekend Extravaganza,
we’ll host a joint worship service/celebration on Sunday, Aug. 1.
Our Sunday, Aug. 1, schedule will be:
9 a.m. - Sunday School
(special activities for students)
10 a.m. - Fellowship Time (Fellowship Hall)
10:30 a.m. - Worship in the Sanctuary.
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 An Open Invitation!
YMT Members & Interested Adults
are invited to participate in a discussion/meeting with Rod Hocott, Arkansas Conference Minister to Families with Youth, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, in the OK Classroom. For More Info Contact: Laura Rowlan @ 524-9276 or lllrowlan@cox.net
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From the Pastor's Pen
Relationships that is. Many scale back their work during the summer seeking a bit of re-creation, still re-laxing, and re-newal to help them stay strong and be stronger in the fall. Activity may actually increase during the summer but it often revolves around people, around relationships.
Perhaps this is a subconscious response to our need for the health and healing only relationships bring.
Are relationships essential or merely add-on’s? While I was on vacation I had to decide if going to worship Sunday was an add-on or essential in nurturing and growing my spiritual friendship with God. I’m so glad we went. I don’t think worship was an add-on for me.
In the change of pace while we were vacationing it was sometimes hard to read my Bible each day. Again, I had to decide if I could let it go because it was a good add-on, or if I needed to make it part of each day so I got closer to the Father instead of creating distance between us. Through prayer I was convicted to not miss reading the Bible each day as lectio divina.
“Lectio divina is a slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures. Time set aside in a special way for lectio divina enables us to discover in our daily life an underlying spiritual rhythm.
Within this rhythm, we discover an increasing ability to offer more of ourselves and our relationships to the Father, and to accept the embrace that God is continuously extending to us in the person of his Son, Jesus Christ.
Very often our concerns, our relationships, our hopes and aspirations, naturally intertwine with our meditations on the Scriptures. We can attend “with the ear of our hearts” to our own memories, listening for God’s presence in the events of our lives. We experience Christ reaching out to us through our own memories. Our own personal story becomes salvation history.” —Luke Dysinger, “How to practice lectio divina”.
As we enter the last third of the summer I encourage you to pray, read God’s letters to you (the Bible), and not miss worship wherever you are. You are in my prayers and I trust I am in yours. Also, you are…
On my heart, Pastor Randy
Children's Ministry News & Notes
 It’s Time To “Book” Your Passage
for our High Seas Expedition!
We’re headed on a High Seas Expedition
this summer at First UMC – Siloam Springs!
Friday, July 30
5 to 6 p.m. - Friday, July 30 - VBS Registration Cookout/Party!
6 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 30 - VBS Opening Party
Saturday, July 31
9 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 31 - The VBS Party Continues!
Sunday, Aug. 1 - VBS Sunday
9 a.m. - VBS Celebration in the Fellowship Hall
(View our Spotlight Dramas during the Celebration!)
10 a.m. - Fellowship Time
(Donuts & Coffee!)
10:30 a.m. - Joint Worship Service
Students who “book their ticket” and refer a friend at the same time will get an extra ticket in the "on-board" drawing.
Sign up online here: http://bit.ly/First_UMC_VBS
Need More Info? Click Here: http://kidz-zone-ss.blogspot.com/search/label/2010%20VBS
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Children’s Ministry Skating/Pizza Party
Sunday, Aug. 15
Leave the church at 12:30 p.m.
Return to Siloam Springs by 6 p.m.
Skate @ Great Day Skate in Bentonville
Then we’ll go to Cici’s Pizza in Rogers for an early supper.
Cost: $5. (We'll pick up the rest)
Sign up by Thursday, Aug. 12
on the Children’s ministry blog: http://kidz-zone-ss.blogspot.com
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Next Children’s Ministry Team Meeting
11:15 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 22 in the Fellowship Hall.
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For more information about children’s activities,
contact Kaylea Hutson, minister to families with children, at kaylea@fumcss.arcoxmail.com.
or visit http://kidz-zone-ss.blogspot.com
(think of it as the children’s ministry refrigerator door - everything you need to know as a parent in one central location! - We’ve added a link to the "student ministry" page of the church’s website!)
Need the 2010-11 Student Ministry Health/Permission?
Download it here.
Not sure if you have one on file for your student?
Click here to see for a complete list of forms on file.
Youth Ministry News & Notes
Sunday, July 25 - No Youth - Due to the OMP Trip.
Sunday, Aug. 1 - 6 to 8 p.m. - Movie Night @ The Basement
Sunday, Aug. 8 - 6 to 8 p.m. - TBA - Meet @ The Basement
Sunday, Aug. 15 - It’s A Float Trip!
12:30 to 6 p.m. - Sunday, Aug. 15
Cost: $10 per person.
Must RSVP (with $$) by Sunday, Aug. 8
See Laura Rowlan and/or Dede Hugginsfor details.
You must have a new 2010-11 permission slip on file to attend.
Sunday, Aug. 22 - Bowling - Details TBA.
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Next Youth Ministry Team Meetings
6:45 p.m. - Wednesday, July 21, with Rod Hocott (Adults only), in the OK Classroom!
6:45 p.m. - Wednesday, Aug. 11, in the basement.
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For more information about youth activities,
visit the youth ministry Facebook page @ http://bit.ly/basementss -
We’ve added a link to the "student ministry" page of the church’s website!)
Need the 2010-11 Student Ministry Health/Permission? Download it here.
Not sure if you have one on file for your student?
Click here to see for a complete list of forms on file.
Children’s Ministry Team Meeting: The next Children’s Ministry Team Meeting will take place at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 22, in the Fellowship Hall.
No. 1 Ladies Book Club: The next No. 1 Ladies Book Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at the home of Pam Rasmussen. The group will read The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim.
Fourth Sunday Food Drive: The next Fourth Sunday Food Drive will take place THIS WEEK - Sunday, July 25.
Which Sunday School Class will bring in the most food items?
NWA Children’s Ministry Conference: 9:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at First UMC - Springdale. If you are interested in attending, please let Kaylea know ASAP. (We get a group discount if we register together.) For more info visit: http://nwa-cm-conference.blogspot.com.
Parent Resource: Beating the heat with a family movie night? Visit www.kids-in-mind.com to find out more about current movies.
Thank You: Thank you for all the cards, calls, prayers and donations in memory of my mom, Wanda Butler. Our church family has shown what the body of Christ is all about. Your support is truly a blessing. Thanks, Dede Huggins and family.
Thank you: to the chancel & bell choirs. Our family is so grateful for the contribution you made to the memorial fund for our mother. The Methodist church was an important part of her life, especially the bell choir. She would be honored to be remembered in this way. We are truly blessed by your kindness. Love & Prayers - the Magness Family.
Thank you: Thank you so much for the donation to the food pantry that your (children) brought to Quapaw Quarter UMC recently. Your money will be used to purchase at the Arkansas Food Bank to help the poor and the homeless. Sincerely, Martha Johnson.
Coming Sunday, Aug. 8: Our very own Bob Coleman will preach at both worship services - it’s Gideon Sunday! (More details in the next newsletter).
Neighbor2Neighbor: Interested in helping with a fall Neighbor2Neighbor event? See Madlyn Taylor today. She’s helping to organize a possible day of service/ministry in Siloam Springs.
Help Your Church Family: Have a couple of hours to spare? Why not help “catalogue” our church library on the internet. See Kaylea for details on how we’re using Goodreads.com as an online resource!
An Update From the Missions Team: The love offering taken up for Jonathan and Valerie Griesse on Sunday, July 4, brought in $876 for the couple’s upcoming mission to Germany. For more info, or to continue to provide support for the couple, visit
http://intheforest.org/. Donations placed in the church offering earmarked for the Griesses will be sent to TeachBeyond (their mission organization.)
Spiritual Formation: The August meeting of the spiritual formation team is being rescheduled (time TBA). Please see Pam Rasmussen for details.
Save The Date: Saturday, Aug. 28 (from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) members of the children’s ministry will be selling hot dogs at Atwoods in Siloam Springs to benefit Destination: 2011 (the spring break and summer trips).
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