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Life Lines MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF MILLBROOK FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
I greet you in the name of the Risen
Son of God.
Can you believe it? It’s summer!
And I am glad. I love summertime.
I know many of you love summer-
time as well, spending time with
family at reunions, boating at the
lake, going to the beach, and taking
a vacation from work. To me one of
the most enjoyable things about
summer is simply getting out and
soaking up the sun, basking in its
glory. But this summer I want to
encourage you to soak up, to bask
in something more glorious, more
wonderful, more marvelous, more
life giving than even the sun. I want
to encourage you to soak up the
glorious Son! The glorious Risen
Son of God.
Let me share a few of the ways we
have been soaking up the Son at
church. Over 90 servants of the
Lord spent their evenings gather-
ing for a week with 140 precious
children at Bible School. Each night
we soaked in the Son, through pray-
er, singing prais-
es to God, mem-
orizing verses of
scriptures, doing
crafts, eating
together, playing
fun games, lov-
ing one another,
and collecting
850 pair of underwear for poor chil-
dren in Haiti. For the first time in
their lives, twenty- two children
opened their heart to the Son and
experienced the power of His for-
giveness and made a promise to
follow him for eternity. Glory to Je-
sus!
This morning I prayed for 21 youth
and adult leaders who have been
soaking up the Son so much they
are acting like Him. They are
spending a week in Baton Rouge,
July
Church Events
July 3rd - Prime Timers
July 9th– UMM Meeting
July 11th
– Church Council
July 12th
– Smokehouse
Dinner & Bible Study
July 13th
- WELCOME Day
July 13th
- Game Night
July 19th– Front Porch Grill
Dinner & Bible Study
July 21st
– 22– Mission u
July 26th - Catfish House
Dinner & Bible Study
July 30 – UMW Meeting
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We’re Soaking Up
The Glorious Son!
Announcements
Closets cleaned out for the spring? Do you have
coats that no longer fit your family and need to
make room in your closets? The UMW is collect-
ing gently used coats to give away in the fall to
children and adults who need one. There is a
coat rack in the Fellowship Hall where they may
be placed or you may give them to a UMW mem-
ber.
Upcoming Event Friday & Saturday, July 21
th & 22nd
Mission u Millbrook First United Methodist Church
The Alabama-West Florida Conference of United Methodist Women is sponsoring a two-day event focusing on the mission work of the Methodist church. These classes are open to everyone-men, wom-en and youth. You may take one study on Friday and a different one on Saturday. You may attend one day or both days. Each class is a six-hour study. Flyers with additional information are available in the narthex, the church office and Classroom 6. Deadline for reg-istration is July 8.
Our church will attend a Montgomery Biscuits
game on Wednesday, August 2. We need a
head count to go ahead and purchase tickets.
Tickets are $11 each and there will be a signup
sheet in the fellowship hall. You can turn in your
money to LaNeta Tucker or the church office.
The Contemporary Praise Band is looking for an
acoustic guitarist. If interested please contact
Owen Carothers at 334-414-4857 or ocaroth-
[email protected]. You must be able to make prac-
tices on Wednesday nights at 6:30 p.m. and
Sunday morning run through at 9 a.m.
Coat Drive
Biscuits Game
Guitarist Needed
Office Desk Needed
The church is in need of an office desk and
chair. If you can donate either of these
items, please contact Jacki Smith at
[email protected] or call the church office
at 334-285-4114.
Pastor’s Pen
La., being the hands of Jesus as they rebuild
homes from last year’s flood.
We have been soaking up the Son as we gath-
ered on Wednesday nights in the Friendship
Sunday School Class to lift up in prayer those
who are sick, hurting, weak and poor. Also, we
have been studying our Christian family tree as
we learn about other denominations, asking
God to show us what we can learn from our
cousins in the faith that can help us better follow
Jesus.
And of course we continue to gather to worship
every Sunday morning in the chapel and sanctu-
ary so that we can bask in the Son, soaking in
His love, His healing, His hope, His power, His
wisdom, and His perspective.
In closing, I hope you enjoy every minute of your
summer. I hope you are able to take a vacation
from work and school and find time to rest. But
there is one vacation I am praying you don’t
take this summer, and that is a vacation from
church. Even if you’re out of town, find a
church to
worship
with and
soak up the
life giving
light of the
Son.
Know that
Judy and I
love you
and are
praying that
God will
richly bless
you this
summer.
I’ll see you this Sunday at church as we bask in
the Son, who has given us the marvelous gift of
freedom.
Yours in Christ .
Pastor Jerry
On A Mission Jacki and Hunter Smith will spend a week
this summer in Haiti bringing the Gospel of
Christ to more than 300 youth.
Jacki and Hunter Smith will leave for Cap-Haitien,
Haiti, this summer where they will spend a week
bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the youth of
Haiti.
Last summer, Hunter spent five weeks living on the
compound of the One Mission Society. One of the
couples in the mission run the Cowman School,
which is a school attend primarily by the children of
Haiti’s leaders. She helped them get ready for the
school year and then assisted in primarily preschool
classrooms once the school began.
When Hunter returns in July, this time with her moth-
er Jacki, the two will share the Gospel during the
Youth Conference for the Emmaus Fellowship of
Churches. Three to five hundred youth are expected
to attend the conference.
Former Millbrook FUMC Pastor Steve MacInnis and
his wife Tish are coordinating the youth conference.
The team will include 14 people, including a delega-
tion from Mulder Memorial United Methodist Church
in Wetumpka. Steve and Tish were accepted as One
Mission Society missionaries on August 31, 2012,
and assigned to Haiti as itinerant missionaries. Steve
travels to Haiti four to five times each year, spending
three and four months out of the year there.
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Confirmation Class 2017
July Birthdays 3 Clay Myers
3 Noah West
5 Erin Myers
5 Patty Inman
7 Gwen Story
7 Adam Chandler
7 Don Green
9 Rick Barregarye
9 Gail Inman
10 Jordan Dennis
11 Elaine Messick
11 Jab Brown
11 Megan White
11 Lachlan Johnson
12 Lyndall Barlow
12 Karen Coffey
12 Evan Brandau
12 Rayven Collins
13 Faith Davis
14 Corrine Foster
15 Buddy Cobb
15 Cecil Lewis
16 Ric Payson
16 Joyce VanValkenburg
16 Sydney West
17 Jamie Blanchard
17 DeQuan Brown
18 Al Pearson
18 Jonathan Hull
21 Charlie Potts
21 John VanValkenburg
22 Beverly Cox
24 Gail Lowman
25 Stephanie Hussey
26 Vicky Ohlson
26 Kayla Fulton
11 Frank & Mitt Houston
14 Mike & Kathy Cobb
19 Gary & Debbie Cox
23 Tom & LaNeta Tucker
24 Bill & Ida Clemons
“Making Disciples of
Jesus Christ for the
Transformation of the
World”
Confirmands pictured,
from left, are Jonathan
Clarke, Freddy Patton,
Grace Rupinen and
Cooper Tanner. Please
welcome our newest
members when you
see them at church!
July
27 Lindy Gamble
27 Gerri Miller
30 Sharon Tubbs
30 Phyllis Myers
31 Jessica Burdick
Scenes from Vacation Bible School 2017
This Month at Millbrook FUMC:
Sunday Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1
2
3
9:30 am Monday Morning Prayer
Group
10:30 pm Prime Timers
6:00 pm Boy Scouts
4
Office Closed for
July 4th holiday
5
6:30 Praise Team Practice
6
6:00 Trustees Meeting
7 8
9
Noon UMM &
Henrietta Thomas
Circle Meeting
10 9:30 am Monday Morning
Prayer Group
5 pm Discerning Church Times
Meeting
6:00 pm Boy Scouts
11
6:00 am Men’s Prayer Breakfast
(Front Porch Grill)
6:30 pm Church Council Meeting
6:00 Cub Scouts
12
4:30 Supper @ Smokehouse BBQ
6:00 pm Bible Study
(Friendship SS Classroom)
6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice
13
8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Volunteer @ WELCOME
Game Night Fundraiser
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
14
15
16
8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Blood Drive
17
9:30 am Monday Prayer Group
6:00 pm Boy Scouts
6:00 pm Marguerite Hall & Lillian
Hancock Circle
18
6:00 am Men’s Prayer Breakfast
9:30 am Doris Cobb Circle
1:00 pm Suzanna Wesley Circle
6:30 p.m. SPRC Meeting
19
4:30 pm Supper@ Front Porch
Grill
6:00 pm Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice
20
6:30 p.m. Communication
Action Team Meeting
21
UMW Mission u
22
UMW Mission U
23 Noon Emmaus Luncheon
(Mission House)
Noon UMW Executive Meeting
30
Noon UMW Meeting
24
6:00 pm Friendship Sunday School Supper 6:00 pm Boy Scouts 31 9:30 Monday Morning Prayer
25
6:00 am Men’s Prayer
Breakfast (Front Porch Grill)
6:00 pm Cub Scouts
6:30 Finance Committee
26
4:30 pm Supper@ Catfish House
6:00 pm Bible Study
(Friendship SS Classroom)
6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice
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July 2017@ MFUMC