VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

PICTORIAL DIRECTORY

breezes rise through the shady purple canyons as we head out through this bright wilderness. We’re traveling down the trail through the Old Testament stories of Moses to discover God’s ultimate plan of salvation in Jesus because “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). So come on! Rustle up your kids and head on over to SonWest Roundup 2013 VBS at Euless First UMC for a rip-roarin’ good time!

gets a free 8 x 10 picture and a free directory. In exchange, Lifetouch has the opportunity to sell packages of pictures in a non threatening no-pressure environment. We need everyone to get a current picture made. 4- Why aren't we going digital and having an on-line pictorial directory? A: We are actually doing both. There will be a traditional print spiral bound version, and there will be an online version as well. 5- What if I can't make the July 16-20th dates? Why are we doing this in a vacation month? A: As soon as we fill up these slots, we will receive some additional dates for picture taking in early August. A: Summer time is a better time historically as family schedules aren't as tight and students are home from college. 6- When will we get the directory? A: Distribution is slated for November 30, 2013.

7- Where will pictures we taken? A: Pictures will be taken in the Swor Parlor---right inside the double glass doors. 8- How long will it take to get the pictures back? A: Pictures will be mailed to you 4-6 weeks after they are taken. 9- Do I have to be a church member to be in the directory? A: No---Our long term guests are treated like family and are welcome to be in the directory. With that said, as your hospitality chair, we encourage our long term guests to officially join our flock. There are advantages to being members and making that commitment to your church is encouraged. 10- If I need to change my picture time, what do I do? A. Contact Dave Lewis at David46814@aol.com or call him at 817-915-6742.

Children ages 3 (by Sept. 1, 2012) thru the 5th grade are invited to join us June 24th – 28th, 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Student and volunteer registration is available online till June 21st at www.fumceuless.org!

EULESS FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

JUNE 18, 2013 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 12

CHURCH MATTERS

Out in the wide-open spaces, we’ll discover a colorful old town where all the excitement of the Wild West awaits! In SonWest, we’ll celebrate all the fun of being buckaroos—so grab a sarsaparilla and join in the jamboree! There’ll be food, games, music, crafts, and amazing true stories that point you and your kids to Jesus! Ride with us under the deep blue skies. Feel the

Have you heard? Euless First UMC is gearing up for a new pictorial directory. Here are the Pictorial Directory Top 10 questions! 1- Why do a church pictorial directory? A: It is a wonderful way to get to know names of others and form a wonderful Euless First Family Picture Album. 2- Why now---we just did one! A:We did one in Summer, 2010. We have seen explosive growth in the last few years. Those newer members are still learning names, and older members are still learning names of the new members. So far in 2013, 38 new members have joined. The directory creates a wonderful "belonging" feeling for all. 3- Can I use my picture from the last directory and not have a picture taken? A:No--The model of LifeTouch, our vendor, is that everyone

PICTORIAL DIRECTORY What: Photos of everyone at

Euless First so that we can make a new directory.

When: Picture dates July 16-20th

Where: Swor Parlor

How: Sign-Up Sunday Morning outside the Sanctuary,

or online at www.fumceuless.org

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

PRAYER LIST 2

MEMORIALS/ THANKS/ANNIVERSARIES/BIRTHDAYS

2

NURSERY SHOWER 3

FOOD PANTRY 3

GREAT VOLUNTEERS 3

BOOK CLUB 3

JULY CALENDAR 4

FROM THE PASTOR 5

CRAFTERS 5

LORD’S ACRE CRAFTS 5

NEW MEMBERS 5

PRESCHOOL 5

Ginger Miller's friend Cindy, Vickie's friend Clifton Cooper and

family Colleen Duncan, Dana

Thorsell’s co-worker Courtney Hooper, Taryn

Sharp’s daughter Crystal David and Sue Peel,

Richard Stone’s friends David Viggiano, Nancy

Bickel's cousin Dennis Cavin, Alan

Moffatt's friend Ed Lewis, Linda Martin's

friend Edward Glen, Adam's

friend Elder James Jones,

Clifton Cooper’s friend

Elizabeth May Family of Dave Hott Family of Eugene

Bergfeld, Mark Pilney's friend

Family of Penny Best, Mark Pilney's friend

Faye Stapleton Gaby and Javier

Castaneda, Caro Kenyon's sister and brother-in-law

Garrett, James, Dawn, and Lauren, Mark Pilney's friends

Gordon and Linda Roberts, Nancy Bickel’s friends

Helen Davies Ida Burke, Rita Young's co

-worker Isabel Rosero, Caro

Kenyon's mother Iva Jordan, Mark Pilney's

friend Jack Loftin, Stephen

Pilney's co-worker's father

Jason Sikes Jim Aikin, David

Downey's uncle Joe Jordan Joe Tindel John Lewis John Lipp, Linda Martin's

brother Josh Perry, Richard and

Sue Morrow's friend Julia McFarland, Billie

Bradford's friend Katherine Mack, Mimi

Maloney’s friend Katy Ott, Kathy Knowles'

grandmother Kellsey Abbott, Sherwood

and Cheri Abbott's granddaughter

Kemp Ingram, Lauralee Arnold's brother

Ken Van Tassel Kevin Maines Lance Clayton, Russel

Hurt's friend

Larry Coday, Randy Pilney's friend

Lillian De Puy, Linda Lewis' (Larry) mother

Lois Weems, Joyce Humphrey's mother

London Menton Carter, Bob & Brenda Menton's granddaughter

Lou Alice Ashby, Billie Bradford's friend

Marlene Hill Marshall Spang, Marilyn

Long's sister-in-law's father

Mary Ledbetter, Mac Ledbetter's mother

Maurine Padgett, Nancy Bickel's

co-worker Maxine and Bill

Wallace, Kimberly Knighton's friends

Megan Davies, Rita Young’s friend

Meredith Stone, Richard Stone's friend

Michael Mulholland Michele and Baker

Ingram Michele Heroux and

family, Amber Hawthorne's friend

Mimi Maloney Monroe Baggett, Sharon

Menix's brother-in-

PRAYER LIST

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Andrews family, Amelia Coats' great uncle

Annie and Perry Gravely

Bazie Pryor Becky Coley, Ann

Wilson’s father’s wife

Beth Jordan, Joyce Humphrey's friend

Betty Hawthorne, Thomas Hawthorne's grandma

Bobby Francis Boy Scout Summer

Camp in CO Brenda Reeder, Mimi

Maloney's friend Buddy Mowles and

family Burnam family Burton Family Caden Boyle Carl Coley, Ann

Wilson's father Carol Francoise Carol Rust, Dottie

Rust's daughter Charleen Coleson,

Kimberly Knighton’s mother

Charles and Judy Gravely

Christine Henry, Yvonne Gordon’s mother

Christine Sanders,

law Nancy Jones, Billie

Bradford's cousin Nevaeh Lara-Turner Nick and Lisa

Schoenberger, Ron Coats' friends

Nolan Hardwick, Barbara Collier's father

Our leaders of authority at all levels

Pansy Davis Pat, Kate Allred's sister Pat Holland, Cindy

Balentine's sister Paula Brown People affected by

recent tornados People of Syria Perry Bynum's mother,

Tim Stinneford and Mary Lib Saleh's friend

Phyllis Murdock, Marla Williams' sister

Pierre Tshimanga's family

Robbie Breaux, Audrey Coats' friend

Robin Biles’ grandchildren

Sarah Miller Shirley Stan Clarke, Sue &

Richard Morrow's

friend Sydney Marie Peel, Pat

May's great niece Terron Muller, Les

Foley's niece TJ Pepper Tyler Dennis, Mistie

Taylor's God-son Viggiano Padgett Warner Muirhead In the Military: Carl Miller Gail Worofka James Fiaccone, Sue

Fiacone's grandson Jason Knighton Jeffrey Stone, Lucille

Link's nephew Justin Knighton Stephen Tate Josh Crow, Annette

Kelleher's son Eric Sherrer, Justin

Sherrer, Patric Owen, and Alan McCleland, Grandnephews of Vic and Judy Torres

Chris Mulford, Pat Bailey's grandson

If your prayer request has been left off, please resubmit it. All requests are for 30 days only, and will need to be resubmitted after that time.

BIRTHDAYS

June

25- Dave & Linda Lewis

26– Don & Ann Wilson, Larry & Phyllis Augustus

27– Dennis & Emily Burk

28– Robert & Iva Nail

June

19– Randy Pilney, Katie Tindel

21– Lia Maloney, Sue Morrow

22– James Knighton

23– Chloe Koener

24– Blaine Davis

25– Kevin

Balentine, Tami Polenz

26– Skip Halleck, Pat May

27– Carol Black

28– Ken Vowell

30– Kathy Hurt

Mona Scarborough/Arlington Night Shelter/ In Honor of Wayne Weyer's retirement

Fresh Start Class/ Apportionments/ In Memory of Kaye Best's mother and Nancy King's Mother & Father

MEMORIALS ANNIVERSARIES

First Untied Meth-odist Euless, Thank you to my church family, Chancel Choir and Fresh Start Class for you kind expressions of sympathy, prayers & memorial gifts in memory of my dear mother.

May God richly bless you, Nancy King & family

THANKS

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FOOD PANTRY NEWS each day to stock the Pantry. Items needed are soup, pasta, canned meat, peanut butter, mac-and-cheese, and other canned food items.

Whether you donate with the Pictorial Directory or Vacation Bible School, please help the Pantry keep the shelves stocked as we feed the community.

goods, soup is always needed, and LifeTouch will give you a $5 coupon on your purchase of photos. Together we will help the church in two ways: feeding our community and gathering our family together to remember this important time in our lives.

The Food Pantry will also benifit from Vacation Bible School. Students are asked to bring items

The Food Pantry is set to benefit from the Pictorial Directory. When you make your appointment this Sunday to have your family photo taken July 16-20 at Euless First, you will be given a bag and information about how you can help the Food Pantry. It is really simple. When you come in for your photos, you just bring in a bag of canned

Sunday of August. No matter which book or books you have read, or are reading, come for discussion. After a light lunch, we will split up according to book and discuss.

Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass

Speaking of Jesus by Carl Medearis

The Nursery Shower has been rescheduled for July 14, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.! Come and celebrate the youngest members of our church family, as well as acknowledge their loving caregivers at a baby shower benefitting our nursery.

The church is registered at

Target. You can access the registry at any Target Store or online. Our registration is listed as First: Euless Last: First UMC. Target gift cards or cash are also welcomed, as well as donations of AA batteries.

This will be a great time to meet our Nursery Coordinator, Elyssa

NURSERY SHOWER Specht, and our Childcare Professional, CeCe Cobb. Drop by to offer these ladies encouragement and have some refreshments.

We look forward to seeing you!

I am thrilled at the response I have already received to our Book Club this summer. There are 5 books, and you are invited to read any or all of them. All are available through Cokesbury and Amazon. Some can be found at Half Price Books. We will meet on the final Sunday of June and July and on the 3rd

Resident Aliens by Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas.

Almost Christian by Kenda Creasy Dean

The Wisdom of Stability by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

BOOK CLUB

recently became a lot easier and safer as a team of volunteers picked up stones of various sizes that were impeding the mowing process.

A volunteer has installed a new stove in the Swor Kitchen to replace the dated unit in there.

The Food Pantry has wonderful volunteers diligently working to install new shelves in the expanded

Euless First is blessed with a congregation that cares not just for the community we have, but also for the building and grounds that we worship and minister in and from. Everyone is critical in ministering and sharing the love of Christ. Here are just a few of the projects that have recently been cared for.

Volunteers mow the east property regularly to keep it looking beautiful. This

GREAT VOLUNTEERS storage area for the food pantry, as well as lacquer all the shelves so they will be easier to clean.

A group of volunteers have painted Shane Mullin’s new office to welcome him and help him settle in.

Thank you all for your everyday campus work to keep us growing in mission and looking clean and welcoming everyday!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 Forth of July! 5 6

Office Closed for Holiday

9:00 Food

Pantry

Open

\

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

8:00 Library Opens

8:30 Worship

9:45 Assemblin’ & Singin’

9:45 Sunday School

11:00 Worship

5:00 Arlington Life Shelter

6:00 UMW

Executive

Board

Meeting

10:00 Time of

Prayer

9:00 Food

Pantry

Open

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

8:00 Library Opens

8:30 Worship

9:30 Nursery Shower

9:45 Assemblin’ & Singin’

9:45 Sunday School

11:00 Worship

2:00 Pictorial

Directory

Portraits

2:00 Pictorial

Directory

Portraits

10:00 Time of

Prayer

2:00 Pictorial

Directory

Portraits

9:00 Food

Pantry

Open

2:00 Pictorial

Directory

Portraits

10:00 Pictorial

Directory

Portraits

21 23 24 25 26 27

8:00 Library Opens

8:30 Worship

9:45 Assemblin’ & Singin’

9:45 Blood Pressure Screening

9:45 Sunday School

11:00 Worship

9:00 Tarrant

Area Food

Bank Work

Day

10:00 Time of Prayer

9:00 Food

Pantry

Open

28 29 30 31

8:00 Library Opens

8:30 Worship

9:45 Assemblin’ & Singin’

9:45 Sunday School

11:00 Worship

7:00 Lord’s Acre

Meeting

Youth

Activities

are TBA

See Shane

to see how

you can

Help

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FROM THE PASTOR One of my great joys at Annual Conference this week has been to meet and be taught by the Rev. Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean.

She teaches at Princeton Seminary and is a United Methodist Pastor. She, like me, was called into ministry as a youth. She teaches Youth Ministry, Church and Culture.

While I could fill this entire newsletter with things she taught at Conference, I want to share

simply this one point. In a variety of studies done over the last 30 years, there is one predictor of youth growing into faithful adult disciples that stands tall above all the others.

The best single predictor of whether or not a young person will follow Jesus as an adult is the faith-life of the parents.

Read that last sentence again before moving on.

Here is the really good news that

Dr. Dean added to that fact: we can, as a congregation, help fill the place of those adults for children whose parents are not active.

We all have the opportunity to help others grow up to be faithful Christians. Doing so can be as simple as being active in the life of the Church.

I hope to see you Sunday. Your being in church could change someone's life!

With them in our presence, we will never be the same.

members. Be sure to stop and welcome them to our family.

Euless First United Methodist is excited to welcome our newest

NEW MEMBERS

Shane & Tara Mullin Putnam Family

October is closer than you think! We are preparing for our October of Opportunities, specifically the Lord’s Acre on October 26.

There will be a crafting event on

Sunday, June 23 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Family Life Center Café.

No skills are needed; all supplies will be provided, but your presence will help greatly toward

reaching our goals and for serving our congregation and beyond.

LORD’S ACRE CRAFTS

Angel News:

Euless FUMC Preschool and Kindergarten just completed 2 weeks of summer camp. The first week the children could be heard practicing their pirate talk - ARRRGH! Ahoy Mates! Shiver Me Timbers. They played games

like "Sink the Pirate Ship" and "Walk the Plank!" This week they learned the layers of the Rainforest, made headband animals each day, and sang songs to go with each of the animals.

We are now closed for the summer, but are still enrolling. If

you know someone who is interested, please have them call and leave a message on our answering machine - 817-283-0129 or email us at preschool@fumceuless.org. We will be checking messages frequently.

PRESCHOOL

Ellen Garcia Teresa & Steven Sprague

Attention women, men, youth, crafters and non-crafters. We will be starting on a quilt using our newly built quilting frame on Thursday, June 27 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. in the Swor Parlor (also on July 11th and July 25th).

So come join us on this new fun adventure. We will not only be quilting but working on other projects. Hope to see you there for an evening of fun and fellowship. If you plan on coming, please let Sandy Swann

know. We will make sure we have enough for all to do. 972-257-1149 or swann46@verizon.net. Also, if you need a ride, let her know.

CRAFTERS

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