The VisitorThe VisitorThe Visitor First United Methodist Church

320 West Main, Magnolia, Arkansas 71753

www.magnoliafumc.org To invite all to know the love of God, to share grace, and to develop relationships

November 15, 2017 Sunday 8:30 a.m.—Chapel Worship

10:45 a.m.—Sanctuary Worship

Noon—Cable Channel 13

KVMA-AM 630

KVMA-FM 99.1

5:00 p.m.—Encounter in Chapel

Wednesday 7:00 PM—Broadcast of

previous Sunday’s 10:45

Service Cable Channel 13

How to Reach Us: Church Office Hours

Monday—Thursday 8:00

–4:00

Friday 8:00–Noon

870-234-4530 Our Staff:

Pastor Pam Estes,

501-617-4887

pam.estes@arumc.org

Jeremy Carter, Children & Families;

Shelly Burgess, Interim, Children &

Families;

Michelle Anderson, Youth Director;

Tracie Nipper, Administrative

Secretary;

Amanda Franks, Business Manager;

Dr. Kim Shirey, Director of Music;

Dr. David Crouse, Organist

Children’s Music: Melanie Allen,

Christa Marsh, Jennifer Bailey,

Tabitha Lewis, Anne Couch

J.D. Martin, Building Superintendent

Kenneth Manning, Custodian

LaTrena Wyrick, Interim Director,

Child Development Center

Barbara Lewis, Director,

The Caring Place

Stewpot: Valerie Sanders, Libby and

George Gilbert

Nursery: Burlene Easter and Kathy

Easter

FIRST UNITED

METHODIST

CHURCH

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 10:00 AM THE CARING PLACE 4:00 PM STEWPOT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 8:30 AM WORSHIP (CHAPEL) 9:30 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:45 AM WORSHIP (SANCTUARY) FOLLOWING WORSHIP SUPPORT THE CDC FUNDRAISER—SOUP & CHILI—BAKE SALE 4:00 PM PRAISE BAND REHEARSAL 4:00 PM ALL AGE BIBLE STUDY (AVERITT) LEARNING TO USE MY BIBLE 5:00 PM ENCOUNTER (CHAPEL) 5:00 PM YOUTH HANDBELL PRACTICE 6:00 PM YOUTH MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 4:00 PM STEWPOT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 4:00 PM STEWPOT 5:30 PM CUB SCOUTS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 NO WEDNESDAY ACTIVITIES THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY—OFFICE CLOSED

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY—OFFICE CLOSED FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY—OFFICE CLOSED

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First United Methodist Church

320 West Main

Magnolia, AR 71753

CONGREGATIONAL LIFE

WILL HOST A FUNDRAISER FOR THE

CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Sunday, November 19— following worship

Soup & Chili Lunch

Bake Sale

Donations accepted. Proceeds will go to the

CDC to purchase 2 baby beds and

other items for the center.

Pastor Pam’s Ponderings. . . Oh, I wish I

could ride a horse with the Good News! My

maternal great-grandfather was a horseback riding

Circuit Rider, preaching and selling books in

northeast Kansas for the Methodist Episcopal

Church. Now the closest I’ve ever gotten was

driving my second car—a Dodge Colt station

wagon from Walpole to Wellesley, Massachusetts

when I was an intern at Christ Church (United

Methodist) and the psychiatric hospital. Our finance committee is not getting any of

us a horse for our upcoming stewardship campaign. We’ll have to ride in our four

wheeled vehicles to share the commitment cards.

Jennifer Hubbard and Donna and Jim Garrett are leading us by getting the

pony express bags ready for distribution so that we can begin our commitment

making November 20. Neighborhood leaders will start the bags moving from house

to house that Monday with our goal of all cards completed and returned to the

financial secretary by Friday, December 1.

We are confident that everyone will be blessed by this means of

commitment. Please be in prayer with your family about how you will commit to the

ministries God has for us here at First United Methodist Church. As I reflect on my

almost eighteen months here as your pastoral leader, I am impressed by the

commitment this congregation has to the missions housed in our facility—Stewpot

serving the hungry, the Child Development Center serving children and their

families, and the Caring Place serving adults and their families. We also have staff

who work hard to implement the vision—To invite all to know the love of God, to

share grace, and to develop relationships so that all may be part of the Kingdom of

God as we follow Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. We worship, study, and

fellowship together across the age spans from infants to older adults. We are

intentional about including all who seek the love we know. Our ministry with one

another, for one another and our neighbors requires that we keep the promises we

made when we committed our lives to Jesus. Our prayers, presence, gifts, service,

and witness are all part of how we live so that our faithfulness may be fruitful.

Ministry requires money. We are asking the congregation to be as bold as

those young men who rode the plains with mail. Everyone needs to give because all

of us are made in the image of God, the greatest Giver of all life. Everyone needs to

give because everyone’s money matters. We have no Daddy Warbuck to pay for our

ministries. We are the ones who can!

Let us risk being all God wants us to be. Let us allow the glory of God to be

manifest as we do the impossible by the power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Shalom, Pastor Pam

Sydney Marie Sneed

and

Justin Alan Castleberry

Invite you to share in the joy

when they exchange marriage vows

on Saturday, the eighteenth of November

Two thousand and seventeen

at four in the afternoon

The Barn at Big Oak Hill Ranch

1795 Columbia Road 10

Magnolia, Arkansas

In celebration of Thanksgiving, we will not

have our regularly scheduled activities on

Wednesday, November 22. We will resume our

normal schedule on Wednesday, November 29.

The church office will be closed Wednesday,

Thursday and Friday (November 22, 23 and 24).

From the church staff to your family, have a

wonderful Thanksgiving. We give thanks for all

of you!

Happy Thanksgiving

We will not publish The Visitor next week

due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Our next edition will be November 29.

A Record of Our Faithfulness

Worship S.S.

November 5 146 65

November 12 117 50

Encounter 6

Having promised to be loyal to Jesus Christ through The United Methodist Church and to do all in our power to strengthen its ministries, we live out our promise by God’s grace together—participating faithfully in the ministries of

First United Methodist Church by our prayers, our presence, our gifts, our service, and our witness, making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world!

Inviting all to know the love of God, share grace, develop relationships

Our Prayers of Intercession Our Witness

Our Presence

STEWPOT VOLUNTEERS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Host/Hostess: Bonnie Adcox

Servers: Ginger Cook and SAU

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Host/Hostess: Jim Garrett

Servers: Scotty Jack, Beth Freudenburg, Kathy Sharp

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Host/Hostess: Mary Helen Martin

Servers: Joyce Crane, Judy Munn, Fannie King

Our Weekly Service in Worship

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Acolytes: Gabby Nelson &

Makaila McComb

Readers: 8:30 Richard Wood

10:45 Mariah Guevara

Ushers: Jackson Boyd & Steve Nipper

ALTAR GUILD—Sanctuary

Teri Burge 11/13-11/19) Donna Garrett (11/20-11/26)

ALTAR GUILD—Chapel

Whitney Whitelaw & Linda Wood

Our Prayers of Praise

We ask for God’s help for —

To participate in our prayer ministry, please contact

Tracie at the office. She’ll add you to the email

network or the phone notification list.

*Family whose house burned to ground

*Rodney Cherry missing since Saturday

We praise God for… *the power of prayer—Prayer tent set up in Peace Hall

open Sunday 8-noon; 4:30-6 Monday through Thursday 8

am until closing. Friday 8-Noon

*Ann Cabala—successful surgery

*Thank you for supporting African Team Ministries— $1,028.00 was raised!!

Our Service

Our Gifts

A Record of Our Faithfulness

Offerings

November 5 $12,721.25

November 12 $ 9,127.00

We need $19,347.33 each week to reach our goal of $174,126

11/1 Zoie Dixon 11/19 Larry Franks

11/1 Charles Flurry 11/20 Cole Eddy

11/2 Christian Hester 11/20 Van Privitt

11/7 Carol Durrant 11/21 Judy McGee

11/9 Jennifer Bailey 11/22 Reece McDonald

11/9 Chris Gosnell 11/23 Kelly Ribble

11/10 Rebecca Ainsworth 11/24 Lester Jetton

11/12 Mabel Card 11/26 Anne Gantt

11/12 Kathryn Dickson 11/27 Tom Harris

11/1 Lauren Lewis 11/27 Joe Hester

11/15 Preston Tye 11/28 JD Martin

11/17 Jan Alford 11/29 Nathan Romero

11/17 Mildred Ruff 11/30 Christa Marsh

11/17 Sam Williams

NOVEMBER

BIRTHDAYS Christmas Light Fundraiser The Spring Youth will hang your Christmas lights

inside or outside for donations on December 9!

All proceeds go towards Youth Missions and

Conference Events!

Contact Michelle Anderson, 234-4530

to make an appointment

Name________________________________ Street Address_______________________ City_______________ZIP_______________ Preferred phone______________________ Email _______________________________ Date_________________________________ Financial Commitment for 2018 $________________ _____Weekly_____ or Monthly Total annual commitment____________

Our Budget Goal for 2018 $ 660,000.00 This funds all our ministries for children, youth, and adults; missions and worship; and taking care of the building! Be generous and faithful as you prayerfully complete this card. “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour

out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.” Malachi 3:10

A tithe=ten percent

____I renew my commitment to follow Jesus Christ and to uphold this congregation through my prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. It begins at home and goes throughout the world. I would like to know more about ministries with:

____Prayer ____Children ____Youth ____Adults ____Worship ____Singing Choirs ____Handbells ____Missions ____Stewpot ____The Caring Place ____Child Development Center ____Tutoring ____I have ideas for ministry______________________________________________

Our Ministry funding commitment card

Mark Your Calendars To Join Us As We Celebrate

HANGING OF THE GREENS “A Glorious Holiday Tradition”

SUNDAY, December 3, 5:00 P.M.

FOLLOWED BY A LIGHT POTLUCK MEAL

UNITED METHODIST WOMEN

CHRISTMAS POTLUCK

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4

PEACE HALL

6:00 p.m.

Community-wide

Thanksgiving Service Sunday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m.

Asbury United Methodist Church

1300 East University

Sponsored by the Magnolia Minister’s Network

We will receive an offering for families from our

community who are in need.