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March 2020 Vol. LXI, No. 3

The Temptations of Jesus

Matthew 4:1-11 Mount of Temptation in Judean Desert March 1

The Teaching of Jesus

Matthew 5:1-12 The Mount above Lake Galilee March 8

The Rejection of Jesus

Luke 4:28-30 Mount Precipice in Nazareth March 15

The Transfiguration of Jesus

Matthew 17:1-13 Mount Tabor in Jezreel Valley March 22

The Triumphal Entry of Jesus

Luke 19:28-30 Mount of Olives (Jerusalem) March 29

The Crucifixion of Jesus

Luke 23:24-33 Mount Calvary (Outside the City) April 5

Inside this issue:

On the Horizon 2

Prayers Requests

Staff Directory

Upcoming Events 3

Church News 4

Missions & Evangelism

5

Adult Ministries 6

Student & Family

Ministries

7

A monthly publication of First United Methodist Church, Bryan, TX

Sermon Series During Lent 2020:

Climb Every Mountain (With Jesus) Worship Schedule

8:30 a.m.

Traditional Worship Service (Sanctuary)

9:00 a.m.

Contemporary Worship Service

(Gym)

11:00 a.m. Traditional Worship Service (Sanctuary)

11:00 a.m.

Bilingual English/Spanish Service (Fellowship Hall)

Church Office 506 E. 28th St.

Bryan, TX 77803

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Senior Pastor Rev. Rick Sitton

ext. 105 [email protected]

Lead Pastor of Contemporary Worship Rev. Jennifer Webber


Associate Pastor, Hispanic Ministry Rev. Dr. Augusto Sarria


Director of

Jeff Hobbs ext. 103

[email protected]

Director of Adult Ministries & Member Involvement

Natalie Patterson ext. 102

[email protected]

Director of Music & Worship Ministries

Chris Caffee ext. 107

[email protected]

Sara Hadley Karl Brinkmann

[email protected]

Organist Angela Corbett

Director of Business & Facilities

Eileen Winkle ext. 109

[email protected]

Administrative Assistant LeeAnn Broeker


Custodians Hosea Morriel

Rocio Hittt Josh Sweed

CLERGY

STAFF

Erma Ingram, Daphne Eller, Hal Fellows, Ola Mae Davis, Ray Anthony, Mary House, Mary McDonald, Mac McDonald,

Jack Gressett, Kitty Harrington, Sue Futrell, Ben Balke, Shirley Anderson, Bob Prock, Edna Irick, Nikki Ravey, Sylvia Craig,

Pat Fox, Sonny Brumley, Jim Bradford, Pam Vollentine

Prayers of comfort and peace for the families of:

Vance Jones, Hazle Easterling, Jean Stephen, and Sam Mancillas, brother of Alma Fonseca

FUMC Bryan Campus will be closed for Spring Break

Wednesday, March 11th—Friday March 13th

3/1/2020 11:00 AM Youth Fundraiser Spaghetti Luncheon

2:00 PM Worship - Crestview Retirement Cntr/Arbor Oaks

3/2/2020 6:00 PM Staff Parish Relations Committee

6:30 PM SpringFest

3/3/2020 9:30 AM UMW - General Session

5:30 PM BISD Bond Committee

3/4/2020 5:30 PM First Family Dinner

3/6/2020 6:00 PM "First Friday" Fellowship - Downtown Bryan

6:30 PM Generation of Power

3/7/2020 8:00 AM UMM - Meeting & Workday

3/8/2020 11:00 AM Senior Fellowship Luncheon

5:00 PM Brazos Breeze Flute Choir Concert

3/9/2020 6:00 PM Service-Mission Team

3/10/2020 9:30 AM UMW - Caring for Others

FUMC Campus Closed - Spring Break

3/15/2020 5:30 PM MYF (Methodist Youth Fellowship)


3/20/2020 6:30 PM Generation of Power

3/22/2020 3:00 PM Spring Fest

4:00 PM Discover Membership


3/26/2020 12:00 PM Relay for Life of Brazos County Survivor Dinner

3/27/2020 5:30 PM Confirmation Church Visit @ Hillel Center

6:30 PM Generation of Power

3/28/2020 The BIG Event - Texas A&M University

9:00 AM UMW - District Meeting

Vol. LXI, No. 3

Study on the Last 24 Hours of Jesus

Following First Family Dinner (6:30 p.m.) on

Wednesday, March 18, March 25 and April 1 in the

Heritage Room, Pastor Rick will be teaching a

3-part series entitled, “The Last 24.”

We will examine the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life

from the institution of the

Lord’s Supper (March 18), the trial at Pilate’s

judgment seat (March 25), and the 7 Last Words

of Christ on the Cross (April 1).

All are welcome to attend!

Join our church in supporting the Save our Streets Ministries 3rd Annual “Sweets For The Soul Pastor Cook -Off”!

Pastor Rick has asked Candy Rust to help him again this year. FUMC Bryan has been blessed to win one of the best desserts each year thanks to Candy ’s amazing desserts. How do we win? You show up that night and you buy tickets for the best dessert and stuff the jar on our table (or give a big donation to SOS in the name of FUMC Bryan). We need your help!

Each entry ticket is $10/each and includes 2 voting tickets. You can also purchase additional voting tickets for $1/each at the event, online at saveourstreetsministries.com OR call (979) 775-5357.

One Hope is an evangelistic crusade for one day in College Station by Kyle Field. Prayer cards are available in the church office for you to pick 5 friends and begin to pray for them and invite them to One Hope. Francis Chan is preaching and Chris Tomlin is leading worship. Join us at the Plaza at Kyle Field on April 25, 2020 from 7:30 to 10:00 pm. as we celebrate and share the hope of Jesus.

One Hope is a FREE event.

https://saveourstreetsministries.org/events/sweets-for-the-soul-pastors-cook-off/

Church News


FUMC Bryan would like to acknowledge and thank Angie Bridges.

“Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in”

(Psalm 24:9)

Iron Doors Installed in all Entrances of the Sanctuary

East Entrance West Entrance

South Entrance Courtyard Entrance

To all the donors that supported our blood drive in memory of

Diane Glover!

WB Goal: 23 AUTO Goal: 14 WB Actual: 10

(10 whole blood donors) AUTO Actual: 6

(3 double red donors; qty: 6)

There were thirteen donors; 10 gave

“regular” and 3 gave supreme!

Total Cost: $47,051

Raised: $36, 630

Need: $10,421

When the body of Christ gathers for worship each Sunday, when we have special services including funer-als and weddings, we enter into God’s presence through DOORS. Many years ago, Sadler and Angie Bridges made a commitment to keep our sanctuary doors maintained, but the Texas sun just kept beating down on them. So, in memory of Sadler, Angie generously donated new doors for FUMC. Not every handicap feature is in place, but they will be soon. FUMC Bryan is very grateful for Angie’s generous gift and Angie is very grateful for the help of John McKemie, FUMC Endowment president, and Candy Rust, President of the Board of Trustees. They put in many hours of work in finding a manufacturer in San Antonio who could make these beautiful hand-made doors. The Lord be praised! Angie’s heart and the heart of all involved in the “Door Project” is the heart of the psalmist that wrote: “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness” (Psalm 84:10).

Remaining balance is $300

per person. Please contact

Pastor Jen if you are

interested in sponsoring

someone!

Vol. LXI, No. 3

Missions & Evangelism Welcome,

Another month has passed us by

and “OPEN DOOR” continues to

meet on Monday evenings from

6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Fellow-

ship Hall. We thank you for your

continued prayers and support,

and we encourage you to come

and see what we are all about.

This month I would like to share some personal views on

the subject of addiction and the use of Biblical

Language.

In August 2019, I received my Commissioned Addictions

Biblical Counselor Certification after an intense 9-month

study of God’s word on addiction and sin. I learned that

there is a “Worldly View” and a “Biblical View” of

addiction. I know personally that the biblical approach to

addiction offers hope and an opportunity for success if

you strive to be open-minded and teachable. I do admit

that I had to lay aside some old ideas in favor of what

the Lord says in His word regarding addiction. For

example, nowhere in the Bible will you find the word

“addiction,” but God has plenty to say about addictive

thoughts, habits, and behaviors. He has designed and

created you to be a creature of habit, but it is not His

design for you to go to extremes when attempting to

satisfy your natural appetites and desires. Physical

addiction occurs when you repeatedly satisfy a natural

appetite and desire with a temporary pleasure until you

become the servant of the temporary object of pleasure

rather than its master. We love a pleasurable “escape”

because it seems so freeing, but addiction is a trap that

lets you think that you will be “free” when you really

become a “slave”. God has created all of us to have

liberty in Christ, but freedom from the slavery of sin was

not without a cost. It cost the Son of God His life on the

cross.

I know this is challenging, and I encourage you to visit

histruthinlove.org. or read The Heart of Addiction: A

Biblical Perspective, by Mark E. Shaw

Let me close with this prayer: “Dear Heavenly Father,

create in me a clean heart that wants to do what you

want first and to know you more deeply. I need you,

Lord, to guide me, teach me, and reveal yourself to me.

Open my eyes so that I may see you when I read the

Bible and have fellowship in your house. Thank you for

being patient, kind, and loving to me when I have been

impatient, unkind, and unloving to you. Amen.

-Lanny Parker

First United Methodist Church Bryan gives thousands of dollars every year to men, women, and families in need through Society of St. Stephen. On the first Sunday of every month and when communion is shared, a collection is taken from our church and community members to help with various needs. We have helped pay for rent, utilities, groceries, and eye glasses out of the account. Our current balance in the account is low at this time. If it is in your heart to give to this particular ministry, please prayerfully consider how you can help support this incredible ministry.

Open

Door

love. witness. serve.

Society of St. Stephen:

Did You Know?


Adult Ministries

Sowing the Seeds

“So, listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not under-

stand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the

path. The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with

joy. But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away. The seed sown

among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing. But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or

thirty times what was sown.”

Matthew 13:18-23

What is seedbed preparation?

Prepare soil - Break ground. Open your heart - Commit

yourself to discipleship within a community of committed

believers with the purpose of experiencing spiritual

growth together. Ephesians 1:17-19 I pray that the God

of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give

you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing

knowledge of him since the eyes of your heart have

been enlightened so that you can know what is the hope

of his calling what is the wealth of his glorious inher-

itance in the saints, and what is the incomparable great-

ness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed

in the exercise of his immense strength.

Water – Baptism is the beginning point of God’s grace

is it the outward sign God’s salvation Romans 6:3-4 Do

you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ

Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, we

have been buried with him through baptism into death,

in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead

through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a

new life.

Fertilize – Spiritual nourishment found in the scriptures.

2 Timothy 3:16 Every scripture is inspired by God and

useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for

training in righteousness, that the person dedicated to

God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

Nurture –Like the effects of good sunlight, healthy soil

and water in a garden, the grace given through the Holy

Spirit gives us what we need to grow just the right way

so that we bear wonderful fruit. Matthew 7:17 In the

same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the

bad tree bears bad fruit.

LIFE groups are like greenhouses for spiritual

development. These meetings are a way to experience

God’s presence and grow in the Holy Spirit’s purity and

power. Just like plants we need to grow strong to

weather the harsh battles with earthly things working

toward sanctification. Romans 12: 1-2 Therefore, I

exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God,

to present your bodies as a sacrifice—alive, holy, and

pleasing to God—which is your reasonable service. Do

not be conformed to this present world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you

may test and approve what is the will of God—what is

good and well-pleasing and perfect.

The world waits for Awakening …Who will sow the

seeds?

There are many opportunities at our church to fulfill a person’s call to be a

DISCIPLE OF JESUS, including Bible study, LIFE groups

and serving others.

Please contact Natalie Patterson

for more information on

Discipleship at FUMC!

Vol. LXI, No. 3

Student & Family Ministries

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