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First United Methodist Church * 1610 Prince St., Conway, AR 72034 * 501-329-3801 * www.conwayfumc.org March 18, 2015 Good and Faithful Servant Looking Ahead to Holy Week Holy Week starts on March 29 with our Palm/Passion Sunday services and continues with our services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, all in preparation for our glorious Easter celebration on April 5. You are invited to open your heart anew to the blessings of life that comes from our Lord. Sunday, March 29 — Palm Sunday 9 a.m., Good News Celebration, Great Hall 8:45 & 11 a.m., Sanctuary, “Love Unknown,” A festival of hymns & readings from Max Lucado Thursday, April 2 — Maundy Thursday Worship, 6:30 p.m., Great Hall Friday, April 3 — Good Friday Worship, 6:30 p.m., Sanctuary Saturday, April 4 — Easter Egg Hunt for Children. 10 a.m., Laurel Park. Sunday, April 5 — EASTER WORSHIP 8:45 and 11 a.m., Sanctuary. 9 a.m., Great Hall This Week in Worship We continue our series, “Now is the Time.” This week the tag line is “to pray.” As Jesus approached Jerusalem he said, “Now my heart is troubled.” Through this pain he resolves to glori- fy God. This week we will be inspired by the way Jesus prays and models prayer for us. Pastor Michael will be preaching in both Sanctuary services at 8:45 and 11:00. Pastor Keith will be preach- ing in the Good News Celebration at 9:00 in the Great Hall. Let us ‘Break-Fast’ Together on Maundy Thursday Each year many of us turn to fasting as a spiritual discipline for the Lenten season. Maybe you’ve chosen to abstain from something -- sweets, soda, coffee, social media -- through Lent’s 40 days. Recalling Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness, fasting helps us to remember our dependence on God and helps open a place in our lives for God to come in. With this in mind, we are inviting our whole congre- gation to fast on Maundy Thursday, April 2, by skip- ping lunch that day and donating the money normally spent on lunch to our Food Pantry ministry. The exciting part of our community fast- ing together is the opportunity to “break-fast” together at the 6:30 Maundy Thursday Service that evening in the Great Hall. At the Maundy (Holy) Thursday Service you are invited to “come hungry” and receive Holy Communion around tables. Afterwards, there will be more food for us to share around the tables, mostly with a “middle eastern flare” - hummus, breads, olives, grapes, cheese, vegetables, and back by popular demand, Chick- Fil-A chicken nuggets. Please know that if you are not able to fast from a meal on Maundy Thursday you are still en- couraged to find a way to participate. Some alterna- tives our staff considered included refraining from social media and then “check in” at the service or refrain from music that day and have the first melo- dies be the sacred music of the Church. Find your way to make a sacrifice, acknowledge your depend- ence on God, and open a place in your life for God to come in. Palm Sunday worship in the Sanc- tuary will take the form of a service of music for Holy Week, accompanied by meditations from writings of Max Lucado. Our sanctuary choirs, brass, MidYouth Choir and Handbell Choir will lead the congregation in hymns and an- thems, beginning with the enthusiastic “Hosannas” of Palm Sunday and preparing us for the agony of Good Friday. The same format will be followed at both the 8:45 and 11:00 services. The music, “Love Unknown: A Festival of Passion Readings and Hymns,” is by Michael Burkhardt. The composer intended the hymn settings and readings “as a means for God’s people to journey with Jesus, from the trium- phal entry into Jerusalem to his death on Calvary’s cross.” Palm Sunday to Feature Service of Music in Sanctuary Our soup kitchen, the Amazing Grace Cafe, began five years ago when our youth had a vision to provide a hot meal for those in need. This ministry continues to feed an average of 70 people every second and fourth Thursdays. To enable the cafe to continue into the future, we need your help. Contact Kisha Bumpers ([email protected] or 501-329-3801) if you can help in any way. Cafe nights are completely volunteer driven and there are multiple ways you can be of help in any way: Volunteer to help set up (5 to 5:30 p.m.), serve (5:30 to 6:30 p.m.) and/or clean up (6:30 to 7 p.m.) Volunteer to drive the bus the fourth Thursday evening each month (5 to 7 p.m.) Volunteer to pick up donations at Out- back Steak House on the Mondays before our Thursday Café. Amazing Grace Café Needs Additional Volunteers FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
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First United Methodist Church * 1610 Prince St., Conway, AR 72034 * 501-329-3801 * www.conwayfumc.org
March 18, 2015
Good and
Faithful Servant
Looking Ahead to Holy Week Holy Week starts on March 29 with our Palm/Passion Sunday services and continues with our services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, all in preparation for our glorious Easter celebration on April 5. You are invited to open your heart anew to the blessings of life that comes from our Lord. Sunday, March 29 — Palm Sunday 9 a.m., Good News Celebration, Great Hall 8:45 & 11 a.m., Sanctuary, “Love Unknown,” A festival of hymns & readings from Max Lucado Thursday, April 2 — Maundy Thursday
Worship, 6:30 p.m., Great Hall Friday, April 3 — Good Friday Worship, 6:30 p.m., Sanctuary Saturday, April 4 — Easter Egg Hunt for Children. 10 a.m., Laurel Park.
Sunday, April 5 — EASTER WORSHIP 8:45 and 11 a.m., Sanctuary. 9 a.m., Great Hall
This Week in Worship We continue our series, “Now is the Time.” This week the tag line is “to pray.” As Jesus approached Jerusalem he said, “Now my heart is troubled.” Through this pain he resolves to glori-fy God. This week we will be inspired by the way Jesus prays and models prayer for us. Pastor Michael will be preaching in both Sanctuary services at 8:45 and 11:00. Pastor Keith will be preach-ing in the Good News Celebration at 9:00 in the Great Hall.
Let us ‘Break-Fast’ Together on Maundy Thursday Each year many of us turn to fasting as a spiritual discipline for the Lenten season. Maybe you’ve chosen to abstain from something -- sweets, soda, coffee, social media -- through Lent’s 40 days. Recalling Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness, fasting helps us to remember our dependence on God and helps open a place in our lives for God to come in. With this in mind, we are inviting our whole congre-gation to fast on Maundy Thursday, April 2, by skip-ping lunch that day and donating the money normally spent on lunch to our Food Pantry ministry. The exciting part of our community fast-ing together is the opportunity to “break-fast” together at the 6:30 Maundy Thursday Service that evening in the Great Hall. At the Maundy (Holy) Thursday Service you are invited to “come hungry” and receive Holy Communion around tables. Afterwards, there will be more food for us to share around the tables, mostly with a “middle eastern flare” - hummus, breads, olives, grapes, cheese, vegetables, and back by popular demand, Chick- Fil-A chicken nuggets. Please know that if you are not able to fast from a meal on Maundy Thursday you are still en-couraged to find a way to participate. Some alterna-tives our staff considered included refraining from social media and then “check in” at the service or refrain from music that day and have the first melo-dies be the sacred music of the Church. Find your way to make a sacrifice, acknowledge your depend-ence on God, and open a place in your life for God to come in.
Palm Sunday worship in the Sanc-tuary will take the form of a service of music for Holy Week, accompanied by meditations from writings of Max Lucado.
Our sanctuary choirs, brass, MidYouth Choir and Handbell Choir will lead the congregation in hymns and an-thems, beginning with the enthusiastic “Hosannas” of Palm Sunday and preparing us for the agony of Good Friday.
The same format will be followed at both the 8:45 and 11:00 services.
The music, “Love Unknown: A Festival of Passion Readings and Hymns,” is by Michael Burkhardt.
The composer intended the hymn settings and readings “as a means for God’s people to journey with Jesus, from the trium-phal entry into Jerusalem to his death on Calvary’s cross.”
Palm Sunday to Feature Service of Music in Sanctuary
Our soup kitchen, the Amazing Grace Cafe, began five years ago when our youth had a vision to provide a hot meal for those in need. This ministry continues to feed an average of 70 people every second and fourth Thursdays. To enable the cafe to continue into the future, we need your help. Contact Kisha Bumpers ([email protected] or 501-329-3801) if you can help in any way. Cafe nights are completely volunteer driven
and there are multiple ways you can be of help in any way: Volunteer to help set up (5 to 5:30
p.m.), serve (5:30 to 6:30 p.m.) and/or clean up (6:30 to 7 p.m.)
Volunteer to drive the bus the fourth Thursday evening each month (5 to 7 p.m.)
Volunteer to pick up donations at Out-back Steak House on the Mondays before our Thursday Café.
Amazing Grace Café Needs Additional Volunteers
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 7:00 A.M. Men’s Prayer Breakfast, Fellowship Hall 9:00 A.M. Homebound Baking, Fellowship Hall Kitchen 12:30 P.M. Enneagram study group, 216 3:30 P.M. Hang Time, Youth rooms 4:00 P.M. K-1 Choir, 2112 4:30 P.M. Joyful Sound Choir, 212 4:45 P.M. MidYouth Bells, 202 5:20 P.M. Joyful Ringers, 202 6:00 P.M. MidYouth, Great Hall, Parlor 6:30 P.M. “Love Unknown” rehearsal, Sanctuary 6:30 P.M. Chancel Choir, 202 6:45 P.M. Knitting group, 124 Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:00 A.M. Breakfast Club, Lobby 5:30 P.M. ASU Childhood Training, B13 6:00 P.M. Boys Dateable Youth Small Group, 1112 6:00 P.M. Girls Dateable Youth Small Group, 1103 6:00 P.M. Conway Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, 216 6:00 P.M. ECC Pre-K Art Show, Lobby, Parlor 6:30 P.M. “Half the Sky” study, 214 7:00 P.M. Praise Band practice, Great Hall Friday, March 20, 2015
Youth at Reconnect
Saturday, March 21, 2015 Youth at Reconnect
8:00 A.M. B-Fit Boot Camp, Great Hall Sunday, March 22, 2015
Youth at Reconnect 8:00 A.M. First Service Singers, 202 8:00 A.M. Praise Band, Great Hall 8:45 A.M. Worship, Sanctuary * 9:00 A.M. Good News Celebration, Great Hall * 10:00 A.M. College Sunday School, Parlor 10:00 A.M. Sunday School, all ages * 10:40 A.M. Chancel Choir warmup, 202 11:00 A.M. Worship, Sanctuary * Monday, March 23, 2015
Youth at Reconnect 1:30 P.M. Staff meeting, 216 2:15 P.M. Program staff meeting, 216 4:30 P.M. Bells of Grace, 202 6:30 P.M. Troop 71 leaders meeting, B13 6:45 P.M. Chancel Ringers, 202 7:00 P.M. B-Fit Boot Camp, Great Hall Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:15 A.M. Healing Prayer Team, Prayer Room 7:00 P.M. Men’s Basketball, Great Hall (*) Child care provided. To request childcare for a calendared event, call Pam Lentz, 501-329-3801.
Adult Sunday School — 10 a.m. March 22
Music for Worship on Sunday, March 22 Sanctuary Worship Prelude “Veni Creator Spiritus” Wyton Anthem (8:45) “This Cross” Mummert First Service Singers (11:00) “Lamb of God” Christiansen Chancel Choir Offertory “Jesus, Pr iceless Treasure” Manz Good News Celebration “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)” “One Thing Remains” “Came to My Rescue” “Madly” “Marvelous Light”
Serving In Worship on Sunday, March 22 8:45 11:00 Usher Captain Joe Heird Jamie Bird Acolytes Nyden Hill Hugh Hill Sound Booth Jim Foust David Hales Altar Guild Kaye Clanton, Nancy Thessing Worship Readers Beth Ruple Ethan Winningham
Good News Celebration: Audio-visual team: Blake Shinn. Acolyte: Mason Cooper . Ushers: Kim Arnold, Oliver and Sandra Humphreys, Haley Atkinson, Betty Diehl.
Our Church Family
Hospital Conway Regional: Sophia Bar ton. Out of Town: Luke Siria (grandson of Butch & Sue Siria). Prayers For Those Serving Overseas — Ian Sheehan (nephew of Chris and Lynn Bills); Ben Norman (nephew of Missy & Mike Shock and Lynn & Lynn Caldwell. Welcome To Anthony and Jennifer Boone, who joined this community of faith on Sunday, March 15. They have two daughters, Rebecca, 11, and Lyndsey, 4.
This Week at ENGAGE This week we turn to the gospel of Luke as we Engage the scriptures in holy conversation.
Lost and Found Table A table containing items from the church Lost and Found is in the hallway that goes between the Fellowship Hall and the Hospitality Area in the Sanctuary building. If you have lost items (such as clothing, books and cookware), please check out the items on the table and take any that belong to you. You never know what you’ll find — one member found a long-lost earring that had special meaning to her.
Dorothy Robins-Light 212 “John: Journey Through the Bible Se-ries” George Hartje 218 “Receive the Holy Spirit,” John 20:19-23; Acts 1:4-8, 2:1-4 Faithbuilders 220 Faith in Action (FIA) 214 “Renegade,” a Lenten study Forum 222 Rev. Dede Roberts, director of the Ar-kansas Conference Center for Clergy and Laity Excellence, will discuss con-templative prayer and meditation.
Genesis 227 “Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit” G.I.F.T. (Growing in Faith Together) 216 “Why? Making Sense of God’s Will,” by Adam Hamilton Koinonia 219 I and II Samuel, Leader Gerald Plafcan New Covenant 221 “Fruits of the Spirit” Round Table 217 A study of the Old Testament Bible Lecture Chapel “The Gospel of John, Part I,” Leader David Sutherland
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