Heritage United Methodist Church 1604 East Pointer Trail

Van Buren, AR 72956-2326

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Mission Statement:

To Love and to Lead

The Mission of Heritage United Methodist Church

is to Love God and people passionately and to Lead

people into a passionate relationship with Jesus Christ.

In Hospital:

Marilyn Lewis (Mercy)

At Home:

Charley Hartley, David Hendrickson,

James Minor, Debbie Stewart, Dorinda

Stewart, Shirley Touchstone, Connie

Warren, Saylor Wilkinson

Assisted Living:

Shirley Bromley (Methodist)

Steve Burns (Fianna Hills NH)

Mary Coble (Crawford H&R)

Gerlinda Dibble (Willowbrook)

Martha Jones (Alma H&R)

Jean Stratton (Crawford H&R)

Warren Taylor (Methodist)

Bill Thomas (Covington Ct)

Therese Zolk (Valley Springs H&R)

SEPTEMBER VOLUNTEERS

Ushers

8:05 am Bruce Brown

Jerry Frederiksen Kevin Fontaine

Drew Cone

9:30 am Wayne Stewart

Mark Evans Dorvan Wiley Scott Weege Pam Thomas

11:00 am Russ Aikman Erich Bauman Ryan Breeze Cindi Breeze

Acolytes 9/10 - Jaylin Woodard

Madeline Elliott

9/17 - Aspen Cone Camden Curd

9/24 - Kyle Franklin Maddy Lee

September 24

FOOD TRUCK SUNDAY

October 7

GOSPEL SING

AT ADONAI TSURI

October 15

SPECIAL MUSIC,

UGANDAN KIDS’ CHOIR

Heritage Happenings is published weekly Office Hours: Mon - Thurs: 8 am - 5 pm; Fri: 8 am - 12 pm

Phone: 479-474-6424

FAX & E-mail Address: 474-8549; office@heritage.church

Church Web Page: www.heritage.church

Arkansas Area Bishop: Rev. Gary Mueller

District Superintendent: Rev. Steve Coburn

Lead Pastor: J. Wesley Hilliard, whilliard@heritage.church

Pastor Emeritus Bill Kelton, bekelton@sbcglobal.net

Director of Ministries: Roger Goins, rgoins@heritage.church

Welcome Minister: Becki Kneeland, bkneeland@heritage.church

Congregational Care Pastor: Max Goins, mgoins@heritage.church

Outreach Pastor LaToya Shepherd, lshepherd@heritage.church

Ministry Development Pastor: Ron Lewis, rlewis@heritage.church

Accompanist: Rick Endel, rendel@heritage.church

Youth and Family Pastor: Brian Seewald, bseewald@heritage.church

Associate Youth Minister: Brad Martin, bmartin@heritage.church

Middle School Pastor: Brad Sneed, bsneed@heritage.church

Children’s Minister: Shea Marsh, smarsh@heritage.church

Business Administrator Bobby Boyakin, bboyakin@heritage.church

Publications Secretary: Kathy Goins, kgoins@heritage.church

Staff Secretary: Pam James, pjames@heritage.church

Facility Manager: Steve Kelton, skelton@heritage.church

Newsletter/Bulletin Announcements: office@heritage.church

Volume 31 Issue 38

September 21, 2017

Heritage Happenings (USPS Periodical Permit 24448) is published weekly (except Christmas) by Heritage United Methodist Church, 1604 Pointer Trail, Van Buren AR 72956-2326. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Heritage United Methodist Church, 1604 Pointer Trail, Van Buren, AR 72956-2326 PH 479-474-6424

From Your Pastor’s Heart … Disciple-Making - Each One Reach One! The Great Commission given to EVERY CHRISTIAN (Does that include you?) by Jesus is “Go and make disciples ...” Can you point to one person you are currently helping to become a fully-functioning follower of Jesus? Our culture at Heritage has to change, or we will go the way of extinction. We will disobey Jesus and wither into nothing. Or, we can obey Jesus’ Great Commandment (love God and people passionately) and His Great Commission (lead people to Jesus), and know the JOY of abiding in Christ and bearing much fruit.

I am going to ask each person in our congregation to focus on doing ONE THING over the next 12 months: Lead one person into the family of Jesus at Heritage.

Give your attention to making one disciple of Jesus. Pray. Ask Jesus to show you the person(s) in whom He is at work around you. Invite them into relationship with you and with Jesus. Help them to grow as a follower of Jesus, “teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you,” (Jesus in Matthew 28:20). Help them get connected into relationship and ministry at Heritage.

If you want help in this, see a member of our Disciple-Making Leadership Team or contact Pam in the church office to register for our next The Ways of the Alongsider class on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8 pm beginning October 17th. Mr. John Wallace will provide the training. This will help you to be a disciple-maker who makes disciple-makers. Let's change our church culture in order to reach our surrounding culture. Let’s be about the Father’s business. Who will you reach?

The LORD is impressing upon me that OUR MISSION FOCUS for the next two years must be To establish a disciple-making culture in which believers are Spirit-filled, passionate about prayer, Biblically grounded, and fulfilling the Great Commandment and Great Commission.

Blessed to be in ministry with you!

Wes

Your Disciple-Making Leadership Team includes John Wallace – Trainer, Brian Seewald, Katie Brown, Ron Lewis, Linda Nelson, Wes Bailey, Greg and Judy McClure, Becki Kneeland, Shawna Seewald, Wes Hilliard

HONOARIUMS AND

MEMORIALS In honor of DORVAN WILEY’S

BIRTHDAY by: Donna Parker (BF)

In honor of BILL THOMAS’

BIRTHDAY by:

Donna Parker (BF)

In memory of BEVERLY WATTS

by:

Benton and Juanita Cone (BF)

In memory of MICHAEL BARRY by:

Mark and Linda Wilkerson (MBM)

Benton and Juanita Cone (MBM)

GROWTH Life Group (MBM)

In memory of BOB KING (nephew

of Connie Warren) by:

Benton and Juanita Cone (BF)

In memory of JOE KIRKSEY (father

of Myron Kirksey) by:

Bill and Debbie Thomas (YM) BF - Building Fund YM - Youth Ministry

MBM - Michael Barry Memorial

FOOD TRUCK SUNDAY Join us this Sunday from 9:30 am - 2

pm in the Heritage Parking Lot!

Invite your friends and offer to pay

for someone else when you buy

your lunch. Spread the word!

Open to the public!

4TH AND 5TH GRADERS Want to serve during the 9:30 am

worship service? Join us for acolyte

training during F.I.S.H. this Sunday,

September 24th from 5:45-8 pm.

SPECIAL GUEST The Young at Heart invites everyone

to dinner on Thursday, September

28th from 6-8 pm in the Fellowship

Hall. Guest speaker will be Saji

Lukos, President and Founder of

Reaching Indians Ministr ies

International. The catered meal is

free. Please RSVP to the church

office by Sunday, September 24th.

*A love offering will be received.

GREAT TRAIN EXPERIENCE We need train docents (guides to be

at the site of each train to make the

experience wonderful for our community)

We have daytime and evening shifts. Please contact Becki at

bkneeland@heritage.church or call

474-6424.

BABY SHOWER Join us for a shower on Sunday,

October 1st from 3-4:30 pm in the

Welcome Center for Mitch and

Kathryn Osburn and their soon-to-

be son, Barrett David. Kathryn is

the daughter of Roger and Kathy

Goins. The Osburn’s are registered

at Target and Babies R Us.

Hostesses are Erin Marsh, Maria

Goins, Sara Hurst, Alexis Boster

and Shawnna Seewald.

WELCOME

The Ammons Family

Benjamin, Jodie,

Jakob, and Abigail

MEN’S PRISON MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY It is that time again! Heritage Men will host the Pathway to Freedom group

on Friday, November 10th. This is an all-day event. We need 20+ men from

Heritage to go. We will take the new people-mover. We will spend the

day with the men of the Hawkins Unit at Wrightsville Prison who are in the

Pathway to Freedom program. This is a wonderful and uplifting time. To sign

up, please call the church office or email Pam James, First-Line Minister at

474-6424, pjames@heritage.church. Background checks for all men are

required by the prison prior to the trip. Deadline for turning in background

data is October 27th. For more information, please contact the leader of

Heritage Prison Ministries, Jake Ball at jakebonnieball@yahoo.com or 235-

0027.

CONQUER SERIES FOR MEN Need a battle plan for purity in a

lustful and Godless world? Join us

on Sundays at 5 pm in room 134

beginning this week. Max Garrett

will facilitate.

BLANKET CREW Like to help make blankets for area homeless adults, youth and children?

Join us Monday, September 25th at 9 am in room 134. Even if you can't sew

you can help by taking apart old jeans and cutting out fabric to be sewn

together. Bring basic sewing supplies if you have them and a machine if you

have one easily transported. Don't have any supplies? Come anyway. We

work until around 2 pm but you can come for any part of the day. Those of

us who stay for the day bring a sack lunch. Questions? Contact Sue Weege

at 474-8627.

CALLING ALL ACTORS Auditions for children (ages 5-18) for

Polar Express on the Trolley to be

presented during our Trains!

Trains! Trains! in downtown Van

Buren this Christmas season will be

Sunday, October 8th from 4-5:30

pm in the Worship Arts room. Be

ready to read a few lines. For more

information, contact Marti Salisbury

at msalisbury21@live.com.

FROM THE HURST FAMILY Thank you so much for letting us

celebrate the home going of

Geraldine at your beautiful church.

Also, the lunch was wonderful and

so though t f u l . We rea l l y

appreciated it more than you know.

PRISON MINISTRY Join Jake Ball as he travels with a

team of men to Wrightsville Prison

on Tuesday, October 17th. Contact

the church office. *Applications must be

submitted by Monday, September 25th

GOSPEL SING Invite your neighbors and friends

and join us for food, fun and

fellowship on Saturday, October

7th at Adonai Tsuri (4500 Old

Uniontown Rd) from 12-6pm.

*Bring your own chair.

In 20+ years of student ministry, one thing has always puzzled me….the lost and found after camp, retreat, or mission trips. Why is it that very few students will claim anything that they left? After one trip, I had a guy student not claim what looked like a

new pair of underwear. I knew they were his but he would not take them. I knew they were his because his name was written on the waistband. Funny thing was even with that, he still would not take them. I found that the only way to get any of the items claimed, was to make them available to the parents, mainly the moms. The moms would claim what was theirs. They knew it was theirs (actually their son or daughter’s) even if the name wasn’t on the waistband.

Have you lost anything? Have you stopped looking? No, I am not talking about the items in the lost and found at church, although you might want to check that out, as there are many sets of glasses in there. See Pam James.

Have you lost heart?

I think that the loss of heart has had one of the biggest impacts on Believers today. We have lost our hearts. We have loss of heart because our lives have become so disconnected from the deepest desires of our heart. Psalm 37:4 & 5 says, “Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.” God wants to be the greatest desire of every Christian’s life. If we say that we love Him, then our relationship with Him should have priority over the stuff we own, our jobs and even our relationships. Some would interpret “desires of your heart” as getting what we want. In fact, we are sometimes so fixed on the outcome that we take

matters into our own hands to give God a hand. We have the mindset that if anything good is going to happen, I have to make it happen……this is a heart/hope killer.

Context of the scripture reveals the Lord’s principle for cleaning up and focusing our desires. It calls for us to “delight” in Him. This means that we must take pleasure in discovering more about Him and following His will. As we seek to discover who He is and what His direction for our life is, the Holy Spirit begins aligning our heart’s desires with His.

When we commit our heart to God, the way we think, live and interact begin to be shaped by Him. We are changed. It moves from being about us and what we want to being about Him. We begin to “delight”, and then we get what we desire. In other words, it’s not about the fish.

Pastor Roberto talked about this Sunday. Luke 5 says (emphasis mine)“6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.” It started out being about fish but it moved to being about something greater than them, Hope, the fulfillment of their hearts desire.

When we are aligned with His will, our Father wants to give us our heart’s desires—in His time. As we learn to enjoy Him for who He is, our self-focused wants are replaced by His perfect will and purpose for us.

It’s not about the fish.

Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life”

Brad Sneed, Middle School Pastor

It’s Not About the Fish!

FROM YOUR EMMAUS BOARD MEMBER Imagine on the day of Christ’s resurrection, two of his followers were walking away from Jerusalem to the nearby

town of Emmaus. They were talking, wondering how things could have gone so terribly wrong. The prophet, Jesus

had been crucified just as He had said. BUT, He had promised to rise again on the third day, and some of the

women said He had and others had gone and seen the empty tomb, but where was Jesus? Had the Romans moved

his body to prevent His followers from proclaiming His word was fulfilled?

The mood was sober and no one really knew what came next. Suddenly, they found themselves joined by a third

man. He asked why they were so downcast. Of course that man was Jesus! What an amazing experience!!

The Emmaus Community invites everyone from high school age to Seniors to participate in their own Walk to

Emmaus. Our Walks take place usually in the fall and spring. It is not an exercise of the body but of the spirit.

You will meet other Pilgrims on your walk, but more importantly, you will meet a closeness with Jesus that will

exceed all of your expectations.

If you are interested or even just a little curious, please call me 816-665-3323.

Our upcoming Men’s Walk will be Oct 19-22 at Camp Siloam. We need more Pilgrims and sponsors. Please search

your heart to see if this is your Walk.

Bonnie Sher, Walk to Emmaus ‘82