TRUTH BE TOLD
ART PARTY
THE ORDER OF WORSHIP
Eight Sunday After Pentecost
July 19, 2015 Altar Color: Green
PRELUDE
Melissa Sizemore, Guest Organist
Voluntary on All Creatures of Our God and King – Phillips; Held
CHIMING OF THE HOUR
*PROCESSIONAL (ORGAN)
All Creatures of Our God and King -- DeCou
Sunday, July 19, 2015
8:30 a.m.
9:45 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
5:30 p.m.
“A Bead & A Prayer” Bible Study (CR)
No Young Adult Small Group
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
*MOMENTS OF FRIENDSHIP AND OPPORTUNITY
No Chancel Choir
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Surely the Presence of the Lord
Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place;
I can feel his mighty power and his grace.
I can hear the brush of angels’ wings,
I see glory on each face;
surely the presence of the Lord is in this place.
*OPENING PRAYER
*OPENING HYMN
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
OFFERING
OFFERTORY (ORGAN)
*DOXOLOGY
Sunday, July 26, 2015
9:45 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Sunday School
Worship
ATTENDANCE:
S. SCHOOL
7/5
7/12
277
The Apostles’ Creed
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
*GLORIA PATRI
328
881
70
SILENCE & PASTORAL PRAYER – LORD’S PRAYER
CHILDREN’S SERMON
John MacKeil
*SONG OF PRAISE
Words Found in Bulletin
ANTHEM
Mark 6: 30-34, 53-56 [Pg. 818]
If You Search With All Your Heart – Courtney
SERMON
*HYMN OF PARTING
“Take Time”
Chancel Choir
Rev. Alice MacKeil
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
HEALTH MISSION PROJECT
We will be taking donations for Clorox for the month of July
for the Laurens County Memorial Home. Instead of bringing
bottles of Clorox, please make checks payable to First UMC and
on memo write “Clorox for Memorial Home”.
BRACELETS TO
SUPPORT BILL KUTZ
We are selling bracelets to support Bill’s fight against cancer. We have
received another shipment of bracelets, they will be available for sale from
Kelly Hillmann this Sunday for $5.00.
DISCIPLE II BIBLE STUDY
*EXTINGUISHING OF THE ALTAR CANDLES
*CARRYING OUT OF THE LIGHT
*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE
Shalom to You
Shalom to you now, shalom, my friends.
May God’s full mercies bless you, my friends.
In all your living and through your loving,
Christ be your shalom, Christ be your shalom.
*POSTLUDE
WOMEN’S KAIROS AT
LEATH CORRECTIONAL
Any woman who has been on the Walk to Emmaus is welcome to volunteer
to be on the team for the Women’s Kairos the weekend of Oct. 22-25 at
Leath Correctional. Training began July 11th at Main St. UMC. If
interested, please speak with Chris McCoy or Pastor Alice.
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*BENEDICTION
A Festive Postlude – Phillips
Acolytes
Acolytes
666
You DO NOT have to know anything at all about painting to join this class. It
is a great opportunity to fellowship, have fun and paint a one-of-a-kind
painting (size: 8” x 24”) to take home. The cost is only $30. We will serve
light refreshments.
WORSHIP
29
101
Contemporary Praise Service – 31
34
101
Bind Us Together
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE
The Class will last about 2-1/2 –
3 hours in our Fellowship Hall.
Please sign-up on the bulletin board and choose your design and scripture.
For more information contact Shannon Ashley.
We Call to Thee – Buxtehude
95
We are planning the “Truth Be
Told Art” paint class for Thurs.,
Aug. 13th @ 6:30 PM.
Methodist Men’s Breakfast (FH)
Sunday School
Worship
Bold Believers – Emmaus Group (FH)
Contemporary Praise Service (Sanctuary)
It’s mid-summer so it’s time to start talking about the fall
Disciple Bible Study class. This year we will be doing
Disciple 2: Into the Word, Into the World. For 32 weeks we
will be studying Genesis, Exodus, Luke, and Acts. Classes
will be on Monday nights from 6:15 – 8:15PM here at First
UMC. We will hold our orientation meeting on Monday, August 31st at
6:15PM, it should take an hour or less. We will meet in the Conference
Room. The student manuals will be handed out, the cost is: $35.00 each.
If you would like to participate, please sign-up on the sheet located on the
bulletin board outside the Church Office. If you have any questions, Pastor
Alice or Ray McCoy would be happy to talk with you about the study.
“A BEAD AND A PRAYER” STUDY
As a follow up to making Prayer Beads, we will be offering a
study to learn how to use Protestant Prayer Beads. The class
will meet on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. in the Conference Room.
July 21
July 28
Week 3
Week 4
How to Use Prayer Beads
How to Listen with Prayer Beads
Each week we will practice praying using our Prayer Beads, discuss the
lesson and share using reflection questions. Please be sure to bring your
book and prayer beads to class with you each week. If you cannot come to
the Prayer Bead making session, Hope Deason would be glad to make you
a set of Prayer Beads for a small cost to use with this study.
CHILDREN’S SERMON
If you would be interested in doing a Children’s Sermon
during the worship service on Sunday mornings, please see
Pastor Alice so you can be added to the Children’s Sermon
schedule.
MEMORIALS
In Memory of: Jim Sharpton
Given by: Dick & Nancy Althouse; Barbara Brown;
Phillip & Jay Betette; Ron & Betty Burnside;
Jack & Evelyn Cauley; Rayford & Nyoda Gambrell;
Randy, Kelly, & Gabriel Hillmann; Joe & Joy Kirby;
Adeline Long; Gene & Jean Madden; Drucie Martin; Essie Mills;
Cathy & Wayne Neal; William & Susan Nutter;
Jack & Carolyn Penland; Walter & Harriet Ramage;
R. Bland Roper; Michael & Dianne Sutton; The Neighborhood –
(Woodbluff, Wardlaw, & Sweetgum); Thomas Thompson;
Mary Townsend; Jimmy Williams
In Memory of: Bill LeGrand Given by: Walter & Harriet Ramage
HONORARIUMS
In Honor of: Jack Hedgepath
Given by: Mary Townsend
In Honor of: Bill Kutz
Given by: Myron Stockman
SERVING THIS MORNING: Sunday, July 19, 2015
Sunday School Greeters: Frank & Linda Brown; Emil & Mary Lou Finley
Ushers: Jim Stroud, Diane Allen, Tom Ashley, Toby Dillard
Crucifer: Zan Tollison
Acolytes: Katelyn Martin, Bennett Tollison
Adult Helper: Scott Tollison
Lay Liturgist: Randy Hillmann
Martha Franks Driver: Emil Finley
Nursery: Susan Pruitt, Merry Young
Children’s Church: Carol Curry, Joanne Thomason
Flowers: The flowers are given in loving memory of Billy & Betty
Patterson and in honor of Neal & Ellie Patterson on the upcoming birth of
their first child by Brown & Gypsy Patterson.
Welcome Guests
We bid you a warm welcome and pray that you will know God’s
presence in worship with us.
If you are interested in joining First United Methodist Church please
speak with Pastor Alice after worship or call the Church Office at 984-7696.
Prayer Concerns
Jack Hedgepath –staying at his granddaughter’s home –
Address: c/o Nicole Brown, 401 Winding Brook Ct., Greenville, SC 29617
Rev. Rick Inman – received a new kidney at MUSC, Charleston – (Pastor of
Atonement Lutheran Church, Laurens)
Bill Kutz – getting therapy at Roger C. Peace – Rm. 2904 – hoping to go
home Friday (7/17).
Shirley McIntyre – Hospice House of Clinton – Rm. 106
Conway Siebert – Laurens Co. Memorial Hospital – Rm. 206
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Thomas Gallman – NHC of Laurens, 301 Pinehaven St. Ext. – Rm. 423A –
(brother of Greenwood District Secretary)
Frances Siebert – 1 Martha Franks Dr., HC 331
THANKS TO VBS WORKERS
Thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s GForce VBS such a success. We had 21 children
participate. They ate dinner, watched a puppet show with
video, sang and danced to songs, watched five Bible
stories acted out, learned Bible verses, watched science experiments, played
games, and made crafts. They learned to be God’s love in action.
WORDS TO SONG OF PRAISE
Bind Us Together
Chorus:
Verse:
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
There is only one God, there is only one King;
There is only one body, that is why we sing.
Repeat Chorus
At First United Methodist Church
we challenge each other to be BOLD,
to step out in faith as disciples of Jesus Christ.
BIBLE VERSE FOR JULY
“He called for the Twelve and
sent them out in pairs.”
Mark 6: 7 NRSV
METHODIST MEN’S BREAKFAST
Sunday, July 19
8:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall
THE
FIRST
UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCH
LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA
Vol. XXXIII
David Stumbo, Solicitor for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, will be our guest
speaker. He is a long-time prosecutor and is a man of strong faith. Let’s
have a large turn-out.
July 19, 2015
No. 29
343530262723N2221No.1010091006070351515515051
No.N484744342438393738373673637
CONTEMPORARY PRAISE SERVICE
Sunday, July 19th
6:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Speaker: Allan Burden
Do Good Anyway (Part 1)
1 Peter 3: 13-17
PICNIC AND PURSE LUNCH
You are invited to The Laurens Area Methodist
Women’s “Picnic and Purse Lunch” Tues.,
Aug. 4, 2015 at Noon in the Fellowship Hall of First UMC.
Bring your favorite kind of sandwiches, a salad or a dessert to share. Please
don’t forget to bring your purse with you for some “purse fun”.
FINANCIAL REPORT
July 14, 2015
MONTH TO DATE
Revenue - - - - - - - $ 10,177.00
Expenses - - - - - - $ 8,531.01
Net - - - - - - - - - - -$ 1,645.99
STAFF MEMBERS
Pastor
Praise Music Director
Financial Secretary
Director of Music/Organist
Church Secretary
Ministers
Alice MacKeil
Andrew Crocker
Lucy Crowder
Bill Kutz
Karen Reeder
Entire Congregation
Church Phone Numbers
984-7696 or 984-2969
715-0430 (Parsonage)
864-420-0004 (Pastor’s Cell)
e-mail addresses
fumclaurens@prtcnet.com
pastoralice@charter.net
Web Page Address
firstmethodistlaurens.com
YEAR TO DATE
$132,981.32
$157,740.39
($ 24,759.07)
GETTING TO KNOW
HARRY & PENNY PABST
Harry met Penny about 38 years ago in Columbia. Three
years later they were married and now have one daughter, Erin
Dhand, who was married a year ago and lives in Mt. Pleasant.
Penny graduated from Lander College and got her Master’s
from USC. Now retired, she taught Elementary School for 10 years
in Columbia and spent 28 years teaching 1st Grade at Clinton
Elementary. Penny enjoys reading, tending to a flower garden, and
cooking (when Harry gives up the kitchen). She also spends time
with the Hospital Auxiliary at Laurens Hospital, and volunteering
at school, folding bulletins, working on the Hospitality Committee,
serving on the Staff-Parish Relations Committee, and has been
instrumental in the UMW combining with other Methodist
churches to fellowship together.
Harry attended Georgia Southern and has been in
Construction throughout the years. He is semi-retired, still doing
some work on occasion. He is a past president of the UMM, served
on Trustees and Nominations but his favorite thing to do is BBQ.
He is a Master BBQ judge and still competes on occasion in
Competitive Cook offs. He also enjoys hunting and fishing. They
have been members at First for about 25 years.