For
the Week of May 13, 2012
First United Methodist
Church
Remember: Church Family Dinner Tonight at 5:30.
Join us Wednesday, May 9 for a celebration of Cinco de Mayo - Methodist style. We will be serving a
variety of Mexican foods. There will also be a children's menu
available. Dinner starts at 5:30 in Fellowship Hall. Bring your
family, your friends, your appetite and your castanets!! Ole"
Ask
Us Who We Are
to be Shown in Burlington on Saturday.
It’s
a powerful documentary about the experience of foster care in Vermont. It will
be shown on Saturday, May 12th, at 7:00 pm at the First United
Methodist Church, corner of Buell Street and South Winooski Ave., in
Burlington. This evening is free and open to the public. Call Sue at
802.658.7441 for more information. This evening is hosted by the Justice and
Social Concerns Ministry Team of First United Methodist Church. Children
often move between placements with their belongings in plastic garbage bags. If
you would like to donate a suitcase in good condition, please bring it.
May Day Planting time
is coming this Sunday.
Save May 13th on
your calendar. Come at fellowship time
(served in Fellowship Hall that day) to help us pot up some flowers to
deliver to our members unable to join us at church. Please bring in some 6” pots before that
time as our supply is getting low. -- Thank
you. Starr LaJoice
Special Offering for VIM
Mozambique 2012
As part of the worship celebration next week, May 20th, we will be
highlighting the Volunteer In Mission (VIM) trip to
Mozambique this July.
Larry & Ann Barber will be leading a Volunteer in Mission
(VIM) team to Mozambique in July 2012.
The team will be working on the creation of the Mozambique
Institute for Health Sciences, a training school for nurses and public health
workers, to be located at the Chicuque Rural
Hospital. The Team has set a fund raising goal of $20,000 to purchase
supplies for the construction of one classroom at the new teaching
facility. Our Church has supported Jeremais
Franca, Chicuque Hospital Administrator and Chicuque hospital for several years. There will be a
special offering envelope for this mission.
There will also be a bulletin insert describing the project in more detail including ways you can show your support.
Nursery
Volunteers Needed: Do you enjoy being with toddlers? Nursery volunteers are
urgently needed.
This is such an
important ministry to our families with young children. It can be so
disheartening for parents to arrive at church, only to find that, once again,
they cannot participate in worship because the nursery is unattended. If you can spare spending a single Sunday
during worship with our smallest members, please sign-up on the whiteboard in
the back of the church. Remember, we need two adults each Sunday.
So please try to fill that second slot if at all possible.
Thanks!!
Mark D. Jacunski
Capital Campaign Conversations:
You may have heard discussions about a Capital
Campaign at FUMC. Your Board of Trustees are in
the early stages of such a campaign. All are invited to
prayerfully assess where we are, and discern where we are headed.
Over the next month or two a subcommittee of trustees consisting of Pastor
Mark, Lindsay Townsend, Radetta Nemcosky, Margaret Welch and myself will meet
with members of the church who are interested or have a passion for one of 11
ministry areas that we have named. If
you would like to participate and provide us your opinion on our questionnaire
please see one of the subcommittee members or call us. Frequently
Most asked Question from those church members who received my "Dear
John" letter last week. “How did I get assigned into one of the 11
groups and what does that mean?” Very simply the subcommittee
thought you had a passion for this area of the church and we value your opinion
as it relates to discerning where we are headed.
-- John Hunt,
Board of Trustees
Save the Date: All Church Family Picnic on Sunday, June 24th
at Barb Nadeau’s house, beginning around 12:30 pm. Details to follow.
Save the Date: Pig Roast:
Sunday July 15th; 5:00 pm at the Waterfront.
Thank you for sending in your submissions for
the Annual Report.
I’ve received most, but not all.
Please send in your report if you have not yet done so.
First
United Methodist Church
21 Buell Street ● Burlington, Vermont 05401
(802)-862-1151
e-mail: officemanager@fumcburlington.org
Our
Greeters Sunday are Bob & Elsa Carpenter.
Our
Liturgist Sunday is Bob Purvee.
Fellowship
Time hosted by Dave, Marian & Nathan Steimke will be held in Fellowship
Hall following worship.
Worship
Aids - Large print bulletins and hymnals and hearing devices are available upon
request.
Cassette tapes
of Sunday’s worship service will be available at the church office a few minutes
following the service.
Lectionary
for next week:
Acts
1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm
1
1
John 5:9-13
John
17:6-19
Liturgical color: White.
Mark Demers, Pastor
Rachel Stampul, Pastor of Youth &
Young Adult Ministry
Steven Oakland, Interim Director of
Music
Marian Steimke, Office Manager
David Billings, Church Sexton
All Members, Ministers
Web Site: www.fumcburlington.org
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Sunday, May 13th:
Mother’s Day
9:30 Nursery care for ages 3 & under
9:45 Worship
Service
10:00ish Faith
Village - Sunday School (age 3 – grade 5)
11:15 May
Day Planters – Fellowship Hall
11:15 Capital
Campaign Conversations – Reid Booth
1:00 Dwell
Service – Sanctuary
4:30 Timothy
Society – Youth Group (Grades 6-12)
7:00pm Worship
Service
6:30 AA
Monday:
10:00 Thrift Shop
7:00 Bible Study – Chapel
7:00 VIA Training – Reid-Booth Room
12:00 OA/ 6:30 AA
Tuesday: 2:30 Birchwood Service
6:30 GA/8:00 AA
Wednesday: May Chimes mailed out
7:00 Church Council – Budget Vote
12:00 OA /7:30 NA/7:00 SLAA
Thursday: 11:00 Discussion Group
7:00 Choir
12:00 AA/6:30 AA/8:00 AA
Friday:
12:00 OA/6:30 NA
Saturday: 4:00 Dwell Practice - Sanctuary
10:00 am SLAA / 10:00 am DA
Next Sunday: Children’s Sunday
Mozambique
Sunday (offering)
9:30 Nursery care
for ages 3 & under
9:45 Worship
Service
10:00ish Faith
Village - Sunday School (age 3 – grade 5)
1:00 Dwell
Service
4:30 Timothy
Society – Youth Group (Grades 6-12)
7:00pm Worship
service