First Edition Newsletter - April 3, 2013

A Newsletter Publication of First United Methodist Church, Jackson, Tennessee

April 3, 2013 | Volume 12 Issue 7 jacksonfumc.org

SEEKING GOD | KNOWING CHRIST | SHARING HIS LOVE

FIRST EDITIONFIRST EDITIONDOWNTOWN JACKSON

This Issue...

AT A GLANCE• Baptism & New Member• Health Tips: Cholesterol Myths

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• Corn Toss Tournament• Bake Off - Last WEF of the Season• FUMC Apparel Day - April 17

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• Soul Sisters: An Evening with Joey Williams and “What Not to Wear Ever, Ever Again!”

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• Parents Night Out• Rebekah Circle Invitation

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• A New Story Page 6-7

• Charlene Barnett: 20 Years Recognition Page 8

• Applying Biblical Principles• Internet Safety for Families

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• Habitat for HumanityPage 10

• April Misson Focus: RIFA• Adventures in Learning: Madison Advanced

ChorusPage 11

• Sunday Morning Sermon Topics Page 12

Confirmation SundayApril 14 • 11:00 AM Worship Service

Will Gibson

Phoebe Hudson Jack Page

Miles Cox

Laura Hymers

Colby Hughes Sarah Sullivan

Tanner Atkins Nicholas CorleyHarris BarkerSophia Baker

Katherine Ryan

Ellie Harrell

Avery Gibson

Pick up your Spring and Summer FUMC Destination

card for upcoming activities and events.

Invite your friends and neighbors!

YOUR SPRING AND SUMMER

DESTINATIONDOWNTOWN JACKSON, TN

First Edition April 3, 2013

BAPTISMOn Easter Sunday, March 31, Sophie Taylor Hatch, daughter of Ginny and Tim Hatch, received the sacrament of Holy Baptism. She is also the grand-daughter of Kemp Boyd. We joyfully welcome Sophie into the household of God.

WELCOME NEW MEMBER!

Sixteen year old Nisha Johnson joined FUMC on Sunday, March 24. Sponsored by her friend Jane Trently, we welcome Neisha into the membership of FUMC.

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Weekly Opportunities

Sunday, April 7 8:55 AM First Awakening Service with

Communion 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Traditional Worship Service with

Communion 11:00 AM Charlene’s Appreciation 4:00 PM Current UMY Monday, April 8 9:15 AM Staff Prayer 10:00 AM Department Head Meetings 1:30 PM Logistics Staff Meeting 1:30 PM Worship Planning Meeting 4:15 PM Zumba 5:30 PM Sr. Olympic Basketball 6:30 PM Women’s Ministry Committee

Meeting 6:45 PM Boy Scout Meeting 7:15 PM Men’s Basketball Tuesday, April 9 7:00 AM Men’s Weekly Bible Study 9:00 AM Cabinet meeting for both

Conferences 9:30 AM Namesake Bible Study 11:30 AM Key Leaders

Wednesday, April 10 9:00 AM Cabinet meeting for both

Conferences 10:00 AM Pastors’ Bible Study 10:15 AM Invitation to Presence 12:00 PM Mid-Week Downtown Worship

Service 3:30 PM WINGS 3:30 PM WEF Open Gym 5:00 PM Wednesday Evening Fellowship

Dinner 5:15 PM Adult Sunday School Leaders

Meeting 5:45PM ConfirmationClass 6:00 PM Corn Toss Tournament 6:00 PM Handbell Rehearsal 6:00 PM Soul Sisters Finding

Balance 6:00 PM Youth Wednesday Evening

Fellowship 7:00 PM Sanctuary Choir

Thursday, April 11 9:00 AM Cabinet meeting for both

Conferences 4:15 PM Zumba 5:30 PM Higher Education Team 5:30 PM Sr. Olympic Basketball

Friday, April 12 11:00 AM Grandmother’s LAP Saturday, April 13 8:00 AM Habitat for Humanity

Construction - Off Site 8:00 AM KWCC Go to Heifer Intl. 4:30 PM Room in the Inn Sunday, April 14 8:55 AM First Awakening Service

Health Tips Wanda Scanlon, FUMC Health and Welfare RepresentativeRN, Regional Hospital of Jackson

Cholesterol - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly MythsCholesterol is a waxy, fatty substance made in our liver that can not be dissolved in blood. It’s not all bad, actually our bodies need it to function properly. Cell walls use it to produce hormones, Vitamin D, and bile acids that help us to digest fats. Unfortunately , we only need a small amount to sustain our cells and the excess turns into thick, hard deposit (plaque) that will cause problems for us; including heart disease, stroke, poor circulation to our limbs, and kidney failure just to name a few. Patients are often confused when they see their cholesterol numbers. Breaking it down into the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY, will help you understand your levels and risks.

The GOOD cholesterol is HDL (high density). This is believed to carry the bad cholesterol back to the liver before it piles up in our bodies - so we need this number

to be high. Levels should be above 60 to be considered healthy. Below 40 are strong indicators of heart attack risk.

The BAD cholesterol is LDL (low density). If your levels are above 129, you DOUBLE your risk of heart attack.

Now for the UGLY - Triglycerides. This is the most common fat in the body. Levels should not exceed 150. Levels above 499 are considered dangerous. High levels are found in people who are overweight, inactive, smoke, have a high carbohydrate diet or have family history of high cholesterol.

Youshouldhavealipidprofiledoneifyou are overweight (even as little as 10 lbs), a smoker, eat a lot of carbohydrates, and live a sedentary life style. There are medications to lower your cholesterol -- but they should be used in conjunction with a healthy diet and exercise as they can have serious side effects. Don’t be in the dark-know your levels and act accordingly. Above all READ nutrition levels, avoid sugar and fat. If you smoke make every effort to stop. Our total fat consumption should not be over 30-40 grams per day - a Big Mac has 29 - now that’s UGLY!

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Weekly Opportunities

9:00AM ConfirmationSundayRehearsal 10:00AM ConfirmationSundayBrunch 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Traditional Worship Service /

ConfirmationSunday 4:00 PM Current UMY 5:00 PM KWCC Kids Who Care Club Monday, April 15 9:15 AM Staff Prayer 10:00 AM Department Head Meetings 10:00 AM Rebekah Circle Meeting-Diane

Harrison 1:30 PM Logistics Staff Meeting 1:30 PM Worship Planning Meeting 4:15 PM Zumba 5:30 PM Sr. Olympic Basketball 6:45 PM Boy Scout Meeting 7:15 PM Men’s Basketball

Tuesday, April 16 7:00 AM Men’s Weekly Bible Study 9:30 AM Namesake Bible Study 3:30 PM Memphis Conf Men’s Fish Fry-

Bishop Bill McAlilly 6:00 PM Soul Sister Presents an Evening

with Joey Williams 6:00 PM Stephen Ministry Cont. Ed.

Wednesday, April 17 10:15 AM Invitation to Presence 12:00 PM Mid-Week Downtown Worship

Service 3:30 PM WINGS 3:30 PM WEF Open Gym 3:45 PM Brownies-Daisies (Troop 43088) 5:00 PM WEF Dinner 5:30 PM Soul Sisters Bake Off 6:00 PM Handbell Rehearsal 6:00 PM Youth WEF 7:00 PM Sanctuary Choir

Thursday, April 18 4:00 PM The Hub Club Students 4:15 PM Zumba 5:30 PM Sr. Olympic Basketball

Friday, April 19 11:00 AM Adventures in Learning 5:30 PM Parents Night Out 7:00 PM Lighthouse Church UPC Lock-in

(Youth/College)

Saturday, April 20 7:00 PM Lighthouse Church UPC Lock-in

(Youth/College) 7:00 AM Morgan Kelley 5K 8:00 AM Habitat for Humanity

Printed copies, compliments of FUMC, are available in church lobbies. To receive as e-news, subscribe at memphis-umc.org

Corn Toss Tournament April 10th5:00 p.m. Dinner Clayton HallDessert: Ice Cream Sundae Bar

6:00 p.m. Tournament Gym - All agesSign up during dinner

• Register your sweets before Dinner at 5:00 p.m.• Bring a baked good in one of the following categories: - Cakes - Pies - Cookies - Cupcakes - Other• Judging begins at 5:30 p.m.

Last WEF of the Season!

Save the Date! Summer Wednesday Evening Fellowship • July 24

Church Family Fun at WEF!Dinner: $6 Adults, $4 Kids, $20 Family Maximum

Bake

Off

April 17th

PLACE ORDERSWednesday, April 17

4:30-6:00 p.m.SUNDAY, APRIL 219:30-11:00 p.m.

New Spring & Summer colors and styles

APPAREL

It’s Wear Your

DAY

APRIL 17


Women’s MinistriesMary Beth Bernheisel, [email protected]

SoulSisters

Women’s Bible StudyEvery Tuesday9:30-11:00 a.m.Nursery & Childcare

Provided

SoulSisters

Women’s Brown Bag Bible Study

April 26Noon - 1:00 PMfor women of all ages

4th Friday of each month 111 - Murray Guard Drive, Suite B, conference room

Becca Stevens

Chaplain, St. Augustine’s at Vanderbilt; Author; Founder, Magdalene & Thistle Farms

(www.thistlefarms.org)

SAVE THE DATE!

AUGUST 24

April 16

An Evening with

Joey WilliamsSpiritual & Motivational SpeakerDo you have a special dream? Believe in yourself and “Go for it!”

SoulSisters

presents

April 16 • 6:00-7:30 p.m.At forty-four years of age, Joey Williams enrolled at Lambuth University in Jackson, TN and played on the football team with his son, Kyle. Experience his inspiring story of faith in God, belief in your-self, support of family, and courage to follow your dream!

AND the Soul Sisters will take a look at current fashions and help us decide

“What Not to Wear... Ever, Ever Again!”

Dig into the deepest recesses of your closet to help us remember what we should never wear again! You don’t have to wear it… just bring it!

Baked potato bar, salad, and sundae bar for a $5 donation

Nursery provided, bring a snack supper for your child if your child hasn’t already eaten.

“Explore the transformational power of God through the stories of Biblical characters who met God and discover how God offers an identity that shines with the purpose for which you were created.”

Appreciation

Many thanks for the many hands that helped in so many ways to prepare FUMC for Holy Week!

Thanks to Alice Eblen for sprucing up the flower beds!


Youth News & Events

View the Youth Calendar http://bit.ly/109inoZ

First Friday ForumApril 5 Noon-1:00 p.m.Clayton HallCost: $7 per personProgram: The Entrepreneur Development Center and “Five Minutes from the Arts” from the Griot Collective of West Tennessee

Confirmation Sunday, April 14 Come support your Prayer Partner at the 11:00 a.m. service.

Senior Recognition Sunday, April 28

The Rebekah Circleinvites

all men and womento hear

Guest Speaker:Diane HarrisonExecutive Director of

Grace Place MinistriesWomen’s Prison Ministry

Memphis, TNApril 15

10:00-11:30 a.m.The Chapel

(Lower Level, Newman Center)

FUMC Kids’ NewsProverbs 22:6 - Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

KWCC go to Heifer International April 13th to deliver the money raised during the Sunday School Change War

Confirmation Brunch Signup4th and 5th Grade Parents are needed to help with the Confirmation Brunch. 8:00 a.m. Setup10:00 a.m. Serve11:00 a.m. Clean upEmail Alyssa your time [email protected]

Parents Night OutFriday, April 19 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Dinner Provided$5 per child (Infant - 5th Grade)

Reservations required by Wednesday, April 17To register, call the church office, 422-4002 or go to jacksonfumc.org or http://bit.ly/Uwk3RN

FUMC FOUNDATION“Retirement funds present new opportunities for giving to the Church. You may name the Churchasthebeneficiaryofyourindividualretirement account or other retirement funds, in the event that you or other family members die before receiving all of the funds.”To learn more about FUMC’s Foundation and Planned Giving, contact Jim Scott, Chairman. 668-4775 or e-mail [email protected]


by Mary Beth BernheiselAssociate Pastor

Sermon from Communion Service Easter Sunday

“A New Story”It isn’t the women that intrigue me in this story so much as it is Peter. My heart gravitates toward Peter in this story. When I imagine the condition that Peter was in when the women came to tell the apostles that Jesus was no longer in the tomb, I imagine that he was brooding and moody. I imagine that he was remembering the events of the past week with the same sort of regret that I feel when I remember doing something especially shameful or embarrassing. I imagine him being sick to his stomach, full of anxiety. I imagine him pacing the room, at loose ends, not knowing where to go or what to do next. Not only must he consider what to do with his life now that the one who hadredefinedhislifewasnolongerthere,buthemustalsofigureouthow to deal with the guilt and shame. Peter had shown such promise, such potential. He seemed more than all the others to catch glimpses—brief though they might be—of what Jesus’ ministry was about. He correctly identifiedJesusasGod’sMessiahwhen Jesus asked the disciples who they believed him to be. And yet it was Peter who, as Jesus was being led away to the home of the high priest,

denied that he ever knew him. In case we need to know how Peter felt about his own denial of Jesus, Luke 22:62 tells us that Peter went out and wept bitterly.

ReflectingonPeter’sanxietyonthisthird day after Jesus’ death makes me anxious. If anyone needed a miracle, it was Peter. And so when he hears the women tell the tale, and, I imagine, hears the other disciples ridiculing the women for this unbelievable story, he heads out. He needs to see. He needs to see if Jesus is really alive. Because if Jesus is alive, then there may be hope for Peter after all. He could ask for Jesus’ forgiveness. He could have the chance to make things right again. Maybe things wouldn’t ever be the same. Maybe the relationship would be permanently broken, but at least he could try.

A second chance would be a beautiful thing.

I want to be like the women. I want to be like the women who have been faithful to Jesus throughout. Who stayed with him as he died on the cross, who kept a holy Sabbath as they waited to prepare his body for burial, who went to the tomb to gently care for his broken body and to say afinalgoodbye,whofellontheirfaces in front of the angels, and then ran back to tell the other disciples the good news.

But I am Peter. We are all Peter. Here is what Peter knows as he lives in the space between his denial of Jesus and this news brought by his sisters after they have visited the tomb:

•thatourmistakes,oursin,ourdenials, and our shame tell us all we need to know about who we are•thathismistakesareunforgiveable

andhisbrokennesswillneverbefixed•thatthereisnopowerinthisworldthat can overcome the power of death, and so there is no hope that his life could ever be redeemed.

I don’t know about you, but that story sounds familiar to me. It’s my story. And it’s your story. And it’s the story of everyone who ever lived. We aredefinedbyourbrokenness,ourbrokennesscanneverbefixed,andour lives can never be redeemed.

On that Easter morning the one thing Peter needed more than anything else was to hear a different story. The one thing we need to hear this morning is a different story. If we, like the disciples, have a hard time believing this morning’s story, it’s because we believe another story more strongly. Or because it’s easier to believe the story we’re already in. Or because we’re more comfortable believing the story we’re in than we are believing the Easter story.

Faithful Peter. He needs a new story. And so he goes to the tomb to look for one.

I imagine him as he ran to the tomb trying not to get his hopes up, telling himself that what the women said probably was nothing more than silliness, simultaneously rehearsing in his head what he would say to Jesus if Jesus really was alive, and giving himself permission to hope, but just a tiny little bit, that a different story was possible.

This morning we dare to hope, with Peter, that a new story is possible. That we are more than our sin and brokenness, that our mistakes can be forgiven, and that our lives can be redeemed. There are some of us who are ready to go out and shout the news from the rooftops—there is a


new story to be told. Death has been overcome and everything is new. And there are still others of us who need to go with Peter to the tomb. It’s just too good to be true. It’s too good to be believed. But maybe we will go peek our heads inside the tomb anyway, just in case.

And when we peek into the empty tomb and see that Jesus is not there, we realize, along with Peter, that anything is possible. Maybe we can be forgiven. Maybe we are more than our sins and mistakes and our shame. Maybe our lives can be redeemed. Maybe there really is a different story.

But despite the glory and hope and promise of it all, most of us will spend our whole lives struggling to believe it. Maybe we won’t struggle to believe that Jesus walked out of that tomb and into the world after he had been dead. That actually may be easier for us to believe than all the things that it implies for our lives. It may be easier to believe that a dead man rose again than it is to believe that we have been forgiven, that our lives are redeemable, and that we areinfinitelymorethanourshameand guilt. We become used to those stories about ourselves. We become entrenched in them. They become the only stories we can believe about ourselves. But we don’t spend nearly enough time in this story, in the story of life defeating death, in forgiveness overcoming guilt, in compassion overcoming shame. Everywhere we look we can hear or see the message that we’re not enough, that we are broken, that there is an emptiness withinusthatwecannotfill.Andthatis true. We don’t have the answers, we are broken, we are empty. Our shortcomings and failings and sin are as much a part of who we are as the air that we breathe into our bodies. But that’s only half of the

story. Today we hear the rest of the story. The story we come to hear thismorningisthatourinsufficiencydoesn’tdefineus.Oursindoesn’ttell us who we are. That we are more than our guilt and our shame. We are more than our brokenness.

We are forgivable, redeemable, reconstructable…

We. Are. New.

That is a hard story to believe. But here is how desperately God wants us to believe it. God became a human andsacrificedGod’sownselfoutofa love that we can neither explain nor comprehend, a love that we do not deserve or understand, a love that we can only sloppily mimic in the love that we have for one another and that we say we have for God. God suffered because God knew of no other way to make us understand the compassion that God has for us and the mercy that God desperately wants us to know deep in our marrow. God endured all that the sinful world had to muster so that God in Christ could step out of a tomb and make sure we knewthatthereisnothingthatdefinesour lives more clearly than God’s love for us, than God’s forgiveness of us, and God’s redemption of our broken and tattered lives.

This is now our story. No longer arewedefinedbythehalf-storiesofour shame and guilt and sin. Our story is that God can do anything. God in Christ can walk out of a tomb. God in Christ can love even me. Can love even you. God can forgive me. Can forgive you. God can make something of your life that you can’t even dream of. While the women were at the tomb and Peter was feeling the weight of his guilt and shame and brokenness, his mind was not wandering to the time in the

future when he would be sharing a meal with Jesus. We cannot even conceive of the things that God can make of our lives. But our futures, too, are part of this story—this story that life wins over death. That forgiveness beats guilt and shame. That redemption is for us.

Like Peter, we live in a story of defeat. But this morning we tell a different story. This story is about hope, forgiveness, redemption, salvation, new life, new futures, new stories still waiting to be written. The story is about unimaginable love and mercy. This story is the one where death loses and life wins. This story ends with all of us no longer being frightened of the future andwhatitholds,butconfidentthatwe will come to whatever lies ahead of us with a dead-but-now-living, has-experienced-the-worst-life-has-to-offer God walking beside us.

This morning we say goodbye to the half story of shame and guilt and despair and declare that the whole story is the one we will live in because the God who loves us has faced death for us and lives again.

He is Risen!


Charlene Barnett 20 Years Recognition at FUMC

by Bobbie Mays Director of Communications

While a Baptist all her life, her ties to the Methodist faith run deep. Her maternal great-great-grandfather, Thaddeous Sobeski Duffel was appointed by the Tennessee Annual Conference in 1856 as the Methodist minister to Linden Mission in Perry County, TN. Rev. Seth Graves Harrell, her paternal great-great great-grandfather, was a Methodist minister who was commissioned by the Alabama Conference to serve Choctaw Indians in Cameron, Oklahoma in 1871. Today, wouldn’t they be proud that their 3rd generation grand-daughter was celebrating her twentieth year of service at Jackson First United Methodist Church?

The eighth child of eleven born to J.D. and Katherine Moore in Jackson, TN, Charlene never lacked for playmates. But, with so many children in the family, fromtheageoffiveuntilshemarried,shelived with and was raised by her special Aunt Eva and Uncle Clarence Goth. As a family, they attended West Jackson Baptist Church. Reminiscing about her youth, some of her fondest memories are of her school years at Alexander Elementary, Tigrett Jr. High and Jackson High. Her beloved principal, Fred Standley, moved right along with her class from elementary all the way through their high school graduation in 1964! As many reading this already know, he and his wife, Beth, were both members at FUMC. Fred is now deceased and Beth lives out of state.

Charlene Moore furthered her education at Union University where she graduated in 1968 with a BA in Business Administration. That same year in August, she became Charlene Barnett as the new bride of Tony Barnett whom she met on the old Union campus while going to college. In 1969, Tony entered the army and for the next two years, they lived in

Okinawa. That experience was so positive that someday they would enjoy returning to that island.

From 1972, through the next fourteen years, Charlene worked in accounts payable at Conalco and at Jackson General Hospital. Ready to begin their family in 1973, daughter, Michelle was born and six years later they had son, Colin. In 1986, they moved to Hendersonville, TN where they lived until 1992 and where Charlene worked at First HendersonvilleBaptistChurchforfiveyears. They returned to Jackson in June of 1992 and on April 1, 1993, she began her career at First United Methodist Church.

Coming to work at FUMC was so natural for Charlene as she grew up with a lot of children, (now adults), who are members here. Mary Frances Pipkin is her sweet cousin. Her very favorite school teacher was Marjorie McLemore who taught her in the 3rd grade. Charlene has seen a lot of changes over the years. She’s worked under four pastors, Dr. Walter Mischke, Dr. Paul Clayton, Rev. Ted Leach and Rev. Dan Camp. She remembers working intheoldofficeareawiththenarrowwinding halls and then helping move into the new Administration/Educational wing in 2002. Perhaps her most memorable experience at Jackson FUMC was in May 2003 when the devastating tornado ripped through Jackson causing $1,000,000 in damage to the newly renovated church.

Her son and daughter-in-law had reserved the church early in January of that year for their wedding to take place in November. Amazingly, the repairs were completed in time for that special occasion which was thefirstweddingafterthetornado.

Charlene leads a rewarding life outside of her work. Each week, for more than twenty years, she has served as a women’s Sunday School teacher at East Union Baptist Church in Jackson. With photography as one of her hobbies, she hastheperfectsubjectswithherfiveadorable grandchildren ranging in ages from two to sixteen years old. Genealogy isanotherinterestshefindsfascinating.There have been many times when she has stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. with her brother gathering information about family members. Today, she continues to expand the family tree, making connectionswithrelativesforthefirsttime, exchanging ancestry discoveries, reading, exploring and adding to her collection of notebooks.

Her responsibilities include accounts payable, payroll, contributions, memorials and honorariums. “It’s a joy to come to work each day!” She expresses her thanks for the support from the congregation, staff and especially Phyllis Maley, with whom she has worked closely for more than seventeen years. Even though she knows many of the congregation, “there are a lot of people I don’t know and I’d like to meet.” She warmly invites you to “stopbymyofficesometime!”

On April 7, in appreciation and recognition of Charlene’s twenty years of service, she will be honored in the 11:00 a.m. worship service. On Sunday morning, feel free to greet her with thanks and gratitude.


Jackson National Golf ClubMay 3

Proceeds benefit Area Relief MinistriesRegister at

www.areareliefministries.org/golf/

Questions? Contact Sharon Matthews at 668-8120

INTERNET

for Families

SAFETY

April 306:00-7:00 p.m.

Clayton Hall

Debra L. IrelandAssistant U.S. Attorney U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of TN

Childcare & Nursery Provided

There are some wonderful principles in the Old Testament which apply to present-day Christians. One of these is in Deuteronomy 8:10-18. Stated in contemporary language, it says, “When you have eaten and are full, when your cars, houses and bank accounts multiply, don’t forget where it came from: Remember the Lord your God.”

In truth, all that we have comes from God. He determines what we will receive, whether it be money, gold, silver, houses, land, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, etc. It all belongs to Him inthefirstplace,andHeentrustsittous. According to David’s prayer in 1 Chronicles 29, riches, honor, power, and wealth all come from God.

That’s why there is no such thing as a self-made man or woman. Oh, we have to do our part. God’s plan is not that we just sit around praying and reading the Bible all day long so that what we need to survive will miraculously drop into our hands. We’re not just to

pray for “our daily bread,” but we’re also to get up each day and work for it! That’s why the Apostle Paul stated clearly, “If any one will not work, let him not eat” (2 Thes. 3:10). But in reality, the amount of money and wealth which we receive is determined by God. According to His divine will and knowledge, He entrusts to each of us the amounts which He knows will be best for us.

What should be our reaction to our financialstate?Somemightpray,“DearLord, you must have made a mistake concerningmeandmyfinances.Pleasegive me more money.” Others might try to circumvent God’s design for their lives by trying to win the lottery or to obtain large sums of money through some other means. Mature Christians, however,willrealizeGod’sinfinitewisdom far surpasses their limited perspective. They will accept with a thankful spirit what God has entrusted to them and seek to honor God by their living and by their giving.

APPLYING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

Jackson Choral Society Darian Krimm, Music Director

GenerationsMusic of the Baroque and Classical eras

paired with modern musical foils.featuring music by Purcell, Mozart, Beethoven, Clausen and Wilberg

Sunday, April 21 • 3:00 p.m.Location: West Jackson Baptist Church (580 Oil Well Rd., Jackson, TN)Special Guest Choirs:•MadisonAcademicHighSchool•NorthsideHighSchool

Ticket Outlets: Potter’s Garde, J. Kent Freeman, and at their door. Ticket Price: $10.00 General Admission, $5.00 Students

Music NotesDarian Krimm, Director of Music and Worship Arts

60 Choral Singers including

12 FUMC Members130 Combined Voices


Memorials & Honoraria

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Velma Frazier (Mother of Beverly Denton) Alicia Franco (Easter Offering)

Billie Stricklin (Mother of Beth Bates) Ernest & Ann Lawrence (Stephen Ministry)

Judge Phil Harris (Father of Suzanne Welles) John & Barbara New Brad, Beverly & Ryan Denton James Boswell (Husband of Anne Boswell) Alicia Franco (Easter Offering) Fred Ivy, Jr.

Dodds Family Betty Betterman (Easter Offering)

IN LOVING HONOR OF

Lisa RiceAnne BoswellGrailyn Brooks Alicia Franco (Easter Offering)

Mission Notes

Habitat House • March 30

One Week Old!

Work continues

on Saturdays

at 972 E. College

Come and be blessed... bring a co-worker or friend!

Weekly Wednesday Noon Worship Servicewith Holy Communion

in the SanctuarySinging • ScripturePrayer • Reflection

Build • Pray • Feed • Give

Enjoy a cup of coffee and discussionMeets the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tuesdays

7:00-745 a.m.Room 206, Clayton Hall Conference Room


Adult OpportunitiesPam Jaco, [email protected]

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

Program 11:00 a.m. • Luncheon 12:00 noonClayton Hall • $6.00/person

For reservations, call the church office at 422-4002 or sign up online at jacksonfumc.org by Noon, April 17.

Please remember to call and cancel your reservation should you be unable to attend.

Madison Advanced ChorusEnsemble from Madison Academic High School

Under the direction of Helen Redding

April Misson Chest: Regional Interfaith Association (RIFA)

RIFA reaches out with the love of Christ to help people in need and to provide resources for a better future. The communion offering during worship on April 7 will go to RIFA.

• canned pasta • evaporated milk • baked beans• easy mac & cheese • peanut butter and jelly • fruit cups • canned soup • canned corn • cake mix• diapers (all sizes) • deodorant • shampoo & conditioner• toilet paper/ paper towels • socks • underwear

Place items in the mission chests in church lobbies.

Feinstein $1 Million Challenge

The Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation divides $1 million proportionately among all hunger fighting agencies participating in the challenge. RIFA has accepted the Challenge to fight hunger in Jackson and Madison County. The amount each agency receives is proportionate to the amount of donations it receives. Simply put, the more money and food RIFA receives during this two-month period, the more we will receive from Mr. Feinstein’s Challenge.

How you can help: Make a monetary donation during the months of March and April. Donate non-perishable food items during those months. Organize your friends, family, church or school to hold a food drive to benefit RIFA using the Feinstein Challenge.

APRIL MISSION FOCUSRegional Interfaith Association

Guest Speaker: Bishop Bill McAlilly5:00 p.m. - Dinner 7:00 p.m. - ProgramArcher’s Chapel UMC, 356 Archer's Chapel Rd., Frog Jump, TN (Crockett County in the Brownsville District)

Join Dave Bratcher and Bubba Walker on the

church bus.Meet at 3:30 p.m. in the

church parking lot.

To reserve your spot on the bus, please call the church

office, 731-422-4002 or sign up at jacksonfumc.org

June 17-219:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

K-5th Grade • Cost: $50 Register at jacksonfumc.org

or call 422-4002

Sign up now!

Kids’ Music Day Camp

Mini Fest 2013

First Edition April 3, 2013

NON-PROFIT ORG.U.S. POSTAGE

PAIDJACKSON, TENN.PERMIT NO. 116

jacksonfumc.org

Sunday Morning Worship

First United Methodist Church200 South Church StreetJackson, Tennessee 38301 Address Service Requested(731) 422-4002

A Stephen Ministry Congregation

A Safe Sanctuaries Congregation

Traditional Worship ServiceSanctuary • 11:00 a.m.

First Awakening Contemporary Worship Service Clayton Hall • 8:55 a.m.

Sunday School

10:00 a.m.

DOWNTOWN JACKSON

“King of Kings“ Mary Beth Bernheisel, preaching • Scripture: Acts 5:27-32, Revelation 1:4-8

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