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101 E. Barbour Street
P. O. Box 72
Eufaula, AL 36072
(334) 687-8227
(334) 687-8285 FAX
www.fumceufaula.org
VOLUME XXXIV
NUMBER 14
April 4, 2018
Pastor
Dr. Alan Cassady
Youth/Missions Director
Britt Martin
Music Director
Billy Wilbourne
Office Staff
Jodi Stockberger
Pam Hunter
First United Methodist ChurchFirst United Methodist Church
Children’s Choir Program The end-of-year program present-
ed by our Genesis Choir and Joyful
Singers Choir will be Wednesday,
April 25, at 6:00 p.m. Everyone is
invite to share in this blessing from
our children and their leaders! If you ever miss a
Sunday sermon, you
may now catch up by listening it
to it online! This is also a great
way for our home-bound members
to keep connected. To listen,
simply visit www.fumceufaula.org
and click on the “Sermons” tab.
Then select the sermon you wish
to hear.
Flower Calendar If you would like to
place flowers in the
sanctuary during 2018,
please call the church
office. Available dates include:
4/29, 5/27, 7/15, 8/5, 9/9, 9/30,
10/7, and 10/21.
Upcoming Meetings
►Hospitality Team
Sunday, 4/8, 5:00 p.m.
►Missions Team
Monday, 4/9, 11:00 p.m.
►Ministry Team
Monday, 4/9,
5:30 p.m.
►Office Staff
Monday, 4/16,
10:00 a.m.
►CARE Team
Tuesday, 4/17, 4:30 p.m.
►Church Council
Tuesday, 4/17, 5:30 p.m.
►Discipleship Team
Tuesday, 4/24, 5:15
Ministry Team Meeting Leaders of the committees
responsible for the various minis-
try functions
of the
church are
reminded to
attend the
first Ministry Team meeting on
Monday, April 9th at 5:30 p.m. in
the church office.
Deadline to apply: April 30
Recharge Menu
Wednesday, April 11
Lasagna
Salad, Garlic Bread
Dessert
Nametag Clips Available If you would prefer a clip rather
than a lanyard for your nametag,
please ask a greeter for one on
Sunday morning. We have plenty!
Church Council Reports The Church Council has a meeting
scheduled for Tuesday, April 17 at
5:30 p.m. If you are responsible
for submitting a report, please
email it to Jodi in the church of-
fice ([email protected]) by
12 noon on Tuesday, April 10.
Please note that the Scholarship
Committee will meet on Tuesday,
May 1 at 5:15 p.m. to review ap-
plications and award scholarships.
Calendar of Events
►Sunday, April 8
Worship 8:30
Sunday School 9:45
Worship 11:00
Hospitality Team 5:00
Elevate 5:30
►Monday, April 9
Missions Team 11:00
Ministry Team 5:30
►Tuesday, April 10
Worship Team 9:00
►Wednesday, April 11
Children’s Choirs 4:30
Supper 5:30
Bible Study (adults) 5:45
Elevate Next Level (youth) 5:00
Handbells 6:00
Spring Choir/Chancel Choir 7:00
April 8 Volunteers
►Acolyte
11:00 — Claire Thomas
►Sacristy Prayer Leaders
8:30 — Toni Davidson
11:00 — Paula Irby
►Ushers
8:30 — Aubrey & Margaret Baugh
11:00 — Logan Mitchell, John Gray
Dan McKenzie
Robert Bennett
►Lay Readers
8:30 — Billy Wilbourne
11:00 — West Martin
►Greeters
8:30 — Bette Harney
11:00 — Becky Snipes
Lamar & Cynthia Lee
►Children’s Church
11:00 — Jessica King
►Elevate Supper
6:10 — Paige Smith, Diane Moshell
Hey FUMC Family!
Here’s this week’s Elevate Top 5!
1) We’re SO excited to get back into the swing of our
regular Elevate gatherings this Sunday at 5:30. We’ll
be starting a new series called Songs from Psalms
where we’ll take a look at this sometimes hard-to-understand book in the
middle of our Bibles. We’ll learn that these Psalms are the songs sung by
God’s people. We’ll also be talking about the songs that WE sing in our
world. I’m excited to get this kicked off. It’d be a PERFECT week to get
back in the swing of things if you’ve gotten out of the habit of coming.
2) If you were around our church during our Holy
Week services you may have seen a giant wall with
envelopes clipped on it in the Parlor outside of the
sanctuary. While it may look out of place, this is a
great opportunity to partner with our youth ministry
as we prepare to go be the hands and feet of Christ
in Quito, Ecuador. It’s really an easy way to be a
part of the mission trip we’ll be going on without
having to get on the plane and go with us. Here’s
how it works: you grab an envelope with a number
(dollar amount) on it and just pop cash or a check
with that amount inside. You can drop it in the offering plate or bring it
by the church office. We’ll make sure to include all our partners in our
journey to Quito. Thanks in advance for your support of our Youth Interna-
tional Mission Team.
3) SUMMER IS COMING! If you’re a youth parent, you should’ve already
received your summer calendar in the mail. If you haven’t, let me know
and I’ll be sure to get one to you! Go ahead and put Sunday, May 20 on
your calendar. That’s our Summer Kickoff Luau!
4) Speaking of summer, we’ve got a couple mis-
sion trips happening during that season! One of
them is open to everyone (Atlanta) and one is a
middle school trip that happens here in town and is
led by our High School students (2nd Mile). You
can register now for those trips at
www.fumceufaula.org/registration.
5) Do you keep up
with FUMC Youth on social media? You should!
You can follow us on Facebook at FUMC
Eufaula Youth Ministry. We’re also on
Instagram and Snapchat @elevateeufaula. If
you want to receive text message updates,
you can text @elevate88 to 81010. We’d love
to keep you in the loop!
That’s all for now.
God looks good on you —
Britt
Prayer List
► New concerns:
*Kirven Gary
*Jo Morton
Tom Gardner
*Gene Watson
Bill Jones
Barbara Whitney
*Mary Lou Shaw
► Continue to pray for:
*Josh Jones
Mitzi Tzerman
Dave Allen
*Jane Pody
Jim Roberts
George Williams
Mary Sellers
Linda Dudewicz
Cruz Rios
*Mel Stephenson
*John Hagood
*Louise Britt
*Betty Searcy
Walter Harmer
*John Jenkins
Bobby Gray
Kathy Armstrong
*Taylor Washington
*Jeff Richards
*Brian Devlin-Meagher
Mary Lindsey Hannahan
*Richard Boyette
The Pastor’s Page
A Look at April 1 Sunday School................... 75
8:30 Worship .................... 70
11:00 Worship................. 208
Total Worship ................. 278
Offering received ....... $12,260
YTD received ............$121,277
BTT balance .............$266,041
► Prayer list guidelines:
Names remain for 4 weeks unless
requested to remain.
* denotes church members.
Come as You Are
What a beautiful Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday we enjoyed! I give
my heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make everything
possible: The Youth band at the Maundy Thursday Service, the Chancel
Choir and readers at the Good Friday service, the Children’s ministry team
at the Easter egg hunt and picnic, the Chancel Choir, Trinity Ringers, Jan
Eunice, Billy Wilbourne, and Ann Mitchell for their musical offerings of
praise. Thank you, also, to our acolytes, communion servers, ushers, and
greeters for their excellent service. I especially appreciate Brenda Parker,
Toni Houston, and Pam Hunter for their work behind the scenes preparing
the different elements for worship.
Sunday I will start a new series entitled “No Perfect People Allowed.” In
reality that should be a sign posted on every church. As Jesus reminded
the self-righteous Pharisees, “When Jesus heard this, he said to them,
‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I
have come to call not the righteous but sinners’” (Mark 2:17).
Jesus invited all people to come as they were, not to wait until they felt
good enough or until they fixed somethings in their lives. The Church will
always look a little messy because, if we are living our calling there will
always be people who are not yet devoted to Christ. One pastor asked a
poignant question, “Does your church have room for people who are not
yet Christian?”
Our church is not called to be a museum with fine upstanding saints on dis-
play. We are called to be a mission outpost of the kingdom where saints,
sinners, and everyone in between can find a place to belong and believe
and become all God intended for them.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Alan
Dear FUMC,
First of all, I would like to
thank all of the musicians who gladdened our hearts this past Easter Sunday. Many
thanks to our flutist, Jan Eunice, to our wonderful hand bell choir, and of course to our
dedicated Chancel Choir. I cannot say thank you enough to you all. You are much loved
and appreciated.
As we enter the season of Eastertide, we enter into a time of great joy. Spring is, of
course, the time of year when every plant renews with new growth and beauty. It is as
if all nature gives praise to our risen Lord. As the hymn says, “all nature sings and
round me rings the music of the spheres.” We have so many great hymns of praise in The United Methodist Hymnal.
And hopefully, we will sing many of them during Eastertide. I urge you to simply grab a hymnal sometime during
this season and perhaps use the Easter hymns as a source for your devotionals. Out of many possibilities, I call your
attention to one of which we are not familiar yet the text is quite meaningful. This hymn is on page 311 in our
hymnal and is entitled “Now the Green Blade Riseth.” It talks of the renewal of nature and the resurrection of
Jesus.
I would like to call your attention to the final verses of this hymn: “Forth he came at Easter, like the risen grain,
Jesus who for three days in the grave had lain; quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen. When our hearts are
wintry, grieving, or in pain, Jesus’ touch can call us back to life again, fields of our hearts that dead and bare have
been: Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.”
I pray that we will all allow the promise of Easter to bring us back to life again. Let us all rejoice in his
resurrection! I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday when Rhett Wilbourne and Cooper Wingate will be soloists
with the Chancel Choir and bring us “Pie Jesu” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem.
God bless,
Billy
The mission of First United Methodist Church is
to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ for the
transformation of our church, community and world.
Birthdays
Saturday, April 7
► Julie Bailey David Davidson
Sunday, April 8
► Beth Conklin Jim Gardner Charles Irvin Amy Rasberry Billy Wilbourne
Tuesday, April 10
► Hayden Baugh
Sulli Calton
Wednesday, April 11
► Roy Crow
Thursday, April 12
► Margaret Schaeffer Thomas
Contact
Us
Alan Cassady:
850-418-3303
Britt Martin:
678-953-4602
There’s an App for That! Attention, smart phone and tablet users! If your email
address is listed in our church directory, you can have
access to the directory
on your device. Simply
download the instant-
churchdirectory.com
app, enter your email
address listed in the
directory, and then fol-
low the directions on
screen to complete the
login process. It is quite
handy! Please call the
office if you have any
questions.
