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Go WEST - Welcome, Equip, Serve, Transform

Worship

8:30 a.m. - Classic

11:00 a.m. - Contemporary

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Visit us on the Web www.coutsmethodistchurch.com

802 North Elm

Weatherford, Texas 76086

817-599-8601

Sr. Pastor - Timothy Jarrell

Church Office Hours

Monday - Thursday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fridays

8:00 - Noon

Mother’s Day Evening

Mother/Daughter Banquet

Saturday, May 11th

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Entertainment by

Jon Reeves, Miller Jarrell

&

CCA Girls Choir

Games,

Trivia,

Bible Bingo

Bring a covered dish

to share

Page 2 May 5 - May 11

May 26 - June 1

April 28 – May 4

May 19 - May 25

May 12 - May 18

Couts’ Pastoral Team

Letters from Timothy

Pastor Rod Corder Pastor Len Johnson Pastor Georgia Orr Pastor Tim Jarrell

Lodge steps to meet the requirement from

our insurance company. Jamie Greene,

chairman of the Trustees, has done an out-

standing job of addressing the building

needs and seeing that the projects are being

done. He also took care of a tree that had

fallen from our lot over on a neighbors

fence, changed a van battery and anything

else that has happened at the last minute.

Thank you to everyone, those specifically

mentioned and those who are not, for your

dedication and taking care of our church

building. A special thanks to the Chicks in

Action for the care packages sent to our Col-

lege Students. I look forward to welcoming

these students home for the summer.

There are two upcoming events that I rec-

ommend that you participate in, if at all pos-

sible. One is the National Day of Prayer Ser-

vice that is this Thursday, May 2nd at 7 p.m.

at the Ninth Grade Center. The other is a

Christian Concert featuring Josh Wilson that

is being held at Couts on Friday, June 14th.

If you would like more information on Josh

Wilson, please visit his website http://www.joshwilsonmusic.com/

My family continues to feel incredibly

blessed to serve with you at Couts.

Keep the Son in your eyes,

May, as always, is proving to be an in-

credibly busy month. I hope you are still

finding creative ways to connect with the

people on your 4 x 4 list and that God will

open your eyes to new ways of blessing

them. Keep praying through these busy

times. “Keep on asking, and you will re-

ceive what you ask for. Keep on seeking,

and you will find. Keep on knocking, and

the door will be opened to you.”

Speaking of “doors”, I hope you’ll join

me in saying thank you to Rich Safford

and Roland Real for re-finishing the front

doors to the Welcome Center. They look

awesome!! They worked diligently to as-

sure that they were ready for Easter Sun-

day. We were able to welcome our mem-

bers and visitors in an aesthetically friend-

ly manner, as well as, a personal friendly

manner from our wonderful greeters.

Another big thank you goes to the

Trustees who have worked tirelessly to

make improvements inside and outside our

building. Anthony Whitfield is currently

replacing the ceiling on the walk-thru be-

tween the main building and the gym and

tape and bedding the wall behind the freez-

ers. Dick Ensminger has replaced the bal-

lasts in a number of light fixtures and con-

tinues to keep the lights changed

throughout the building. Fredrick Snowdon

has repaired some of the pew braces in the

sanctuary and added rails by the Scout

Thank you, Rich Safford

and Roland Real.

Thank You

Anthony Whitfield

Josh Wilson in concert

June 14th at Couts

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

leave the church

at 4 pm

4

Over at 3 pm

5 12 x 12

4:30 pm

6 7

District Conference 7 pm Aledo UMC

8 9 10 Boy Scout Lockin

11 Mother’s Day Evening Banquet 6:30 pm

12 13Court of Honor 7 pm

Mission Team Meetings

14 15

Last Kidzone

until the fall

16 17 18 Baby Shower for Amber Reeves 2 pm FHall

19

12:30—Lunch Holland Lake

9 am - 1pm Red Cross Blood Drive

20 21 22 23 6:30 pm Finance Meeting 7 pm Trustees

24 25

26

Single Service Sunday & Mission Fair 10 am worship Covered dish to follow (No Sun-day School)

27 28 29 30 31

May 2013

National Day of

Prayer Service

7:00 pm

9th grade

center Ranch Reunion

4-8pm

Center of Hope Week

Sager Brown Mission Trip

Mother’s Day UMW Breakfast

10:00 a.m.

at Denny’s

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CoutsKidz May 2013 Sunday School

Preschool Sunday SchoolPreschool Sunday SchoolPreschool Sunday School

Taught by Christel Brenner

and Chris Safford

TO THE RESCUE!

May 5 - Nehemiah Gets

Supplies From the King

May 12 - God Helps Nehe-

miah Face Enemies

May 19 - Nehemiah Helps

People In Need

May 26 - No Sunday School

Kindergarten Kindergarten Kindergarten --- 2nd Grade2nd Grade2nd Grade

Taught by Carrie Worsham

and Karey Massey

CLASH

May 5 - Nebuchadnezzar

the Egomaniac

May 12 - A Mob of Stone

Throwers

May 19 - Saul the Persecu-

tor

May 26 - No Sunday School

3rd3rd3rd---5th Grade5th Grade5th Grade

Taught by

Mona Holderfield

TEMPEST

May 5 - The Sun Stands

Still

May 12 - Samuel Calls For

A Storm

May 19 –Elijah Calls For A

Drought

May 26 - No Sunday School

VBS and VBS Volunteering

Kingdom Rock VBS is coming to Couts this summer (June 24-28, 6pm-8pm)! Online registration for students is already open at this link, which is also available for easy clicking on the CoutsKidz Facebook page:

www.groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/CoutsUMC

Grownups, we will have volunteer signups available very soon. Also, workdays for building sets and decorating will be announced soon.

Look ahead to June: Look ahead to June: Look ahead to June:

New Sunday School Quarter BeginsNew Sunday School Quarter BeginsNew Sunday School Quarter Begins

New Kids Church Session BeginsNew Kids Church Session BeginsNew Kids Church Session Begins

VBS (June 24VBS (June 24VBS (June 24---28, 6pm28, 6pm28, 6pm---8pm)8pm)8pm)

KidZoneKidZoneKidZone Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00

May marks the end of

another great year of

KidZone at Couts.

May 1: Jesus and

Zaccheus

May 8: Jesus Turns

Water Into Wine

May 15: End-of-

Year Party

Picnic at the Park

We had a great time at Love Street Park last month, so...let’s do it again! Why not? The weather is turning out to be nice—knock on wood—so we owe it to ourselves to eat some sandwiches outside in the sunshine.

Holland Lake Park

May 19, 2013

12:30pm

B.Y.O.K.A.F. (Bring Your Own Kids And Food)

Come see our displays at the Couts Mission Fair (5/26). We are planning to have a display for this year’s VBS with a laptop for registering, as well as a separate information station to let you know about other activities and opportunities to serve with CoutsKidz.

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cell: 361.935.5873

email: paul@coutsumc.org

Once again, the month of April was jam packed with activities: Kids Against Hunger packing event, CCA

talent show, decorating crosses to sell at a First Monday, Sr. High book study over Radical, by David Platt, and

random “fun-ness”!!

It has been a blessing to see how much our youth continues to grow over a short amount of time. It seems

as if it was yesterday when they could barely pray out loud, and, now, you’ll see them singing and worshipping

God at a park before we play. We are now focusing on approaching “safe” strangers at various locations in a

“safe” manner to have the youth become “comfortable” in spreading the Word! Creating lessons/simulations at

the church you’d never know how the youth would respond, but they love it! The youth greatly enjoy, though a

little hesitant at first, in stretching the walls of their “comfort” box as they continue to become more of a tool for

God.

This new month of May, we will allow ourselves to implement this practice. We will continue to play at

parks and other locations, but with a larger purpose than “fun.” Most youth groups I have been a part of as a youth

or as a volunteer seem to forget the mission we have been given as a Christian. Other youth groups concentrate

more on play, and numbers, and meaningless “noise” that creates no Spiritual growth whatsoever. Their activities

more so promote an emotional experience which is temporary; rather than a Spiritual experience that will last an

“everlasting” lifetime.

What I ask from you is what I will continue to ask you...How are you involved with Couts’ youth? Does

our youth even know who you are? What impact do you have on our youth? I ask these questions so you will rec-

ognize your existence within our/your/Couts’ youth group. They say “it takes a village to raise a child.” I say

“what role do you have in our village?” May these words ignite a passion in your heart for our youth and their fu-

ture.

Quotation Count: 9

DON’T FORGET

ABOUT:

You MUST register by May 17 (Sr. High) or

June 14 (Jr. High) or you won’t be able to

attend. You do NOT have to pay when you

register; choose “Pay by Check” if prompted.

We’re looking at going to Camp Eagle July

28 - Aug. 2. This is a non-denomination

camp that is based on Scripture taught through

group discussions, meditations, and activities.

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Women’s Retreat at Lyle Lodge

A great “time-apart” is planned for

the women of Couts on Friday and

Saturday, May 3rd & 4th at Lyle

Lodge in Azle. It begins at 5 p.m.

on Friday and concludes at 3:00

p.m. on Saturday. If you would like

to caravan, we’ll leave the church at

4:00 p.m.

“Loving Well” by Beth Moore is the

curriculum for the event and was

designed to help women embrace

the biblical mandate to love and to

develop skills for loving others. Our

own, Pastor Georgia Orr is the lead-

er for the event. The cost is $35.00 -

if you would like to sign up to at-

tend the retreat, please call the

church office.

Pastor Georgia Orr

leading women’s retreat

Mother’s Day Evening Banquet

A great evening is planned for

Mother’s and their daughters on Sat-

urday, May 11th at 6:30 p.m. in the

Fellowship Hall. We want everyone

to bring a covered dish to share.

The evening will include music by

Jon Reeves and also songs from the

Girls Choir from Couts Christian

Academy. Prizes will be awarded

for Bible Bingo and Bible Trivia.

Come and join your Couts family in

a great night of celebration. For

more information, please contact

Sherry Watters or someone on the

Hosp i t a l i t y Miss ion Team.

Couts Kidzone

Last Wednesday

for the School Year

Wednesday, May 15th

You Are Invited to a

Baby Shower for

Landry Parker Reeves

A baby shower is planned on Satur-

day, May 18th at 2:00 p.m. for

Landry Parker Reeves - son of Jon

and Amber and brother of Jovie. He

is due in June.

The shower will take place in the

Fellowship Hall. If you need some

ideas for a gift, selections have been

made at Target.

American Red Cross

Blood Drive

On Sunday, May 19th, the Ameri-

can Red Cross is coming to our

church for our quarterly blood

drive.

It’s Pentecost Sunday and a great

day and way to help meet the

needs of others. Appointments

start at 9 am and go until 1pm.

To schedule an appointment please visit

www.redcrossblood.org

sponsor code: couts

Library Books

Needed

for Camp Hope

This summer at Camp Hope, the children will be making

bookshelves. If you have books appropriate for grades K-

6 and would like to donate them, please put them in the

box in the Welcome Center. If you would like to Volun-

teer at Camp Hope this summer, please contact Barbara

Vanhoozer.

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ONE SERVICE May 26th

Ten o’clock

Couts Week at

The Center of Hope

Couts Week at the Center of Hope is

May 20-23rd. What do we do to

support this mission? We prepare

food, and serve clients at the center

once a quarter. We need a lead per-

son for each day (Monday - Thurs-

day) to make sure the meal comes

together and be responsible for that

day. (Setting up - serving - seeing

that someone prays with the clients -

and cleaning up) If you or your

Sunday School Class could be re-

sponsible for being a leader for one

day, please contact Tim or Cindy. If

you can help out in any way, please

sign up in the Welcome Center on

Sunday.

Single Service Sunday

and Mission Fair

May 26th - 10:00 a.m.

On Sunday, May 26th (Memorial

Day Weekend) we are going to have

an AWESOME Single Service Sun-

day. Paul Whiteley will be preach-

ing, his last Sunday at Couts, and

our Youth Praise Band is going to

lead the music for worship.

Following the worship service,

please bring a covered dish to share

with everyone. Lunch will be in the

gym and each of our mission areas

are going to have a table set up for

the purpose of letting people know

about the different things that Couts

is involved in pertaining to the mis-

sion field.

5th Annual Sager Brown Trip

For the fifth year, Couts is headed to

Baldwin Louisiana to UMCOR

Sager-Brown. Ten awesome leaders

from the church will leave on Memo-

rial Day, May 27th, at 6:00 a.m. for a

long drive to Baldwin, LA. Once

there they’ll pack disaster relief kits

and health kits, as well as, work in

the local community assisting in

areas to assist the poor.

Please keep this trip and those at-

tending in your prayers this month as

they prepare to serve the Lord in a

mighty way.

Ted and Dovie Barber

Brenda Bryan - Karen Garrett’s sister

Beulah Clark - recovering from broken hip

Janey Collier - stents

John Courtroul - mother passed away

Dana Cowley - liver cancer - Anthony

Whitfield’s cousin

Arlene Ford

Hugh Geyer - cancer

Eva Grote - cancer

Betty Langford - Brenda Coleman’s aunt

Danice Mainard

Ember, Katie and Lizzie Mitchell

Billie Murrell

Marie Ornales

Patty Priest - Thelma Troy’s relative

Bob Simko

Miranda Snowdon - pneumonia

Marci Streck

Ronnie White - Karen Garrett’s brother

Suzie Williams

Brad Bishop

Kelly Brown

Billy Burris

Matt Couch

Warren Crouch

Will Dowd

Derek Geyer

Michael Gilliam

Jeff Johnson

Cory Jones

Blake Hubbard

Mike Hebert

Hunter Hiett - Afghanistan

Kali Yarnell Lussier

Garrett Mitchell

Matthew Mitchell - Afghanistan

Jason Nazarenko

Gary Neal

Matthew Ross

Doug Yarnell

Cody Williams

Craig Wolfenberger

Go Welcome, Equip, Serve, Transform

W E ’ R E O N T HE W E B - V I S I T U S

W W W . C OU T S M E T HOD I S T C HU R C H . C OM

Prayer Concerns Our Military May Birthdays

May 3

Tonya Sosebee

May 5

Marilyn Vantine

May 7

Libby Jester

May 12

Dora Jones

May 13

Karen Smith

Kathy Smith

May 15

Jean McKinney

May 18

Caleb Whiteley

May 22

Randy Samson

May 23

David Wuerflein

John Vicknair

May 25

Roland Noe

May 26

Seth Garrett

James Williams

May 28

Alexis Whiteley

Couts Methodist Church

802 North Elm

Weatherford, Texas 76086

Our Homebound Members

Allene Bielss Carrie Bridges

Beulah Clark Mary Ann Cox

Cloy Holloway Billie Murrell

Arlene Padilla Evelyn Sullivan

Marie White

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