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March 2020 Vol. LXI, No. 3
The Temptations of Jesus
Matthew 4:1-11 Mount of Temptation in Judean Desert March 1
The Teaching of Jesus
Matthew 5:1-12 The Mount above Lake Galilee March 8
The Rejection of Jesus
Luke 4:28-30 Mount Precipice in Nazareth March 15
The Transfiguration of Jesus
Matthew 17:1-13 Mount Tabor in Jezreel Valley March 22
The Triumphal Entry of Jesus
Luke 19:28-30 Mount of Olives (Jerusalem) March 29
The Crucifixion of Jesus
Luke 23:24-33 Mount Calvary (Outside the City) April 5
Inside this issue:
On the Horizon 2
Prayers Requests
Staff Directory
Upcoming Events 3
Church News 4
Missions & Evangelism
5
Adult Ministries 6
Student & Family
Ministries
7
A monthly publication of First United Methodist Church, Bryan, TX
Sermon Series During Lent 2020:
Climb Every Mountain (With Jesus) Worship Schedule
8:30 a.m.
Traditional Worship Service (Sanctuary)
9:00 a.m.
Contemporary Worship Service
(Gym)
11:00 a.m. Traditional Worship Service (Sanctuary)
11:00 a.m.
Bilingual English/Spanish Service (Fellowship Hall)
Church Office 506 E. 28th St.
Bryan, TX 77803
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Friday
8:30 am to 3:00 pm
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Senior Pastor Rev. Rick Sitton
ext. 105 [email protected]
Lead Pastor of Contemporary Worship Rev. Jennifer Webber
ext. 106 [email protected]
Associate Pastor, Hispanic Ministry Rev. Dr. Augusto Sarria
ext. 104 [email protected]
Director of
Jeff Hobbs ext. 103
Director of Adult Ministries & Member Involvement
Natalie Patterson ext. 102
Director of Music & Worship Ministries
Chris Caffee ext. 107
Sara Hadley Karl Brinkmann
Organist Angela Corbett
Director of Business & Facilities
Eileen Winkle ext. 109
Administrative Assistant LeeAnn Broeker
ext. 101 [email protected]
Custodians Hosea Morriel
Rocio Hittt Josh Sweed
CLERGY
STAFF
Erma Ingram, Daphne Eller, Hal Fellows, Ola Mae Davis, Ray Anthony, Mary House, Mary McDonald, Mac McDonald,
Jack Gressett, Kitty Harrington, Sue Futrell, Ben Balke, Shirley Anderson, Bob Prock, Edna Irick, Nikki Ravey, Sylvia Craig,
Pat Fox, Sonny Brumley, Jim Bradford, Pam Vollentine
Prayers of comfort and peace for the families of:
Vance Jones, Hazle Easterling, Jean Stephen, and Sam Mancillas, brother of Alma Fonseca
FUMC Bryan Campus will be closed for Spring Break
Wednesday, March 11th—Friday March 13th
3/1/2020 11:00 AM Youth Fundraiser Spaghetti Luncheon
2:00 PM Worship - Crestview Retirement Cntr/Arbor Oaks
3/2/2020 6:00 PM Staff Parish Relations Committee
6:30 PM SpringFest
3/3/2020 9:30 AM UMW - General Session
5:30 PM BISD Bond Committee
3/4/2020 5:30 PM First Family Dinner
3/6/2020 6:00 PM "First Friday" Fellowship - Downtown Bryan
6:30 PM Generation of Power
3/7/2020 8:00 AM UMM - Meeting & Workday
3/8/2020 11:00 AM Senior Fellowship Luncheon
5:00 PM Brazos Breeze Flute Choir Concert
3/9/2020 6:00 PM Service-Mission Team
3/10/2020 9:30 AM UMW - Caring for Others
FUMC Campus Closed - Spring Break
3/15/2020 5:30 PM MYF (Methodist Youth Fellowship)
3/18/2020 5:30 PM First Family Dinner
3/20/2020 6:30 PM Generation of Power
3/22/2020 3:00 PM Spring Fest
4:00 PM Discover Membership
3/25/2020 5:30 PM First Family Dinner
3/26/2020 12:00 PM Relay for Life of Brazos County Survivor Dinner
3/27/2020 5:30 PM Confirmation Church Visit @ Hillel Center
6:30 PM Generation of Power
3/28/2020 The BIG Event - Texas A&M University
9:00 AM UMW - District Meeting
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Study on the Last 24 Hours of Jesus
Following First Family Dinner (6:30 p.m.) on
Wednesday, March 18, March 25 and April 1 in the
Heritage Room, Pastor Rick will be teaching a
3-part series entitled, “The Last 24.”
We will examine the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life
from the institution of the
Lord’s Supper (March 18), the trial at Pilate’s
judgment seat (March 25), and the 7 Last Words
of Christ on the Cross (April 1).
All are welcome to attend!
Join our church in supporting the Save our Streets Ministries 3rd Annual “Sweets For The Soul Pastor Cook -Off”!
Pastor Rick has asked Candy Rust to help him again this year. FUMC Bryan has been blessed to win one of the best desserts each year thanks to Candy ’s amazing desserts. How do we win? You show up that night and you buy tickets for the best dessert and stuff the jar on our table (or give a big donation to SOS in the name of FUMC Bryan). We need your help!
Each entry ticket is $10/each and includes 2 voting tickets. You can also purchase additional voting tickets for $1/each at the event, online at saveourstreetsministries.com OR call (979) 775-5357.
One Hope is an evangelistic crusade for one day in College Station by Kyle Field. Prayer cards are available in the church office for you to pick 5 friends and begin to pray for them and invite them to One Hope. Francis Chan is preaching and Chris Tomlin is leading worship. Join us at the Plaza at Kyle Field on April 25, 2020 from 7:30 to 10:00 pm. as we celebrate and share the hope of Jesus.
One Hope is a FREE event.
Church News
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FUMC Bryan would like to acknowledge and thank Angie Bridges.
“Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in”
(Psalm 24:9)
Iron Doors Installed in all Entrances of the Sanctuary
East Entrance West Entrance
South Entrance Courtyard Entrance
To all the donors that supported our blood drive in memory of
Diane Glover!
WB Goal: 23 AUTO Goal: 14 WB Actual: 10
(10 whole blood donors) AUTO Actual: 6
(3 double red donors; qty: 6)
There were thirteen donors; 10 gave
“regular” and 3 gave supreme!
Total Cost: $47,051
Raised: $36, 630
Need: $10,421
When the body of Christ gathers for worship each Sunday, when we have special services including funer-als and weddings, we enter into God’s presence through DOORS. Many years ago, Sadler and Angie Bridges made a commitment to keep our sanctuary doors maintained, but the Texas sun just kept beating down on them. So, in memory of Sadler, Angie generously donated new doors for FUMC. Not every handicap feature is in place, but they will be soon. FUMC Bryan is very grateful for Angie’s generous gift and Angie is very grateful for the help of John McKemie, FUMC Endowment president, and Candy Rust, President of the Board of Trustees. They put in many hours of work in finding a manufacturer in San Antonio who could make these beautiful hand-made doors. The Lord be praised! Angie’s heart and the heart of all involved in the “Door Project” is the heart of the psalmist that wrote: “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness” (Psalm 84:10).
Remaining balance is $300
per person. Please contact
Pastor Jen if you are
interested in sponsoring
someone!
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Missions & Evangelism Welcome,
Another month has passed us by
and “OPEN DOOR” continues to
meet on Monday evenings from
6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Fellow-
ship Hall. We thank you for your
continued prayers and support,
and we encourage you to come
and see what we are all about.
This month I would like to share some personal views on
the subject of addiction and the use of Biblical
Language.
In August 2019, I received my Commissioned Addictions
Biblical Counselor Certification after an intense 9-month
study of God’s word on addiction and sin. I learned that
there is a “Worldly View” and a “Biblical View” of
addiction. I know personally that the biblical approach to
addiction offers hope and an opportunity for success if
you strive to be open-minded and teachable. I do admit
that I had to lay aside some old ideas in favor of what
the Lord says in His word regarding addiction. For
example, nowhere in the Bible will you find the word
“addiction,” but God has plenty to say about addictive
thoughts, habits, and behaviors. He has designed and
created you to be a creature of habit, but it is not His
design for you to go to extremes when attempting to
satisfy your natural appetites and desires. Physical
addiction occurs when you repeatedly satisfy a natural
appetite and desire with a temporary pleasure until you
become the servant of the temporary object of pleasure
rather than its master. We love a pleasurable “escape”
because it seems so freeing, but addiction is a trap that
lets you think that you will be “free” when you really
become a “slave”. God has created all of us to have
liberty in Christ, but freedom from the slavery of sin was
not without a cost. It cost the Son of God His life on the
cross.
I know this is challenging, and I encourage you to visit
histruthinlove.org. or read The Heart of Addiction: A
Biblical Perspective, by Mark E. Shaw
Let me close with this prayer: “Dear Heavenly Father,
create in me a clean heart that wants to do what you
want first and to know you more deeply. I need you,
Lord, to guide me, teach me, and reveal yourself to me.
Open my eyes so that I may see you when I read the
Bible and have fellowship in your house. Thank you for
being patient, kind, and loving to me when I have been
impatient, unkind, and unloving to you. Amen.
-Lanny Parker
First United Methodist Church Bryan gives thousands of dollars every year to men, women, and families in need through Society of St. Stephen. On the first Sunday of every month and when communion is shared, a collection is taken from our church and community members to help with various needs. We have helped pay for rent, utilities, groceries, and eye glasses out of the account. Our current balance in the account is low at this time. If it is in your heart to give to this particular ministry, please prayerfully consider how you can help support this incredible ministry.
Open
Door
love. witness. serve.
Society of St. Stephen:
Did You Know?
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Adult Ministries
Sowing the Seeds
“So, listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not under-
stand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the
path. The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with
joy. But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away. The seed sown
among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing. But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or
thirty times what was sown.”
Matthew 13:18-23
What is seedbed preparation?
Prepare soil - Break ground. Open your heart - Commit
yourself to discipleship within a community of committed
believers with the purpose of experiencing spiritual
growth together. Ephesians 1:17-19 I pray that the God
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give
you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing
knowledge of him since the eyes of your heart have
been enlightened so that you can know what is the hope
of his calling what is the wealth of his glorious inher-
itance in the saints, and what is the incomparable great-
ness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed
in the exercise of his immense strength.
Water – Baptism is the beginning point of God’s grace
is it the outward sign God’s salvation Romans 6:3-4 Do
you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, we
have been buried with him through baptism into death,
in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a
new life.
Fertilize – Spiritual nourishment found in the scriptures.
2 Timothy 3:16 Every scripture is inspired by God and
useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for
training in righteousness, that the person dedicated to
God may be capable and equipped for every good work.
Nurture –Like the effects of good sunlight, healthy soil
and water in a garden, the grace given through the Holy
Spirit gives us what we need to grow just the right way
so that we bear wonderful fruit. Matthew 7:17 In the
same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the
bad tree bears bad fruit.
LIFE groups are like greenhouses for spiritual
development. These meetings are a way to experience
God’s presence and grow in the Holy Spirit’s purity and
power. Just like plants we need to grow strong to
weather the harsh battles with earthly things working
toward sanctification. Romans 12: 1-2 Therefore, I
exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies as a sacrifice—alive, holy, and
pleasing to God—which is your reasonable service. Do
not be conformed to this present world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you
may test and approve what is the will of God—what is
good and well-pleasing and perfect.
The world waits for Awakening …Who will sow the
seeds?
There are many opportunities at our church to fulfill a person’s call to be a
DISCIPLE OF JESUS, including Bible study, LIFE groups
and serving others.
Please contact Natalie Patterson
for more information on
Discipleship at FUMC!
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