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Mark Your Calendar

March 3 Holy Communion

Prayer Team Meeting Information Meeting

March 5 Worship Committee Meeting

March 6 Play the Day Away

Ash Wednesday

March 10 Daylight Savings

Variety Show

March 12 Lunch Bunch

UMM Meeting

March 14 Covenant Place Hymn Fest

March 15 Exit 456

March 17 St. Patrick’s Day

An Afternoon of Music

March 19 Older Adult Game Day

March 20 Family Experience FX

March 24 4th Sunday Prayer Services

March 27 Play the Day Away

No Wednesday Activities Spring Break Week

March 31 One Combined Service with

Breakfast

Family Newsletter

Senior Pastor

sbaccus@gmvumc.org

Esther 4:13-14: And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: " Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain

completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to

the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Hi Friends,

I am writing this on February 25 as the representatives of our denomination meet in St. Louis to discuss how we will respond to issues surrounding human sexuality. Remember the issue is not whether or not Jesus loves LBGTQ persons. It is not even about whether or not the church loves LBGTQ persons. Jesus loves all persons, and we are called by Christ to show His love to everyone. The question is, “Are we agreeing to marry LBGTQ persons in our churches, and approve of the ordination of these persons?” So, as I write we are uncertain of the results of this called General Conference.

Yesterday evening some of us met in the sanctuary for prayer and Holy Communion and shared the above scripture. As the Hebrew people were facing possible extermination, Mordecai asked Queen Esther to speak with the king. She would do this under the threat of death. Mordecai reminded her, “If you don’t speak up God will send deliverance from another place, but perhaps you have come to this time and place for such a time as this.” She accepted the challenge, spoke to the king, and the people of God were saved.

Have you stopped to think that God has put us in this place and time “for such a time as this?” I did not have to answer the call into ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church all those years ago. I had other opportunities in other denominations. But, perhaps it was for such a time as this that God has put me here. Perhaps it is for such a time as this that God has put YOU here. God will redeem his people with or without us. I hope and pray He can do it with us. Don’t you?

Thank You for Your Faithfulness! Jesus Loves You! I Love You Too!

March 2019

Family Connection

GMV KIDS

CHOIR NEWS

GMV STUDENTS

PRAYER TEAM

The Prayer Team invites all members of our congregation to join with us in taking one day a week and praying three times a day for three minutes for the future of Gardendale Mt. Vernon. You are also

invited to join us at 8:00am each Sunday morning in the Chapel to pray over our pastor and for that day's

services. For more information contact Pam Irons at 205-746-0529.

SENIOR ADULT MINISTRY March 12: Lunch Bunch 11:00am

March 14: Covenant Place Hymn Fest 10:30am

March 19: Game Day 11:30am

GMV family! We had an amazing Phenomenon weekend! Brothers X Sisters and Darren Youngstrom led our students in amazing ways! We had 81 students sign up and 3 students give their lives to Christ! We are so

excited about what God did Phenomenon weekend and is continuing to do through GMV Students!

RFKC

GMVUMC Shut In List *Please always keep our Shut Ins in your thoughts & prayers*

Lille Mae Akers Junior Hughes Glenn Brown Midge Hunter Sue Gravlee Mildred Beatty Jan Biddle Zelma Hill Sue Parker Margaret Jefferson Faye Blaylock J.C. Brown Joan Oxley Phyllis Meek Betty Helms Joyce Watkins Peggy Camp Harriett Griffin Mildred Glass Ann Zumbado Melba Millican Carolyn Lyon Connie Crawford Dave Cromes Desiree Sherrer Jackie Smith Frank Malone Kenneth Jennings Sam Morrow

HONORARIUMS & MEMORIALS

In Memory of Charles Sherrer

by Marilyn Nemeth, Ronald & Lilliam Williams, Michael & Phyllis Morgan, Robert & Rosalie Statham, Virginia Sanders and Jolene Clark

CEC NEWS

SENIOR ADULT MINISTRY March 12: Lunch Bunch 11:15am

March 14: Covenant Place Hymn Fest 10:30am

March 19: Game Day 11:30am

KINGDOM KIDS

CEC open registration will begin the 1st week of March for our summer and fall programs for

two year olds and up.

Kingdom Kids Consignment Committee would like to thank all of our volunteers, sellers and shoppers

who made this sell an amazing success. The sale brought in over $141,544 with right at $40,000

going toward missions at GMVUMC. This beats our past best total by over $7,000 in total sales. For

this sale we had 432 sellers and over 1775 customers who purchased from the sale. Thank

you again so much for helping us! We look forward to seeing you in September.

In April we can provide the way funds are distributed that are going to missions.

In Memory of Judy Reagan by Joan Reynolds

In Memory of Jo Ann Chambers by John & Joann Godwin and Kelvin Moore

In Memory of J.T. Lyon by Anne, Richard & Patrick Zumbado

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

childcare for preschool & under available

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Join us! April 6, 2019 from 8:30-4:30pm. Total Cost will be $28.00 (includes boxed lunch). You can register for this event at www.gmvumc.org

If you need more information please contact Cathy Harris at 205-447-8533. Deadline to register is March 30, 2019.

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provided

by

U M M

B R E A K F A S T

9:00 am

FH

Combined Service

10:30am in the Gym led by GMV Student Worship Team

There will be no kids activities. Childcare for preschool and under starting at

10:00am.

Bulk Rate

U.S. Postage

PAID

Permit No. 5

Non-Profit Org.

805 Crest Drive Gardendale, AL 35071

Attendance Report

2/3 2/10 2/17 2/24

8:30 Worship: 65 65 69

9:30 Worship: 194 218 182 205

11:00 Worship: 186 173 149 164

Kid’s Worship: 20 24 23 25

Total Worship: 400 480 419 463

Church Office Hours:

Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fridays 8:00 am–12:00 pm

Church Office: 205-631-7631

Care line: 205-631-0811

Child Enrichment Center: 205-631-0433

We have several ways you can receive the Family Connection…

Our Website (under worship-sermon series)

Email Mail If you would like to change the way you are

receiving the Connection, please email Jennifer at jattaway@gmvumc.org.