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Nugent United Methodist Church

Nugent Happenings

October 2015

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UMW & Ladies

Night Out

The Ladies’ Night Out group will be meeting on Monday, October 12 at 6pm, location to be announced. The OCC item of the month is: soap and washclothes. As always please bring an appetizer to share. The Dianne Dorroh Women’s Circle (UMW) will be meeting on Tuesday, October 6, at 11am at Judy Clement’s home, 18366 Shaw Rd., Sau-cier. All ladies of the church are invited to join both of these wonderful groups!

United Methodist Men’s (UMM)

There will be a Men’s Fellowship Breakfast on Tuesday,

October 13, at 8am at Cracker Barrel.

All the men in the church are

invited to join UMM!

Lectionary Readings The monthly lectionary readings are a great way to grow in our Bible

knowledge. Enjoy!

Sunday, October 4 Sunday, October 11

Job 1:1; 2:1-10 Job 23:1-9, 16-17

Psalm 26 or Psalm 25 Psalm 22:1-15

Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Hebrews 4:12-16

Mark 10:2-16 Mark 810:17-31

Sunday, October 18 Sunday, October 25

Job 38:1-7 (34-41) Job 42:1-6; 10-17

Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c Psalm 34:1-8 (19-22)

Hebrews 5:1-10 Hebrews 7:23-28

Mark 10:35-45 Mark 10:46-52

VAN FOR SALE The Trustees have decided to sell the church van in an ―as

is‖ condition. It is a 1999 Ford Ecoline E250 model with 74,289 miles. They are asking $2,000 OBO. For more

information please contact the church office.

6th Annual Trunk or Treat Potluck & Hayride

Cobwebs, spiders, and bats oh, my... Skeletons, cats, and witches oh, no…

What does this mean? What do you need to do? You need to start thinking about how to decorate

your trunk!!! We are starting to get everything together for this year’s event which will be on

Sunday, Oct. 25, after the 10am service. We will start the fun with a church-wide potluck and then the kids will ride up to Lyman Elementary (while you get set up) and then back to the church where they will

Trunk or Treat. If you would like to help out by providing a trunk (or if you would like to donate

candy for someone with a trunk to use) please let the church office know.

Let’s get ready to TRUNK OR TREAT!

Acolytes We are hoping some young people, 2nd grade and above will step forward to be acolytes. If your child is interested in serving the church in this manner, please let Betty Geotes

know by calling 596-4258.

Do You Sew? Then We Need Your Help Betty is also looking for someone to sew 3-4 white acolyte overlays to replace the ones that we have. If you have a talent in sewing and would like to help out please contact

Betty for more information at 596-4258.

Committee Mtgs. Finance Comm. will meet on Monday, October 12, at 6:30pm

in the library.

Council of Ministries/Children’s Council will meet on

Tuesday, October 27, at 6:30pm in the library.

Church Office Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9am-1pm

Wednesdays & Fridays 1-5pm

Church Office Phone: 228-832-6145 x 10 Lance x 12

Lance Cell: 228-731-8580

Music Director Position Available We are searching for a part-time worship leader/

choir director. Candidate must have experience as a church choir director, must attend weekly choir

rehearsals and Sunday morning worship, and work well with other worship leaders. If interested,

please send resume to the Church office: [email protected]. If you know anyone who would

be interested in this position please have them send in a resume.

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Oct..2015

The Nugent Messenger

N u g e n t U n i t e d M e t h o d i s t C h u r c h

Rev. Lance Presley, Pastor

October 2015 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Office hours 9am-1pm

Susan Morgan Dance in

F.H. 6-7pm

2 Office hours 1-5pm 3

4 Communion Sunday

Worship 8:00 Sunday School 9:00

Worship 10:00

5 Office hours 9am-1pm


Dianne Dorroh Circle

11am


F.H. 3:30-7pm

7 Office hours 1-5pm

Al-Anon 10:30 am

Choir 6pm

WOW

Supper 5:45pm Study 6:15-7:15



F.H. 6-7pm


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11 Children’s Sabbath


Worship 10:00


Boy Scouts 6:30 pm

Ladies’ Night Out 6pm

Finance Comm. Mtg.

6:30pm


Men’s Fellowship

Breakfast 8am


F.H. 3:30-7pm


Al-Anon 10:30 am

Choir 6pm

WOW




F.H. 6-7pm


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18 Worship 8:00 Sunday School 9:00

Worship 10:00


Boy Scouts 6:30 pm



F.H. 3:30-7pm


Al-Anon 10:30 am

Choir 6pm

WOW




F.H. 6-7pm


24 Trunk or

Treat Potluck Setup 10am

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Worship 10:00 Trunk or Treat Potluck & Hayride 11:00


Boy Scouts 6:30 pm


Council of Ministries/

Children’s Council.

6:30pm


F.H. 3:30-7pm


Al-Anon 10:30 am

Choir 6pm

WOW




F.H. 6-7pm

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October Celebrations!

Anniversaries

6 Lynn & Jean Mauldin 7 Bob & Bobbi Parks 9 Jamie & Wendy Holifield 10 Neil & Barbara Gaudet 11 Bill & Janis Pitman 15 Larry & Karen Olier 20 Jimmy & Lanie Spears 22 Alan & Tracy Corrick 29 Reed & Phyllis Dillard

Lance’s Lines

You’re probably used to hearing peo-ple in church talk about giving. But when was the last time in church that you talked about earning or saving? Is it unchristian to earn money? Is it wrong to save for ourselves and our families? John Wesley didn’t think so. Wesley, the Christian evangelist and founder of the Methodist movement, gave a remarkable sermon called ―The Use of Money.‖ In it, he said that the im-portant thing isn’t money itself but how we use it. Wesley’s surprising advice still rings true today: earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

During the month of October, our church will experi-ence an exciting new stewardship program, Earn. Save. Give.: Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money, developed by popular author and pastor James A. Harnish. The program centers around a book and DVD, in which Harnish describes Wesley’s surprising advice and introduces us each week to faithful Christians who, like all of us, struggle with money.

There will be opportunities in worship, in small groups,

and in devotions for use at home. You’ll be hearing about the program in worship, in the newsletter, and on our website.

Stay tuned!

Sermon schedule for the Earn. Save. Give. series Week 1. If You Could Ask for Anything (1 Kings 3:1-13) Week 2. Money—The Excellent Gift (Luke 12:42-48) Week 3. You Can’t Take It With You (Proverbs 13:11) Week 4. How Far Will You Go? (Proverbs 11:25)

Grace and peace to all of you.

Rev. Gavin Lance Presley

Birthdays 3 Phyllis Dillard 3 Lauren Parks 3 Pat Venus 5 Christina Peterman 6 Joyee Coleman 8 Lynn Mauldin 9 Reyn Sefton 10 Barbara Gaudet 11 Marion Weger 11 Lisa Wells 13 Jordan Schmuck 15 Jean Mauldin 16 Lanie Spears

Birthdays (cont.) 19 Tommy Jones 20 Reed Dillard 21 Glenda Holloway 26 Lainee Wilson 27 Michael Schmuck 31 Pat Bock

Thursday, October 1 – Daily Devotion for Earn. Save. Give. / We Don’t Need More Money; We Need Wisdom BORDERS BETWEEN RICH AND POOR “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor…” ~ Luke 4:18 The sight of earth from space is so vivid and complex that some of the early astronauts asked for books of pai8nt samples so they would have a vocabulary ade-quate to describe the colors they saw! But one thing astronauts could not see from space was the Great Wall of China. That’s an urban myth. Or is it an orbital myth? The Great Wall cannot be seen from space. Surprisingly, however, there is something that can be seen clearly from space: the border between rich coun-tries and poor countries. Politics and economics are visible from space. You can see where the money is, and where it ends. At least that’s what former astronaut John Grunsfeld reported. ―Wealthy countries are lined in green and then you see the country next door that has no water,‖ he said at a meeting of the American Astronomical So-ciety. Grunsfeld, who made five space flights and vis-ited the Hubble Space Telescope three times to im-prove the visibility of things millions of light years away, took time to look down on Earth from his vantage point three hundred miles into space. During the fourteen years when his flights were taken, he saw the gap be-tween rich and poor countries widen. Rich countries became greener. Poor countries grew browner as they became more arid. More forests were cleared. More rivers were dammed. The poor countries had fewer trees. ―It’s really very disturbing,‖ he said. When Jesus visited his hometown synagogue, he quoted from Isaiah that he had come to preach good news to the poor. Part of that passage was ―to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor‖ (4:19), a year of debt relief known as the Jubilee. Jesus’ teaching was damaging to his popularity. When we preach the economic wisdom of the New Testament today, our poll numbers go down as well. But when we can look down from space and clearly see the disparity between rich and poor, doesn’t it tell us that the wise use of our money includes bridging the economic gap both at home and around the world? PRAYER God whose creation, viewed from space, fills us with

awe and challenges us to share more, make me an

instrument of your peace. Amen.

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