Epworth Fall Fest

October 23

4:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. New Site

Children’s Games - 4:30 - 5:30 P.M.

Trunk or Treat - 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.

(Decorate your car trunk)

Wiener Roast

Bring a Dessert to share!

Everyone is Welcome!

Hosted by Children’s Council

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Chili

Cookoff!

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Holiday

Extravaganza!

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Mission News

and Updates

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Church

Calendar

4

Room in the

Inn Signups!

7

Shoeboxes for

Christmas

7

Birthdays

The “G

OOD NEWS” Letter is

a monthly newsletter of

Epworth UMC. All visitors are welcome to

worship with us each Sunday at 8:00 am and 10:30

am at 4340 Arno Road. Sunday School

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Church offic

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Laurie Evans, M

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Peggy Hawkins, Financial Assistant

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Bulletin Deadline: In

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Information for both publications may be emailed

to janie.jefferson@epworth-umc.com

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Epworth’s “Good News” Letter

1 Hunter Lillard

2 Debbie Groth

3 Lisa Wilson

6 MacKenzie Finney

8 John Perrett

9 Jon Rogers

Maggie Mefford

10 Robyn Roten

12 Easton Scott

14 Karen Jones

Cindy Peden

16 David Grisham

17 Bill Wallace

18 Shelley Fiscus

Tim Underwood

19 Linda Wernet

21 Erin Walton

22 Janie Jefferson

Ashley Bruce

24 Ellen Woodside

26 Mike Courtelis

Olivia Morris

Matthew Solberg

27 Emily Haney

Barbara Knight

29 Jeff Lillard

Jason Morris

Mike Thomas

31 Marsha Tucker

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A small Shoebox can have a big impact! What goes into

the box is fun, but what comes out of it is eternal. Be a

part of changing children's lives all over the world in

Jesus' name through the power of a simple gift with

Operation Christmas Child. Now is a good time to shop

for items to go into our shoeboxes that our children here

at Epworth will get to take part in filling! The excitement

from the kids who participated in our "Packing Party" last

year was overwhelming! Please begin gathering items

that you would like to contribute to this special minis-

try. We will have boxes available to pack or you may

pack your own and bring it to the church.

Fall is here

and that

means it is

time for

Room in the Inn. We

provide three meals,

fellowship and a place

sleep for 12 homeless

men every 2nd & 4th

Thursday, November

through March. You

can participate by

being an innkeeper,

providing or preparing

food, doing the

laundry, sharing a

devotional or driving

the bus. See Connie

Puryear to sign up.

(615-478-8545)

Think you've got the best chili recipe? Prove it! Don't like to cook? Bet you still like to eat!

Plan to join us at the LOL Epworth Youth Chili Cookoff to be held Sunday, Oct 30 at the pavilion immediately after 10:30am service.

$10 to enter your chili $5 to taste chili and vote

Prizes and bragging rights to the best of Epworth chilis! Proceeds benefit our youth programs, so please plan to attend! For more information please contact Shelley Fiscus at

dr.fiscus@yahoo.com

Do you shop at Kroger? If so, Epworth

Youth could really use your help! Please go to www.kroger.com/

communityrewards and choose Epworth United Methodist Church as your community rewards partner!

Epworth Youth receives checks every quarter when you link your Kroger Plus card to Epworth. This can amount to

hundreds of dollars each quarter and all you have to do is link your card and shop! Questions? Please contact Shelley Fiscus

at dr.fiscus@yahoo.com

Holiday Extravaganza on October 22

The Chancel Choir is sponsoring a Holiday Extravaganza on Saturday, October 22 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in Vaden Hall featuring numerous vendors with amazing holiday items for sale, musical entertainment, hamburgers, hot dogs, baked goods and MORE! Come and support mem-bers of our Chancel Choir as they raise funds to help with expenses as they share God's love through music in Italy and Greece in July of 2017. Any church members who wish to make items available may set up a booth/table at a discounted rate. Please contact Laurie Evans (615-354-3906) for information.

Kairos Prison Ministry weekends will be at the women's prison October 27-30 and at the men's prison November 10-13. Our own Rev. Jesse Fleck will be the Spiritual Advisor for the women. Karel Snoek and Ken Graves will participate in the men's weekend. The children and Tweens will also be coloring place mats that will be used for the meals during the week-ends. Our role is to lift up the leaders and participants in prayer. One tangible way that we can show our support is to help make the paper prayer chain. Karel has placed strips of construction paper in each Sunday School class room. Please take a minute to write a verse, prayer, a word of encouragement or just your name on these strips. Karel will collect them and they will be put to-gether in a long chain that will encircle the room where the prisoners meet. This is a powerful representation to the prisoners that the body of Christ loves and cares for them. Contact Karel Snoek if you have questions or want more information. (ksnoek@aol.com or 615- 295-1634)

What a beautiful and moving Holding Cross service we had on September 18 ! Thanks to Kirsten Tucker, Mike Thomas, Chris Adair and Jon Rogers for the inspiring music and to Robbie Tucker for organizing it all. If you give away your holding cross and need another, there are baskets of crosses in the new site Narthex and in the Historic site parlor. If these supplies run low, let Robbie Tucker or Janie Jefferson know. The purpose of the crosses is to bring hope and peace to the holder, and they are meant to be shared.

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Many thanks to Bruce and Marianne Richards for the wonderful job they continue to do

in keeping Epworth's landscaping looking good! When you see them, be sure to share

your appreciation for the pretty gardens and landscape areas at both church buildings.

Dear Epworth UMC,

Thank you for your generous donation to My Friend’s House Services. Our organization

is successful due in large part to people like you and we truly appreciate your support.

Liturgist for October:

8:00 George Rembert

10:30 Rob Roten

Acolytes:

8:00 Ben Bonson

10:30: Cole Wallace

Ushers:

8:00 Billy Knight

Stan Gunnells

10:30 not available

Project Transformation (PT) Tennessee Seeks Interns PT invites Christ-centered young adults seeking an experience of hands-on ministry with underserved children in Middle Tennessee to apply for our Afterschool Program positions, implementing afterschool programming for children and growing in leadership through coaching and leadership courses. Applicants must have completed their first year of college, or be at least 19 years old. Project Trans-formation is currently accepting applications for 2016-17 part-time and quarter-time interns. http://projecttransformation.org/tennessee/what-we-do/programs/college-internships/part-time-school-year-internship/

There will be a Bridal Shower for

Alicia Marshall, bride-elect of Brian

Smith, on Sunday, October 9

in Vaden Hall from 2-4 p.m. Everyone

is welcome!

Sager Brown UMCOR Depot in Louisiana collects and distrib-utes supplies for disaster relief all over the world. A team from the Columbia District will be going January 8-13, 2017 to help assemble supplies. If you are interested in going with them or with the next team April 30-May 5, 2017, contact Kathy Heard for details at kch76@aol.com

We have supported the House of Hope in Santiago, Chile, for several years. This ministry has moved beyond providing a Christian home for college aged girls. They now provide after school classes and tutoring for underprivileged children in the La Pintana community. Many young children have come to accept Christ through this ministry. There will be a team going there this month. Please lift them up in prayer. If you would like to go, there will be another trip in February 2017. Contact Cindy Kurzrock for details. (lu.kurzrock@yahoo.com)

Feeding Under The Bridge takes place every third Friday night and this month it will be October 21. Meet in the Bargain Hunt parking lot on Murfreesboro Road at 5:00 p.m. to carpool or meet under the Jefferson Street Bridge in Nashville at 6:00 p.m.. You'll be on your way home by 7:00 p.m. It doesn't take much time to share a little love. Thanks for all the donations of canned meat for Graceworks! Your generosity will help feed our hungry neighbors right here in Williamson County.

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Please join us for worship on

Sunday!

8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.

The Outreach Team is begin-

ning to make plans for the next

Mission Impact Celebration

which will be March 31-April 2,

2017. Anyone interested in

helping with the planning is

welcome to participate. Watch

the bulletin for meeting dates.

Sarah Lillard, Chair of

our Summer Festival,

reports that we have

cleared $15,000 and

plans are being made to

distribute to various

project around the

church. Be watching the

bulletins for the break-

down she has presented

to Church Council for

approval.

Faith Promise Goals/Budget 2016-17

Ministry Champion Goals: To share God’s love by Budget Dates

Holding Crosses Robbie Tucker Giving crosses to people who need love & comfort $3000 Holding Cross Sunday—Sep. 18, 2016

Page Angel Tree Marilyn Crothers Providing Christmas gifts for needy Page High students $1000 Mission Minute by Marilyn Crothers, Nov. 2016

Building Lives John Perrett Encouraging people to become mentors; providing household items

$2000 Mission Minute by John Perret, Feb. 2017

GraceWorks Caroline Williams Penny Vaughan

Providing volunteers for thrift store and Manger; donating items

$2000 Food collection Sep. 2016

Columbia District VIM Bea Ball Disaster & building/repair assistance $2000 As indicated by District Team

UMCOR Sager-Brown

Angie Ketchum Peggy Hawkins

Donna Parramore

VBS collecting school kits Collecting & assembling cleaning kits Going on mission trip with VIM

$1000 for help in completing

kits

VBS July 18-21, 2016 Jan. 2017, assemble Jan. 22

Jan 8-13 & April 30-May 5, 2017

Project Transformation Colleen Lowe Kim Adair

Supporting 2 interns; providing reading volunteers at Antioch UMC; providing 2 meals for interns

$3500 Reading June 27-30, 2016 Meals May 31 & June 29, 2016

2017 dates TBD

Room in the Inn Jeff Lillard Connie Puryear

Hosting 12 homeless men twice a month Nov-March $1500 2nd & 4th Thu. nights Nov ‘16-Mar’17 Mission Minute by Jeff Lillard Oct. ‘16

Feeding Under The Bridge

Teresa Gary Feeding homeless with Salvation Army & Rehobath UMC $1800 Every 3rd Friday night year-round Mission Minute in Dec. 2016

FranktownOpen Hearts Joy Haney Shannon Porter

Volunteering with teens (girls’ recreation, sewing bags for UMCOR school kits, providing meals)

$2000 Weekly/monthly Mission Minute, Chris Barnhill 8-28

Kairos Prison Ministry Karel Snoek Ken Graves

Providing ‘forgiveness’ cookies, encouraging participation in weekends

$1000 As indicated by Karel, women’s week -end Oct. 27-30, men’s Nov. 10-13

House of Hope/VFC Cindy Kurzrock Financial support for HoH & children’s ministry; mission trip $3000 Mission trips are in October & February each year

Pommern Parish Cindy Kurzrock Financial support for tuition & building projects $6000 N/A

Carolyn Parr Cindy Kurzrock 145 of her Kurdish worship CDs have been sent to Northern Iraq. Many Kurds are coming to faith in Jesus

$1000 TBD

Contingency N/A Team consensus as needs arise $5700 As needs arise

Nancy Webb Kelly UMC Mike Thompson One time donation for computer & audio-visual equipment $1000 To be bought fall, 2016

Luke Billman Brad Fiscus One time donation for Shores of Grace ministry $500 June, 2016

Total $38,000