PRAYER REQUESTS: First United Methodist Church; FUM Confirmands; the congregation of Concha del Oro; the Epworth Project; Missionaries: Gaston Ntamboand Matt Roudebush; Karen Bell; Barbara Brandeberry; Scott Bradley; Mary Etta Hemmerly; Jennifer Knauss; Coquette Neifer; Ryan Sanner; Lisa Sipes; Ted Sipes; *Bryan David Barger, *Jason Carmen, *Golden Carmen, *Jason Hill, *Mark Istre. (*presently deployed)
Summer Schedule Starts Next Week!!
SUMMER WORSHIP BEGINS
Next Sunday, May 26th, will begin our Summer Worship Schedule with one
worship service for everyone at 10:00 a.m. The Summer Worship schedule will continue through August 18th. We will return to two worship services on
Sunday, August 25th, at 8:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
SUMMER OFFICE HOURS
Summer hours will begin after Memorial Day, on Tuesday, May 28th.
The office will be open 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Monday—Friday.
UMW LUNCHEON— Both United Methodist Circles, Louise Crawford and Sharon Crowe, will meet for lunch Thursday, May 23, at Dyers Restaurant at 12:30 p.m. All women of First United Methodist Church and guests are invited. Please RSVP to Jo Vernon at 419-353-2683, or Donna Schmidt at 419-352-6397 or
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SPECIAL CHURCH-WIDE OFFERING: Peace with Justice Sunday (May 26) advocates for peace throughout the world. Your gifts change lives in places where the joy of knowing Christ is mixed with the tragedy of violence. Peace with Justice Sunday aids disciples, young and old, who are indeed changing lives and changing the world, inspired by Christ’s gospel of love and liberation.
HEARTH AND CHAPEL will meet Tuesday, May 28, 7:30 PM, in the Meeting Room with Don and Anita Crawford and Ron and Judy Hartley serving as hosts. The pro-gram will be Roger and Betty Jean Anderson sharing their Cuban trip. Everyone is invited to attend.
RECYCLE OLD GLASSES: Have you noticed the blue and white box with the Lions Emblem on the counter in the welcome area? It is there to receive your old eyeglasses and sunglasses to be recycled! Lions collect, clean, classify, and package thou-sands of used eyeglasses each year for use by volunteer optometric missions (VOSH) to third-world countries. The Bowling Green Evening Lions have collected over 12,000 glasses in the last eleven years.
TAKE A LOAD OFF! UNBURDEN YOURSELF! Tired of carrying all that heavy change around, wearing holes in your pockets & purses! Put it in the small brown missionsenvelopes you find in the pews & place in the collection. Your gifts in these small envelopes help our neighbors stay in their homes, keep light and heat going, and help with medical needs and prescriptions. Last year, our neighbors reached out for over $100,000 in help. FUMC has been an active participant in Wood County Area Ministries (WAM) working together to help our neighbors in need. WAM’s Emergency Relief Fund is supported by YOU here at FUMC, St. Mark’s Lutheran, First Christian Church, First Presbyterian, Peace Lutheran, and St. Vincent DePaul of St. Thomas More and St. Aloysius Catholic Churches. These churches working together were able to meet $25,000 of that amount. Your change can change lives; please support this important ministry by making your donation in the brown “missions” envelopes. You’ll feel so much better once that “weight” has been lifted!
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE: The deadline for the June Newsletter is Tuesday, May 21st. Articles may be dropped off in the church office or emailed to Carol at
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SPECIAL CHURCH-WIDE OFFERING: Peace with Justice Sunday (May 26) advocates for peace throughout the world. Your gifts change lives in places where the joy of knowing Christ is mixed with the tragedy of violence. Peace with Justice Sunday aids disciples, young and old, who are indeed changing lives and changing the world, inspired by Christ’s gospel of love and liberation.
Youth Ministry
END OF YEAR PARTY
Our End of Year Party will be held on Sunday, June 9th from 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Mark your calendars!!!
YOUTH MISSION TEAM
There will be a final planning meeting for students and parents on Sunday,
June 9th at 3:30 p.m. The team will also be commissioned in worship that day
at 10:00 a.m.
GRADUATION CELEBRATION—May 26th.
If you will be graduating high school this spring, our congregation wants to celebrate with you! Please contact the church office and re turn the Graduation Information Sheet that you should have received in the mail last week.
