Our Church Staff
Servants of Love & Joy ...... Each Member of JC FUMC
Rio Texas Conference Bishop Robert Schnase
Hill Country District Superintendent Rev. John Wright
Pastor Rev. Lee Romero
Pastor Emeritus Rev. Bill Wiemers
Pastor Emeritus Rev. George Joehnk
Education Director Ronnie Birck
Youth Director. Carrie Anders
Church Secretary Angela Bacon
Financial Secretary Elaine Swiss, Carol Willis
Treasurer Carol Schlachter
Lay Leader James Sultemeier
Nursery Attendants Savanna Sultemeier, Dorothy Deal
Music Director Wendy Sultemeier
Pianist Sandra Danz
Praise Team Bryan Anders, Doug Smith & Darlene Young
8:30 Usher James Deal
10:50 Usher Paul Watt
The nursery is available during Worship Services and Sunday
school for pre-school children and babies. We love to have our
older children in worship.
Opportunities for Serving Christ
Sunday – July 30th
8:30 & 10:50 am Worship Services Sanctuary
9:40 – 10:30 am Christian Ed Classes
Monday – July 31st
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
Tuesday – August 1st
9:00 am Games Fellowship Hall
Wednesday – August 2nd
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
10:00 am Charring Kids Activity Center
10:30 am M&M’s Activity Center
6:30 pm Choir Activity Center
No Youth “WOW”
Thursday – August 3rd
7:00 pm Lions Club Activity Center
Friday – August 4th
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
7:00 pm Game Night First Baptist Church
Saturday – August 5th
11:00 am Wesley Nurse - Back to School Fair Activity Center
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Today: Fifth Sunday Brunch – July 30th
during the Sunday School hour. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend, visitors are always welcome!
Our attendance for Sunday, July 23, 2017
1st Service: 73
2nd Service: 84
Sunday school: 60
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Happy Anniversary!
Walter & Melissa Baldree, August 4
Happy Birthday!
Carol Willis, July 30
Luke Whittington, July 31
Pat Rumpf, August 2
Judith Ebeling, August 3
Jennifer Bacon, August 5
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SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
FELLOWSHIP – led by Bill & Elaine Swiss. The class will be studying Rob Fuquay’s “Take the Flag: Following God’s Signals in the Race of Your Life”. New members and visitors are welcome to join in. The class meets in Fellow Ship Hall, located near the Sanctuary.
JOHN WESLEY – led by Sheryl Watt. John Wesley class is studying "Too Busy NOT to Pray" Slowing Down to Be with God, by Bill Hybels. DVD and discussion.
NOMADS’ – Nomads class will be watching and studying a 9 session series by Anne Graham Lotz titled “Expecting to see Jesus”. Based on Anne’s book and Bible study “I Saw the Lord”, this study will feature a new message delivered from the Mount of Olives. Anne will give us a wake-up call using the signs of Jesus’ return. Everyone is welcome to join this study. We meet in the middle room across from the church office.
SEEKERS – The Seekers class is studying "God is Good” He is Better Than You Think by Bill Johnson. All are invited to join.
YOUTH – Join us in the Youth room for our study, “Heaven is For Real” movie. All 6th—12th graders are invited.
CHILDREN – The curriculum used for Nursery, PreK-5th Grade is “Planting Faith, Growing Faith”. All classrooms are accessed from the hallway by the church office.
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Our Wesley Nurse Cindy Leonard
Hours are Monday through Thursday 7am-12pm & 1pm–6pm, Friday off
Her number is 512-771-8783 E-mail:
The office is open
9-12 and 1-4 Monday through Thursday
If something is needed when the office is closed you may call:
Pastor Lee on his cell @ 361-205-5421
July 30, 2017
8th Sunday after Pentecost
“A PLACE TO GROW IN CHRISTIAN LOVE”
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
105 N. LBJ DR.
PO BOX 207
JOHNSON CITY, TX 78636
830-868-7414
Website: www.fumcjctx.org
First Awakening
Contemporary Worship Service
8:30 a.m.
“You Are the Body of Christ Raised”
Announcements
Opening Prayer
Passing of the Peace
Songs of Praise / Centering
Joys & Concerns
Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer – All
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those
Who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen
Offering
Children’s Time
Scripture Romans 8:26-39
Sermon “Entitled”
Song of Reflection
Benediction
Closing Song
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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”
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Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Congregation of the First United Methodist Church is to continue to be a committed fellowship of disciples sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ and furnishing a place of Christian worship, programs, services and facilities for its members and the people of the Johnson City area.
Teddy Bear Ministry
You are invited to hold a bear during joys and concerns and then take it and give it to someone who needs a word of encouragement, healing, or up-lifting.
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Sanctuary Flowers
The flowers are presented by Merlyn Saxton in celebration of Nina Saxton’s birthday.
Traditional Service
10:50 a.m.
“Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.” John Wesley
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
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Announcements
Passing of the Peace
Opening Hymn “Seek Ye First” UMH #405
Call to Worship BOW #463
Leader: O God, the Parent of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our Parent, you are to us both Father and Mother. We who are your children draw around your lotus feet to worship you.
All: Your compassion is as the fragrance of the lotus. Though you are enthroned in the heavens, we may draw nigh to you, for your feet stand upon the earth where we humans dwell.
Leader: We see your compassion in Jesus.
All: Teach us that we belong to you and that you alone belong to us.
And you are enough. Amen.
(D. T. NILES, METHODIST CHURCH OF SRI LANKA BISHOP, 20TH CENT., ALT.)
Hymn of Praise “Crown Him with Many Crowns” UMH #327
Prayer of Confession BOW #488
We confess that the circle of love is repeatedly broken because of our sin of exclusion. We create separate circles: the inner circle and the outer circle, the circle of power and the circle of despair, the circle of privilege and the circle of deprivation.
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive all who have sinned against us.
We confess that the circle of love is broken whenever there is alienation, whenever there is misunderstanding, whenever there is insensitivity or a hardening of the heart.
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive all who have sinned against us.
We confess that the circle of love is broken whenever we cannot see eye to eye, whenever we cannot link hand to hand, whenever we cannot live heart to heart and affirm our differences.
Forgive us our sins, as we forgive all who have sinned against us.
Through God's grace we are forgiven, by the mercy of our Creator, through the love of the Christ, and in the power of the Spirit. Let us rejoice and be glad!
Glory to God! Amen.
(MIRIAM THERESE WINTER, U.S.A., 20TH CENT., ALT.)
Affirmation of Faith UMH #883
Joys and Concerns
Lord’s Prayer (see prayer in 8:30 Service Order of Worship)
(You are invited, if you would like, to hold your neighbors hand during the Lord’s Prayer.)
Offering/Doxology
Anthem
Children’s Time
Old Testament Reading Psalm 105:1-11, 45b
Hymn of Preparation “More Precious than Silver” FWS #2065
Scripture Romans 8:26-39
Sermon “Entitled”
Dedication Hymn “Change My Heart, O God” FWS #2152
Benediction
Sending Forth “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing” UMH #664
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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”
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Today’s Scripture
(CEB)
Romans 8:26-39
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.