June 6^th - Second Sunday after Pentecost

Communion Sunday; United Methodist Volunteers in Missions (UMVIM)

Mission’s project: Suitcases for homeless youth.

Text: Philemon

Sermon: Pack your suitcase!

A rich, Christian man was talking to God, "Can't I take it with me when I go?" God always answered the same way, "NO!" Finally one day the man talked God into it and God said, "Okay you can take two suitcases full of anything you want." The man filled up two suitcases full of gold. When the rich man reached the pearly gates St. Peter asked the rich man why he had two suitcases. The rich man said, "It's okay I've already cleared it with God." St. Peter asked him to open the suitcases, when the rich man opened the suitcase, St. Peter said, "Why'd you bring paving?"

June 13^th - Third Sunday after Pentecost

Missions’ Project: Suitcase Sunday continued

Vacation Bible School Sunday: Egypt - Joseph’s Journey from prison to palace.

June 20^th - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Text: Genesis 1:31 - 2:3; Proverbs 12:14, 23; 18:9; 21:25,26; 22:29; 24:27.

Sermon: @ work

Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide but 52 countries throughout the world celebrate it on the third Sunday of June. The first observance of Father's Day is believed to have been held on June 19, 1910 through the efforts of Sonora Dodd from Spokane, Washington. While she was listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909 at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church  she decided that a celebration which honored fathers , like her own father William Smart, would be a great idea. Her father was a Civil War veteran whose wife died when Sonora was 16 and he took care of all six of their children until they became legal age. Many attempts were made to establish the holiday but it was not until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson made a proclamation for the third Sunday of June to be observed as Father's Day. It became an official national holiday when President Nixon made a proclamation for its establishment in 1972.

June 27^th - Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Annual Conference Sunday

Guest Preacher: Rev. Terry Reid

July 4^th - Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Communion Sunday; Root Beer Floats in fellowship hall.

Text: Luke 9:1-9; 13:31-32; 23:7-8

Sermon: Jesus and Herod

Do we need to return to our roots in more then one way when it comes to understanding what our country is all about and how it is to function? Are any contemporary politicians doing serious work and study as did the founders as to how this nation should go forward and be shaped? Or, is it all about being re-elected, populist talk and the bottom line? Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton and Adams thought and wrote about the political-moral compass of this nation over a lifetime and did more then just exercise speculation of what might be. Adams wrote to a friend remarking on the great and very rare opportunity which others might never have: “You and I, my dear friend, have been sent into a life at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live. How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves or their children! When, before the present epoch, had three millions of people full power and a fair opportunity to form and establish the wisest and happiest government that human wisdom can contrive?” (Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections, ED. J.P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence, Doubleday, 1970, 55) How wise and happy is our governance today?

July 11^th - Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Quarterly Prayer Service

Text: Luke 10:25 - 37

Sermon: McPrayers - Prayers by busy people.

July 18^th - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Youth Service reporting on Mission Trip: June 13^th - 18^th

July 25^th - Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Gideon International guest speaker:

Gideons International is known for placing Bibles in hotel rooms as a silent witness to God’s Word. They are found in more than 180 countries worldwide and have given away over 1.3 billion Bibles - enough Bibles to reach roughly one in five people on earth. The organization of Christian businessmen had humble beginnings. At the 1908 Gideon Convention in Louisville, Ky., Gideons members were discussing how they could more effectively witness in the hotels, where they spent so much of their time, when one trustee proposed that they furnish a Bible for each hotel room in the United States. The plan was adopted by the convention and dubbed, “The Bible Project.” Archie Bailey funded the organization’s first Bible placement at Superior Hotel in 1908. Gideons International have printed Scripture in over 80 languages are currently placing one million copies every five days. Scriptures are also now being placed in hospitals, prisons, military bases, schools and colleges as well as hotel rooms.