Love God...Love Others...Serve The World It’s that me of year again for GMV to gear up for another season of fall discipleship. We have some excing and new things happening this fall that the pastors and staff believe have the potenal to propel us forward in God’s desire for this church to reach the community. Please read through the informaon below and spread the word about the amazing things God is doing in your church. FX – Family Experience: This is a new ministry of GMV focusing on equipping the family to beer follow Jesus together. We want to emphasize that the term “Family” in Family Experience doesn’t mean just our tradional understandings of family. It may be that you are a part of a single parent home, there may be no children in your home, you may be a grandparent raising children, you may be single, you may be hundreds of miles away from your family. Whatever the case may be, you are a part of the GMV family, and even greater sll the Family of God. On the first Wednesday of every month all generaons of the church will come together under one roof (the gym). For that night, there will be no age specific ministries. All ages, and all congregaons will share God’s amazing love together. The first FX is Sept 6 from 6:30 – 7:30. There will be a meal from 5:30 – 6:30. You will be able to make reservaons for that on Sunday September 3 or Monday September 4 by noon by calling the church office. Classes: Classes will begin on Wednesday evening August 23. The me for all classes to meet will be flexible this year. The standard start me for classes has been 6:30 and that can sll be the case. However, If classes choose to meet earlier (as early as 5pm) that will be perfectly fine. There will be a full lisng of all classes, their descripons and informaon about how to join a class available at the church on Sunday, July 30 and online by July 31. Tribes: Tribes will begin on Wednesday August 23 as well. This year we won’t be selecng Tribe membership for people. We want people to choose the Tribe they will be in and have the freedom even to start their own tribe. If you believe God may be leading you to host, facilitate, or both, in Tribe ministry this year, please pick up one of our Tribe brochures at the church. There you will find more informaon about what it means to be a Tribe leader and informaon about how to start your own Tribe. Joining a Tribe this year will be as easy as contacng a Tribe leader (informaon about Tribe leadership will be made available by the second week of August) or contacng pastor Jake at the church office. Wednesday Night Meal – This year we are trying something new. We will only be having a meal prepared by the church on the nights we have FX (Family Experience). A couple of reasons for this are we are losing money each semester that we do it. This tells us that there aren’t enough people in our church that have interest in a meal every Wednesday. Another reason, our desire to be more flexible with our midweek ministries and our belief that God wants us to pour all the resources we can into the meal served before FX. We believe the benefits to be numerous. For example, Classes and Tribes, that will be meeng on the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th Wednesday’s will have more flexibility in when they can meet. Classes and Tribes can choose to break bread together on some Wednesday evenings. Aſter all, this reflects the importance of Chrisans in community sharing a meal together. Our prayer is that we can all enter into this new season of ministry in unity. God has blessed this congregaon with tremendous leadership who believes that this format puts this congregaon into the best posion to capitalize on our mission of making disciples for the transformaon of the world. In Christ, Pastor Jake Jake Barrett Associate Pastor [email protected] Family Connection Gardendale Mt. –Vernon United Methodist Church August 2017 Mark Your Calendar August 3 SPRC Meeng August 8 Lunch Bunch UMM Meeng August 9 Trustees Meeng Back to School Bash for the Youth August 13 Moving Up Sunday August 15 Older Adult Game Day August 18 Freedom Worship Night August 28 Finance Meeng
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Love God...Love Others...Serve The World
It’s that time of year again for GMV to gear up for another season of fall discipleship. We have some exciting and new things happening this fall that the pastors and staff believe have the potential to propel us forward in God’s desire for this church to reach the community. Please read through the information below and spread the word about the amazing things God is doing in your church. FX – Family Experience: This is a new ministry of GMV focusing on equipping the family to better follow Jesus together. We want to emphasize that the term “Family” in Family Experience doesn’t mean just our traditional understandings of family. It may be that you are a part of a single parent home, there may be no children in your home, you may be a grandparent raising children, you may be
single, you may be hundreds of miles away from your family. Whatever the case may be, you are a part of the GMV family, and even greater still the Family of God. On the first Wednesday of every month all generations of the church will come together under one roof (the gym). For that night, there will be no age specific ministries. All ages, and all congregations will share God’s amazing love together. The first FX is Sept 6 from 6:30 – 7:30. There will be a meal from 5:30 – 6:30. You will be able to make reservations for that on Sunday September 3 or Monday September 4 by noon by calling the church office.
Classes: Classes will begin on Wednesday evening August 23. The time for all classes to meet will be flexible this year. The standard start time for classes has been 6:30 and that can still be the case. However, If classes choose to meet earlier (as early as 5pm) that will be perfectly fine. There will be a full listing of all classes, their descriptions and information about how to join a class available at the church on Sunday, July 30 and online by July 31.
Tribes: Tribes will begin on Wednesday August 23 as well. This year we won’t be selecting Tribe membership for people. We want people to choose the Tribe they will be in and have the freedom even to start their own tribe. If you believe God may be leading you to host, facilitate, or both, in Tribe ministry this year, please pick up one of our Tribe brochures at the church. There you will find more information about what it means to be a Tribe leader and information about how to start your own Tribe. Joining a Tribe this year will be as easy as contacting a Tribe leader (information about Tribe leadership will be made available by the second week of August) or contacting pastor Jake at the church office.
Wednesday Night Meal – This year we are trying something new. We will only be having a meal prepared by the church on the nights we have FX (Family Experience). A couple of reasons for this are we are losing money each semester that we do it. This tells us that there aren’t enough people in our church that have interest in a meal every Wednesday. Another reason, our desire to be more flexible with our midweek ministries and our belief that God wants us to pour all the resources we can into the meal served before FX. We believe the benefits to be numerous. For example, Classes and Tribes, that will be meeting on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Wednesday’s will have more flexibility in when they can meet. Classes and Tribes can choose to break bread together on some Wednesday evenings. After all, this reflects the importance of Christians in community sharing a meal together.
Our prayer is that we can all enter into this new season of ministry in unity. God has blessed this congregation with tremendous leadership who believes that this format puts this congregation into the best position to capitalize on our mission of making disciples for the transformation of the world.
In Christ, Pastor Jake
Jake Barrett Associate Pastor
Family Connection
Gardendale Mt. –Vernon United Methodist Church
August 2017
Mark Your Calendar
August 3 SPRC Meeting
August 8
Lunch Bunch UMM Meeting
August 9
Trustees Meeting
Back to School Bash for the Youth
August 13
Moving Up Sunday
August 15 Older Adult Game Day
August 18
Freedom Worship Night
August 28 Finance Meeting
STUDENT MINISTRY
OLDER ADULT MINISTRY Coffee & Christ: Meet each Tuesday at 10am in room 318.
Please contact Mike Irons at [email protected] or the church office if you would like more information on the Older Adult Ministry
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY
Moving Up Sunday– August 13 All GMV kids & students will move into their new classes. **4th & 5th graders will be recognized in the 9:45 Immerzion Service.
For information or questions please contact:
Infant thru Preschool– Beverly Hoff [email protected]
Kindegarten-5th grade– Amy Sizemore [email protected]
6th-12th grade– Ian Sullivan [email protected]
MISSIONS & OUTREACH
United Methodist Men’s Meeting The UMM (United Methodist Men) will meet on Tuesday, August 8 at 6:30pm in the Fellowship Hall. We will have a special speaker from the North Jefferson Women’s Center. Men & women are welcome to this special meeting!
Please contact Wayne Burrow at [email protected] or Jim Jeffreys at
[email protected] to make your dinner reservation by Monday, August 7.
Thank you to everyone that volunteered their time and hard work, donated items and prayed for Royal Family Kids Camp this year. We had the privilege of
showing God’s love to 30 children during camp. It was an awesome week!
If you would like more information or ways you can get involved with this amazing ministry please visit
http://rfk.org/locations/alabama/gardendale/
Contact Ian Sullivan at [email protected] if you would like more information about our Student Ministry.
6:00pm at the Salter’s House
MILITARY & FIRST RESPONDERS “OUR CHURCH IN UNIFORM”
If you are active or inactive in the military or a first responder, we are proud of you and the work you do. For this reason we would like to have your story in the book “Our Church in Uniform”. Please pick up a form and more information at any welcome desk. Please include a picture of you in uniform when you return the form. The picture will be copied and the original will be returned unharmed. Thank you for your service and may God always be at your side. Contact Gloria Broderson at (205) 841-6904 for
Classes &Tribes
Happy 4th of July!
AUGUST SERMON SERIES
“Is it hard to reconcile God’s forgiveness with His
justice? What about a balanced view of God’s
sovereignty and God’s love? What about God’s rules
as opposed to freedom in Christ? The Pharisees, most
of whom were good leaders, had trouble understand-
ing God revealed in Jesus Christ. It caused them to
do some terrible things. Join us on Sunday mornings
as Pastor Steve will look at how these struggles apply
to our lives today in his August sermon series,
“The Trouble With the Pharisees.”
New Classes & Tribes KICK OFF Wednesday, August 23
Pick up a brochure of all the new Classes & Tribes at any welcome desk on Sunday, July 30 or visit our website.
Beginning August 23, Pastor Steve will be offering a class called Senior Connection at 5:30pm in the Chapel on Wednesday evenings (except for FX Night).
This is a time where our Senior Adults can connect with our Senior Pastor.
Gardendale Mt.-Vernon United Methodist Church
SENIOR Connection
The Trouble with the
PHARISEES
5:30pm
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August 2017 Each day take time to pray for the listed church member or ministry.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 James Parker Lou Parker
2 Scott & Tracy Parks
3 Billy & Sandy Parrish
4 Jacky, Kelli, Casey & Ryan Partridge
5
6 Pray for the teachers, staff & children starting school this week.
7 Kevin, Amy, Riley & Molly Pate
8 Levi, Barbara, Anna Grace & Matthew Patmon
9 Michael & Kathy Patrick
10 Harold Payne Susan Payne
11 Katherine Pea
12
13 Pray for our Senior Pastor Steve and wife Donna Joe Baccus
14 Martha Perry
15 Billy Pharris
16 Robbie, Jennifer, Noah, Will & Luke Phillips
17 Don & Carolyn Piatt Pat Poe
18 Damon, Sabrina, Olivia, Sophia, & Parker Porrill
19
20 Pray for our Discipleship Ministry & New Classes & Tribes
21 Nathan, Donna, Sarah & Riley Porter
22 Sammy Poteate
23 Michael, Maria, Mason & Max Powe
24 Joy Powell
25 Margaret Powell Lydia Preston
26
27 Pray for our Older Adult Ministry
28 Ken, Pam, Eli, Walt Pruitt
29 Jeff, Lori, Kyndall & Hannah Ragland
30 Bo, Jennifer, Charlee & Ella Ragsdale
31 Barbara Rapier Judy & Jonathan Reagan
Lille Mae Akers Junior Hughes Faye Rogers Josephine Beard Midge Hunter Mildred Beatty Sue Jarvis Ernest Sellers Jan Biddle Zelma Hill Margaret Jefferson Faye Blaylock Alma Lawrence J.C. Brown Joan Oxley Margaret Powell Nolene Leopard Joyce Watkins Peggy Camp Harriett Griffin Ann Zumbado Edith Cole Carolyn Lyon Connie Crawford J.T. Lyon Dave Cromes Doris Cruce Frank Malone Kenneth Jennings Sam Morrow Reuben Downer Christine McCurry Mildred Glass Phyllis Meek Sue Parker Sue Gravlee Ruby Morrison
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Attendance Report
7/2 7/9 7/16
8:30 Worship: 105 84
9:45 Worship: 214 231 11:00 Worship: 173 173 Kid’s Worship: 47 58 Total Worship: 360 539 546
2017 Stewardship Report Needed YTD: $946,877.26 Received YTD: $791,481.66 2017 Faith Promise Pledges Projected Budget: $109,650.00 Received YTD: $49,256.62 2017 Capital Fund Pledges Needed YTD: $81,550.00 Received YTD: $64,655.66
Church Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fridays 8:00 am–12:00 pm
Church Office: 205-631-7631
Care line: 205-631-0811
Child Enrichment Center: 205-631-0433
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