Secretary, Building Reservations Manager, and Nursery Coordinator: Kathy Statler Office Phone Number: 717-597-7314 Home Phone Number: 717-643-1013 Cell Phone Number: 717-860-6442 Monday—Friday 6:00 AM—12:00 Noon Leave a message after hours on the answering machine. You may call my cell phone number (for emergency purposes only.) Sometimes the hours need to change. Please call the church office to make sure someone is there especially if inclement weather. If it is calling for bad weather, the church office is closed. Office staff works from home. [email protected]www.fumcgreencastle.org Bulletin Announcements Due Monday morning by 8:00 AM Newsletter Articles Due the 12th day of the month Growing, Caring, and Serving In the Name of Christ First United Methodist Church Pastor Stacy A. Crawford P O Box 303, 45 N. Washington St. Greencastle PA 17225 Parsonage Phone Number: 717-597-4216 Youth Ministries Director: Pastor Cam Smith Office Phone Number: 717-597-5892 Home Phone Number: 717-447-7809 Cell Phone Number: 717-884-1408 Tuesday & Thursday 7:00 AM—3:30 PM [email protected]Wednesday Nightlight 5:30—6:15 PM Light supper in the FLC. Parents must accompany children. 6:15—6:40 PM Worship in the sanctuary 6:45—8:00 PM Small groups meet according to their schedule 2nd & 4th weeks 1st, 3rd & 5th weeks Meets Sunday evenings 8:30 AM Traditional Worship service 11:00 AM Praise and Worship service 10:00 AM 5th Sunday of the month One combined church service 10:00 AM Classes for all ages
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Secretary, Building Reservations Manager, and
Nursery Coordinator:
Kathy Statler
Office Phone Number: 717-597-7314
Home Phone Number:
717-643-1013
Cell Phone Number: 717-860-6442
Monday—Friday 6:00 AM—12:00 Noon
Leave a message after hours on the answering machine. You may call my cell phone
number (for emergency purposes only.) Sometimes the hours need to change.
Please call the church office to make sure someone is
there especially if inclement weather. If it is calling for bad weather, the church
5th Sunday of the month One combined church service
10:00 AM
Classes for all ages
Pastor’s page If a person only ate at fast-food restaurants, they would survive but they would not necessarily be healthy. In fact, your heart might be weakened and you may feel sluggish and be
a little poor in complexion. So many of us have researched this and I’m sure you’ll agree that
although fast food is fun sometimes, it is not wise for a regular eating plan.
Now I’ve heard people say “if you can’t say what you need to say in 15 minutes, you’re not
going to get it across in more time than that you might as well give up if you can’t do it in 15 minutes.” How foolish! It’s like saying at a five star restaurant, “If you can’t feed me in 15
minutes you might as well not try.”
Who would give up free gourmet for fast food? O.K. maybe some would but it wouldn’t be
wise. But yet some people have just that attitude about worship or devotions. We even show
up at the “gourmet restaurant” called church and are impatient to grab an appetizer and run out on empty again to infect ourselves with the addictions of this world that kill the appetite
and the attention span all the more so next week we might not even have time for the appetizer.
When Jesus was talking to the woman at the well in John 4, he offered her the fulfillment of
living water. We have such a sustained refreshment in God by His gracious Spirit. He was
offering her such blessing! He, I think, was having a wonderful time getting her to the heart of the matter and bringing her to Himself. Now when His disciples came to him, they urged Him
to eat something. But the Bible says that He said to them “I have food to eat that you know
nothing about.” They didn’t understand so He explained to them how His food was to do the work of Him who sent Him and to finish it. Jesus took time and was refreshed Himself by
doing His Father’s work and doing it completely and right. Good food and good eating and
good digestion can not be rushed. Resolve this year to truly wait upon the LORD to renew your strength. Resolve to read the whole chapter of the single line you saw in your devotional.
Resolve to let other things wait while you wait on the LORD. If the Baseball game goes into
extra innings, if the board meeting goes long, if the surgery has a complication you adjust your schedule to get it done right. This year get your insides right and stop the sluggish quick fix of
fast food. Fast food is not a great fix in the long run. It’s better to learn to be still so you can
really get to know Him who is God. Yes know He is God. He deserves your time.
Blessings in Jesus,
Pastor Stacy
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 1st—William Davis, Aiden Miller 2nd—Sharon Baumbaugh 4th—Chassidy Bishop, Pastor Stacy Crawford 5th—Blaine Barnhart 7th—Filly Talmadge 8th—Suzanne Raymond 9th—Tom Richards 11th—Levi Gibble 13th—Gene Lawson 14th—Leah Anderson, Betty Hartman 16th—Ellen Needy 19th—Evan Sanders 20th—Krista Murr 21st—Amanda Lopez, Louise Mowen, Kara Statler 22nd—Jack Hays, Mike Stevens 27th—Matt Lutz, Cynthia Myers 28th—Joan Bowman, Lloyd Daugherty, Allen Goldthwait 29th—Julie Beam, Louise Carlson 31st—Suzie Misner
8th—Gary & Cherie Mitchell 11th—Charles & Denise Gleichman 12th—Wayne & Sharon Baumbaugh 18th—Lee & Linda Golden 19th—Pastor Stacy & Lisa Crawford
Thank you to the following people who helped to decorate
the church for Christmas: Sally Bishop, Joan Bowman,
Bill Needy, Susie & Mike Stevens, Don & Phyllis Stoner,
Larry & Lucy Witmer and Ruby Gossard.
First Church would like to ex-tend our Sympathy to Lamar Shumaker on the death of his brother-in-law. May God com-fort you at this time.
First Church would like to extend our Sympathy to
Barry Hunt and family on the death of Barry’s wife,
Jacqueline. May God be with you at this time and
you feel His comfort always.
Bulletin announcements will now be due on Monday
mornings by 8:00 instead of Tuesday mornings.
Thank you to everyone who donated shoeboxes to Operation
Christmas Child Samaritans Purse. There were 50 shoeboxes
given that brightened many children's Christmas last year.
Thank you to Julie & Haley Rawlings for heading this project
and Ken & Darlene Caufman for picking up the shoeboxes. First Church would like to extend a warm welcome to the following people who joined the church.
Ashley Carney Steve Talmadge Filly Talmadge Jacob Steier Haley Lewis
Reilly Heinbaugh Carlyn Tilcock
Jonathan Tilcock David Zehrung Gina Zehrung Logan Zehrung
4th—Britt Salmon, Jim Johns, Bill Needy, Joan Bowman & Patrice Slodysko 11th—Britt Salmon & Jim Johns 18th—Britt Salmon & Jim Johns 25th—Britt Salmon & Jim Johns
We are short on ushers this year so we will be running five ushers the first Sunday because of communion. The rest of the month (in most cases) there will only be two ushers. The Sunday’s there are only two ushers you will use the middle aisle to pass the collection plate. The collection plate should be passed the whole way through the pew & come back to you in the next pew to start over again.