Bi-Weekly XLXV No. 8, April 11, 2012 faith friendship fellowship followership fruitfulness www.firstsayyes.com It shouldn’t surprise us that creativity originates with God. From the first moment the words, “Let there be light” spilled forth from the mouth of God, creativity has been and is being released in the Uni- verse. And, being made in the image of God, we have within us this capacity to “create.” Think about babies who create with sound (the babble of babies is “perfect praise” in God’s ears). Give a child a box and in their crea- tivity it becomes a castle or a boat or a cradle or anything else their mind can dream up. And give a child a crayon and a blank sheet of paper then step back and watch out! Refrigerator art in a matter of minutes. Creativity is some- thing with which we are born and with the help and shaping of life experiences, people, and environments, it can be developed or destroyed. None of us should mistake being artistic for being crea- tive. So many people will claim not to be creative be- cause they know they are not artistic. There are many of us who are not “artistic” but all of us, in some way, are creative. God designed that in us. So whether it is with words, or music (vocal or instrumental) or ideas or money or plants or wisdom or leadership or serv- ing or loving or caring or giv- ing or encouraging or any number of other expres- sions—we have within us the capability to be creative. And you, yourself have one or more areas in your life where you are creative. So don’t hide it or deny it—God made you that way! There is an old saying, “Your life is a gift from God and what you make of it is your gift to Him.” There is a lot of truth in that state- ment. You are not an accident or a mistake. You are not a failure or broken beyond repair. You are a child of the Most High who put creative gifts inside of you to be expressed for God’s glory. You may not color inside the lines. You may see a sunrise in an or- ange or laughter in a dessert dish. You may have impulses to care deeply for those who hurt. You may see potential in another and encourage. You may hear the cry of despair and respond with finan- cial resources to meet a need. You may work with your hands, your head, your voice your heart. And when you do, God’s creative power is being released in you and through you to make God’s good world better. Don’t let any- one convince you that you aren’t gifted in some area of your life. The world needs you and your gift and so does God’s kingdom. The last mark many song writers would place on the scores of mu- sic they were inspired to write were the words, “To the Glory of God.” May that be true of us, as well. See you at “God’s glory place” this weekend! ~jimd. P.S.~ Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers & attenders who made this past Holy Week a beautiful celebration of Jesus’ rising from the dead. God bless you all! Leading People to aN active faith in Jesus christ C REATIVITY REATIVITY IS IS A G G IFT IFT OF OF G G OD OD FirsT United Methodist Church of Sedalia N EW EW 7 W 7 W EEK EEK M ESSAGE ESSAGE S S ERIES ERIES Does God text? Does he send Facebook messages? What’s his email address? What if God wrote you a letter? What would it say? Would you want to tear it open or would you be nervous? Over the next seven weeks we will read letters that Jesus wrote to seven different churches. We’ll answer these questions: what would Jesus say to me, the church and the world? Do you Love, or just Love to be Right? Revelation 2:1-7 Weak is the New Strong. Revelation 2:8-11 Does what we Believe Really Matter? Revelation 2:12-17 Who’s Reading your Mail? Revelation 2:18-29 The Zombie Letter Revelation 3:1-6 New Mailboxes Revelation 3:7-13 The “Whatever” Text Revelation 3:14-22 T HE HE F F LIP LIP Come to our new 9:45 West Service on Sun- days at the Cele- bration Center (Friendship Hall). It starts with preaching fol- lowed by praise.
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Bi-Weekly XLXV No. 8, April 11, 2012
faith friendship fellowship followership fruitfulness
www.firstsayyes.com
It shouldn’t surprise us that creativity originates with God. From the first moment the words, “Let there be light” spilled forth from the mouth of God, creativity has been and is being released in the Uni-verse. And, being made in the image of God, we have within us this capacity to “create.” Think about babies who create with sound (the babble of babies is “perfect praise” in God’s ears). Give a child a box and in their crea-tivity it becomes a castle or a boat or a cradle or anything else their mind can dream up. And give a child a crayon and a blank sheet of paper then step back and watch out! Refrigerator art in a matter of minutes. Creativity is some-thing with which we are born and with the help and shaping of life experiences, people, and environments, it can be developed or destroyed. None of us should mistake being artistic for being crea-tive. So many people will claim not to be creative be-cause they know they are not artistic. There are many of us who are not “artistic” but all of us, in some way, are creative. God designed that in us. So whether it is with words, or music (vocal or instrumental) or ideas or money or plants or wisdom or leadership or serv-ing or loving or caring or giv-ing or encouraging or any number of other expres-sions—we have within us the capability to be creative. And you, yourself have one or
more areas in your life where you are creative. So don’t hide it or deny it—God made you that way! There is an old saying, “Your life is a gift from God and what you make of it is your gift to Him.” There is a lot of truth in that state-ment. You are not an accident or a mistake. You are not a failure or broken beyond repair. You are a child of the Most High who put creative gifts inside of you to be expressed for God’s glory. You may not color inside the lines. You may see a sunrise in an or-ange or laughter in a dessert dish. You may have impulses to care deeply for those who hurt. You may see potential in another and encourage. You may hear the cry of despair and respond with finan-cial resources to meet a need. You may work with your hands, your head, your voice your heart. And when you do, God’s creative power is being released in you and through you to make God’s good world better. Don’t let any-one convince you that you aren’t gifted in some area of your life. The world needs you and your gift and so does God’s kingdom. The last mark many song writers would place on the scores of mu-sic they were inspired to write were the words, “To the Glory of God.” May that be true of us, as well. See you at “God’s glory place” this weekend! ~jimd. P.S.~ Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers & attenders who made this past Holy Week a beautiful celebration of Jesus’ rising from the dead. God bless you all!
Leading People to aN active faith in Jesus christ
CCREATIVITYREATIVITY ISIS AA G GIFTIFT OFOF G GODOD Fir
sT United M
ethodist Church of Sedalia
NNEWEW 7 W 7 WEEKEEK
MMESSAGEESSAGE S SERIESERIES Does God text? Does he send Facebook messages? What’s his email address? What if God wrote you a letter? What would it say? Would you want to tear it open or would you be nervous? Over the next seven weeks we will read letters that Jesus wrote to seven different churches. We’ll answer these questions: what would Jesus say to me, the church and the world? Do you Love, or just Love to be Right? Revelation 2:1-7 Weak is the New Strong. Revelation 2:8-11 Does what we Believe Really Matter? Revelation 2:12-17 Who’s Reading your Mail? Revelation 2:18-29 The Zombie Letter Revelation 3:1-6 New Mailboxes Revelation 3:7-13
The “Whatever” Text
Revelation 3:14-22
TTHEHE F FLIPLIP Come to our new
9:45 West Service on Sun-days at the Cele-bration Center
(Friendship Hall). It starts with preaching fol-
lowed by praise.
CWUCWU
Church Women United May Friendship Day will be held May 1st at the Celebration Center Friendship Hall beginning with a noon luncheon. The program is entitled, "Listening To My Sisters". The cost is $7.50 and tick-ets can be purchased from Patsy Harrison or JoAnn Lambirth.
College semester finals will be here before we know it. Each se-mester, the L.O.T. Class on behalf of First Church, prepares K.I.T. (keeping in touch) care packages to be sent to our full-time college students. If you have a college student in your family, please let the church office know their name and address by April 27th. Dona-tions of snacks, gum, chips, etc. will be appreciated. Anyone wish-ing to help defray the cost of mail-ing the packages may make a contribution marked “K. I.T. Pack-ages.”
SSEEDSEEDS Come to our mid-week service of worship and teaching every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Celebration Center. “Seeds” is our service for families that features many of our lay peo-ple who have great faith stories to share along with expertise in a va-riety of fields. A 2-3 year old and an infant nursery are available as well. Come join us!
HEARTBEATS
The Door Project New Members Dessert College Kits
Many in our congregation have cre-ated artwork on doors depicting various Bible themes and stories. We hope other artists from the area will join us in creating art on doors to be auctioned off for Habitat for Humanity later this spring. Some of these doors will be displayed throughout the community in vari-ous churches and businesses. Let’s open the door of affordable housing for one more person in Se-dalia! Call 660-827-2993 for more information.
DDOWNTOWNOWNTOWN UUPKEEPPKEEP F FUNDUND We have recently decided to make a large repair on the roof of the Downtown facility. We are commit-ted to maintaining and upgrading the downtown building, therefore we are asking that if you are inter-ested in making monetary dona-tions to the Downtown facility’s up-keep please denote that on any gifts.
For our recent new members, there will be a New Members’ Dessert meeting on Sunday, April 15th at 1:30 p.m. at the Celebra-tion Center (Hospitality Room). Please join with us for this gather-ing and come learn more about First Church.
If you are interested in being a part of a mission trip to our sister church in Caracol, Haiti, August 1-9, to do Vaca-tion Bible School with the vil-lage children, contact Lorie Holt [email protected] or 620-0866. If you are dealing with a con-flict right now in your lives, let one of our trained Stephen Ministers help provide emo-tional and spiritual care. Call Don Brandes, 827-6455, or the church office, 827-2993.
CCOMMONOMMON G GROUNDSROUNDS CCOFFEEOFFEE H HOUSEOUSE
HHOURSOURS:: Wednesday evenings 5:30—6:30, Saturday evenings 4:30-7:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings 8-10 a.m. Enjoy a weekly “Blue Plate” special before SEEDS on Wednesday nights!
YEstoday today today today Bookstore Hours Bookstore Hours Bookstore Hours Bookstore Hours
Sat. 4-7 pm Sun. 8-11am
Our hearts go out in Christian love and sympathy to the family of . . . Asa Zumalt, Ralph LaForge (Ralph served as pastor at First UMC in late 1970’s to early 80’s.), Douglas Crank, Sr, and John T. “Tim” Goal-der due to their recent deaths.
TTHANKHANK Y YOUOU:: (On display at Welcome Center Bulletin Boards) We received a note of thanks from: Maxine King
April 15 Tori Shireman, Lisa Harding, Kiley Gilbertson, Brian Pierce, Eric Potts April 16 Ann Fravel, Bill Nicely, Jason Bray, Mike Smith, Jennifer Yazell April 17 Austin Breining, Sarah Bryant, Paige Verscha, Emerson Kuhlman, Preston McMullen April 18 Lisa Brock, Shirley Alexander, Blake Huffman, Trevor Marchbanks, Kenneth New, Tony Neth April 19 Kara Collins, Robert Cunningham, Richard Lukacs, Meredith Tester, Tanner McFatrich, Kathy Baker April 20 Kory Bohling, Andrew Neher, Jacob Mothersbaugh, Monica Farr April 21 Amy Davis, Alice Pricer, Wanda Pahlow, Gregory Tullis, Cooper Sparks April 22 Brian Duncan, Luke Rehmer, Holly Dick April 23 Erica Kinner, Haley Gleason, Donna Haley, Lauren Stevens, Starr Kearney April 24 Steve Anderson, Lorrie Conley, Charles Boslaugh, Marsha Hawkins, Madison Meloy, David Clip-pert, Eric Hansen, Mark Gerloch April 25 Frank Logan, Steve Lyles, Zachary McBurney, Anthony Collins, Kevin Zeisset, Leah Rhea, Sandra Smith April 26 Dub Griffin, Peter Hibbard, Lloyd Dunn April 27 Dennis VanBaale, Ian Wallen, Ashley Phillips, Avery Snelling, Becky Hall April 28 Paul Hansen, Diane Barker, Christina Stratton L
eading people to an active faith in Jesus Christ.
CFIRST STEPS
April 1, 2012 Sunday School 109 Worship 1015 Amt. Rec’d for Ministry $ 13236.23 Building 3801.00 Special 4546.99
Easter@Mathewson 2712 Ministry $ 15701.37 Building 3479.50
WWEE C CELEBRATEELEBRATE THETHE D DAYAY YOUYOU W WEREERE B BORNORN
Our Family Our Prayers for: Betty Rose Thompson, Norma Tullis, Steve Emory, Elmer & Louise Lentz, Rosalee Burgess, Darlene & Virgil Burgess, Sue Coleman, Frances Goldsmith, Jacob Gerken, John Latreille (Rich & Margie Kendrick’s Son-in-Law), Clifford Smith, Mike Knaus, Angie Thompson, Doro-thy Shull, Samantha Welch, Charles & Jennie Cheffey, and Our Military Families.
Congratulations to: ~Erika Tackett & Raymond Tackett on their baptisms on March 27th, Erika & Raymond are the children of Raymond & Claraisse Tackett, and to ~Tina Seifner on her baptism on March 27th, and to ~Jalynne Stratton and Kailee Mitchell on their baptisms on March 28th. Jalynne & Kailee are the daughters of Crystal Anderson & Joshua Mattson-Gilmore, and to ~Allison Rucker on her bap-tism on March 28th. Allison is the daughter of Steve & Tammy Rucker, and to ~Priscilla Shelledy and daughters, Khloe & Emma Shelledy on their baptisms on March 29, 2012, and to ~Robert & Christy Goalder and their son Carson Goalder on their baptisms on March 29, 2012, and to ~Donnie Meloy and Evan Meloy on their baptisms on April 3, 2012. Evan is the son of Donnie & Denise Meloy.
If your birthday is not listed, please let us know so it can be added!
WWELCOMEELCOME N NEWEW M MEMBERSEMBERS
2012 CONFIRMANDS
WARD
Larry & Margaret Anna
22136 Swope Lane Sedalia, MO 65301
281-7797
BRAY
Kelsey Jason & Braydon 600 N. Stewart Sedalia, MO 65301 221-1648
HALL
Becky 2503 Wing Ave.
Sedalia, MO 65301 827-2272
MARLATT
Rodger 2705 Clarendon Rd. Sedalia, MO 65301 221-7437
Pic. #1 Blake Grupe, Nathan Brock, Brendan Homan, Blake Pomajzl, Teagan Trammell, Kinser Corbett
Pic. #3 Aaron Frazee, Tia Williams, Mia Bersano
Pic. #2 Anthony Enri-etto, Jenna Rapp, McKenna Perusich, Madelyn Enrietto, Makenna Steger, Allison Rucker, Tyler Steger
Pic. #4 Noelle Sunnarborg, Reagan Hockett, Chey-anne Zinck, Erika Tackett, Trey Morris, Yeager Coen, Blake Dulaban, Andrew Fra-zee
Not Pictures: Josh Lamb, Brooke Jackson
Downtown, 4th & Osage //Worship Sunday 10:50am
Celebration Center, 1701 W. 32nd St // Worship Saturday 5:30pm // Sunday 8:35 9:45am & 12:30 pm
Listen on the Radio at 1490AM Sundays 10:30am or on Website at www.firstsayyes.com (messages)
Email us at [email protected] Phone // 660.827.2993
First United Methodist Church
Office: 1701 West 32nd Street
Sedalia, MO 65301
Non-Profit Organization US POSTAGE PAID SEDALIA, MO 65301
Permit #208
FirsT United Methodist Church of Sedalia
I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the wonderful volunteers who helped with our Children’s Ministry Easter Activities! Whether you donated candy and eggs, made play dough, helped stuff hundreds of plastic eggs, helped stuff the activity bags for Easter at the Mathewson, or served at the Easter egg hunt, you made an eternal difference in the lives of our children and displayed God’s great love for each and every boy and girl. Thank you especially to all the volunteers who braved the rainy weather on Saturday and came out to help hide eggs and welcome children. Finally, thank you to all the kids and parents who came out and participated in this event. We pray that you and your families were blessed!
Stacie Grifford Children’s Pastor
BBEE SURESURE ANDAND
JOINJOIN USUS THISTHIS
SUMMERSUMMER FORFOR
MOREMORE FUNFUN
CCHILDRENHILDREN’’SS E EVENTSVENTS..
Related Documents
