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Welcome to Forest Hills United Methodist Church! We hope you
find today’s visit with us enjoyable, encouraging, and inspiring.
If you are looking for a church home or have questions about Forest
Hills, please contact Rev. Baxter Hurley at 477-1161. !We encourage
you to sign the pew pad so that we may have a record of your
attendance. !If you are joining us in worship for the first time
this morning please visit the Welcome Center near the Sanctuary to
receive your gift!
Greeters - 9:45 a.m. Narthex Ned Newman Canopy Carolyn
Scarborough, Gloria Shumate Ministry Center Lem & Sunny Redmond
Ministry Center Back Door Ann Crawford !Greeters - 11:00 a.m.
Canopy Bill & Joan Roe Narthex Mike & Anne Rehberg !Ushers:
Buster Hummel, Gene Kinard Tommy Sherwood !Counters - August Cherry
Carr, Carolyn Dunn !Building Security - August Chris Cole !Sunday
School Offering - August New Beginnings in Christ Alcohol and Drug
Recovery Home for Men
United Methodist Church Taking Our Next Step Closer To
Christ
Forest HillsAugust 10, 2014
WORSHIP • SMALL GROUPS • SERVICE
Prayer Concerns Annette Barnette, Bob Barnette, June Butler,
Larry & Ginger Cowart,
Ann Crawford, Ela Engineer, Evelyn Etheredge, Lois Foster, Sue
Harding, Tim Hemingway, James Holmes, Bill Ivey, Billy Mann, Jorja
Marsh, Charlie Morgan, Linda Morgan, Greg Parker, Bob Parris, Mike
Stefano, Sally Stofer, & Dot Towson. !
Those serving in the military: Chris Allen, Chris Belvin, SPC
Daniel Brennan, Jeffrey Dyson, Rob Hunt, Justin Layman, Matthew
Nylund,
1st Lt. Jamie Peacock, Kelley Sanders, Chris Smith, Sgt. Don
Ward (Army), Justin Tillery, (Marines), SSgt. Stephanie Wammock,
Bryan Caldon (Navy),
Hunter Curl and SSgt. Lindsey McCoy (Air Force). !Names will be
removed after four weeks unless specifically requested
otherwise.
August’s items to help the homeless through Macon Outreach
are
2-LB. BAGS OF FLOUR & CORNMEAL, PEANUT BUTTER & SMALL
BAGS OF RICE.
Ways You Can Help Others:August’s items to help the Backpack
Ministry
are FRUIT CUPS, BACKPACKS, & SCHOOL UNIFORMS.
If you are able to contribute to any of these missions, please
drop your items off in one of our new Missions Donation Cabinets
located at the
Canopy Center entrance and by the Welcome Center.
The Breakfast and a Book Club is starting an exciting new
ministry at Strong Tower Fellowship to help school children in
kindergarten through second grade with their reading. Please
help us by donating your new
or gently used children’s books.
In His Service - August 10
The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to
the glory of God and in memory of
Glen Tiller by his family.
Life at Forest Hills !Sunday, August 10 8:30 AM Blended Worship
(Music Ste) 9:45 AM Modern Worship (MC) 11:00 AM Traditional
Worship (Sanct) 11:30 AM Marshall Singles’ Class Covered Dish Lunch
(MC) 5:00 PM Jr. High Youth 6:00 PM Sr. High Youth !Monday, August
11 Church Office Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 6:30 PM Trustee Mtg (Conf Rm)
!Tuesday, August 12 Church Office Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 7:00 AM
Men’s Prayer Breakfast (MC) 12:00 PM GoodTimers Game Day (MC)
!Wednesday, August 13 Church Office Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 7:00 PM
Chancel Choir Practice (Music Suite) Thursday, August 14 Church
Office Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Haiti Terracing Trip 10:00 AM Creative
Touch (MC) 6:00 PM Worship Band Practice (MC) 9:15 PM Men’s Evening
Prayer Time (Prayer Rm) !Friday, August 15 Church Office Closed
Haiti Terracing Trip
Community Café is Back! !Anybody hungry? Community Café is
starting up for a
new school year beginning on Wednesday, Aug. 20. The serving
line opens at 5:30 p.m. and remains open until 6:30 p.m. !We hope
that you will make a habit of coming each month to have dinner with
your church family, catch up with old friends and make new friends.
Sit with someone different each time, strike up a conversation and
eat together. Being at the table with each other matters. !Our
first night back sets the table with an Italian Feast catered by
Buca di Beppo. Come and enjoy a choice of two entrees: Fettucine
Alfredo or Ravioli Bolognese with Caesar salad and bread. Dessert
will be a wonderful homemade cake baked by pastry chef and cake
designer Ashley Nowell. !Sign up today on the reservation card
enclosed in this bulletin to save your place at the FHUMC
table.
Your Record of Faithfulness !!
August 3, 2014 !Membership 963 New members in 2014 13 Sunday
a.m. Worship 476
2014 Annual Operating Budget $1,013,197.67 For the Month of June
All offerings & funds received this month $82,991.45 All
offerings & funds received this year $509,858.42 Expenses so
far this year $475,863.01 Total operating surplus so far this year
$33,995.41 !Five Year Forward Building Fund status as of June 30,
2014 Offering this month $7,232.18 Monthly building loan payments
$5,972.34 Paid as additional principal $1,259.84 Original loan
amount $1,834,899.90 Current loan balance $570,593.45 !2014
Apportionments Monthly apportionments paid $11,080.42
Apportionments paid this year $105,678.88
The church office is now closed on fridays.
Traditional Worship Service - 11:00 a.m. !!Lighting of the
Candles !Prelude Brant Snow *Welcome Chorus No. 328 Surely the
Presence !Greeting & Announcements !*Opening Hymn The Lily of
the Valley Proclamation
Leader: The Lord be with you. !People: And with your spirit.
!Leader: Lift up your hearts. !People: We lift them up to the Lord.
!Leader: Let us say what we believe: !People: We find our faith in
Jesus, who lives among us,
who calls us together to understand life and love as radical
commitment to others. !We have faith in one God,
who created and claimed all creatures, who enters our lives with
hope and
redemption and courage to act on our beliefs. !We know that
God's presence comes to us in community,
wherever we seek to know God by doing justice and loving mercy.
!Once we were no people,
but now we are God's people. Once we had not received mercy, but
now we have received mercy. !Because all things are possible
through God's love,
we proclaim the gospel in this world where God is still creating
and redeeming
and making things whole. *Hymn No. 70 Gloria Patri !Pastoral
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer No. 895 !*Offertory Hymns There’s
Something About That Name His Name is Wonderful !Tithes and
Offerings Offertory Jazz Medley on Two Hymns Brant Snow
(Keveren-Wolaver) !*Doxology No. 95 !Anthem Old-Time Religion
(Gordon Young) Chancel Choir !*Scripture Lesson 1 Chronicles
9:17-21 !Message Preaching the Geneaologies Rev. Baxter Hurley
!*Closing Hymn Take The Name of Jesus With You !Benediction
!*Postlude Brant Snow !*Singing Together - Standing As You Are
Able
Youth Ministry Sunday Evening ScheduleJr. High @ 5 p.m. • Sr.
High @ 6 p.m.
For the next three weeks, we're talking about prayer in the
series "Can You Hear Me Now?” Tonight, we're tackling the fact that
sometimes the church is better at teaching posture than it is
content when it comes to prayer. Folding your hands? Bowing your
head? Taking a knee? What does it all mean?! And does it matter?
Find out tonight!
FHUMC News & Notes• Thank you for participating in the
Kroger Community Rewards
program this year. By registering for a Kroger Plus Card and
linking it with FHUMC we earned several thousand dollars this past
year, which were used toward different ministries in our church.
Beginning Aug. 1, you will need to re-enroll in Kroger Community
Rewards. Simply go to krogercommunityrewards.com and sign into your
already created kroger.com account. Enter “84263” as our
organization number and click “save.” You will start earning
rewards for FH on qualifying purchases every time you use your
Kroger Plus Card. Of course, if you haven’t enrolled yet, please
do! If you have further questions, contact Cele Minshew
([email protected]). !
• The Creative Touch small group will meet on Thursday, Aug. 14
from 10 a.m.-noon in the Ministry Center. !
• Plans to take a pilgrimage to the Greater Phoenix, Arizona
area for an amazing experience are in the works. Our friend and
former FHUMC member, Karen Richter, would join us for our
experience. A variety of awesome opportunities will be available to
us with time each day for prayer, reflection and worship. Two
informational meetings will be held: Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 6:45
p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 24 at 5 p.m. !
• The Mashall Singles Class is holding a “class reunion” dinner
on Sunday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Ministry Center. Anyone who has
ever attended the Marshall Singles Class is invited to attend. The
cost is $13 per person or $25 for married couples. The deadline to
purchase tickets is Tuesday, Aug. 18. For more information, see
Lorene Powell. !
• FHUMC has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to use for
medical emergencies involving a heart attack. The staff and
Trustees have been trained to use it, but we want to strengthen the
pool of users. On Sunday, August 24 there will be a short training
session at 10 a.m. in the Narthex and at 11 a.m. in the Conference
Room. We are requesting that each adult Sunday School class send a
representative to this training. In addition, we are asking that
all healthcare providers (nurses, physicians, pharmacists,
dentists, paramedics) attend. Even if you know how to use the AED,
please attend so we can make a list of people that can be called
upon in the event of an emergency. !
• All women are invited to attend the United Methodist Women
Salad & Sandwich Supper on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the
Ministry Center. Current members are asked to bring a salad or
sandwiches to share and new members and visitors are our guests.
Please bring a donation of school supplies to share with the
schools in our BackPack Ministry. Sign up and bring a friend! !
• In September, the GoodTimers’ "Back to School " event with
lunch will be held at the Methodist Children’s Home at 12:30 p.m.
on Tuesday, Sept. 9.The cost is $10 and includes lunch and a group
donation to the Methodist Home.
Kids Ministry Sunday Morning ScheduleKids Worship: 9:45 a.m.
& 11:00 a.m.
Experience worship through both 30-minute large & small
group settings.
Forest Hills Student ministriesThink Orange: Church + Family =
Greater Influence
Welcome
We are pleased to announce that Lauren Sanders will be interning
in our Kids Ministry program in conjunction
with her internship with the Wesley Foundation at UGA. Lauren is
the daughter of Ronnie & Shelia Sanders.
Parent Meeting & Family Potluck LunchSunday, Aug. 17 • Noon
• Ministry Center
Join us for a potluck lunch. We'll provide the fried chicken and
drinks, and each family will bring side dishes. This event is for
all families in
the Youth and Kids Ministries. Please go online
(www.foresthillsmacon.com) to reserve a spot for your family. !
Children’s Choirs Return!Wednesdays starting Sept. 10 •
5:00-6:00 p.m.
AmaSing Grace (3K-5K) meets in the Kids Small Group B room.
rechoired (1st-5th grades) meets in the Orange Room.
Go online (www.foresthillsmacon.com) to register your child
today!
The BackPack Ministry is gearing up for a new school year. There
will be a volunteer meeting about the upcoming school year on
Sunday, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. in room 125. All those currently
volunteering and anyone interested in volunteering (shopping,
stocking, packing and/or delivering) are encouraged to attend. For
more information, contact Brenda Lambert.
BackPack meeting about new year