Wesley’s Vision Wesley Witness INVITE all in the Name of Christ GROW disciples with the Word of Christ Wesley SERVE all with the LOVE of Christ. July 2017 614 Texas Street, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482 Phone 903-885-3383 www.wesleysst.org Fax 903-438-2324

July 24 - 28

5:30 p.m. Light Meal

6:00 - 8:30 p.m. VBS

Spark imagination with Faith-Building Fun!

Bill Wilder July 2 Mission Trip to Denver, CO June 10-17 Rick Spears July 3 Bobbie Holder July 7 Bonnie Huffstetler July 7 Konnie and Ronnie Cross July 8 Dana Jordan July 10 L.B. Jordan July 12 Jana and Danny Prochaska July 12 Brenda and Doyle McKinzie July 12 Magan and Tim Henderson July 14 Marisa Jones July 16 Betty and Mack Phillips July 18 Gary Lewis July 22 Peggy and Jim Gregg July 22 Julie Weir July 23 Brantley Jones July 24 Marge Johnson July 26 Rhonda and Mike Brock July 26 Working at the thrift store Allie Thurman July 29 Mattie Thurman July 29 Malcolm Kirkland July 31

Madison meets King Kong Olivia at the mall.

2017 Emmaus Walks Boys Chrysalis Flight July 13-15 @ Cuthand, TX Men’s Walk 17-135 Sept 21-24 @ Lone Star, TX Food Preparation for those in need. Women’s Walk 17-136 Oct 19-22 @ Lone Star, TX

For more information, talk to an Emmaus alumni.

Needed! Used printer cartridges. We purchase office supplies with the rebates we get from recycling.

News from the Outreach/Mission Committee

The Little Acorn Graduation and End-of-Year Pro- gram went well and was enjoyed by all who attended. Thanks go out to those who provided food, helped set up and helped clean up, decorated and greeted families. The number of desserts was perfect! Although we had sandwiches left over, we’d rather have too much than not enough.

Our May mission emphasis of bags for the children of CASA yield- ed 21 bags and over $200 in monetary donations. Thank you to all who helped these young ones. Their removal from home is traumatic enough without having to put their belongings in a trash bag. New bags will surely put a smile on their faces.

We are currently planning a back to school bash for Jimmy shared a powerful Saturday, August 19. We will have water slides, water games, testimony at the closing dunking booth, oh yeah, Look out Joe and Steve!, food and more. ceremony. At beautiful Garden of the Gods. This is a great opportunity to reach out to our neighbors and have some good old fashioned fun. We will, of course, need everyone’s help so be on the lookout for a sign-up sheet.

On Sunday, September 17, we will have a church picnic and out- side worship service at Buford Park.

Saturday, November 11 is Veteran’s Day. Miles Pike will be here for an afternoon of music. Miles is a gospel singer from Jackson- ville, Texas. The concert will begin at 4:00 p.m.

Wesley’s awesome VBS is coming up faster than you think. Marieke put up a great looking bulletin board in Wesley Hall. Please consider signing up to help. This year VBS will be held in the evening. Pre-registration is available on our website with a link Preparing food for those in need. to Facebook.

A Back-to-School Fair, hosted by CANHelp, is new this year )it replaces the familiar Pack the Bus event), is scheduled for August 4 at the Civic Center from 3:00 - 7:00 p.m. We will have a booth representing Wesley.

Our Mission Emphasis for September will be CPS’s Rainbow Room. They are in need of supplies for children, all ages, that have been removed from their homes. We will provide a list of specific items soon.

As you can see, several efforts to reach out and bring our neigh- bors closer to a relationship with God are in the works. The groups from Wesley UMC and from We are all called to be the hands and feet of Christ and your Chicago at the closing ceremony. Outreach and Missions Committee is excited! We need your help; yes, YOU! We need and ask for your help spiritually and physical- ly. Remember, our church is God’s gift to us; what we do with this In Loving Memory of Billy Gregg gift is up to us! By: Max and Ilene Massey Our next meeting is scheduled for July 18 at 6:30 p.m. The Marvin and Louise Jones Outreach and Missions Committee is an open committee and we invite and encourage all of you to attend. In Loving Memory of Kyung Ae Yang By: Max and Ilene Massey Blessings,

In Loving Memory of Mike Human By: Max and Lou Jane Drummond Silvina Diane Dixon

In Honor of Mack Phillips By: Chauncey Nealy

Mission Trip to Denver, CO June 10-14

Getting our marching orders for the day.

Leaving the church June 10

We rode buses and trains (and walked!) on our way to work sites.

This group worked at a thrift store. Enjoying watermelon after a long hot day painting a house.

The group trekked up the mountain in Mueller State Park for evening worship and to watch the sunset. (Except for these two who were relaxing in the parking lot. Hey, that trail went straight up!)

PRAYERS AND CONCERNS Rev. Carolyn Albritton Charles Batty, Jr. DeLana Beadle 2017 SS Work Camp June 4-7 Sherry and Max Baxter Margaret Campbell Cassie Cavaliere Phillip Coleman Chloe Cox Rev. Al Davis Scraping and Kathy Crowson and Family Sandy Davis Gaither Day Painting a House Cristine Dixon Benjamin Epperson Stanley Foster Ty and Jamie Funderburk Jayne Glenn Janice Hargrave Robert and Mary Glover Ronnie Jenkins Martha Johnson Jack and Janie Godfrey Pam Hollingsworth Sharon Hughes The Completed Magan,Tim and Eisley Henderson Dana Jordan Corena Korth Project Marvin and Louise Jones John Kramer Gary Lewis Christa and Victor Kasztelanski Bear Littleton Latressa Logan Muriel Lucas Jase Mabie Zane Magan Mary Ann McCormick Tana and Gary Moon Linda Moore Jonathan and Cammie McGraw and Baby Mason Old Saltillo UMC Lee Ann Carpenter Oliver Jennifer Peek Moore Janice Petty Ricky and Kay Orr Agnes Ponder Jana Prochaska Stella and Ben Read Truman Renshaw Sara Robinson Cecil Savage Lee Seymore J.O. Shaw Patsy and Don Shaw Beth Shurtleff Jim Skaggs Dustin Snyder Rev. Patty Soward Allan Thar Donna and Dave Spears Pat and Floyd Spears Anna Mae Stolz Louise and Elton Stewart Mark Warren Bill Watts KBo and Pennye West Karen Wedding Ron Zitterick Our Country and Our Leaders CASA Law Enforcement, EMS, Fire Fighters, Hospital Personnel Military Personnel and their Families CANHelp Healthy Church Initiative/HCI Team Backpack Buddies Community Chest/Cupboard Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center North Texas Food Bank Holy Highway Girls Home Abused Children and Youth Way of Salvation UMC, Mytischi, Russia Dallas Bethlehem Center – Wesley-Rankin Community Center New additions to the prayer list are in BOLD Note: Names added to the prayer list will remain on the list for 30 days. They will be relisted by request. Please help us to keep the list current

WESLEY HOMEBOUND Doris Rawls Bobbie Holder Bill Shell Muriel Lucas Della Loane Margaret Campbell Sandra McIntire Lois Shannon Kim Moore Marvin and Louise Jones Sandy Heisler Truman Renshaw Joe Clark chauffeured kids to their work sites

in ‘Ol Yeller (the

church bus).

300 kids from several churches ate and slept On behalf on Lake Country CASA, I want to thank at SS High School. you for the wonderful backpacks, the generous donation, and especially for loving our CASA chil- dren. We are fortunate to live in a community who cares and supports children. We are able to pay it forward with volunteers who serve and advocate for the best interest of our children.

Peggy Walker

From the TEACHABLE MOMENTS Junior High Camp looms in the future (July 17-21) followed by our firs time to hold an evening Vacation School Pastor Teach-able Mo-ment (noun); An event or (VBS), July 24-28 (5:30 - 8:15 p.m.) Our closing will occur on experience that presents a good opportunity for Friday evening as the final event of what promises to be learning something about a particular aspect of another creative, learning adventure for all! You can pre-enroll life.” (Oxford Dictionary). online this year by going to www.wesleysst.org . The last I’m re-reading /Professor/Pastor Will Willimon’s Sunday of July, Youth Pastor, Joe Clark, will share a recap of book This We Believe: The Care of Wesleyan Faith and Summer of 2017.

Practice. Dr. Willimon taught at Duke University for several Indeed, many more teachable moments await us! Grace... years prior to being made a Bishop in the North Alabama United Methodist Conference. He served eight years and has returned to Duke Divinity. I’ve met and heart him speak on two separate occasions: once at a pastor’s conference in Williamsburg, VA (in my Baptist years) and more recently at a named lecture series at Lover’s Lane UMC, Dallas. He is both a gifted speaker and preacher and an outstanding scholar.

Bishop Willimon reminds us that when we receive Christ in our lives, we also receive Christ “in all His offices.” Continuing, he notes per John and Charles Welsey, “Jesus is a Prophet (who tells us the truth about God and ourselves), a Savior (who rescues us from our self-imposed disaster), a Priest (who intercedes for us before the altar of God), a King (who reigns with a mighty hand), and even a Lamb (who was slain but now rules).” Louise and Elton Stewart Louise’s 90th Birthday Party Willimon’s book is a companion book to be used alongside The Wesley Study Bible (WSB: 2009, Abingdon Press). Some of our members have this as their Bible of choice. (The New Revised Study Version). What a thrill or even a Scriptural feast it has been for me to read the Bishop’s book and then read the Wesleyan Core Term as noted in the Wesley Study Bible! So just remember The Scripture Way of Salvation, perhaps ’s most important contribution to those of us who wear the UMC, Methodist, or Wesleyan stripes, challenges us to live a life toward “entire sanctification” whereby we are made to be perfect in our love of God and neighbor. This is one reason we insist on living in and partici- pating in The Means of Grace which God in Christ has provid- ed for us to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Je- sus Christ. So we baptize, serve Communion, visit the sick Dakota Clark made a profession of faith on the and the prisoner, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, serve the Denver Mission Trip and was baptized June 18, 2017. poor, share local church, district, annual and global confer- ences, pray, study the Scripture, and even meet for accounta- bility with other members of this body of Christ called Wesley

UMC.

Several of our youth (middle and high school) have learned first-hand about some of the aforementioned means of grace J.C. made a killin’ at the working first in the annual Sulphur Springs Work Camp and UMW White Elephant Sale! then serving on a mission team in inner city Denver, CO. Life-changing experiences have already occurred in these youngsters and there is so much more to follow! I commend those who worked and served and applaud Youth Pastor, Joe Clark, and adults for their leadership and support! To all of us who responded over the past several months of fundraising for missions, I heartily say, “Thank you!”

Donuts with Dad

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Sundays 1:30 p.m. The sign-up sheet to help with VBS is July 16 on the Wesley Hall July 23 bulletin board.