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Our Church Staff
Servants of Love & Joy ...... Each Member of JC FUMC
Rio Texas Conference Bishop Robert Schnase
Hill Country District Superintendent Rev. John Wright
Pastor Rev. Lee Romero
Pastor Emeritus Rev. Bill Wiemers
Pastor Emeritus Rev. George Joehnk
Education Director Ronnie Birck
Youth Director. Carrie Anders
Church Secretary Angela Bacon
Financial Secretary Elaine Swiss, Carol Willis
Treasurer Carol Schlachter
Lay Leader James Sultemeier
Nursery Attendants Savanna Sultemeier, Dorothy Deal
Music Director Wendy Sultemeier
Pianist Sandra Danz
Praise Team Bryan Anders, Doug Smith & Darlene Young
8:30 Usher James Deal
10:50 Usher Paul Watt
The nursery is available during Worship Services and Sunday
school for pre-school children and babies. We love to have our
older children in worship.
Opportunities for Serving Christ
Sunday – July 9th
8:30 & 10:50 am Worship Services Sanctuary
9:40 – 10:30 am Christian Ed Classes
Monday – July 10th
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
10:00 am HS Youth – Dive In Activity Center
Tuesday – July 11th
9:00 am Games Fellowship Hall
2:00 pm UMW Fellowship Hall
6:30 pm Kids’ Lunch Club Mtg. J. Wesley
Wednesday – July 12th
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
10:00 am Children’s “POW” Activity Center
4:00 pm MS Youth – Work Day Activity Center
6:30 pm Choir Activity Center
Thursday – July 13th
9:00 am MS Youth – Dive In Activity Center
6:30 pm Missions’ Committee Mtg. J. Wesley
Friday – July 14th
9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall
7:00 pm Game Night First Christian Church
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The high school youth students would like to invite everyone to join us today during the Sunday school hour in the Activity Center to hear all about our amazing Mission Trip to Costa Rica! The students and parents are excited to share our pictures, tales of adventure, sing our VBS songs (in Spanish!), and how God was with us in every step we took of our journey.
Come and let us share our blessings with you-
Pura Vida!!
Our attendance for Sunday, July 2, 2017
1st Service: 60
2nd Service: 60
Sunday school: 58
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Happy Anniversary!
James & Donna Sultemeier, July 13
Happy Birthday!
Ronnie Weiershausen, July 9
George Birck, July 11
Romelia Favrot – Greenwood, July 12
Payton Scott, July 13
Gavin Thompson, July 14
Todd Swift, July 15
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SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
FELLOWSHIP – led by Bill & Elaine Swiss. The class will be to finishing “Hollywood Jesus”. We’ll begin on July 16 Rob Fuquay’s “Take the Flag: Following God’s Signals in the Race of Your Life”. New members and visitors are welcome to join in. The class meets in Fellow Ship Hall, located near the Sanctuary.
JOHN WESLEY – led by Sheryl Watt. John Wesley class is studying "Too Busy NOT to Pray" Slowing Down to Be with God, by Bill Hybels. DVD and discussion.
NOMADS’ – Nomads class will be watching and studying a 9 session series by Anne Graham Lotz titled “Expecting to see Jesus”. Based on Anne’s book and Bible study “I Saw the Lord”, this study will feature a new message delivered from the Mount of Olives. Anne will give us a wake-up call using the signs of Jesus’ return. Everyone is welcome to join this study. We meet in the middle room across from the church office.
SEEKERS – The Seekers class is studying "God is Good” He is Better Than You Think by Bill Johnson. All are invited to join.
LIFE WITH GOD - Young Adult/College Age Sunday School Class. It is for single or married adults, college age into their 20’s. As we start out we will do a video/discussion relative to Christian life, in a sometime confusing world. The class will be dynamic and those attending can shape it to the desires of the group. The discussions will initially be led by Pastor Lee. The class meets in theformer Nomads room of the Activity Center. If you are not involved in a Sunday School class and you are college age or a young adult, come join us.
YOUTH – Join us in the Youth room for our study, “Heaven is For Real” movie. All 6th—12th graders are invited.
CHILDREN – The curriculum used for Nursery, PreK-5th Grade is “Planting Faith, Growing Faith”. All classrooms are accessed from the hallway by the church office.
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Our Wesley Nurse Cindy Leonard
Hours are Monday through Thursday 7am-12pm & 1pm–6pm, Friday off
Her number is 512-771-8783 E-mail:
July 9, 2017
5th Sunday after Pentecost
“A PLACE TO GROW IN CHRISTIAN LOVE”
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
105 N. LBJ DR.
PO BOX 207
JOHNSON CITY, TX 78636
830-868-7414
Website: www.fumcjctx.org
First Awakening
Contemporary Worship Service
8:30 a.m.
“You Are the Body of Christ Raised”
Announcements
Opening Prayer
Passing of the Peace
Songs of Praise / Centering
Joys & Concerns
Youth High School Mission Trip to Costa Rica
Pastoral Prayer / The Lord’s Prayer – All
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those
Who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen
Offering
Children’s Time
Scripture Romans 7:15-25a
Sermon “Life Lessons”
Song of Reflection
Benediction
Closing Song
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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”
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Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Congregation of the First United Methodist Church is to continue to be a committed fellowship of disciples sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ and furnishing a place of Christian worship, programs, services and facilities for its members and the people of the Johnson City area.
Teddy Bear Ministry
You are invited to hold a bear during joys and concerns and then take it and give it to someone who needs a word of encouragement, healing, or up-lifting.
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The office is open
9-12 and 1-4 Monday through Thursday
If something is needed when the office is closed you may call:
Pastor Lee on his cell @ 361-205-5421
Traditional Service
10:50 a.m.
“Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.” John Wesley
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
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Announcements
Passing of the Peace
Youth High School Mission Trip to Costa Rica
Opening Hymn “How Firm a Foundation” UMH #529
Call to Worship BOW #464
All: O God, in mystery and silence you are present in our lives, bringing new life out of destruction, hope out of despair, growth out of difficulty.
Leader: We thank you that you do not leave us alone but labor to make us
whole.
All: Help us to perceive your unseen hand in the unfolding of our
lives, and to attend to the gentle guidance of your Spirit, that we
may know the joy you give your people. Amen.
(RUTH DUCK, U.S.A., 20TH CENT.)
Hymn of Praise “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” FWS #2158
Prayer of Confession BOW #486
O Lord God, the watchers of Zion have called peace, peace, when there was no peace.
Wherefore have you so long withheld from us the influence of your Holy Spirit?
Why have you hardened our hearts?
It is because we have honored you with our lips, when our hearts were far from you.
Return again to us, O Lord God, and pardon this iniquity of your servants.
Cause your face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved.
O visit us with your salvation.
Raise up sons and daughters from Abraham and Sarah, and grant that there might come a mighty shaking of dry bones among us, and a great ingathering of souls.
Be pleased to grant that the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ may be built up; that all nations and kindreds and tongues and peoples might be brought to the knowledge of the truth, and we at last meet around your throne, and join in celebrating your praises. Amen.
(MARIA STEWARD, AFRICAN AMERICAN, U.S.A., 19TH CENT., ALT.)
(All offer prayers of confession in silence.)
Words of Assurance
The Lord God is merciful and gracious, endlessly patient, loving, and true, showing mercy to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, and granting pardon. Amen.
(JEWISH PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS, U.S.A., 20TH CENT.)
Affirmation of Faith UMH #883
Joys and Concerns
Lord’s Prayer (see prayer in 8:30 Service Order of Worship)
(You are invited, if you would like, to hold your neighbors hand during the Lord’s Prayer.)
Offering/Doxology
Anthem
Children’s Time
Hymn of Preparation “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” UMH #384
Scripture Romans 7:15-25a
Sermon “Life Lessons”
Dedication Hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” UMH #400
Benediction
Sending Forth “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian” UMH #402
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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”
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Today’s Scripture
(CEB)
Romans 7:15-25a
15I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate. 16But if I’m doing the thing that I don’t want to do, I’m agreeing that the Law is right. 17But now I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it’s sin that lives in me. 18I know that good doesn’t live in me—that is, in my body. The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. 19I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20But if I do the very thing that I don’t want to do, then I’m not the one doing it anymore. Instead, it is sin that lives in me that is doing it.
21So I find that, as a rule, when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me. 22I gladly agree with the Law on the inside, 23but I see a different law at work in my body. It wages a war against the law of my mind and takes me prisoner with the law of sin that is in my body. 24I’m a miserable human being. Who will deliver me from this dead corpse? 25Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I’m a slave to God’s Law in my mind, but I’m a slave to sin’s law in my body.
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Sanctuary Flowers
The flowers are presented by Kip and Sandi Thompson
in celebration of Gavin’s 16th birthday