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news from College Mound's United Methodist Women
This Wednesday, March 22nd, the UMW
will meet at 2:00pm in the fellowship hall.
From Larry 2/28/06
The Mardi Gras lunch and parade was
simply GREAT!!! The "Good Times Did Roll" last Sunday
afternoon in the pavilion as a great crowd came for the Children's
Department sponsored lunch and parade!!! Your generosity came
across is the amount of $519.00 donated to the Children's
Department!!! Thanks to everyone who helped make the event
such a great time for all!!!
Don't forget the baby shower for the
Stanbrough's today from 3:30pm - 5:00pm in the fellowship
hall!!! Remember, they are adopting a baby boy from Russia -
who is already about 20 pounds!!! (I think Johnny wants to
raise a middle linebacker or steer wrestler!) Let's come and
wish them well and celebrate with them in this happy
event!!!
If you'd really like some great
exercise and learn how to do a few dance moves, then mark down
Thursday nights in March at 7:00pm to come and learn how to
dance!!! We'll meet at 1st Christian Church and Scott and
Charlotte Gilmore will be our instructors. There will be a
small fee - but it's well worth it!!! And it will be good
practice to get you in shape for our SPRING FLING ON APRIL 1ST IN
THE PAVILION!!! We'd also love to have pictures of YOU in the
1950's!!! They will be scanned and put on disc and we'll be
showing those during the dance that night!!! We'd also like to
know your favorite songs of the 1950's - so please write them down
and give to Vickie Reed, Larry, or Brenda Gonzalez! What was
your favorite food during the 1950's??? We'd also like to know
that so we can add it to the menu for our 50's Diner we'll have
during the dance. Cost for the dance & diner is a donation
to the youth department!!! We'd also like you to be inviting
as many of your friends as possible to the dance!!! It will
take place from 7:00-10:00pm in the pavilion! And if you have
old records that you don't need or want, please donate them to the
youth department and we'll be using them for decorations! Oh,
and please dress appropriately - whatever that means - for a
50's dance!!! We'll have prizes for the "best dressed" in the
50's theme!!!
Our Lenten Bible Study will begin on
Tuesday, March 7th, from 7:00-8:00pm in the fellowship hall.
We'll be using Max Lucado's study on grace, "In the Grips of Grace"
as our Lenten Study. Each session will stand alone, so to
speak, and you can come any Tuesday of the study and not be
"lost". We will meet on the Tuesdays throughout Lent, with the
exception of April 4th, which is an "E-Terrell" event. We will
meet on Sunday, April 2nd, from 4:00-5:00pm for that one
session. The last session will be on April 11th, which is
Tuesday of Holy Week. Lent is a time we should be concerned
with deepening our spiritual growth, and this study will certainly
help us do just that! Please come and join us!!!
Next Sunday, March 12th, will be our
next opportunity to worship with the residents of Windsor Care
Center. They really look forward to seeing and hearing from
College Mound UMC, so please come and join us for the brief thirty
minute service!!!
The next Men's Fellowship meeting will
be on Wednesday, March 15th, at the Kountry Kitchen, and once again,
GUESTS ARE INVITED!!! If you plan on attending, please e-mail
the pastor or let Rick King know by Sunday, March 12th, so we can
get word to the restaurant!!! We will meet at
7:00pm.
The United Methodist Women are schedule
to meet on Wednesday, March 8th, and 22nd, at 2:00pm in the
fellowship hall. If you have that time available, please come
and join them!!!
Soul Sisters continue their study of
"Bad Girls of the Bible" on Wednesday, March 8th and 22nd, at 6:30pm
in the Jr. High Classroom of the Education Building. It's a
great study!!! Come and join in!!!
Mark it down on your calendar - APRIL
8TH - MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD AND FISH FRY!!! More information
will be forthcoming!!!
The Youth Department will be sponsoring
our annual St. "Patties" Day hamburger lunch on Sunday, March 19th,
immediately following the morning service of worship. And
immediately after our lunch we invite everyone to GO FLY A KITE
DAY!!! It was great fun last year, even if the tree did eat
Sheryl Arredondo's favorite kite!!! COME AND JOIN US AND INVITE
A FRIEND!!!
From Larry, 2/16/06
This Wednesday the United Methodist
Women will be meeting at 2:00pm in the fellowship hall for their
meeting, and I know they'd love to have more of you ladies come and
join them!!! By-the-way....they are studying "children of the
Bible"!!! It's a marvelous study, well worth you while to come
and take an active part in it!!!
From Larry, 2/11/06
The Men's Group AND THEIR GUESTS will
meet this Wednesday, Feb. 15th, at 7:00pm at the Country
Kitchen for our first meeting!!! We will have a special guest
speaker, Allan Tracy, who will be with us. Allan does a lot of
mission work, and is getting ready for a trip to Ghana in the very
near future! Come and join us!!!
The next meeting of the UMW and Soul
Sisters will take place on Wednesday, February 22nd. The UMW
meets at 2:00pm in the fellowship hall. Soul Sisters will meet
at 6:30pm in the Jr. High Class room (it's "cozy")!!!
AIM FOR SUCCESS SEMINAR, a course on
sexual abstinence education, will take place from 7:00-8:30pm on
Wednesday, February 22nd, in the fellowship hall. This is for
all youth who are in Sr. High (grades 9-12) and their parents.
You must have a parent with you in order to attend this event.
ALL PARENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!!! The session will last
until 8:00pm at which time the youth will leave for refreshments
while the parents have a closing thirty minute session with the
leaders. This seminar is open to all Sr. High High Youth and
All Parents, not just those who attend College Mound UMC.
Please invite and bring them to this meeting!!!
OPEN HOUSE AT THE NESLER HOME will take
place on Saturday, February 25th!!! Lunch and refreshments
will be provided!!! Mark down this important date of renewal
and celebration!!!
FAT TUESDAY ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT PANCAKE
SUPPER IS COMING on February 28th from 5:30-7:30pm!!! Fat
Tuesday or "Shrove Tuesday" marks the last date before we begin the
solemn season of Lent with "Ash Wednesday" Services the next night
at 7:00pm in the sanctuary with the imposition of ashes.
Shrove Tuesday comes from the word "Shrive," which means to
confess. It was a day of confession before the Lenten Season
began. It also used up different foods in the home that were
forbidden during Lent, and one of the best ways to do this was
through making pancakes. The word "Mardi Gras" is French for
"grease" or "Fat Tuesday" - and many people saw the day as a last
chance to "indulge" themselves before the season of Lent, at which
time many people "gave up" something.
Many people still have "pancake races",
begun when they ring the Shriving Bell, or Pancake Bell, which was
used to call people to confession. The first one to reach the
church with their hot skillet and pancake, flipped at least three
times, received a new prayer book and a kiss from the pastor (we'll
not do that one)!!! So invite your friends and family to
College Mound's version of FAT TUESDAY from 5:30-7:30pm on Feb.
28th!!! The Youth Department will be our hosts and would
appreciate a donation to the youth fund for this event. Who
knows - we may even have our own "PANCAKE RACES" that
night!!!
JUST A REMINDER: VACATION BIBLE
SCHOOL - JUNE 25TH - 30TH!!! MARK IT DOWN!!!
From Larry, 2/2/06
The UMW meets this Wednesday,
Feb. 8th, at 2:00pm in the fellowship hall. Ladies, come
on down!!!
From Larry, 9/17/05
The United Methodist Women will meet on
Wednesday, Sept. 21st, at 2:00pm in the fellowship hall! All
ladies are encouraged to come and be a part of this historic
organization that has not only sustained our churches throughout the
last 135 years, but has sustained and enriched so many lives as
well! Come and join them!!!
From Larry, 8/23/05
The first UMW and Soul Sister's
meetings of the fall will take place on Wednesday, September 7th
(UMW at 2:00pm and Soul Sister's at 6:30pm)!!!
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