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God desires FFUMC to be an intentional, vibrant,  growing faith community transformed through prayer, scripture, worship, and study.

 

ffumclogo God wants us to make a real difference in the lives of our neighbors  and each other as we  invite, accept, connect,  serve,  and share the love of Christ.  
Issue: 46
November 7, 2018
In This Issue
Happy Birthday!
Updated Financial Pulse
Children - Breakfast with Santa registration is open!
Care & Prayer Concerns
Quick Links
Please help us decorate our Worship Center for the Christmas season by placing your order for red poinsettia(s) today! Poinsettias are in
a 6 1/2" pot are $11 each. They may be dedicated in honor of, or in memory of, a loved one. A dedication list will be printed in the December 16th and 23rd worship bulletins. Please take your plant(s) home after the Christmas Eve services on Sunday, December 24th.
 
Orders will ONLY be accepted through Sunday, November 25. Checks should be made payable to FFUMC ($11 per plant) and attached to this order form. Please place completed forms with checks in the box at the Information Desk. Please do not place orders in the collection plate. Thank you!

Family Promise
Helping end homelessness,
one family at a time! 
Family Promise Host Week
November 18-25

Many people are needed to help as we welcome homeless families into our church for a week, providing a safe place for children and their families to sleep.
 
Volunteers are needed to setup after Sunday school on November 18, breakdown the morning of November 25, stay overnight, fix dinner, and fellowship with the children and adults.
 
Stop by the sign-up board located on Main Street to see how YOU can help and to volunteer. You won't want to miss out on this life-changing mission!
 
For more information or to volunteer, contact Steve Krupski at (865) 548-7487 or [email protected] .
NOVEMBER 24 AT 9 A.M.
We need serving hearts and strong backs to help decorate our church for Christmas. Please join us on November 24 at 9 a.m. Thanks for giving of your time! 
Thanks for joining the fun and fellowship at the Chili Dinner. The questions and answers to the table games are available at the Information Desk.

Congrats to our 4th Annual Chili and Cornbread Cook-off winners: 
Marty Layman (1st Place Chili),
Denise Viator (1st Place Cornbread),
Tara/Daniel Henderlight (2nd Place Chili), and Racheal Gilhooly (2nd Place Cornbread, not pictured).
Youth
United Methodist  Youth Fellowship   (UMYF)


Questions? Email Chuck Powell.  
Interfaith Service Sunday at 6 p.m.

November 14 & 15
Overnight pre-Christmas trip to BILTMORE Estate. 

Friday, December 14 - JOY Group Annual Christmas Dinner at Fox Den Country Club at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Information Desk
9:00 a.m. -  Lara Burn
10:00 a.m. - Renee Alley

Greeters
9:00 a.m. -   Jeff & Kathy Cleveland 
11:00 a.m. -  Jimmy & Carol Taylor
             
Please contact Lara Burn if you would to sign up to greet on Sundays.

Security Ushers
8:45 a.m. - Jim Owens
10:30 a.m. - Mackenzie Quesenberry

Ushers
9:00 a.m. - Doug Hulme, Alvin Jenkins 
& Joe Bradford
11:00 a.m. - Need Help!!! 
Sign up with this  link!
Rolling Schedule for 11:00 a.m. Service 
Randy Kirchner,  Scott Hilbelink 
& Marty Layman
NEW RESOURCES
First Farragut UMC's Footprints Ministry serves  as a bridge to connect church and home. Click  here  for our current recommendations.
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Congratulations to the following 
who will have birthdays this week!
 
November:
  7  -  Marilyn Mascaro 
  8  -  Jimmy Taylor
14  -  Destiny Lokey
           Allison Reese
FINANCIAL PULSE
As of September 30, 2018

YTD Total Contributions:     $421,653.42
YTD Total Expenses:             $431,513.02
YTD Net Operating Total:     ( $ 9,859.60)
YTD Total Capital Gifts:         $ 96,598.50
Stop by and pick up a "Welcome to Your Home
B ucket" for a new neighbor. They are available at the Information Desk.
Attention Kroger Shoppers!
Don't forget to re-enroll!
  If you shop at Kroger, please click here to visit the Kroger Community Rewards secure website and click on "Enroll" to register your individual Kroger Plus card to First Farragut UMC's account 
(EY756).  
 
We received $ 161.06 from your shopping last quarter!
  

Christian theologian Hans Kung, in his book Global Responsibility, concludes that there is "No human life together without a world ethic for the nations, no peace among the nations without peace among the religions, and no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions."

That's the entire point of interfaith dialogue. We not only enrich our own faith when we are open to listen and learn from people in other faiths, but we enrich their religion, and by extension, the world. Peace will come not only from the absence of conflict and war, but from the presence of love - love of neighbor - even if that neighbor believes differently about God than we do.

With that in mind, Susan and Clark and the rest of our Church and Society Committee have shared these prayers from religions around the world. May they strengthen and encourage you as you grow closer to God as revealed in Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying:

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 have trespassed against us. 

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.
Amen.

Blessings,
Chuck
Interfaith Gathering - November 11 at 6 p.m.
For the last 6 years, FFUMC has been involved in partnering with the Baha'i of Farragut in an Interfaith gathering for fellowship and/or worship. I've been very blessed to be a part of planning and leading these gatherings since 2014, and hope you will join us for this years' service: this Sunday night, November 11, at 6:00 here at FFUMC. 
 
In a world that is more divided than ever, whether it's politics, religion or other cultural issues, I believe we need to spend time learning from people of other faiths, focusing on our similarities rather than our difference.
 
Look for a separate invitation in your email soon, with some more of my thoughts on interfaith dialogue.  For now, I'll leave you with this beautiful Jewish prayer:
 
We pray for all who come here to worship together.
Although differences in thought and belief divide us,
let the desire to serve you,
the love of truth
and the pursuit of holiness unite us.
Strengthen the spirit of friendship
among people of various faiths
and increase mutual understanding between us.
We look to a time
when greater knowledge of you and your word
shall bind all who serve you
into a holy fellowship. Amen.
 
Blessings,
Chuck
Lost and Found/Coat Rack

If you have lost any items at church, please check the lost and found at the Information Desk. Please take a look at the coat racks for "missing coats." If you left your child's coat on the coat rack and they have outgrown it, please consider donating it to Wesley's Attic - coats for CCD. They are low on children sized coats. Thank you.
CCD Updates

It's getting closer! CCD 2018 is Sunday, December 2, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Our third organizational meeting is Sunday, November 18, Noon-1:30 p.m. in the Conference Room. A light lunch will be served. To make lunch reservations, contact Laura Derr at [email protected] .
 
Sign-Up Sheets are on the Missions Table
Please stop by the Missions Table on Main Street to sign-up for volunteer needs for CCD. There are many ways to help before and during the event. You will receive an email reminder for your sign-ups.

Necessities and Gift Center Donations
Again this year we are asking for donations of necessities for our  CCD families: laundry detergent, dish soap, bar of soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toilet paper, feminine products, diaper and baby wipes.  Please look for the bulletin board on Main Street covered with sticky notes; t ake a note or two and return the items to the Necessities box by November 11. If you have any questions, contact Beth Hilbelink, [email protected] .

The Children's Gift Box is out on Main Street. If you purchase a CCD gift for a child or teenager, do not wrap the gift. Just bring it in the gift box by November 25.

OR you can donate CCD gift items and Necessities items from your computer! Just click on the link below and the items you purchase will be mailed directly to First Farragut UMC. Click here .

CCD Book Center
The Book Center Team will have a sorting workday at FFUMC on Saturday, November 10 at Noon. Many hands are needed to sort books for the book center. If you can help with sorting or trading in books at McKay's Book Store, please contact Camille Rainey at [email protected] .

Project Blue Light Service

You are invited to attend this special service at FFUMC  on Friday at   6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served after the service.
    
CHILDREN

Breakfast with Santa - December 8 at 9 a.m.
Registration now open! Click here!

Want to be "in the loop" on all Children's Wing activities? 
Be sure to join our Facebook group 
(FFUMC Children's Ministry)!
UMCOR Appeal for Cleaning Kits and Hygiene Kits

UMCOR has made a second appeal for the collection of Cleaning
Buckets and Hygiene Kits to respond to Hurricane Michael and its devastating impact on Florida, North Carolina and Georgia. The cost of a Hygiene Kit is about $12. The cost of a Cleaning Kit is about $65. You may bring individual items or a full kit and we will deliver to Oak Ridge office.  The Serving Team will:
  • provide buckets and lids for Cleaning Kits and large plastic bags for Hygiene Kits
  • cover the shipping costs for the kits.
Please bring your donations and leave at Missions table by November 18. Bless you for responding to this unprecedented need.

Care and 
Prayer 
Concerns

Please remember the following  care 
and prayer concerns  this week:
  • Christian Missionaries Everywhere
  • Richard Bartosik (hospitalized)
  • Judy Bensey
  • Karen Blazer
  • Donna Bocik
  • Father of Erica Kay Burnette (dislocated shoulder)
  • Troy Cato (colon cancer, son of Renee Alley's friend)
  • Lee Collins
  • Lisa Davis (brain cancer, Carrie Lawson's friend)
  • Rachel Downs (breast cancer, Randee Schoenike's friend)
  • Kylen Ellis & Michelle (Michelle is Kylen's mom. Kylen has rare form of leukemia.)
  • Marilyn Halas (son Carl  has colon cancer)
  • John Hankins 
  • Charlie Helms
  • John Houser
  • Jeanette Krupski 
  • Kris Lane (son-in-law of Steve & Jeanette Krupski)
  • Cheryl Lewis & Family  (chemo treatments continue, friend of Harden Family)
  • Deanne Lucas' sister
  • Phillip Luster (husband of Brenda Bradford's niece)
  • Paula Northcutt (bone marrow donor )
  • Jack O'Brien (stage four lung cancer, Jim O'Brien's brother)
  • Kevin O'Brien (end stage renal failure, Jim O'Brien's brother)
  • Marilyn Oliver (stage four liver cancer, mother of Kerri White's
    co-worker)
  • Michael Rainwater 
  • Jolanda Rice (hospice, Jeanette Krupski's mother)
  • Sarah Roberto
  • Robin & Kathy Robinson (Robin has cancer, Sandi Wilkins' friends)
  • Julianne Schoolcraft
  • Mendi Smitherman (cancer, Barb Collins' friend)
  • Becky Luther Tannehill (breast cancer, Carrie Linn's aunt)
  • Judah Thacker (brain cancer, Molly Veness' friend's nephew)  
  • Mackensie Thomas (daughter of Ashley and David, granddaughter of Pastor Don and Anna)
  • Trecia Walters (cancer, Mark Overbay's cousin)  
  • Military Personnel & their families
Intermediate and long-term concerns are held in prayer daily through our 
prayer chain and prayer groups. 
If you have a prayer concern, 
please contact 
the church office  at 966-8430 or [email protected].
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