Current Events

MARK YOUR CALENDAR_*

September 2nd.- 6th.- the Church is reserved for Chrysalis events and again on
Sept. 25th.

Sept. 2nd., 7:00pm.—Trustees meeting.

Sept. 7th., 7:00pm. —Mission/Outreach team meeting.

Sept. 9th., 7:00pm. - PPR Meeting.

Sept. 14th., 7:00pm. - Administrative Council meeting.

Sept. 15th., 9:00 AM—District Pastor’s Meeting, Trinity UMC, Amherst.

Sept. 16th., 1:00 PM—Springville Area UM Pastors meeting.

Sept. 26th. Youth Alive Resumes Sundays @ 9:30am.

Sept. 28th., 10:00 AM The Tuesday Pastor’s Bible study will resume—Gospel of
Luke study.

September 11th.- Prayer Vigil, A Day of Prayer: From 6;00 a.m. until 6;00 p.m. Saturday, September 11th., we will hold a prayer vigil, 12 hours of continuous prayer for our church and our church family and friends, the needs of our community and world, including prayers of thanksgiving and praise. At least 48 people are needed to participate for one-half hour each here at the church. The yellow room will be turned into a chapel for this. Participants will receive a list of prayer requests and praises, and suggestions to guide the quiet time of prayer.

Sign up on the charts provided before and after worship, and at the same time write down your prayer requests and praise items. (Example: praise for the safe birth of my great-nephew after a high-risk pregnancy) Several people can sign up for the same time slot.

If you know you will be out of town, please sign up to pray off-site and indicate how you want to receive the accumulated list of prayer requests (email or USPS).

After September 1st., volunteers will be telephoning as many people as possible in order to gather additional prayer requests. At the same time they will give information about the Sunday School kick-off on Sunday,
September 12th.. If you do not receive a phone call, or think of an additional prayer request later, please put the form below in the offering plate, or call Cathie Phelps at 496-7573 or Lois Scharf-Newman
at 592-5062.

SUN., SEPT. 12TH. - KICK OFF SUNDAY…9:00am. with breakfast served at 9:30. One service at 11:00am.

Come to kick off Sunday and enjoy a great meal and fellowship. Listen to the Sunday School offerings for the fall and learn about other activities going on in your church. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to grow your Christian faith in a family friendly church.


ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES Sept. 19th.—Dec. 19th.

Come to Kickoff Sunday on Sept. 12th.!!! Learn more about the exciting classes offered and sign up for the class of your choice so materials can be ordered.

Wednesday, September 15th.- WORKSHOP FOR SMALL GROUP LEADERS… at the parsonage, 104 Rauch Dr. Pastor Greg and Mary Kay Williams will lead a workshop on starting and leading small groups as part of the ministry of our church. Small groups gather people for many reasons…

*PRAYER!, SPIRITUAL GROWTH!, BIBLE STUDY!,

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP!, OUTREACH AND MISSION!, SHARED INTERESTS!*

There are lots of possibilities, all with the common goal of growing deeper & stronger in our Christian Journey. If you are, or think you might be interested in leading a small group, join us for this special gathering.

WORSHIP LEADERS AND SCRIPTURE READERS NEEDED…We are looking for Worship Leaders and Scripture Readers for our 11:00 Sunday service. We need a few to relieve our current Leaders and Readers, especially in the summer months. Can you offer one or two Sundays during the summer for this? Serving the Lord and our Church in these ministries is easy and very rewarding! If you are interested and can help out, please contact Anita Domes (592-7793) or Mary Kay Williams (942-3872). Thank you!

 WANTED CHURCH PHOTOGRAPHERS! Do you own a camera? (Digital or other variety) Do you like to take pictures? Do you enjoy attending Church Events? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are seeking one or more adult volunteers to take photos of our church activities for display at future church events. Our church is used more often than many people are aware of and we would like to feature some of these. This includes everything from Mission Teams to Sports to Pancake Breakfasts and Pasta Dinners; Chili Cook-Offs, Bake Sales, Tropical Sunday, Sunday School Events and much more! Everyone is welcome to submit good quality photos any time of the year; however it would be great to have one or two ‘regular photographers’ available. We need clear, crisp, easy to view photos for display or possible use in Power Point Presentations, etc. If this is something you might be interested in doing please let Pastor Greg or Anita Domes know!

Listen To Past Services   
Not able to make it to church on Sunday? Well now you can listen to past services right from your computer! Thanks to today's technology and Pastor Kyle, you can follow this link, http://pastorkyle.podbean.com/ and listen to recordings of past services.

Alcoholic's Anonymous Meetings
Beginning June 2nd. Alcoholics Anonymous will be holding meetings at our church. AlAnon meetings for friends or family members of an alcoholic, will be in Rm. 2A on Fridays from 6:00 to 7:00pm. AA meetings for alcoholics, will be in Rm. 2B on Saturdays from 1:30 to 3:00pm. If you know anyone that may be interested in these meetings, please pass on this information. 

Online Shopping Donations   
If you do any online shopping here is an easy, safe, and nice way for people to support the youth ministry. www.igive.com check it out! This is a very reliable site, safe and secure and comes highly recommended from Youth Specialties. We are listed as, Springville 1st UMC - Impact Youth as the caues that you want to support. You do your normal shopping and the Youth recieve a donation, the prices you pay are not inflated.

FALL BAZAAR
Hand and Heart Bazaar November 13th.

A group of us are organizing a bazaar to raise money for the mortgage, and have fun with our crafts, as well as get to know each other better. The Hand and Heart Bazaar, "Handmade from the heart", will be Saturday, November 13, 2010, 9:35 am to 4:05 pm in the Family Life Center. Baked goods, crafts including wood crafts, an I.O.U. booth, and a Gift Basket SALE (not auction), and some sort of refreshments are planned. There will not be a rummage or book sale. Demonstrations of chair caning and candlewicking are planned. We need people to be alert to prices and ideas as they travel around this summer, and share these with us.

We will be publicizing this widely to draw attendees from the people coming to Springville on November 13 for store open houses.

What's an I.O.U. booth? Start thinking of something you could donate as a gift certificate to be purchased and redeemed later. It might be baking a cake, repotting plants, shortening a skirt or pants, waxing a car, walking a dog, delivering a singing telegram on someone's birthday...creative ideas are welcome! When your donated I.O.U. certificate is purchased on November 13, we will put you and the buyer in touch.

The Gift and Regift basket sale does not have to be all new stuff. You might put vintage mixing bowls with a cake mix and wooden spoons, or give a house plant you've raised, a group of hand made cards with a pen and a couple of stamps, or something you collected on a trip outside the country but don't use or need. Talk to Carolyn Johnson for lots of ideas.

All meetings will take place in room 2B next to the church library and anyone interested is invited to bring ideas. Please come! Cathie Phelps, Joy Maybray, and Carolyn Johnson.

FOOD PANTRY UPDATE
We have been designated by the Food Pantry as a "Bread Giving Church." The need for bread in the Springville area is great as bread production has decreased while bread demand has risen. So to help our local Food Pantry and to keep white and wheat bread donations coming in on a consistent basis, we have set up the following schedule:
9a.m. worship service: bring bread donations the first and third Sunday of each month;
11a.m. worship service; bring bread donations the second and fourth Sunday of each month.
On the fifth Sunday, EVERYONE bring bread.

We will follow this schedule until further notice.

"Street” prayer          
The Mission and Outreach committee will continue our Street Pryaer program.  You are asked to pay for the residents of the street—there may be members or friends that live on the street.  You might know some and others you won’t, but the Lord knows us all and cares for each of us.  Streets or roads are in Springville unless otherwise stated. The following is the street prayer schedule for July/August;

Church Choir        
There will be a choir meeting every Monday at 7:00 P.M. in the sanctuary.  Anyone age 13 and up is welcome to participate. Contact the church office at 592-7451 for more details.

Cans For Camp
We are continuing to collect cans and bottles to raise funds to send kids to camp. In addition to leaving your bottles and cans at the church, you can take them to The Can Man on 101 Waverly St. Just ask them to credit Springville United Methodist Church, and we will recieve a check! You can get a reciept for tax purposes too, just ask. So please donate your cans and bottles and help a deserving child go to camp that may otherwise not be able to afford to go!

Here's what your donated cans did!
Jon Maybray and Luke Newman would like to thank everyone who has contributed pop cans to our church. The money generated from the pop cans helped fund a scholarship for both boys to attend Camp Asbury, a Methodist church camp.

This was Jon’s first time at Camp Asbury and he loved it! A favorite activity for Jon was riding a water tube while being pulled along the lake by a speedboat...good thing his Mom did not know in advance that Jon would be enjoying such an activity! This was Luke’s second visit to the camp and he enjoyed cooking over a campfire and going down the water slide into the pool.

Please keep dropping off your pop cans at church or take them to the Can Man on Waverly St. and ask that the money be sent to the First United Methodist church. All kids from our church family are eligible to receive a scholarship for a Methodist camp. If you know of an elementary aged youth interested in a week of excitement at a well-run Christian facility, be sure to talk to Jon or Luke’s parents (Jeff & Tracy Maybray or Lois Scharf-Newman)..