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Worship
Services
Four unique
worship
opportunities
are offered on
Sunday.
8 a.m.
McMurry
Chapel
Informal worship
with a personal
touch. Sharing
prayer concerns
is welcomed.
8:50 a.m.
Sanctuary
Worship that
includes a
childrens time
and music
from the Agape
Singers.
11 a.m.
Sanctuary
Worship with
music from the
Chancel Choir.
5 p.m.
McMurry
Chapel
Spark Worship
invites
participants to
engage through
their five senses
with God and
one another.
Allow that grace to till your heart soil, grow your roots
deeper and blossom in to sweet fruit.
You are encouraged to post Growing Deeply on your
refrigerator or place in your Bible. If youre a tekkie, you
can access it at www.moumc.org/grow. Copies are also
available in the Connector and in the church office for pick
up.
Growing deeply,
Pastor Charity
WEDNESDAY: LUKE 15:25-32 The lost one and the found one
REFLECTION: The prodigal son learned what the older brother already knew.
The older brother had the blessing of knowing the father, being with him,
and having all that he had. At the end of the story both sons were found.
PRAYER: Assure and affirm in me my relationship with you. I belong to you.
You are with me. You provide for me. May I live found.
Growing Deeply
My Notes
Then he said, There was once a man who had two sons. The younger said to his father,
Father, I want right now whats coming to me.
So the father divided the property between them. It wasnt long before the younger son
packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted
everything he had. After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all
through that country and he began to hurt. He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him
to his fields to slop the pigs. He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig
slop, but no one would give him any.
That brought him to his senses. He said, All those farmhands working for my father sit down
to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. Im going back to my father. Ill say to
him, Father, Ive sinned against God, Ive sinned before you; I dont deserve to be called your
son. Take me on as a hired hand. He got right up and went home to his father.
When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out,
embraced him, and kissed him. The son started his speech: Father, Ive sinned against God,
Ive sinned before you; I dont deserve to be called your son ever again.
But the father wasnt listening. He was calling to the servants, Quick. Bring a clean set of
clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Then get a
grain-fed heifer and roast it. Were going to feast! Were going to have a wonderful time!
My son is heregiven up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found! And they
began to have a wonderful time.
All this time his older son was out in the field. When the days work was done he came in. As
he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. Calling over one of the houseboys,
he asked what was going on. He told him, Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a
feastbarbecued beef!because he has him home safe and sound.
The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and
tried to talk to him, but he wouldnt listen. The son said, Look how many years Ive stayed
here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for
me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows
up and you go all out with a feast!
His father said, Son, you dont understand. Youre with me all the time, and everything that
is mine is yoursbut this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours
was dead, and hes alive! He was lost, and hes found!
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We invite you to join us for Worship: Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. in McMurry Chapel;
8:50 and 11 a.m. in the Sanctuary; and 5 p.m. in the Chapel. Sunday small groups and classes for all ages at 10 a.m.
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MUMC Staff: ClergyKendall Waller, Lead Pastor; Trista Soendker Nicholson, Pastor of Worship and Leadership; Hank Jenkins, Pastor of Youth
Ministry; Charity Goodwin-Rosario, Pastor of Discipleship; Kim Parker, Pastor of New Generations
Program StaffNancy Cooper, Childrens & Family Life Leader; Courtney Gaunt, Director, Discovery Days; Teressa Gilbreth, Director of
Communications; Marty Hook, Director of Music; Jo Lee, Director of Connections; Anna Zacherl, Assistant Director, Discovery Days
Administrative StaffJill Arnold, Executive Assistant to the Senior Pastor; Kathy Carson, Administrative Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator; Brad
Hegemann, Financial Assistant; Mark Pease, Facilities Assistant; Katie Popejoy, Administrative Assistant.
Music StaffCraig Datz, Organist; Kaye Miller, Director of Wesleyan Ringers; Rochelle Parker, Associate Organist; Marilyn Rowe, Serendipity Choir.