BRIGHT HOPE LAUREL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD’S LOVE AND FORGIVENESS WITH THE WORLD

Volume 3, Issue 4 June, 2011

From the Pastor’s Desk - Growing Closer to God

with some of our adults Special points of
interacting with the kids Interest
to help them feel what it
would have been like in  Annual Conference at Lake J.
The pastor will be at conference
the time of Jesus. from Tuesday, June 7th till
For those not actively Sunday, June 12th.
working with the kids,  Pentecost Service of Worship,
we are also blessed to Prayer, and Testimony during
morning worship.
have John and Linda  Mountain Laurel 4-H meeting on
Gatewood teaching an Monday, June 20th at 6:30 PM.
adult class. We will be  Vacation Bible School begins on
having an opening night Sunday, June 26th with Pizza
and will end on Thursday, June
pizza party and a closing 30th. The closing will be
This past week we Starting this summer, cookout. If you are Sunday, July 3rd during
celebrated Aldersgate BHL will be organizing interested in attending, worship.
Sunday and was a women’s small group. please register so we can
reminded of our humble Also starting later this ensure we have enough
beginnings as a summer, the church will supplies. Registration
denomination. Among be embarking on a year will be available starting
the many things that long journey together the 1st Sunday at church
Wesley stressed was through God’s Word or online beginning June Inside this issue:
Bible Study/ looking for “God 3rd.
Accountability. Yet Sightings” in our lives. As I said before, I hope JUNE SERMONS 2
many times in life when For those who are these option do not
we are “told” to do seasonal, don’t despair. make you feel “boxed FINANCIAL REPORT 2
something, we feel more We hope to make this in” and hope that you
THOSE SERVING IN 3
like the larger guy in the available here at church will join with us as we WORSHIP (JUNE)
cartoon above. It is often and also online for those journey together as one
“easy for you to say.” that return south for the body seeking only this 4
“THE POWER OF
Yet today I offer you winter months … so you goal: To grow closer to PENTECOST”
several opportunities to can still participate. God and closer to one
grow in God’s Word by Finally, we have another. MONTHLY CALENDAR
INSERT
studying together and VBS!!! … and it is not
hope that these offerings just for kids!!! Like last Blessings;
 Scripture and Sermons
June 5 HOLY COMMUNION - “Hunger Pot” Offering
Scripture Lesson: Acts 1:6-14
Sermon: “Taking Ownership”

June 12 Pentecost Sunday - Pastor at Lake J

June 19 Scripture Lesson: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon: “The Never Ending Circle”

June 26 Scripture Lesson: Romans 6:12-23

Sermon: “The Dangerous Domain”

ATTENDANCE AND FINANCIAL GIVING

May 2011 (Does not include May 29th)

Average Attendance: 69

Regular Giving : $ 7135.58

Average Regular Giving: $ 1783.90 (per week)

Designated Giving: $ 144.06

($39.06 - Hunger Pot; $70.00 - Given’s Estate, $10.00 - Lilies, $20.00 - Building Fund)

($ 2,078.15 per week is needed to meet our church budget.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rich Ashley, Lay Leader

GREETERS: USHERS:

5 Mike and Jenny Miller 5 Judy Womble and Liz Benjamin

12 Sue and Larry Smith 12 Harold and Dixie Tipton
19 Sheri and Don Mathis 19 Lee and Dick Moeller
26 Angela Fox and Sherry Lesley 26 Mark and Lisa Anderson

OFFERTORY PRAYER: Rich Ashley, Lay Leader

SCRIPTURE READERS: NURSERY/PRE-SCHOOL:

5 Nicole Johnson 5 Angela Fox

12 TBA 12 Liz Benjamin
19 Elizabeth Hamrick 19 Judy Womble
26 Louis Bellemare 26 Marsha Boyd

CHILDREN’S TIME: Jenny Miller, Dixie Tipton, Rev. Johnson, and Cammie Monroe

CHILDREN’S CHURCH: Carolyn Ponder; Lisa Anderson

“TWEENS CLASS”: Kathy Wrenn, Lois Lynn Bellemare, & Cammie Monroe

COMMUNION STEWARDS: Dr. Ernie and Frances Powell

COUNTERS:

5 John Hamrick and Bonnie English

12 Rich Ashley and Judy Womble
19 Tom Wrenn and Don Mathis
26 Solon O’Neal and Dick Moeller

AUDIO VISUAL: Danny Burnette and Brian Dodge

If you are unable to serve when indicated, please ask someone to take your place .
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SERVE IN ANY CAPACITY, please tell the Pastor.
THANK YOU for your service and dedication to Bright Hope Laurel United Methodist Church!
 when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you; and you
shall be witnesses to
Me. —Acts 1:8

A pastor I know and love is discouraged. Although he is diligent in prayer and works hard, his church remains small while
a new congregation nearby is rapidly developing into a megachurch. Yet when I think of the alcoholics, drug addicts, and
sexually immoral people he has led to the Savior and a new way of life, I see him as one who witnesses in the power of the
Holy Spirit. Because of what happened on the Day of Pentecost (described in Acts 2), we tend to associate the Holy
Spirit’s presence and power with amazing phenomena and large numbers. We forget that a little later the same people filled
with the same Holy Spirit were rejected, flogged, imprisoned, even executed. But through it all they were powerful wit-
nesses! The Holy Spirit’s presence and power can be evidenced in a dynamic preacher who attracts great audiences. But it
is seen as well in the volunteer who carries on a one-on-one prison ministry, in the person who witnesses to a co-worker or
a neighbor, and in the Sunday school teacher who faithfully teaches week after week. The power of Pentecost is not espe-
cially reserved for the highly gifted. Rather, it is available to all believers in Christ who want to serve Him.

This article is excerpted from: Our Daily Bread

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