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903-583-3314 email: office@fumcbonham.org web site: fumcbonham.org. Informer 1st United Kids at College SOSU has scheduled Kids at College, July 20-23, Preschool The First United Methodist Preschool is searching for a
Director. Our previous director has
resigned. If you know of someone, please
contact Liz or Gene Danner, chair of the Pastor Parish Relations
Committee. We would like to have a
director in place when school resumes on United Methodist Youth Fellowship Our youth meet every Sunday evening at Where did the month of June go! It has been an exciting month at the We have started a new program
we are calling “Totally Tuesday.” We
open the Center to grade school children from We began two weeks before We
also had two family reunions and a baby shower this month. On June 28 the Bonham Pastor’s Another beginning at the center this month is music. Some of our youth and other members are
getting together and practicing some tunes.
We will see if this produces any fruit, but for now it is a work in
progress. Frank Conti has the exercise class going again on Sunday
afternoons at This month the Bonham Public Library will host the summer
reading program here at the Center on Tuesday mornings. Hope to see you soon. Rick Massey, Interim Director Sunday School Teachers Have you considered teaching children’s Sunday school? We
are looking for you. There is a wealth
of children’s resources to choose from and we have some real special children
to teach. Please prayerfully consider
adding teacher to your resume and begin this fall, August 23. Thank You Deep “C” Fishing. Going Deeper, Fishing for Christ. “Put out into deep water, and let the
nets down for a catch” (Luke 5:4). A big thank you is in order to all who helped make the
youth retreat, VBS and the Hope Rally such special occasions. Mary McDonald and Frank Conti did a super job
at our Youth Summer Kickoff Retreat. The
challenge course and its “challenge by choice” and discussions on what it means
to be the prodigal son, the prudent son, or the loving father took us deep
within ourselves and challenged our core beliefs and expectations of ourselves
and of Christ. Vacation Bible school was “the best VBS ever!” and we learned
what it means to be a follower of Christ.
With the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ deep, deep within our
selves, our faith will overcome our fears and doubts. Thank you to Beth Porter, Amy Easley, Jo
MacConnell, Tina Rhinehart, Valerie Gentry, Heather Godbey, Sarahbeth Holman,
Sue Griffin, Mary McDonald, Rick Massey, Lori Massey, Patti Felmet, Judy Keene,
David Keene, Mary Minge, Debbie Baker, Phyllis Moss, Harriet Cockerham, Jack
and Frieda Phillips, the Library Class, the Builders Class, the Fellowship
Class, the Genesis Class, and all God’s littlest disciples who
participated! I may have forgotten
someone, so please forgive me! I also
thank the families who shared these fine people with us, and the entire church
for its support through prayers. I’d also like to thank the people who attended the Hope
Rally and showed such gracious hospitality.
Thanks especially to Tom Talbert, Don Cockerham and Rich MacConnell for
great work at the grill-100 degree heat and 200 chicken thighs is a lot! I’d also like to thank the youth and the
kitchen crew who came forward with lots of eagerness and grace. We made an impression on the community
gathered there-a great demonstration of the church family pulling together for
God’s glory and to join God at work. We continue to go deeper in our quest for Christ through
the Means of Grace-practicing the presence of God through acts of piety and
works of mercy; prayer, communion, worship, holy conferencing, giving to the
poor, visiting the sick and imprisoned.
On Sunday, we will experience Communion-an outward sign of an inward and
spiritual grace. In the Big Backyard,
the children and youth will make bread for us to use at the Lord’s Table. We will continue to have Big Backyard Sunday
School experiences through the summer.
You are invited to come and participate!
(Unfortunately there are only a few grapes on the vines at the
parsonage, so we will not have a
grape stomping experience in the Big Backyard series, sorry!) More about worship and works of mercy on the way! The Wednesday evening “Supper and a Service”
events July 15-August 5, and the Youth Mission Trip July 27-August 1 need your
prayers and support. We are going deeper
still, fishing for Christ. Bring a
friend to join us! When they see what
God is up to at our place, they’ll be hooked! “Receive and
experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within
yourselves” (Phil. Liz Military
Prayer List Rebekah Cowley, USMC Andrew
Patrick Kelley, USMC Michael
Page, USMC, Wendell Robert O’Neill, US Cherie Daniel David Tyler Boyer, USAF, Mark Olinger, US Army, Jeff Kevin Littrell, USMC, Bob Diggs Brown, Jr., US Prayer
Concerns The family of Tammy Kasparak,
Marilyn Hart, Doris Wold, Eva Lindsey, Tom McDonald, John Latham, Zelma Marr,
Mary Lou Kissinger, Darlene Hancock, John Lindsey, Mary Wilshire, Sue Lollis,
David Turner, Terrie Echols, Cindy Cook, Callie Caylor, John Winn, Joyce Phillips, Linda Boyer, Linda
Miller, Freida Welch, Paula Galyon, Mary Beth Hardy, Zona Parker, Juanita
Jamieson, James & Kathryn Rodgers, Susan Hicks, Wednesday Evening Whatever (?) July 15 at 6:00-Food served, bring $3.00
for a light snack supper 6:40-7:00-A story of
transforming faith from among our family Can you think of a “catchy”
name? If all goes well, we’ll have a
similar series in the fall. Come check
them out and give us your suggestions about songs, food, and stories to be
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