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The Bearings Bearden United Methodist Church 4407 Sutherland Avenue Mail: P. O. Box 11065, Knoxville,
TN 37939 Tom Seay, Pastor April 18, 2006 Vol. 56, No. 12 |
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE! April 26, Dinner: 5:30 p.m. David Leach from Wesley Woods, 6:30 p.m.
Menu: Tacos & burritos, Spanish rice, refried beans, salad & potato bars,
& chess pie. Cost: $5.00
for adults; $3.00 for children; family
maximum of $16.00. Reservations:
By Noon Tuesday BEARDEN GAME
NIGHT Come join us at 6 p.m. on
Saturday, April 22 for Game Night
in the Fellowship Center. All ages
are invited to come enjoy fun and fellowship. Please bring money for pizza – we will order after everyone
arrives. The church will furnish the
drinks. COMMUNITY CARNIVAL & AUCTION On April 29 there will be a Community Carnival
& Auction held at Bearden UMC from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Admission is free, and there
will be games, prizes and crafts for children of all ages. Items to be auctioned off include golf
packages, art, jewelry, tickets to sporting events and a weekend in a cabin
in Gatlinburg. Proceeds from this event will directly benefit the children of Bearden’s Child Care programs. Call Jenny, 588-1492, for more information. NEW CLASS We are reaching out to our young adults and
developing a new Sunday School class for them. This will be a class
into which visiting young adults will easily fit. To kick off our new
class we are having a get together at the preacher’s house, and he has
offered to cook for us! Plan to join us on May 6th at 6:00
pm. Call Michelle McClure for directions and/or more details, 385-7953. SPRING RUMMAGE SALE A RESOUNDING SUCCESS Our spring rummage sale was wonderful
in many ways. We raised $ 3300.00 for missions, we provided
clothing and household items at low price to people from our area and
others. And we shared hard work and Christian fellowship making it all
happen. United Methodist Women wish to thank our wonderful co-chairs
Judy McKenzie and Linda Millis for their dedication, hard work, and good
cheer. We also would like to thank everyone who came to help, all those
who brought their rummage, and those who helped clean up (especially our
Bearden youth!). It truly "takes a village" and as
always, our Bearden members responded. THANK YOU! |
FROM THE PASTOR I am writing this
newsletter about a week before my trip to Sudan and Uganda. You are reading it about the Thursday
after. I am already tired and hungry
for Cracker Barrel or Backyard Burgers (I anticipate very well)! Several have asked about the why and what
of this trip. Let me share just two
things with you. First, the Sudan Action
Team of which I am a member began last September. I came on board in November.
There is a great compassion in that group for civil war-torn Sudan and
particularly the helpless children.
The superintendent of that area has expressed a desire for a church
school in Yei, southern Sudan. Our
team will listen to the conference leadership, pastors, the laity, and
observe the needs. We will visit some
current work in Uganda to evaluate if that work can become a model for Sudan. The second reason for this
trip is really the primary reason I am going. My involvement comes from a deep sense of leading. A lot of my heart is captured by missions.
I hope to be part of future work in
Sudan by trip and/or becoming an advocate within the conference for this
mission. This whole episode has
renewed my belief that the local church has a central need to be in mission
both hands on and financially. Please pray for me and the
rest of our small team. I promise
when I get back to not tell you more than you ever wanted to hear or bore you
mightily with Sudan anecdotes. (I
would not trust that particular promise!)
Blessings, In Christ, TLS FISH
REPORT FOR APRIL Total calls received 38 Number of food deliveries
made 36 Number of food requests
picked up at church
2 Number of people helped
(75 adults, 90 children) 165 Number of Bearden UMC
volunteers ( 20 adults, 16 youth) 36 FISHfact: The parents of today’s youth probably
remember the opening words of every Mission
Impossible TV program. Modified
slightly, a similar disembodied voice might speak on Sunday once a month to
at least 15 of Bearden UMYF: “Your
mission, should you choose to accept it, is to travel in a church van, to a
basement storeroom, there to select at least 70 paper sacks weighing up to 30
pounds, from five different locations, and place them in a loaned pickup
truck. The sacks must be exactly
those specified, and must be handled so as not to tear them. At the church, in the choir room, they
must be placed again as you found them, in five different groups, with their
identifying numbers showing. This
arduous task must be done Sunday evening, away from the observation of the
congregation’s adults, who should be thanking you for the absolutely
essential contribution you are making – without it, the Bearden FISH program
could not operate. I recognize that seven of
your number will graduate this year, and the mission for those left behind
will therefore become more difficult.
To all UMYF, especially the seven Seniors: may your life be blessed for the mission you have accomplished. This message will
self-destruct with the publication of the next The Bearings.” |
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BEARDEN UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
P. O. Box 11065 Knoxville, Tennessee 37939-1065 Telephone (865) 588-6562; Fax (865) 588-6989 E-Mail: info@beardenumc.org Web Page: http://www.beardenumc.org Tom Seay, Pastor tom@beardenumc.org Bill
Balch, Minister of Counseling,
558-8150 Donna Lewis, Director of Children & Family Ministries Shea McClure, Director of Youth Ministries & Recreation Janice Blair, Church Secretary janice@beardenumc.org Nan Proctor, Financial Secretary nan@beardenumc.org Ellen Raines, Director of Music Ministries Barry Wallace, Director of Drama Nancy Cauthron, Director of Food Services,
454-0043 Traycee
Maynard, Director of After School Program, 588-6717 Jennifer
Somerville, Director, Early Enrichment Program, 588-1492 CHURCH CALENDAR Thursday
April 20 10:00 AM Bearden E.E.P. Chapel 10:00 AM Bible Study, Ginny Pletz Class
Room 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 4:00 PM After
School Program Chapel Friday April 21 7:00 PM Scrapbooking, Fellowship Center Saturday
April 22 8:00 AM Youth
Wildflower Hike @ Wesley Woods 10:00 AM Team 4 prepares & serves
lunch at Volunteer Ministry Center. 6:00 PM Bearden Game Night, Fellowship
Center Sunday
April 23 8:20 AM Early
Riser Choir, Choir Room 9:00 AM
Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship 4:45 PM Youth
Council, Third Floor 5:00 PM
Handbells, Choir Room 5:30 PM
Singles Small Group, Searchers class 6:00 PM
Jammin’ in the Gym (no snack supper!) 6:00 PM Crossroads I, Odds & Ends Class 6:00 PM Crossroads II, Ginny Pletz Class 6:00 PM Youth,
Third Floor Monday
April 24 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 3:45 PM Youth tutor
at Wesley House 4:00 PM Violin
Rehearsal, Sanctuary 6:00 PM Co-ed
Softball, Field 1 Tuesday
April 25 11:30 AM Prayer Warriors, Prayer Room 4:00 PM Wesley
House Children’s Choir 6:30 PM Line
Dancing, Fellowship Center Wednesday
April 26 5:30 PM WNL!
Meal 6:30 PM WNL! Program, Children &
Youth 7:30 PM Chancel
Choir Rehearsal, Choir Room Thursday April 27 10:00 AM Bearden E.E.P. Chapel 10:00 AM Bible Study, Ginny Pletz Class
Room 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 4:00 PM After
School Program Chapel Saturday
April 29 10:00 AM Community Carnival & Auction 23—Claire Gibson, Jenna Wall 24—Walker Brown, Jason Ogle, Al Yanno 25—Betty Sharp, John Sluder, Scott & Mickey
Buchanan, Bobby
& Betty Sharp 26—Bill Balch, Bob Lanham, Kent Tilley 27—Ralph Beeler, Emmie Lou Mote, Christina Wood 28—Chip Campbell 29—Lori Brown, Dixie Cox, Janet Gennoe, Terry
Rosson 30—Joshua Franklin, Charline Gallaher, Jennifer
Lewis, Dave
Rodgers |
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WE SUPPORT
BEARDEN
By Our Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For Our
Church Family --Joe Anderson, Park West --Pastor Tom, Anita Henderlight & Fred Dearing from Holston Conference & the UMCOR group that is traveling to Sudan & Uganda. By Our Presence . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For April 16 Worship 9:00 A.M. 165 Sunday School 206 11:00 A.M 270 Total Worship 435 Sunrise 85 By Our Gifts . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .For
April 16 Operating $ 11,524.55
Sunday School 88.00 Sudan Mission 225.00 FISH 200.00 Building 100.00 Lent/Easter 645.00 Costa Rica Mission 100.00 Music 25.00 TOTAL: $ 12,907.55 By Our Service . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .For April 23 Ushers 9:00—Lee Sherbakoff (lead), Sue Arnhart, Joe Cox, John Whited 11:00—Fred
Johnson (lead), Greg Blackmon, Dick Broyles, Ken & Tammy Knight Children’s Worship—Linda Millis Children’s Message—Bearden Puppeteers Acolytes
9:00—Mattea Sanders 11:00—Ken & Will Heflin UMYF Snack Supper—Shea & Michelle McClure Coffee
Stewards—Searchers Class Altar
Flowers—Bob & Ruth Stulting UMW NOTES
Assembling Lunches For Summer Children’s Camps: UMW members will be helping to assemble
lunches for children attending Arts Camp Monday-Friday, June 5-9. Food
will be provided. Our job will be to make sandwiches, set out drinks,
chips or desserts, etc. We are asking each circle and members at large
to be responsible for supplying one day's volunteers. We'll start at 10
a.m. each day in order to be ready for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Please
volunteer through your circle leaders (members @ large call Nancy Cooper,
588-5470). Miss Donna will also need help assembling lunches for Sports
Camp (July 17-21) and Science Camp (July 24-28). We hope that our
members will be able to participate some of these days as well -- especially
if they are unavailable June 5-9. To sign up to help in July
please call Miss Donna at the church office, 588-6562. For Your Calendar: General Meeting: Monday, May 8 at 7 p.m. Spiritual Enrichment Experience:
Lake Junaluska, NC; May 19-20 or May 20-21 Mission Work Day: Wesley House Community Center: Saturday,
June 10, 10 a.m. Bring cleaning rags
and a sack lunch. Pond Gap Teachers Appreciation
Luncheon: Thursday, May 25, 11:45 a.m. School of Christian Mission: July 27-29 Kodak UMC
We hope to have a good turnout for this since their is no over-night stay
involved. Mark your calendars! For more information about these events
call Nancy Cooper. |
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