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A Safe Sanctuary Church
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The Bearings Bearden United Methodist Church 4407 Sutherland Avenue Mail: P. O. Box 11065, Knoxville,
TN 37939 Tom Seay, Pastor July
18, 2006 Vol. 56, No.
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MISSION NEWS On Saturday evening, August 26th the first annual
IHN Spaghetti Cook-off will be held at First Farragut UMC. It will be a great opportunity for all of us to get
together and demonstrate our
commitment to our IHN families and
this program. It will also be a great
opportunity for us to join with Sacred Heart, our support congregation, to
compete against the other IHN congregations to see who really does make the
best spaghetti (since we all serve spaghetti to our guests). We will have
celebrity judges as well as let the public vote and there will be two prizes
given - The Best Spaghetti and The People's Choice. There will be a dessert
auction, bluegrass tunes, and great fellowship! Channel 8 will be a sponsor
for this event and will also provide media coverage. Please consider
supporting this event in the following ways: Buy a ticket for $5 (what a deal - sample lots of spaghetti,
listen to tunes by the Trinity Boys, and bid on delicious desserts!), help
Bearden cook our prize wining spaghetti, donate a delicious dessert for the
auction, be a sponsor for this event ($250 - individuals and businesses are
needed for sponsorships). If you can help in any of the following ways,
please call Karen Billingsley at 470-7315 or Charla Sherbakoff
450-5078. Look for details in the atrium. Let's rally around this fun and
important event for IHN!! Mark your calendars now for our next IHN host
weeks: September 10 - 17 and December 3 - 10. Lace up those tennis shoes and get ready for the
Ninth Annual Volunteer Ministry 5K Run/Walk on August 12 at Volunteer
Landing next to Calhoun's on the river. The Run/Walk benefits Knoxville's
poor and homeless. The race will be held at 8 a.m. Registration forms are avail-able in Janice's office or in
the church atrium (right next to the donuts!). You can run, walk or crawl! Let's get a Bearden team together! Team # 3 will prepare and serve at the Volunteer Ministry Center this Saturday at 10 a.m. (Team # 3
– The Steeds, Darlene Bledsoe, Daleta Sawyer, Pat
Orr, the Matzes - if you cannot serve, please arrange for a substitute.) If
you have never served in this ministry and want to learn more about it, call
Charla Sherbakoff 450-5078 or call Hoyt and Dot Steed to serve this Saturday,
584-7113. Only a 2 hour time commitment and a lifetime of blessings. BAPTISM Spencer Martin Perry, son of Shelby and Ashley Perry, was baptized by
Rev. Seay at our altar on Sunday, July 9th. DEDICATION Titobiloluwa
Oluwaseun Obitayo (Tobi), infant son of Oladapo and Funmi Obitayo, was dedicated during
the 11 o’clock worship service on July 16th. |
DEAR FRIENDS, Have you heard? We had Vacation Bible School at Bearden
UMC last week! The numbers were
great, and a summary is provided below for your information. As thrilled as I am with the numbers, I am
much more excited about the spiritual response of our children. For example, on Tuesday
evening I spoke with a grandmother of one of our Pond Gap students attending
VBS. Lindsay was in the 1st
grade group which was shepherded by Jeanie Keith and Sarah and Dick
Kelso. Grandmother shared that
Lindsay was lying in the living room floor when she overheard her
grandparents discussing a lack of work problem. Lindsay told her grandparents that she learned at Bible School
that we could pray to God about everything.
Lindsay then told her grand-parents that she also learned that you
have to repent and turn away from your sins.
Grandmother then related, through tears, that Lindsay led the three of
them in prayer. WOW! I have to admit that with
all the preparation work before we even began VBS on Sunday evening, Miss
Donna was really tired on Tuesday.
However, learning this story from a grandmother certainly gave me a second
wind. There are many other
stories such as this from VBS. God
truly blessed us! --Miss Donna VBS
REPORT Children registered 134 *Children Attended 118 Highest attendance: Wednesday, July 12 90 children
2 babies 65 workers Total workers: **74 *118 different children
attended. They did not all attend the
same night. ** 74 total workers did
not work the same night. FISH
REPORT FOR JULY Total Calls Received 36 Number of Food Deliveries Made 32 Number of Food Requests Picked Up at the
Church 4 Number of People Helped ( 76 adults, 69
children) 145 Number of Bearden UMC Volunteers (19 adults, 6
youth) 25 FISHfact: A
message from Stan and Fran Love:
Bearden Church will again be restocking the West Knoxville FISH Pantry
in September, at a cost of several thousand dollars. Last year, your canned goods donations
(into the barrels) reduced the cost of groceries that we had to buy. This savings, plus your cash contributions
to FISH through church envelopes during the year, will cover our anticipated
September expense. In view of your
generous support of FISH in the past, we shouldn’t be asking for more now
when the drive for new sanctuary carpet (and recent mission expenses) needs
your support. Therefore, there will not
be a canned-food nor cash solicitation this summer/fall. Again, thanks, and we’ll be asking for
your help next year. |
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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 shea@beardenumc.org 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 Traycee
Maynard, Director of After School Program, 588-6717 Jennifer
Somerville, Director, Early Enrichment Program, 588-1492 CHURCH CALENDAR Thursday
July 20 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics,
Fellowship Center Friday July 21 3:00 PM Youth
will go biking. 7:00 PM
Scrapbooking Sunday
July 23 8:20 AM Early Riser Choir, Choir Room 9:00 AM
Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship 6:00 PM Crossroads I, Odds & Ends Class
room 6:00 PM Crossroads I, Ginny Pletz Class room 6:00 PM Youth, Third Floor Monday
July 24 9”00 AM Science
Camp 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 11:30 AM Youth will have lunch with Shea at Panera. 4:30 PM
CONTACT Training 6:00 PM Youth
off to Smokies game. Tuesday
July 25 9:00 AM Science
Camp 11:30 AM Prayer Warriors, Prayer Chapel Wednesday
July 26 9:00 AM Science Camp 6:30 PM Youth
Sports Night 7:00 PM Chancel Choir will
not meet. 7:00 PM Called
Church Council, Pathfinders Class room Thursday
July 27 9:00 AM Science
Camp 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center Friday July 28 9:00 AM Science
Camp 2:00 PM Youth
will meet at Laser Quest.
CALLED CHURCH
COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, July 26, 7 p.m. Pathfinders
Class Room
23—Joe Cox, Kathleen
Fleenor 24—Ann Sherbakoff, Louise
Waddle 25—Chris Alexander, Ellen
Raines, Greg Wilson 26—Anna Catherine Wood,
Chris & Paige Huggler, Roger & Betty Stevenson, Bob & Ruth Stulting 28—Eva Pletz, Virginia
Kenney, Russell Smith, George & Carol Newton 30—Tom Seay 31—Eric Brown, Ben Cooper,
Fletcher Kelly, Anne Lambert, Doug & Andrea Lawyer |
Non-Profit Org. U.S.
POSTAGE
PAID
Knoxville,TN Permit No. 39
WE SUPPORT
BEARDEN
By Our Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For Our Church Family Shirley Mackey, Park West Joan Frey, Home By Our Presence . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .For July 16 Worship 9:00 A.M. 72 Sunday School 159 11:00 A.M 169 Total
Worship 241 By Our Gifts . . . . .
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. . . For
July 16 Operating $
7,962.26 Sunday School $ 66.50 Carpet 790.00
Building 200.00 FISH 212.00 TOTAL: $ 9,230.76 As of July 17, 2006 Received
YTD
$ 358,507.61 Expenditures
YTD $ 374,938.30 Annual
Budget ($157,243.00) Building
Loan Balance $1,638,122.59 Carpet
Funds to Date
$ 14,605 – 243 yards By Our Service . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For July 23 Ushers 9:00—Lee Sherbakoff (lead), Audrey Carroll, Joe Cox, Robert
Hahn 11:00—Fred Johnson (lead), Greg
Blackmon, Dick Broyles, Ken & Tammy Knight Acolyte 9:00—Brad Houser Children’s
Message—Donna Lewis Children’s
Worship—Nancy Mitchell Coffee
Stewards— Friendship Class Altar
Flowers—Helen Cox UNITED METHODIST WOMEN NEWS School of
Christian Mission will be held at
Kodak UMC, 2923 Bryan Road in Kodak July 27-29. The opening session is Thursday, July 27
at 2 p.m. through the early evening.
Friday is all day with breaks for lunch and snacks. Saturday’s session is approximately 9 a.m.
until 12:30 p.m. Bearden UMW will pay
˝ of the $35 registration fee for any woman who would like to attend. Participants can stay in Sevierville or
Pigeon Forge at their own expense of commute daily. (The exit is #207 at Sevierville off I-40). If you would like to commute daily and
need transportation or if you would like a registration form and more
information, call Nancy Cooper at 588-5470. Nominations. We
are accepting nominations for positions on the UMW Executive Committee. If you have an interest in serving or
would like to make a nomination, please call Ann Beaver at 558-8972. Rummage
Sale. It’s time to start cleaning out those closets,
attics, garages and basements! Our
fall sale will be Saturday, October 14th. We will begin set up on Wednesday evening,
the 11th at 7:30. You may
bring your treasures to the storage building any time. The key is located in the church office –
just see Janice. |
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