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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 January 10, 2006
Vol. 56, No. 2 |
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WEDNESDAY
NIGHT LIVE!
January 18th, Dinner: 5:30
p.m. Classes & Activities for Youth &
Children: 6:30 p.m. Menu: Pork chops, pinto beans, fried potatoes, salad & potato bar, &
dessert. Cost: $5.00
for adults; $3.00 for children; family
maximum of $16.00. Reservations:
By Noon Tuesday STAFF-PARISH TEAM REQUEST The Staff-Parish Committee would like to receive information from the
congregation about your concerns and issues for our church, and recommendations
for our pastoral appointment. Please contact us prior to our on meeting on January 24. The committee members for 2006 are: Ben Rivers (chair), Wade Mitchell, Lee Thomas, Judy
McKenzie, Joanne Hill, Doug Lawyer, Christy Cantey, Joe Cox, Nina McPherson,
Dick Kelso, and Linda Vaughn. IN APPRECIATION A letter has been received from the Executive Director of the Florence Crittenton Agency thanking the Bearden United Methodist
Church congregation for its help in making Christmas special for several of the Agency’s clients. BUMC is thanked for
its $50 monetary contribu- tion and for more than fifty gifts for mothers and babies. If you shared in this giving, please accept this expressed appreciation. A HUGE “package” of thanks to Pastor Tom, Eric Rodgers, Al & JoAnn Matz who served as Advent & Christmas undecorators for our church.
Undecorating is much less fun than decorating but surely as necessary. These folk served long and well!
Thanks also to Dick Kelso, serving as an IHN host, who stepped in with help. MOBILE
MEALS DAY. January 25th
is Mobile Meals Day, all day, at area Shoney’s Restaurants (in coopera- tion with the home-delivered meals program of the Knoxville-Knox County CAC Office on Aging). A portion of the proceeds for the day will go to the frail and home- bound seniors’ meal programs in this area. Please dine at Shoney’s to show support of this generous sponsor- ship. IN MEMORIAM Evelyn Jane Davis 09/25/1926 – 01/08/2006 “Because I live, you also will
live. On that day you will realize that I am in my
Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” John 14:91b-20 |
FROM THE
PASTOR Shall we
gather? I serve on
the District Board of Ministry. Among
other things, this affords me the opportunity to hear some stories about
churches and pastors that are on the other side of the street. It is amazing what God is doing in places
many of us would have given up. One little
church has a goal of reaching every unchurched person in their zip code
area. One church has so many kids
during the week that they need a gym and they use every room in the church
for Sunday School. One church has
gone from ready to close to over 40 in attendance. On percentage these are staggering successes. Wow God! Then this
weekend the youth will be attending the Resurrection 2006 retreat in
Gatlinburg. After the two weekends
are held they expect nearly 12,000 youth to have attended. Wow God! In our own
small corner I have been told of how God sent the right people to be present
at IHN to meet very special needs. We
had nearly 50 volunteers last week at IHN touching lives of broken
people. Wow God! In
Christ, Tom IHN JANUARY WRAP UP Several weeks
before we hosted the Interfaith Hospitality Network this past
week, I prayed that we will have enough workers for the week, God will
work out the details for the week, and all of us who work with IHN will be
filled with love, patience, self-control, and goodness. I know several others also prayed before
our host week. God never ceases to amaze me!
He not only provided us with enough workers but he placed each worker
in their job at the right time and in the right place as the situation called
for. The blessing I received this
week was seeing God's hand in this ministry.
It wasn't just God's hand but His whole arm embraced our
IHN. It was a difficult, challenging
week. Each worker was stretched to
love more and to judge less. We were
able to love and serve because of our love for Christ. Thank you for serving
and loving extraordinarily. To God be the glory! Next Host Week - March 26-April 2. FISH REPORT FOR
JANUARY Total
Calls Received 32 No.
of Deliveries Made 28 No.
of Requests Picked Up at Church (2 not picked up) 2 No.
of People Helped (55 adults, 49 children) 104 No.
of Bearden Volunteers (17 adults, 18 youth) 35 FISH
of Knox County began in 1971. Bearden
Church’s partici- pation,
requiring drawing groceries from a church in East Knoxville, began (as best
we can determine) in 1983. The late
Bob Milford was our hard-working leader for 15 years, until declining health
forced his retirement. We now operate, at six-month intervals, under these
coordinators: Sue Arnhart, Roger
& Jo Frey, Nancy Mitchell, Charla Sherbakoff, Hoyt & Dot Steed, and
Tom & Katherine Stooksbury. We
have leaders and deliverers, but we could serve more hungry people if we had
more deliverers – just two hours or less every first-Wednesday- of–the-month. |
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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, Organist/Choirmaster 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 of Child Care Center, 588-1492 CHURCH CALENDAR Thursday
January 12 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 5:45 PM Church
Life Team, Conference Room 6:00 PM Pond
Gap Task Force, Pathfinders Class 6:00 PM Child Care
Board, Ginny Pletz Class. Friday January 13 5:00 PM Youth
depart for Resurrection 2006 Saturday
January 14 2:00 PM Mike
Fox & Heather Sims wedding Sunday
January 15 9:00 AM Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship 1:30 PM Youth
return from Resurrection 2006 5:00 PM
Handbells, Choir Room 5:30 PM
Singles Small Group, Searchers class 6:00 PM Crossroads I, Odds & Ends Class 6:00 PM Crossroads II, Ginny Pletz Class Monday
January 16 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 3:45 PM Youth will
not tutor at Wesley House 6:30 PM Co-ed
Volleyball, Fellowship Center 7:30 PM
Finance Team, Conference Room Tuesday
January 17 11:30 AM Prayer Warriors, Prayer Room 6:30 PM Line
Dancing, Fellowship Center Wednesday
January 18 5:30 PM WNL! Meal 6:30 PM WNL!
Classes & Activities 7:30 PM Choir
Rehearsal, Chancel Choir Thursday
January 19 11:00 AM Senior Aerobics, Fellowship
Center 6:30 PM Costa
Rica Leadership Team, Conference Room. NEW STUDY. Pastor Tom will be leading a short-term study for
singles, and anyone else who would like to participate,
on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. in the Searchers classroom. The group will study James W. Moore’s There’s a Hole in Your
Soul That Only God Can Fill. 11—Mary Lynn Geisler,
Harrison Mitchell 13—Beth Lawson, Kate Lee 14—Barbara Beaty, Carole
Bower, Carol Newton, Brock Rowell 15—Terry Alexander, Steve
Follum, Pete Mossman, Grover & Sarah Whitley 16—Jerry
McKenzie, Katie & Kristin Trammell, John Staley, Sr. CO-ED VOLLEYBALL We
will begin playing volleyball on Monday, Jan. 16th at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Center.
Everyone is invited to play on Mondays through the month of March. |
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WE SUPPORT
BEARDEN
By Our Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .For Our
Church Family Toby Hanna, Home By Our Presence. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .For January 8 This report will appear in a future edition of The Bearings. By Our Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .For December 31 Operating $ 5,060.00 2006 Operating 1,000.00 Advent 28.40 Costa Rica 65.00 Memorial 25.00 TOTAL: $
6,178.40 By Our Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .For January 8 Operating $ 13,858.50 Sunday School 88.00 Building 186.00
Costa Rica 140.00 Helping Hand 66.00
TOTAL: $
14,338.50 By Our Service . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. .For January 15 Ushers 9:00—Wade Mitchell (lead), Audrey Carroll, Rob
& Kathy Houser, Bob
Smith 11:00—Joe Burns (lead), David Dickey, Tommy Edwards, Betty McDow, Wanda Moody Acolytes 9:00—Ramsey
Cohen 11:00—John
Allen Broyles, Nick Millis Children’s
Message—Laura Wallace Children’s
Worship—Kathy Rowell Coffee
Stewards—Shepherds of the Word Altar
Flowers—Jeremy & Christy
Tucker
ODDLES OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS!
K-5th Grade, floor hockey, food &
fun. Joe and Anne Thomas will be teaching the 2-week video session on Dr. Gary Chapman’s Love Languages. Contact
Miss Donna if you have questions.
Parenting
Thought of the Week: What are
the video games your children play? What are the lyrics of the music to which your child
listens? What websites are your
children using? As our children are inundated with media, it is our
responsibility as parents to make ourselves aware of what is going into the
minds and hearts of our children.
Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by hearing. Hence, it is logical to think that if
faith comes by hearing, then other characteristics can be cultivated by what
we hear and see. –Miss Donna |
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