A Safe Sanctuary Church

 

The Bearings

 

Bearden United Methodist Church

4407 Sutherland Avenue, Knoxville, TN  37919

[Mail:  P. O. Box 11065, Knoxville, TN  37939]

 

Michael Sluder, Pastor

 

                                                                                                         September 25 2007

                                                                                                               Vol. 57, No. 38

 

             UNITED METHODIST WOMEN NOTES

 

The UMW Fall Rummage Sale will be this Saturday, Sept. 29, 7:30 a.m.  Set up will begin after WNL! on the 26th and continue on Thursday, the 27th  and Friday, the 28th from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.  We need folks (women and men) to help.  No experience is necessary as you will receive on-the-job training!  Volunteers are needed to assist with unloading the storage building on Wednesday evening, unpacking boxes and bags on Thursday and Friday, and help with the sale and clean up on Saturday.  Someone is also needed to help with the electronics and appliance section making sure everything is in working order.  And we could use someone to help organize the men’s clothing.  If you are able to help Thursday and/or Friday evenings, call Judy McKenzie, 368-2062.

 

Each year each unit is asked to bring a commodity to the District Annual Meeting.  Our commodity is 9" disposable plates.  Please begin bringing these in and placing them in the white plastic basket in the workroom next to Janice's office.  We hope to have an overflowing basket by Nov. 9.  Thank you for helping!

 

 


                         CELEBRATION!

 

        In honor of the 300th anniversary of Charles

        Wesley’s birth, First, St. Mark and Bearden

        UMC’s along with combined handbell and

        vocal choirs, will come together to sing some

        of his great hymns.  Please join us Sunday,

       Oct. 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Center

        for an evening of song and fellowship. 

 


       

 

                4 WEEK Loving Well STUDY

 

Loving Well, a study by Beth Moore looks at various types of people - some easy to love, and some not so easy to love.  The 4 week study includes insightful truths as well as humor, all designed to help women embrace the biblical mandate to love and to develop skills for loving others.  This is more than a study but also a prayer journey. The study will be on Sundays from 5:00-6:00 pm beginning September 30. Pam Carpenter and Charla Sherbakoff will facilitate the study. For additional information call Pam [525-5871] or Charla [450-5078]. Contact Pam or the church office [588-6562] if you want to participate in the study.

 

                          OPEN HOUSE

 

Bishop Swanson and the staff of Holston Conference invite you to an Open House on Sunday afternoon, September 30, 2:00 – 5:00, at the new conference facility located at 217 S. Rankin Road, Alcoa, TN.  Sunday’s Open House will be hosted by our Conference United Methodist Women.  Open House will continue through the following week (October 1-5) from 2-5 p.m. daily except 2– 4 p.m. on Friday.  Anyone who cannot come on Sunday will feel free to drop by during the week of October 1 and tour the conference office.  Church groups who want to come during that week are welcome to do so.

 

                                 FROM THE PASTOR

 

I’ve had several people ask for a copy of what I read during my sermon yesterday from Robert Fulghum’s book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten”.  So here it is.  See you in church next Sunday.

 

      ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN     

            KINDERGARTEN  (a guide for Global Leadership)

 

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.  These are the things I learned:

 

  • Share everything.
  • Play fair.
  • Don't hit people.
  • Put things back where you found them.
  • Clean up your own mess.
  • Don't take things that aren't yours.
  • Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
  • Wash your hands before you eat.
  • Flush.
  • Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
  • Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
  • Take a nap every afternoon.
  • When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
  • Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
  • Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
  • And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.  See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/.]

 

                                             Mike

 

 

                                  LOOKING AHEAD . . .

 

      Jubilee, An Evening of Worship And Praise, Oct. 14, 6 p.m.

Family Promise (IHN) Host Week – Nov. 4-11  - Will you serve?
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

 

Michael Sluder, Pastor msluder@beardenumc.org

Bill Balch, Minister of Counseling, 558-8150   

Donna Lewis, Director of Children & Family Ministries

donna@beardenumc.org

Shea McClure, Director of Youth Ministries & Recreation shea@beardenumc.org

Janice Blair, Church Secretary  janice@beardenumc.org

Nan Proctor, Financial Secretary  nan@beardenumc.org

Brandon Loveday, Director of Music

Steve Johnson, Organist/Accompanist

Barry Wallace, Director of Drama

Jennifer Somerville, Dir., Early Enrichment Program,

BEEP, 588-1492

Micki Suffridge, Dir. School Age Program, 588-6717

 

 

                         CHURCH CALENDAR                     

           

Thursday          September 27

  9:00 AM           Rummage Sale Set Up

Friday               September 28

  9:00 AM           Rummage Sale Set Up

  4:00 PM           Sale Open to Members

Saturday           September 29

  7:30 AM           Rummage Sale

Sunday             September 30

  9:00 AM           Worship

10:00 AM           Sunday School

11:00 AM           Worship

  4:00 PM           Beginning Handbells, Choir Room

  5:00 PM           Handbells, Choir Room

  6:00 PM           Youth, Third Floor

Monday             October 1

11:00 AM           Senior Aerobics, Fellowship Center

  6:00 PM           UMW Executive Committee,

                          Conference Room

Tuesday            October 2

11:30 AM           Prayer Warriors, Prayer Chapel

  6:30 PM           Line Dancing, Fellowship Center

  7:00 PM           Staff Parish Team, Conference Room

Wednesday      October 3 – FISH Work Day

  7:30 AM           National Walk to School Day

  8:30 AM           FISH Staff Arrives, Choir Room

12:30-1:30 PM   FISH Deliverers Arrive

  6:30 PM           Kamp Kaboom!; K-5th grade

  7:30 PM           Chancel Choir Rehearsal, Choir Room

Thursday          October 4

  9:30 AM           Staff Meeting, Conference Room

  5:30 PM           Child Care Board, Ginny Pletz Class room

Saturday           October 6

  8:00 AM           Gather/Practice for the Wesley House

                           Golf Tournament, The Wee Course at

                           Williams Creek

  9:00 AM           Tee Off!

                      

                              

 

1—Andrea Lawyer, Susan Miller

2—Katherine Stooksbury, Tyler Thomas

3—Marsha Best, Abigail Owen, Phil & Leslie Frantom,

     Nelson & Gina Swainson, Barry & Laura Wallace

4—Jim Bell

5—Fred & Linda Warner

6—Mickey Buchanan, Elizabeth Hamilton, Missy Mahan

 

 

           WESLY HOUSE GOLF TOURNAMENT

 Saturday, October 6, The Wee Course at Williams Creek, Tee Off at 9 a.m., 4-Person, Best Ball  Format, Shotgun Start; $50 per player (18 holes, cart, greens fees, lunch, goody bag!).  Contact Lori Sluder, 414-4245 for a registration form or pick one up in the church office.

 

                                                                  Non-Profit Org.

                                                                  U.S. POSTAGE

                                                                               PAID

                                                                      Knoxville,TN

                                                                  Permit No. 39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                              WE SUPPORT BEARDEN

 

By Our Prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . For Our Church Family

    Fred Johnson, Home

By Our Presence . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .  For September 23

                  9:00 a.m.             88           Sunday School      142

                11:00 a.m.           163           Total Worship        251

 

By Our Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .  For September 23

    Operating               $ 7,212.67          Sunday School    87.10

    BEEP Donations            30.00          FISH                    2.00

TOTAL:  $ 7,270.77

As of September 24, 2007

Received YTD                                                     $ 534,287.58

Expenditures YTD                                               $ 516,592.97

Net YTD                                                             $   17,694.61

Prepaid Pledges                                                 $   41,158.16

Annual Budgeted Expenses                                 $ 805,899.00

Building Loan Balance                                       $1,591,793.16

 

By Our Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .For September 30

Ushers   9:00—Bob Smith (lead), Ralph Beeler,

                         Wade Mitchell, Brent Pendergast

             11:00—Haynes Smith (lead), Ann Beaver, Mark

                         Bledsoe, Nancy Counts, Bob Fuller

Acolytes 9:00—Kaitlin Houser; 11:00—Hannah Thomas

Children’s Sermon— Bearden Puppeteers

Children’s Church—Donna Lewis

Nursery Volunteers  Team C:  Melissa & Wes Cate, Ashley &

       Shelby Perry, Danny & Elaine Flaherty, Jeanie & Jeff Keith

Coffee Stewards—Shepherds of the Word Class

Altar Flowers—Linda & Fred Warner

 

 

ATTENTION:  Children's Ministry Families

Nursery - 5th grade; Bearden C.M. Family Day at the Corn Maze; Tentative Date:  October 13, 2007

 

 

FAVORITE HYMN(S).  The General Board of Discipleship (GBOD) invites every United Methodist to participate in a survey of favorite and least favorite hymns. This survey allows you to click on up to ten of your favorites and ten of your least favorite hymns and songs from The United Methodist Hymnal and The Faith We Sing. There are also five demographic questions to help GBOD analyze the results. All responses are anonymous and confidential. This information will help GBOD in planning future resources in congregational singing. You may find it helpful to compose a list of your selections prior to completing the survey. To take the survey, go to www.gbod.org/favoritehymns.html.

 

 

CHILI COOK-OFF

Knoxville District Chili Cook-off and Cake and Pie Contest

Sponsored by the UM Men of Fountain City UMC

Wednesday, October 10, 6:30-7:00 p.m.; Fountain City UMC

To Enter a Team, contact Camp Wesley Woods at

865-448-2246 or go on-line at www.campwesleywoods.com