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Our Church Staff

Servants of Love & Joy Each Member of JC FUMC

Rio Texas Conference Bishop Robert Schnase

Hill Country District Superintendent Rev. Andy Smith

Pastor Rev. Lee Romero

Pastor Emeritus Rev. Bill Wiemers

Pastor Emeritus Rev. George Joehnk

Adult Ministries Coordinator Sarah Allen

Youth Director. Carrie Anders

Education Director Ronnie Birck

Church Secretary Angela Bacon

Financial Secretary Elaine Swiss, Carol Willis

Treasurer Carol Schlachter

Lay Leader Tom Walston

Nursery Attendants Whitney Walston, Reagan Weirich

Music Director Wendy Sultemeier

Pianist Sandra Danz

Praise Team Bryan Anders, Dennis Smith, Doug Smith & Darlene Young

8:30 Usher Various Members

10:50 Usher Paul Watt

The nursery is available during Worship Services and Sunday

school for pre-school children and babies. We love to have our

older children in worship.

Opportunities for Serving Christ

Sunday – March 15th

8:30 & 10:50 am Worship Services Sanctuary

9:40 – 10:30 am Christian Ed Classes

Youth – Bake Sale Fredericksburg

Monday – March 16th

Wesley Nurse out

9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall

10:30 am Dominos - Mexican Train & 42 Activity Center

No Confirmation Class

6:00 pm Young Adult Bible Study TBA

6:30 pm Emmaus Activity Center

Tuesday – March 17th

Wesley Nurse out

6:00 pm Woman Bible Study Fellowship Hall

6:30 pm GriefShare J. Wesley

7:00 pm Religious Study Seekers

Wednesday – March 18th

Wesley Nurse out

9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall

No Kids Club

No MS & HS Youth

6:00 pm Moms Connect Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm Choir Fellowship Hall

Thursday – March 19th

12:00 pm Beth Moore Bible Study Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm Lions Club Activity Center

Friday – March 20th

9:30 am Exercise Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm Games Lutheran Church

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Our attendance for Sunday, March 8, 2020

1st Service: 72

2nd Service: 59

Sunday school: 53

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Happy Birthday!

Harris Greenwood, March 15

Paul Axtell, March 16

Ty Klepac, March 16

Willow Grote, March 18

Abby Mund, March 19

Blaine Schwartz, March 19

Taryn Fry, March 21

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SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES

FELLOWSHIP – led by Bill & Elaine Swiss. New members and visitors are welcome to join in for a study on Chip Ingram’s “The Real Heaven”. The class meets in Fellowship Hall, located near the Sanctuary.

JOHN WESLEY – led by Tom Walston. Please join us in the John Wesley room for a 6 week study on “Restored, Finding Redemption in our Mess” by Tom Berlin. 

SEEKERS – Come join us in the Seekers room for a Jim Cymbala video-based Bible study on “Life Changing Prayer”.

NOMADS’ – led by Sarah Allen is studying “Why Easter Matters” by Andy Stanley. As Christians, we often find ourselves resisting God. This was true of people even during Jesus' lifetime.

YOUTH - All 6th-12th graders join us in the Youth Room for scripture, discussion, and snack.

CHILDREN – PreK-5th Grade is studying “The Book of Luke”. All classrooms are upstairs accessed from the hallway by the church office.

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Our Wesley Nurse Cindy Leonard

Hours are Monday through Thursday 7am-12pm & 1pm–6pm.

Her number is 512-771-8783 E-mail: CLeonard@

The office is open

9-12 and 1-4 Monday through Thursday

If something is needed when the office is closed you may call:

Pastor Lee on his cell @ 361-205-5421

March 15, 2020

3rd Sunday in Lent

“A PLACE TO GROW IN CHRISTIAN LOVE”

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

105 N. LBJ DR.

PO BOX 207

JOHNSON CITY, TX 78636

830-868-7414

Website:

pastor@

secretary@

adultmin@

youth@

education@

First Awakening

Contemporary Worship Service

8:30 a.m.

“You Are the Body of Christ Raised”

Announcements/ABC Sunday

Opening Prayer

Passing of the Peace

Songs of Praise/Centering

Joys & Concerns

The Lord’s Prayer – All

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those

Who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen

Offering

Children’s Time

Scripture Romans 5:1-11

Sermon “How Quickly We Forget”

Song of Reflection

Benediction

Closing Song

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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”

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Our Mission Statement

The mission of the Congregation of the First United Methodist Church is to continue to be a committed fellowship of disciples sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ and furnishing a place of Christian worship, programs, services and facilities for its members and the people of the Johnson City area.

Teddy Bear Ministry

You are invited to hold a bear during joys and concerns and then take it and give it to someone who needs a word of encouragement, healing, or up-lifting.

Traditional Service

10:50 a.m.

“Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.” John Wesley

Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors

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Announcements/ABC Sunday

Opening Hymn “Rock of Ages” UMH #361

Call to Worship WSL #19

Leader: God of the wilderness,

All: be with us as we wander through the desert of our lives.

Leader: Keep us from running back,

All: to the safety of old assumptions, and walk with us as we learn to live the life abundant.

Worship Leader Edition

Hymn of Praise “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” UMH #89

Prayer of Confession BOW #485

O God, source of all that makes life possible, giver of all that makes life good:

We gather to give you our thanks, yet we confess that we have often failed to live our thankfulness.

What we have we take for granted, and we grumble about what we lack.

We have squandered your bounty, with little thought of those who will come after us.

We are more troubled by the few who have more than by the many who have less.

Forgive us, O God.

In this hour of worship, accept our thanksgiving; and teach us to make gratitude and sharing our way of life; through the grace of Jesus Christ. Amen.

(PAUL J. FLUCKE, U.S.A., 20TH CENT., ALT.)

(All offer prayers of confession in silence.)

Words of Assurance

The Lord God is merciful and gracious, endlessly patient, loving, and true, showing mercy to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, and granting pardon. Amen.

(JEWISH PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS, U.S.A., 20TH CENT.)

Prayer of Affirmation UMH #887

Joys and Concerns

Lord’s Prayer (see prayer in 8:30 Service Order of Worship)

Offering/Doxology

Anthem

Children’s Time

Old Testament Exodus 17:1-7

Hymn of Preparation “Something Beautiful” UMH #394

New Testament Romans 5:1-11

Sermon “How Quickly We Forget”

Dedication Hymn “Rescue the Perishing” UMH #591

Benediction

Sending Forth “Let There Be Peace on Earth” UMH #431

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“This worship service is over – your service to God begins.”

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Today’s Scripture

(CEB)

Romans 5:1-11

1 Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. 3 But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, 4 endurance produces character, and character produces hope. 5 This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

6 While we were still weak, at the right moment, Christ died for ungodly people. 7 It isn’t often that someone will die for a righteous person, though maybe someone might dare to die for a good person. 8 But God shows his love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us. 9 So, now that we have been made righteous by his blood, we can be even more certain that we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. 10 If we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son while we were still enemies, now that we have been reconciled, how much more certain is it that we will be saved by his life? 11 And not only that: we even take pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the one through whom we now have a restored relationship with God.

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Sanctuary Flowers

The flowers are presented by Jane Mills

in memory of Tom Mills.

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