First United Methodist

Church Newsletter

The Church with a Warm Heart

FUMC
PO Box 1466
301 NE 1st Street
Mineral Wells, TX
76067
940-325-4707

Chili Cook-off
Sunday, April 3rd

November
March 2013
2016

Easter Events
Holy Week Noon Services
Various churches in the community will be hosting a short
worship service and lunch each day during Holy Week, March
21 - 25. FUMCMW will again host the Thursday luncheon.
We are looking for a volunteer to head up that effort. We
usually provide soup and cookies, but we are certainly open to
something new. Please let Lianne know if you would like to
take charge of that lunch.
Holy Thursday service
6:30 pm, March 24th
Easter Sunday, March 27th
Celebrate the Resurrection!
7 am Sunday Sunrise Service
Courtyard lawn (weather permitting)
Potluck Breakfast following.
Regular Morning Worship, 10:30 am in the Sanctuary

Chili cooks are invited

to enter in four
Order
categories: White chili,
beef chili with beans,
your
beef chili w/o beans,
Easter
other (veggie, sausage,
lilies!
deer, etc.)
$16.50
Please bring your
each
chili in a slow cooker to
McMaster Hall before
the morning service, fill
out an entry category
Order forms available
form and get a number.
at the church.
If you arent entering
Drop them in the
a pot of chili, please
offering plate with
bring cornbread,
payment.
crackers or a dessert.
We also need a panel
Best wishes and prayers for good health for Caleb
of judges. If youd like
LaRue
Lovell, new son of Christina and Michael Lovell,
to be a chili taster, let
grandson of Tammy & Gary Lovell, and great grandson
Jeri Calcote know.

of Linda & Jerry Watts.

Caleb was born early in the morning Feb. 18 (6 pounds,
13 ounces,) and we know God danced when he was born!

Worship on Wednesday
begins at 5:30 pm each
week for dinner followed by
activities for everyone.
Mineral Wells ISD will be
on Spring Break the week of
March 9th so we will not
have WoW that day.
On Sunday, March 20th,
the children will participate
in the Palm Sunday service
by waving the palm
branches as we enter the
sanctuary.
Wednesday, March 23rd,
the children will have an
Easter Egg hunt on the
church lawn. Each child is
asked to bring one dozen

plastic eggs filled with

candy. Please bring a friend.
Everyone is welcome! All ages
will participate. Snack Supper
at 5:30 and Easter Egg hunt
and activities to begin at 6 pm.
We are now buying our
entrees for Wednesday nights
from the Culinary Arts class at
Mineral Wells High School
(and they are delicious!) We
suggest a $5 donation per
meal.
The youth meet upstairs with
Youth Director Amanda
Daniell until 7:30 pm.
Choir practice starts @ 7
pm, backpacks can be packed
for BackPack Buddies and
Prayer Shawl workers meet the
third Wednesday. Pick an
activity to join and help do the
Lords work.

Methodist Men
meets every second
Sunday at 7:30 a.m.
with the men of
Central UMC. They
alternate meeting @
Central or in
McMaster Hall to
share a big breakfast
followed by a
program and
meeting. This
months meeting is at
FUMC Sunday,
March 13. All men
are welcome to join.

Website: http://fumcmineralwells.org/
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FUMC-Mineral-Wells/180428547915
Our Vision: Our passion is to be followers of Jesus Christ who are welcoming,
worshiping, growing and going.
WELCOMING We invite people to come as they are and to find their unique place
in the church. We are working hard to never draw lines of "insiders/outsiders,"
"saints/sinners," "us/them." We believe that Christ greets people with open arms,
knows their names and loves them for who they are and we strive to be like Christ!
WORSHIPING We feel strongly that we were created to praise God! So worship is
at the heart of all that we do. Worship feeds our souls, but it also reminds us that the
heart of any church is to bring glory to the Holy One. We do what we do in awe and
love of our Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
GROWING We believe that God loves us as we are, but, in love, God will help us
grow into "more." We want to always be seeking, asking, going deeper and
understanding more. Learning is an important component of a person's life journey,
and we want to be a learning place!
GOING We believe that Jesus came for the sake of everyone, and so the church
must never become focused on itself. Our task is to take the kingdom of heaven into
the world so that all may know the saving grace and wondrous love of God, becoming
themselves disciples who welcome, worship, grow and go!

Nine youth and two adults attended Mid-Winter at Glen Lake Camp in Glen Rose
February 19-21. It was a weekend spent worshiping, reflecting, and doing mission
work with other youth from Central Texas.

The youth are gearing up for Mission

Trip 2016 to Arkansas & are still in need
of some particular items: grubbing hoes,
Rakes, Tree Clippers, Push Broom and
Plastic Containers.

3/1 - Don ONeal

3/2 - Judy Myers
3/5 - Chris Crawford
3/7 - Barry Bateman, Autumn Lawrence
3/10Susan West
3/11 - Jan Jacobson
3/12 - Brandon Williams
3/13 - David May
3/15 - King Hayes
3/18 - DeLois Duncan
3/20 - Shauna Bradshaw, Betty Fisher
3/26 - Carolyn Evans
4/7 - Tammy Crawford
4/9 - Bret Brown

Choir practice is Wednesdays

from 7- 8:30 pm. Director Don
Owens says we could use a few
more voices!
Handbell Choir practices with
director Adam Hull @ 7:10 pm
after Bible Study and lasts until
about 8 pm.

Celebrate a Birthday!
Send a Card!
DeLois Duncan will be 104 on March 18th.
She would love to hear from you!
Her address is:
DeLois Duncan
c/oLakewell Place
3002 NE 2nd Street, Apt. 106
Mineral Wells, TX 76067

Gift of Wind
I have a love for wind. An assortment of wind chimes are strategically placed around
our patio awaiting a breeze strong enough to move them enough to make music. Just
to the northwest of town are giant wind turbines that generate electricity. If one goes
to Possum Kingdom lake on a windy day, odds are good that you might see a sailboat
enjoying wind power to propel itself. Perhaps in the winter you can hear the wind
blowing across your chimney, or during springtime you might have to take cover from
it.
Primal music began with wind. Some historians believe it started when ancient
Egyptians picked up a reed at the waters edge and blew through it, making a sound.
There is a Slovenian bone flute that has been carbon dated to at least 50,000 years old.
In a very real sense, the first flute maker is the ancestor to all of us who make music by
moving air through a pipe. There is a ceaseless flowing line of music that moves from
wind upon the water to wind in the trees from breath in a flute to air moving through
the pipes of an organ, or the air that flows through our vocal cords when we sing.
When I sit at the console of the organ and begin to play, I am joining the music that
God set off right from the start by blowing across the deep, the same God who inspired
the psalmist to exclaim, Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! and the same
God whose breath, whose Spirit came like a rush of wind at Pentecost.
These reflections on wind and breath and music remind us that God is not known
simply as an idea or as a theological definition or an abstraction. God is the vitalizing
energy that moves our hearts and minds when air moves through pipes to sound forth
music that recapitulates and expands the wonder of Gods first act of breathing upon
the deep. You might call this a theology of wind or a theology of breath. It is
complimentary to a theology of the word. Such a theology reminds us that words alone
make for an in adequate witness to God.
When we sing to the glory of God, we are
doing something more profound than
simply adding musical art to the service of
worship. We are enacting the theology of
wind, of breath. Our music is the sonic
Prayer Blanket ministry usually meets
witness to the One whose creative action
the third Wednesday of each month, but
did not start with words but with wind
there will be no Prayer Blanket Ministry
upon the water. Breathe on me breath of
this month because we have so many
God, til I am wholly Thine.
blankets finished. If there is a need for one,
in or out of our congregation, please
Blessings,
contact Sue Overton or the church office so
we can get one delivered to someone who
Don Owens
would benefit from having one.

First United
Methodist Church

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301 NE 1st St

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301 NE 1st St
Mineral Wells TX 76067
Phone: 940-324-4707
www.fumcmineralwells.org

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