Life Lines MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF MILLBROOK FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

I greet you in the name of the Risen

Son of God.

Can you believe it? It’s summer!

And I am glad. I love summertime.

I know many of you love summer-

time as well, spending time with

family at reunions, boating at the

lake, going to the beach, and taking

a vacation from work. To me one of

the most enjoyable things about

summer is simply getting out and

soaking up the sun, basking in its

glory. But this summer I want to

encourage you to soak up, to bask

in something more glorious, more

wonderful, more marvelous, more

life giving than even the sun. I want

to encourage you to soak up the

glorious Son! The glorious Risen

Son of God.

Let me share a few of the ways we

have been soaking up the Son at

church. Over 90 servants of the

Lord spent their evenings gather-

ing for a week with 140 precious

children at Bible School. Each night

we soaked in the Son, through pray-

er, singing prais-

es to God, mem-

orizing verses of

scriptures, doing

crafts, eating

together, playing

fun games, lov-

ing one another,

and collecting

850 pair of underwear for poor chil-

dren in Haiti. For the first time in

their lives, twenty- two children

opened their heart to the Son and

experienced the power of His for-

giveness and made a promise to

follow him for eternity. Glory to Je-

sus!

This morning I prayed for 21 youth

and adult leaders who have been

soaking up the Son so much they

are acting like Him. They are

spending a week in Baton Rouge,

July

Church Events

July 3rd - Prime Timers

July 9th– UMM Meeting

July 11th

– Church Council

July 12th

– Smokehouse

Dinner & Bible Study

July 13th

- WELCOME Day

July 13th

- Game Night

July 19th– Front Porch Grill

Dinner & Bible Study

July 21st

– 22– Mission u

July 26th - Catfish House

Dinner & Bible Study

July 30 – UMW Meeting

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We’re Soaking Up

The Glorious Son!

Announcements

Closets cleaned out for the spring? Do you have

coats that no longer fit your family and need to

make room in your closets? The UMW is collect-

ing gently used coats to give away in the fall to

children and adults who need one. There is a

coat rack in the Fellowship Hall where they may

be placed or you may give them to a UMW mem-

ber.

Upcoming Event Friday & Saturday, July 21

th & 22nd

Mission u Millbrook First United Methodist Church

The Alabama-West Florida Conference of United Methodist Women is sponsoring a two-day event focusing on the mission work of the Methodist church. These classes are open to everyone-men, wom-en and youth. You may take one study on Friday and a different one on Saturday. You may attend one day or both days. Each class is a six-hour study. Flyers with additional information are available in the narthex, the church office and Classroom 6. Deadline for reg-istration is July 8.

Our church will attend a Montgomery Biscuits

game on Wednesday, August 2. We need a

head count to go ahead and purchase tickets.

Tickets are $11 each and there will be a signup

sheet in the fellowship hall. You can turn in your

money to LaNeta Tucker or the church office.

The Contemporary Praise Band is looking for an

acoustic guitarist. If interested please contact

Owen Carothers at 334-414-4857 or ocaroth-

ers@gmail.com. You must be able to make prac-

tices on Wednesday nights at 6:30 p.m. and

Sunday morning run through at 9 a.m.

Coat Drive

Biscuits Game

Guitarist Needed

Office Desk Needed

The church is in need of an office desk and

chair. If you can donate either of these

items, please contact Jacki Smith at

jsmith@mfumc.org or call the church office

at 334-285-4114.

Pastor’s Pen

La., being the hands of Jesus as they rebuild

homes from last year’s flood.

We have been soaking up the Son as we gath-

ered on Wednesday nights in the Friendship

Sunday School Class to lift up in prayer those

who are sick, hurting, weak and poor. Also, we

have been studying our Christian family tree as

we learn about other denominations, asking

God to show us what we can learn from our

cousins in the faith that can help us better follow

Jesus.

And of course we continue to gather to worship

every Sunday morning in the chapel and sanctu-

ary so that we can bask in the Son, soaking in

His love, His healing, His hope, His power, His

wisdom, and His perspective.

In closing, I hope you enjoy every minute of your

summer. I hope you are able to take a vacation

from work and school and find time to rest. But

there is one vacation I am praying you don’t

take this summer, and that is a vacation from

church. Even if you’re out of town, find a

church to

worship

with and

soak up the

life giving

light of the

Son.

Know that

Judy and I

love you

and are

praying that

God will

richly bless

you this

summer.

I’ll see you this Sunday at church as we bask in

the Son, who has given us the marvelous gift of

freedom.

Yours in Christ .

Pastor Jerry

On A Mission Jacki and Hunter Smith will spend a week

this summer in Haiti bringing the Gospel of

Christ to more than 300 youth.

Jacki and Hunter Smith will leave for Cap-Haitien,

Haiti, this summer where they will spend a week

bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the youth of

Haiti.

Last summer, Hunter spent five weeks living on the

compound of the One Mission Society. One of the

couples in the mission run the Cowman School,

which is a school attend primarily by the children of

Haiti’s leaders. She helped them get ready for the

school year and then assisted in primarily preschool

classrooms once the school began.

When Hunter returns in July, this time with her moth-

er Jacki, the two will share the Gospel during the

Youth Conference for the Emmaus Fellowship of

Churches. Three to five hundred youth are expected

to attend the conference.

Former Millbrook FUMC Pastor Steve MacInnis and

his wife Tish are coordinating the youth conference.

The team will include 14 people, including a delega-

tion from Mulder Memorial United Methodist Church

in Wetumpka. Steve and Tish were accepted as One

Mission Society missionaries on August 31, 2012,

and assigned to Haiti as itinerant missionaries. Steve

travels to Haiti four to five times each year, spending

three and four months out of the year there.

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Confirmation Class 2017

July Birthdays 3 Clay Myers

3 Noah West

5 Erin Myers

5 Patty Inman

7 Gwen Story

7 Adam Chandler

7 Don Green

9 Rick Barregarye

9 Gail Inman

10 Jordan Dennis

11 Elaine Messick

11 Jab Brown

11 Megan White

11 Lachlan Johnson

12 Lyndall Barlow

12 Karen Coffey

12 Evan Brandau

12 Rayven Collins

13 Faith Davis

14 Corrine Foster

15 Buddy Cobb

15 Cecil Lewis

16 Ric Payson

16 Joyce VanValkenburg

16 Sydney West

17 Jamie Blanchard

17 DeQuan Brown

18 Al Pearson

18 Jonathan Hull

21 Charlie Potts

21 John VanValkenburg

22 Beverly Cox

24 Gail Lowman

25 Stephanie Hussey

26 Vicky Ohlson

26 Kayla Fulton

11 Frank & Mitt Houston

14 Mike & Kathy Cobb

19 Gary & Debbie Cox

23 Tom & LaNeta Tucker

24 Bill & Ida Clemons

“Making Disciples of

Jesus Christ for the

Transformation of the

World”

Confirmands pictured,

from left, are Jonathan

Clarke, Freddy Patton,

Grace Rupinen and

Cooper Tanner. Please

welcome our newest

members when you

see them at church!

July

27 Lindy Gamble

27 Gerri Miller

30 Sharon Tubbs

30 Phyllis Myers

31 Jessica Burdick

Scenes from Vacation Bible School 2017

This Month at Millbrook FUMC:

Sunday Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

2

3

9:30 am Monday Morning Prayer

Group

10:30 pm Prime Timers

6:00 pm Boy Scouts

4

Office Closed for

July 4th holiday

5

6:30 Praise Team Practice

6

6:00 Trustees Meeting

7 8

9

Noon UMM &

Henrietta Thomas

Circle Meeting

10 9:30 am Monday Morning

Prayer Group

5 pm Discerning Church Times

Meeting

6:00 pm Boy Scouts

11

6:00 am Men’s Prayer Breakfast

(Front Porch Grill)

6:30 pm Church Council Meeting

6:00 Cub Scouts

12

4:30 Supper @ Smokehouse BBQ

6:00 pm Bible Study

(Friendship SS Classroom)

6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice

13

8:00 am to 2:00 pm

Volunteer @ WELCOME

Game Night Fundraiser

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

14

15

16

8:00 am to 12:00 pm

Blood Drive

17

9:30 am Monday Prayer Group

6:00 pm Boy Scouts

6:00 pm Marguerite Hall & Lillian

Hancock Circle

18

6:00 am Men’s Prayer Breakfast

9:30 am Doris Cobb Circle

1:00 pm Suzanna Wesley Circle

6:30 p.m. SPRC Meeting

19

4:30 pm Supper@ Front Porch

Grill

6:00 pm Bible Study

6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice

20

6:30 p.m. Communication

Action Team Meeting

21

UMW Mission u

22

UMW Mission U

23 Noon Emmaus Luncheon

(Mission House)

Noon UMW Executive Meeting

30

Noon UMW Meeting

24

6:00 pm Friendship Sunday School Supper 6:00 pm Boy Scouts 31 9:30 Monday Morning Prayer

25

6:00 am Men’s Prayer

Breakfast (Front Porch Grill)

6:00 pm Cub Scouts

6:30 Finance Committee

26

4:30 pm Supper@ Catfish House

6:00 pm Bible Study

(Friendship SS Classroom)

6:30 p.m. Praise Team Practice

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July 2017@ MFUMC