Fairfax
United Methodist Church
305 N. Broadway P.O. Box 318 Fairfax, MO. 64446
Office Hours: 8:00 am12:00 pm MonThurs
Office: 660-686-3314
Fax: 660-686-9505
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.fairfaxumc.net
Sunday Worship:
Sunday School - 9:30 am
Worship - 10:30 am
Channel 61 Broadcast - Tues. 4:00 pm
Wednesdays:
Promise Keepers - 6:00 am
Pastor Roger Cary
Pastors Hours: 8:00 am12:00 pm TuesThurs Fri & Sat: by appt
Study: 660-686-3314
Cell: 660-623-0427
Email: [email protected]
FAIRFAX MESSENGERFAIRFAX MESSENGER
OCTOBER 2012
We again encounter the first of the autumn months. For many harvest has been going strong, at least the corn harvest has. As I was driving over to Ohio for attendance at school I noticed in some places the corn was late (green) and beans were being harvested instead. I began to reflect on the prayers of blessing many farmers would be saying at this time in the hope that the drought of the summer had not completely ruined their crops. Often this prayer begins with the person asking to receive an abundant harvest. This is often accompanied by the attempt to engage God in a barter system-one in which we promise to do or act in some specific manner if only we are specially blessed through our prayers. The reality is that most will never complete this agreement on the human side as we prefer to claim it is through our own hard work; credit is never given to God. Yahweh (God) always held up the other side of the agreement and this is what we begin to understand as we read scripture. The bible is a story of Gods restoration of humanity this why it is impossible to claim that the works we read as canonical scripture are all there is. One only needs to look at an ear of corn, or the pods on a bean bush to see the abundance in biblical terms; three fold, increase of 60%, even the doubling 100% of the planting. We also approach a month in which the children look forward to a time of fun and frolic as they trick or treat on Halloween. Like a farmers field, there is a time when those bags and buckets are empty. Each child in their own manner is breathing the same prayer as the farmer; please God, provide me abundance. Halloween offers us a great opportunity to use a secular fun time to help our children learn about God. We look forward to all of those who will help out at our trunk or treat on October 31. On the 28th of October, Sunday, we will have some fun as we have a Zombie and Vampire Day of worship. I encourage each and every one to reflect on the idea of zombies and vampires as it relates to our Christian lives.
Peace be with you,
Pastor Roger
- Rev. Roger Cary Pastors Corner
Five volunteers traveled to Second Harvest in St. Joseph Thursday, September 13th. DeAnna Coggin, Jeremy Pfaff, Pastor Roger, Bob and Amy Sefrit were given the task of filling back pack food bags. There were 3 assem-bly lines allowing for different food items to be given out each week. The group filled 600 bags with the help of DeAnna stopping to make the 60 boxes needed and
Jeremy and Pastor Roger keeping the assembly line filled with the designated food when needed. Many changes are going on at Second Harvest. If you have not been able to volunteer or have not been down to Second Harvest for a while, mark you calendars for November 8th which will be the next Fairfax UMC volunteer opportunity.
2 Members of the Fairfax UMC Junior High Class and five girl scouts plan to attend YouthFest 2012 at the Festival of Sharing in Sedalia, MO October 19th and 20th.
Friday evening the girls will attend a program on world hunger. They will sleep in one of the area churches. Saturday will be spent helping organize and pack the items brought to the Festival of Sharing as servants to the hungry in Missouri and the world. Their work concludes
with a worship service late Saturday afternoon before returning home. Sam O'Riley and Amy Sefrit are the adult sponsors of this mission trip.
Please pray for these youth as they travel and are in ministry at the festival.
Helping Hands of Friendship
Have a project that you cannot, or should not, do yourself?
The Fairfax United Methodist Church would like to extend a hand of friendship by helping members of the Fairfax Community who might need some help with a small project!
Please call the Methodist church office (686-3314) and give a brief description of the job/jobs you need completed, your name and address, and phone number and someone will call you back to discuss details and let you know if its a project that our team can successfully handle.
United Methodist Women Evening Edition The Fairfax United Methodist Womens Evening Edition met Wed, Sep. 12, 2012, at 6:30 pm. Lois Wiley and Jayne Martin served the delicious refreshments of nuts with Candy Corn and cream cheese wraps which were enjoyed by the following members: Alice Kemerling, Pam Davis, Mary Combs, Amy Sefrit, Sandy Burke, Martha Shafer, Suzanne Southard, Marty Collingham, and Gale Ball.
Co-Chairman, Alice Kemerling, welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked that everyone welcome our newest member, Marty Collingham to our group. Everyone introduced themselves to Marty. Mary Combs gave the devotion which was exerts from three different books: Looking at Life through My New Bifocals by Jerry Brecheisen; Change the Word by Mike Slaughter; and Garden of Cheer. She closed the devotion by asking us to all join her in singing the Lords Prayer.
OLD BUSINESS: 1. Festival of Sharing Medicine Box Florine Hall gave a cash donation to help us purchase items needed to complete our Medicine kit which helped us reach our goal. Pam stated that Festival of Sharing is scheduled for October 10th in Sedalia. However, Pam plans to take our items to Cameron on October 13th. The committee plans to box up all the donations on October 6th at 10:00...anyone wishing to assist with this project is welcomed to join them! Amy Sefrit reported that Sam ORiley is having the Girl Scouts making kits for Festival of Sharing, too. It is fun to see everyone so excited to help with this project! 2. Beth Moore Live Simulcast Beth Moore Live Simulcast will be this Saturday, September 15th. The Steering committee which consists of women from Tarkio, Westboro, Fairfax and Mound City have enjoyed the fellowship of gathering together to prepare for this event, and have decided that they would like to continue with a Womens ministry team to offer other opportunities for women in our area. 3. Purse Fundraiser Sandy Burke reported that $152 was made on the Purse Fundraiser at the Fairfax Fair.
NEW BUSINESS: A Freewill Soup and Sandwich dinner after church is scheduled for October 14th.
Following the dinner will be auction of various themed baskets which will be donated by UME EE members. Chance Clement was contacted and he will be our auctioneer for this fun event.
Members donated $60 for the Judy Keith Missionary Group this month.
Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 10TH AT 6:30 P.M. in the church basement. Alice Kemerling has a skit that she would like to present to the group, and they may perform this skit at the Soup and Sandwich Lunch on October 14th. Alice said it will be quite entertaining.
Respectfully submitted by Gale Ball, Secretary
Soup & Sandwich
Dinner
Sunday, October 14th 11:30 am1:00 pm
- Freewill Offering -
Homemade chicken, vegetable, chili, potato, and possibly more soups along with ham, and chicken salad sandwiches and bars/cookies!
Open to the Community!! (Fairfax UMC, 305 N Broadway)
and
Themed Basket Auction
will begin at 12:45 pm Our ladies are putting together baskets xxxxxx
(each will have its own theme) xxxxx which we will auction off to the highest bidder!
United Methodist Womens
Thanks to the hard work of our Simulcast Team
Sisters in Spirit. . . we had 85 people attend the Beth Moore Living Proof Live Simulcast on Sept., 15! We had attendees from about all of our small surrounding towns in Northwest Missouri as well as up into Iowa over to Maryville and down to St. Joseph.
Beth Moore talked about how women can restore their faith. She used 2 Kings chapter 4 for her lesson. The Bible Verse for the day was Psalm 68:11 (NLV) 11 The Lord gives the Word. And the women who tell the good news are many.
Door prizes where given out and there was coffee and muf-fins and more for when the ladies got there in the morning and a lunch was also served to all.
A special thanks go out to all of the Sisters in Spirit: Gale Ball & Charla Graves (Fairfax), Michele Hawkins (Skidmore), Regina Quimby & Cathy Riggins (Westboro), Sue Davis, Brooke Walton & Norma Villagrana (Tarkio), Barb Hanlon & Nancy Nauman (Mound City) and Beverly Christians & Vicki Cook (Rock Port).
Monday, October 1st at the Fairfax School Cafeteria 2-7 pm. The Community Blood Center has projected a need of 90 volunteers to donate blood this day.
Book your appointment today at saveaflifenow.org, enter Sponsor Code: atchisonmo.
Free t-shirts to all registered donors!
Sponsored by the FCCLA and FFA.
As of this Newsletter Printingwe still need approximately $1,470 to cover the whole years cost for 27 children this year at Fairfax R-3. The cost for one child for the full school year is $150. Please send your donations to the Fairfax UMC office, PO Box 318, and memo them BackPackBuddiesFfx.
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