MUSIC PLANNING MEETING

6:30 PM

Newsletter Information Due by Noon

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Children and Youth Sunday School 9:30 AM

Adult Sunday School 9:30 AM

Worship Service 10:30 AM

Community Surveyor Team @ 2:00 PM

2

Prayer Team

@ 6:00 PM

3 4

SPRC Meeting

@ 6:30 PM

(In Adult Sunday School Room)

5 6 7

8

Children and Youth Sunday School 9:30 AM

Adult Sunday School 9:30 AM

Worship Service 10:30 AM

UMW @ 4:00 PM (Guest Speaker)

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15

Children and Youth Sunday School 9:30 AM

Adult Sunday School 9:30 AM

Worship Service 10:30 AM

16

Prayer Team @ 6:00 PM

Spring Break

17

Spring Break

18

Music Planning Meeting

@ 6:30 PM

(In Parlor)

Spring Break

19

Spring Break

20

Spring Break

21

22

Children and Youth Sunday School 9:30 AM

Adult Sunday School 9:30 AM

Worship Service 10:30 AM

23

Prayer Team @ 6:00 PM

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29

Children and Youth Sunday School 9:30 AM Adult Sunday School 9:30 AM

Worship Service 10:30 AM

Visioning Workshop with Kay Kotan– Following the worship service

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REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE

ACOLYTE SCHEDULE Mar. 1 Annie Pahl Kloey Kirby Mar. 8 Aubree Crawford Luke Schmucker Mar. 15 Savannah Sinclair Jack Sinclair Mar. 22 Annie Pahl Kloey Kirby Mar. 29 Jealyn Moore Jaret Moore

NURSERY SCHEDULE Mar. 1 Stacie Pahl Mar. 8 Cindy Whitaker Mar. 15 Cynthia Reagan Mar. 22 Trena Becker Mar. 29 Sheena Schmucker If you would like to volunteer come by the nursery on Sunday and see if you are needed.

Mar.1—Community Surveyor Team @ 2:00 PM (In Parlor) Mar.2, 16, 23—Prayer Team @ 6:00 PM Mar.4—SPRC Meeting @ 6:30 PM (In Adult Sunday School Room) Mar.8—UMW @ 4:00 PM Guest Speaker (In Parlor) Mar.18—Music Planning Meeting @ 6:30 PM (In Parlor) Mar.29—Visioning Day with Kay Kotan following the worship service

1. Todd Jewett 5. Lloyd Sherrod Jacy Hammer 6. Marisa Smith 7. Gracelynn Simpson 10. Brian Gandy 16. David Whitaker Benny Baker Shane Simpson 21. Jennifer Burns Katherine Gray 23. Rick Leffel 25. Haylee Lewis 27. Barbra Duncan 31. Graham Hillhouse

MARCH BIRTHDAY’S

Margaret Hammer, Margaret Wright, Charlene Finch, Bill Stephens, Kelly Smith, Tom Hanson, Ronald & Phylis Raff, Wayne Cox, Dale & Peggy Roselius, Lynn Priebe, Jerry Strawn, Theresa Tate Butler, Carl Foster, Lindsay Bratton, Elizabeth Gersch, Karilyn Kidwell, Margerat Hennessey, Weston Swaboda, Owen Thomas, Phyllis Pren-dergast, Connie Jackson, Presley Wood, Johnny Crawford, Mary Hare, Peggy Goodson Family of:

Megan Gillispie-N. Carolina, Austin Sinclair-Japan, Chris Nunn-Washington, Jayson Walser-United States, Dustin Walser-United States, Justin Gandy-Kansas, Kylin Sincliar Davis-Syria, Hayden Muir-S. Dakota, Jeffery Long-Qatar, Kaleb Perkins-Georgia, Price Nuewirth-S. Carolina, Braedyn Kowalewski– N. Carolina, T.J. Eklund– Arizona

UPCOMING EVENTS

If you have information to be placed in the church newsletter please have it to the church office by the 25th of each month.

March Connector’s Mar. 1– Cynthia

Mar. 8– Dixie

Mar. 15– Marissa

Mar. 22– Barbra and Dan

Mar. 29– Carin and Mike

March Audio/Visual Rotation

3/01 Jeremy and Jamie Moore

3/08 Jeremy and Jamie Moore

3/15 Jeremy and Jamie Moore

3/22 Jeremy and Jamie Moore

3/29 Jeremy and Jamie Moore

REMINDER

All Committee’s and Teams have their minutes posted on the bulletin board in the foy-er for your review. In addition, the monthly financial report is posted on the bulletin board for your information. The goal of your leadership is to be open and transparent

with the congregation.

Pastor Quita’s days off are Friday and Saturday. She is always willing to adjust her days off to accommodate the spiritual and ministry needs of the congregation.

OFERINGS

General Fund February $ 11,762 General Fund Needed Monthly $ 16,407 Received to Date $ 35,871 Budget Needed to Date $ 32,814 Budgeted Year $ 196,886 Give+ Received to Date $ 1,475

Financials are posted on the board outside the church office.

Sunday’s Joyful Music Mar. 1 Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus Rescuer By Rend Collective Remembrance By Matt Redman It Is Well with My Soul Mar. 8 To God Be the Glory Rescuer By Rend Collective Come to Jesus By Chris Rice How Great Thou Art Mar. 15 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Rescuer By Rend Collective One Thing Remains By Jesus Culture Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Mar. 22 Majesty, Worship His Majesty My Lighthouse By Rend Collective This is Amazing Grace By Phil Wickham Be Thou My Vision Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus Mar. 29 How Firm a Foundation 10,000 Reasons By Matt Redman Build Your Kingdom Here By Rend Collective I Am Thine, O Lord

Please sign up to help in the nursery on Sunday mornings during worship. The kids love to sign the songs in worship and then they like to play with their friends in First Look Nursery. Please see the

sign up sheet on the board in the foyer.

ELECTRONIC GIVING NOW AVAILABLE * Visit our website at: fumcpanhandle.com *Download the Give+ App or scan the QR below *Visit our FUMC Panhandle App, click Contact Us, click Website, click Online Giving *See the link on our Facebook page at First United Methodist Church – Panhandle *Contact the Church Office at: 806-537-3423

D.I.Y.: Forgiveness Is Up To You It seems like all of us love a good home improvement show. Why is that? Why is it so satisfying to watch a project come together? Maybe because we all love a good fixer-upper. We love to see the experts take something that was dilapidated and broken-down and turn it into a thing of beauty.

All of us have some relationships that we might call fixer-uppers. If we’re honest, it takes a lot of strength to want to make them as good as new. It requires us to let go of what is right and fair in order to fix what’s broken. That’s never easy. But with God’s help, we have the tools we need to forgive…to decide that someone who has wronged us doesn’t have to pay.

We are a work in progress! Let’s know be afraid to let things be “in progress.” After all, forgiveness is never done. It’s something we have to choose to do continually. But in the end, it’s worth it for us to have relationships that are strong, whole, and restored.

Throughout the Bible, we can read about the importance of forgiveness. Right from the start, God made a way for Adam and Eve to have a relationship with Him again. The same is true for us. No matter how much we mess up, God will always make a way to forgive us. When it comes to forgiveness, we can also look to Jesus, who chose to forgive even those who were crucifying Him. Because of God’s amazing forgiveness, we should work hard to forgive others.

FORGIVENESS: Deciding that someone who has wronged you doesn’t have to pay. The children will be learning more about FORGIVENESS by way of the following Bible stories:

1. The Unmerciful Servant: Forgive others because God forgives you. Matthew 18:21-35 2. Zacchaeus: When you forgive others, it can change them. Luke 19:1-10 3. Jesus Teaches on Forgiveness: Take the first step to forgive others. Matthew 5:1-2; 23-24 4. The Story of the Lost Son: Everyone needs to be forgiven. Luke 15:11-24 5. Father and Older Brother: When you don’t forgive, you miss out. Luke 15:21-32

(Adapted from thinkorange.com)

“PUT UP WITH ONE ANOTHER. FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER IF YOU ARE HOLDING SOMETHING AGAINST SOMEONE. FORGIVE, JUST AS THE LORD FORGAVE YOU.” COLOSSIANS 3:13, NIRV

252KC Children’s Sunday School Class –March Schedule 9:30am-10:30am

Announcements

Date 252 KC Volunteer Teacher

Jr./Sr. High Volunteer Teacher

Kids & Youth-Breakfast Provider

March 1 Sheena Schmucker Johnny and Tara Crawford Roneen Leven

March 8 Elizabeth Gersch Johnny and Tara Crawford Elizabeth Gersch

March 15 Stacie Pahl Johnny and Tara Crawford Tommy Roark

March 22 Trena Becker Johnny and Tara Crawford Dixie Surratt

March 29 Carin Vance Johnny and Tara Crawford Judy Biggs

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL

“Putting Jesus First” Each lesson stands alone

9:00-Coffee/Snacks — 9:30-Lesson Begins All Adults Welcome-JOIN US!

Vision Day– March 29th

The workshop begins after worship with a meal.

If you are participating there will be a sign up sheet posted on the bulletin board, also to help get a head

count to plan the meal.

Childcare will be provided. (Meal provided by UMW)

600 Main St, PO BOX 549

Panhandle, TX 79068

806-537-3423

E-Mail: fumcpanhandle@amaonline.com

Website: www.fumcpanhandle.com

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First United Methodist Church

P.O. Box 549

Panhandle, TX 79068

Quita Jones– Pastor Marisa Smith– Administrative Assistant Cell: 806-252-1661 Cell: 806-676-5431

Our Mission is:

Putting our faith in action by making new disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

No one walks the discipleship pathway alone. There is no such thing as a

solitary Christian. In the words of John Wesley, “there is no holiness apart from social

holiness”. Being a follower of Jesus means being in community other followers of Je-

sus. We can be religious or spiritual without the presence of other people in our lives,

but we cannot be growing disciples of Jesus Christ without the encouragement, guid-

ance, wisdom, and accountability of other disciples.

Here at our church we have confirmation of the afore mentioned fact. In our Sun-

day Morning Sunday School Classes participants say that they are growing in faith and

life through the group process. We are sanctified by participation in the small group

community. In community our humanity becomes bound up in the humanity of others

and our faith becomes stronger because of the faith of others.

Our founder, John Wesley had his “heart-warming” conversion experience as he

participated in a small group Bible Study. His transformative experience was the root of

his beginning the Methodist Movement that transformed England and spread across the

ocean to America. So, we can say that there may have never been a Methodist Move-

ment without the small group experience.

I can’t promise that every time we meet in small groups or are present in worship

with the gathered congregation that your hearts will be “strangely warmed” as John

Wesley’s was. But I’d invite you to consider that it won’t happen if you aren’t there. Our

presence matters! Our presence results in transformed lives.

There are times we worship to affirm the faith we hold, but there are other times

when we worship so that the faith of the church can hold us! There are times when we

are present in small groups to encourage someone else, and there are times we need

to be present so others can encourage us!

And that’s something to think about during the coming month.

“Let’s hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who

made the promises is reliable.24

And let us consider each other carefully for the purpose

of sparking love and good deeds. 25

Don’t stop meeting together with other believers,

which some people have gotten into the habit of doing. Instead, encourage each other,

especially as you see the day drawing near.” Hebrews 10: 23-25

Live in grace,

Pastor Quita 2020