TOMORROW IS THE BIG

Board of Trustees outdoor Spring clean up day!!!  Shovels, pitch forks, manure forks, gas powered blowers, gas powered edgers, weed eaters, are just some of the tools that will be needed.  THREE dump truck loads of mulch are to be here by Saturday morning, so wheelbarrows are also a "tool of the day."   What else?????  Don't know, really, so bring it and if you don't use it you can always take it back home!!!  Hope to see you around

8-8:30 ish!!!!!!!  Only working till around noon….or earlier if we get it all done!!!!!!! 

FOOD OF THE MONTH:  Boxed Cereal  

WOOD BROTHERS RACING AND PIT CREW

Are currently not employed here at our church.  And so, it is for that reason that over a year ago the Board of Trustee's initiated a directive that if your group uses the church van, then your group needs to gas the van back up TO AT LEAST the way your group found it.  If you are a church ministry sponsored group, the church will help defray the cost of fuel as well.  I mean really, the church pays the insurance, the maintenance, offers the van to ALL ministry groups in the church and the only thing that is asked is: "If your group uses it, fill it!!"  If your group will turn in receipts or get the church's credit card then it will cost your group practically NOTHING to use the church van………After all that, is it too much to ask that fuel be placed back in it????????

 

NO TRINKET ZONE……….

Now that my mom is getting older, she has told my sibling and I that she is thankful for all that she gets for Christmas/Mother's Day, etc., but she does not want any more "trinkets" or "knick knacks" that she has to move to dust. So we have gone practical on her.  Now she receives gift cards to K & S or subscriptions to her newspaper.  AND ONE OF HER MOST FAVORITE GIFTS to receive is an AutoBell car wash ticket from Garner Methodist Youth!!!!  How 'bout your mom???  Think she's tired of the "trinkets," as well, but is less blunt than my mom????  Mother's Day is fast approaching and what a great practical gift for mom and help the youth out ALL at the same time!!!!!! 

 

FORMER/PRESENT STEPHEN MINISTERS…….

If you have been in the past or are currently a Stephen Minister, would you consider offering your services???  On Wednesday Pastor Bob went to a Triangle Chapter of the American Red Cross meeting in which the ONLY invited guests were people's of faith.  In the coming weeks we are going to be getting out a list of "job listings," that will need to be filled in the event we open a disaster shelter here at Garner church.  With any disaster, people really reach out in desperation and trained listeners and counselors are

DESPERATELY needed.  Stephen Ministers will you stand with us??

How about Registered Nurses in our congregation???  Professional counselors??  Food service people (not just cooks, but people that would be willing to help make plates to feed the displaced people??).  How about people that will come and help set up cots and put blankets out, put pillows out???  SERIOUSLY be in prayer about where God would have you stand in the event we opened a mass disaster shelter here at Garner church……on the front line or on the side line????

 

POWER OF 7 MISSION UPDATE!!!!

Habitat at the Park, Lake Benson

May 17, 2008

6am-6pm

Seven local churches of the United Methodist Church Conference are sponsoring a community-wide fundraiser, which includes a yard sale, entertainment; bake sale, auctions, craft sale, plants, and rain barrels, for Wake County Habitat for Humanity.  We have LAND and we have a FAMILY but we need money to build the house!!   We need YOUR support of the fundraiser!!!  Our goal is to raise $70,000.00!!!

 

FOOD, FUN, FELLOWSHIP

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!!!!

Volunteers Needed for Power of 7

Garner UMC is responsible for Concessions, Food (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and Plant/Rain Barrel Sale for Power of 7 Missions.  Volunteers are still needed in each area.

Holly Springs and St. Andrews are in need of yard sale and auction items.  Baked goods are also needed for the bake sale.  For more details go to http://www.garnerumc.org/events/powerofseven.html

 

FOOD OF THE MONTH:   Boxed Cereal

MEAL AND NON MEAL TICKETS WILL BE

Out in the gathering area this Sunday (and next!!!) or you can get them through the church office for the Children's Musical, "Acorns to Oaks!!" http://www.garnerumc.org/events/acorns_oaks.pdf

The children have worked hard on this musical and if you want to see some up and coming showcased talent, COME ON DOWN!!!!  The meal offset priced ticket is ONLY $5 (and again, this small fee is ONLY to offset the cost of food).  There is also a FREE!!  Non-mealed ticket as well!!!

Get your ticket and come and be swooned by this great group of singers!!!!

 

FOOD OF THE MONTH:  Boxed Cereal

 

"NO" SUNDAY NIGHT

youth activities this week, "BUT"….well, here's Patricia with what is going to be happening:  Jr High & Sr. Youth will not meet on Sunday night.  Youth Activities for the day include Youth Ensemble at 12:30, Information/Auditions for "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" at 3:00 and Youth Vocal Team at 6:45.

 

ARE YOU A BLOCKHEAD???????

Then you may be JUST the one the Youth Creative Arts is seeking!!!!

Youth Creative Arts Ministry will be holding auditions for "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown".  Come out this Sunday April 20th at 3 PM or Monday night April 21 for more information and auditions.  All youth grades 7 and up are invited to attend.  Performance dates are set for August 2-3, 2008.

 

LOOK AT DISCOVERY

Weekend 2008, so we can plan Discovery weekend 2009!!!!  Discovery Meeting Tuesday April 22 at 7 PM in the Jr. High Youth Room.  Bring your surveys to evaluate this years weekend as we begin planning for Year Three of Discovery.  All adults and Sr. High youth interested in working with the Discovery Weekend are invited to attend this meeting.  Discovery dates are March 13-15, 2009.

 

WOW!!  WHAT IS A YOUTH

Trip if you don't go to an amusement park, stay all day, have some of the greatest fun allowed and then are so dead dog tired you need a wheelbarrow to help cart yourself around 'cause you are so tired!!  Now that's FUN!!!!  And that's JUST what we gonna do!!!  Here's Patricia:  Busch Gardens Trip May 10th.  Sign up sheet is on the youth bulletin board.  Cost of tickets $47.  This is a one day trip leaving at 6:30 AM and returning about 11 PM.  All youth 6-12 grade are invited.

 

CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN

you did something so exciting that in one flash of a moment you peed, screamed at the top of your lungs, prayed that if you EVER got out of "that" you would NEVER do it again???  And by the time you got done, you said, "Hey!! Let's do that again!!!!!  Well freeze that thought and then read this: White Water Rafting Trip planned for July 17-20. Sr. High Youth & College Students get ready for some high adventure on the New River.  Mark your calendars now and watch for more details!  Sign up sheet is on the youth bulletin board.

 

 

22 APRIL IS THE DATE

That SNAP will be here at Garner church and it will be the last date this month to help one of the groups that uses our church (well, this group only uses our parking lot to park their mobile low income assistance, pet surgery unit has a "wish list" of items that they are almost always in need.  This group will be back to our fair shores on 22 April. I was wondering if there were some of you animal lovers that would like to help out the SNAP-NC group (http://www.snap-nc.org/ ).  If you would be willing to help this group with some/any of the things listed below PLEASE put your donations by the elevator or in the copier room BUT CLEARLY MARK "SNAP" on the donated item so we will know where this item goes.  If led, here is the list:

WISH LIST:

 **Bottled drinking water

 **Paper Towels

 **Cleaning Sprays such as 409 or Lysol

 **Kitchen size trash bags

 **STAMPS!!!!

 **Quality Liquid Laundry detergent  (Tide, Gain, etc)

 **Quart Size Zipper Seal Plastic Bags

 **Any discarded hospital items such as suture material, gowns,

 **Alcohol/Peroxide

 **3 x 3 Sticky Note Pads, ruled notebooks and #10 envelops

 

HOLY JAVA FLAVOR OF THE WEEK:  Chocolate Crème Brule 

 

COME LET US WORSHIP AND BOW DOWN….

8:30 AM:  Traditional Worship:  Prelude: "Allegro from the Bach Double Violin Concerto," presented by: Ashley Martin and Lucy Turner, violins.  Anthem: "Peace," by Steven W. Wheltle, baritone, Carol Kamp, piano.  Offertory: "Largo from the Double Violin Concerto," by Ashley Martin and Lucy Turner, violins.

 

 

9:45 AM:  Contemporary Worship:  Scripture lesson: John 14: 1-14.

 

 

11   AM:  Traditional Worship:  Prelude: "Allegro from the Bach Double Violin Concerto," Ashley Martin/Lucy Turner, violins with the Garner Sinfonia.  Anthem: "Peace," Chancel Choir with Garner Sinfonia.  Offertory: "Largo from the Double Violin Concerto," featuring Ashley Martin/Lucy Turner violins and the Garner Sinfonia.  Pastor Bob's Sermon title: "Going HOME..."

 

CHURCH BAY:

YOU'RE INVITED!!!!!

Neuse Little Theatre will be presenting Foxfire at THE HUT on the corner of Market and Front Streets in Smithfield May 9, 10, 16-17 at 8 pm and May 11th at 3 pm. This would make a great Mother's Day show as the show's star is a mother dealing with the changes in her life from what it used to be. Here is a summery of the story.

            "Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband Hector. Her tranquility is threatened by a brash real estate developer who wants to turn her land into a vacation resort and by concern over her son Dillard, a country singer who has come home with two stranded children because his wife has run away. Annie's battle to decide her future takes her through some funny, touching and magical flashbacks to her life with Hector. Played on Broadway by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, this couple offers a staunchly affirmative tribute to country folk. Dillard, still singing the music which used to infuriate his father, has an exuberant scene in which the audience becomes his public at a fairground concert. Can Dillard woo his mother away from the recalcitrant ghost? Will development swallow up the family farm? Only Annie can decide.

Come and enjoy a lovely story with some Bluegrass Music thrown in the pot."  Come on out, ya'll hear......Stephanie Veren