September, 2012

Messenger Church 620-492-6850

Parsonage 620-492-2495

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“ O U R M I S S I O N I S T O B R I N G G O D T O P E O P L E , A N D P E O P L E T O G O D ”

Church Website: www.fumcjohnson.com

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AN HONOR TO BE

ACCUSED

In Acts 5:28, Peter

and the other apostles

stand accused before the

Jewish high council, the

Sanhedrin, the same

body who found Jesus

deserving of death and

turned Him over to Pi-

late to be crucified. The

high priest questioned

them and then made this

accusation, "We gave

you strict orders not to

teach in this name, yet

here you have filled Je-

rusalem with your teach-

ing and you are deter-

mined to bring this

man's blood on us."

What an honorable accu-

sation! The high priest is

acknowledging that the

name of Jesus is spread-

ing everywhere and the

apostles are responsible.

Note especially this

phrase, "You have filled

Jerusalem with your

teaching."

Oh, that we could be

accused by opponents of

Jesus of having filled

Stanton County with the

teaching of Jesus! Oh

that we were so ener-

getic, so vigorous, so ef-

fective, that it would be

such an established fact

that people would have

to acknowledge the

spread and influence of

our faithful teaching of

Jesus Christ!

What would this look

like? Every man,

woman, and child would

adequately know the

Christian message so

they could act on it.

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Fall Rally Day!

Sept 30th, 2012

We will honor our children,

youth, and adult Sunday

School teachers during

morning worship.

Balloons will be released

and Pot Luck will follow

worship.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

AN HONOR TO BE ACCUSED (continued) Page 2

2012 Offerings Report:

Received to Date:

$181,144.49

YTD Goal:

$228,165.00 Note: $6,519.00 needed

weekly to meet offering goal

Each would comprehend the unique

nature of Jesus Christ--God who

became man, who made the su-

preme sacrifice of giving His life

for our lives so we could be liber-

ated from the destructive force of

sin, and who calls us to follow Him

by living in faith, power, and obe-

dience. With everyone compre-

hending these truths about Jesus,

many of these would commit them-

selves absolutely to following Him.

The saturation of the entire county

with the teaching of Jesus would

mean many changed lives and a

ground swell of changes in the val-

ues, motives, and actions of the

people of the county. The county

itself would be changed such would

be the influence of this teaching.

In Jerusalem, in the first year

after Jesus' resurrection, the high

priest and the Sanhedrin were wor-

ried. They felt they were losing

control. They thought the temple,

the synagogues, their very way of

life was threatened. But the only

thing that was threatened was their

power. The changes resulting from

the teaching of the apostles were

absolutely beneficial to all who re-

ceived this truth. Life was getting

better because of Jesus Christ.

Imagine America today if every

city, every county, every state, the

entire nation were saturated with

the teaching of Jesus Christ. What

would be the impact on home life?

What would be the fabric of atti-

tudes within a community and

across the nation? What would be

the increase of motivation toward

excellence in the classroom and the

work place?

For decades the United Meth-

odist Church has boasted there are

more Methodist churches than U.S.

Post Offices. But having an outpost

in every zip code is not the same as

saturation. Saturation is neighbor

talking to neighbor. It is convinced,

committed Christians living a daily

lifestyle of an integrated witness to

Jesus Christ in their lives. I have

been re-reading Paul E. Little's

book, How To Give Away Your

Faith. Paul Little is deceased, and

he wrote the book in the early

1970's, but his wife has revised it

for today and re-published it. Paul

Little teaches how we can easily,

naturally, and sensitively share our

faith with others. In his method we

learn to look for a person's readi-

ness to examine who Jesus is, and

we learn to share Christ by listen-

ing to the other person. Sharing this

way is relational and genuine, Sen-

sitive to the Holy Spirit, waiting for

God to work in our friends life.

The apostles were successful,

because they were filled with the

Holy Spirit, and because they were

obedient. Peter answered the high

priest's accusation by saying, "We

must obey God rather than any hu-

man authority." In their case obedi-

ence literally meant putting their

lives on the line and defying the

order to cease and desist from

teaching about Jesus.

We should be so bold in the

Holy Spirit! We should seek to

saturate Johnson and Stanton

County with the teaching of Jesus,

to see people who do not know

Him to come to know Him and fol-

low Him, to see every believer

grow to maturity in Jesus Christ. I

have talked with most of the pas-

tors of the other churches in the

county and we agree this is most

desirable and something no one

church can do by itself. Will you

pray that we succeed in "filling

Johnson City and Stanton County

with the teaching of Jesus Christ"?

Pastor Don

Mark your calendar!

BFF” – Breakfast Family

Fellowship

Sunday, Oct 7th

9—9:30 a.m.

Sponsored By:

Disciple Council

YOUTH ACTIVITIES

New Ladies Bible Study

6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Parlor

& 1st lesson will start

Monday, Sept 10th

Adult Bible Studies

EARLY MORNING LADIES BIBLE

STUDY

Starting Tuesday, Sept 4th at 6:30 a.m.

Contact Barbara Morris or the Church Office for

more information

2 Tyson & Wendy Adams 16 Monty & Becky Teeter 26 Roger & Shari Wiens

CHURCH FAMILY PRAYER

L IST

Sept 2 James & Polly Cartwright

Sept 9 Mitchell Cartwright

Sept 16 Rena Cartwright

Sept 23 JC Chapman

Sept 30 Floyd & Girtha Chenoweth

1 Tyson Adams, Lauren

Canny

4 Rhett Seyb

7 John Teeter

8 Lysle Davidson

11 Judy Arnold

12 Alexys Walker

13 John Lewis

16 Kennedy & Caid Smith

18 John Nicholas,

Phyllis Hasty

20 Claire Montoya

23 Aubree Summers

26 Bill Nicholas

27 Linda Rector

29 Tony Montoya

30 Fox Morris

UMW Bazaar, Sat. Nov 3rd

It’s a good time to start thinking about

projects for the Auction & Country Store

SEE YOU AT THE POLE

SEPT 26TH

ADULTS: 7 a.m. @ the 1st Baptist

Church

YOUTH: 7:30 a.m. @ the High School

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Preschool has kicked off our year with a great start!! We have 12

students in the morning class and 12 students in the afternoon class! We

will be very busy! So far we have practiced cutting, pasting, painting, col-

oring, writing our names, sorting, dances to many songs, and learned our

centers! Most importantly, we are getting to know our new friends!

This year we were able to add a new room; it’s called our Tech

Room!! We have a listening center, computers, and a Lego table! If you

haven’t seen it, please feel free to come down by us!

The first two weeks is a getting to know us time: learning the rou-

tine, introduction of letters, numbers, shapes, & colors, and our new skills

such as cutting & gluing. We will then start our study of the alphabet indi-

vidually.

Cheryl Berens

L E A R N I N G T R E E

P R E S C H O O L

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LITURGIST

Sept 2nd– Monty Teeter Sept 9th– Phyllis Hasty Sept 16th– Diane Floyd

Sept 23rd– William Nicholas Sept 30th– Darrel Ruth

GREETERS

Sept 2nd - Shirley Palmer & Betty Barber Sept 9th - Moran & Jeanie Tomson

Sept 16th—David & Angela Black Sept 23rd—Barbara & Trey Summers

Sept 30th—Carol & Dakira Limon

ACOLYTES

Sept 2nd—Carly Kullot & Macee Teeter Sept 9th– Aiden Kullot & Brayden Gran

Sept 16th– Paige McMillan & Abby Thompson Sept 23rd– Jaxson Rios & Kamryn Golub

Sept 30th– Alexys Walker & Chesney Peterson

USHERS

Sept 2nd—Wendell Nicholas, David Shirk, Bill Nicholas, Darrell Cockrum

Sept 9th—Jenna Black, Haley Floyd, Jeremy Amerin, Marissa Dickson

Sept 16th—David & Liz Shirk; David & Angela Black

Sept 23rd—Trish Morris, Martha Nicholas, Krista Nairn, Shari Wiens

Sept 30th—Mandy Seyb, Sheila Walker, Mandi Shirk, Jamie McMillan

NURSERY

Sept 2nd—Debbie Roth & Jenna Black Sept 9th—Amy Edgar & Shae Amerin

Sept 16th—Geneva Persinger & Haley Floyd Sept 23rd—Stephanie & Marissa Dickson

Sept 30th— Debbie Roth & Jenna Black

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

Sept 2nd—Amy Peterson Sept 9th—Jamie McMillan Sept 16th—Becky Teeter & Liz Shirk

Sept 23rd—Karin Kullot Sept 30th—Amy Peterson

IF THIS DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU PLEASE CALL THE CHURCH OFFICE @ 492-6850

ANNOUNCEMENT

SEPT 1ST—Safe Gatherings Training (formerly Boundary Awareness Training) is available online beginning

Sept 1st, 2012. All adults and youth who work with children and youth in any capacity at the church need to

have this training . Cost is $30 which the church will cover. Once you have registered with the online learning

system. You have 30 days to complete the training process for the certification. Contact safegather-

ings@kswestumc.org for more information or the church office.

FAMILY MIXER

Fun & Fellowship would like to invite you to sign up to share a

meal or meals with others during a 3 month period.

Sign up if you are interested by turning this into the church office and

we will pair you up with another person/persons:

Names:_________________________________________________

Food Allergies:__________________________________________________

DO YOU HAVE A RECIPE

TO SHARE IN THE

NEWSLETTER?

Please email it to:

jumc@pld.com or drop it in

the mail to: First UMC, Box

179, Johnson, KS 67855

F I R S T U N I T E D M E T H O D I S T C H U R C H

202 S. Nipp St.

P.O. Box 179

Johnson, KS 67855

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Need to contact the church? Phone: 620-492-6850;

email: jumc@pld.com; website: www.fumcjohnson.com

RECIPES FROM

THE KITCHEN

First UMC Staff

Pastor: Don Hasty Associate Pastor & Will Kenyon

620-635-0093 (cell) Youth Coordinator: 785-222-6891 (cell)

jumc@pld.com kenyon_family@yahoo.com

Secretary: Carol Limon Treasurer: Mandy Shirk

Custodian: Victoria Garcia Preschool Teacher: Cheryl Berens

Community Developer: Jose Olivas

S’MORES TREAT

1 bag (10 oz.) mini marshmallows 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (topping) 1 box (12 oz.) Golden Grahams Cereal

6 T. Butter 1/2 t. Vanilla extract

Non-stick cooking spray 9 x 13 dish

Spray dish with non-stick cooking spray, and set aside. In a large non-stick pot over

medium heat, melt butter. Add marshmallows and stir together till butter melts. Stir

in vanilla extract. Fold in grahams cereal until coated with marshmallows. Mix in 1

cup of chocolate chips. Spread treats onto your dish. Press into pan, and sprinkle 1/4

cup chocolate chips on top (press them lightly to make sure they stick). Place in

fridge to cool for about 10 minutes and slice. Cover Leftovers in airtight container

Amiee Kenyon