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Christmas Program Time is Here
Special program and services are Sunday morning, Dec. 11
On Sunday, Dec. 11, Sunday School will move to 9:00 to 10:00, followed by a 20-30 minute fellowship time of snacks in the Community Center. Around 10:20-10:30 we'll return to the sanctuary, where the children and youth will present their Christmas program, followed by a sermon by Wade McAmis.
United Methodist Women will meet in December
The United Methodist Women will meet for their December meeting and Christmas party on Monday, December 14th, at 6:00 at the Gondolier Restaurant
Bible Class Christmas Trip
local travel replaces usual trip to North Carolina
The Bible Class will take a Christmas trip on Thursday, Dec. 15th, to the Pickin' Porch in the Bristol Mall for an evening of bluegrass, country and Celtic music. They will leave about 5:30 from the church.
New Small Group Begins Meeting
Group Meets every other Thursday night at McAmis Home
Rev. Lew and Ashlee have begun a biweekly small group discussion and study every other Thursday night at 6:30 at the home of Wade and Daniece McAmis on the Whitehouse Road.
This group is open to anyone who'd like to attend. They will be discussing the book, "Being Gray in a World of Black and White," but it is not necessary to own or read the book to attend.
Annual Church Christmas Lunch
The annual Church Christmas Lunch covered dish will be Sunday, Dec. 18th, following Sunday School. Everyone is welccome!
Annual Christmas Caroling
Anyone who wants to go Christmas caroling is invited to be at the church on Monday, Dec. 19th, at 6:00 to go visit some of the church shut-ins.
Christmas Eve Services
Candelight Communion
There will be a Christmas Eve candelight communion service on Sat., Dec. 24th at the church at 6:30.
Old News But Still a Good Reminder!
Church Library Undergoes Major Reorganization
Over 230 new books and dvd's added in past few months
The Church libraries have undergone a major reorganization in the past two months to make room for a number of new commentary sets and other individual volumes. Most of the Time-Life series were moved to the overflow room to make room for the new Biblical materials.
The purpose of this was to make the library easier to access and to increase the number of basic Bible commentaries and Biblical and theological information so that anyone who wanted to research a topic in more depth could do so easily, whether they were life-long Bible students or new to the faith.
Among the commentary sets recently added were The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds, both New and Old Testaments; The Holman Old and New Testament Commentary set; The Beacon Bible Commentary on the Old and New Testaments; The Life Application New Testament Bible Commentary; The Tyndale Old and New Testament Commentaries; Warren Wiersbe's "Be" series on the Old and New Testaments; The Expositor's Bible Commentary on the Old and New Testaments; and various volumes from the Mastering the Old and New Testament commentary series and the Storyteller's Guide to the Bible.
There were also a number of other individual books added to the library and there have been books on Easter, Christopher Columbus, and a series of books on how to respond to your parents and about talking to God added to the children's library.
There have also been twenty-nine dvds of family appropriate movies added to the audio-visual section of the library that are being kept in the children's library.
The only major part of the reorganization that remains to be done is the relabeling of some of the books and the updating of the card catalog to reflect a new and simplified Dewey Decimal system now being used.
For pictures and all the latest library listings and map of the shelves, click here.