Homecoming Week!!! 🏈🎉🥫🛒 (yes those emoji’s go together)
Your Weekly Update from Marceline UMC
Hello Church,
Thank you to everyone who came to our first listening session after church yesterday! We had good conversations. This is a reminder that it’s not too late to get signed up. We have two more that are scheduled with the possibility of adding at least one more. You can sign up using the link below, and the questions we’ll be discussing are there for your reflection too.
What do you see as the purpose of the church?
In your opinion, what are the most important ministries of the church? What are the least?
How would you describe our church to someone new to our area?
What do you think are the greatest needs of our community?
Over the last 5-6 years, how has our Marceline changed? How has it remained the same?
What is good about our church? What are you worried about?
What do we need to change as a church?
Where do you see God leading us?
We’ve already started receiving some good responses for our small group interest survey. If you haven’t filled one out yet, you can do so through the link below, or through a hardcopy in the sanctuary. What small groups would you attend, and what small groups would you attend and invite a friend to?
Let me know what you think!! I’m looking forward to the next few weeks and getting to have some more in-depth conversations with all of you about where we are going.
Don’t forget See You at the Pole, Wednesday morning at 7:15 at the flagpole at the High School
Also, look below for some links to news stories from the larger church.
UMC News
We’ve got news from around the denomination! Take a look at the links below to see what we’re doing close to home and far away.
October Missouri Methodists
Female Methodist Reformer Graces Coin
Church Court Finds Bishop Not Guilty
ERT After Idalia
Bible Reading This Week
You can find out more about our current Bible reading plan by clicking on the link. And, take a look at what chapters to read below.
Monday: 1 Corinthians 8-9
Tuesday: 1 Corinthians 10
Wednesday: 1 Corinthians 11-12
Thursday: 1 Corinthians 13-14
Friday: 1 Corinthians 15
Parting Shot - Not this week
There’s a couple of pictures this week! One is from the back of the Sanctuary, and the other is just a silly picture, but is a reenactment of one of our UM News stories. Take a look at the end of the email to see them.
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Have a great week!
Peace,
Pastor John
Important Announcements
Bring canned goods and other items for the food pantry to the Homecoming Parade on Friday. We’ll be going along the parade route (in the parade) picking them up.
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Going On This Week
Community Calendars
Marceline School Calendar
My Country 99.1 Community Calendar
Worship Links
Youtube Services, Messages
Worship Music Lists: YouTube, Spotifiy
🎂 🎂 🙂 Send a note or a message to these folks and celebrate with them!
Get caught up!
You can always get caught up on sermons if you’re behind. We try to have them posted on Monday morning, so check back if it hasn’t been posted yet. You can find all of the sermons on their own playlist.
Prayer & Devotions
The Hours
Morning | Evening | Night Prayers
Daily Devotions
Seedbed Devotions, YMI
The Upper Room, Our Daily Bread
GPS Guide from Church of the Resurrection
Daily Meditations from the Center for Action & Contemplation
Other Resources
Bible Project great Bible Study resource for really engaging the Bible
Five Day Bible Reading - Read through the Bible in a year
YouVersion Online Bible
Prayer List
Groups: Church: Denomination, Conference, Area UMC's, Area Churches
Schools: Students, Teachers, Administrators, Employees, Parents
Community: Food Pantry, Ministries in Linn County, Ministerial Alliance
Government: Leaders, Local, County, State, National
Situations: Pandemic, Racism, Economic Disparity, Mental Health, Natural Disasters
College Students: Raven Goodpaster, Colby Sims, Emma Sheerman, Brianna Teeter, Carter Vandeloecht, Enzo Anthony, Sam Gillman, Will Heller, Tess Sheerman
Individuals: John Moore’s brother-in-law’s family, Robert Gray Family, Jeri Reese Family, Tristan Markov, Olivia Robinson, Debbie Daniel, Blake Cagle, Krista’s stepson, Vicki Helton, Charlie Jobson, Jean Belt, Inez Johnson, Jason Ard, Cecil Mott, Joni’s niece Lindsey, Zoe Tolliver, Kyle & Carol Lake, Ruth Terrell, Linda Ewigman, Milton Harper, Vickie Gregg, Robert Johnson, Dan Brooks, Francis & Betty Mordecai, Estella Cupp, Ron Klingsmith, Tony Tucker, Bob & Pat Magee, Ruth Farris
Pioneer: Mabel Worley, Marylin Mears
Military Service: Patric Munson, Nick Cain, LTC John Casey Welch, Tyler Nanneman, Jeffrey Tucker, Kelly Tucker, Brandon Wellman, Heath Floray, Steve Graves, Michael Pyrtle, William Leukenotte, Kerry Lowrey