MOUNT OLIVET UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCROSSROADSNEWSLETTER

August 201702 Summer Splash

12 Young Adult Class BBQ

13 Communion

20 Worship Committee Meeting

9am to 1pm - lunch provided

AUG 2

Movie: “Moana” followed by a Luau Lunch

Please remember our World Concern Offering

44cents can cure 1 child of parasite

Meet & Greet:

Sunday mornings, 9:15-10:45. We’ve gone back to the basics, coffee and donuts. Please check the sign-up sheet in the Narthex and

pick one Sunday to provide breakfast.

The Musings of Pastor Jimmy

Hello FriendsEvery year it seems that I get dozens of emails to buy books and attend seminars to develop a vision

for our church. I get that we as believers need to keep fresh, but what I am noticing is that the following year the vision is now out of date. I am guilty of at times buying into the new fads. However, this year at Annual Conference our Bishop made it clear that the vision is already set before us, and guess what, it’s in the Bible.

Jesus said in Mark 12:30-31, “AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL (life), AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND (thought, understanding), AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’ 31 This is the second: ‘YOU SHALL [unselfishly] LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (AMP). Jesus tells us as His children, the Church, we are to love each other. This is not to be confused with tolerating sin. This verse resonated with me that we already have the “instructions” on how we are to live. This has sparked a fire in me to dive deeper. As United Methodist, we have a guideline as well that comes from scripture on how we as the Church need to approach doing live and engaging.

This method is called the Quadrilateral.

As you can see in the picture above the quadrilateral is made up of four powerful, yet equally important points. As Christians, Scripture is the source and standard for Christian doctrine. Tradition is experience and the witness of development and growth of the faith through the past centuries and in many nations and cultures. Experience is the individual's (that’s you!) understanding and appropriating of the faith in the light of his or her own life. Through Reason the individual Christian brings to bear on the Christian faith discerning and thought. These four elements taken together bring the individual Christian to a mature and fulfilling understanding of the Christian faith and the required response of worship and service.

As we enter this new season our goal as Mt Olivet is to, as the body, embrace the Word of God and the heritage of who we are as individuals and as a Church. We are going to embrace the thoughts, stories, and ideas of who we are in Jesus and use this to reach our community. As we march forward together, our Church will not be the same. I truly believe that God is working in the life of our Church family and the best is yet to come!

Keep Loving One Another!

Pastor Jimmy

AUGUST VOLUNTEERSACOLYTE

06 Elisabeth McBride13 Piper Calhoun20 Maddie Davis27 Mylie Dillion

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

06 Betsy Kent13 Alicia Gregory20 Lyn Hill27 Dustin & Cheryl Cockram

HEAD USHER

Mark Shelton

NURSERY

06 Michelle Owen13 Judy Tickle20 Betsy Kent27 Jamie McBride

KID’S CORNER

06 Dianne Harr13 Alicia Gregory20 Pastor Jimmy27 Dianne Harr

GREETERS

06 Judy Tickle & Mylie Dillion13 Shirley Patterson & June Dillion20 Jim & Margie Blankenship27 Bessie Carter & Ann Astin

COUNTERS

06 Cheryl Richardson & Vann Dillion13 Steve Kent & Lyn Hill20 Mary Clark & Marty Eanes27 JW Thomasson & William Hall

16 Brian & Vanessa Conner

19 Lyn Hill Naomi McDaniel

20 Megan Wyatt

29 Jonathan Eanes

30 Linda Thomasson

03 Louis Vann Dillion

09 Brian Conner Kelsey Shelton

17 Brenden Lahti Brooke Lahti

Budget Infoas of June 18, 2017

Needed Per Sunday: $ 2,647.77

Collected to Date: $ 58,378.73

Should Have Collected: $ 79,433.10

Ahead/Behind: - $ 21,054.37

Prayer Requests

Thank You! To all of our volunteers

Wallace Adams

Baby Oliver

Anna Barts

A.B. Brooks

Our Church

Amie Cotton Family

Our Country

Vann Dillion

Kat Dodson

Marty Eanes

Gary Gammon

Brandon Gray

Elizabeth Gregory

Cindy Hawker

Ryland & Carolyn Hawker

Gerald & Nell Henderson

Joan & Herbert Holley

Harriet Keith

Brittany & Andrew Lay

Donna Logan

John Love

Tracy Luebber’s Family

Larry Mann

Our Military

Olive Mills

Stanley Mitchell

Dewey Moss

Nursing Home Residents

Mike Patterson

Meg Peek

Shut-ins

Kathy Snellings

Kathleen Sparks

Margie Stroud

Ricci & Linda Stroud

Teresa Terry

The Sick

Travelers

Unspoken Requests

Cory Weatherford

Ellen White

Mike Wilson & Family

Danny Woodson & Family

Our Youth

Kid’s Page

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YTHURSDA

Y FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 29am Summer Splash

6pm SIP

36pm SIP

4 510am SIP

69:15am Meet & Greet10am Sunday School11am Worship

Gym Reserved

76pm SIP

8 96pm SIP

106pm SIP

11 1210am SIP

5pm Young Adult BBQ

13 9:15am Meet & Greet10am Sunday School11am Worship

146pm SIP

15 166pm SIP

176pm SIP

18 1910am SIP

209:15am Meet & Greet10am Sunday School11am Worship2pm Worship Committee Meeting

216pm SIP

22 236pm SIP

246pm SIP

25 2610am SIP

Gym Reserved

279:15am Meet & Greet10am Sunday School11am Worship3pm Chazown Experience

286pm SIP

29 306pm SIP