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Volume 46, Issue 23 November 26, 2018 Pastor’s Corner 1 Children’s Ministry 2 Youth News 3 Calendar 4-5 Prayer Concerns, Announcements & Birthdays and Anniversaries 6 Worship Assistants Worship Reports Announcements 7 Announcements 8 Inside this issue: Good News St. Luke United Methodist Church 302 Dunlap Drive Hartsville, SC 29550 Good News—USPS 960-680 ACS ID#101446 Postmaster send address changes Published Bi-weekly—Periodicals Postage paid at Hartsville, SC Church Office Hours: Monday—Thursday 8:00 AM—5:00 PM Someone is available at all times in the church office. Friday 8:00 AM—12:00 Noon St. Luke United Methodist 302 Dunlap Drive Hartsville, SC 29550-4943 843.383.5169 843.383.0916 Fax Email: [email protected] Website: www.stlukehartsville.com PASTORS CORNER A friend of mine recollects the most memorable Christmas from her past: My sister and I lived with our mother. We were poor as poor can be, and Mom suffered from tuberculosis. With Christmas fast approaching, we had no expectaons for Christmas celebraons and presents. When we awoke on Christmas morning, our hearts filled with joy when we received some fruit, and each of us were given one set of new clothes for our baby dolls. In her sickened condion, Mom managed to sew the small sets of clothing. We experienced joy that morning, and also learned a lesson about giſts filled with love.Although Christmas is a season of hope, love, peace and joy, we are also reminded that the Grinchis lurking around. The hecc pace and stressors can easily lead anyone into the Bah Humbugmentality. Zachariah baulked at the Angels announcement that they were to bring John the Bapst into the world to prepare the way for the Coming of the Lord.Mary and Joseph had their doubts and fears about Gods design and desire for their role as instrumentalist in Gods ulmate plan of salvaon for the world. Later, King Herod decided to take maers into his own hands to thwart Gods salvific plans. Remember the words from O Lile Town of Bethlehem,” “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. As we celebrate Gods giſt to us through the birth of Jesus and welcome his comingagain and again into our lives every day, be on guard and let nothing destroy or steal the blessings of Christmas. While sharing with a group of children one Sunday morning, we talked about the Advent wreath and the symbols on our chrismon tree. One child announced, There is a crown on tophow true the words. As we move slowly through the season of Advent, may we all know that there is a Crown on Top,and all we do in worship will point us to the birth of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Herein is the greatest giſt of love. When our experiences are grounded in the self giving love of God, our Christmas will be filled with hope, peace, love and joy. Merry Christmas Pastor Carl

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Volume 46, Issue 23

November 26, 2018

Pastor’s Corner 1

Children’s Ministry 2

Youth News 3

Calendar 4-5

Prayer Concerns,

Announcements &

Birthdays and

Anniversaries

6

Worship Assistants

Worship Reports

Announcements

7

Announcements 8

Inside this issue:

Good News

St. Luke United Methodist Church 302 Dunlap Drive Hartsville, SC 29550

Good News—USPS 960-680 ACS ID#101446 Postmaster send address changes Published Bi-weekly—Periodicals Postage paid at Hartsville, SC

Church Office Hours:

Monday—Thursday

8:00 AM—5:00 PM

Someone is available at all

times in the church office.

Friday

8:00 AM—12:00 Noon

St. Luke United

Methodist

302 Dunlap Drive Hartsville, SC 29550-4943

843.383.5169 843.383.0916 Fax

Email: [email protected] Website: www.stlukehartsville.com

PASTOR’S CORNER

A friend of mine recollects the most memorable Christmas from her past: My sister and I lived with our mother. We were poor as poor can be, and Mom suffered from tuberculosis. With Christmas fast

approaching, we had no expectations for Christmas celebrations and presents. When we awoke on Christmas morning, our hearts filled with joy when we received some fruit, and each of us were given one set of new clothes for our baby dolls. In her sickened condition, Mom managed to sew the small sets of clothing. We experienced joy that morning, and also learned a lesson about gifts filled with love.”

Although Christmas is a season of hope, love, peace and joy, we are also reminded that the “Grinch” is lurking around. The hectic pace and stressors can easily lead anyone into the “Bah Humbug” mentality. Zachariah baulked at the Angels announcement that they were to bring John the Baptist into the world to prepare the way for the “Coming of the Lord.” Mary and Joseph had their doubts and fears about God’s design and desire for their role as instrumentalist in God’s ultimate plan of salvation for the world. Later, King Herod decided to take matters into his own hands to thwart God’s salvific plans. Remember the words from “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” As we celebrate God’s gift to us through the birth of Jesus and welcome his “coming” again and again into our lives every day, be on guard and let nothing destroy or steal the blessings of Christmas.

While sharing with a group of children one Sunday morning, we talked about the Advent wreath and the symbols on our chrismon tree. One child announced, “There is a crown on top” – how true the words. As we move slowly through the season of Advent, may we all know that there is a “Crown on Top,” and all we do in worship will point us to the birth of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Herein is the greatest gift of love. When our experiences are grounded in the self giving love of God, our Christmas will be filled with hope, peace, love and joy. Merry Christmas Pastor Carl

Worship Assistants for December 2: Bearer of the Word of God ............................................. Lily Ann Fischer Acolyte ......................................................................Jacob Bedenbaugh Crucifer .................................................................... Drake Bedenbaugh Crawler Room ........................................................ Jessica Bedenbaugh Walker Room .................................................................... Amelia Brown Hopper Room............................................................. Caroline Anderson Children’s Church ............................................... Kyle and Kate Buckley Counting Committee: .......................... Bill Query and Drew Hamilton

*If you are unable to be here on your assigned Sunday, please call the church office Before your Sunday, so a replacement can be found.*

Flowers: Ben Gore Family

Communion Servers for December: The Bizzell Family Greeters for December: Dee Moyd, John & Suzy Moyd, Narthex Russ & Miriam Norwood, Children’s Hall Prayer Outreach Team for December:

Judy Brown ....................................................................... 843-307-1498 Nancy Caffee .................................................................... 843-332-5488 Georgianna McElhannon.................................................. 843-332-0366 Joanne Merck ................................................................... 843-332-0966

Worship Assistants for December 9: Bearer of the Word of God ................................................ Lucas Fischer Acolyte................................................................................. Price Bethea Crucifer ............................................................................. Joseph Ringer Crawler Room ........................................................ Jessica Bedenbaugh Walker Room .................................................................... Amelia Brown Hopper Room ............................................................ Caroline Anderson Children’s Church .......................................................... Jordan Murdock Counting Committee ............................ Greg Alexander and Bill Query

*If you are unable to be here on your assigned Sunday, please call the church office before your Sunday, so a replacement can be found.*

Flowers: Lex & Sherry West Trustee of the Month: Ben Gore Ushers for December: Tee Thompson (Captain), Bruce Bogardus, Eddie Drayton, Randell Ewing, Jeff West, Allen Rudick

BEREAVEMENT MEAL COMMITTEE FOR DECEMBER: Shirley McCutchen and Marla Prozzi (Chairs), Carol Jean Abbott, Mary Jeffords, Bebe Chapman, Jada Gore, Teri Groves, Anne Guest, Caroline Beasley, Becca Benson, Mildred Purvis, Jane Cheshire, Jan Rothe

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Worship Assistants/Worship Reports

The annual contributions deadline

is December 31.

Contributions are tax-deductible in

the year that the contributions are made. To make it

count during the 2018 tax year, gifts must be in the St.

Luke office by December 31, 2018.

Please take note that our church office closings for

Christmas and New Years are as follows—December

24,25, 26 and 31 and January 1 the office will be closed.

A NOTE OF THANKS

Thank you for the supply bag we received after Hurricane

Florence. Your kindness was a bright spot on a chaotic

time. Please continue to keep us and our community in

your prayers.

Love and Thanks,

The Daly Family

Conway, SC

Page 6 Prayer Concerns

HOSPITAL/NURSING HOME/REHAB: Morrell: Sadie Weaver (mother of Grady Weaver), Mary Derrick; Carolinian Retirement Community: Deloris Brock; Methodist Manor: Harry & Pat Hill (parents of Deborah Griggs), Margaret Reaves, Helen Westmoreland; Morningside: Smitty & Katherine Soles, Mary Derrick, Dotty Williamson; White Oak Manor in Columbia: Virginia Cooler. OTHERS: Geoff Connor (son of Greg & Barbara Connor), Claude Wint (brother in law of Arnold Hall), Ron Skipper, Julie Sligh, CarolJean Abbott, Dalton Lewis (friend of Shirley McCutchen and Marla Prozzi), Lorrie Miles (sister of Teri Groves), Dylan Adams, Wayne Pigg, Kathryn Beckham, Charlene Fletcher, Laurie Sorrow, Pam Sansbury, Beth Fore (mother of Lee Moyd), Walter Brown, Libby Bannister, Betty Jones, Bill Haywood, Keith Blackmon (brother-in-law of Sharon Sturdivant), Matt Wells (nephew of Shirley McCutchen), Colin Hungerpiller, Bill & Janann Nevins (friends of Bob Abbott), Rosa Margaret Thompson (mother of Tee Thompson), Fran Foil (friend of Joyce Long), Ed & Rosemary Suggs (brother-in-law and sister of Angelyn Bateman), Ninette Andress (mother of Diana Moyd), Shawn & Julianne (Mortimer) Hale and family, Hampton Braddock, Frances McCutchen (sister-in-law of Shirley McCutchen), Gavin Johnson (nephew of Joyce Long), Lyndell Becker, Suzy Moyd, Maureen Murphy (friend of Joyce Beasley), Rob Brown (brother of Gabe and Barry), Eleise Floyd, St. Luke Shut-ins and Our Missionaries, Michael Agwanda, Missionary (Life for Children), Brenda Brodie (sister-in-law of Jane Jones), Mike Byrd (brother-in-law of Joyce Beasley), Lucille Oliver, Vickie Van Bussell (daughter of Allison Dunsmore), Harriette Crouch, Jim Crowe, Warner Dehart, Mena Galloway, Jim & Alice Harding, Susan Haywood (sister of Bill Haywood), Beth Heim (friend of Nancy Birnbaum), Sheron & Bill Holland (friends of Sandra & Don Gaskins), Ralph & Ann James, Leroy McCoy, Katie Michelson (mother of Andrea Mosley), Chip Moore, C.O. Myers, Jerry Sansbury, Rebecca Skinner-Fulmer, Wade Snipes, John Stewart (brother of Lyndell Becker, Annette Stokes (sister of Richard Galloway), Jim Thigpen (brother of Shirley McCutchen), Tommy Vernon (son-in-law of Jimmy & Iris McFarland). SERVICE PERSONNEL: Trent Brown (nephew of Bill & Peggy Query), Miles Braddock. BEREAVED: Our love and concern to the family of Terry Boyles.

* If name(s) can be removed, please contact the church office.*

November 25, 2018 CHURCH ATTENDANCE

AND WORSHIP REPORT Attendance: Sunday School— 71 ; Nursery - 11

Worship - 162

Receipts……………….......................... $11,440.00

1 Mike Storm 2 Willard Brown Gino Prozzi Andrew Turner 3 Steve Roos 4 Mary Harper Evans

Monte Jackson Jeanne Rudick Davin Russell 5 Mary Ward Baucom 6 Troy Privette 7 Hudson Evans Adam Siegfried 8 Betty Roos 9 Nancy Fletcher Terry Hassler Rhett Mitchell, Jr. 11 Shirley McCutchen

Ann James John Snyder

12 Gerry Caffee David Fletcher Chase Ollis Margaret Reaves

13 Zach Talbert 14 Nancy Caffee Cayley Harrell

Karen Haywood 15 Jennifer Taylor 16 Virginia Cooler 18 Alice Harding

19 Richard Haley 21 Kristen Nicholson 22 Joanne Merck Zane Smith 23 Mark Bedenbaugh 26 Victoria Bizzell Buffie Minshew 27 Adam Gainey 28 Luke Holloman Mandy Ringer Blake Ringer Terry Quinn Lee Woodham

November 11 2018 CHURCH ATTENDANCE

AND WORSHIP REPORT Attendance: Sunday School –90 ; Nursery—12

Worship - 176

Receipts……………….......................... $18,024.00

10 Bobby and Diane Ollis 13 Chris and Amy Thomas 14 William and Karen Butler 18 Barry and Terri Brown

Andy and Kim Hamilton 22 Fred and Nancy Edinger 24 Smitty and Katherine Soles 27 Ed and Jewell Clark 28 Thomas and Sarah Andrews Tim and Mandy Ringer

November 18 2018 CHURCH ATTENDANCE

AND WORSHIP REPORT Attendance: Sunday School –88 ; Nursery—13

Worship - 187

Receipts……………….......................... $30,239.00

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

2 First Sunday of Advent 9:00 AM Coffee Fellowship

9:15 AM Sunday School

10:15 AM Worship Service

4:30 PM JOY4U Choir (Sanctuary)

5:30 PM UMYF

3

10:00 AM Ladies Bible Study (Conf. Rm.)

5:30 PM Board of Trustees Meeting

(Conf. Rm.)

6:00 PM Weight Watchers

4 5 7 :00 AM Prayer Group

10:00 AM Prayer Group

3:30 PM Prayer Shawl

6:40 PM Chancel Choir

6 9 :00 AM St. Luke to serve at the Soup Kitchen

6:00 PM Foster Kids Christ-mas Party (Fellowship Hall)

7:30 PM Mom’s Bible Study (Parlor)

7 8 New Jerusalem

Church Christmas

Dinner (Fellowship Hall)

9 8:00 AM United Methodist Men’s Breakfast

9:00 AM Coffee Fellowship

9:15 AM Sunday School

10:15 AM Children’s Christmas Pageant

and Worship Service

5:30 PM UMYF-Christmas Progressive Dinner

10

10:00 AM Ladies Bible Study (Conf. Rm.)

12:00 PM Dannie Newsome Luncheon

Circle at Sam Kendall’s

6:00 PM Weight Watchers

11

6:00 PM Scouts—Pack Meeting (Fellowship Hall)

12 7 :00 AM Prayer Group

10:00 AM Prayer Group

3:30 PM Prayer Shawl

6:40 PM Chancel Choir

13 7:30 PM Mom’s Bible Study (Vicki Norment’s Home) 8:00 PM Scouts Christmas

Party (Fellowship Hall)

14 6:00 PM Youth—Ice Skating in Florence

15

16 9:00 AM Coffee Fellowship

9:15 AM Sunday School

10:15 AM Worship Service

4:00 –7:00 PM Christmas Drop-in

at the Parsonage

17 10:00 AM Ladies Bible Study

(Conf. Rm.)

12:00 PM Grace Circle

(Fellowship Hall)

6:00 PM Weight Watchers

18 6:00 PM College Students Ugly

Christmas Sweater Party at

1423 Winyah Way, Hartsville

19 7 :00 AM Prayer Group

10:00 AM Prayer Group

12:00 PM XYZ (Fellowship Hall)

3:30 PM Prayer Shawl

6:40 PM Chancel Choir

20

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23 9:00 AM Coffee Fellowship

9:15 AM Sunday School

10:15 AM Chancel Choir Christmas Cantata

and Worship Service

Happy Birthday Jesus Celebration during

Children’s Church

4:30 PM Carols, Cookies and Cocoa

Church-wide event—Meet at St. Luke

24

CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED

9:00 AM-12:00 PM Cookies for Santa

at Mrs. Alison’s home

4:00 PM Christmas Eve Service

6:00 PM Christmas Eve Service

25

CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED

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CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED

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