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Deeper Bible Study Returns

Wednesday Night! Our deeper Bible study returns on July 18th. For the

summer the group will meet at Ricky and Patricia’s

home at 606 Regency and will start at 6pm. We invite

you to join us as we share together in a deeper look at

the scripture from each previous Sunday’s worship.

Asbury Needs Donations for Garage

Sale! Asbury House is

collecting for its annual

garage sale. Items may be

dropped off every

Tuesday and Thursday

from 7-8 p.m. and on Sat-

urdays from 4-5 p.m. on

the east side of First United Methodist Church

downtown (enter from Green St.)

They are accepting furniture, sporting goods,

kitchen accessories, bathroom and bedroom

accessories, baby and small children’s needs, jewelry,

books and knick-knacks. All proceeds from the sale

provide quality child care for financially disadvantaged

boys and girls.

Volunteers are needed to unload the trailers on

Sunday, July 29. Greggton will be helping on Tuesday,

July 31 to price and organize. Please contact the

church office if you can volunteer for either of these

days. Remember any volunteer who works at least 4

hours get to shop early on Thursday, August 2.

Make a difference in a child’s life

Donate to the School Supply Drive Okay, maybe some of us

don’t want to think about

school just yet. So let’s think

about helping children whose

families have financial diffi-

culty getting school supplies

together. Stores are begin-

ning to place school supply

items ‘on sale’ and we want to invite you when you are

out shopping to pick some up and drop them by the

church office. A Pine Tree School supply list is

available in the church office. We also have it avail-

able online at our church website. Please join in mak-

ing a difference! School supplies will be collected

through the first Sunday in August.

Debbie’s Tip of the Week! The staff have been reading Beyond The First Visit

by Gary McIntosh. The book talks about how to take

care of your guests after their first visit and how to

make a church attractive to guests. I am going to share a

tip from the book each week.

Tip Of The Week:

Save the front parking spaces for your guest. If you able

to park out further, it would be much appreciated. We

understand that not everyone will be able to do this:

please park closer if you need to.

Debbie Cardwell

Tie Dye Night! Thank you to everyone who

came to Tie Dye Fun Night!

The kids and adults had a great

time creating shirts and being

together. We had 20 children

create their own t-shirt

masterpiece and we managed

to keep the community room

from getting a new paint job. It

was lots of fun!

Sports Camp is next week,

don't forget to register!

Sports Camps Volunteer Meeting We will have a meeting for all volunteers for the

Mega Sports Camp on July 19, at 6pm. Please contact

Esther Brown with any questions.

Fire Fighters

Served Treats Last week, the

youth gathered in

the church kitchen

and baked from

scratch chocolate

chip cookies and

brownies for our

local fire fighters at

Station 5. The

brownies baked

perfectly. The

cookies did not rise

but tasted amazing!

Youth ingenuity

snapped into action

and the flat cookies were folded over and became

chocolate chip crepes. On our way to the fire sta-

tion, we picked up Homemade Vanilla ice-cream to

serve with our fortunate transformation of cookies

into crepes. The fire fighters were warm and very

gracious for our youths' service, consideration and

support.

Youth Leadership Sprawling New

Opportunities! The youth ministry is adapting to the changing

needs of our youth group. The youth need adult

volunteers to lead 2 new Sunday School classes and

2 Sunday evening small groups. These groups are

important to the life of the groups and the youth to

learn, share, and experience Christ in their lives.

The commitment to serve can vary from one month

to a couple of months. To serve, please contact

Rev. Adam Straznicky at 817-404-2153.

Six Flags Postponed Due to a very busy July at Greggton, the youth

trip to Six Flags Arlington has been postponed to a

later date. The day will be announced several

weeks in advance to allow for promotion and

household scheduling. We apologize for the incon-

venience.

Sports Camp is coming up and is going to be a fun

week for the kids. We will have 4 sports for your child

to choose from: baseball, basketball, cheerleading and

soccer. Your child will choose one sport to work on dur-

ing the entire week, and will spend time doing drills,

learning new skills and participating in scrimmages with

that sport. Please register your child online at

www.greggton.org and indicate which sport your child

wants to participate in. This will help us in our planning.

Also, if your child has equipment for the indicated sport

(a soccer ball and shin guards for soccer, a basketball, a

baseball and glove) please bring those to camp each

night. We look forward to having your children join us

for Mega Sports Camp!

We need more help for Sports Camp! Many of you

have already signed up but if you haven’t, we could

really use your help. Age is no restriction, as we have a

job for everyone. Here’s what we really need:

1 registration helper

1 basketball coach

Assistant coach for basketball

2 more people to lead a small devotion for a group 6

kids. Materials for devotion will be provided.

Also, if you have any sports equipment ( balls, bats,

soccer goals, etc) that the church could borrow for this

week, we would greatly appreciate it! Please bring them

clearly labeled with your name to the church by Sunday.

Thank you!

Volunteer Needed! We still need 1 Sunday

school teacher volunteer.

Please let Esther know if you

are interested. This teacher

will teach on a rotating basis

with another teacher to help

share the responsibility.

SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS Agape: Eleven members were present today. Ruth Price taught our lesson on Matthew 2. WE pray for our members who

are not with us today.

Alethea: Romans 8:1-11 “Living In the Spirit,” was out lesson today and was led by Doug Howser. We had twenty-eight

members present. We had reports on the ill including Maxine Churchin is home after extensive surgery, James Morris,

Wanzelle Finley, and Bill Finley. Our class will be serving lunch at NewGate on Friday, July 27. Several of our class

members helped to serve lunch for the workers on Saturday. UMW trip to Pittsburg on Monday, July 16th. In August our

lesson each week will be from the study book “Living In God’s Presence.”

New Beginnings: We had 22 present this morning for our study on Angels. The lesson today was "Fallen Angels" taught

by Mark Neely. Prayer joys and concerns this week include: Steve Dusik, Virgilio Flores (Ira Sheek's dad), Gayla Weaver

(Karen Harding's co-worker), Lorraine (Mark Neely's friend), Josh Sheek, Lauren (Rachel Benton's niece), and Steve Byrd

(Rick Ward's friend). Next week we will conclude our study on Angels. If anyone would like some input on our next

study, please let one of the teachers know in the next week.

Welmaker-JOY: Lucinda Hamilton brought the class together. Thanks to Mary Broome for delicious refreshments. Tom

Wilkinson came to our class asking for singers to join him next Sunday in the choir loft for special music. Happy birthday

this week to Milton Cabbiness. Happy 41st wedding anniversary to Jim Bob & Janice Williams. We welcomed our visitors

Mike & Paula King, Kendra Toliver and Annabelle. Joys this week that Kate Hart will be going to New York for her

niece’s wedding and that Jane Snipes is improving. Special prayers this week for Nita Koonce’s grandson Brent

Montgomery and LaJuan Carpenter’s grandson Garrett Bussey, both were bitten by rattlesnakes. We also pray for Dixie

Andrews and her family, Connie Brooks, Carolyn Brown, LaJuanda Emery, Johnnie & Ron McCune, Jane Snipes, Wilma

Stafford, Joe Stone, Kate Hart, and Rose Marie Jones. Included in our prayers also are John Hardin, Fay Rittenberry,

Jamie Carver, Sherry & Katie Richardson, Amber Bennett, Julie Holcomb and family, Kelly Cheyenne Johnson, Maxine

Churchin, Kelly Haralson, John Underwood, Marsha Miller, Terry Andrews, Shawna McNatt, and Bryan Boyd. Forty-five

heard Tom Hunt teach a valuable lesson regarding justice and wisdom entitled “Solomon Judges with Wisdom and

Justice.” He also gave a report from the Texas Annual Conference.

Women of Grace: We will continue to discuss “The Wired Word”. We have missed those who have been out and

hope to see you soon.

Weekly Construction Update! Here is a weekly update on church

construction from Tem Carpenter our

Construction Manager. Another good week of

progress!

1. Thanks to the 27 souls who made it to the

workday last Saturday. Much progress was made

and things are starting to get where they belong.

Thanks to Hash and Associates for a delicious

lunch!

2. Exterior painting underway with most of

southside finished. Wood window painting

underway on exterior of 300/400 windows

3. Storage rooms in community storage are

built and mostly occupied

4. Sign rough framing complete with roof.

Bricks to start soon

5. Five more air conditioners are replaced and

will be running soon. Window tinting completed

and broken glass replaced

6. Parking lot designs are started

7. Choir is moved into new rehearsal area

8. We got rid of 30 more cubic yards of church

treasures from previous decades and centuries

Our Mission Focus for

July is Asbury House Asbury House Child Enrich-

ment Center is an outreach min-

istry of the United Methodist

Churches in the Texas North Dis-

trict. Founded in 1969, their mis-

sion and purpose is to provide, within a nurturing Christian

environment, the highest quality of education and care for

children of financially disadvantaged families.

Greggton United Methodist Church provides financial

support. But more importantly, we help with Chapel, yard

maintenance, classroom, and office. We take Vacation

Bible School to them each Summer. We help stock their

food pantry with our annual chili cook-off and other events

during the year. We have several Sunday School classes

who sponsor children for Christmas. We provide countless

hours to their annual garage sale, as well as the annual

skeet shoot. The list goes on and on… We just really love

our Asbury House kids! So this month, as you are in daily

prayer, add Asbury House to the list! And if you are able,

sign up to volunteer for the garage sale coming up in a few

weeks!

Greggton United Methodist Church

1101 Pine Tree Road

Longview, Texas 75604

(903) 759-3831

www.greggton.org

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Memorial Gifts A memorial for John Hall was given by Curtis &

Jan Barnett.

Memorials for Bobbie Hargrave were given by

Jimmy & Dixie Andrews, John & Janet Blake, Milton

& Bonnie Cabbiness, and James & Nancy Sawyer.

A memorial for the Turner Family was given by

Jimmy & Dixie Andrews.

A memorial for Dan Bunt was given by Milton &

Bonnie Cabbiness.

AARP Driver’s Safety AARP offers a driver’s safety program for all motorists

age 50 and older. The cost is $12 if you are an AARP

member and $14 if you are not. Also, there is a special

being offered to anyone who has ever worked in

education, the cost will be only $5. If you are interested

in participating in this driver’s safety program, mark

your calendar for August 8, 2012. The class will be from

8:00am-12:00pm. If you have any questions, please con-

tact Tom Hunt at 903.297.9269.

Pie Delivery for Guests! Each week members of our

church are delivering a pie to

our guests from the previous

Sunday. We are in need of more

volunteers to help with this out-

reach. If you are interested in

making our guest feel welcome

please contact Debbie Cardwell in the church office or

by email debbiec@greggton.org.