November, 2010

VOL DATE ISSUE

Pastor’s Corner This is the month of Thanks-

giving. I challenged a class of

children once to define thanks-

giving and one child, I

thought, had the best answer

when they said Thanksgiving

is “Giving Thanks.” May we

all remember the words of this

child so that we will always

give appropriate thanks.

I want to thank everyone in

our congregation for a memo-

rable October which was Pas-

tor’s Appreciation Month.

Dottie and I were wonderfully

blessed by your cards, calls,

meals, visits, and wonderful

heartfelt gifts. The Lord has

given us wonderful friends and

a gracious church. For that, we

are thankful. I also want to

thank everyone for your faith-

ful giving to our ministry here

at Taylor Free Methodist. We

have had a wonderful ministry

at Taylor. We pray we will

have many more wonderful

years to share with you. I am

amazed at how much our little

church has accomplished this

past year and every year really.

I do not stop to thank you often

enough for the awesome family

Taylor Free Methodist is. What

a thrill it is for me to say at the

end of each month, “The Lord

has provided.” Thank you for

your part. I want to encourage

you to continue to minister with

your abilities and talents; Con-

tinue to give as the Lord blesses

you; Continue to pray that God

would direct our path; And con-

tinue to be thankful during this

Thanksgiving season.

Pastor

Bill

Important Dates

Pastor’s Corner

A note from the Editor

Missionary Spotlight

Children’s Place

College and Career

Special Guest

Joyfest

Birthdays/Anniversaries

in this issue

newsletter

Important Dates November 5-6: Mission Conference in Kala-

mazoo November 19: Decorating for Christmas November 20: 9am Joyfest November 21: 12:30 pm, All Committee

Meeting November 25: Thanksgiving November 26-27: Jumping for Jesus

Small Groups Drama– Sundays 9:30am Puppets– Mondays 7pm (no puppets No-

vember 29) Seed Planters– Wednesdays 1pm Family Night–Wednesdays 6:30pm Bible Study–Wednesdays 6:30pm Celebrate Recovery-Thursdays 7pm AA Group– Thursdays 8:30pm

Volume 1 Edited by: Melissa Byars

Wow! I can’t believe it’s Novem-ber already. I first would like to apologize to everyone for missing the September and October New-letters. I guess the time just got away from me. I would tell myself “ I have time to work on it tomor-row.” If you haven’t noticed, to-morrow never comes. Just when we think we have tomorrow, it’s a new day, making tomorrow today. Please forgive me for thinking I had tomorrow. I am trying to manage my time better then I have in the past. I am working on not putting things off until “tomorrow.” I just recently returned home from New York. I was out there for two weeks for work. You never

As we continue to do God’s work here in Taylor, MI, Scott Smith Jr. is doing an amazing job in Honduras. Scott is sharing God’s love daily with the Honduran people. I would like to share a little right from Scott himself. “About two weeks ago I had the opportunity to go down to the community school with some of our high school students. They went there to give each child a toothbrush and lice shampoo. Since I was going I decided to take my balloons. Most of the ministry kids that were going re-membered how to make some of the basic balloon creations. We twisted balloons for about an hour after passing out the health-

Prayer and Praise

I want to thank my supporters for their commitment to allow me to minister the people of Honduras .

Thanks to four generous friends who provided balloon supplies for me to teach a balloon class to the kids and adults on the ranch. It should be starting in mid No-vember .

Please pray that God would pro-vide the teachers that we need for the end of the semester and next school year.

care items. On this experience, I realized how blessed our ministry kids are and what an advantage they have by receiving a bi-lingual education that goes up through the twelfth grade. The school we went to only had three class-rooms, and three teachers were responsible for teaching 82 stu-dents. The highest grade those kids will ever be able to reach is 6th grade. But compared to our standard I would say it would be more like 3rd grade.

Missionary Spotlight

really appreciate what you have at home and in your place of work un-til you are placed somewhere else. I went through so many emotions in such a short time. I will share a lit-tle bit of my trip with you. Before I left, I was excited. I was going to a new place. I could see things I have never seen before. I would have the chance to meet new people and make new friends. Once I arrived at the airport, my emotions switch on me. I am now upset because my gate had switched and no one told me. Next, I am on the plane. My emotions change again. This time I am feeling a bit scared because the plane is making an awful noise. Next thing you know, we are grounded until further notice due to bad weather in La Guardia, New

York. I just want to get off the plane a n d g o home. I prayed for a safe trip before I left. I began to pray while I was on the plane. I prayed God would calm my heart and my nerves. I also prayed that God would wrap his arms around the whole plane and take over and be the pilot. God was an-swering my prayers without me even realizing it. The flight was delayed 2 1/2 hours, that’s longer than the whole flight would have taken. The next day, I saw on the news that New York had hail the size of soft balls. God was in con-trol the whole time.

A note from the Editor…

“Let the children come

to me; do not hinder

them, for to such be-

longs the kingdom of

God.”Mark 10:14

“ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

Harvest Party: The Harvest Party was a big hit with everyone that at-tended. There were so many new faces coming in and out of the rooms. Kids of all ages came out and played games, won some prizes (mainly candy) and just had an all out good time. The parents even seemed to enjoy the Harvest Party. Everyone who had a room decorated did a nice job. The Gym was filled with Jumpers and people, at times all the tables were full of people enjoying the food and watching the children bounce on the jumpers . It was nice to see the games that were set up for all ages, tod-dlers all the way to adults. Thank you to all who partici-pated and made TFMC’s 1st Harvest Party a huge success. With the weather being chilly, it was nice having the Har-vest party set up inside.

Kids Handbell Choir: Children from 3 years old all the way to 5th grade can come out and join the Kids Handbell Choir. Practices will begin on November 10, 2010 and will be held every Wednesday from 6:30pm-7:30pm in the sanctuary. No experience is required. Weekly practice will involve disciplined time to practice, but also include God honoring fun time. There will be short devotion/lesson, prayer, music, bell practice time and activity time. We want the kids to have a feeling of accomplishment, and have fun doing so. We are teaching kids to praise and honor God with their time and talents.

Short Concerts: December 18, 2010– Jesus “Happy Birthday” Party December 19, 2010– Church Service-Christmas Performance

upcoming events

Children’s Place

This group of young adults is under the leadership of Anita Sower and Kamdyn Hudgins. Anita and Kamdyn both love the Lord and are fun to be around.

You can check us out on facebook: College and Career @ TFMC or check us out on the web-site http://taylor-church.com

Congratulations to Heather Newman & The Newman Family for winning Peter the Pumpkin! Heather made a guess of 130 lb. and Peter weighed 127 lb! She did an amazing job guessing! Have fun carving Peter Heather!

The corn maze outing was a great success! We had a great turn out! Thank you to everyone who came.

The College and Career group is NOW taking orders for Cyndi Hudgins amazing pumpkin rolls! A roll is $6.00 for 1 or $10.00 for 2!

Holiday Nights at Greenfield Village is the next outing for college and career happening Saturday December 19th at 6:30 p.m Cost is 12.75 per person. Please contact Anita Sower or Kamdyn Hudgins if you are inter-ested in going we have to purchase our tickets soon! Money Deadline is December 1st!

upcoming events

College and Career

Find out all the fun and exciting things happening with our college and Career group.

Superintendent Thomas Ramundo Here November 28

Joyfest: November 20,2010 It’s that time of year again. Joyfest is here! Mark your calen-dar for November 20, 2010 at 9am. Plan on making a family day of it. Come out for a good time and some great fellowship. We will have a rummage sale in the gym as well as Jimmy’s Jumpers. Cyndi Hudgins and her team of helpers will be serving food, drinks and snacks all day long for a small dona-tion. You will have a chance to get some early Christmas shopping done with all the crafters and vendor’s we will have set up in the hallways. TFMC’s very own puppet team “ Handsfull of Purpose” and the drama team “All 4 Him” will be performing. Our Praise and Worship band will be leading the congregation in worship. Pastor Bill may even have some tricks up his sleeve. You won’t want to miss this. Bring a friend or two. If you would like to donate something to the rummage sale, please see Jimmy Bolton or Ezio Panone. Want to donate some food, please see Cyndi Hudgins. What about a craft ta-ble? You can see Diana Byars in regards to that.

Superintendent Thomas and Noni Ramundo will be our guests November 28, 2010 in both of our Sunday Morning Worship Services. He is coming again, and he is an excellent speaker that you are sure to enjoy. Make plans now to be at TFMC on the 28th to hear our Superintendent give an update on The Southern Michigan Conference and to deliver a mes-sage that morning from the Lord. Superintendent Thomas and Noni reside in Jackson, Michigan and the Conference Of-fice Facilities are located in the Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church Building. Do not miss out on this service!

Ann Chapman Robert Tyra Irene Love Evan Jose O’Boyle/Durfee Leslie German Scott Smith Shawn Warsaw Dan Defer George Hudgins Anita Sower Nancy Masse Jim Byars Debbie Knight Jamie Porter Jeannette Bolton

Happy Alton and Maxine Adams Joe and Lynnette Sobo-cinski Harold and Judy Downer

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