Weekly Services

Sunday 8:30—Traditional Worship in the

Chapel

10:45—Traditional Worship in the

Sanctuary

Noon—Cable Channel 13

Noon—Service on radio

KVMA-AM 630

KVMA-FM 99.1

Wednesday 7:00 PM—Broadcast of

previous Sunday’s 10:45

Service Cable Channel 13

How to Reach Us: Church Office Hours

Monday—Friday

8:00 –12:00; 1:00-4:00

870-234-4530

Our Pastor:

Larry Kelso, Pastor

cell: 870-949-0499

e-mail: larry@magnoliafumc.org

Our Staff:

Larry Kelso, Senior Pastor

Raymond Cammack, Pastor Emeritus

Barbara Lewis, Dir., The Caring Place

Jeremy Carter, Children & Families

Kim Shirey, Director of Music

David Crouse, Organist

Tracie Nipper, Administrative Sec.

Amanda Franks, Business Manager

Dana Griffin, Director of CDC

J.D. Martin, Building Superintendent

Kenneth Manning, Custodian

Ashley Dingman, Interim Youth Dir.

Leslie Sharp, Youth Assistant

Children’s Music:

Melanie Allen, Christa Marsh,

Jennifer Bailey, Tabitha Lewis,

Anne Couch

Stewpot:

Valerie Sanders, Libby Gilbert,

George Gilbert

Nursery:

Burlene Easter, Kathy Easter

The VisitorThe VisitorThe Visitor First United Methodist Church

320 West Main Magnolia, Arkansas 71753

www.magnoliafumc.org To invite all to know the love of God, share grace, develop relationships

April 6, 2016 One Day. One Easy Way To Give.

Donate Online.

Thursday, April 7 Only.

8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

During this one-day event, your donation to your favorite nonprofit

organization will be matched by additional donors! Simply visit

www.arkansasgives.org on Thursday, April 7 and make a minimum

donation of $25. You can choose up to 10 nonprofits to support including

The Caring Place of Magnolia and The Stewpot. For more information, contact Barbara Lewis or Valerie Sanders.

Spring Planting Party Wednesday, April 13

8:00 AM

We will be planting caladiums in the flower

beds along Main Street. Come and join the fun!

For more information, contact

Jennifer Hubbard (870-904-2018.

New Church Vision Statement: To invite all to know the love of God, share grace, develop relationships.

ON TRACK WITH

BROTHER LARRY

Why does Jesus ask Peter three times if he

loves him, when once would have served just as

well?

Some say it's for added emphasis. Others,

that the threefold repetition demonstrates a sort of

call-and-response liturgical style.

In fact, asking the question once would not

have done just as well. It's possible – even likely –

that the risen Lord asks the question in this way be-

cause he's very aware of the burden of guilt his

leading disciple is carrying, for having denied his

Lord three times. With each question – and each

"You know that I love you" response – Jesus gra-

ciously permits Peter to walk it back and, one by

one, redo the mistakes he's made in the past.

Read John 21:1-19, then come to worship at

8:30 or 10:45. We’ll talk about the “resurrection

breakfast” where Jesus asked the questions and Pe-

ter was “Non-responsive.” See you then!

GRACE AND PEACE – BRO. LARRY

A Record of Our Faithfulness

Worship S.S. Offerings April 3 129 56 $7,330.00

Blossom Festival

News

CANOPIES NEEDED

We will be hosting a “cooling station” at this year’s

Blossom Festival in the CDC parking lot. We need

to borrow open canopies. If you have one that we

can borrow, please contact the church office

(234-4530). More information about signing up for

a 2 hour time slot to greet our friends and guests will

be coming soon!

5K RACE/WALK TEAM MEMBERS NEEDED

Join the FUMC 5KTeam! The 5k will be the

morning of Saturday, May 21. We have awesome

red t-shirts to wear. For more information, contact

Bonnie Adcox (234-6583), Amy Nelson (786-9706),

or the church office (234-4530).

GET UP & GIVE

MISSION PROJECT

Because of your support, the Get Up & Give Mission Project for Methodist

Family Health was a HUGE success! Our church collected lots of items that

will benefit the Methodist Counseling Clinic and the Children’s Home right

here in Magnolia. In addition to items such as notebooks, crayons, bed sheets,

and puzzles (and much more)—the children’s department collected toilet

paper and paper towels. The children collected 452 rolls of toilet

paper and 205 rolls of paper towels! Because of your hard work,

Mr. Jeremy was slimed with over 5 gallons of ooey, gooey slime! Way to

go kids!

2016 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SUNDAY

SUNDAY, APRIL 24

A CHURCH-WIDE LUNCHEON WILL FOLLOW WORSHIP

How Can We Pray For You?

Submit your prayer concerns online. Prayer concerns

can be directed to the pastor, intercessory prayer

groups, email prayer network, or all of the above.

Simply visit

www.magnoliafumc.org/

outreach/prayer

today and let us know how we can

pray for you!

Tues., April 12

5:30 p.m.

Averitt Hall

A note from the prayer ministry...

O most amazing Creator, we thank you for life on earth with you, with all your creation, with each other. O God, it is because you gave us hearts for honoring life that we pause at this time of challenge and promise before and during the days of General Conference in Portland, Oregon, to be still and listen---to each others' stories of fear, hurt, and hope; to your call to justice and love; to your Spirit of compassion within. In the way of Jesus, we pray. Amen

The United Methodist Church General Conference 2016 will meet in Portland, Oregon, on May 10 - 20. Each annual

conference is invited to pray for its delegation to the General Conference and for the work of

holy conferencing that will take place there.

4/1 John Cary 4/15 Kaci Robichaux

4/1 Joyce McMahen 4/16 Teressa Wilson

4/1 Jacob Price 4/17 Bill Brasher, Jr.

4/3 Brooke Bailey 4/19 John Brasher

4/3 Amy Lester 4/21 Patricia Greene

4/4 Teri Burge 4/23 Wesley Wilson

4/6 Alita Ingram 4/24 Tracy Card

4/6 North Lewis 4/24 Daniel Kelso

4/6 Quinton Sanders 4/24 Les Kent

4/6 Presley Stansell 4/24 Gabrielle Nelson

4/6 Kori Taylor 4/25 Mary Alexander

4/8 David Anders 4/25 Julia Kardas

4/8 Tommie Neill 4/25 Kim Keith

4/9 Vicki Mullins 4/25 Amy Norton

4/9 Chuck Williams 4/27 Steve Dingman

4/10 Billie Dadgar 4/27 Charlotte Foster

4/11 Darcy Dingman 4/27 Allison Sharp

4/11 Kendall McMahen 4/27 Bobbie Webb

4/12 Melanie Allen 4/30 David Greer

4/14 Alton Wilson 4/30 Maggi Roberts

Circle 4 United

Methodist Women Monday, April 11

Conference Room

5:30 PM

THIS WEEK AT

FIRST UNITED

METHODIST CHURCH

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 ARKANSAS GIVES DAY (8:00 AM—8:00 PM) 10:00 AM THE CARING PLACE 4:00 PM STEWPOT

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 8:30 AM WORSHIP (CHAPEL) 9:30 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:45 AM WORSHIP (SANCTUARY) 6:00 PM YOUTH

MONDAY, APRIL 11 4:00 PM STEWPOT 5:30 PM CIRCLE 4 UNITED METHODIST WOMEN

(CONF)

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 4:00 PM STEWPOT 5:30 PM LIFETREE CAFÉ (AVERITT) “ANGELS AMONG US”

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 8:00 AM WORK IN FLOWER BEDS (FRONT LAWN) 1:00 PM INTERCESSORY PRAYER (MARILYNN BLACKWOOD’S) 5:00 PM RECHARGE SNACK SUPPER (PEACE) 5:30 PM BIBLE STUDY WITH BRO. LARRY (AVERITT) 5:30 PM ELEVATE CHILDREN’S PROGRAM (PRESCHOOL-6TH GRADE) (PEACE) 5:30 PM JR. HIGH YOUTH (BASEMENT) 6:30 PM INTERCESSORY PRAYER (CHAPEL) 6:30 PM SR. HIGH YOUTH (BASEMENT) 7:15 PM CHANCEL CHOIR PRACTICE (SANCT.)

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Have you checked out our website

lately?

www.magnoliafumc.org

You can:

Read The Visitor (in color)

Submit a prayer request

Look at the up-to-date calendar and schedules

Stay up-to-date with children, youth, CDC, and The Caring Place activities

See a list of all the church committees

And much, much more! Check it out TODAY!

Schedules ALTAR GUILD—Sanctuary

Kathy Sharp & Kim Wyrick

(April 11-24)

ALTAR GUILD—Chapel

Whitney Whitelaw

First United Methodist Church

320 West Main

Magnolia, AR 71753 VISIT YOUR

CHURCH LIBRARY!

The church library is located at the top of the

spiral staircase. Visit the library, borrow a book or

just sit and be still with God.

We are now accepting books to be added to the

library. Donations may be dropped off in the

library. There is a table set-up in the closet of the

library for you to put your donations on.

Can’t make it upstairs to the

library? A book cart in located in

Averitt Hall with some books.

Check it out!

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Wyatt Randell Cook was born

March 28, 2016. Parents are Coby

and Christina Cook. Grandparents

are Terry and Ginger Cook. Great

grandmother is Barbara Lewis.