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God’s Story at FUMC this month

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“And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and frui ul seasons, sa sfying your hearts with food and gladness." -Acts 14:17

IN THIS ISSUE Mission & Vision Letter from Church Leadership

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From the Pastor’s Desk

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Music Ministry

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Youth Ministry

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Children’s Ministry

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Health and Wellness

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Letter From the Editor

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Notes From Missions

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What’s Coming Up

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Celebrations and Concerns

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DEVELOPMENT

CENTER

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to close...

It is with a heavy heart that we share the following news with you. Monday evening, April 25th, after much consideration, the Child Development Center (CDC) Board, together with the Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC), voted to suspend operations of the Child Development Center. We intend to keep it open until May 26th in order to give families and employees time to seek other alternatives. This was a very difficult decision, but the leadership felt it was a necessary decision for the ultimate safety and welfare of the children and families we serve.

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alleged incident. Confidentiality serves to protect the innocent until proven otherwise, so details cannot be shared at this time. Given everything, we felt that the best way to move forward was to cease operations, regroup, gain some perspective, and discern God’s calling for us in this ministry. The face of childcare today is changing, and we must strive to meet those demands with excellence, should that be a future calling.

Effective April 26, Amy O’Neil tendered her resignation. All who know Amy know her love for God, her heart for children, and the passion with which she serves. Her dedication to this ministry, and those who initiated it, pioneered work in our church to meet real needs in our community. That is church in action.

We want to thank the CDC staff for their hard work, care, and dedication to the children and the Center. Let us keep them, the children and their families, our community, and our Church in prayer.

Let us move forward mindful of the following verse:

2 Chronicles 24:13: “So the workman labored and the repair work progressed in their hands; and they restored and organized the house of God according to its specifications and strengthened it.�

Bud Harris Church Council Chair Crawford Guthrie Staff Parish Relations Committee Terry Collier FUMC Lay Leader fredumc.org 4

PASTOR’S Dear Friends, Allow me to share with you several somewhat random thoughts: 1. Looking for teachers! We are trying to put together a slate of different Christian education offerings for the summer, and especially for this coming fall. If you are interested in teaching or facilitating a small group, please let me know. Things like Disciple Bible Study, prayer studies, a little less intense than Disciple Bible studies, women studies, spirituality, etc. If you have an idea, let’s talk.

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It’s been great to see folks so hungry to grow as disciples.

Let’s feed the hungry lions!

2. General Conference: General Conference is the quadrennial (once every 4 years) gathering of world Methodism. This year they meet May 10-20. This Methodist “congress” if you will, decides on everything from basic church administrative structure to ethical and moral stands on different issues.

As you can imagine, the UMC is trying to figure out its way through the same kinds of issues as the nation itself, such as gay rights, our relationship to Islam, abortion, you name it. Please,

please, please pray for unity and wisdom for our denomination.

3. Church Finances: Bless you, we have had a strong year so far in givings to the church. Until last Sunday. I think it was because everyone was vacationing in Europe! Indeed, vacation/ summer/holiday time is upon us, which is wonderful, but please remember your church.

We want to have a strong summer so that we can go into our fall planning time with confidence and strength. Your generosity makes a difference.

And know that your Finance Committee and church leaders work hard to exercise good stewardship over these resources.

4. You are all amazing. Seriously. I am so proud of this church for stepping up in so many ways.

We have had some unexpected challenges lately, in addition to all the many things we regularly do, and so many have pitched in in so many ways. Great churches have great people. You are appreciated.

I can’t believe I have been here for only 10 months. So much in so short a time. Brenda and I are going to try to have a little down time at the end of the month to catch our breath. Your prayers and support mean a lot to us.

Finally, my favorite Scripture these days:

“The Lord says ‘I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord our God is with you wherever you go.’”

-Joshua 1:9 Ah. That we may live this every single day.

Grace and Peace,

Pastor George

Rev. George Lumpkin has served as Senior Pastor of Fredericksburg United Methodist Church since June of 2015. He has been serving as an ordained minister in Texas for more than 25 years. fredumc.org 6

MUSICAL YEAR

winding down big

ecause our music ministry is so connected with the school year through KMA, it seems like May brings lots of things to a temporary close through the summer time… and that time is on us now! But we’re not closing out with a whimper at all, in fact, it’s the biggest May the music ministry has had since I’ve been here - and that is 8 years now!

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appreciation to the many members of our congregation who commit their time and talents to making FUMC one of the strongest musical churches in our conference! This past year has been one of the strongest we have had in participation and programs due to the continued growth we have seen in all of our ministries.

Following the worship hour, we will move to the Family Life Center to join in a great time of food and music provided by the KMA kids. During this time we will

acknowledge a few of our outstanding musical family for their commitment and show our encouragement to these great kids that are just beginning to understand their musical gifts and role in worship to our God. Please come and show your appreciation to our wonderful musician family!

Summer time is on us and we will relax some in our activity, but only to gear up for the soon-coming fall ministry start-up. But that doesn’t mean you need to wait until September to come and get active in our music ministry… come and be a “summer hummer” to fill in some empty spots in our Chancel Choir through the summer months we promise we won’t twist your arm to stay with us, but you probably won’t be able to leave since its such a fun and loving group!

Kid’s Music Academy has made some great strides this year adding 4 new teachers to our staff including Donna Vaughan to teach Choir; Melinda WadeEnglish teaching You know that we Recorder, Pennyare always looking Whistle and for new faces and Flute; Melinda smiles in our Brown teaching Kid’s Music Academy performs at Pride of Texas Music Festival at musical groups; guitar; and Sear World in San Antonio in 2015. They will make the trip this come and join your Sarah Klein our year on May 28th. talents with ours as violin instructor through the Hill Country we lift up praise to our God! You are loved Youth Orchestra program in Kerrville. We and needed, for sure. So if you find yourself have seen an enrollment over 50 children feeling run down and in need of a lift, don’t and will be taking at least 31 of them to the forget…

Pride of Texas Music Festival at Sea World in San Antonio later this month. You will Fuel your fire, join a choir! have an opportunity to see these groups active this coming Sunday both in our worship service AND also in the afterIf you have any questions please email me church Pot Luck Dinner! at don@fredumc.org, or call me at 9977679… To God Be the Glory!!

The Chancel Choir will be a featured part of the Fredericksburg Founder’s Day Don Doss joined the FUMC staff in April celebration on May 14th at of 2007 having served in several other Boerne and Kerrville churches. Don is Marktplatz at 10:00 am. They FUMC’s Director of Music Ministries, and will also participate in several he oversees all of the musical groups ‘impromptu’ performances in and music ministry work that happens the old First Church sanctuary here. He personally directs the Chancel Choir and the Praise Team as well as the during noon visiting time at the Kid’s Music Academy. fredumc.org 8 Pioneer Museum.

IT’S BEEN

An Amazing Spring!

had the opportunity the other day while no one was at the church to sit in my office and reflect on how amazing this spring has been. The youth of this church are truly an amazing group of young people. It is plain to see that God is working in their lives!

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Through our Youth Ministry the youth have participated in many activities and events that have taught them about themselves and how to serve others. We had over 30 youth participate in two local service days this semester. The first was a food drive for the Food4Kids program at the Needs Council. The youth collected tons of food from the neighborhood by the

church and stacked and organized it. The second service day the group chose teachers from the Middle School to receive a Teacher Blessings box full of needed school supplies and favorite things of each teacher. They put together the boxes, wrote special notes and prayed over the boxes for each teacher. Then they delivered them to the teachers with great pomp and circumstance.

There will be more about the Confirmands in the June newsletter.

Then we had 13 youth participate in our 30 Hour Famine event where they fasted for 30 hours to raise money for world hunger!

We had a lock-in where the youth worshipped together, played games and learned about how hunger affects many people around the world and right here in Fredericksburg. The youth participants raised about $2000 to be given to World Vision to feed children around the world.

-Sadie Eidson’s 7th grade basketball team went undefeated this season!

At the end of February, we took 25 youth to Camp Eagle for our Winter Retreat. This was a great overnight full of fellowship, adventure and growing closer to God! The highlights were worship and s’mores around the campfire, dangling off a 75 foot cliff, glow in the dark football and extreme archery tag.

The youth have been involved in other ways around the church this spring as well. They have helped with the Children’s Ministry by dressing as bunnies and hiding eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt and helping with Pioneer Club. We have had 6 youth baptized this semester as well!

We have 7 youth who have been on a journey with Confirmation class and will be confirmed on Sunday, May 15. They have all faithfully shown up for class each week and been prepared with questions.

Their adult mentors will tell you that they are an awesome group of young people!

Not only are the youth involved within the church, they are super involved in other areas and being amazing in those areas!

We have youth involved in athletics, band, academics, school plays, Little League and more! Let me give a few examples of some amazing achievements:

-Will Cooke made first chair tuba in the regional band -Kassidy Anderson placed 2nd at the JV District Tennis tournament -Lilly Woodworth is the lead role in her school play And there are many more amazing achievements by our youth in softball, track, tennis, academics, soccer and more.

God has truly blessed our youth and Youth Ministry this spring! One of the most amazing things happening this spring in our youth ministry is that the youth are inviting their friends to come and hear how much God loves them and are showing God’s love to them! God has made this an AMAZING spring by using our youth for His kingdom.

Joel has served as director of Youth Ministries at FUMC since August of 2012, and has been in full-time youth ministry for 15 years. Joel’s passion is to see teenagers connect with the love that God has for them.

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PLANTING seeds of love t’s that time of year to get those seedlings started. Although I garden year round with an indoor system, not too long ago I was checking my seedlings and one pot with seeds didn’t germinate. There was plenty of time for those seeds to sprout, so I put in some different seeds that I knew would be more successful. A couple of months later, as I was harvesting the lettuce, I noticed this little sprout growing under the leaves. Sure enough, it was the cilantro that I had originally started.

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This reminded me of why I love teaching God’s love and His Word to children and why it is necessary. With children, seeds are planted and nurtured, but many times we won’t know if that seed ever germinated. Sometimes frustration can set in when you’re not sure if what you are doing has a purpose. During the Alpha course, Nicky Gumble told the story of a man who credited his Sunday School teacher with his salvation. The Sunday School teacher was told about it and he admitted that he gave

up because he didn’t think he was doing any good.

My own story of salvation begins with a Sunday School teacher. While I had a good childhood, it wasn’t a Christian upbringing. No one in my family was a Christian. At around 10 years old, I was going to church about a mile from my house. I’m not sure how I started going. Did a friend invite me? Maybe, but I remember being there alone. I do remember walking to church many times to go to Sunday School. Seeds were planted, but they didn’t germinate until I was in my mid 20s when I accepted Jesus as my Savior.

Over the years I thought about that faithful woman who taught about God’s love and grace. Someday I will be able to thank her.

The Bible says that we need to teach children in the way they should go so that when they are old they won’t depart from it. It also says God’s Word will not return to Him void, but will accomplish His purposes. These are promises that I hold onto for every child that God has given me the privilege to share His love and grace.

This body of Christ has some amazing Sunday School and Pioneer Club teachers who have shared God’s love with children this whole school year. Week after week, making sure that those kids know that they love them, but more importantly are loved

by God.

Save the

Dates June 20th-24th

June is just around the corner! Which means our Children’s Ministry Team is already gearing up for Vacation Bible School.

Join us this summer, June 20th-24th from 5:30-8 p.m. as we journey to ancient Egypt and follow Joseph on his adventure from prison to the palace. To volunteer, register or learn more, contact Larissa Hallford at hcgarden@yahoo.com As we wind down the school year I want to personally thank Vicky Schmidt, Rene Griffin, Caroline Eidson, and Sandy Hamilton for their faithful service this year. It is a privilege and honor to serve with you. The seeds you are planting and nurturing will make a difference in the lives of each of those children.

With Love, Lisa Lisa Davis serves as Children’s Director for FUMC. During the last 7 years , she has taught God’s Word to children as a children's leader at Bible Study Fellowship, Sunday School and at multiple VBS programs. This has developed a passion in her for the Bible and for children to know it. She is excited to bring children and their families closer to Christ. fredumc.org 12

HERO OR ZERO? Vacation Bible School hildren are living in an age resplendent with colorful plastic “heroes.” Most are clad in variations of red, white and blue. One is huge and totally green! All are ultra muscular and possess mind-blowing superhuman powers. Let’s just say...they don’t look like my Dad, that’s for sure!

I hesitate to point this out, but I was taught that true HEROES were those who faced impossible situations, felt the chill of icy despair, then chose to move forward anyway.

There was no flying over, under or around! A true hero met the enemy of fear face-to-face.

Let’s bring the old heroes back! Let’s show children strong men and women who look like them and feel like them, but somehow have the ability to dominate their situations with powerful determination and immovable hope!

How about a 17-year old hero name Joseph (you can find his story in Genesis 37:27-36, 39:1-20). He was sold into slavery...now get this...by his big brothers. Then he was sold a second time to a man whose malicious wife propels the innocent Joseph into prison!

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Incredibly, Joseph remains steadfast in his reliance on God. Through an amazing turn of events, Joseph achieves the impossible. He rises to enormous power, only to face the ultimate moral dilemma: should he embrace chance at revenge? Should he deal in death or choose life? What does Joseph do? What would YOU do?!

That’s a HERO story! Help us bring a “new” understanding to the vision of HERO. Help us teach children how to live with courage, faith and absolute reliance on the grace of a loving God. Join us the week of June 20th-24th for Vacation Bible School. All ages meet in the Sanctuary at 5:30 p.m. to share the story of Joseph’s journey from prison to palace. Come to help or come as a family for dinner, music, games and laughter! Hear inspired storytelling! Experience the mystery of Egypt! Witness by your presence! Be a HERO for a child to see! Questions? Contact Larissa Hallford at hcgarden@yahoo.com, or Lisa Davis, children’s director at

lisa@fredumc.org.

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From

our wesley nurse

ear Church Family, Spring is in the air….This month is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, so I thought I would share some information from their website. Distracted driving is a growing problem.

Nearly 1 out of every 4 crashes involve cell phone use.

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Tips to BE PREPARED: If you are tempted to use your cell phone when driving: 1. Change your voicemail greeting to indicate you are driving and will call back when safely parked 2. Put your phone in your trunk or glove box.

3. Turn your phone on “silent.”

4. If you need to contact someone, pull over to a safe location and put your vehicle in “park” before dialing.

If you are a passenger and the driver wants to use a cell phone: 1. Tell the driver you are uncomfortable with his or her cell phone use.

If you are talking to someone who is driving:

Share these tips on how to prevent distracted driving incidents. http://www.txdot.gov/driver/ laws/cellphones.html Blessings of Health, Tammy Amerson-Wilson, Wesley Nurse 830-997-9849

1. Ask the person to call you when he or she is parked in a safe location.

2. Tell the person you will call him or her back later.

Tammy joined the FUMC family in 2005 after working as a hospice case manager for HCM for 1.5 years and at Children’s Medical Center for 17 years before that. fredumc.org

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The Not So Fun Stuff

Tricia Small is one of the newest member to the FUMC family. She graduated from UT Austin with a journalism degree, and joined the staff in November of 2014 She is passionate about transforming lives by sharing the love of Christ.

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ello Church! Your friendly neighborhood communications director here with a startling confession for you this month.

Friends, I am awkward. I have been all my life. If you haven’t figured it out yet, just wait. My unavoidable awkwardness will make itself known if you interact with me enough.

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really known. Because how can we truly be loved if we are not truly known? Wouldn’t we rather take off the mask and sigh a deep sigh of relief, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt we will find acceptance for our real self, than keep up the facade of our ideal self? And isn’t that exactly what God offers us? In his article, Rhodes quotes Tim Keller, who observed:

I read this really great article recently (which you can check out here), that explained awkwardness as “a gap between what you are and what you should be.” It’s a disconnect between how you perceive yourself in the moment, and how you actually would like to be coming across. Pretty much everything about my personality sets me up to live life waving sadly at my “ideal self” across this gap.

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”

Pensive, serious demeanor.

Check. Anxiety disorder that causes obsessive otherthinking. Check. Difficulty organizing my thoughts out loud. Check. Indecisiveness.

Check. Desire to calibrate my own behavior in accordance with what everyone else needs or wants. Constant fear of doing the wrong thing. Caring deeply about others and obsessively worrying that I will somehow let them down. Check, check, check.

What a wonderful truth, am I right friends? He loved us and sent His son to save us when we were yet sinners. He knew the depths of our souls and the blackness of our sin, He knew every insecurity, every fear, every unloving thought, every weakness, and He pursued us anyway. He called us by name. He gave us a purpose and an identity rooted in Him.

Friends, I am awkward. I have been all my life.

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The more I care, the more I worry. The more I worry, the more I think of all the ways something could go wrong. The more ways something could go wrong, the more indecisive I am about choosing the “right” way to act. And so the gap grows wider. You get the picture.

In that article mentioned above, author Sammy Rhodes points out that oftentimes the disconnect between actual self and ideal self stems from shame. It is so important to keep up an appearance of having it all together, that we hide away the most human parts of ourselves; our flaws, the sins we struggle with, all the darkest, rawest corners of our souls get tucked away for fear of being discovered and met with judgement and condemnation.

So we keep trying to put on the face day after day, and when we start to fear that our true selves might be found out, boom. Awkwardness. The kicker is, don’t our souls long to be known? Like

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We will always struggle against our human brokenness. We battle our own self righteous judgment of others even as we fear their judgment of us. It’s the daily internal struggle of every believer: seeking to be more like Christ but falling short of the glory of God. Whether it’s anxiety, or depression, or addiction, etc. we simply can’t live up to the ideal self modeled by Christ on our own.

We need a savior.

Rhodes writes that awkwardness is an invitation to vulnerability. If we can be vulnerable enough as a church to show each other our real selves, then we can more fully understand the all-surpassing and extravagant grace of God, and we can learn more about how to love and be loved. We can wave cheerfully across the gap at our “ideal self,” knowing confidently that as we continue our journey to follow Christ, we will slowly bridge the gap and eventually be brought into the fullness of God! Church, let’s seek to see each other as God sees us, that we may inspire others to come home and into the freedom of living a life under the protective covering of our Creator’s perfect love.

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NOTES FROM S

ave the date! The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is organizing an adult mission trip to Sager Brown, Louisiana next March.

The exact dates are March 26 -31, 2017, so start praying now about whether God is leading you to be part of this trip! You might be surprised

by His answer. To learn more about the trip, contact Brenda Miiller at lecrecep@hotmail.com. To learn more about UMCOR, visit www.umcor.org

UPCOMING COMUNION

RAIL OFFERINGS Ma y 8th – C o nfe r e nc e D is a s te r Reli ef: T hi s f u nd h elps th e Rio Texa s C onfer enc e aid in effor ts like floo d reli ef a nd cle a n-up, fir e d eva s tation re c ove r y, a nd oth e r e m er g enc y aid s i tuation s.

Ju ne 5th – Floo d Bucket Build: We are alre a d y workin g to p u t to g eth er 50 floo d b uckets for di s a s ter reli ef in Sou th e a s t Texa s. H elp us go a b ove a nd b e yond our goal!

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SOME FUN FACTS

from the Wonder Workers

lthough no one has specifically asked, I thought I would share some funfacts (for lack of a better description) regarding the Wonder Workers longterm project for upgrading all the old T12 fluorescent light fixtures at church to T8 technology fixtures. So, if you are into details and information, here's some info you may like to know:

-T8 lamps produce better color rendering than do T12 lamps -T8 technology light fixtures produce less heat than T12 fixtures -T8 technology produces less light flicker than does T12 technology

-For 3 & 4 lamp fixtures, T8 technology uses 35% less energy than does T12 technology

-At the church's average energy cost, a 4-tube, T8 fixture operated 9 hrs/day, 4 days/week will save $10.40/year over a T12 fixture

-T8 lamps produce 6% more light output than do T12 lamps

-It cost the church $21.63 for the Wonder Workers to upgrade a 4-tube fixture to T8 technology

-After 40% of useful life, a T8 lamp only loses 5% of its initial light output capability - a T12 lamp loses 14%

-For heavily used lights (think offices & hallways), the pay-back time will be 2.08 years John Doudna

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1 MUSIC CELEBRATION SUNDAY 10:00am Sunday School 11:10am Combined Worship Service 12:00pm Potluck Meal 3:30pm New Member Ice Cream Social 4:00pm Confirmation

2 6:30am Bacon & Eggs GroupGroup-FH 7:30am Child Development Center 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 12:00pm Lunch BunchBunch-Rm 2 12:00pm Rotary Group 5:00pm Trustees Meeting -Rm 12 7:00pm Boy Scout Meeting

3 7:00am Men's BreakfastBreakfast-City Cafe 7:30am Child Development Center 8:00am Wonder Workers 9:00am Living Well College 9:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry 12:00pm Al Anon - Rm 11 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 5:15pm Living Well College Board Meeting 5:15pm Women's Emmaus Reunion Group 5:30pm Girls Basketball

4 7:30am Child Developm 9:30am Knopp Retireme 10:00am Fredericksburg 12:00pm Alcohol Anony 3:30pm Pioneer Club 6:30pm Pioneer Club Fa 5:30pm Middle School Y 6:00pm Bell Choir Pract 7:00pm Chancel Choir P

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6:30am Bacon & Eggs GroupGroup-FH 7:30am Child Development Center 10:00am Cards for Christ 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 12:00pm Lunch BunchBunch-Rm 2 12:00pm Rotary Group 4:30pm Child Development Board 6:00pm Stephen Ministry Leadership 6:30pm SPRC Meeting 7:00pm Boy Scout Meeting

7:00am Men's BreakfastBreakfast-City Cafe 7:30am Child Development Center 8:00am Wonder Workers 9:00am Living Well College 9:00am Prayer Shawl MinistryMinistry-Library 12:00pm Al Anon - Rm 11 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 5:15pm Women's Emmaus Reunion Group 5:30pm Girls Basketball 5:30pm Mission Committee Meeting

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CONFIRMATION SUNDAY 9:00am Contemporary Worship 9:30am Agape Hour 10:00am Sunday School 11:10am Traditional Worship Service 3:00pm Music Club Concert

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MEMORIAL DAY CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED 6:30am Bacon & Eggs GroupGroup-FH 7:30am Child Development Center 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 12:00pm Lunch BunchBunch-Rm 2 7:00pm Boy Scout Meeting

7:00am Men's BreakfastBreakfast-City Cafe 7:30am Child Development Center 8:00am Wonder Workers 9:00am Living Well College 9:00am Prayer Shawl MinistryMinistry-Library 12:00pm Al Anon - Rm 11

SENIOR RECOGNITION SUNDAY 9:00am Contemporary Worship 9:30am Agape Hour 10:00am Sunday School 11:10am Traditional Worship Service

7:30am Child Developm 9:00am Quilters 10:00am Fredericksburg 12:00pm Alcohol Anony 3:30pm Kid's Music Aca 5:30pm Middle School Y 6:00pm Bell Choir Pract 7:00pm Chancel Choir P

7:30am Child Developm 10:00am Fredericksburg 10:00am Knopp Retirem 10:30am Knopp Nursing 12:00pm Alcohol Anony 12:00pm Diabetic Suppo 3:30pm Kid's Music Aca 5:30pm Middle School Y 6:00pm Bell Choir Pract 7:00pm Chancel Choir P

7:30am Child Developm 9:00am Quilters 9:30am Windcrest Retire Retir 10:00am Fredericksburg 12:00pm Alcohol Anony 3:30pm Kid's Music Aca 5:30pm Middle School Y 6:00pm Bell Choir Pract 7:00pm Chancel Choir P

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7:30am Child Development Center 9:00am Living Well College 9:30am Helen Tainter Circle 9:30am CDC Kid's Chapel 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 2:00pm Friendship Circle 5:30pm Girls Basketball 6:00pm Praise Team Rehearsal 7:00pm Boy Scout Leaders

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7:30am Child Development Center 9:00am Living Well College 9:00am UMW Craft Workshop 9:30am Heritage Communion 9:30am CDC Kid's Chapel 12:00pm Alcohol Anonymous 5:30pm Girls Basketball 6:00pm Praise Team Rehearsal

7:30am Child Development Center 12:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous 4:00pm Wounded Warriors

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Special Events Music Celebration Sunday Sunday, May 1st Combined Worship at 11:10 a.m. *Join us this Sunday as we celebrate all the musical folks who bless us with their talent every week. Stick around after the service for a potluck lunch in the Family Life Center complete with more musical entertainment. (If you bring a dish to share, no pineapple, please!)

Welcome Home Ice Cream Social May 1st at 3:30 p.m.

Fellowship Hall *Welcome our new members home at an ice cream social this Sunday. Meet some new friends and enjoy a sweet treat on us!

Youth

Middle School Youth Wednesdays from 5:30 –7 p.m. in the Youth Room

High School Youth Wednesdays from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Youth Room

Youth Sunday School Sundays at 10 a.m. for all youth 6th12th grade in the Youth Room

Confirmation Classes Sundays at 4 p.m. in Room 12

Children Pioneer Club Final Meeting Wednesday, May 4th at 3:30 p.m. followed by family dinner at 6:30 at Lady Bird Park. *KMA will continue to

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meet after school through May 25th.

Contact Lisa Davis or Don Doss at 9977679 for more information

Sunday, May 15th at 9 a.m.

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Children’s Sunday School

*Support our sixth graders as they make their confirmation and become adult members and make FUMC their home.

Senior Recognition Sunday Sunday, May 22nd at 9 a.m. *Join us as we celebrate all of our graduating seniors.

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Sundays 10-11 a.m. *Contact Lisa Davis at 997-7679

Kid’s Music Academy Sea World Trip Saturday, May 28th *Contact Don Doss at 997-7679 to sign up or learn more

Vacation Bible School June 20th-24th 5:30-8ish p.m.

REGISTER NOW by clicking this link or contacting Lisa Davis at 997-7679

Financial Learning First You Dream Christian Financial Literacy Time and Date TBD *Combining scripture and personal financial accountability is intimidating. Please don’t let it scare you from trying out this great program. Workbooks are $5, sessions are two hours each over a three week period.

Contact Debra Hadsall at financialfreedomparty@gmail.com with dates and times that are best for you, and dates will get set accordingly.

Music Wesleyan Bell Choir Rehearsal Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

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Chancel Choir Rehearsal Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

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*Worship and testimonies from around the community. Emceed by our own Joel Griffin! Contact Debbi McCurdy at (830)998-2920 for more information.

Opportunities To Serve Wonder Workers Help The Wonder Workers need to borrow two sets of scaffolding WITH WHEELS that will reach up about 20 feet.

We may need to borrow these for a month or more. Anyone who has some scaffolding the Wonder Workers can borrow, please contact John Doudna (992-2180).

Flood Buckets We are looking to put together about 50 flood buckets, and we need your help! Checks marked “flood buckets” or clean, empty plastic five gallon buckets with lids are greatly appreciated.

Praise Team Rehearsal Thursdays at 6 p.m.

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Music Club Concert Emile Pandolfi– Concert Pianist May 15th at 3 p.m.

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In the Community Rio Texas Conference Kids Camp July 21-24th Mount Wesley, Kerrville, TX *For all kids in the Rio Texas Conference from 4th-6th grade. REGISTRATION DEADLINE is JULY 7, 2016. To register or learn more contact Pam Elliott at 830-8966400 or email kdum@kdumc.org

National Day of Prayer Thursday, May 5th at 5:15 p.m.

Marktplatz on Main Street

41&Change Coffee Sales Coffee for camp sales are now the FIRST and THIRD Sunday of each month. That means more opportunities to stock up (if you didn’t know already, they are now selling K-cups!), and more opportunities to fund YOUR ministries.

Proceeds for April’s sales (April 3rd and 17th) will benefit the Belize Mission Group. If you want to take over the sales to help raise money for your missions, contact Brenda Miiller at lecrecep@hotmail.com

Audio Visual Tech Help Our praise team is growing! That means our audio and video team occasionally needs some help. If you are interested in getting involved with the worship service in a new way by helping with sound, running the Sunday slideshow, or producing our live stream, contact our communications director, Tricia, at tricia@fredumc.org fredumc.org 24

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1 Rachael Cole 1 Mikayla McMahon 1 Allen & Pat Spousta 1 Larry Altman & Patti Pavliska 2 Joanne Richards 2 Frank & Sandy McGill 3 Skyler Brunson 3 Danielle Hallford 3 Delia Sanchez 3 Thomas Whetstone 3 Dorman & Vicki Schmidt 6 Greg Andreassian 6 Paul W. Loyd 6 Morgan O’Neil 6 Chelsea Kenny 7 Colton Geistweidt 7 Rita Irons 7 Gary Marburger 7 Levi Shaw 7 Colton Geistweidt 8 John Davies 8 Karl & Ingrid Stengel 8 Tom & Valerie Boone 9 Rachel Atkins 10 Laura Correa 10 RaPaula Varney 10 John Courter 11 Reg Gartner 29 Vol. 14 May 2016

21 Robbin Embury 11 David Fullbrook 21 Dorothy Pritchett 11 George & Alice Hahn 21 Cole Smith 12 Seth Batterton 22 Jill Elliot 12 Josh White 22 Dorothea Mclure 12 David & Gwen Fullbrook 23 Janet Lindley 13 Leslie Correa 23 Danny Richardson 13 Laila Correa 23 Sharon Wahrmund 13 Joseph Plocheck 23 Debbie Sue Hadaway 13 Chenoa Schmidt 24 Barry & Joyce Smith 14 John Doudna 25 Bill & Deborah Wiginton 14 Nina Pruitt 26 Britanny Axe 15 Robert Deming 26 Larissa Hallford 15 Pat Spousta 26 Mary Lou Schmidt 15 Steve & Beverly Allen 26 Gail Weich 15 Jim & Janet Lindley 26 Donna White 16 E.W. Hallford 16 Dennis Phillips 26 Clay Wiemers 27 Ed Graham 16 Jim & Sharon McMahon 27 Cayden Longerhans 17 Nicholas Craig 27 Marvin Pickens 17 Christi Traver 28 Joel & Rene Griffin 17 Benjamin Rogers 29 Fred & Terry Hays 17 Mac & Ila Burnett 30 Travis & Jeri Neal 19 Rachel Houy 31 Melva Chancellor 19 George Murphy 31 Anne-Marie Houy 20 Ronald Deskin 31 Troy Wadzeck 20 Natalie Stafford 31 David White 20 Pam Milde 21 Tom Anderson · Dates and names in bold are anniversaries.

CONTINUING CONCERNS Nursing Home & OUR Military Retirement Center Carolyn Allen Ruth Braeutigam Clarence Durst Imogene Friedrich Fred Mesch Desmond Sagebiel Mabel Teschner Romilda Jaimson Audrey Kothmann

Norma Peterson Marvin Prochnow Marvel Pospisil Auralia Schmid Melrose Sultemeier Jimmie Tree Fred Kunz

OUR Missionaries

Scott Benfield Khristy Brazell Roland Cleveland Adam Duecker Gary L. Goin Dylan Guess Houston Haley Chance Harling Wacey Holladay Mark Klaerner Bryce Klein Jason Loving Alec Maples Quentin Moellering

James Muncy Dennis Ray Phillips Chris Pieper Steven Ramsey Tyler Remini Cody Segner Jason Smith Bruce Stafford Perry Waters Charlie Watson Ash Westerfield Weston Williams Dara Wydler Steve York Joshua Weaver Ethan Waterman

Here I am.

Send me.

Central Asia: Brian & Cynthia -Isaiah 6:8 Eastern Asia: Misti Ecuador: Ecuador: Tim & Daina We also want to Madagascar: Adam & Suzie, acknowledge Jana and Leigh, Phoebe, Emma, Baylee & River who are serving the Japanese Detroit .We support them Nicaragua: Sara & Joey, Risa, inwhen possible, and hope to Micah & Jace add them to our regular Philippines: Marsha support list in the future.

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Fredericksburg United Methodist Church 1800 North Llano Fredericksburg TX 78624-2917 **************************************

Connect with our staff Rev. George Lumpkin……Senior Pastor (glumpkin59@gmail.com) Rev. Sid Spiller……..Associate Pastor (sid@fredumc.org) Don Doss……………………Director of Music Ministries (don@fredumc.org) Joel Griffin…………………..Director of Youth Ministries (joel@fredumc.org) Lisa Davis……………..Director of Children’s Ministries (lisa@fredumc.org) Kenneth Vaughan…………Director of Media Ministries (notagadget@gmail.com) Tricia Small…………………Director of Communications (tricia@fredumc.org) Judy Hickerson……………..Organist Linda Klein………………….Office Manager (linda@fredumc.org) Selena Hendrix……………...Director of Finances (selena@fredumc.org) Florie Hernandez……………Custodian Tammy Amerson-Wilson RN………Wesley Nurse (TAmerson-Wilson@mhm.org)

Regular office hours are Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.—5 p.m., closed 12-1 p.m. for lunch, and You can reach the office at 830-997-7679, or visit fredumc.org to learn more about our worship and ministries.