This Week in Worship
Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
TRADITIONS – SANCTUARY
8:00am – In-Person & Online
Message by Rev. Dr. Alan McBride
Revive Us Again: The Role of the Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 12:3
Worship Led by Rev. Dr. Brad Bradford
Gloryland – I’ll Fly Away and The Old Rugged Cross
CONNECT – SANCTUARY
9:30am – In-Person & Online
Message by Rev. John Kelsoe
This Is How We Do It
1 John 4:7-21
Worship Led by Rev. Dr. Brad Bradford
Connect Worship Team
Holy Communion Celebrated by Rev. Dr. Alan McBride
TRADITIONS – SANCTUARY
11:00am – In-Person & Online
Message by Rev. John Kelsoe
This Is How We Do It
1 John 4:7-21
Worship Led by Rev. Dr. Brad Bradford
Chancel Choir – Crown Him Jesus! Crown Him King!
Gloryland – The Old Rugged Cross
FREEDOM SERVICE– FAMILY LIFE CENTER
11:07am – In-Person & Online
Message by Rev. Dr. Alan McBride
Revive Us Again: Transformation
Romans 12:1-2
Worship Led by Ben Savage
Freedom Worship Team
Church Life
Starry Starry Night
Join us for an evening at Shalimar UMC as our mission team hosts, “Starry Starry Night” – a benefit dinner and auction illuminating our commitment to various missional connections of the church. This event will be held on Friday, May 17th, 2024 from 6 PM to 9 PM, shining a spotlight on all the impactful local missions we passionately support. Tickets are $40 each, tables are $350 and can be bought on Sunday mornings or Wednesday evenings in the FLC Lobby. This night will offer you a gateway to an unforgettable night filled with joy, generosity, and fellowship. Let’s come together to make a difference, embracing the spirit of giving under the stars. Your presence will brighten the lives of many, reaching out with love and support where it’s needed most. Reserve your spot for a night that promises to be as heartwarming as it is radiant, being the change for our community together!
Senior Sunday
It is hard to believe, but the end of the school year is quickly approaching. Only 6 weeks to go! With that, it is time for us to begin preparing to honor our graduating seniors. This will take place Sunday, May 5th during the Freedom service. If you’re a senior, or you know a senior, who should be honored, please contact our Director of Student Ministry, Chris Bennett, by Sunday, April 28th. We look forward to celebrating this milestone in these students’ lives. Email youth@shalimar-umc.org for more information
Children’s Musical
Our Children’s musical “Star Quest” will be held on Sunday, May 5th at 6:00 pm in the Family Life Center. Come on a journey into the future to a galaxy far away! Shalimar Kids Club is excited to introduce you to the Christian crew of the starship “Star Quest J-316,” which is on a mission to boldly spread God’s love in the greater Omega Galaxy! Believers can only read their Cyber Bibles on the Intergalactic Bible Database. You will meet Captain Holly Grammar and her crew, who love to share the love of God throughout the galaxy but were never taught the importance of Bible memorization.
Changes are Coming
Beginning Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, the adult price for Wednesday Night Fellowship Dinner will be changing from $7 to $8 because of rising food costs. Thank you for understanding, and if you have any questions, please let us know. In addition to dinner prices changing, our Sunday morning schedule will also be changing beginning Sunday, June 2nd. Refer to the card in your Worship Guide for the full schedule.
Good of the Church
Welcome, Karen Cardinez and Forrest Oliver to the Church Staff!
This month, Shalimar Church welcomed two new staff members! Karen Cardinez is in the office as our new Administrative Assistant shadowing Pat Brantley. Forrest Oliver is now working as the Assistant Respite Director for Joyful Place. Join us as we welcome them to the team, and may Gods blessing be upon them as they start their positions here at Shalimar Church
Missions Moment
The Bread House accepts donations of adult clothing items to distribute to those in need when they come to the Bread House for food. If you have gently used clothes, please consider donating them to the Bread House for us to distribute to those in need. You may drop off clothes or food on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from 9:00 - 12:00 at the Bread House in Cross Corner. Thanks in advance for your support!
An Update from Pastor Alan
Dear Friends in Christ at Shalimar Church,
Grace and Peace in the Name of Jesus Christ! With this update, I want to bring you forward with me in discussions, prayer, and reflection I have been having and engaging others in about the flow of our Sunday morning experiences as the Body of Christ at Shalimar Church. In previous updates, I began to share my plans to bring some aspects of change to our Sunday morning. After my initial announcements a month ago, I decided to put a pause on the announcement and plans to begin our renewed schedule for Sundays until today.
I sought more counsel with the Task Group I had assembled from across the Church Family and asked Dr. Brad Bradford to reconsider with me some of the very valid concerns we received about the early concepts for renewal of Sunday mornings. In March, when I initially shared my plans among the Church Family, I was not free to announce that Rev. John Kelsoe, our wonderful Associate Pastor, would be moving forward, receiving his own church as pastor- in- charge in June at Marlow United Methodist Church in Robertsdale, AL. His departure brings a focus to the necessity for this new approach to Sunday mornings.
Today, I want to invite you to warmly embrace the renewed Sunday Morning Schedule for all aspects of Body Life at Shalimar Church beginning Sunday, June 2nd.
8:00 am – Upward Worship, Sanctuary
This service will combine the best of our current Traditions and Connect worship. We will worship through Scripture-centric acts of worship including communal prayers, spoken liturgy, Holy Communion each week, and the Proclamation of God’s Word. We will share in a variety of musical styles including wonderful hymns and classic contemporary worship music honoring to God. Our SUMC ensembles along with the Joy Ringers handbell choir and the SUMC orchestra will be a part of this experience. Musical leadership from our current Connect Worship Team will bring great gifts to this worship service.
9:00 am – Fellowship and Body Life, FLC Lobby
This current fellowship time continues with coffee and a variety of goodies but is really a means of God’s Grace in spending time with others sharing the joy of godly togetherness where the Spirit is present among us.
9:15 am – Sunday School/Small Groups/Christian Education Time
SUMC has always offered a fully integrated and age-appropriate time of fellowship in small groups surrounding the study and discussion of the Scriptures. These groups continue with our current Sunday School classes as well as new group offerings for more people to be engaged by God’s Word as we help each other to learn more of Jesus’ way of living. This time could include classes led by pastors and church staff.
10:15 am – Fellowship and Body Life, FLC Lobby
Another opportunity for those who will be attending either the Freedom or Traditions worship to experience the Body Life of Shalimar Church from which we all receive blessings in being with other believers.
10:37 am – Freedom Worship, FLC
This service will continue to be the post-modern, emergent style for which Freedom is well known. This service will continue to be led by our Freedom Worship Team.
11:00 am – Traditions Worship, Sanctuary
This service shall continue as we have known the 11:00 Traditions service. It will include our Chancel Choir, ensembles and orchestra. The Traditions acts of worship will continue to include communal prayers, spoken liturgy, creeds, and the preached Word. The musical style of this service will continue to be traditional hymnody led by organ and piano.
As Pastor, I wanted to make this change to our Sunday schedule separate from the news about John Kelsoe’s departure from Shalimar, but it became clear that it was not in God’s timing for me to bring this change at the beginning of May. Given the disappointment that I feel bidding John and Stephanie Kelsoe God’s Grace as they move forward in their ministry and the necessity of not having a pastoral associate here for our Church Family, I deeply desired to set a forward-looking, positive note with the change of schedule.
However, this renewed schedule is a very positive movement because it allows our Church Family to focus on 3 biblical cornerstones for growth in faith and preparation for our mission to make disciples for Jesus Christ- to empower each of us to be able to bring others who don’t yet know Christ to come to understand His love for them and help them through the Body Life of this church to experience Jesus’ love.
However, this renewed schedule is a very positive movement because it allows our Church Family to focus on 3 biblical cornerstones for growth in faith and preparation for our mission to make disciples for Jesus Christ- to empower each of us to be able to bring others who don’t yet know Christ to come to understand His love for them and help them through the Body Life of this church to experience Jesus’ love.
The 3 cornerstones are spirit-led, excellent worship which brings praise and honor to God and enables us to experience the presence of His Holy Spirit among us as we worship in three distinct styles of worship on Sunday mornings. Another very important cornerstone for us to grow in our faith journey is the spiritual formation and Christian education we experience and learn in Sunday classes or small groups on Sunday morning and I wish for more of our Church family to engage in small groups.
Currently, I am developing plans to add several small groups during the Sunday School/Small Group/Christian education hour and at other times during the week. If you are willing to receive some training from me in facilitating a small group, please contact me to help in this very crucial area of focus.
Finally, the third cornerstone is fellowship and hospitality. There will be two bridging fellowship times each Sunday morning. Fellowship is more than just a cup of coffee and Hayward’s scones. It is also an act of New Testament “koinonia”, literally spiritual fellowship, flavored by the Holy Spirit, where we encourage each other in our relationships and our closeness to God. Added to spiritual fellowship AND coffee and scones, I am bringing a renewed emphasis on hospitality where persons will offer a “touch” or two to everyone who comes on campus, newcomers as well as regular attending friends and members. If God’s Spirit is nudging you to help me re-build a spirit of hospitality, please contact me and let’s get started!
This renewal of our patterns of Body Life and Worship on Sundays is occurring at the same time that I feel God is beginning to do a new work among us! I’ve been praying and expecting His movement for months and I want to ask you to prayerfully ask God’s Spirit to enliven you and our Church. Expect great things from God and begin again to invite new people to join you at Shalimar Church.
Please call if I can serve you in any way. In the meantime, pray and look forward to more of what God wants to do at Shalimar Church.
In Jesus Always,
Dr. Alan W. McBride, Lead Pastor
Since 2014, Shalimar UMC and our Missions Ministry has been sending mission teams to partner in ministry with the Cuban Methodist Church and Bishop Ricardo Periera. To date, nearly 100 of our Church friends have been in mission ministry in Cuba serving to support pastors and churches there.
As we approach the high, holy day of Pentecost on May 19th, celebrating the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we will have a great opportunity to hear testimony about the Holy Spirit’s movement in Methodism in Cuba and our partnership with the Spirit in serving with the Cuban Methodist Church to impact so many lives for Christ.
Through the month of May, culminating on Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, our Missions Ministry Team and Church are hosting three very special Cuban friends.
Wednesday, May 8th, 5:30pm in FLC- Rev. Aldo Gonzalez, National Coordinator for US Church Missions Teams for Bishop Ricardo Periera and the Cuban Methodist Church, will be our guest for a time of fellowship and a presentation about how the Holy Spirit is at work through our efforts and other US churches in Cuba.
Sunday, May 12th, in the 9:30 and 11:00 worship services, Rev. Andres Rodriguez will be preaching. He is Pastor of Ciego de Avila Methodist Church and shares Christ with over 500 persons each Sunday. Pastor Andres is also the District Superintendent of the Ciego de Avila District, the Cuban Methodist Church, with 24 churches under his guidance.
May Pentecost Emphasis- Shalimar and the Cuban Methodist Church
Wednesday, May 15th, 5:30pm in the FLC, Pastors Andres Rodriguez and Raidel Banos will be our guests and provide slide and video presentation and witness about Shalimar Church’s 10 year-long partnership with their churches and the Methodist Church in Cuba. Through their eyes, we can see and hear how the Holy Spirit is moving in a powerful way!
Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, at the 11:00 Traditions service, Rev. Raidel Banos will be preaching. He has been a Methodist pastor for 25 years and currently leads the third largest church in Cuba with 1500 in attendance each Sunday.
Please make every effort to be a part of these experiences in worship and testimony about our involvement with God’s Spirit in the churches of Cuba.
Attendance 04.21.24 8:00 : 85 930: 54 11:00: 106 11:07: 74 Kids: 26 Livestream: 174 TOTAL: 345
Are you passionate about helping people feel welcome and enjoy themselves over a delicious meal? If so, consider serving on the Hospitality Team during the weekly fellowship time at Wednesday night dinner and Sunday morning brunch. Contact Chef Heyward McKenzie during the fellowship times for more information.
If Fellowship Dinner is not for you, then we have other opportunities! God has designed us with a unique combination of gifts, passions, and life experiences to spread the Gospel. Let us know which areas of ministry you want to serve in by completing an Every Member In Ministry (EMIM) form at shalimar-umc.org/emim.
Week 205 – Apr 5th
Food Distribution Numbers
15 New Families visited last week, representing 43 individuals. Items always needed!
1. Toilet paper is a must need each week!
2. Canned Meat; Tuna, Chicken, and Spam!
3. Canned Vegetables: Corn, Green Beans, and Mixed!
4. Dried goods, beans and rice!
5. Fruit, potatoes, and onions
If you don’t have time to shop, you can donate money to The Bread House by sending a check to SUMC, MEMO line put “Bread House.”
Questions? contact Pete Peters, 703.395.2437, fwpetersjr@gmail.com or Robin Hays 850-621-7014.
Happy Anniversary Bread House! You are 4 years old! To all the Volunteers and the folks who continue to Contribute to the Needywe thank you all!!!!
This Week Total 458 bags collected 76,358 400 bags given out 58,661 (219.9 tons) 0 cards given out 239 ($8735) 424 members served 58,358
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