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be faithful as You show us the way. May we be led by faith and not fear. As we pray, we seek Your will and not ours, O God. For such a time as this You are raising us up to be a bea-con of light and hope for our com-munity. Give us courage and humil-ity. We surrender ourselves to Your leading. Bless us, Lord, as we desire to accomplish Your mission for us as a congregation. In Jesus’ name.

PPRAYRAY FORFOR OOURUR SSCHOOLSCHOOLS

A new prayer initiative for our schools begins this weekend! Come pick up your prayer wristband and 707 prayer as we commit to pray together for the children, teachers, administrators, and staff in our area schools.

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Kids’ Sunday School Teacher Youth MPact

We are looking for spirit filled, lov-ing people that are interested in teaching children. If you would like to help nurture their spiritual growth, please sign up to teach Sunday School on the connect card (bulletin insert) or contact Lancy Ulrich at (660) 287-3496. Let’s work together to help our children learn and strengthen their faith in Jesus Christ.

CCARDARD NNIGHTIGHT On every 3rd Saturday of the month at 6:45 p.m., everyone is invited to the Celebration Center (First Family Room) for a night of fun and fellow-ship. Bring a dish to share at this carry-in supper and card playing eve-ning. Our next event is scheduled for Saturday, August 19th.

CCIRCLEIRCLE OFOF HHOPEOPE If you are a female affected in any way by cancer or a chronic illness, please join us for Circle of Hope, a women’s cancer/chronic illness support group, held in The Gather-ing Place at 6:30 p.m. on the last Thursday of every month. Our next meeting is Thursday, August 31st. Any questions, please feel free to call Kathy Morris at 660-281-4744 or Kathy Price at 573-280-2470.

CCHANCELHANCEL CCHOIRHOIR PPRACTICERACTICE RRESUMESESUMES If you would like to be a part of our Chancel Choir, please come to our choir practices. They start up again on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Fusion Aerobics Room (Choir Room) beginning Sept. 5th, 2017.

Our next 50+ Fellowship (3rd Friday of every month) will be held on Friday, August 18th at 11:30 a.m. at the Celebration Center (First Family Room). Bring a dish to share and come enjoy the food, fun and fellowship. $25 Key Fobs for the Fusion Wellness Room are available for sale by contacting Tehya at the church office (827-2993) or emailing: fusion-room@firstsayyes.com. If you are interested in free ac-cess to Right Now Media, (over 12,000 Bible Studies, children’s videos, and more) please send your name and email address to: getactive@firstsayyes.com

For confidential, spiritual, and emotional support in a 1-on-1, car-ing relationship, contact a Stephen Minister at 620-4484. Carpenter’s Kids’ Preschool is now enrolling 4 year olds for our fall 2017 morning (8:30-11 a.m.) and afternoon (12:30 – 3 p.m.) classes. Call the Celebration Cen-ter church office (827-2993) or stop by the church office for enrollment forms.

Regular Youth MPact (Grades 6th—8th and 9th—12th) is in recess for the summer. Weekly Sunday eve-ning meetings resume on September 10th at 6 p.m. Watch the newsletter and bulletins for special events throughout this summer. ~A Youth Scavenger Hunt is sched-uled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Au-gust 27th. A Youth Bowling Night at Jester’s (Lincoln) is being planned for Sunday, September 3rd.

LLIFEIFE SSUNDAYUNDAY SSCHOOLCHOOL CCLASSLASS On August 20th the LIFE class will begin a new Bible study from Right Now Media, called “The Good Book”. It is a series of eight lessons covering various stories in the Bible and testimonies from real life epi-sodes of how God is working in peo-ple’s lives today. We will have a dis-cussion period after each session. If anyone is looking for a Sunday school home please feel free to join us at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays. If you have questions please contact Ron or Karen Miesner, 827-0372.

VVOLUNTEERSOLUNTEERS NEEDEDNEEDED FORFOR OOPENPEN DDOOROOR The Open Door Thrift Shop is in real need of a few great people who can run the cash register on Friday & Sat-urday. Store hours are from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (5 hour shifts). If you would like to plug into a very needed volun-teer venture, call Betty (mgr.) at 829-0900.

There will be a Men’s Ministry Vi-sionary Meeting on Tuesday, Au-gust 22 at 7 p.m. in the Gathering Place. If you are interested in our starting a men’s ministry, come be a part of this meeting. If you have questions, contact Steve Turner, 660-563-0384.

Men’s Ministry Visionary Meeting

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30 Min. before & after Weekend Svcs

Aug. 20 Kathy Collins, Sara Doak Aug. 21 Albert Arnold, Jr. Aug. 22 Kasey Duncan, Katherine Cecil, Krysta Ott, Tia Williams, Faron Miller Aug. 23 Kathie Smith, Matt Lane, Dana Gillig, Sara Lyles, Jessica Muths, Mason Miller Aug. 24 Scott Mowry, Mark Thompson, Aaron Walters, Dane Mateja, Shaylin Wooster, Kobe Callahan, Michael Houser, Amanda Myers, Ryan Griffin Aug. 25 Jefferey Wheeler, Suzanne Price, Carter Woolery, Chantry Alexan-der, Lance Oster Aug. 26 Rita Fobian, Mary Lou Homan, Jessica Cecil, Jenni-fer Cecil, Lindsey Lyles, Chase Douglas, Ryan Callahan, Tesa Jenkins Aug. 27 Carol Slagel, Judy Thomas, Diana Jones, Missy Cook-Stephens, Paul Derks Aug. 28 Clayton DeMotte, Lori Meyer, Sam Tagtmeyer, Tyler Shelledy, Javier Hernandez, Alan Canida, Jennifer Norton, Marshall Mankini Aug. 29 Donnie Ditzfield, Barbara Henderson, Mark Younce, Krista Coffey, Carol Van-derpool, Mark Kempton, Alexus Dickmann, Evan Waldrep Aug. 30 Zana Bergman, Marc Hibbard, Robert Meyer, Isabella Thompson, Dan Swearengin, Aaron Shive Aug. 31 Cameron Davis, Bailey Smith, Barbara Rippey, Joyce White, Chase Stone, Noah Sipe Sept. 1 Denise Swearingin, Rosemary Rundlett, Sue Nutt, Peggy Moriarty, Paige Kelley, Joshua Valtos, Amelia Jones, Annabell Hackman Sept. 2 Michael Leiss, McKenna Perusich, Mi-chelle Muths

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August 5-6, 2017 Sunday School 99

Worship 614

August 12-13, 2017 Sunday School 86

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Our Family

OUR PRAYERS FOR: Darlene & Virgil Burgess, Kenneth Burgess, Jacob Gerken, Annabell Hackman, Clifford Smith, Jennie Chef-fey, Glenda Horne, Kristina Johns, Sandy Smith, Steve Goldsmith, Mary Matz, Cansata Arnold, Jim Rich-wine, David Miller, Dana Gil-lig, Virginia Davis, Judy Tho-mas, Jeff Zullig, Strong Tower Haiti Orphanage, and our covenant churches in Mozambique. Please be sure to notify the church office (827-2993) if you are in the hospital. We would love to visit or pray with you.

Congratulations: ~Katy (Parkhurst) & Dylan Chevalier are the proud new parents of Nora Chevalier born July 28, 2017. Dena & Bill McFarland are the mater-nal grandparents, and Shirley Alexander is the ma-ternal great grandmother.

WWEE CCELEBRATEELEBRATE THETHE DDAYAY YOUYOU WEREWERE BORNBORN If your birthday is not listed, please let us know so it can be added!

WWOMENOMEN’’SS NNEWEW BBIBLEIBLE SSTUDYTUDY Please join us for this Fall’s Women’s Bible Study, "All Things New", by acclaimed author Kelly Minter. Study the Letter of 2 Corinthians, exploring the anchoring truths of bearing treasures in jars of clay, meeting Christ through a pressing thorn, opening wide your heart in the midst of hurtful relationships, and what it means to em-brace the lost and lonely as ministers of the new covenant. Each of us has a message to proclaim and live by: Be-cause of Jesus the old has gone; the new has come.

The 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning classes begin Sept. 12. The 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evening classes begin Sept. 13. The studies will be held in the Gathering Place at the Celebration Center. For more information contact Tammy Martin at 221-8939 or lucy4jc4610@gmail.com.

HHELPELP NEEDEDNEEDED The Green Team would like some help cleaning and refinishing the gazebo and lawn furniture on the west front of the building. If someone with a power washer could clean them and another 1 or 2 people paint them, they would last so much longer. If you can help us, call Gene Page, 343-5789 or 660-620-5790.

July 2017 Totals Budget 56145.28

Building 10937.00

Special 7708.88

TTHANKHANK YYOUOU: : (On display at Bulletin Board behind Wall Fountain)

We received a thank you from: Al Sturges

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Brian & Kathi (Oster) Smith Children—Brian Oster & Issabella Smith

(Not Pictured—Nicholas Smith, Sydney Smith & Lance Oster)

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CCHURCHHURCH CCONFERENCEONFERENCE

There will be an important Church Conference on Sunday, August 20th at 12:00 noon.

The sole purpose of the Church Conference is to vote to affirm the design plan for the new location of First United Methodist Church on Thompson Blvd. District Superintendent, James Simpson, will pre-side over the meeting. The affirmation empowers the building team, along with our Leadership Coun-cil, to take all processes forward to completion (including a potential loan for the parking lot, should it be necessary). Only such business shall be transacted at this meeting, which is in harmony with the stated purpose of the call. All members are eligible to vote and must be present to vote.

JJAMAM SSESSIONSESSIONS If you like to make music, come join our Jam Sessions on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of every month from 6 to 9 p.m. beginning September 14th. Meet at Sedalia First United Methodist Church in the Youth Room. Bring your original works! Tell your story! Enjoy time to make music with fellow musicians from around the area!