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101 E. Barbour Street
P. O. Box 72
Eufaula, AL 36072
(334) 687-8227
(334) 687-8285 FAX
www.fumceufaula.org
VOLUME XXXIV
NUMBER 22
May 30, 2018
Pastor
Dr. Alan Cassady
Youth/Missions Director
Britt Martin
Music Director
Billy Wilbourne
Office Staff
Jodi Stockberger
Pam Hunter
First United Methodist ChurchFirst United Methodist Church
FUMC Women’s Event
Saturday, June 9
10:30—12:00
Guest Speaker:
Rev. Sara Shaver,
Dothan District Superintendent
Drinks & Main Course Provided
Please bring other items as listed.
Last names A—L: salad
Last names M—Z: dessert
RSVP by Thursday, May 31
www.fumceufaula.org/register
Fill a Bottle, Help a Baby! Please remember to
pick up a baby bottle
from church and fill it
with money to benefit
the Pregnancy Re-
source Center. We
will continue our col-
lection through Father’s Day.
Please “adopt” one of these bot-
tles!
All men are invited to join us on
Wednesday, June 6, at 7:00 a.m.
in the fellowship hall for our
monthly Men’s Breakfast. You’ll
enjoy a delicious meal for $5, a
devotional by Ang Schramm and
wonderful fellowship. Please join
us!
We offer our deepest sympathy
and heartfelt condolences to
Georgianne Slade Stillwell, Will
Slade, and all of their family follow-
ing the death of Lenora Slade.
Please pray for the comforting
presence of God’s Holy Spirit to
surround this family in Christ.
VBS
Vacation Bible School All rising kindergarteners through rising 5th–graders are invited to register
for FUMC’s Vacation Bible School to be held June 25—29 from 9:00—11:30
a.m. Splash Canyon: God’s Promise of Life’s Wild Ride is sure to be a
blast for your children! Register now at www.fumceufaula.org/register.
June 25-29
Calendar of Events
►Sunday, June 3
Worship 8:30
Sunday School 9:45
Worship 11:00
Elevate—My Epic Sunday 10a—8p
►Wednesday, June 6
Men’s Breakfast 7:00
12:12 Youth Bible Study 12:12
Chancel Choir 7:00
►Saturday, June 9
Women’s Event 10:30
June 3 Volunteers
►Acolyte
11:00 — Jackson Mitchell
Anna & Sarah Murph
►Sacristy Prayer Leaders
8:30 — Buck Earnest
11:00 — Ang Schramm
►Ushers
8:30 — Nick & Heather Smith
11:00 — John Howard
Richard Wingate
Ang Schramm
Lance Abbott
►Lay Readers
8:30 — Pam Wilkes
11:00 — Caty Richardson
►Greeters
8:30 — Phillip & Janet Wills
11:00 — Robert & Rhodes Bennett
Ben Taylor
►Children’s Church
11:00 — No Children’s Church
►Elevate Supper
6:10 — TBD
Hey FUMC Family —
Sometimes something's so important that you
need to read it more than once. In full transpar-
ency, this is the exact same article I wrote last
week for the newsletter. It's the top 5 reasons
you should send a kid on our Atlanta Mission trip
(June 17-21). I really believe that we're not clos-
er to the heart of God than when we're serving
the least, the lost, and the marginalized. The best tool we have on Earth
for expressing our love for God is the way we love others. Mission trips are
good "loving others practice." So, check out this week's Top 5 (again).
1) Awesome Mission Projects. This trip is a little different in that we
won't be doing a lot of manual labor. Our
projects are largely relational. We'll pre-
dominantly be serving the population of
people experiencing homelessness in the
city. The organizations we partner with
have a reputation for doing excellent work
in a very safe way. We'll be doing every-
thing from packing and serving lunches in
the city, to cooking a pancake breakfast
and inviting people to join us, to leading a
worship service designed for people experi-
encing homelessness. You can feel free
to check out some of the organizations we'll be serving with at 7bridge-
storecovery.org, safehouseoutreach.org, and gatewayctr.org.
2) After serving during the day we'll always take some time to have some
fun in the afternoons/evenings. We'll check out a Braves game, head to
Sky Zone trampoline park, tee off at Top Golf, and plenty more.
3) It's only $150 for the whole week! We do our best to make our mission
trips extra affordable because we believe the experience is worth it! We
also know that sometimes money is tough, and we never want that to be
the reason that a kid doesn't go on a trip. We always have scholarship
money available. Please don't hesitate to contact me if money is an issue
for this trip.
4) We spend time together at night recapping the day and connecting with
God in worship. It's always a special time together. We always seem to
meet God in powerful ways on our trips where we go to serve together.
5) This is really a repeat of a trip we did a couple years ago. We're repeat-
ing it because SO many of the kids and parents that participated were so
impacted by the trip that they insisted we do the trip again. We'll be serv-
ing with many of the same organizations and staying in the same accommo-
dations (Roswell UMC). Be on the lookout for some firsthand testimonies in
the coming days on our social media accounts from kids who were impact-
ed during our last trip to Atlanta.
Have I convinced you yet? I know often times it's easy to wait until the last
minute to sign up for these trips, but I'd encourage you to go ahead and
sign up now so we can plan for transportation. Our deadline for the trip
is June 3rd. You can register now at www.fumceufaula.org/register
That's all for now. God looks good on you — Britt
Prayer List
► New concerns:
*The Lenora Slade family
*Harry Nelson
Leigh Harris
► Continue to pray for:
*Kirven Gary
Bill Jones
Barbara Whitney
*Josh Jones
Mitzi Tzerman
Dave Allen
*Jane Pody
Jim Roberts
George Williams
Mary Sellers
Linda Dudewicz
Cruz Rios
*Mel Stephenson
*John Hagood
*Louise Britt
*Betty Searcy
Walter Harmer
*John Jenkins
Bobby Gray
Kathy Armstrong
*Taylor Washington
*Jeff Richards
*Brian Devlin-Meagher
Mary Lindsey Hannahan
*Richard Boyette
The Pastor’s Page
A Look at May 27 Sunday School .....................
8:30 Worship ................... 46
11:00 Worship .................. 76
Total Worship ................. 122
Offering received ........... $TBA
YTD received ................ $TBA
BTT balance ............ $263,041
► Prayer list guidelines:
Names remain for 4 weeks unless
requested to remain.
* denotes church members.
Abraham – Impossible Promise
One of the promises God made to Abram was the promise of a child. To be
sure, Abram and Sari misunderstood this promise and tried to help God out
on one occasion. However, in the passage, we will look at this week
(Genesis 17:1-8, 15-19) describes how this promise will come about: God
will give a son to Abraham and Sarah.
We all identify with the impossibility of this promise, and we might join
Abraham in laughing out loud at the thought of it (Sarah herself laughs in
the next chapter). How can a 100-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman
produce a child, especially since Sarah has been childless her whole life?
I wonder if we look at the promises we have in Scripture, especially the
seemingly impossible ones, and pass over them because we think that
there is no way God could do that for us. A person might see the promise
of salvation and wonder if God could save someone who has done the
things they have. We go through difficult times and think the promise that
God will be with us is just poetry. We wonder how God could bring good
out of difficulty like we are experiencing now, mainly since we caused it.
When we think promises like that are impossible, we dare not even ask in
prayer for God’s help because we feel we don’t deserve it. But why? Are
those promises more impossible that giving a childless couple in their nine-
ties a son?
What if we dared to ask God to bring the realities of his promises to us?
“Oh God,” we might pray, “I know I don’t deserve anything from you, but
please save me.” Or, “Lord I don’t feel you very close right now, but I
know that is your promise, so I will begin to pray and live as if you are al-
ready keeping your promise.” Or even this, “Father, I have made such a
mess out of this situation, and it is all my fault. I don’t know why you
would help me, or how you could bring anything good out it, but I will
choose to believe that you can, even if I don’t see it right now.”
Maybe that is all it would take.
Grace and Peace, Pastor Alan
Dear FUMC,
Last week, my grandson, Rhett and I went to Wild Animal Safari near Pine Mountain, Ga. I had
seen the ads on TV many times (“he’ll slobber on you”) and decided that I would take Rhett and
go see this nature park. The park allows you to take your own car through or you can rent one of
their vehicles. As one of the pictures showed one of the beasts with his hooves up on the top of
the door, we opted to rent. When we got to our rental, I noticed that there were bars on the
windows. At that point I was very relieved that I had not taken my own vehicle through the park.
We purchased a sack of food each from the friendly lady at the ticket desk, found our vehicle and
began our adventure. There was a “cattle gap” dividing the park from the parking lot. For those
who aren’t familiar with the term, a cattle gap is a series of pipes affixed at ground level across the entrance. The pipes
were far enough apart where the animals were afraid they might catch a hoof in the gap but close enough for a vehicle
to drive through. We had quite a large welcoming committee on the other side of the cattle gap.
We had been told not to feed the zebras and birds by hand as they would nip. We were to throw the food on the ground
for them. However, the zebras had a better idea. They would stick their heads partially through the bars and open their
mouths very, very wide (ala open wide and say “ahh”). All we had to do is toss the food into their mouths and they were
satisfied. As we went through the park, we met ostriches, a giraffe, elk, bison, pigs, and springboks to name a few.
To say the least, we had a blast. It was amazing to me that the animals had learned how to get food from us. Like the
zebras, some would open wide. Others had the unusual and humorous style of receiving food by just moving their lips in
the form of a kiss.
The whole experience reminded me of Matthew 6:25-27 which says, “therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than
clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life.”
These animals had it within them to learn how to get food. God provided the instinct. God provided the food. I was
amazed at the experience. I urge you to go, it’s a great trip. We had a great time.
See you on Sunday. God bless, Billy
The mission of First United Methodist Church is
to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ for the
transformation of our church, community and world.
Birthdays
Friday, June 1
► Riley Givens
Richard Johnson
Saturday, June 2
► Alexandra Conniff
Jessica King
Sunday, June 3
► Davis Wingate
Monday, June 4
► Carol Garren
Tuesday, June 5
► Robin Flewellen
Contact
Us
Alan Cassady:
850-418-3303
Britt Martin:
678-953-4602
Offerings left on the altar rail on commun-
ion Sundays are used to assist families in
need through the Family Service Center.
Thank you in advance for your offerings!
