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Sunday Service Schedule
Contemporary Worship Service-Chapel       8:15 a.m.
Sunday School                                                        9:15 a.m.
Traditional Worship Serivice-Sanctuary      10:30 a.m.
Jr. High and Sr. High Service                             5:00 p.m.
Evening Worship Service-Chapel                     6:00 p.m.

Traditional Service Broadcast Every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on KRIA 103.9 F.M.

                                           Jerry L Moore -Pastor                                      Jane Autry -Business Administrator

                                          Travis A Bennett- Assoc. Pastor                 Kaylene Hazel - Membership Secretary

                                          Sarah Ballard - Children's Pastor                Zach Bechtold - Activities/IT Director

                                        Ann Stutes- Music Minister                            Teresa Harriss - Director CDC
The Youth Group Is Pleased to Present:
“A VALENTINE
VARIETY SHOW 2010”
WHEN: Sunday February 14, 2010
WHERE: Crawford Hall
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
COST: $10 per person; kids 5 and under eat free.
Tickets includes a fabulous meal, participation in a silent dessert auction, and a variety show.
Contact Travis, Zach or the church office for tickets. Or catch a representative of the youth group after morning worship...this Sunday, February 7th
Proceeds help finance
the Youth’s Summer Ministry Plans.
UMCOR
For individuals or groups that want to contribute basic necessities, UMCOR requests that the following NEW items be taken to your church to be picked up the first week of February and sent to Haiti.
1 hand towel (15” X 25” up to 17” X 27”.
No kitchen towels
1 washcloth
1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket size)
1 nail file or fingernail clippers
(no emery boards or toe nail clippers)
1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. And up)
1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, no child-size brushes)
6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
$1.00 to purchase toothpaste
We request if you bring anything to the church, please place your items on the stage in Crawford Hall.
Cross and Flame News
Just a little reminder of some of the activities that take place at the Cross and Flame. Our Monday morning breakfast is going very well. It’s a great place to congregate and fellowship and get your work week started right. We have a walking class on Monday and Wednesday mornings that everyone needs to consider joining. It is low impact and a warm dry environment to walk in. Also, on Saturdays at 1:00, Marshall Flores conducts a self defense/exercise class that is beneficial to everyone. Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 a.m. we still have our Men’s Basketball. We minister to over 125 kids a week with the different youth activities. Faceplace, our ministry for college age young people, meets every Monday night and feedback from the young adults is that this is an extremely needed ministry and enjoyed by all. Be looking for a 3 on 3 Basketball tournament in March. We will be inviting community churches to compete in the tournament and of course, our church-wide Softball League that will being in early Spring. Things are hopping at the Cross and Flame. If you haven’t been to any of these activities, we highly recommend you come in a see what’s happening.
MOORE OBSERVATIONS
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
“Restoration: An extraordinary activity of God, through work of the Holy Spirit, which transforms both individual believers and the community of faith into the image of Christ.” (from Restoring Methodism by Dr. James B. Scott and Dr. Molly Davis Scott)
People are beginning to talk about healing, reconciliation and restoration in among the people called Methodist in Plainview, Texas. There are many opinions regarding how this might come to happen.
The Clergy and Lay Discipleship of this church has a call to move toward restoration of lives and systems.
Salvation is about God intervening on behalf of his creation that awakens to our inability to save ourselves by our own means. Salvation, healing, reconciliation and restoration of God’s creation and order is God’s desire according to Holy Scripture.
Sunday 7, February all members of the church are invited to Crawford Hall for a Pot-luck dinner. During this meal we will seek to do two things:
Introduce leadership for the coming year (Board and committee members; teachers of Sunday School Classes and Studies; Representatives of Classes; and Staff)
Introduce Restoration vision starting in February and moving toward May.
You will be invited as disciples and leaders within First UMC Plainview to participate in:
Our Lenten Purpose:
Common Discernment toward Restoration
Our Lenten Strategy:
Invite all people who desire restoration to
1. Read Scripture in common
2. Discuss ten Decisions in eleven weeks
3. Meet together for reflection and
understanding
4. Encourage conversation within Boards,
Committees and Classes that move toward
Christ centered opinions, teachings and
practices among the congregation.
May the Lord bless and keep you until we meet together.
Peace and Towels, Jerry
A WORD or 2…
“…continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purposes.”
PHILIPPIANS 2:12c-13 (NIV)
What part of your life do you work on the most? Some of us might say our career; while others might say our family; while yet others might say a personality trait. All of which are important, however, apart from Christ what possible success could we have in working on such things?
The Apostle Paul encourages us to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling.” This is the top concern of life. Whatever might happen to the rest of our life (temporal), we must attend to the best of our life, and that is salvation in Christ (eternal).
God does not call us to work out other people’s salvation through judgment. Rather God calls each of us to work, with Him, on our own hearts, minds, bodies, and souls. This is a daily process, and it requires time and attention to the practices of the Christian faith. Only then will we be able to see the needs of others; help others; and be Christ unto the world.
With fear and trembling...we work out our life in Christ. Fear being the “awe” and “reverence” and “respect” of the God who created us. Paul sees this work being made possible by attending to the gospel message.
We “workout” our salvation, and yet God “works” in us to accomplish it. Remember, it is the grace of God which gives us the ability to do the workout. We can’t act without God’s grace. Therefore, who are we to think anything possible without the grace of God making it so in us, for us, and through us?
May you workout your faith in Christ with the utmost attention to every loving detail.
Blessings, Travis
 
If you have any questions or comments regarding church functions please contact the office.  If you have any questions or comments about the website please email Zach at zach@fumcplv.org.

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