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| On the Meriam-Webster website, you can find the "Word of the Day" podcast. It isn’t that exciting, but if you love vocabulary, you can go to this site each day, and listen to a short podcast giving you all needed information for the word of that day. On, April 2nd, the word of the day was abide. This is an old word. According to the podcast, abide has been around since before the 12th century, and while it is not really used in contemporary language, for us as a people of faith, it holds a significance that I am not sure any other word can capture.
Jesus, speaking to his disciples in the Gospel of John before he is arrested and before his journey to cross and resurrection begins, says, “Abide in me, and I in you.” He tells the disciples to “abide in my love.” In 1847, Henry Francis Lyte wrote a poem as a prayer for God to remain present. This poem became the hymn “Abide With Me.” When we think of the word abide as a people of faith, we think of a deep, personal connection to God through Christ. For the next 4 Sundays, we will reflect on the word abide and the way God abides with us, and we abide with God and one another. We will celebrate our graduating students and remind them of the connection they will forever have to this place, to us as their family in God, and to God through Christ as God promises to abide with them wherever they may go. Below are the readings for each Sunday. I hope to see you each week as we abide in love and worship together! -Dawn
- April 22: John 10:11-18 and Psalm 23
- April 29: John 15:1-8 and Baccalaurette Sunday
- May 6: John 15:9-17
- May 13: John 17:6-19 and Ascension Sunday
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Lake J Meeting
Sunday, April 22nd Sunday afternoon, there will be a planning meeting for all youth who have signed up for the Lake Junaluska trip this summer. Parents, we need you there, too! Meet us in the Youth Room at 4:00 pm.
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| During this Saturday's Methodist Children's Home annual open house,
DAY OF HOPE,
you can visit the campus, receive a tour, bid on a cake, eat lunch, and hear from staff and kids about the difference your donations have made in the lives of Mississippi children!
This Saturday, April 21st
9 am - Campus Prayer Walk/Prayer Circle
10 am - Campus Tours
11:30 - am Lunch
12 pm - Program and Cake Auction
1:30 pm - Dedication of Chapel Prayer Room
Thank you for your continued support of MCH!
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Wednesday Night Dinners and programs have concluded for this semester, but
Bunk Bed Building
Will Continue! If you would like to share God's love by serving in this way, meet Bill Flynn in the Church Basement on Wednesday nights at 6 pm.
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| Plans are underway to honor all of our graduates on Baccalaureate Sunday, April 29th. Graduates will be recognized at the service they normally attend, (either 8:30 or 10:45), and all graduates and their families will be honored at a breakfast reception in the Youth Room during the Sunday School hour on April 29th. You can help!
First, thank Cindy White and Charlotte Estes for coordinating the breakfast this year. Then, help by providing a dish! Sign up through PerfectPotluck using THIS LINK. The password is "parkway".
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The United Methodist Church has called a special session of our General Conference for February 23-26, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri to deal specifically with the proposals coming from the Commission on the Way Forward formed at General Conference in 2016. The Commission on the Way Forward has been gathering and engaging in prayerful discernment since their formation to listen for the Spirit’s leading with regard to the language within our Discipline around human sexuality. They should be releasing a report to the Council of Bishops in July of 2018. The Council of Bishops will use this report to structure our time together at General Conference in 2019. Parkway Hills UMC will be offering opportunities for anyone to come and gain some education around the structure of the UMC, the work of General Conference and the Commission on the Way Forward, as well as ask any questions you may have about the upcoming called session or recent events within the Mississippi Conference of the UMC. Below are the opportunities being offered. - TONIGHT, April 18th at 6 pm in The Garden Room
- This Sunday, April 22nd in The Garden Room immediately following the 10:45 worship service
Thank you,
The Staff and Leadership of Parkway Hills UMC
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| EAST FLORA SUPPORT
Friday, April 27th, Parkway Hills is hosting an 'Incentive Day' Party to reward students from EFES for positive behavior and their good work at school. We need some help setting up on Thursday, April 26th at 1:00 pm. We could also use a few more helpers Friday morning from 8:30 - 10:30 am to make sure everything runs smoothly and is as fun as possible!
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| Worship Services
April 22, 2018
Acolyte for 8:30 am
Vivian Anding
Acolytes for 10:45 am
Zachary Miller
Joseph Puskarich
Greeter for 8:30 Service
Carolyn Campbell
Greeters for 10:45 am
Melvin and Lara Spell
Extended Session
Trey and Renay Camp
Ushers
Dewey Boles, Buford Clark,
Joe Dean, Marc Rolph,
Jeff Allen, Cari Brown,
Charles Guess, Brad Norris
Offering Counters
Karen Camp, Cathy Robertson ***********
LAY LEADERSHIP MEETING
Monday, April 23 at 6:30pm
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| What a joy and priviledge to witness the baptism of our precious sister in Christ, Lucy Mills Aikens. Remember to pray for her on her journey of discipleship among us!
April 15, 2018
Attendance: SS - 112
8:30 am - 88 10:45 am - 133
April Communion Offering for EFES Support: $1,173 to date
Year-To-Date: March 2018
Income: $175,777.22
Expenses: $197,535.15
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