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Welcome Grow Serve Celebrate
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We're Growing
at Parkway Hills!
We are delighted to welcome new members John and Dana Watson, who joined Sunday. Please welcome them to our PHUMC family, in person at Worship and via email here: John and Dana.
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Sunday, August 6 will be a full Sunday for our Parkway Hills family, and we hope everyone is making plans to attend. We will pray for our teachers and students as a new year begins, be blessed with special music from our adult and children handbells, mark milestones as we hand out Kindergarten and 3rd grade Bibles, celebrate Promotion Sunday, wrap up our Great Church Chill Out worship series, and end the day with food and fun for our kids and youth. This would be a great Sunday to invite a teacher and/or family to join you at Parkway Hills UMC!
Check out all the times below:
Sunday Morning:
9:30 am: Sunday Morning Small Groups
Adults, this will be a great Sunday to give one of our four adult Small Groups a try. Note: Renew will not meet until the following Sunday, August 13.
All Bridgers and Kids will begin in the Garden Room at 9:30 for fellowship and fun; they will then be directed to their room for the new year. Rising Bridgers, we have a surprise for you!
Youth will meet in Youth Suite at 9:30 am.
10:30 am: Fellowship in the Worship Center
10:45 am: Worship
Sunday Afternoon:
Kids rising 4th grade and under: Reunion Beach 4-6. Bring a chair. Parents must stay. Light dinner provided.
The Bridge (rising 5th/6th): Meet at Parkway Hills at 3:30 for a mystery trip ending back at Reunion for pickup by 6:00. Dinner provided. (Hint: Bring a swimsuit and towel.)
Youth (7th-12th): “Can’t Wait 'til Christmas” 4-6:30 in youth room. Bring a snack to share.
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Choir Practice Returns in August!
Practice will resume Sunday, August 6
@ 5:30 p.m. in the choir room.
New members are always welcome!
Come give choir a try.
Contact David White if you have questions!
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Created By God is a UMC-endorsed curriculum teaching 5th and 6th graders and their families about faith and human sexuality. Parkway Hills UMC will be offering this course Friday, Aug.11 and Saturday, Aug.12 to our families and students. We will extend this opportunity to our rising 7th graders as well since this group missed Created By God due to Covid. The course will be $30 per student (this includes the meals, book, and materials for the course). If you have not paid your $30 fee, please do so by August 10. You can pay in person by cash or check, online, or on the Vanco app.
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Big House Books
Big House Books is a non-profit, volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in Mississippi correctional facilities in order to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform.
We have placed a bin in the foyer of the Education Building for book donations.
All books must be paperback and in good condition. The current needs are: Bibles/Bible studies and devotionals; activity books (word searches, crosswords, sudoku); dictionaries and thesauruses; computer/IT; skills and trade books; westerns; fantasy; vampire romance; works of popular authors Lisa Jackson, James Patterson, John Grisham, Stephen King, Greg Iles, and Dean Koontz.
If you would like more information about this ministry, contact Amanda Hamilton.
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Join us after the Worship service on August 13 for a prayer walk through East Flora Elementary School. Following Worship, we will go to lunch, then head out to East Flora Elementary. This will be a time to walk through the halls and classrooms of East Flora, covering them in prayer along with writing teachers and students encouraging notes. If you are interested in attending the Prayer Walk contact Pastor Haven.
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Sunday School Volunteers: Promotion Sunday on August 6 begins our new age group Sunday School classes. We are starting a new unit studying the celebrations in the Bible. We will have four Sunday School classes from PreK - 6th grade and will need your help teaching the sessions. If you are interested in volunteering, click here to sign up to teach. All volunteers must have a background check before volunteering in children's ministry.
--Haven
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Here comes the end of summer and the start of a new school year, so we're celebrating!
-The annual "Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" Party is August 6, 4 pm. Bring a snack to share and dress the part as we say goodbye to summer and add to the alumni mosaic!
-Parents/guardians are invited to join us for our Back to School Meeting on August 13, 5:30-7:30 pm. Bring your calendars and your enthusiasm for our students as we set a course for 2023-2024. If child care is needed in order for you to attend, let Geoff know by August 8th.
--Geoff
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Thanks to your your generous gifts, today Parkway Hills UMC provided East Flora Elementary teachers and staff with lunch to celebrate school starting. Pictured are Dr. Marsha Peoples, principal and assistant principal Brande Winstead.
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| Meeting This Week:
Thursday:
Men's Morning Group at 7:30 am.
Join them in the Garden Room or via Zoom **New Meeting ID: 823 5246 2635
New Password: 142295
Handbell practice at 9:00 am.
Saturday:
Parkway Hills Women meet via Zoom every Saturday morning at 10 am.
Meeting ID: 848 7196 9988 (note new meeting ID number)
Password: PHUMCLADY
Women of ALL ages are always welcome!
Sunday: Promotion Sunday
Sunday School at 9:30 am.
Fellowship time in Worship Center 10:30 a.m.
Worship at 10:45 am.
The Bridge: rising 5th and 6th grades, meet at PHUMC at 3:30 for a mystery trip,
ending back at Reunion Beach by 6 pm. Dinner provided. (Need swimsuit and towel.)
Kids rising 4th grade and under: Reunion Beach 4-6 pm. Light dinner provided. Parents must stay. Bring a chair.
Choir practice at 5:30 pm.
Youth: "Can't Wait til Christmas" 4-6:30 pm in Youth Suite. Bring a snack to share.
Monday:
Quilting ministry, noon to 3:00 pm in the Garden Room
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As of this morning, our Raise the Roof fund stands at $49,328.68. Our goal is $60,000.
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RECORD OF OUR FAITHFULNESS
Year to Date, July 2023
Income: $296,507.62
Expenses: $306,721.57
*Year to date PHUMC has paid 18% of District ($1,100.00) and 38% of Conference Apportioned Mission Shares ($26,942.85) coming from individual designated gifts and designated funds we received from the Employee Retention Tax Credit.
"Raise the Roof" Funds to date: $49,328.68
July Communion Offering to date: $879.00
August Communion Offering supports Conference Mission Shares designated for Africa University as well as the Ministerial Education Fund.
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