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Welcome Grow Serve Celebrate
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Sunday in worship we welcomed four new members to Parkway Hills UMC!
Art & Connie Starkey and Phillips & Maggie King all came forward to let us know they’ve found a faith home here.
Connie, Art, Phillips, and Maggie, we’re so excited that you’re here and believe deeply in how God is calling us together!
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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 youth and kids will begin in the Garden Room at 9:30 for donuts and fellowship; they will then be directed to their room for the new year. Rising Bridgers, we have a surprise for you!
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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Shrimp Boil and Splash Party
A great crowd, lots of shrimp, refreshing water pools, fun slides, and plenty of opportunities to visit with one another made last Wednesday evening a success, despite the excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service. Thank you to all who made this a fun event, especially Jean Dunn and Brandon Jones, who were in charge of the most important part, the food!!
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Mary Beth Stevens, with Southern Christian Services (pictured center, back row), spoke to the Quilting Ministry this week about the children that are receiving the prayer quilts that PHUMC Quilters have made. "In response to the love of Christ, Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth serves and equips vulnerable children and youth, assisting them in the process of becoming self-sufficient contributing members of society." So far, the PHUMC quilters have provided 959 hand-made prayer quilts, most of which go to children in distress. Each quilt has the child's name and belongs to the child to keep. For more information about the Prayer Quilt Ministry, which meets in the Garden Room on Mondays from noon to 3:00 pm, contact Cheryl Blacklidge.
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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 are interested in your child taking part in this course, please fill out the registration form and bring it to Pastor Haven at church. We will also have printed forms available to fill out. The registration deadline is August 1. Invite any friends that may be interested in taking this course as well. Click here to register.
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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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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, and we're celebrating!
-Another great summer weekend for PHUMC Youth! We floated the Strong River, braved the rapids, and had an all-around fun time on a hot day.
-The annual "Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" Party is August 6, 4pm. 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, 5:30-7:30pm. Bring your calendars and your enthusiasm for our students as we set a course for 2023-2024.
-Is your next faithful step serving our youth? We're looking for a junior high Sunday School teacher for the 2023-2024 school year! If you're interested or want to learn more about this opportunity, contact Geoff.
-Geoff
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Summer...
Despite the heat of summer, we are thankful for the beautiful zinnias that our PHUMC Kids planted at our doorstep. They bring us joy every day!
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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:
Sunday School at 9:30 am.
Fellowship time in Worship Center 10:30 a.m.
Worship at 10:45 am.
No choir practice in July.
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 $47,428.68. Our goal is $60,000.
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RECORD OF OUR FAITHFULNESS
Year to Date, June 2023
Income: $257,769.59
Expenses: $258,418.16
*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.
A gift in memory of Taylor Christian Yates has been received for the Roof Fund.
"Raise the Roof" Funds to date: $47,428.68
A gift in memory of John Holman has been received for the Building Fund.
July Communion Offering to date: $854.00
Our July Communion offering helps to support the youth summer trip to Panama City Beach, Florida, where 17 students and 6 adults volunteered and provided the weekly community dinner for residents at The Ark, studying the Bible, and growing together.
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