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Welcome Grow Serve Celebrate
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We hope to see you tonight for dinner on the grounds with a Shrimp Boil. Bring a chair and join us at 6 pm for dinner, fellowship, and fun. Waterslides will be on the lawn for the kids (and any adult ready and willing to jump in!) We have invited some of our visitors to join in the Garden room at 5:15 before the dinner for a sort of orientation to Parkway Hills, so if you see a new face at the Shrimp Boil, I hope you make an extra effort to say hello and get to know those who have been worshipping alongside you recently at Parkway Hills.
--Dawn
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Welcome PHUMC's newest member!Rachael Carpenter, one of our Senior High Youth, joined PHUMC Sunday on a profession of faith. Rachael was baptized in the Gulf of Mexico in Panama City, Fla., July 4, during our Youth trip.
Be sure and welcome Rachael when you see her!
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Homeless Ministry
PHUMC volunteers Jerry Sandlin, Juliet Huam, Rev. Haven Boyd, Joe Williams, Jeannie Chunn and Bob Chunn celebrate one of the Grace Place guests earning a bicycle this morning. Grace Place provides a bicycle to participants who give ten hours of service. They also provide a shop to help keep the bicycles in good order. PHUMC partners with Galloway UMC to provide meals and other benefits to the homeless population in downtown Jackson. If you would like to help with this ministry, contact Juliet Huam. Volunteers carpool from the PHUMC parking lot on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 7:00 am.
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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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As of this morning, our Raise the Roof fund stands at $42,628.68.
I give thanks for the ways so many have stepped up to the plate to aid with funding our new roof and cannot believe how far we have already come, but we are not done yet. To date, we’ve had about 30% participation from our request for our church family to prayerfully discern donating $300 to help fund the new roof. We know for some $300 is not a lot at all and for others, $300 sounds impossible. If $300 sounds out of reach, what about $100? If $100 is too big an ask, what about $50? If you have never given to aid in the mission and ministry of Parkway Hills, this would be a great first step in giving. Funding church buildings is never the exciting part of ministry, but it is a valuable part of how we are able to be a presence in our community. We truly do best what we do together, and every little bit along the way helps in getting us to our goal. We get closer every day, and I give thanks for all the gifts along the way.
--Dawn
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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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KidMin Day of Fun
Last Saturday our children enjoyed the Day of Fun at Sky Zone and Happy Land!
We look forward to seeing you Sunday at 9:30 a.m. for Sunday School, and at 10:45 a.m. as we continue the fun with "The Great Church Chill Out" July worship series.
Sunday School Volunteers: Join in the fun as we start a new unit for Sunday School and learn about some of our favorite Bible stories. If you are interested in volunteering, click here to sign up to teach. We will need two additional volunteers to assist with Pastor Haven each Sunday in the Garden. All volunteers must have a background check before volunteering in children's ministry.
--Haven
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| -Adults, we need chaperones/drivers for the fun trip below! Sign up here or contact Geoff for more info.
-Summer heat getting to you? Come cool off with us in the Strong River on Saturday, July 22! Trip cost is $25 (pay here or via app) and includes a picnic lunch. Meet at the church at 8:30 am. Deadline: tomorrow Noon, Thursday, July 20.
-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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A full morning for PHUMC Youth at Good Samaritan Center, harvesting, weeding, sorting clothes donations, painting, repairing the irrigation system, and completely replacing a salad mix growing table! Thank you to everyone who came out.
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Jokesters Zachary Miller, Davis Flowers, and Connor Nichols gave us their best jokes as part of our "Laugh Out Loud" worship service Sunday.
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| Meeting This Week:
Wednesday (tonight):
Wecome meeting for prospective members at 5:15 pm in Garden Room
Shrimp Boil and Waterslides at 6:00 pm
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!
Youth River Float trip
Sunday:
Sunday School at 9:30 am.
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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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.
"Raise the Roof" Funds to date: $42,628.68
A gift to the Raise the Roof Fund has been received in memory of Anne Gibson.
July Communion Offering to date: $804.00
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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