Trinity Talk -– May 22, 2011
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK:
* TUESDAY – CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING AT 6:30 P.M. The business of Trinity is conducted at this meeting; all officers of the church should attend if possible and all others are welcome. Larry Smith is Council Chairman.
* WEDNESDAY – THE CONCERT FOR HOPE at 6:30 p.m. Please join us at Trinity for a special concert with your favorite musicians as we celebrate spring! We will have a special offering for the Bloomfield Ministerial Alliance which provides hope for those who need help with groceries, gas, electric bills, rent and other basic needs. Tell your friends, neighbors and co-workers to come and enjoy a special night of music. (JOY service cancelled)
*UNITED METHODIST WOMEN will meet at 1:00 p.m. in the Education Building
The Healthy Church Initiative evaluation meeting was attended by 29 people. We celebrated our successes and talked about concerns, too. Susan prepared a summary of how we're doing the on the five prescriptions and it is available on the table in the foyer.
Please help us with our diaper ministry! We need diapers sizes 3, 4 and 5 and baby wipes. There is a basket in the hallway of the sanctuary building. Thank you for your generosity!
The blood drive was successful; there were 22 donors with 2 brand new ones who had never given before. Thanks to the UMW ladies for supplying the drinks and snacks! There is a thank you to the church posted on the bulletin board in the fellowship hall. Also, a big thanks to those who gave from the church and a special thanks to Carrie Greene who was a big help in getting people signed in and fed!
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS:
*Skye Brown made the honor roll and attended the honor roll banquet.
*Brant Hobbs, 3rd grade, Joseph Lane, 1st grade, and Ashton White, Kindergarten, were chosen to represent their grade in the Spelling Bee.
*Joseph Northern will be graduating from high school; commencement exercises are at four o’clock this afternoon.
*William Green, Wyatt Hendley, Katelyn Jarrell, Marvin Smith and Ashton White “graduated” from Kindergarten on Friday night.
PRAYER CONCERNS
A. L. Blair – Jeff Blair’s uncle who had cancer surgery last week; is in ICU at Barnes Hospital
Rita Dwiggins - aunt of Carrie Greene – critical condition in St. Louis hospital.
Family of Charles Wayne Cobb - Chad, James and Brittany, Janet and Reese Palmer.
Family of Burley Pruett - Cousin of Gorty Aslin who passed away this week
Family of Homer Levart – Passed away this week.
Charlotte Clark - Jill Gibb’s mom had surgery on Thursday for a tumor on her sciatic nerve; she came
through the surgery with no problems.
Ben Hanner – awaiting test results; he is Shirley Hanner's nephew
Shane – Son of Shirley Hanner's sister's sister-in-law'
Sharon Ulrich - had heart surgery on May 5 and is showing improvement; she is still hospitalized in ICU
Gary Rhine - Melissa Blair’s dad will see his doctor Monday concerning his biopsy
Kristine Comstock - She is having severe leg and back pain.
Karen Stevens - Healing prayers are needed.
Linda Talley-Kristine Jackson’s mom who has cancer.
Greg Hall Sarah White Charlie Glass Mucuacua UMC
- Big Concert: First UMC in Sikeston has secured National recording duo, Dove Award Nominees Shane & Shane for a concert at the Miner Convention Center on August 27, a kick off for heir brand new tour and album release. Artists Bethany Dillon, Freely, and Dub Pierce will open for Shane & Shane that night. All of the profits from the concert will go towards First UMC Youth mission trips. Included in the ticket price will be entrance to the silent auction and heavy hors d'oeuvres. Doors open at 4 pm and concert begins at 7. This is a great and unique setting to see one of the more popular Christian groups
- Pre-Sale Special: Exclusively at First UMC in Sikeston this weekend, you'll have an opportunity to buy tickets before anyone else at a discounted rate for the above concert. We'll have a limited number of tickets to sell right after each worship service for only $10. On Monday, tickets will be available at other outlets to the general public at the regular price. If you are interested, contact Brad Aycock.
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COMMUNION ON THE MOON
More than forty years ago history was changed when two human beings walked on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldine and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it. I’m taking about the fact that Buzz Aldine took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guildeposts story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow and he asked his pastor to help him. The pastor consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine which Aldrin took with him out of the Earth’s orbit and on to the surface of the moon.
He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the following statement. “This is the LM pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.” He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account of what happened:
“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the read and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the 1/6th gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.’
I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute (they) had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murry O’Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly. I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility .. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements. And, of course, it is interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ who made the Earth and the moon – and Who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the “Love that moves the Sun and other stars.” WOW!!! Written by the author of
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask)
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