Nazareth Marketplace VBS 2024 July 22-26 9am-12pm
CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VBS 2024!
CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VBS 2024!
Please click on the appropriate file below to print out the form,
and bring it to the church office to preregister your child/ youth helper for VBS.
Child registration is for children going into kindergarten through going into 5th grade. Youth Helper Registration is for youth going into 6th grade through going into 12th grade.
and bring it to the church office to preregister your child/ youth helper for VBS.
Child registration is for children going into kindergarten through going into 5th grade. Youth Helper Registration is for youth going into 6th grade through going into 12th grade.
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Rev. Missy Turbeville *Excerpt from July 2024 FUMC Newsletter
These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
-Acts 2: 15-17a
July is an exciting month at First United Methodist Church of Bartow! While pyrotechnics will go off around our nation, big excitement and outbursts of the Holy Spirit’s work are happening all around us! You will notice lots of Holy Spirit flames throughout this Newsletter. Why? Because our hearts are on fire with the love of God and we are empowered to witness to Christ for great things!
This month, we will continue to be looking at the book of Mark and Jesus‘ ministry of compassion that challenges the status quo of what has been and what is expected. Jesus’ kingdom of God ministry shakes things up in His historical period and ours!
We will learn about risk taking as we look at the brave woman who touches Jesus’s garment in order to be healed, and the loving father who comes to Jesus to ask for his daughter to be made well. The woman and the father took a chance on Jesus’ compassion that they had heard about or seen. We are heirs of that compassion. We experience it ourselves and share it with others.
We will see how Jesus sends the disciples out to share about the good news of the kingdom of God and to heal people. We will connect with how the disciples go beyond what Jesus had sent them to do in their excitement of the empowering of God that they were experiencing.
As Jesus seeks time away for Himself and his disciples after a busy season of ministry and then pivots to care for the spiritual and physical needs of others, we will notice how Jesus was both healthy in His care of Himself and others and practiced self denial when necessary. Jesus practiced a balanced care of others while allowing space for people to participate in the kingdom of God and what God was doing in their lives. We will have opportunities to both serve God and practice rest and Sabbath as Vacation Bible School nears and we continue to break from some of our regularly scheduled ministries.
We will notice how the disciples and crowds were urged to live a new way in the kingdom of God and discover how what Jesus was exemplifying then applies to us now. How have you been challenged in these days? What risks do we take as the body of Christ to seek healing amongst our friends, in our families, and in our community? Have you ever been so excited about what Jesus is doing that you have gone beyond what seemed possible? This is what it means to live life together in Christ. To take risks, to go beyond.
This month, we as a church will be given an opportunity to participate in the kingdom of God with our care of our community children through our vacation Bible school. Perhaps you are feeling fired up to volunteer or invite a neighborhood friend’s child or grandchild to join us!
We will hear about how some on our missions team stepped outside their comfort zones to go to Argentina. You might hear about activities that it would never occur to you to volunteer for or your interest might be sparked for something new!
To others, it might look like we are out of our senses, but we know we are filled with the world changing fire of the Holy Spirit!
With Love in Christ,
-Pastor Missy