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A) Sunday April 20, 2003

1) Hymn, Announcements, and discussion

2) Thanks to the Greeters: Marilea and Bob, Carol Douglas, and Don Hammer 4/13 and Carol Douglas, Cristina and Mel, and Dorothy Bridgeman for today. Pearces next week.

3) Birthdays : Grace Elkins 04/18, Jack Copeland 04/07, Don Hammer 04/13, Ruth Heintzelman 4/13, and  Betsy Rasberry 4/16; Janie Jones 04/26. 

4) Gold Stars and Awards. Linda, Marie and Ellen last week. Hatfields received Award Certificate for SFFFWDT

5) Room 109: June ?? Fellowship will try 107 / 108 , and we try 110. / Bulletin boards inadequate, returned./ 04/28/28 Facilities meeting with Adult Ministry Team.

6) Ben Witherington III 9 p.m. on Discovery TV on James.and here 05/25/03. Will rearranfge class schedule..

7) Clipboard for Service Day 4/26, Blood Drive 5/4.

8) Mail Box: Plant Sale 4/25 11:30 – 3:30, Carolinas Medical Center, 1300 Blythe Blvd for Crittenton Services.

9) More Calendar: 5/14 Columbia trip cancelled of Adults Plus!. 5/21 Ownbey Advisory Planning Session 6:45 after Hot Wednesday meal. Officers, Chairs, and ALL. Give subject and feedback to Officers and Chairs before (and at) meeting. 6/1/03 Consecration Service (only) at 10:30 In Sanctuary and Video in Jubilee Hall, Sunday School 9 – 10 a.m.

10) Admin Board: slow collections, maintenance high, William presented Stephen Ministry (Ken did at Adults Plus!), Syd T on ecumentical, Wesley Fund holding gifts, $9M attic sale, Focus groups

11) Pickup Handbook draft, blue Rosters, Pictorials, thanks for help correcting

12) Happiness and Health - Thank you card from Collingwoods.

13) Hymn and Collection, 4 plates, one for each row

14) Lesson: Don Hammer finishes International Series on Easter with “Triumph over Adversity”

15) More Lessons: On April 27 Susan Mobley does Health and Wholeness followed by Ace Walker  on May 4 with Craig Hill's book  In God's Time - the Bible and the Future

B) Article 8—Of Free Will

o The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

o The 25 Articles of Religion were written by John Wesley for the Discipline of 1808. According to Mark Edwards recently, they are what every Methodist believes and "you cannot be a Methodist without believing them all.

C) Lord’s Prayer Session, Wednesday April 16, 2003

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· Ron and Ownbey 1

D) Ownbey Calendar (and Ownbey Volunteers needed in italics) 

1) Other Volunteers Needed: Ownbey needs in italics:

· Ushers for Church in the Round. Let Jan Nomina, Hospitality Chair, know.

· New Church Member follow-up. Need Volunteers

· Project Committee - need one more.

· HomeBound and Hospital Visitation Teams - See Rae Haney

· Goodness Gracious Gift Shop - opening in September, see Linda Shull to work in Shop

2) Future Dates 

· Today - Easter Breakfast 9-11:15 a.m. today.

· Today - Easter 2 p.m. Columbarium Re interment

· Today - 9 p.m. Discovery TV Ben Witherington iii and JAMES

· 04/23/03 Hot Wednesday $6

· 04/25/03 Plant Sale 1300 Blythe , Crittenton Services 11:30-3:30

· 04/26/03 -Spring Service Day

· 04/27/03 - Ownbey Greeters – need 2 volunteers?

· 04/28.03 – Facilities meeting of Adult Ministry Team

· 05/01/03 - National Day of Prayer noon, lunch in Jubilee

· 05/04/03 – Blood Drive

· 05/14/03 – Cancel Columbia A+ trip.

· 05/21/03 - Wednesday –Adults Plus - “Memories” with Dr. Aldridge  10:30

· 05/21/03 – Wednesday –6:45 p.m. after Hot Wednesday meal Ownbey Planning Session (All Officers, Chairs AND members)

· 05/25/0 Ben WitheringtonnIII on James Book

· 06/01/03 - Consecration of Parish Life Building and renovations (9 - 10 a.m Sunday School, Gaston teaches)

· June - Curriculum Meeting

· June ?? Fellowship tries 107 / 108, we try 110

· 06/18/03 – Adults Plus! @ Melvin’s Lakeside estate , $5.

· 07/04/03 - Party at Chasons at 5:30

· 09/05/03 -Stephen Ministry Training

· 09/26/03 - Bar B Q at the Copeland’s

· 12/05/03 - Christmas Party @ Hatfield’s (Tentative)

· 12/14/03 - Breakfast at Thompson’s

E) Sunday April 13, 2003

1) Hymn

2) Way to go Sydnor and Big Orange!

3) Announcements and discussion: Associate Minister?-

4) Wednesday, Ron, Lord’s Prayer, 10:30 A+ or 7 p.m.

5) Thanks to the Maxwells for GREAT Garden Party. Thanks to Hatfields. For organizing. /Thanks to Skip and Ruth for the beautiful prints drawn by a local artist; Skip might invite to class. Framed and look wonderful. Thanks to an anonymous member for paying for the framing. Will un wrap soon./ Thanks to Linda, Carol Needy, Fred and Martha Sunday School Greeters 4/06 and to Marilea and Bob, Carol Douglas, and Don Hammer 4/13. HELP 4/20 and 4/27

6) Clipboard for Greeters, Service Day 4/26, Blood Drive 5/4.

7) 109:: Fellowship to try 107 / 108 , and we will try 110. / White boards returned, inadequate.

8) Birthdays this week: Jack Copeland 04/07, Don Hammer 04/13, Ruth Heintzelman 4/13, Betsy Rasberry 4/16 Grace Elkins, 4/18, Janie Jones 4/26.

9) Happiness and Health -Sadris way to go guys, 50 and counting. Thank you from Collingwoods, he is better.

10) John Bolen’s funeral Monday@ 1 pm in Sanctuary.

11) Pickup Handbook draft, blue Rosters, Pictorials

12) Gold Stars and Awards..

13) 5/21 Ownbey Advisory Session 6:45 after Hot Wednesday meal. Officers, Chairs, and ALL. Give subject and feedback to Officers and Chairs before (and at) meeting..

14) Hymn and Collection, 4 plates, one for each row.

15) Lesson: Durward continues the International Series on Easter with “New Meanings for Old Traditions” followed by “Triumph over Adversity” 4/20 by Don Hammer. Advocate has lesson discussion, but nothing like Paul’s presentation last week!. More Lessons: On April 27 Susan Mobley does Health and Wholeness followed May 4 by Ace Walker  on Craig Hill's book  In God's Time - the Bible and the Future

Subject: Email Ownbey News and Reader

· Date: Friday, 18 Apr 2003 17:26:46 -0400 From; don@donredding.com. corn

· Hi Ownbey Email folks (04/18/03)

1) Remember the Good Friday Tenebrae Service tonight (Friday) at 7:30. Ownbey had good representation at the Maundy Thursday service last night. (Does anyone remember one year in the dark that Ron slammed the Bible shut and scared us half to death?)

2) Also, we had a nice crowd of Ownbey people at Ron’s talk on the Lord’s Prayer Wednesday. From Ownbey, we had 16 at the morning session (of over 50 people present) and we had 8 (of only 10) at the night session.

3) Several class members attended John Bolen’s funeral. (Sorry I misspelled name earlier, someone should have told me.)

4) Remember schedule changes on this Sunday for Easter: Breakfast 9-11:15 a.m., Sanctuary services are 8:15, 9:45, 11:15, Jubilee Hall at 9 a.m. ,and a 2 p.m. Memorial Service (Francis Chapel / Columbarium). Ownbey Sunday School remains 9:45 to 10:40!

5) Giving Cross Sunday, if you help that.

6) Linda and Ellen and Marie won gold stars last week for being able (or trying hard) to get to all 8 of the links in the email (only 7 this week).

7) Come prepared for a good job by Don Hammer Sunday as he finishes the International Series on Easter. On April 27 Susan Mobley does a session on Health and Wholeness followed by Ace Walker on May 4 with Craig Hill’s book (1) In Gods Time -the Bible and the Future The pictorial of our teachers is at (2) http://donredding.com/teacherspictures.pdf Our lesson schedule is at (3) http://donredding.com/2003.html

8) Ben Witherington Ill will be on TV Sunday night talking about his book on James, brother of Jesus, and the ossuary box. Discovery Channel Sunday 9 p.m. Ben also will be doing a session later on his book here at MPUMC.

9) This week’s Weekly Reader is at (4) http://donredding.corn/20030420.html. It will 6 p.m. before I have it current

10) Little in the mail box at the church Friday except a bank statement and a notice about a Friday 4/25 Auxiliary Plant Sale supporting the Florence Crittenton Services, It is at 1300 Blythe Blvd. (on CMC campus) and hours are 11:30 am to 3:30 pm.

11) Thanks to Don Hammer, Carol Douglas, Marilea and Bob for being greeters on 4113 and to Dorothy Bridgeman, Mel and Cristina, and Carol Douglas this Easter Sunday. Bill and Marie will help 4/27. For instructions see (5 hftp://donredding.ccm/greeterpage.html

12) Thanks to the Maxwells for a great party and to the Hatfields for organizing it.

13) Happy birthdays to Grace Elkins 04/18 (“we” forgot last week) and Jack Copeland 04/07, Don Hammer 04/13, Ruth Heintzelman 04/13, Betsy Rasberry 04/16 last week and to Janie Jones 4/26.

14) We received a thank you card from the Collingwoods.

15) Administrative Board: Collections on pledges are running behind, expenses are over from maintenance as

16) reported at the Administrative Board meeting Monday night Minutes are at (6) http://donredding.corn/20030414.hm. Had a group picture taken and you may see at (7) http://donredding.com/board.jpq. At the meeting William made a fine Stephen Ministry presentation saying that a Biblical basis for the program is found in the answer by Jesus of “in as much as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers you have done it to me.” Nice job William. thanks. It was reported that Syd Thompson is working on a proposal pertaining to an ecumenical movement for presentation to the Annual Conference. The Wesley Trust Fund is at about the original value of the gifts (having been up dramatically a few years back). Until the value improves, they are deferring all grants and gifts. Attic sale raised $9,000. Focus groups of MPUMC are meeting beginning 4129 to discuss if the church is meeting their I our needs. You might be in one of the groups: see more comment in this month’s minutes and last month’s.

17) Speaking of Stephen Ministry, at Adults Plus! Wednesday, Ken did a good job discussing the Stephen Ministry program, thanks Ken.

18) Adults Plus! trip to Columbia 5/14 canceled, too few signed up.

19) During the week a class member asked me to pass on a comment that the new outside lighting on the sanctuary is not exactly right (my words). I shared the comment with the Property Committee Chair Tom Hatley who acknowledged that was a legitimate point. Fyi.

20) Thanks for the helpful feedback on the Handbook. Lots of grammatical errors and too wordy at spots, and you are helping tighten it up. Aiming to have a good draft ready for our May 21 Wednesday night Advisory dinner meeting. After that we will get the results of the June Curriculum committee meeting and will add the lessons for the remainder of the year, and then print a “final.” Do look over it, especially any area you are responsible for or have a special interest.. Thanks

21) This week’s Weekly Reader is at (4http://donredding.com/20030420.html

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· See ya Tonight. donRedding Friday