Hello Church Members and Friends!

With Thanksgiving right around the corner I want to chal-

lenge everyone to do something. I am calling it the “What are you Thankful For Challenge!” During this month I will be

asking you from the pulpit, in Text Messages, in emails and on

Facebook for what SPECIFICALLY you want to give God

thanks. You might be saying to yourself at this point, “Come

on Pastor Mark, that is what we do every year!” I pray that is

true for everyone. However, do you write them all down?

On the lines below I want you to start writing down all of

your blessings. Don’t forget to be SPECIFIC...don’t just write

down the word EVERYTHING.

1. _____________________________________________

2. _____________________________________________

3. _____________________________________________

4. _____________________________________________

5. _____________________________________________

6. _____________________________________________

7. _____________________________________________

8. _____________________________________________

9. _____________________________________________

10. _____________________________________________

Now that you are done, go back and pray for the people

who have made all of these blessings possible! I know you

have more than 10 blessings so keep writing your blessing on

our “What are you Thankful For Challenge” poster board

when you come to church, or we will add blessings to it that

we receive in texts, emails or posts. Pastor Mark

FIRST

UNITED METHODIST

CHURCH

“Jesus calls us to be vibrant, loving and of service to all.”

501 North Main Street Grand Saline, TX

75140

Worship Times: Continental Breakfast 9:15 am

Sunday School 9:45 am Sunday at 10:55 am

Sunday Night Live at 6:30 pm

Office Hours: Mon. – Thurs.

10am- Noon, 1 - 3pm

Office Phone Number (903) 962-3151

Email: gsfumc2016@gmail.com

Website: www.grandsalinefumc.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/gsfumc/

Pastor Mark M. Pedersen Office: (903) 962 - 3151 Cell: (903) 292 - 3933

Email: mpedersen47@gmail.com

Join us November 12th we recognize our

veterans

PRAYER REQUESTS :

Prayer list for family, friends, and others.

Our Nation, President, Government Lead-ers, Men & Women of our Armed Forces and their Families. Mutt & Nancy Pugh, Della Houy, Randy Willmon, Nell Wheat, Betty Adamson, Ann Berry, Melissa Brown and her sister, Jane Currey, Becky Kindle, Lana Kirby, Gwen Hughes, Debbie Mills Middleton, Wil Ferguson and Melissa Brown.

The Flower Chart for 2017 is up if you would like to sign up to put flowers in the church on a special Sunday. You can either sign up on the flower chart outside the office or call the church office and we will put your name on the chart.

Please make sure your

cell phone Wi-Fi is

turned off when you en-

ter the Sanctuary, Sun-

day mornings.

Thank you!

Address Updates:

Nell Wheat sold her home– use

Peggy’s address:1299 VZCR 1803, Grand Saline, TX 75140 .

Also, Julia Long has moved. Her

correct address: 5334 S OSO PKWY, Corpus Christi, TX

78413-6050

Stewardship Report

The Sunday 10/1 10/8 10/15 10/22 10/29

Sunday School 19 20 20 14 23

Worship 54 74 115 96 80

RECEIVED 10/01 ...................................$3,529.50 RECEIVED 10/08 ...................................$7,166.00 RECEIVED 10/15 ...................................$2,406.50 RECEIVED 10/22 .................................. $2,881.00 RECEIVED 10/29 ………………………….…... $2,405.00

Received through October ...……… $150,169.00 Needed through October …....... $158,620.00

November Give Thanks As we begin our month of Thanksgiving, we reflect and are thankful for all of our wonderful events in October. I especially am grateful for the opportunity to serve as your Music Director. It is a blessing each week to work with so many talented people. Our SNL nights have been a real inspiration and have show-cased such wonderful talent. This has been a real blessing for our church, our community and especially to me. As tragedy unfolded in Las Vegas, God had given Kay Sher-bert the perfect music to play for our Offertory. Her beautiful piano solo of “People Need the Lord” could not have been more needed and appropriate….so true and so beautiful. Our first SNL group , Buddy and Ina Gore, gave us a wonderful night of gospel music…. such a sweet Christian couple. Ina is an amazing song writer with a gift of storytelling. Despite being sick, she sang beautifully, as she and Buddy blessed us with their talent. Great start for our SNL. That morning we had a beautiful solo by Liz Riveire. She and Martha did a contemporary rendi-tion of Rock of Ages. It was wonderful to hear Liz as a soloist, since she is usually doing an alto part with others. She has a wonderfully clear, beautiful voice. She must sing again, soon. Our next SNL was David Crain. What a fun and inspiring evening! We had a great crowd of our congregation and lots of Baptist! Ha! It was nice to see the response to David. Hope he will come back again. His humor and music are a marvelous way to present God and His Word in a memora-ble way. Maxine Moore, my sister, was soloist that morning. She has had a great singing career in several symphony chorales. Maxine is a teacher in the alternative school in Jacksonville, since retiring from teaching in the prison system in Palestine. Needless to say, she has lots of patience. She and my oth-er sisters were in town to visit and I am thrilled she agreed to sing for us. Maxine sang with the Ty-ler Civic Chorale at their 50th Anniversary concert on Oct. 29th. Dorcie is always a blessing and we loved hearing her organ solo on Youth Sunday. The beautiful music Dorcie and Martha play each week is so wonderful. Thank you both for the joy you provide. Oct. 22nd our youth were in charge of the morning service and did a great job, as did the moms singing “And All the People Said Amen.” Chad Chaney Band was our SNL feature. Chad and Victor are very talented Christian musicians and were so eager to share their music and story with us at FUMC. Chad writes and sings his own songs and also sang several songs of Chris Tom-lin , his mentor. The youth and the mature in the service really enjoyed the Spirit of the Lord in Chad and Victor’s music. Oct 29th was Gospel / Story night. We sang lots of spirituals and heard the story of their origin. Congregation sang and had a joyous time together. We had 3 visitors. So, far we have had about 3 people come to SNL, just because they happened to see the sign that something was happening at our church! If you have not attended, please do so this month. You are missing a great blessing from all these talented people. Our music for November in-cludes, Jarvis Christian College, Ashley Lagunas ( Christian song writer and evangelist/musician from DFW), Tyler Junior College and our own , McAdams Family. Don’t miss any of these. The music and the performers are all amazing and will truly be a blessing to you. You will be humming some of these tunes and repeating stories for weeks to

come. Thankful to be serving

GOD at FUMC, Jaye

Academy News,

Many Blessing,

Jennifer

A Time to Give Thanks

It is the time of year that we get to take a mo-

ment and count all of our blessings. We will learn about "our community" this month and

have visits from the fire and police departments, as well as other local community helpers. Watch

our Facebook page for lots of cute pictures !

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mote our

church and

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Hello All,

Thank you to the ladies who came to our October meeting. We enjoyed fellowship and refreshments. We made 14 Blessing Bags for our area homeless. We planned to make 10 but with our dona-tions of items we were able to stretch it. Please pick up a Bless-ing Bag from the church foyer if you think you may come in con-tact with someone who can use it. We plan to ring The Salvation Army bell the first full week of December: December 2nd – 9th. I will place a sign up sheet in the church foyer. The first day will be at the Grand Saline Library during the Cocoa and Carols event (if we are approved) and the days after that will be at Brookshires. Last year was very successful – let’s do it again! Hopefully, it won’t be so cold! We will not meet again until the spring. That is when we will plan our spring Movie Night. I will let you know when that meeting is on the schedule. Blessings to All,

Marilyn

For November

Jim Berry

&

Kathy Lea

MYF Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/GrandSalineUMYF/ Academy Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ChildrensChristianAcademy/

From the Pulpit This Month

November 5 Mark Woodward with Heartspring Foundation Matthew 6:33 “Bold Idea” November 12 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Matthew 25: 1-13 “Will You Be Ready?” November 19 Matt Idom from Lakeview November 26 Ephesians 1:15-23 1 Corinthians 15: 20-28 What Have You Done So Far?

What a MONTH!

Now to be fair, I've always just adored October, but this year was really special for me. The Tribe and our MYF had an unusually busy month! Every single member of MYF came to National Night Out--it was great to see them out being part of our community. We made and served 42 kettles of popcorn, and Kailey's balloon animals were a big hit!

The Tribe stayed busy this month. Earlier this month, they hosted the Mineola UMC kids for a night of games, play, and a pizza before hearing Chad Chaney sing at our Sunday Night Live service.

They prayed about and prepared for their Youth Service. Planning and delivering a worship service is really quite something. Public speaking is daunting in and of itself, but to be charged with leading your friends and family in historic recitations, prayers, and the reading of God's Holy Word is an awesome responsibility. To stand with trem-bling knees and deliver those words took lots of courage and faith. I am so proud of them all.

The haunted barn and barbecue made it the perfect Halloween for me. So many happy memories--sweet Diane Ingrim, after being tapped on the shoulder by a spook in a pitch black hallway, turning to her innocent husband and hissing, "Did you do that? Stop it!"--Ron Sherbert comforting a sweet little cowgirl throughout the haunted house--Liz, who giggles when frightened--and Gavin Pedersen's triumphant, "I'm 100%!" after scaring/surprising every person who went through. I loved it that the kids wanted to stay after it was over. The time in the kitchen with them was really special to me. I think the kids had a ball, and I can only hope that Danny had half as much fun as I

had! I'd like to thank you all for supporting our youth groups! I love you all!! Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young,

Blair But set an example for the believers in speech,

In conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” —1 Tim 4:12

News

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Wednesday’s 10am Children's Academy Chapel Time

1

Game Night 6pm In Youth Building

Please bring a side or a dessert.

Choir Practice 7pm

2 Ministerial

Alliance Mtg. 7:30-9 am

Kathy Caddel Birthday

Food Pantry 4 - 6pm

3

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4

5

9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship w/ Mark Woodward 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- “Jarvis College”

6

Nancy Pugh & Crystallyn Ulrick’s

Birthday

Bell Choir 5:30 pm

KFC 6-8 pm

7

Diane Ingrim

Birthday Craft Meeting

6:00 pm MYF Jr High 5:30 pm

Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm

Pastor KFC Edge-wood 6—8 pm

8

Finance Meeting 6pm in Youth

building

Choir Practice 7pm

9 Nell Latta Birthday

Academy Board Mtg. 6pm in Parlor

Worship Committee Mtg. 6:30 pm in

Youth bldg.

10

11

12 9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55am Worship 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- “Ashley Lagunas”

13 Lana Kirby’s Birthday

Pastor Quadrant Mtg. 2pm

@Mineola 1st Bell Choir 5:30 pm

KFC 6-8 pm

14

Marilyn Smith’s Birthday

MYF Jr High 5:30 pm Cub Scouts den mtg.

7-8 pm

Pastor KFC Edge-wood 6—8 pm

15

Church Council Mtg. 6 pm Youth Building Scouts Committee

Meeting 6pm Choir Practice 7pm

16

Food Pantry 4 - 6pm

17 Mary Jane Hollowell Birthday

18 Meghann Neubauer Birthday

19

9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship w/Mad Idom 2:00 pm Charge Conference @ Canton First 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- “TJC Choir”

20 Parker Boyles

Birthday

Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm

21

MYF Jr High 5:30 pm

Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm

Craft Meeting 6:00 pm

22

Choir Practice ?

23 Happy Thanksgiving!

“Dine In “ at Noon

24

Gwen Hughes Birthday

25

Church office hours are Mon-Thursday 10 am - 12 pm & 1 pm –3pm Lunch 12-1pm

26

9:15 am continental Breakfast 9:45 am SS 10:55 am Worship 4:30 pm Tribe 6:30 pm SNL- “The McAdams Family”

27

Bell Choir 5:30 pm KFC 6-8 pm

28 Bruce & Janet Cheatham’s Anniversary MYF Jr High 5:30 pm

Cub Scouts den mtg. 7-8 pm

Pastor KFC Edge-wood 6—8 pm

29

Choir Practice 7pm

30 Chamber Luncheon

Noon

“Jesus calls us to be Vibrant, loving and of service to all!”