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A MONTHLY PUBLICATION | VOL 55 | NO 3 MARCH 2020
SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES 10 AM —Traditional
10 AM Rise—Modern 12:15 PM Manantial—En Español
SUNDAY SCHOOL 8:45 AM—9:45 AM Adults
10:30 AM All Ages in Spanish
*All Children During Worship Services
CHURCH INFORMATION
Church Office Hours
Mon—Thurs: 8:30 AM to 5 PM Closed for Lunch
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Church Office Phone: 760-745-5100
Fax: 760-745-9338 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.fumcescondido.org
Pastors Senior Pastor, William deBos
Associate Pastor, Ruben Torres [email protected]
Associate Pastor, Benjamin Camp
One Day of Caring at FUMC was a good day! Eight more members of our church are ERT certified to respond to disasters bringing the total to 12 FUMC members! Eleven members of our congregation participated in the Connecting Neighbors training which focuses on: Church Plan before, during, and after a disaster. Engag-ing in UMCOR Ministries, First United Methodist Church of Escondido continues to practice being and growing disciples of Jesus Christ for radical hospitality.
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Park Avenue Senior Center For those of us needing transportation or other senior-citizen information, the web-site for the Park Avenue Senior Center is https://www.escondido.org/escondido-senior-center.aspx
This site is a great resource for low-cost transportation. They also offer low-cost lunches every weekday, Monday through Friday. They have free transportation to their site for the lunches, as well. If you want more information, please see Jill Crowe after the service.
“Thank you for the many prayers, cards, get well wishes, calls, and emails that I have received in January and February following my surgery. I know that my church family has been instrumental in my healing and recov-ery and I am grateful to all of you.”
Betty
A call for used Batteries Focus on Green. Don’t be mean Save our earth. Bring batteries to Church. Hazardous waste Mus’nt go in the trash What to do with it? Ask and we’ll tell. Special days twice a month. EDI welcomes this stuff. We’ve made an appointment. We’ll help you along. We’ve got a method. We’ve got a plan. Join the campaign. Bring batteries to Church. Sponsored by UMW during March
CONCERT:
Sunday, March 8th @ 3pm Location: 341 S. Kalmia St.
Escondido, CA 92025
The San Diego Opera brings you Opera Exposed!, a community engage-ment concert series featuring San Diego's most promising opera singers from the company's Young Artist Training Program. This concert will in-clude arias and duets from operatic works as well as excerpts from Ros-
sini's hilarious Barber of Seville. Indonesian pianist and coach Ines Irawati is Music and Artistic Director.
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We offer our love and
sympathy to the family &
friends of
Charles Soderberg Ruth Lawson
Tom Ralls Sam Schauerman
Susanti Budiwarman
Catherine “Kitty” Moris
They are with God and we rejoice in their victory over
death.
MARCH GOLDEN WEDS
Prayer List March Birthdays! These are the members & friends of our Church family with birthdays this month. Please remember them with a call, card, or prayer.
Ashley Brown 01 Michael Dery 01 Cheryl Matheson 01 Jayr Cruz Zamudio 04 Gwendolyn Bucher 05 Zachary Fox 05 Elise Manzke 05 Ruth Olson 07 Melody White 07 Morgan Heise 08 Janice Page 09 James Tusing 09 Lily Birmingham 11 Wanda Fuller 12 Jennifer Torres 12 Barbara Budd 13 Quinn Cunningham 13 Aaron Marks 14 Cecelia Cowles 15 Celeste Johnson 15 Jun Suarez 15 Dennis Tomlinson 16 Ruth Weber 16 Richard Dye 17 Christopher Babler 18 John Bellamy 18 Herbert French 18 Mary Plemons 18
Kristen Lyon 19 Diane Matsuoka 19 Magaly Ruiz 19 Richard Mullen 20 Samantha Cary 21 Harvey Mead 21 Carol Ponder 21 Lou George 22 Mary Walker 22 Darin Avery 23 Anita Campbell 23 Rachelle Babler 24 John Cary 24 Serina Conway 24 David Peterson 24 Sarah Martin 25 Alfonso Paulson 25 Patti Baldwin 26 Steve Baldwin 26 Staci Hinrichs 26 Ruth Lamb 26 Johnnie Landreth 26 Danny Guerrero 27 Angeline Mitchell 27 Gretchen Buehl 30 Diane Oldfield 30 Evalis Rasmussen 31
Loretta Armstrong Alden & Merle Avery Conner Belka Richard Bloom Amy Brooker Marty Brown Shirley Buskirk Brett Byler Sharon Clark Cecelia Cowles Jasmine DeAndres Anita Campbell Jessica Escarcega Jessie Evans Sandra Ferguson Sylvia Freeman Donna Gentry Griffin Family Fern Gruber Kirk Henry Julianna Holland Cheryl Houston Jean Johnson Caroline Leichliter Gloria Malone Alice Mandich Dianne Mandich Mary Martin Sue McGee
Angeline Mitchell Roy Mitchell Terry Moore Juanita Mora Jim Norris Sharon Norris Joan Perron Ratanavadee Perron Barbara Perry Paulina Ramirez Sebastin Roman Tony Ruiz Jr. Pamela Selna Zoe Serano Alison Schwartz Cameron Smith Butch Wakefield Cheryl Walker Tom Wright Jolene Williams Olivia Windham All home bound for Healing
March 22, 1968 John and Faith Conklin
Looking to connect with us? Interested in serving? Ready for your next step on the spir-itual journey? We have lots of groups from bible studies to fellowship groups to service groups, where you can get connected. Visit us
@ fumcescondido.org/groups to sign-up. Don’t see your Group? Contact the Office to get help setting your Group up.
WELCOME TO OUR BOOK CLUB
Book Club will meet
March 16, 5:45 pm
in Room 16. Come join us to discuss The Great Believers by Rebecca
Makkai. Contact Glen-na Long to borrow a
copy of the book.
Leah Circle will meet on Monday, March 9, @ 6:30pm at the home of Jill Crowe. Our program will be by Ann Savage on Lectio Divina. Contact Kay Guy for more information ([email protected]).
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First United Methodist Church of Escondido
341 S. Kalmia Street, Escondido, CA 92025
760-745-5100 · www.fumcescondido.org
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