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A Member of the Murfreesboro Road Cooperative ParishA Member of the Murfreesboro Road Cooperative Parish
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Our Mission:
to make disciples by
following Jesus
Our Vision:
to change the world by
loving our neighbors
Sunday Schedule 8:30 am Community Breakfast
8:45 am Sunday School
10:00 am Traditional Worship
Your Church Staff
Rev. David Johnson Pastor
Rev. Hap Hewgley Pastor
Jennifer Stephens
Administrative Assistant [email protected]
Freddie Myrick
Director of Music Ministries
Pressley Templeton Organist
Barbara McBride Nursery Attendants
Qshawna Jones
CDC Director [email protected]
James McDougal
Custodian
Weekday Office Hours
9:00 am - 2:00 pm M - F
Phone: 615-361-4896 CDC: 615-366-7577
Web: www.arlingtonum.org
Safe Sanctuary Training
At our Administrative Coun-cil meeting on December 6th,
we passed a Safe Sanctuary Policy for Arlington UMC. The
main part of that policy involves training those volunteers
who will work with children in the best practices to en-sure the safety of each child, as well as the safety of the
volunteers and staff.
Pastor David will hold a Safe Sanctuary training on Satur-
day, January 7th, at 10AM in the sanctuary. This is a great
training for anyone in the congregation, especially if we
want opportunities for children. If you have a desire to work with children, please plan to attend that training.
This training is required for all volunteers. It would be
helpful if ushers also attended, so they can know our
practices for Sunday Worship Services.
To All Committee Chairs
Please note that your committee meeting minutes should be filed
in the church office no later than one week after your meeting
date. All committee minutes are filed as a mater of record to
ensure proper communications historically over the years.
It will also helps with calendaring and advertisement of the
events your committee is planning. If you have any questions
please call or email the office.
“I’m beginning to recognize that real happiness isn’t something
large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small,
numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent
breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a
row.” ~Beau Christopher Taplin
HapHapHapHap----Nings Nings Nings Nings for January!for January!for January!for January!
The Methodist Church (and
most other churches) are in a
decline in membership and
attendance. Before we be-
came a denomination, we
were a movement. Now, a
denomination in itself is not
a bad thing. We can do more
by being connected as a part of a larger group and are
able to share our gifts, talents, and assets. But in doing
so, we lost movement!
I would like to discuss how we have lost our Wesleyan
tradition of making mission and evangelism a part of a
two headed coin. Methodism was always very in-
volved in mission (social justice issues). We were
among the first to fight against slavery! We fed the
poor, clothed the naked, sheltered the homeless—all
kind of missional stuff. But in everything we did, we
found a way to spread the gospel to those people. We
invited them to know Jesus and to come and be a part
of our worshipping community. We did it because we
loved them, and because Jesus loved us first.
Then, evangelism became a separate thing—something
some other group did! And now we want to rediscover
it, but I’m afraid we might do it for the wrong reasons.
We might want to do it to increase our numbers. We
might want to do it to increase our giving. Some pas-
tors do it to get a large church, where they are, or most
times, their next appointment. God will not bless that!
We should do it because we love people who are not
yet members of a church and we should want to share
the Good News of Jesus Christ. It’s called the Great
Commission.
Witnessing at its best is just telling them that God
loves us, and that because of the love God has given
you, you now can and will love them. We should then
ask them to come to church and worship with us.
Folks, Advent Season has just passed and we were
reminded of Christ’s first Coming, but we should also
remember He is Coming Again!
What are we going to do?We do wonderful mission
work! But how much are we evangelizing? Who have
you invited to come to church? How many? Have you
gone out of your way to tell someone about our church
and asked to come and see? Of those already attend-
ing, who have you asked to join the church? Of those
who are members, who have you asked to step up (and
join you) in deepening your discipleship?
This New Year let us endeavor to include an evangel-
istic aspect to everything this church does!
Brother Hap
Hello friends of the Murfreesboro Road Co-operative Parish, The New Year is here! While we do not know all the joys, celebrations, struggles or sorrow that 2017 will bring us, one thing we do know for certain is that God is here and God is with us! I pray that your Christmas season has brought hope, love, joy, and peace.
For many of us, the New Year is a time of commitment, renewal, and resolution. As the New Year begins we will make promises to our-selves, and possibly to others, with hopes of improving our lives and relationships. John Wesley knew how important these commitments and resolutions were. He took it further, creating a Covenant Service. In this service it states,
“The Christian life is redeemed from sin and consecrated to God. Through baptism, we have entered this life and have been admitted into the new covenant of which Jesus Christ is the Mediator. He sealed it with his own blood, that it might last forever. One the one side, God promises to give us new life in Christ, the Source and Perfector of our faith. On the other side, we are pledged to live no more or ourselves but only for Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us.”
My prayer during this New Year is that we would find ourselves not simply making promises and resolutions, but would find ourselves making renewed covenant with God. Happy New Year! Pastor David
Administrative Board
Lay Leader – Velma Littlejohn
Lay Leader to Annual Conference – Sanda Abramson
Missions – Garrett Coffer
Worship – Monica McNeeley
Finance – Ed Bethart
Staff/Parish Relations – Janie Ware
Trustees – Bruce Ware
Treasurer – Ed Bethart
CDC Board Chair – Barbara Briley
Secretary – Jennifer Stephens
At Large - All Church Members
Staff Parish Relations Committee
Chair –Janie Ware
Lay Leader – Velma Littlejohn
CDC Board Chair – Barbara Briley
Class of 2017 – Jessica Simons, Candy Dunham
Class of 2018 - Janie Ware, Ronnie Douglas
Class of 2019 – Brian Vosburgh
Board of Trustees
Chair – Bruce Ware
Class of 2017 – David Liles, Ed Owens
Class of 2018 – Bruce Ware, Garret Coffer
Class of 2019 – Andy Levey, Robert Wadley,
Mark Troxler
Finance Committee
Chair – Ed Bethart (acting)
CDC Board Chair – Barbara Briley
Trustees – Bruce Ware
Lay Leader – Velma Littlejohn
Financial Secretary (no vote) Jennifer Stephens
Treasurer- Ed Bethart
At Large – Candy Dunham, Jason Thompson,
Evan Myrick, Doug Goff
Nominations and Lay Leadership Development
Committee
Chair – Rev. David Johnson
Lay Leader – Velma Littlejohn
Class of 2017 – Andy Levey, Velma Littlejohn
Class of 2018 – Lola Douglas, Donna Liles
Class of 2019 – Bill McCord, Bev McCord,
Sanda Abramson
Congregational Care Committee
Sara Myrick, Lola and Pharis Douglas
Missions Committee
Chair – Garrett Coffer
Neal Cole, Dan McNeeley, Ed Owens, Ed Bethart,
Fellowship Committee
Chair – Jessica Simmons
David Myrick, Pressley Templeton,
Freddie Myrick, Diane Bearden-Enright,
Megan Yarbro
Worship Committee
Chair – Jamie Lewis
Altar Visuals – Janie Ware
Altar Guild Coordinator – Jamie Lewis
Director of Ushers – Frank Littlejohn
Banner Coordinator – Lola Douglas
Advent/Lent Devotional – Jessica Simmons
Music Director – Freddie Myrick
Audio/Visual Consultant – Andy Levey
CDC Board
Chair – Barbara Briley
CDC Director –Qshawna Jones
Teacher Representation – Cynthia Smith
AUMC Secretary – Jennifer Stephens
Trustees Representative – Bruce Ware
Finance Representative – Barbara Briley
AUMC Members – Bev McCord, Debbie Close
Parents – Sara Gross, Karen Reynolds,
Jennifer Sutton, Shelby Abernathy
2017Church Leadership
Arlington United Methodist Church
Please Note the following Sundays for the regularly scheduled
Committee meetings 1st Sunday - Trustees Committee 2nd Sunday - Worship Committee 3rd Sunday - Finance Committee 4th Sunday - SPRC 5th Sunday - Administrative Council
11:00 am
Backward Day is a day to do everything backwards. Use your imagination, and Backward Day can be lots of fun. It's especially popular with school aged kids. Try writing back-wards or reading backwards. Wear your shirt with the back in the front. Eat your meal, starting with dessert. Now that's what I call fun! Walk backwards, or talk backwards. Play a board game backwards, from the finish line to the start. Are you starting to get the picture!? This day is limited only by your imagination.
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Winnie the Pooh Day (Jan 18th) is an opportunity
to enjoy your favorite bear and all of his friends.
This day was created to celebrate the birth of
A.A .Milne in 1882. He was an author of children's
story books, and created Winnie the Pooh and his
friends. Winnie's pals include Christopher Robin,
Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, and Roo.
January 23 is National Pie Day is a special day that is set aside to
bake and cook all of your favorite pies. On this day, you are also
encouraged to bake a few new pie recipes. And most importantly,
it's a day to eat pies! A great way to celebrate National Pie Day is
to bake some pies and give them away to friends, neighbors, and
relatives. You never know, you may be starting a tradition of pie
giving between your friends and family