Landscape Project

Diego and Owen enjoying the garden and seating area outside Fellowship Hall. (Actually, they are posing for the picture and ready to run off and play.)

South Central Jurisdictional Conference returns to Oklahoma

Watch for “breaking news” online next week!

• Who will be the new bishops in the South Central Jurisdiction?
• Will Bishop Hayes be reassigned to lead the Oklahoma Area four more years?
• Watch live as our bishop preaches Wednesday evening, July 18!

After 44 years, the South Central Jurisdictional Conference returns to Oklahoma on July 18-21 (Wednesday evening – Saturday morning). This conference meets once every four years. More than 600 United Methodists, from eight states, will meet in Oklahoma City at the Cox Convention Center and St. Luke’s UMC. 

Key on the business agenda: election and assignment of bishops in this jurisdiction (geographic region). And the Consecration of Bishops is one of the most powerful, worship-filled moments in the life of the Church.

With a high-speed Internet connection, YOU can follow it all --- worship and business --- from wherever you may be, and join in with your online posts. Click the links at www.okumc.org.

More specifically:

1. Watch the LIVE STREAM on the Web: http://scj.umportal.org/main/section.asp?id=1030
2. Facebook: Oklahoma United Methodist Communications
3. Twitter: #SCJ12

As the Oklahoma Area prepares to host this major event, remember the Church in your prayer petitions. The conference theme is “Woven Together for Transformation.” May God’s power entwine our hearts and actions in ways that glorify God!

Sight Psalms

Experiencing God through images

Sight Psalms is a ministry of the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church and is the work of photographers who seek to express the divine through images.

You can sign up to receive Sight Psalms in your email at: 

http://www.gbod.org/site/c.nhLRJ2PMKsG/b.6174501/k.9236/Sight_Psalms.htm

Let Freedom Ring

This is a devotional worth reading in celebration of Independence Day.

Let Freedom Ring

by Kelly McFadden

for HomeWord Center for Youth and Family

Click HERE to read the devotional.

Board Meeting Highlights

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Pastor Jim opened with prayer.

The minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved.

Treasurers Report:
Balance, June 2012
Building Fund - 1070.27
General Fund -  4531.43
Total -              5601.70

Old Business:

1. VBS was a huge success.
2. Ice Maker: Angie the Repairman said he would take the old ice maker in exchange for parts and labor when he tried to fix it.  Motion made, seconded and carried to accept Angie's offer.
3. The landscape project north of Fellowship Hall is completed.  Pictures to follow.
4. When it cools down, landscape work at the front of the church will begin.
5. Al Bennett offered to put a trickle water system in the "tree yard" when it cools down. He will also remove the dead, dying trees.

New Business:

1. Fred Suggested we introduce our new pastor at the School Ice Cream Social. Great idea.
2. Herwannah asked that people start thinking about the Christmas program and share any ideas they have.  The program will be on Sunday, DEC 16, 2012.
3. Harold has already ordered the Christmas candy.

Pastor's Report:
The Perkins are glad to be here and excited about our journey together.

Our new District Superintendent, Chris Tiger, will be at our church on Sunday, August 5, at 2:00 p.m. Jim hopes he can come earlier to eat with us as this will be our next church dinner and board meeting day.

The 2011 audit was due on July 1st.  We are one of many naughty congregations who did not get this done. Because we always pay 100% of our apportionments and we have already paid 100% of district apportionments and 50% of conference apportionments this year, we aren't in too much trouble over the late audit report.  But we do need to get it done.

Jim is going to spend the entire day at our church 2 to 3 times a year and will do the same at Snyder.  That way he can be a part of the whole church experience, not just the sermon portion.

Another great idea is a "Welcome Home Service."  This is something Jim did at Nowata, in the fall around Thanksgiving, when he was pastor there.  It was a special service for people who used to attend church there.  It wasn't a gimmick to get them to come back, just a celebration time to see them again. Of course there was a special meal after this service.  Start thinking of people we can invite to our Welcome Home Service.

Jim would like to have a church directory with pictures.  He thinks we can do it ourselves.

Daryl said Colleta winked at him. Patsy seconded the wink. Daryl said good-bye.

Meeting adjourned.

Meet Our New Pastor

Jim Perkin is our new pastor. He is pictured with Janie Harrell as they accompany the choir in a lively Indiahoma rendition of Just a Closer Walk With Thee.

Jim and Mary Lynn are a musical couple. Jim was in a band at his previous church in Moore and Mary Lynn is a music teacher, her main instrument is the flute. She will be teaching music to 3rd-5th graders at Cache Elementary School.

We didn't waste any time before we put Mary Lynn to work.  Here she is doing the Children's Sermon.  She started by playing "Follow the Leader."  The kids followed her up and down the aisle copying what she did as they went.  Back on the floor, the message was that in life we have people like our parents to lead us but more importantly we look to God and try to be like Him as we follow Him through life.

Seated with Mary Lynn are her children, Sadie and Landon, and Owen Perry.

We are so Happy to have the Perkins with us.

Patrick's Last Sunday

Methodists move preachers around about every 3-5 years.  Patrick has been with us four years and we said goodbye to him this morning.  Wednesday he will move to Kingfisher and on Friday our new pastor and his family will move into the parsonage. Here are a few pictures of people saying goodbye to Patrick.