1. family and parenting
2. children

This Week at Covenant
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Today
12:00—PUMPKINS ARRIVE
3:30-5:30—Youth
Monday
5:30—Zumba
5:30 - Men’s Bible Discussion
7:00—F.U.E.L. Holley Bldg.
Tuesday
6:00—Hand bells
6:30—Sudie Lewis Circle
Wednesday
9:30—Explorers Bible Study
5:30—Dinner
6:15—NEW STUDY BEGINS
6:30—Praise Team
Thursday
9:00—Women’s Bible Study
6:30—Chancel Choir
Daily Living—John Hines, Holley, rm 4
Fellowship—Marie Smith, Holley, rm 5
Searchers—Kay Chadick, Holley, rm 2
Seekers—Annette and Strand Martin, Preschool, rm 3
Wesleyan—Gene Blevins, Holley, rm 9
Serendipity—Les Stratton, Holley, rm 7
F.U.E.L.—Jennifer Blanchard, Preschool, rm 9
The Gift—Jennifer Manuel, Sanctuary
United Methodist Church
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Can meet Jesus
Hear the Message of Jesus
Serve the Mission of Jesus
300 East Martial Ave., Lafayette, LA 70508 • Church 981-2088 • Preschool 988-3962
NEWEST ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
COME !
“GIFT” is now meeting in the Sanctuary!
US
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I
O
J
Jennifer Manuel, Facilitator
Stay Connected
Please provide us
with your email
address, find us on
Facebook and Twitter.
You will always know what’s
happening at Covenant!
New
Wednesday Night Study
Begins October 15
Today’s Flowers
are in honor of the
marriage of
Candace Mello and
Patrick Pattum
on October 18.
Effectiveness Through
Biblical Truths

The Sudie Lewis
Circle is continuing
the study of
re “Prayer”. The
a
u
Yo ited! meeting will be held
October 14th at
n
I v
the home of Sarah Angel.
For more information, please call
Kathy Lewis at 298-0168.
October 5
Worship
Sunday School
Covenant
Covenant is a place where people:
353
143
If you were here, THANKS,
if not, we missed you!
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based on Stephen Covey’s
book, The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
will be led by Covenant’s
Staci Henry, a certified
“7 Habits“ teacher
also Youth & kids program
Join us Wednesday, October 15 at
6:15pm following supper!
Stephen Ministry
Our Christ-centered goal
is to help someone going
through a crisis (serious
illness, job loss, death of a
family member or friend,
divorce, difficulty adjusting to a
recent move, etc.) Contact Shari
Mirgon (337-371-1014) if you or a
friend is in need of a Stephen
Minister.
Come join the
youth as we
discuss:
“Carving out
our Godly
Character”
6th-12th grade
3:30-5:30 in the Youth Room
Bring a friend!
GREAT PUMPKIN
RIDE
Saturday, November 1
Covenant UMC
All proceeds benefits St. Jude’s
Children’s Hospital
Early Registration Forms available in
Narthex and CCC Foyer.
Contact:
Carlena Clause and Lesley Nutter:
Registration and Sponsorship
Margo Harkreader: Food Donations
PUMPKINS ARRIVE TODAY
AT NOON!!!
Come help
unload and
we’ll provide
lunch!
Mondays 5:30pm
“Building the Wall”
October 12, 2014
In His Service:
Rev. Chris Blanchard, Pastor
Ken Cheshire, Director of Music & Worship Ministries
Melissa Bowen, Pastoral Assistant
Lindsay Perry, Director of Children’s Ministries
Craig and Melissa Hartwell, Youth Directors
Amy Rizzuto, Preschool/MDO Director
Pat Battaglia, Organist - 9:00am
Jennifer Tassin, Pianist - 9:00am
Jay Nugent and Bryanna Naquin, Acolytes—9:0am
Worship Times:
Traditional Service - 9:00am
Sunday School - 10:10am
Contemporary Service - 11:10am
www.CovenantUM.org
A NURSERY
is available for children from 6 weeks of age through 4 years old in
Room 2 in the Preschool building. An usher will be happy to direct you in placing your
child there before the worship service begins.
As a courtesy to others, please turn off or mute all cell phones
and pagers. Hymnals are available from an usher
ORDER OF WORSHIP 9:00 AM
WELCOME AND OPENING PRAYER
.
PRELUDE
Jennifer Tassin
CALL TO WORSHIP
*HYMN
Rev. Chris Blanchard
Jenny Best,
Pumpkin Patch Craft Show
Stand Up and Bless the Lord
UMH 662 (1-3)
*WORDS OF AFFIRMATION
*GLORIA PATRIA
JOYS AND CONCERNS
OFFERING/ANTHEM
PRAISE:
ROD ROWAN
BEVERLY WALSON
RICE
PUMPKIN PATCH
NEW CONCERNS:
BARBARA MALLETTE
CHUCK MCMASTER
JANICE MCGUFFEE
GIL LEBLANC
ALEX MARTIN
RON REITZ
JERRY RICHESON
SHARI MIRGON
EMMA HOOVER
ONGOING CONCERNS:
ALLISON MULLINS
SIDNEY DUBOSE
JIM SNYDER
PAUL DAVIS
MIRIAM SUMMERS
MAGGIE LEA
GRACE TURNER
JOHNNY BROUSSARD
BOB GUILBEAU
LINDA BRAUSE
DONNA JONES
ROY BRYAN
BOBBY HORN
JOYCE MARTIN
Christians around the World
Our Military and their Families
Our Wounded Warriors and their
Caregivers
Our loved ones living with
Alzheimer’s
Our Church Family members seeking
employment
Joyful, Joyful
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Joyful Sounds
MESSAGE
*HYMN
As a member of the
church body, you will be
the light of God to your
community.
The Haiti mission team will be selling specially
designed t-shirts to promote the church-side
mission work that Covenant is able to do year
round. The shirts remind us to PRAY, SERVE,
LOVE and we will be selling them at the
Pumpkin Patch each weekend for $20.
Kim. St. Germaine
I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go
C 142 (1-2)
Nehemiah 3
“Building the Wall”
Here I Am, Lord
Melissa Bowen
UMH 593 (1)
*BENEDICTION
(* The Congregation will please stand.)
W
F
* Sales * Tours * Puppet
Show * Family Fun Day
*Greeters for Craft Show
*Hayride Drivers &
Loaders and more!
Prayer cards are available in Narthex and registration pads or email Marie Smith at [email protected].
Children, PK-4 through 2nd grade, may leave for Children’s Worship immediately following.
Please register 1st timers. Parents, please pick up your children
in the Holley Building following the service.)
*SCRIPTURE
Consider the Patch your
local mission trip and find
a place to serve. See
bulletin board for
opportunities in:
SISTER CONGREGATIONS: Oak Grove-Effie, Marksville & Simmesport UMC and Sacred Heart-Broussard
*DOXOLOGY
*HYMN
Pumpkin
Patch
2014
e welcome our guests who worship with us today. We invite you to consider making Covenant the church where you worship
and serve God.
or those with hearing disabilities an Assisted Listening unit is available from the media desk in the back of the church.
We studying the
Explorers
book of Ruth. Join
Inter
us as we
denomination
discover how God
worked through Ruth Bible Study
to allow her to be
bold in her faith and
Wednesdays,
to help us
understand where to at 9:30 am in
turn when life gets
the Holley
tough.
Building.
Bring your Bible!
For more
Child care is
information,
available.
Thursdays at 9 am
in Room 4 in the
Holley Building.
please
contact
Donna Guidry.
Pecans will be here the first week of
November—plenty of time for your
Thanksgiving baking! So whether you’re
baking, snacking, or gift giving, the freshest,
the meatiest, the tastiest
pecans will be available: halves, pieces,
chocolate covered, cinnamon glazed, and caramel!
Pecans are only $10 a bag.
You will be able to sign up as soon as the pecans arrive.
Help support our Fellowship Sunday School class
as they support so many missions!
The Wesleyan Sunday School class wants
to thank every one for supporting their
Pretzel Ministry.
A NURSERY
is available for children from 6 weeks of age through 4 years old
in Room 2 in the Preschool building. An usher will be happy to direct you in placing
your child there before the worship service begins.
As a courtesy to others, please turn off or mute all cell phones and pagers.
ORDER OF WORSHIP 11:10AM
WELCOME
SONG S OF PRAISE
Rev. Chris Blanchard
Hands and Feet
Redeemed
If We Are the Body
All Over the World
OFFERTORY
Joyful, Joyful
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Joyful Sounds
Kim St. Germaine
Children, PK-4 through 2nd grade, may leave for Children’s Worship immediately following.
Please register 1st timers. Parents, please pick up your children in the Holley Building following the service.)
PRAISE:
ROD ROWAN
BEVERLY WALSON
RICE
PUMPKIN PATCH
NEW CONCERNS:
BARBARA MALLETTE
CHUCK MCMASTER
JANICE MCGUFFEE
GIL LEBLANC
ALEX MARTIN
RON REITZ
JERRY RICHESON
SHARI MIRGON
EMMA HOOVER
ONGOING CONCERNS:
ALLISON MULLINS
SIDNEY DUBOSE
JIM SNYDER
PAUL DAVIS
MIRIAM SUMMERS
MAGGIE LEA
GRACE TURNER
JOHNNY BROUSSARD
BOB GUILBEAU
LINDA BRAUSE
DONNA JONES
ROY BRYAN
BOBBY HORN
JOYCE MARTIN
Christians around the World
Our Military and their Families
Our Wounded Warriors and their
Caregivers
Our loved ones living with
Alzheimer’s
Our Church Family members seeking
employment
MESSAGE
*INVITATION
Here I Am, Lord
We receive members by profession of faith and baptism, by transfer of membership from another
United Methodist Church or other Christian denomination. Please come forward during singing of last hymn.
*BENEDICTION
(* The Congregation will please stand.)
W
F
e welcome our guests who worship with us today. We invite you to consider making Covenant the church
where you worship and serve God.
or those with hearing disabilities an Assisted Listening unit is available from the media desk in the back of the
church.
As a member of the
church body, you will be
the light of God to your
community.
The Haiti mission team will be selling specially
designed t-shirts to promote the church-side
mission work that Covenant is able to do year
round. The shirts remind us to PRAY, SERVE,
LOVE and we will be selling them at the
Pumpkin Patch each weekend for $20.
Melissa Bowen
Redeemed
* Sales * Tours * Puppet
Show * Family Fun Day
*Greeters for Craft Show
*Hayride Drivers &
Loaders and more!
Prayer cards are available in Narthex and registration pads or email Marie Smith at [email protected].
Nehemiah 3
“Building the Wall”
Consider the Patch your
local mission trip and find
a place to serve. See
bulletin board for
opportunities in:
SISTER CONGREGATIONS: Oak Grove-Effie, Marksville & Simmesport UMC and Sacred Heart-Broussard
JOYS AND CONCERNS
SCRIPTURE
Pumpkin
Patch
2014
We studying the
Explorers
book of Ruth. Join
Inter
us as we
discover how God denomination
worked through Ruth Bible Study
to allow her to be
bold in her faith and
Wednesdays,
to help us
understand where to at 9:30 am in
turn when life gets
the Holley
tough.
Building.
Bring your Bible!
For more
Child care is
information,
available.
Thursdays at 9 am
in Room 4 in the
Holley Building.
please
contact
Donna Guidry.
Pecans will be here the first week of
November—plenty of time for your
Thanksgiving baking! So whether you’re
baking, snacking, or gift giving, the
freshest, the meatiest, the tastiest
pecans will be available: halves, pieces,
chocolate covered, cinnamon glazed, and
caramel! Pecans are only $10 a bag.
You will be able to sign up as soon as the pecans arrive.
Help support our Fellowship Sunday School class
as they support so many missions!
The Wesleyan Sunday School class wants
to thank every one for supporting their
Pretzel Ministry.
A NURSERY
is available for children from 6 weeks of age through 4 years old
in Room 2 in the Preschool building. An usher will be happy to direct you in placing
your child there before the worship service begins.
As a courtesy to others, please turn off or mute all cell phones and pagers.
ORDER OF WORSHIP 11:10AM
WELCOME
SONG S OF PRAISE
Rev. Chris Blanchard
Hands and Feet
Redeemed
If We Are the Body
All Over the World
OFFERTORY
Joyful, Joyful
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Joyful Sounds
Kim St. Germaine
Children, PK-4 through 2nd grade, may leave for Children’s Worship immediately following.
Please register 1st timers. Parents, please pick up your children in the Holley Building following the service.)
PRAISE:
ROD ROWAN
BEVERLY WALSON
RICE
PUMPKIN PATCH
NEW CONCERNS:
BARBARA MALLETTE
CHUCK MCMASTER
JANICE MCGUFFEE
GIL LEBLANC
ALEX MARTIN
RON REITZ
JERRY RICHESON
SHARI MIRGON
EMMA HOOVER
ONGOING CONCERNS:
ALLISON MULLINS
SIDNEY DUBOSE
JIM SNYDER
PAUL DAVIS
MIRIAM SUMMERS
MAGGIE LEA
GRACE TURNER
JOHNNY BROUSSARD
BOB GUILBEAU
LINDA BRAUSE
DONNA JONES
ROY BRYAN
BOBBY HORN
JOYCE MARTIN
Christians around the World
Our Military and their Families
Our Wounded Warriors and their
Caregivers
Our loved ones living with
Alzheimer’s
Our Church Family members seeking
employment
MESSAGE
*INVITATION
Here I Am, Lord
We receive members by profession of faith and baptism, by transfer of membership from another
United Methodist Church or other Christian denomination. Please come forward during singing of last hymn.
*BENEDICTION
(* The Congregation will please stand.)
W
F
e welcome our guests who worship with us today. We invite you to consider making Covenant the church
where you worship and serve God.
or those with hearing disabilities an Assisted Listening unit is available from the media desk in the back of the
church.
As a member of the
church body, you will be
the light of God to your
community.
The Haiti mission team will be selling specially
designed t-shirts to promote the church-side
mission work that Covenant is able to do year
round. The shirts remind us to PRAY, SERVE,
LOVE and we will be selling them at the
Pumpkin Patch each weekend for $20.
Melissa Bowen
Redeemed
* Sales * Tours * Puppet
Show * Family Fun Day
*Greeters for Craft Show
*Hayride Drivers &
Loaders and more!
Prayer cards are available in Narthex and registration pads or email Marie Smith at [email protected].
Nehemiah 3
“Building the Wall”
Consider the Patch your
local mission trip and find
a place to serve. See
bulletin board for
opportunities in:
SISTER CONGREGATIONS: Oak Grove-Effie, Marksville & Simmesport UMC and Sacred Heart-Broussard
JOYS AND CONCERNS
SCRIPTURE
Pumpkin
Patch
2014
We studying the
Explorers
book of Ruth. Join
Inter
us as we
discover how God denomination
worked through Ruth Bible Study
to allow her to be
bold in her faith and
Wednesdays,
to help us
understand where to at 9:30 am in
turn when life gets
the Holley
tough.
Building.
Bring your Bible!
For more
Child care is
information,
available.
Thursdays at 9 am
in Room 4 in the
Holley Building.
please
contact
Donna Guidry.
Pecans will be here the first week of
November—plenty of time for your
Thanksgiving baking! So whether you’re
baking, snacking, or gift giving, the
freshest, the meatiest, the tastiest
pecans will be available: halves, pieces,
chocolate covered, cinnamon glazed, and
caramel! Pecans are only $10 a bag.
You will be able to sign up as soon as the pecans arrive.
Help support our Fellowship Sunday School class
as they support so many missions!
The Wesleyan Sunday School class wants
to thank every one for supporting their
Pretzel Ministry.
This Week at Covenant
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Today
12:00—PUMPKINS ARRIVE
3:30-5:30—Youth
Monday
5:30—Zumba
5:30 - Men’s Bible Discussion
7:00—F.U.E.L. Holley Bldg.
Tuesday
6:00—Hand bells
6:30—Sudie Lewis Circle
Wednesday
9:30—Explorers Bible Study
5:30—Dinner
6:15—NEW STUDY BEGINS
6:30—Praise Team
Thursday
9:00—Women’s Bible Study
6:30—Chancel Choir
Daily Living—John Hines, Holley, rm 4
Fellowship—Marie Smith, Holley, rm 5
Searchers—Kay Chadick, Holley, rm 2
Seekers—Annette and Strand Martin, Preschool, rm 3
Wesleyan—Gene Blevins, Holley, rm 9
Serendipity—Les Stratton, Holley, rm 7
F.U.E.L.—Jennifer Blanchard, Preschool, rm 9
The Gift—Jennifer Manuel, Sanctuary
United Methodist Church
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Can meet Jesus
Hear the Message of Jesus
Serve the Mission of Jesus
300 East Martial Ave., Lafayette, LA 70508 • Church 981-2088 • Preschool 988-3962
NEWEST ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
COME !
“GIFT” is now meeting in the Sanctuary!
US
N
I
O
J
Jennifer Manuel, Facilitator
Stay Connected
Please provide us
with your email
address, find us on
Facebook and Twitter.
You will always know what’s
happening at Covenant!
New
Wednesday Night Study
Begins October 15
Today’s Flowers
are in honor of the
marriage of
Candace Mello and
Patrick Pattum
on October 18.
Effectiveness Through
Biblical Truths

The Sudie Lewis
Circle is continuing
the study of
re “Prayer”. The
a
u
Yo ited! meeting will be held
October 14th at
n
I v
the home of Sarah Angel.
For more information, please call
Kathy Lewis at 298-0168.
October 5
Worship
Sunday School
Covenant
Covenant is a place where people:
353
143
If you were here, THANKS,
if not, we missed you!


based on Stephen Covey’s
book, The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
will be led by Covenant’s
Staci Henry, a certified
“7 Habits“ teacher
also Youth & kids program
Join us Wednesday, October 15 at
6:15pm following supper!
Stephen Ministry
Our Christ-centered goal
is to help someone going
through a crisis (serious
illness, job loss, death of a
family member or friend,
divorce, difficulty adjusting to a
recent move, etc.) Contact Shari
Mirgon (337-371-1014) if you or a
friend is in need of a Stephen
Minister.
Come join the
youth as we
discuss:
“Carving out
our Godly
Character”
6th-12th grade
3:30-5:30 in the Youth Room
Bring a friend!
GREAT PUMPKIN
RIDE
Saturday, November 1
Covenant UMC
All proceeds benefits St. Jude’s
Children’s Hospital
Early Registration Forms available in
Narthex and CCC Foyer.
Contact:
Carlena Clause and Lesley Nutter:
Registration and Sponsorship
Margo Harkreader: Food Donations
PUMPKINS ARRIVE TODAY
AT NOON!!!
Come help
unload and
we’ll provide
lunch!
Mondays 5:30pm
“Building the Wall”
October 12, 2014
In His Service:
Rev. Chris Blanchard, Pastor
Ken Cheshire, Director of Music & Worship Ministries
Melissa Bowen, Pastoral Assistant
Lindsay Perry, Director of Children’s Ministries
Craig and Melissa Hartwell, Youth Directors
Amy Rizzuto, Preschool/MDO Director
Pat Battaglia, Organist - 9:00am
Jennifer Tassin, Pianist - 9:00am
Jay Nugent and Bryanna Naquin, Acolytes—9:0am
Worship Times:
Traditional Service - 9:00am
Sunday School - 10:10am
Contemporary Service - 11:10am
www.CovenantUM.org