Activities Sunday (12) 9:00 am 10:00 am 10:20 am 6:00 pm Sunday School Worship Service Children’s Worship Youth @ Homes Monday (13) 10:00 am 5:30 pm Women’s Ministry Bible Study Finance Meeting Tuesday (14) 9:00 am 5:30 pm Shawl Ministry Handbell Practice Wednesday (15) 6:00 pm 6:00 pm Youth @ Loft Adult Choir Practice First United Methodist Church Thursday (16) 10:30 am 5:30 pm Ladies Living Single Administrative Council Sunday (19) 9:00 am 10:00 am 10:20 am 6:00 pm Sunday School Worship Service Children’s Worship Youth @ Homes Ms. Cinnamon Alexander PO Box 736 Shawl Ministry Handbell Practice Corinth, MS 38835 Tuesday (21) Wednesday (22) 9:00 am 5:30 pm 11:45 am 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm BEES Swarm Long Range Planning Mtg Youth @ Loft Adult Choir Practice Please lift up the following people in prayer: Lylah McGaughy Louise Meeks Al Newman and family (Tammy Pace’s father) Frank Burton Vernon Newman Joyce Carmen (Jenny’s mother) Luna Pace Virginia Chambers Danielle Peeples (Richard Brenda Childs Peeples’ wife) Gene Dennie (Bill’s brother)23 Bob Scott (Cynthia Freudiger’s brother) Danny Dilworth Roger Shock (surgery) Janeva Elam (Sandy’s mother) Charlotte Ellis (Jan Shock’s mother) Carol Smith (Eric Atkins’ Aunt) Faye H. Smith Hayden Gant (Afghanistan) Sherry Smith Don Glisson Johnny Spencer Abby Grozinske Joan Stone (Treasa Smith’s mother) Amy Hutson Lew Talbert Bill Hussey Jamie Taylor (Todd’s mother) Frances Jobe Phil Wallace (Margaret Dennie’s Ann Lancaster brother) Patty Mann Pam Wheeler Barbara McAfee Whitehead Family Steve McDonald Ashley Erwin and Jay Worley Virginia McFall Barb Archer Eddy Bell Kristen Brook Our Armed Forces & their families, Nursing Home Residents & Shut-ins We extend our sincere Christian sympathy to Leeann and Joe Goodman in the death of Joe’s mother, Dorothy Martin Goodman, and to the family of Virginia Sam Jones. www.fumc-corinth.org The Corinthian Letter, USPS 563700 is published semi-monthly by First United Methodist Church, located at 901 N. Fillmore St., Corinth, MS 38834. Periodicals Postage Paid at Corinth, MS. Postmaster: Send address changes to First United Methodist Church, 901 N. Fillmore St., Corinth, MS 38834 , Phone: 662-287-3111, Fax: 662-287-6314 Rev. Roger Shock - Pastor [email protected] The Corinthian Letter Bi-Monthly 5 6 3 7 0 0 10-9-2014 25 Janet Wallace 901 N. Fillmore Street, Corinth, MS 38834 287-3111 First United Methodist Church, 901 N. Fillmore St, Corinth, MS 38834 Janet Wallace, 901 N. Fillmore St, 243 243 52 52 191 191 243 243 243 243 243 243 10-9-2014 Corinth, Mississippi October 9, 2014 Volume 47, Issue 20 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 CHURCH HISTORY PLEASE BRING CANDY EVERY SUNDAY. BEES SWARM! Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at the Little Chapel 11:45 am The Bees committee will provide box lunches from Subway. Please let us know you will be attending so we can buy accordingly. Program 12:30 pm FUMC Men’s Choir Concert The concert is open for everyone to come enjoy. Finance Meeting—Monday, Oct 13th, 5:30 pm Ad Council, Thursday, Oct 16th, 5:30 pm Long Range Planning, Wednesday, October 22, 5:30 pm Ushers - Michael McFall, Chad Borden & Dave Roberts Head Usher: Brent Avent Greeters - Patricia Hussey & Ruth Byrd Prayer Partner - Karen Cooley Sanctuary Prayer Partner - Janet Gray Children’s Worship - Rilla & Katie Jones Evangelism Team - Visitor: Peggy & Dick Collins Bread Baker: Susan Hutchins TV Crew - Chris Vandiver Sanctuary Audio - Ned Grady, John Mercier, Greg Tyson Ushers - Jimmy Wheeler, Bill Calvery, Mike Draper & Thad Fulghum Head Usher: Greg Tyson Greeters - Barbara Wayne & Loretta Newton Prayer Partner - Cathy McCullen Sanctuary Prayer Partner - Janet Gray Children’s Worship - Rilla & Katie Jones Evangelism Team - Visitor/Bread Baker: Mona Lisa Grady TV/Sound Crew - Chris Vandiver Sanctuary Audio - Ned Grady, John Mercier, Greg Tyson Sunday, Oct 19 LIVING FREE MINISTRIES PAPER PRODUCT DRIVE The young adult group would like to resume their paper products drive for Living Free Ministries. There will be a tub in the fellowship hall for you to put your products. THANK YOU! Consecration Sunday is October 26 Sunday, Oct 12 RED/GREEN MARKET FUNDRAISER We will be offering frozen foods again at the Red/Green Market on November 22nd. Members of the Chapel Committee will be in the Narthex each Sunday morning with recipes, baking pans, labels and zip lock bags. We hope you will sign up to make one of the recipes. The freezers will be in the fellowship hall in a couple of weeks, and once you have baked and frozen your dishes, you may bring them to the church at your convenience. We appreciate the effort each of you has made to make this fundraiser a huge success each year. The community has come to rely on our participation at the Red/Green Market, and they look for our booth to purchase quality casseroles for their holiday gatherings. The Chapel is still in great need of renovation, and this fundraiser will allow us to move forward with these repairs. You may call Barbara Trapp at 286-8367 or 808-0267 for additional information or to make a donation towards ingredients. Sunday, Oct 12 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:00—8:00 pm Corinth First Methodist Church was the recipient of the services of deaconesses beginning in 1922 and for a number of years following. In a room on Tate Street provided and furnished by various Sunday school classes, Miss Ethel Knapp established a story hour for children throughout the city. She also organized sewing classes for mothers and worked at any teaching or other church work which the preached required. Miss Mary Daniel came in this capacity in 1914, and the next year the Cooperative Home was established. This home was for young women from the county who had come into the city to work in the businesses here. The home stood on the corner of Penn and Meigg Streets and provided a Christian environment for young ladies who had left home for the first time. (Information about this ministry has been included in past history briefs.) The young ladies enjoyed group activities and musical evenings and participated in vesper services on Sunday. This ministry lasted until 1921. Source: Mary Warriner Weaver, AND ARE WE YET ALIVE? Currently, the deaconess status is entirely under the direction of the United Methodist Women, which has very specific requirements for conferring this title. These are too numerous to list here, but may be found in the United Methodist BOOK OF DISCIPLINE 2012, 1314.2. The office is defined as, “A laywoman who, in response to God’s call…(is) to share faith in Jesus Christ through ministries of love, justice, and service…(to) serve the church in any capacity not requiring full clergy rights...lifetime commitment to service is presumed.” WIKIPEDIA. For: Agnes Norman by Sandra Young by Mr. & Mrs. Bill Stevenson by Mr. & Mrs. John Young by John Dean by Dr. & Mrs. Hardwick Kay by Susan Hutchins by Sue Parker by Mr. & Mrs. T.K. Moffett by Mr. & Mrs. Vic Marlar For: Bruce Blount by Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dalton For: Esther Goforth by Betty Fulwood by Sue Parker For: Doug Johnson by Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dalton For: Mildred Newberry by Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dalton For: Helen Dillingham by Mr. & Mrs. John Young For: Roby Clausel by Patricia Hussey For: Virginia S. Jones by Bernice Babb by Patricia Hussey by Sue Parker by Mr. & Mrs. Bill Dennie by Janet Gray by CHS Class of ‘46 by Corinth Welfare Association by Mr. & Mrs. Don Glisson by Susan Hutchins For: Dorothy Goodman by Patricia Hussey Sunday, Oct 19 TENT OR TREAT! Deaconesses (continued) MEMORIALS