United Methodist Church of Swartz Creek

Dr. Reverend J.D. Landis Pastor

February, 2010

TheGood WordSunday Worship

February 7,

Caring for One Another, Pastor J.D.Landis

February 14,

Love God’s Greatest Gift, Pastor J.D. Landis

February 21,

Loving our Families, Pastor J.D. Landis

February 28,

Love is a Decision, Not Just a Feeling, Pastor J.D.Landis

Wednesday Worship 6:30 p.m

February 3:

God is Just , Romans 6:23

February 10:

Joy in Heaven,Luke 15:7

February 17:

Ash Wednesday

February 24:

Common GroundsCoffee Haus

February 13, 2010,7:00—9:00 p.m.

Come and know God is here: Listen to…

The Swartz Creek Youth Praise Band

And moreComing in March…

2ND CHANCE

The blessing of it all starts with you!

Don’t miss it!

2ND Saturday SoupSupper!

February 13, 20104:30—6:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church of Swartz Creek

Box268 * 7400 Miller Rd. 8 Swartz Creek MI 48473* 810-635-4555

Our Mission Statement:To be a nurturing community of Christians committed to serving Jesus Christ, helping others find Him andgrow as His disciples.

Beginning in Lent, starting February 17th, on Ash Wednesday groups will be meeting to discover God’s plan for loving relationships, including family, church, community and our world.

Quilting Group:

Two groupsof ladies are meeting once aweek to learnand to make beautiful quilts.For info call Ei-leen Faith @635-8388 or Jan Sulz@ 845-1934.

Some Information on Lay Speaking Ministries

The

Flint District

offers a series of basic and advanced LSM (Lay Speaking Ministries) Courses onthe first weekend in March in Flint. There are normally several sections and a variety of advancedcourses available. Class format is a Friday evening and all day Saturday retreat. For more informationcall Bonnie Potter at 810– 678-2318

Ann Arbor District

conducts lay speaking schools in both the spring and fall. Contact person is Anne Hanna at 734-428-8212.

Detroit East District

conducts classes in winter for info contact Phyllis Hart at 313-823-4614.

Detroit West District

offers its classes in the fall. Contact person Esrom Shaw at 313-868-1352

Marquette

contact Bob Hampton at 906-228-6678

Port Huron

contact Ron Bailey at 810-385-5473

Saginaw Bay

contact Joyce Kerr at 989-753-7075

WANT AN EASY WAY TO HELP MIS-SIONS?

Pick up a "UMW sock" at the wel-come center, put 1 quarter in for the number of each month (IE 1 quarter for Jan., 2 inFeb, 3 in March etc.). By December you willhave accumulated $19.50 to turn in to help

Ladies.....

The fourth Tuesday of each monththe United Methodist Women gather at 9:30a.m. until 11:30 a.m. to do various cleaning jobs within the church. Please join us inMurbach Hall to choose your cleaning as-signments. Hope to see you there!

Yarn Angels:

Havechanged meeting time and place.

The Angels

are now meeting onthe 3rd Wednesday of the monthat 10 a.m. in the church loungestarting February17th.

Come

and

knit/crochet charity projects such as prayer shawls, baby items for Crisis PregnancyCenter or hat/mittens for UMChildren’s Home. ContactSharon Cum-mings @ 630 – 8058

All are welcome!

Pasties

are being madeon the 15 & 16 of February. Don’t forget toorder yours! These won-derful people make foodthat feeds this congrega-tion in so may ways.Let’s support their efforts and fill our bellies.

Covered in Prayer

Reminder; there are prayer shawls in the prayer room for anyone to take if they knowsomeone thatcan use one.Be sure to signthe registra-tion book.

If you have info for your church familypass it on, we will put it here.Example:

Krogers recycles plastic bags inthe back of the Swartz Creek Storethey have a bin for this.Those in MilitaryService

Lawrence Battiste, Jr.Richard BrillJoe & Missy CaldwellChristopher CampbellBob ChurchillSean CrispCW3 Rodney CrowErwin C. DavisJessica FaithIan GohlkePaul GreggTrevor B. HicksJohn LeachWilliam LengyelKyle LeonardAlan LloydMatt MakillomKenny MiddaughJennifer NelsonMichael Packer Nick PutinskyMichael QuinnRyan RolfeJoshua Sepanak Michael Sepanak Avery Spignor Steven TanousDr. Brad Taylor Travis Teuber (Iraq)

To the Body of Believers at Swartz Creek UMC

,Thank you for the shawl and your many prayers.We believe God is always with us and hears our prayers. He is good and faithful and we know Hewill never leave us or forsake us. His will be done.We give Him all the praise, honor, and glory for allHe is and will do. Thank you, Love Cathy Bond

Thanks be to God

Church Family,

I would like to give our pastor J.D. a special ‘Thank you’ for visiting me while I was sick.A very large thank you for all your prayers, cardsand phone calls. Very much appreciated your thoughts of me while I was recovering from my ill-ness. Hope to be back in church soon.Thanks so much, Anna Boyd