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Buford First UMC Youth

   Updated 2-14-08  

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Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.

Matthew 25:4

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May 2008 Calendar

Mission Opportunities for 2008!

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Parents’ Corner….

Parents are invited to join us for the special Youth Worship Service on Sunday May 18th at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.  We will hear from Kim Fox, one of our active seniors who is about to graduate from Mill Creek High.  Come hear the band play and Kim share!  We invite everyone to stay for a reception honoring our seniors at 7:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Your presence means a lot.

                        Suzanne

 

HUGE CHURCH YARD SALE

Saturday May 17

8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Proceeds will help our youth go to Hinton Rural Life Center in Appalachia this summer.

 

 

Sat. May 3

The Great Day of Service!

 

Sunday May 18

Youth Promotion party !

Students finishing the 5th grade will be coming into our youth fellowship on Sunday May 18!  We are excited to have you join us for all the fun!  We will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall for dinner and – The World’s Largest Banana Split!

All should bring a topping to share!

 

 

 


God Calls Us to Serve!

 

 

BUFORD FIRST UNITED METHODIST 

THE GARY ASH- BOBBY DOBBS  VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 AT 4:15

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    Youth
News!   

 

Our Sponsored Child:  Abigail Anokye!

The youth have chosen to sponsor a child through the Compassion International Organization.  Please pray for Abigail and her family.  Photos and information on Abigail, and country are in the fellowship hall.  There is also a bulletin board where youth may sign up to help support this mission.  Youth who sign up, contribute $8.00 toward the $32.00 sponsorship each month. Come to youth Sunday night to hear more about this important mission!

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Sunday Nights: 

4:00 p.m. -Youth Band practice begins September 9th at  This is a set-up meeting for anyone interested in being a part of the band this year.

4:45 p.m. -Youth Choir Rehearsal.  All 6th-12th graders are invited to join us.  Choir kicks off on Sunday September 9th.

5:30 p.m. Youth have supper in the fellowship hall ($2.00)

6:00 p.m. Senior Highs (9th-12th) go to the Adam's House (4344 Old Hamilton Mill Rd.) in the church bus for their session and some recreation. (permission slip required)  Middle School students (6th-8th) stay at the church to have their small group time.

7:30 p.m. Everyone gets picked up at the church!

Wednesday Nights:       (during the school year)                

 Senior Highs meet at 6:30 p.m. at the church   for Disciple Bible Study for Youth.  At 8:00 p.m. they head to DQ for some cool treats!

Middle Schoolers meet from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Adam's House (4344 Old Hamilton Mill Rd.) for CLUB YOUTH! This is a fun time for our middle school students to play pool, volleyball, and hear a short devotion.

 

Quotes

1-15-08  "...a child can receive no greater gift from parents than the gift of influence toward a living faith in

Christ."

J. Ellsworth Kalas (Professor, Asbury Theological Seminary)
 

1-07-08  "No man is virtuous because he can not help it; virtue is acquired." 

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest

1-04-08  "I can't help it!  I'm addicted to helping others!"

Tim Davis

 

"Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young."

Luella F. Phean

11/26/07  "...before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.  The one thing that 11-

doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

05-07   "The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and

strength to the believer."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 

10-21-07  "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Edison

10-15-07   "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank  (1929 - 1945)

 10-08-07 “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)


10-01-07    "Faith sees best in the dark."

Soren Kierkegaard  (1813-1855)

9/24/07   "We accept people right where they are and just the way they are."

Glen Tex Evans, Founder Appalachia Service Project

9/17/07   "Grace means there is nothing we can ever do to make God love us more.  Grace means there is nothing we can ever do to make God love us less."

Philip Yancey

9/3/07  "Unbelief is as much a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything."

Frederick Buechner

8/27/07  "God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."      Josiah Gilbert Holland

 

8/13/07 “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

Corrie Ten Boom

8/06/0    “We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa

7/15/07  "Attempt something so great, that it is sure to fail if God is not in it. " 

Eddie Staub (Director of Eagle Ranch)

7/9/07     "A task too strong for wizard spells

This squire had brought about;

'Tis easy dropping stones in wells,

But who shall get them out?"

George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans)

Middlemarch

6/4/07    There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

    5/28/07    Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

John Wesley  

5/21/07   You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

5/14/07  If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

5/7/07   There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'

C.S. Lewis

 

 

 

        

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