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December 2016
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T h e G r a p e v i n e
December Christmas Music
at Goddard
Music plays such a vital role in the lives of
people at this time of year, especially those
who, involved in the kingdom of God and
its work, are about the observance of
Advent and Christmas.
There will be several opportunities in the
life of Goddard to receive the gift of music,
both through regular worship and in special
presentations. Here is a list of several
offerings of music:
December 4: regular worship schedule.
Dec. 11th: The Chancel Handbells will play
in worship, and will be joined by Donnie
Anderson on the flute. They will play 2
Mannheim Steamroller-arranged carols at
8:30 am and 10:50 am.
Dec. 14th- During the Wednesday Family
Night Dinner, our children will present their
Christmas program after the 5:00 pm
meal.
Dec. 18- The Chancel Choirs of Goddard
and Central Presbyterian Churches will
host a city-wide Messiah sing-a-long in the
sanctuary at 3:00 pm. All are invited to this
presentation of the Christmas portion of
Handel's Messiah, whether to sing or simply
listen.
Dec. 19: Goddard Weekday Ministries
Preschool Christmas Program at 11:00 am
in the Great Room.
Please make plans in your holiday schedule
to enrich your Advent/Christmas journey
with the gift of music.
Submitted by: George Mann
Lectionary
December 4th
Isaiah 11:1-10, Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 (UMH 795), Romans 15:4-13, Matthew 3:1-12
December 11th
Isaiah 35:1-10, Luke 1:47-55 (UMH 199), James 5:7-10, Matthew 11:2-11
December 18th
Isaiah 7:10-16, Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (UMH 801), Romans 1:1-7, Matthew 1:18-25
December 25th
Isaiah 52:7-10, Psalm 98 (UMH 818), Hebrews 1:1-4 (UMH 5-12), John 1:1-14
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Hilltoppers Invite Goddard Members to December 19th Pot Luck
The Hilltoppers Pot Luck is scheduled for Monday, December 19. Due to
the scheduling of the Preschool Christmas Program, we will start our
luncheon thirty minutes later than normal. This will allow us to avoid
congestion in the parking lot.
Therefore, the Hilltoppers Christmas Pot Luck will be held on
Monday, December 19, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. The Hilltoppers Fund will be
providing two smoked turkeys for the occasion. We will need members
to bring a salad, a side dish, or a dessert.
It will be a time of great fun and companionship. All members of
the church are encouraged to come and join in with us. There will be a
“dirty” Santa gift exchange. Each member is encouraged to bring a
Christmas ornament costing $5.00 or less.
Submitted by Bryce Dalke
Thanks to you, the Goddard Pie Ministry delivered “63” pies, cupcakes and cakes to the Community Rescue Mission for Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner. They were so appreciative.
Barbara Kennedy
Sunday School Perfect Attendance
November
Gathering Disciples Betty Bodine, Rick
Bodine, Royce Coleman, Betty Morkemo, Rick
Pittman, Kimberly Swaim
Genesis John Bernardo, Barbara
Kennedy, Barbara Rumage, Dick Taylor, Polly
Taylor, Gayle Thiele, Rose Lyons, Mike Lyons
Susan C. King Linda Porter, Loraine
Tarrant
Pairs & Spares Elizabeth Eubanks, Jerry
Eubanks, Jana Green, Lee Green, Carol
McAlister, Tom McAlister, Mary Beth Sudduth,
Pat Singleton, Gayle Tindall, Carolyn Vaught
Men’s Bible Class J.R. Lewis, Robert
Neufell
New Beginnings Becky Mallard, Ronnie,
Dan Woodward, Pat Woodward
Wesley Victor Campbell, Betty Campbell,
Tom Godwin, Fred Stecher, Kathryn Stecher,
Helen Wilson
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T h e G r a p e v i n e
If you wish to honor a
loved one by
placing flowers in the
Sanctuary
on Sunday,
please contact
Debbie Moore in the
church office at
479.785.1415 before
Wednesday noon.
Please pay by check
when ordering.
We Need to Know
If you or someone within the congregation
is entering the hospital
or is currently in the hospital, please call
the church office at 479.785.1415
or call Pastor Kim directly at 479.719.8120.
We want to know …
Who are our visitors?
What are your prayer requests?
Who is in the hospital?
Who is going into the hospital?
Help us be informed of this important
information.
Complete the “Journey Card” tear off that is
on your bulletin and
place in the collection basket.
In Our Prayers: Gloria Arthur,
Laurel Barry, Irene Bernardo, Jessica
Clardy, Helen Cowan, Rick Dalton,
Linda Ridener Dickson, Jason Echols,
Chad Escalante, Kim Friery, Leo
Garcia, Michelle Gordon, Terri Hewitt,
Diann Ishmael, Beverly Jaggers, Sam
Jaggers, Jeff Jeffries, Keith Lindley,
Judy Loux, Addison McAdams, Linda
O’Brien, Aiden Owens, Rachel Rhodes,
Robert Roam, Barbara Sain, Peggy
Smitha, Tracey Stecher, Nell Sullivan,
Meadow Tarrant, Judith Tuck, Vinson
Family, Lloyd Warner, Jana Williams,
Jeffrey Williams, Betty Winesburg,
George Wingo, and our troops.
Want to join the
Prayer Ministry?
Contact the church
office at 479.785.1415.
Support
Inside Out
During Advent
Dec. 4 Donate Socks/Hats/Gloves
Dec. 11 Donate Detergent/
Fabric Softener
Monetary donations appreciated,
too! Make check payable to
Goddard with “Inside Out” on the
memo line.
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T h e G r a p e v i n e
When You Don’t Feel Like
Celebrating
By Paula Andrews/Health Ministry
The holidays will not be the same without your loved ones. Did you realize that the sadness in your heart and your best efforts to work through it represent a gift to honor them? Reaching out to others and going through this experience can bring wisdom, strength and peace.
God’s loving care is available to the grieving heart. Begin your day with prayer, be open to His love to help you feel stronger and to be comforted. Doing something for others can be helpful. For
example, go visit someone who is alone or isolated or in need. You may find that this gives meaning to the holidays and offers a type of memorial to your loved one. Join a support group with others who are grieving. You can find others who understand about the experience of losing a loved one at this time of year.
Lastly, consider the thoughts of an historic person who understood great challenges in life. Helen Keller said, “When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us, their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.”
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Remember to pick up
your Goddard Grapette
on Sunday morning!
It contains up to the
minute information
about what’s going on at
Goddard.
December Birthdays
1st Roger Beshears 1st David Carter 4th Daniel Partin 4th Rhonda Rieder 4th Steve Walter 5th Sharon Freeman 5th Helen Wilson 6th Gaye Baker 6th Landra Rink 6th Matt Sayers 7th Becky Mallard 7th Marilyn Scheuble 8th Monica McKinney 9th Renna Kelton 10th Julie Milligan 12th Jeremy Partin 13th Nancy Jane Sickmann 14th Jeannie McCutcheon 15th William Dudding 17th Harold Braswell 17th Lisa Gray 17th Kimberly Swaim 17th Gayle Thiele 21st Mistii Elmore 21st Tom Robertson 22nd Paige Faldon 22nd Cathy Smith 23rd Molly Hegemann 24th Cara Peerbolte 26th Frankie Allred 30th Ken Pate 30th Charles Williams
December Anniversaries
4th Mike and Pam Powell 20th David and Shirley Carter 22nd Jimmie and Fern Daniel 23rd Larry and Judy Loux 24th Ray and Teresa Votaw 27th Gordon and Rebecca Floyd 27th Jeff and Tina Jeffries 28th Larry and Patsy Cochran 29th Chuck and Sandy Johnson 31st Jeff and Frankie Allred 31st A.G. and Sheila Croxton 31st Miles and Joyce Shopfner
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The final Grief Share session at
Goddard is on Tuesday, December 6
at 6:30 pm in the
Susan C. King classroom.
It costs nothing
to smile!
Do people say you are a friendly
person? Do you like to smile and
say “hello” to your fellow church
members and to new folks? If so,
please consider becoming a front
door greeter on Sunday
mornings. Email or call Debbie
Moore in the church office.
479.785.1415
Welcome New
Members!
Adrianne Lyn Lewis
Dillon Cooper Lewis
Mackenzie Copeland Lewis
Congratulations to
Bryan Stanley and
Jade Wright who
were married at
Goddard
on Nov. 5.
Our Goddard Pastor
Rev. Kim Kelton Cloninger, Senior Pastor
T h e G r a p e v i n e
Goddard Giving November 2016
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November 6 November 13 November 20 November 27 Total
General Fund Income $ 24,729 $ 11,492 $ 10,385 $ 7,666 $ 54,272
Budget Expense - Weekly $ 16,340 $ 16,340 $ 16,340 $ 16,340 $ 65,360
Income Over/(Under) Expense $ 8,389 $ (4,848) $ (5,955) $ (8,674) $ (11,088)
Pantry 1,338 630 280 411 $ 2,659
Memorials 25 70 70 0 $ 165
Other 1,491 2,148 2,724 520 $ 6,883
Total Other Income $ 2,854 $ 2,848 $ 3,074 $ 931 $ 9,707
Sunday dollars - apportionments* $ 69.00 $ 64.00 $ 69.00 $ 55.00 $ 257.00
*Included in General Fund above
Youth Refuge 2016
Youth Glow Ball in August
Fun Times!
March December 2015
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The Church Office Will Be
Closed December 22, 26, 29
& January 2
The Quilters will meet at
10 am on the following
Thursdays: Dec. 1, 8, &15
Please contact the church office with
calendar changes, address / phone number
and email address updates, etc.
Call 479.785.1415.
3rd 10-11:30 am NW District Clergy Christmas
Brunch / Parlor
5th 7 pm UMM Darts @ Goddard / Young Hall
6th 11 am Circle 1 / Bring sack lunch and pantry
donation
11:30 am Circle 2 @ Williamsburg Kitchen
6 pm Joy Goddard
6:30 pm Grief Share (last session) /
Susan C. King Classroom
8th 12 noon Retired Teachers Luncheon /
Great Room
10th 8 am United Methodist Men Breakfast/
Great Room
12th 7 pm UMM Darts @ Bluff Avenue
13th 6 pm United Methodist Women Quarterly
Meeting / Parlor
14th 11:30 am Lydia Group Birthday Lunch @
The Egg and I Restaurant
1 pm Refreshments and Lydia Bible Study/
Susan C. King Classroom
5 pm *Family Night Meal & Children’s
Christmas Program (See last page of
Grapevine for details)
18th 3 pm City-wide Sing-along / Sanctuary
19th 11 am Goddard Preschool Christmas
Program / Great Room
7 pm UMM Darts @ Goddard
20th Christmas Turkey Give-a-way
24th 5 pm Christmas Candlelight Service &
Communion
25th 10:30 am Christmas Worship Service
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United Methodist Men
The Saturday Morning
UM Men’s Breakfast is on
December 10 at 8 am
UMM Breakfast Contact:
Gregg Teece 479.883.9458
Hilltoppers in December
December 16 *See the Christmas
Lights in Fayetteville + Guido’s
Pizza / Leave church at 4:30 pm
December 19 Potluck in the
Parlor/12:30 pm/ See page 3
for more information
*R.S.V.P. 479.785.1415
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Goddard United Methodist Women News:
Are you ready for some great United Methodist Women
Christmas fun?
On Dec. 3, we will be hosting the Northwest District Pastor and their
Families Annual Christmas Brunch. Thank you to everyone who has
agreed to prepare food and serve our Northwest District Pastors and
their families. The pastors and their families will be bringing canned
goods for our Food Pantry. Yeah!
On Dec. 8, we will be hosting the Fort Smith Retired Teachers
Christmas Luncheon. This is the third year we have been blessed to do
this fundraiser. It is a great way to showcase our beautiful church
building and church family. Fern Daniel and Betty Forrest have
prepared beautiful table and Great Room decorations. Diann Ishmael
has set the delicious menu and many of you have agreed to help.
On Dec. 13 at 6 PM, we will have our last quarterly UMW meeting
for 2016. We will have special musical guests, “The Glory Girls +
One.” Please bring your favorite Christmas Goodies. Mary Beth
Sudduth will lead in the installation of our new officers and Mary
Margaret Gattis will lead us in our Pledge Service. Circle 3 will be our
hostess. We hope you will come have “A Wonderful Christmas
Time”!
Ok, there lots of work involved in these activities, but whenever 2 or
more United Methodist Women are together, there always fun and
something comes up to laugh about and talk about later!
News from the Food Pantry
We have great news to share with you this month!
1) On Nov. 15, our food pantry received 2,998 cans of food from the
Fairview Elementary School. The students and faculty conducted a
food drive and gave this wonderful donation of food to us to help feed
the people who come to our pantry. We are so thankful to Fairview’s
faculty, the students and their families for giving so unselfishly to help
us help others. Thank you to Fairview’s principal, Peggy Walter, for
showing God’s love via this very caring action.
2) On Nov. 19, we received 200 foil turkey roasting pans from the
Family Dollar Store on Midland. What a great joy it was when the
manager called to tell us that their customers had donated this many
pans and Dollar Tree had chosen to give us these pans to help us with
our Turkey Giveaway!
3) On November 21, we gave away 123 turkey bags. What a joy it is to
help others. We were blessed that so many of you heeded the call to
share what you have with others. You truly have “Inside-Out” Caring
Concern and Action. Thank you to Mary Beth Sudduth who did an
excellent job organizing our turkey giveaway effort. She really is the
“Turkey Master”! Thank you to all who came and helped with the
giveaway. And yes, we will do it all again in December for Christmas.
So if you have not already made a donation to help provide turkey
bags, please consider giving to this worthy cause. Just make you check
payable to Goddard and write turkey bags on the memo line. (See
turkey bag give-a-way pictures at the left.)
4) Thank you for all you do to ensure we have funds to help provide food for our neighbors
5) Thank you to all our faithful, hard working volunteers
who continue to help transport food, carry food, stock shelves, fill
pantry sacks, and help hand out food to our neighbors. You are such
caring people! Thank you for keeping our Food Pantry “Inside-Out”
Ministry ongoing!
Pictures from
Thanksgiving Turkey
Bag Give-a-Way 2016.
Information Booth
8-10 am 10 am-12 pm
Dec. 4 Betty Campbell Mary Margaret
Gattis
Dec. 11 Dacie Rau Dianne Ishmael
Dec. 18 Barbara Kennedy Mary Margaret
Gattis
Dec. 25 One Service 10:30 am
Betty Forrest
Acolytes
Dec. 4 Harry Garner, Charro Coady
Dec. 11 Evan Carlson, Wyatt Pair
Dec. 18 Paige Faldon, Kaitlin Swaim
Dec. 24 Kaleah Gray, Gabby Woodie
Dec. 25 10:30 am Ella Friery, Elijah Friery
Jan. 1 Emma Cobb, Matt Cobb
Sanctuary Greeters
8:00 am Jan and Jerry Walrod, Sissy and Mike Mankin
10:30 am Beverly Moore, Helen Wilson
Ushers
8:30 am Jerry Walrod, Tillie Loudermilk, Scott McCoubrey, Jessie Lewis
10:50 am Fred Stecher, Capt., Bryce Dalke, Jay Holton, Harry Tommey, Brad McCully
November Worship Attendance
8:30 am 10:50 am The Abbey
Nov. 6 91 99 36
Nov. 13 91 89 45
Nov. 20 94 112 35
Nov. 27 85 91 30
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December Worship Assistants
Worship Services Sundays
Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary
8:30 am & 10:50 am
Christmas Eve 5 pm in the Sanctuary*
One Service on Christmas Day
at 10:30 am in the Sanctuary*
The Abbey in Young Hall
11:05 am (No Abbey Service
on Christmas Day)
*There will be no nursery on Christmas
Eve or Christmas Day
Sunday School 9:40 am (will not meet
on Christmas Day)
Children’s Church
during 10:50 am service
Wednesday Night
Youth Dinner 5:15 pm
Youth Games, Worship,
Youth Small Groups 5:50 pm
www.goddardumc.org
Newsletter and Worship Service Online
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Front Door (Bluff Ave) Greeters
8-10:30 10:30-12:15 December
Roger Ross Lisa Gray 4th
Stan Rau 11th Linda Porter
Roger Ross 18th Lisa Gray
Barbara Kennedy
24th 4 pm
n/a 25th Linda Porter
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Memorials have been given in memory of:
Wanda Srygley by Renna Kelton Helen Wilson Mary Margaret Gattis Betty Forrest
Norma Montalta by Rita Ramey
Susan Sudduth May by Randy and Gena Alder
Ron Cochran by Larry and Judy Loux
Lucille Christofferson by Pat Baskin Adventurer’s Class Larry and Judy Loux Chuck and Sandy Johnson
Romalee Strang by Renna Kelton
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Memorials and Gifts
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A gift has been given in honor of
Cosmos Kennedy
by Larry and Patsy Cochran.
Christian Sympathy is
extended to the family of
Lucille Christofferson
mother of Jeannie
McCutcheon.
Birth
Beckett Daniel Baumann
Parents: Kirk and Janie Baumann
Grandparents: Dan Baumann
and Jenny Remer
Great Grandmother: Gayle Thiele
United Methodist Committee
on Relief—UMCOR
Goddard member, Paige Tyler,
traveled to Sager Brown in
Louisiana in the early November.
This was Paige’s first time to do mission
work at Sager Brown. (Be sure and ask
her about her experience. See pictures
from her trip.) Paige posted on the
Goddard United Methodist
Women Facebook page: “This has
been a fantastic week at UMCOR Sager
Brown. We verified 1736 cleaning
buckets and put together another 520.
That was besides building a wheelchair
ramp, building chairs, distributing about
1200 boxes of food, working at local food
pantry, working at day care facility and
donating blood….I am so thankful to
have had this experience. Can
hardly wait to share with my
Goddard family.”
Pictures from
Paige Tyler’s
2016 Mission
Trip to Sager
Brown.
Rev. Gary E. Mueller— Bishop
Rev. Steve Coburn--- District Superintendent
Rev. Kim Kelton Cloninger — Senior Pastor
George A. Mann — Choir Master/Organist
Sami Sue Welch — Associate Director of Music
Brenda Danley Partin — Organist Emerita
Kim Friery — Children’s Director
Sue Peerbolte — Mothers Day Out/
Preschool Director
Dylan Knott — Youth Director
Michelle Greenfield — Financial
Administrator
Deborah Moore — Administrative
Assistant/Grapevine Editor
Timothy Peerbolte and Mistii Elmore—
Audio/Visual
The Grapevine Volume 54 December 2016 No. 12
Goddard United Methodist Church
1922 Dodson Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72916
*Family Night Dinner & Children’s Christmas Play
at Goddard*
December 14 at 5 pm in the Great Room
Clean Up Crew Schedule: Adventurers/New Beginnings
Cost $5 per meal/ $15 per family
No charge for Goddard Youth and W.O.W. Kids.
*RSVP 479.785.1415