Goddard United Methodist Church

1922 Dodson Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72901

www.goddardumc.org

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In Memory of:

Ruth Moser by

Jim and Jean Woodward

Harold and Barbara Braswell

Jerry and Wincie Hendricks

Joe and Sandra Barron

Bernard and Toka Beall

Lane Brown

Alice Cecsarini, David Cecsarini and

Lois Cecsarini

Ledbetter, Cogbill, Arnold &

Harrison, LLP

Phil and Kimberly White

J. Michael Cogbill

Gayle Thiele

Betty Forrest

Chuck and Sandy Johnson

John and Fran Garner

Roger and Peggy Ross

Larry and Judy Loux

Doris Beaty

Vic and Betty Campbell

Tillie Loudermilk

Jim and Barbara Kell

Fred and Marilyn Scheuble

Rev. Carr Racop and Mary Beth

Sudduth

Bill and Mary Cauthron

Memorials

Christian Sympathy is extended to the families of:

Ruth Moser

Elijah Ray Wallace, Betty and Rick

Bodine’s Great Grandson

Gifts have been given In honor of:

Kim Cloninger by

Jim and Suzie Dunn

Sherry Stockton’s Birthday by

Roy and Betty Nixon

Elizabeth Eubanks by

Jim and Suzie Dunn

Eldred Hood by

Circle 1

Jacob Carter by

Roger and Peggy Ross

Norma Montalta’s 87th birthday on

August 29 by Jerry and Sue

Peerbolte

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What a blessing

are our faithful

Goddard

Volunteers!!!

Members of the congregation of

Goddard U.M.C. of Fort Smith—

Thank you so much for the prayer

blanket that my sister (Mary Beth

Sudduth) and Carr (Racop) delivered

to me during their hospital visit to

me. I was moved by your thoughts,

concern and prayers!

God Bless you all,

Charles Richards

To: Pastor Kim Cloninger, Goddard

United Methodist Church

From: The Gideons International

Fort Smith South Camp

In Honor of God’s Holy Word 96 Bibles

will be distributed by members of The

Gideons International to help

transform lives through the Word of

God.

May God bless your church and all

your efforts for our Lord.

Dear pastor and congregation,

This is Bradley Freier. I am a youth

attending Assembly 2017. I would

like to pray for you as God moves

through the United Methodist

Church. In God’s love,

Bradley Freier

(This letter was mailed through the

Arkansas UMC, Little Rock, AR.)

THANK YOU CARDS AND LETTERS

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The Community Rescue Mission

The Community Rescue Mission, located at 4th and F Street, phone 479-782-1443, partners with area churches to meet spiritual and physical needs by providing meals, a place to stay, and church services. Last month, 96 clients checked in for 1,310 nights of shelter (including 594 nights for women and children), with 3,506 meals served. If you would like more information about the Mission, please visit their website at www.fscrm.org . Please be in prayer for the homeless and those that work to help them.

Thanks, Harry Tommey

T h e G r a p e v i n e

Gloria Arthur

Laurel Barry

Irene Bernardo

Rick Beshears

Nancy Callaway

Kaitlin Carcamo

Jessica Clardy

Charles Click

Marilyn Click

Bob Cloninger

Kevin Cochran

Helen Cowan

Sammye Norvell

Cravens

Rick Dalton

Jason Echols

Calvin Evans

Jeff Faldon and sons

Kim Friery

Andrew Godwin

Abby Hannick

Harlan Family

Sam Jaggers

Jeff Jeffries

Robert Kimbley, Jr.

Ceanna Lifcoem

Keith Lindley

Judy Loux

Aline McCoubrey

Evan McKeever

Beverly Moore

Buddy Moore

Rachel Rhodes

Sue Rose

Jerry Sauter

Mary Ruth Short

Tracey Stecher

Nell Sullivan

Ralph Todd

Vinson Family

Shirley Walls

Jeffrey Williams

Helen Wilson

Our Troops

Prayer Concerns

Sunday

Worship in the Sanctuary

8:30 am & 10:50 am

Sunday School 9:40 am

www.goddardumc.org

Newsletter and

10:50 am Worship Service Online

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Moving Up in Sunday School!

We’re moving up to our new grade on

Sunday Sept. 10th. We’re continuing

with our Deep Blue curriculum.

Pre K - Room 8

K - 2nd Grade- Room 9

3rd - 4th Grade - Room 10

5th - 6th Grade - Room 11

WOW! What’s On Wednesdays?

Begins Sept. 13th

After School - 6:00 p.m.

Bible Lessons, Games, Music, and More!

Pick up a registration form at church or download it at our website,

www.goddardumc.org/kids

Adult volunteers are needed for Shepherds (3:15 - 6:00 p.m.) and Dinner Servers

(5:30 - 6:00 p.m.) Contact Keri, (479) 459-7110, if you can help

volunteer. Our children are amazing! You will be blessed!

Thank you Rhonda Rieder for

designing our new

Goddard Kids Logo!

We love it!

September Birthdays

1st Traci Bradley

1st Gayle Tindall

3rd Linda Dickson

4th Mati Garner

4th Beverly Jaggers

4th Lydia Pair

5th Sue Hughes

6th Pam Dalke

6th Hannah Houston

6thSue Peerbolte

7th Judith Tuck

8th Barbra Braswell

8th Ruth Dudding

8th Tina Jeffries

8th Stan Rau

9th Ricky Cross

9th Benjamin Harmon

10th Emily Srygley

11th Abigail Hawthorne

14th Kevin Hegemann

15th Paul Beran

15th Charles Click

15th Dan Woodward

18th Jimmy Arthur

19th Donald Toney

20th Marian Conrad

20th Dianne Meadors

21st Tracy Houston

21st Roy Nixon

21st Joyce Shopfner

21st Sami Sue Welch

22nd Kaleah Gray

22nd Jean McCoubrey

22nd Kristopher Thornburg

22nd Gary Tipton

23rd Linda Hobbs

23rd Raye Levering

23rd Marion Marshall

23rd Chrystal Settle

24th Karen Meadors

25th Sam Houston

25th Merritt Neil

25th Sawyer Neil

26th John Powell

29th Barbara Rumage

30th Aiden Cheyne

30th Paul Hill

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September Anniversaries

6th James and Renee Barker

10th Victor and Betty Campbell

10th Christian and Kimberly Swaim

12th Steve and Michelle Friery

14th John and Cindy Sauter

16th Chris and Barbara Jetton

17th Jim and Gayle Tindall

20th Levi and Jessica Whitson

25th David Whiteis and Linda Dickson

29th Charles and Sharon Williams

30th Bryan and Katherine Clardy

The original site, of what is

known today as Goddard United

Methodist Church, had a Gothic

Revival wood-framed structure,

constructed in 1908. The 39

charter members who established

Dodson Avenue Methodist

Episcopal Church South on July

24, 1907, began with just a vacant

lot with trees and grapevines.

Many new homes at that time were

being built on the south side of

Fort Smith, but on the two lots

purchased they took advantage of

the warm weather and shade from

a brush arbor they constructed.

As fall approached that year, they

enclosed the arbor, creating a shed

for the congregation of 44,

covering the cracks with strips on

the outside, and covering the

inside with building paper, and

carpeting the ground with

sawdust...ready for winter! By the

next summer, with 95 members

gathering, they took great care to

build a white frame building for

their religious facility, reflecting

some of the Late Gothic Revival

architectural style.

The first church services at

1922 Dodson Avenue met at the

corner of the lot under an early

American style grape arbor built

from wood—a primitive but

utilitarian structure. The first

official church building in which

the Dodson Avenue Methodist

Episcopal Church South met was

constructed that next year, with

units being built in 1922 and in

1925.

The grape arbor as it may have appeared in

1907. Drawing by Betty Campbell.

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Goddard Giving August 2017

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September Lectionary

3rd / 13th Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 3:1-15, Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c

(UMH 828), Matthew 16:21-28

10th / 14th Sunday After Pentecost exodus 12:1-14, Psalm 149 or psalm 148

(UMH 861), Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20

17th / 15th Sunday after Pentecost exodus 14:19-31, exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21

(UMH 135), Romans 14:1-12, Matthew 18:21-35

24th / 16th Sunday after Pentecost exodus 16:2-15, psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 or

psalm 78 (umh 799), Philippians 1:21-30, Matthew 20:1-16

August 6 August 13 August 20 August 27 Total

General Fund Income $ 22,736 $ 7,959 $ 11,479 $ 7,785 $ 49,959

Budget Expense - Weekly $ 12,933 $ 12,933 $ 12,933 $ 12,933 $ 51,732

Income Over/(Under) Expense $ 9,803 $ (4,974) $ (1,454) $ (5,148) $ (1,773)

Pantry 1,030 550 395 763 $ 2,738

Memorials 0 0 0 900 $ 900

Other 1,383 811 610 400 $ 3,204

Total Other Income $ 2,413 $ 1,361 $ 1,005 $ 2,063 $ 6,842

Sunday dollars - apportionments* $ 67.00 $ 38.00 $ 50.00 $ 52.00 $ 207.00

*Included in General Fund above

August 2017

Sunday School Perfect Attendance

Adventurers Jim Daniel, Fern Daniel, Betty

Forrest, Don Holland, Chuck Johnson,

Sandy Johnson, Larry Loux, Judy Loux,

Jim Woodward

Genesis Shirley Croft, Pete Lufkin, Barbara

Rumage

Susan C. King Kitty Carter, Linda Porter,

Sherry Stockton, Loraine Tarrant

Men’s Bible Class Robert Neufell,

J.R. Lewis

New Beginnings Bill Moore, Debbie Moore

Pairs and Spares Ricky Cross, Vickie Cross,

Sharon Freeman, Tillie Loudermilk,

Melinda Lowrey, Tom McAlister, Carol

McAlister, Roger Ross, Pat Singleton, Mary

Beth Sudduth, Gayle Tindall, Jim Tindall,

Carolyn Vaught, Jan Bowden

Wesley Victor Campbell, Betty Campbell,

Tom Godwin, Fred Stecher, Kathryn

Stecher

Information Booth

8-10 am 10 am-12 pm

09/03 Barbara Kennedy D. Ishmael

09/10 M.M. Gattis B. Forrest

09/17 B. Campbell M.M. Gattis

09/24 M. Mankin D. Beaty

10/01 H. Toney D. Ishmael

Acolytes

09/03 Harley Garner, Charro Coady

09/10 Erin Clardy, Ella Harmon

09/17 Grace Kuykendall, Lydia Pair

09/24 Elijah Friery, Wyatt Pair

10/01 Sarah Long, Kaleah Gray

Sanctuary Greeters

8:00 am Jan and Jerry Walrod

10:20 am Gayle and Jim Tindall

Ushers

8:30 am Jerry Walrod, Tillie Loudermilk, Scott McCoubrey, Jessie Lewis

10:50 am R. Neufell, Capt., Jeff Jeffries, Mike Mankin, Lynette Woodie, Walter Woodie

Worship Attendance

8:30 am 10:50 am The Abbey

08/06 114 130 38

08/13 115 130 42

08/20 130 125 57

08/27 145 148 47

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September Worship Assistants

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Front Door (Bluff Ave) Greeters

8-10:30 10:30-12:15 Sept. 3

B. Kennedy

L. Porter 3rd

R. Ross 10th L. Gray

B. Mallard 17th L. Porter

R. Ross 24th L. Gray

B. Kennedy

Oct. 1st L. Porter

B. Ross 8th L. Gray

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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.

GriefShare at Goddard UMC

Tuesdays at 6:00 pm

Young Hall

Contact the church office

479.785.1415 for additional

information.

Cindy Peevy GriefShare Coordinator

Weekday Ministries

Children participate

in Chapel. Keri

Cousins, Children’s

Director leads

Chapel two times

each school week.

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Hilltoppers in August

*Friday, September 1 / 10:30 am

Emily’s Tea Room / Gore, OK

*Friday, September 15 / 4:30 pm

Grapevine Restaurant / Paris, AR

No Pot Luck this month.

Hilltoppers Contact:

Bryce Dalke 479.653.1957

*RSVP 479.785.1415

Lydia Bible Study Wednesday, September 13

1:00 pm Susan C. King Classroom

Lydia Birthday Lunch Wednesday, September 27

11:30 am at The Egg and I Restaurant

United Methodist Women

September 5th Circle Meetings

Circle 1 10:30 am / Parlor

Circle 2 1:30 pm / Parlor

Joy Goddard 6 pm / Parlor

Circle 3 7 pm / Home of Sue Rose

September 13th UMW General Meeting/Parlor

The Goddard

Quilters meet at

the Church each

Thursday in

September at

10:30 am.

United Methodist Men’s

Breakfast

Saturday, September 9th at

8 am in the Great Room

Guest Speaker:

Benny Gooden

College of Osteopathic

Medicine

Guests Welcome!

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October Breakfast scheduled

for October 7th.

Goddard Health Ministry

Health Presentation in the

Narthex

Sunday, October 1

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Goddard United Methodist

Centennial 1907-2007

Pictured at left is the centennial

marker located at the

West entrance of the church. Memorial and

Honorary Bricks are available. Please

contact the church office at 479.785.1415 or

secretary@goddardumc.org for details on

how to place your order.

Cost $50 per brick.

September Ministry Meetings

Wednesday, Sept. 13

The following ministry teams

will meet and report.

4 pm

Finance

5:30 pm

Congregational Care

Health

Trustees

Date and Time / TBA

Discipleship

SPR

Goddard Youth Schedule

Wednesday Worship

and Small Group

5:30 pm

Youth Worship Room

September 6, 13, 20 & 27

Sunday Devotional / Games

5:30 pm

September 10 & 24

To add someone to the

Prayer Chain for

prayers, contact

Donny Anderson

479.522.3080.

To be part of the Prayer

Chain, contact Debbie

Moore 479.785.1415.

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September is “Fruits & Veggies – More Matters Month”

Health Ministry Information Submitted by Frankie Allred

Most people know that eating fruits and vegetables is important for good health, but

most of us still aren’t getting enough.

Eating a healthy diet with plenty of vegetables and fruits

can help you:

Lower your risk for heart disease and some types of

cancer

Maintain or reach a healthy weight

Keep your body strong and active

Healthy eating patterns include a variety of fruits and vegetables and include all fresh,

frozen, canned, juice and dried options. Make sure you get options from all subgroups:

dark green, red, orange, starchy, and legumes (beans and peas.)

The recommended amount of fruits and vegetables in the Healthy U.S.-Style Eating

Pattern at the 2,000-calorie level is 2½ cup-equivalents of vegetables and 2 cup-

equivalents of fruit per day. One cup of 100% fruit juice counts as 1 cup of fruit.

Although fruit juice can be part of healthy eating patterns, it is lower than whole fruit in

dietary fiber and when consumed in excess can contribute extra calories. Therefore, at

least half of the recommended amount of fruits should come from whole fruits. When

juices are consumed, they should be 100% juice without added sugars.

Here are some ideas to help you and your family fit more fruits and vegetables into your

day:

Keep a bowl of fruit handy where the whole family can see it.

Cut up fruits and veggies ahead of time so they’re ready for quick, healthy snacks.

Challenge your family to try a new veggie or fruit every week.

Remember, eating more fruits and veggies can be fun – and it’s worth it!

For more information visit https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/2015-

2020_Dietary_Guidelines.pdf or ask one of the parish nurses in our church for a copy of

the guidelines.

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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.

The Upper Room Daily Devotional

Get daily devotionals by email by subscribing at

devotional.upperroom.org/

Visit The Upper Room website for

more information.

GRIEFSHARE

Our third semester of GriefShare began with an

orientation on August 22nd. It was a great way to

register, meet each other and get the anxiety and

nerves lessened and learn more about what

GriefShare is all about. Sharing our grief and

pain is an important step, but not that easy for

most of us. Please pray for this ministry and the

participants that are brave enough to come. We

will meet every Tuesday evening from 6-8 pm in

Young Hall for 13 consecutive weeks. The

meeting consists of a video, discussion of

workbook that coincides with the weekly video,

share time and prayer. Anyone can join the

semester at any time. If you need to bring a loved

one or friend for support, that is totally

acceptable. We hurt because we love.

Share a Smile,

Cindy Peevy

GriefShare Leader

Stock The Shelves

Five Fort Smith schools benefitted from the

2017 Stock the Shelves Inside/Out Project.

Three hundred backpacks and other school

supplies were shared with the following

elementary schools: Fairview, Albert Pike,

Tilles, Ballman and Sutton. Please thank our

Missions Ministry for providing supplies to

these schools.

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Please plan now to attend the Northwest District UMW

Annual Meeting on October 14 at First United Methodist

Church in Fort Smith. Woohoo … out of town travel not

required to attend this meeting! Please let Elizabeth

Eubanks know if you plan to attend so we can reserve

you a spot.

Our next Goddard UMW Meeting is scheduled for Sept.

12 at 1 PM in the Parlor. Hope you can attend! Our

speaker will be Abby Cox with Steps Family Resource Center in Fort Smith.

On August 5, Jenny Sorey of HUB of HOPE, led a very informative session at Goddard to help us bet-

ter understand how we can help victims of human trafficking and how we can best help protect our

children and grandchildren. HUB of HOPE asks us take these actions: Pray, get educated and edu-

cate others, to keep our eyes open and report problems, and to use our resources to help agencies

who are working to stop human trafficking. She also asked that we enter the National Human

Trafficking Hotline Phone Number 1-888-373-888 to our phone contact list so we will have the

number readily available if we see the need to get help to someone.

We also heard from PACT, Parents Are Committed

To:

(1) encourage, enable and support each other to educate their children about trafficking;

(2) talk to their children about the tactics of child predators; (3) teach their children about appropri-

ate boundaries in human relationships; (4) invest in their children, their activities and their friends;

(5) invite their children to join forces against the trafficking of children; and (6) show their children

the difference between real love and empty love.

“If I see the mass, I won’t act. If I see the one, I will.”

Mother Theresa

Pictured above: Jenny

Sorey of HUB of HOPE

At left: Pictures from

Human Trafficking Seminar

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Submitted by Elizabeth Eubanks

News From our Goddard Pantry

What does it take to keep the pantry shelves full?

First, it takes many of us to donate to our pantry. Then it

takes someone to place our orders each week. Then it

takes a hard working person like Don Holland to take his

trailer and go to the Food Bank to pickup groceries, bring

the groceries to the church, and then unload the groceries.

Other volunteers, David Childress, Donny Dixon, Ron

Garner and Jim Rose help unload the groceries. Don then

goes to Shoppers Value Store and picks up groceries there,

brings the groceries back to the church, and unloads these

groceries.

The groceries have to be “unboxed” and stacked on our

shelves. David Childress, Donnie Anderson, and Elizabeth

Eubanks help with this. Then the groceries have to be put

in the pantry sacks. Nancy Robertson and Suzie Dunn

have faithfully served each week to sack groceries for our

volunteers to have to distribute on Wednesday morning.

Others who have helped us faithfully with the pickup, deliv-

ery, stocking and sacking are Richard & Polly Taylor, Mike

Lyons, Bruce Dalke, and Mike Mankin. The “magic” of get-

ting our Pantry stocked happens on Monday and Tuesday.

If you would like to help, just let Elizabeth Eubanks know.

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

Sue Peerbolte — Preschool Director

Keri Cousins—Children’s Director

Michelle Greenfield — Financial Administrator

Deborah Moore — Administrative Assistant/

Buildings and Grounds / Grapevine Editor

Timothy Peerbolte, Mistii Elmore, Dave Whiteis—

Audio/Visual

Volume 55 September 2017 No. 9

Rev. Kim Kelton Cloninger

Goddard United Methodist Church

1922 Dodson Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72901

www.goddardumc.org