Ministers—Congregation Pastor– Dr. Brandon Harris

Administrative Assistant—Gina Bailey Burns Financial Secretary—Gerry Cagle

Wee Angels/Children's Director—Peggy Epperson Traditional Choir Director—Jennifer Roland

Traditional Pianist—Gloria Griggs Contemporary Keyboard—Jeanne Mabeus

Custodian—David McWhorter Audio & Visual Technicians—Scott Jones

Alan McInturff, Jimmy Owens, Randall Vickery

Children’s Church

Traditional Crossroads—Peggy Epperson

Traditional—Sheri McInturff

Greeter Schedule

Crossroads 1st Sunday: Wayne Maltbie

2nd Sunday: Cindy Archer 3rd Sunday: Sam Puckett

4th Sunday: Carlos Payne

Acolytes

Juliana Roland Jacqueline Roland

Ushers

Captain: Alan McInturff Bob Walden

Mike Mitchell Tom Greenhaw

June’s Worship Service Schedule

Sunday Combined Worship Service 10:00 am Sunday School 9 & 11:00 am

Wednesday Choir Rehearsal 6:00 pm

Highlights is a monthly publication of First United Methodist Church of Rainbow City 3208 Rainbow Drive Rainbow City, AL 35906

Phone: 256-442-3620 Email: info@rbcfumc.org Website: www.rbcfumc.org Editor: Gina Bailey Burns Page 8

April 2015

Highlights

June 2017

June 2017

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Bible Study 10a

Sanctuary 5p

2 3

4 Combined Service @ 10 a.m.

5 6 Bead Group @ 3:30 p

7 Choir 6p

8 Bible Study 10a

Sanctuary 5p

9 10 UMM Yard Sale 7a

11 Service @10a. Brandon’s last day

Fellowship meal @11a. Live Love 5p

12 13 Life Circle 10:30a

Bead Group @ 3:30 p

14 Choir 6p

15 Bible Study 10a

Sanctuary 5p

16 17 Fellowship Hall

Reserved 8a-12p

18 Combined Ser-vice @ 10 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Emily Nelms Chastain

19 20 Bead Group @ 3:30 p

21 Choir 6p

22 Bible Study 10a

Sanctuary 5p

23 24 Clothes Closet 9a-

12p

25 Combined Service @ 10 a.m.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Ray Robinson

26 27 Bead Group @ 3:30 p

28 Blood Drive 2p-7p

Choir 6p

29 Bible Study 10a

Sanctuary 5p

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Wee Angels Daycare Phone: 256-442-8001

Email: weeangels@bellsouth.net

Nursery Information: Sunday mornings a nursery is provided. Birth-Age 3. Wednesday a nursery is provided if needed. Contact Peggy Epperson at 256-442-8001 Birth-Age 3 Special Events child care is provided for children of all ages.

Welcome New Members

Dale & Diane Blanton, James, Nikita, and David Kimberly Tucker (David), Akarra, Amberlee, and Daniel

Penny & Jay Burns Nancy Sansom

We will be sharing pictures and profiles of our new members in the bulleting throughout Join-Together-June.

Sunday, June 18th

SPIRITUAL FOCUS

PRAYING TOGETHER

COMMON WORSHIP

UNITED VOICES

MAY 28-JULY 2

10:00 AM

SANCTUARY

Sunday School at 9 and 11

3208 Rainbow Drive Rainbow City, Alabama 35906 Email: info@rbcfumc.org Website: www.rbcfumc.org Phone: 256-442-3620

June 2017 Issue

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Giving

April 30

Total Deposit

5,254.32

May 7th

Total Deposit:

$6,451.00

May 14th

Total Deposit:

$6,325.25

May 21st

Total Deposit:

$4,820.00

Presence

April 30

Total Attendance

117

May 7th

Total Attendance:

101

May 14th

Total Attendance:

132

May 21st

Total Attendance:

126

June

Fellowship Friends:

Saturday

June 24th

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Lead Family: Jim & Lee Gray & Doris Payne

Tim & Sammie Hawkins Jim & Wanda Douthit

Larry Crowe Kay & Richard Gibbs

Jimmy & Evelyn Owens Randy & Laura Phillips

Kevin & Lynette Riggan Rachel Stewart

Michael & Elissa Archer J.D. & Ginger Archer

Newsletter

Deadline

20th of

each

month

Please join us for Pastor Brandon’s last Sunday with us on

June 11th

Immediately following the 10 a.m. combined service we will have a fellowship meal in honor of Brandon and his family. Please bring your favorite dish to share.

Birthdays

2 Wayne Maltbie 2 Dennis Henderson 6 Jonathan Roland 8 Amy McGee 11 Lynette Riggan 13 Jim Douthit 14 Carol Hutchison 15 Amy Mitchell 18 Eric Pentecost 24 Larry Etchison 28 Patrick McInturff

Anniversaries 3 Gerry & Barbara Cagle 9 Ray & Carol Hutchison 18 Kirk & Jeanne Mabeus 23 Michael & Elissa Archer

Stewardship

Congratulations!!!

Katie Mitchell graduated from Gadsden State Community College with a radio-logic technology degree on May 4th. She won the Gardner-Bailey outstanding student tech award from Riverview Regional Hospital. Hanna Watson graduated from Gadsden State Community College with an RN nursing degree. We are so proud of your accomplishments!

Please save your plastic gallon jugs for our laundry deter-gent ministry. Please make sure they are washed out well and the lids are taped to the jug. We can not use jugs that have pop on lids. Please drop them in the Mission Depot at the side door. Thank you!

Enjoy your summer! Life Circle Group will not meet during the summer. It will resume on September 12th (second Tuesday of the month) at 10:30 a.m. Contact Dinah Etchison at 256-413-3139 for more information.

Congratulations to Aleah McInturff (left) and Jordan Parkinson (right), our high school graduates! Good luck in your future endeavors.

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Make plans to attend church on July 2nd to welcome our new pastor, Dee Dowdy to Rainbow City First United Methodist Church. His first Sunday with us is on July 2nd with a combined service at 10 a.m.

SANCTUARY

1st Sunday—Larry & Dinah Etchison 2nd Sunday—Larry & Shelby Hawkins

3rd Sunday—Alan & Sheri McInturff 4th Sunday—Betty Crowe & Brenda Holland

CROSSROADS

1st Sunday— Jane Whitfield & Rachel Stewart 2nd Sunday—Laura & Randy Phillips

3rd Sunday—Alan & Sheri McInturff 4th Sunday—Laura Durbin & Jane Whitfield

GUESTS FOLLOW-UP TEAMS

May Memorials & Honorariums

In Memory of Norvie McGhee Sam & Marcy Puckett (Church Sign Fund)

Jane Whitfield (Church Sign Fund) Wayne & Gayle Chambers

In Memory of Susan Thompson (Nancy Vickery’s sister)

Sam & Marcy Puckett (Church Sign Fund)

Jim & Jenny Nabors Cathy Majors (Missions)

Gerry & Barbara Cagle (Church Sign Fund) Beckii Bradley Olivia Kendrick

Dennis & Patricia Henderson Bob & Bobbie Walden

In Honor of Mrs. Bobbie Walden

Olivia Kendrick & Dennis Griffin

June Mission Focus Christmas in June

Christmas Shoe Box Ministry is a project sponsored by UMCOR, United Methodist Committee on Relief. Boxes are filled all over the United States and sent to missionaries serving in third world countries. The missionaries distribute them to children ages 2 to 10 in the villages and towns they are serving. In some cases this may be their only pre-sent at Christmas. This year the boxes from the Mountain Lakes District will be going to Uganda, Africa. This year during June we will be again filling 100 Christmas Shoe Boxes. There will be a table at the Mission Depot explaining about the shoeboxes and what is needed to fill them. Thanks to the United Methodist Women for agreeing to pay the postage to get the boxes to the children. Please be praying how you and your family will be helping your church reach the goal of 100 boxes and 100 happy children!

Our Trip to UMCOR in Decatur

On Monday, May 8th, seven Live Love Circle members and two men worked at the UMCOR warehouse in Decatur. We carried 100 school bags that we made filled with the school supplies from our March Mission Focus. Along with packing these bags for ship-ment, we also assembled 57 tornado buckets and readied supplies for the next group that will assemble tornado buckets. When the next disaster occurs in our conference FEMA will pay $18.00 per hour for volunteer work at the UMCOR depot toward that dis-aster relief. Just nine people working for five hours that day raised $810.00 towards helping families in need.

Annual UMM Yard Sale

Saturday, June 10th 7 a.m.-12 noon

As you do your spring cleaning, please consider donating your “treasures” to the Annual UMM yard sale! Please bring your merchandise to the church starting Monday, June 5th through June 10th. Volunteers are needed to work Saturday, June 10th. If you have any questions or need help delivering a large item, please contact Larry Etchison at 256-413-3139. We appreciate your donations!

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He is Risen!

Making butterflies during children's church to represent new life in Christ.

CHILDREN’S CHURCH NEWS

Wet -n- Wild Wednesday June 14th @ 5:30 pm.

Free family fun and food! Wear your bathing suit and

bring a towel for the water slide. Contact Peggy at 256-442-8001 or

Marcy for more information.

Welcome our June Guest Speakers

June 18th- Emily Nelms Chastain, Leadership Development Specialist for the North

Alabama Annual Conference will be speaking at 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary.

June 25th– Rev. Jay Robinson, Director of the Wesley Foundation at Jacksonville

State University will be speaking at 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary.

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE

First United Methodist Church of Rainbow City in

the Fellowship Hall

June 28th

2-7 p.m.

CONTACT EVELYN MUSKETT AT 256-442-4059

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Give blood. Save a life.

The Agape Circle will not meet this summer. Agape

meets on the 2nd Tuesday at noon in the fellowship

hall starting back on September 12th. Contact Hilda

Willard at 256-295-2065 if you have any questions.