What is Happening This Week 8/29 – 9/4/16

 

holy covenant united methodist church

What is Happening This Week

8/29 – 9/4/16

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Dear Church,

 

If you would like to follow the progress of my health journey, please go to https://www.caringbridge.org/public/revcarolsparks for updates.

Blessings!

Pastor Carol

CROP

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The annual Metrocrest CROP Hunger Walk is Saturday, September 17th. Walkers raise awareness of hunger in our community and around the world, and raise funds to fight hunger. The Walk starts at Mill Valley Fellowship, 13545 Webb Chapel Rd., Farmers Branch (check-in 8am) and consists of a 2-mile route along the Rawhide Creek Park.

You are invited to participate in the Walk itself, or make a donation to one of the walkers who will be seeking sponsors. Online donations may be made here CROP Donation

Please contact Rick Davis (972-814-5325) if you need more information. Register to walk and pick up a packet in the Education Building Sunday mornings.

Take the SNAP Challenge

The Mission Team invites you to take the SNAP Challenge with us. During the week of September 12 -18, you are challenged to spend $4 per person per day on food. We ask that you donate the extra money you would have spent on food to CROP participants. Sign up at the Service Station in the Education Building to participate.

Weekly Schedule

Monday, 29th

6:00 PM ReFit-EB201-205

Tuesday, 30th

7:00 PM Adult Education-CC211

7:00 PM SPPR-CC212

Wednesday, 31st

6:30 AM Spiritual Journeymen Breakfast-Mom’s Cafe

6:30 PM Al-Anon-CC215

6:30 PM ESL-EB202

7:00 PM Adult Choir -Choir Rm

Saturday, 3rd

 9:00 AM C.O.D.A.-EB202

Sunday, 4th

8:30 & 11:00 AM WORSHIP SERVICES

9:45 AM Sunday School for All Ages

12:30 PM Holy Covenant Actor’s Group-choir room

Sunday Highlights:  September 4, Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Communion

 

Sermon Text: Deuteronomy 6:1-5, 1 Samuel 18:1-5

Sermon Title: All You Need is A ha vah! (Love: The Connection and the Commitment) 

  

Acolytes:

8:30 Jonathan Mundell

11:00 Austin Alvarez

Ushers:

8:30 Spiritual Journeymen

11:00 Pam Porter and Lorrie Hammons

  

Counters:

Dave Hill and Randy Lasley

Next Week’s Highlights:

 

-The monthly L.I.F.T. (Ladies in Fellowship Together) women-portraits-banner.jpgmeeting will be Thursday, September 8 at 6:30 pm at Hefina Glenys’s home. Go to www.hcumc.org for more information. Bring a snack or covered dish to share. We’ll enjoy food, fellowship and a short devotional. If you do not have time to prepare a dish, please join us anyway – we want you with us! Come join us for this time of fellowship!  

-Holy Covenant’s next Blood Drive will be CarterSunday, September 11, from 9 am to 1 pm in the Covenant Center. Please consider making a donation.

Contacts

Rev. Carol Sparks        [email protected]

Rev. Debbie Chapman  [email protected]

Rev. Bill Mauldin           [email protected]

Jason Redick                [email protected]
 

For more information on the events and activities listed above or for a full church calendar, click here to access our Holy Covenant UMC website www.hcumc.org