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Join our UMYF group at Warmth in Winter!  WnW is the THE Tennessee Conference retreat for United Methodist Youth.  Great music, inspiring workshops, crazy dancing, and powerful worship.  Call Emalie for details 615-403-8455

Check it out on the official WnW website.

http://tnumcyouth.org/

The trustees and the Long Range Planning Committee will prioritize the projects that require mostly time and attention.  These projects include: showing movies outdoors, recording the entire worship service for the website, repairing the cold water tap in the men’s restroom, cleaning the trail and garden, inviting more people to Sunday School, cleaning and sprucing up the shelter, building our membership by inviting others, improving our phone system, setting up the ceiling fan, trimming trees to increase visibility, moving the wi-fi, setting up an account with PayPal.

The second category contains projects that we believe can be accomplished with reasonable effort.  The projects in this category, in the order prioritized by the council are:

1.  Moving forward with the Building Entrance
2. Replacing the fellowship hall floor
3.  Replacing the kitchen floor
4.  Paying our apportionments in full
5.  Installing a safety gate

To guide us in our progress completing these major projects, the council has decided to form a building committee.   The top priority identified by the council is our new building entrance!  We have plans for a visible, obvious, accessible, welcoming entrance for our church building!  Jim Adair has agreed to serve as the chair of this new committee.  Many, many thanks, Jim!

For the Pie In the Sky category, in no particular order, we have listed a new building, a new sanctuary, following the original master plan for building and expansion, increasing curb appeal, giving back more, establishing an endowment, adding more staff, establishing a soup kitchen, building a retreat facility, adding a viable child care center with its own wing, adding a large kitchen with an island and two sinks, adding showers and laundry so we could host Room In The Inn, adding a women’s restroom.  These projects are for Long Range Planning to address.

Please let your council members know of your hopes and dreams for HBUMC.  We can work together to make all of these wonderful ideas come to life.

Emalie

10. Leadership
9. Knowledge
8. Helps
7. Giving
6. Evangelism
5. Pastor
4. Exhortation
3. Service
2. Missionary
1. Ministry

Our recent Council Retreat focused on discovering our unique gifts and exploring where they lead us in ministry. Everyone on the council was asked to complete a rather lengthy survey compiled by Charles V. Bryant.  As a council, our strengths are perhaps not surprising, or perhaps they are astonishing!  Out of 32 listed in the survey, here are our council’s top ten:

10.  Pastor
9.  Spirit-Music
8.  Discernment
7.  Humor
6,  Faith
5.  Hospitality
4.  Administration
3.  Leadership
2.  Teaching
1.  Service

Does anything on the list surprise you?  Do you think something is missing?  If you are interested in taking Bryant’s survey, we have several copies available.

How do you see God calling us into ministry here at Hickory Bend UMC?  Where do your gifts call you into the Church and into the world?

Isn’t it wonderful to have a congregation, gifted and called into service to celebrate our ministry?

Emalie

You must see the mountains in the crisp fall air! You can stand on the balcony and look out at the clouds drifting through the valley below you! Just fifteen dollars reserves your room! Come to Beersheba Springs! See Emalie for more information! October 22-24 .