Gathering |
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Welcome and Announcements |
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Call to Worship and Prayer |
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Hymns | WB # 14 | Come, we that love the Lord |
| WB # 66 | O worship the King |
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Tithes and Offerings |
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Hearing the Word |
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Children's Story | David Wiebe |
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Hymn | WB # 41 | Come, thou Almighty King |
(younger children are dismissed to the nursery) |
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Scripture Reading | Galatians 5:1,13-25 |
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Sermon | "Freedom For" |
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Responding to the Word |
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Hymn | WB # 167 | For God so loved us |
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Sharing and Prayer |
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Benediction Hymn | | May the Lord mighty God |
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Benediction |
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Assisted listening devices are available at the audiovisual desk. Please stand and use a microphone during announcements and sharing |
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Worship Leader: Becky Waegli |
Music Leader: Jolene Boshart |
Greeters: Craig & Brenda McLey |
Children's Story Next Sunday: Stan Harder |
Drivers Next Sunday: Kevin & Lynnae Troyer |
Nursery Today: Brenda & Megan McLey |
Nursery Next Sunday: Dave & Sheri Nitzsche |
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Birthdays and Anniversaries |
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Wednesday, July 8 - Larry & Ellie Friesen Anniversary |
Friday, July 10 - David Orr |
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Calendar |
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Sun. July 12, 10:45 am | Youth Convention Worship Service |
Wed./Thurs. July 15-16 | FMC Vacation Bible School |
Thurs. July 16, evening | All-church BBQ & VBS challenge |
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Record for June 28 |
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Attendance: 111 | Offering $1,647 |
June Budget $8,564 | June Offerings $7,751 |
YTD Budget $55,666 | YTD Offerings $55,245 |
Youth Lunch $624 | Garage Sale $1,150 |
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Announcements |
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WELCOME - Today we welcome Marlin Kym as our speaker. Marlin is a member of our congregation and a retired Mennonite pastor who lives in Milford, NE with his wife, Betta. We thank him for sharing with us. |
NEXT SUNDAY - Next week the Senior High Youth will share with us about their trip to the convention in Columbus, OH. Our pastor, David Orr, is on sabbatical and will return in early August. |
KIDS VS. ADULTS: BOOK OF ACTS - As Vacation Bible School draws near, the entire congregation is being challenged to read the Book of Acts. On Thursday evening, July 16 there will be an all-church barbeque and some friendly "Jeopardy-style" competition, kids vs. adults. So start reading now!! |
THANK YOU - Thank you to everyone who helped with the garage sale by donating items and time, picking up items and dropping them off. The sale was a huge success because of all of you! The leftover items were donated to the People's City Mission. We raised more than $1,100! The proceeds will go towards the playground, landscaping, and another charity in Lincoln. Thanks again to everyone!! - Robbyn and Holly |
WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES - Women's Fellowship Committee will be meeting on Monday, July 20, at 7:00pm at the church. We will be planning activities for the fall. If anyone would like to join us or offer ideas, let Wanda Stauffer know. |
CAN YOU HELP? - Printed on the back of the bulletin cover is a letter from Beth Martin, of Chicago, Illinois. Beth called our church and is looking for the gravesite of her great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth Wedel Buller, a Mennonite woman who died in Lincoln in 1874. Please read the letter and see if you have an idea of where to look. Any history detectives out there? |
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL - Don't forget Bible School on Wednesday and Thursday, July 15 & 16. See Tammy Riedel if you have questions. |
BIRTHDAY OFFERING NEXT SUNDAY - If you have a birthday or anniversary in the month of July, you are invited to contribute to the special offering next Sunday. All the money is used to support the education of three students in India. |
ELATION PERFORMING "GODSPELL" - The music group ELATION of St. Stephen United Methodist Church in Mesquite, Texas, will present the musical "GODSPELL" at First United Methodist Church of Lincoln, Nebraska on Monday July 13, 2009 at 7:00 pm. First United Methodist Church of Lincoln is located at 2723 North 50th Street in Lincoln. Admission is free. |
Building Report |
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YTD Building Offerings $13,956 |
Monthly Mortgage Payment $1,101 |
YTD Mortgage Interest Paid $4,783 |
YTD Principal Paid $12,516 |
YTD Normal Principal $1,659 |
YTD Additional Principal $10,857* |
12/31/08 Mortgage Balance $141,979 |
6/30/09 Mortgage Balance $129,463 |
Building Payment Fund $18,235 |
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* The additional principal paid in 2009 has shortened the life of |
the 20 year loan by 3 years. |
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Dear First Mennonite Church, I'm somewhat at my wits end with trying to track down information on my great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth Buller. I'm hoping that a member of your congregation or that of another Nebraska Mennonite Church may be a history buff on Mennonite travels through the state from the late 1800's, and will have a suggestion on where Elisabeth is buried.
I've been in contact with Nebraska State government cemetery personnel Patricia Churray and Wyuka Cemetery's Fran Baatz. Patricia has shared with me a great deal of her information and research, but we did not find Elisabeth's grave. Fran says she is not at Wyuka either, even though it was the only cemetery in existence during the year Elizabeth died. She is not at the 'poor farm', Fairview or Teachman. In fact, she shows up on no cemetery database in the country.
So, given that, my last hope is the Mennonite Church itself. My family was part of the Mennonite emigration from Russia. My great-great grandmother's name was; Elisabeth Wedel Buller, who died August 28, 1874. In a letter from 1879, her husband David Buller wrote "My wife Elisabeth died August 28, 1874 and was buried in Lincoln, Nebr. We had just come to America and had not yet reached South Dakota. She was very grieved; she did not want to come to America. This caused her death. We had a nice large farm in Russia." They were originally from Prussia and Russia. David Buller, along with their 7 children continued on to Childstown, SD and then to Marion, SD. He is buried in the Buller family cemetery on the original Buller family farm in Marion, SD.
My hope is that she is in a marked grave on private property somewhere. Or that she is buried outside Lincoln in another town and he was mistaken with saying the town was Lincoln. Either that or she is misnamed as Fuller or a similar name.
We will be in Lincoln on July 5th for a wedding. I will have my 82 year old mother with me who has lit the fire underneath me to find our relative!! I would love to solve this mystery! Thanks for any help, Beth Martin (contact First Mennonite Church - Lincoln for Beth's email address) Chicago Illinois |
