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Here is a way to help the people of Haiti
UMCOR cannot get into Haiti in its normal ways, but they CAN get much-needed funds in. The UMCOR website has a
way to donate directly to the Haiti relief effort. UMCOR is funded by our apportionments, so donations made this
way go 100% to the relief effort in Haiti.
Connect to UMCOR thru this link:
At the site, you can set up a giving account or make a one-time contribution. There is a box to check if you'd
like our church to be "credited". During the checkout process, you'll then be prompted for the state
and district that our church is in (ours, of course, would be Texas, Northwest District). A list of churches in
the district is displayed and ours is, of course, in the list you click on the First United Methodist Church, Lindale
name and your contribution is associated with our church.
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“United Methodism 101” (UM101)
is a free, basic online course designed for new United Methodists and anyone wanting to know more about the denomination,
as well as long-time United Methodists who would like to check their basic knowledge of the church. Each of the
four modules in this course contains many interactive features and takes about one hour to complete at the participant's
leisure.
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Wayne’s Word
A man who flew his own plane got tired of the long car trip from the
airport to his country place which was situated on a lovely lake. So he had the idea of equipping his plane with
pontoons so he could land right in front of his house. However, on his first trip up to the country with his newly
equipped plane, he headed for a landing at the airport just as he always had done in the past. But as he was going
in for the landing it dawned on his wife what was happening and she hollered, “What do you think you’re doing?
You can’t land this thing on the runway. You don’t have any wheels; you’ve got pontoons on it!”
Fortunately, her warning shout was in time and he pulled up from his landing pattern and swung the airplane around
and headed the plane for a landing on the lake.
After the plane landed safely on the lake, he heaved a really big sigh of relief and turned to his wife and said,
“That’s about the dumbest thing I’ve ever done!” Then he opened the door, stepped out, and fell directly into the
lake.
I guess the point of the story is that we just kind of get used to things the way that they are and we fail to
respond to changes that come into our lives.
It just dawned on me this week that last Sunday, the 28th, marked the beginning of our fourth year together here
at FUMC Lindale. Time has passed so quickly this milestone went almost unnoticed by me. It has been a great three
years, and Nancy and I are looking forward to our fourth year together with you. We want to thank you for making
our time among you some of the most rewarding time in our ministry. Thanks for all you have done and for all that
you do!
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