News from Athens First United Methodist Church

(8:30) Jim Belger, Ann Brown, Paul Brown, Don Crews, Larry Deal, Jim Lyons, Candler Meadors, Olan Moore, Bob Noble, Grace Rabek, Ken Reece, Keith Wilson

(9:45) Chris Bostdorff, David and Jane Disney, Mark Ellison, Tom Milton, Sharon Milton, Marvin Reynolds, Al Rogers, Bill Trigleth, Dave Matthews

(11:00) Al Hawley, Charles Grimes, Henry Folsom, Tom Henson, Fred Blake, Henry Garrard, Matt Hawley, Nat Belger.

Offering Stewards

Bob Booth & Charlie Grimes, co-chairman; Nat Belger, Charles Braucher, Nat Carmack, Henry Garrard, Al Hawley, Sean Rogers, Charlie Upchurch III.

The Great Day of Service is Here

Saturday, April 17 is the day. This is the schedule:
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Kick off your service with a fundraising

breakfast for the Philippines mission trip in Hancock Hall.

Donations accepted.
8:30 a.m. - Gather for prayer and communion before we go out

and serve
Noon or before - all projects are completed.

Choose from three areas to serve:
1. Hancock Hall - sewing and stuff pillows for cancer and

hospice patients, making simple blankets for NICU babies,

coloring and writing cards for soldiers, making prayer

shawls, sharpening pencils, making sack lunches for our

homeless population. All ages.
2. Parking Lot/Front of Church - Free food distribution of

10,000 pounds of food, medical checks (blood pressure,

glucose, vision), guiding guests to medical checks, writing

down information from medical checks, carrying food for

guests, setting up/breaking down, distributing food to

guests. Ages 5 and up for food tasks, 12 and up for medical

helping tasks.
3. Our Daily Bread on Oconee Street - Spring spruce-up for

Athens Urban Ministries including landscaping a flower bed,

pressure-washing porch and sidewalks, painting porch and

railings, installing four planter boxes, blowing leaves and

debris, picking up litter, raking leaves, cleaning gutters,

general clean-up. Outside work for ages 10 and up for most

tasks.

Sign up online by going to www.athenfirstumc.org/afumcmissions.html and click on the registration form. You can also pick up a form at the reception desk, or contact Tracy Trigleth at 706-543-1442 x 206 for a form. Register right now!

Don't forget to get a Great Day of Service T-Shirt with the winning design by Miss Carey Stewart! They are only $12 and proceeds go toward future missions.

Member News

In Memoriam

Jeanne Ralls Beaird
APRIL 4, 2010

In Sympathy
Heartfelt Christian sympathy is extended to:
Ryan and Carrie Eaves on the loss of his grandfather, Maxwell Brown, on April 3 in Canon, Georgia.

Ralph Beaird on the loss of his wife, Jeanne Beaird, on April 4 in Athens, Georgia. Also to Becky and Leonard Scarboro on the loss of her mother, Carol Welsh (Jack) on the loss of her mother, Kristin Heiden (Chris), Meredith Elder (Bryan), and Lindsay Scarboro on the loss of their grandmother.

Susan McCullough and children, Shane and Chloe, on the loss of Susan's father, Otis Simons, on April 5.

New Arrivals
Congratulations to:
Erin and Donnie Holmes on the birth of their son, Huck Allen, on March 28.

Altar Flowers

The flowers on the altar, April 11, are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Peeler and Talmadge and Eleanor Peeler by Hugh and Ann Peeler.

The flowers in the Narthex, April 11, are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Mark Franklin Stewart by Jennifer Stewart, children and grandchildren.