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Worship
Services
Four unique
worship
opportunities
are offered on
Sunday.
8am
McMurry
Chapel
Informal worship
with a personal
touch. Sharing
prayer concerns
is welcomed.
9:15am
Sanctuary
Worship that
includes a
childrens time
and the Agape
Singers.
10:30am
CLC Atrium
Ignite Worship
designed with
college age
worshippers in
mind!
10:30am
Sanctuary
Worship with
music from the
Chancel Choir.
Opportunities to Serve
Ushers & Greeters for MUMC Concert Series Share your
hospitality with our guests during the holiday concerts.
Contact Susan Dickerson at smsdickerson@gmail.com.
Worship Tech Volunteers for Christmas Eve - Contact
Rev. Joan DeBoe at joan@moumc.org.
Christmas Eve Office Volunteers - Sign up to help for a twohour shift. Contact Rev. Joan DeBoe at joan@moumc.org.
Golf Cart Drivers - Volunteering for this team involves a
commitment of just two hours on one Sunday each month.
Contact Jo at 443-3111 or jo@moumc.org to find out more
about this opportunity to serve or to sign up for the team
Ignite Ministry Meal Volunteers - April Ravert is inviting
others to join her in providing meals for college students
on Tuesday nights. If youd like the link to a SignUp Genius
or more information, contact her at raverta@health.
missouri.edu or 573-445-0415.
2 MISSOURI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Bearing Fruit: The concept of bearing fruit is read often in Scripture. As the
purpose of any fruit-bearing plant is to produce, our purpose as fruit-bearing
followers of Christ is to produce. We are to live lives that produce love,
kindness and faithfulness sharing charity and caring for those around us.
Preparation: How do you prepare for Christmas? Do you prepare your homes
only, or do you prepare your hearts and minds as well, reflecting on the
meaning of Christs birth?
Matthew 3:1-12
This passage from the Gospel of Matthew is a very challenging one. John the
Baptist makes some very pointed accusations and uses harsh language. To
be able to cut to the heart, we need to focus on central themes that John is
sharing: Preparation, Repentance, Baptism, and Bearing fruit. As you focus on
this passage during the coming week, consider these themes and reflect on the
following questions.
Growing Deeply
My Notes:
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission.
All rights reserved.
I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is
coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his
threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will
burn with unquenchable fire.
But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to
them, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Bear fruit worthy of repentance. Do not presume to say to yourselves, We have
Abraham as our ancestor; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up
children to Abraham. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree
therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Now John wore clothing of camels hair with a leather belt around his waist,
and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then the people of Jerusalem and all
Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, and they were
baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. This is the one of whom the
prophet Isaiah spoke when he said,
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Staff: Laura Bentley, Administrative Assistant; Nancy Cooper, Childrens & Family Life Leader; Dakota Crider, Facility Steward; Joan DeBoe, Pastor of
Worship & Administration; Adriene Floyd, Executive Assistant; Courtney Gaunt, Director, Discovery Days; Teressa Gilbreth, Director of Communications;
Charity Goodwin, Pastor of Discipleship; Hank Jenkins, Pastor of Missions and Youth Ministries; Jo Lee, Events Coordinator;Chris Munsterman,
Administrative Assistant; Kim Parker, Pastor of New Generations; Ashley Thornhill, Nursery Coordinator;Kendall Waller, Lead Pastor;Preston Williams,
Tech & Facility Steward;Anna Zacherl, Assistant Director, Discovery Days. Music Staff: Craig Datz, Organist; Kaye Miller, Director of Wesleyan Ringers;
Rochelle Parker, Associate Organist; Marilyn Rowe, Serendipity Choir; Rachel Blomquist, Grace Notes Choir