Sunday – November 13 – 11:00 AM

Come join us for a fun Sunday Worship Service to Sing praises to God and Worship through music! There will be Congregation Hymns, Instrumental Music, Choir, Solos & More!

Lunch and Fellowship after Church

THANK YOU!

Bethel Bible village Food Drive Partnered with our neighbors in the Northshore area on Big Ridge to collect food for Bethel Bible Village. We delivered a truck full of food. Thank you to our Northshore friends for your help!

We recently honored grandparents with a celebration on Sunday, Sept. 11.  We had a delicious soup and salad lunch after our worship service, enjoyed great fellowship, had lots of fun, and all the grandparents left with a miniature rose bush.  All grandparents will receive a 5 x 7 photo and 2 lucky winners received gift cards to local restaurants.  Thank You Grandparents for sharing your love and wisdom.  What a GREAT Day!

Saturday, October 15 from 8 – afternoon when the crowd slows down.  Come early and get a homemade sausage biscuit or cinnamon roll or join us for a hot dog and homemade chili for lunch.  Rummage through all the “treasures” and take home some delicious baked goods…….cakes, pies, jellies, cookies and more.

All proceeds with go toward the Crafty Critters community outreach.  Bring your friends and enjoy the fun while helping support our community.

We invite the community to partner with us as we reach out and help Bethel Bible Village. Donations of nonperishable food items may be brought to the church on
Saturday, Oct. 15, from 8 – 2 p.m. 

We happily welcome Rick and Anne Gibbons  into the membership at Fairview UMC. We are excited that they have decided to join us in worship, fellowship, and the ministries at Fairview.

Rick and Anne live on the ridge, have 2 grown children, a son in the Navy and a daughter working on her masters degree.  They enjoy camping, writing poetry, and gardening.

Gleanings…

When I was a whole lot younger, my family and I lived in a house down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.  The house was mostly pine and cypress wood which meant that there were occasional knotholes.  One particular knothole was in the corner of the dining room about 2 to 3 foot off the floor.  This was my treasure chest.

Dad worked for the phone company and carried a large keyring with keys to the various switching and repeater offices in our area.  Over time, that keyring would stretch from taking off keys and putting on new ones.  When that happened, dad would bring that old keyring to me.

I loved little bits of nothing like that.  Keyrings, little pieces of change, chain pulls for lights, and assorted other things made me feel like I had a great treasure.  Because they were so precious, at least to me, I felt that I had to keep them in a safe place and, you guessed it, most of them went into that knothole in the wall.

The fact that I could not retrieve them did not matter to me.  The fact that no one else would think they were valuable did not occur to me.  That knothole was the entry point to the safest storage place that I could think of, so that is where I kept them.

We eventually moved from that house and I left all of those treasures behind.  That house was still standing the last time I went that way and I imagine that the items in that wall, my treasures, are still there, too.  I wonder what they will think if they ever tear that house down and find all of the stuff I dropped into that knothole.

Most of us have something like that knothole for storing treasures.  Sometimes it is out of sight and sometimes in plain view.  We put into it the little things that we are given and rarely take them out or use them.

This is often true for the less tangible things we receive.  Things like spiritual gifts, talents, and abilities can often find their way into treasure boxes.  We may take them out occasionally and allow them to remind us of other times, but mostly we just keep them put up so they don’t get broken or dirty.  Heaven forbid we should ever use them!

Dropping my treasures into a knothole meant that they could never serve again.  They could not produce joy.  They could not be used for a fun time of play.  In effect, they became useless and the gift of them was wasted.

What gifts and treasures, abilities and blessings have you hidden away?  Why do you keep them hidden?  Wouldn’t it be fun to bless someone with what you can do?

There are plenty of needs in this world where your treasures could heal someone, help someone, and give them hope.  And wouldn’t it feel good to know that all of the treasures you have been hiding away have brightened someone’s day just as it did yours?  Don’t drop them down a knothole; ask God to show you how to use them again.  We have plenty to do.

Blessings,
Braxton ><>

→  We were blessed to have William French and Philip Schofield from Hixson United  Methodist Church at our worship service recently to share their testimony from their mission trip to Haiti.  Their group of 7 went to the COP (Child of Purpose) House where they played soccer, basketball, hide and seek, colored and sang songs with the children.  They also ministered to the people living in the mountains where voodoo is practiced.  William said they loved on the children and had a hard time leaving them. 

→ During the month of July we collected items for the Hosanna Community located on Grubb Road in Hixson.   We had an awesome response from our congregation and delivered a truck full of paper towels, toilet paper, Ziploc bags, Kleenex, and more.  Thank You to our congregation for helping with the needs of our community.

Fifth Sunday Offering for the Holston United Methodist Home for Children

Holston Home for Children is located in Greenville, TN and provides a place for children to live, worship, go to school, work and play.  Help us Make a Difference in the Lives of Boys and Girls!

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”  Romans 8:28