When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:33-34

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Seven Churches of Revelation

The CUC lesson this week will be given by one of our favorite teachers, Bob Fletcher, with the topic of the Seven Churches of Revelation.

CUC Refreshments
We are thankful for our CUC refreshments each week. This week they will be provided by Gayle & George Crolius and Linda & Tom Cantrell.

CUC Class Attendance
Sunday, April 23
78 members, 1 visitor =Total of 79.

Homestretch Run the River Road Race

Thanks to all the CUC members who helped make the 16th annual Homestretch Run the River Road Race a success. And congratulations to Mike Storey who placed 2nd in the 10K in his age group!

Believe Ministries Benefit Celebration

Get free tickets from Garlinn Storey to be seated at CUC tables this coming Thursday, May 4th as CUC plans to support Believe Ministries with our CUC attendance at this event.

This will be An Evening of Music, Magic, Message and Merriment! The 10th Anniversary Believe Ministries Benefit Celebration, 7 PM in the RUMC Fellowship Hall.

The evening will include Christian Illusionist – Greg Davidson, Music, and Singing – with Jane Riley and Greg, A Silent Auction with Big Winners, Coffee and Delicious Desserts.

There will be tables for 8. Tickets are free. Your donation will celebrate 10 amazing years of family and friends supporting the ongoing Christian outreach of Believe Ministries. “Only with your help can we continue to share the promise of Jesus Christ at home and around the world.”

Jane and Greg

CUC Fall Retreat

As many of us are looking forward to the CUC fall retreat November 1,2, and 3 (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) at Winshape on the campus of Berry College, Jim Ehlers is asking that anyone who has not yet signed up and wants to go to let him know by the end of this month. He also needs to know if singles want to share a room. We have 78 people signed up so far. (We do some flexibility on numbers until July.)

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs

The Sounds of the Spirit Concert Series continues with “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs” this Sunday, April 30 at 4 PM in the chapel, featuring the Kaleidoscope ensemble of the Michael O’Neal Singers performing some of the best-known hymns and songs of our faith. Tickets are not necessary.

Upscale Garage Sale

Garage Sale Extravaganza –Aug. 3-5. Continue gathering your treasures!
August will be here before you know it! Start putting aside your good stuff to sell. Mark your calendar so you won’t miss the fun of working with other CUC and RUMC members helping to put on this big fundraiser for Job Networking.

Small Things Support Our Various Mission Outreaches!

Dental supplies for Peru – Haley Schroeder is doing a Senior Capstone Career Project through her school, Woodstock High, based on non-profit organizations. With this project, she has to present work that replicates that of a non-profit worker.

Through this project she has decided to focus her non-profit work around a medical mission trip to Peru she will be attending this summer with Roswell United Methodist Church. With this trip, the Medical Missions team wants to collect dental supplies such as floss, small tubes of toothpaste, and tooth-brushes. In total, the team’s goal is 1200(+) of each item, and all donated supplies will be distributed to the communities in Peru in which they will be serving so they have lots of collecting to do! Their deadline for collecting will be May 15th, as they will need some time to pack and prepare the supplies for the trip. All supplies will be kept at the RUMC campus in the Dod. She will have a box sitting right inside the entrance labeled: Peru Dental Supplies.

In total, the team’s goal is 1200(+) of each item, and all donated supplies will be distributed to the communities in Peru in which they will be serving so they have lots of collecting to do! Their deadline for collecting will be May 15th, as they will need some time to pack and prepare the supplies for the trip. All supplies will be kept at the RUMC campus in the Dod. She will have a box sitting right inside the entrance labeled: Peru Dental Supplies.
Foster Care Support Foundation is having an Open House and Tent Sale May 5, 6, and 7

On those days you can tour Foster Care Support Foundation and learn how you can help those 50,000 foster and displaced children served by Foster Care. Foster Care is looking for clean, high-quality items to sell and there will be furniture pickup through May 4th. More information will be available on flyers in class on Sunday.

Please continue to save the pull tops from soda cans to support the Ronald McDonald House and bring them in to Nancy Wright.

For Red Bird Missions watch for those boxtops and labels for Betty Hunt

Prayer Requests

• Lynn Adcock – pray for her as she begins a course of daily radiation and chemo treatment for lung cancer
• Tom Cantrell – suffering from Spinal Stenosis plus Shingles
• Jackie Hubbard –For a good recovery following her third knee replacement surgery this past Monday. As of this morning (Friday) she was still at North Fulton Hospital.
• Frank Magaro – Brookdale-Neese Road Assisted Living facility in Woodstock-
  on the loss of his wife Betty
• Sharon Schnakenberg recovering from bone spurs removed from her left shoulder.

Ongoing CUC Prayer Requests

Pat Peterson as she continues to deal with health problems

Please pray for needs expressed and unexpressed for friends and relatives of CUC class members who are facing illnesses, loss of loved ones, and important decisions to be made.

Thanksgivings

• Safe return of our RUMC group from Honduras mission trip
• Linda Temples’ suspicious lung lesion has disappeared
• Marlene MacLeod returned from Florida and thankful for CUC prayer support following fractured clavicle

  Birthdays

• George Crolius – April 30

  Anniversaries

• Mary Lee & Dick Copeland  – May 3, 1969  – 48 years

  Calendar Reminders

• April 30 – Sounds of the Spirit ConcertMay 4 – Believe Ministries Benefit Celebration.
• May 4 – Believe Ministries Benefit Celebration.
• July 27-30 – “Meet Me In St. Louis”
• Aug. 3-5 – The Upscale Garage Sale
• November 1, 2, and 3 – CUC Annual Retreat – Winshape Center, Berry College