The Border Ministry Team wishes to thank the Grace Notes for their February 27 concert benefiting our UC United Methodist Church Border Ministry! We appreciate each member’s generous gift of their time and talents! We all enjoyed an evening of fun, food, and great music! To see the whole list of songs click on the playlist in the player.  If you want to go the Grace Notes album that contains each song go here

The UMM Potato Supper will be held March 14 in Fellowship Hall, 5-6:30 p.m. Come celebrate St Patrick's Day with the Men and also to give thanks for the food that we all enjoy on a regular basis. Tickets are available from several Men and also at the door. Cost is $6 per ticket and all proceeds will be donated to The Society of St Andrew, Potato Project to fed the needy. Please come Fellowship with the UMM or consider a donation to feed the needy. We often say we give thanks for the many blessings that have been bestowed on us and this is one small way to show that gratitude.

Prayer Focus:  “For God to pick, through the Bishop, the next Senior Pastor.” 

Hospitals no longer notify the church if you are hospitalized. Please be sure you or your family notifies UCUMC 659-5555.
If you have a Prayer Request. Email your requests here.

UCUM Preschool is sponsoring Transportation Days on March 11 and 12 in the church parking lot.  The hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is the day that we fill the parking lot with as many different forms of transportation as we can! We usually have a garbage truck, a street sweeper, a tractor mower, police car, fire engine, RV, school bus, etc. We would like to have a spiffy sports car, a boat, a motorcycle, an 18 wheeler, and any other vehicles that you can bring! If you have an interesting mode of transportation and would bring it to our parking lot on March 11 and March 12, we would be very grateful. (Call/Email Cheryl  at 658-5761, option 1)

Congratulations to our District Laity Award Nominees:

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in."

Matthew 25:35

During the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, we have a big push to provide food for those serviced by RACAP. But now that the holidays have passed and the food has been eaten, many find themselves with the very heavy burden of providing food for their families. To assist these families, the UMW has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the UMM to a good old fashioned food fight.
In our Fellowship Hall there are designated areas for each group to accumulate their non-perishable food items. Please help us help those in need by participating. The team bringing in the most food, in pounds, by Easter Sunday will be Declared the Winner!

*******CALLING ALL MINISTRY TEAMS*******
You are invited to join us on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 for our first ever
“Ministry Team Training Conference”
Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. with the evening’s program to begin at 6:30 p.m. Childcare will be available and ALL ministry team members are encouraged to attend. Watch your email and snail-mail boxes for more info!!

IT IS TIME, AGAIN, FOR LENTEN LUNCHES!
Join us for “The Easter Experience”
Wednesdays at 12 noon
This is a video based program which includes a group discussion.
Menu will be Soup and Sandwiches
Suggested Donation-- $3 per person and a food item for RACAP

I love Easter eggs!!! I remember when my daughter was young, I could hardly wait for the time to go and buy the dye from the store, then cook the eggs. Then came the hard part… waiting for them to cool in order to begin to color them. We would sit at the table together and dip the eggs in the different colors – dark blues, and greens; light yellow and red. Then we would dip them again to add more color on the ends. Sometimes we would try and create eggs that were half and half. We would normally end up not only coloring the eggs, but also the table, carpet, maybe the dog… and of course our fingers.
Easter is a time of colored eggs and Easter egg hunts. But behind the eggs and flowers and colors and clothes is something even more wonderful… the gift of life that we have been given by Jesus Christ and the empty tomb. I find it very interesting… this is a gift – it is given to us… we can not earn it, BUT it is more than that – it is a MUST.
The image of a gift is something that might be really nice, but something that we can turn down or maybe have not thought about going to purchase for ourselves. That doesn’t sound much like Christ!!! The old song says, “There’s a God-shaped hole in all of us…” and I believe this to be completely true. That’s a much better picture… if there is a hole in us then we are not complete… the hole prevents us from being whole. (Did you catch that bit of Phillip humor?)