Experience Worship Every Sunday!
Worship Services: 9:30 a.m. • 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • 11:00 a.m. (All Ages)

General Announcements

ALTAR FLOWERS
The flowers on the altar today are given by Laura Spurlin Clynch and family in memory of her sister, Sara Spurlin Arnold.

WELCOME CHILDREN AND YOUTH
This summer we especially welcome our children and youth to the Sanctuary worship services. Adults, please help make the services a special experience. A smile, a high five, or other friendly gesture will let them know they are welcome.

Parents, some suggestions for you are:

• Make a restroom stop before coming into the service.

• Sit where the children can see.

• Quietly explain what is happening. Point out the acolytes, musicians, minister, altar table, etc.

• Suggest that the children look for someone who looks sad or lonely and say a prayer for that person. Draw a picture for that person to give to them after the service.

• Help children realize that we sing, we pray, we listen, and we give during worship.

Our regular Sunday School classes will resume in August (date to be announced). Nursery care for children in Pre-K and younger will be available throughout the summer.

NAME TAGS - IMPORTANT!
Please wear your name tag every Sunday.

This will be especially helpful to our new pastors. You can order a name tag by using
the envelopes at the information table in the narthex. Your name tag will be placed on the information table for you to pick up. Orders generally take two weeks. There are a number of name tags that have not been collected.

RESTART - AUGUST 10
Mark your calendars for the start of the new school year at BUMC. Check next week’s Bulletin for all the details.

YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL
NORMAL SUNDAY FORMAT

INFUSION
MIDDLE SCHOOL WORSHIP
9:30 AND 11:00 A.M.
Meets in Youth Room

THE VAULT
HIGH SCHOOL WORSHIP
11:00 A.M.
Meets in High School Chapel

WEDNESDAY WORKPLAY SUMMER PROJECTS ARE BACK!
FINAL DATE: JULY 23
Each day is filled with a half-day mission project and lunch and swimming afterwards. Projects can be anything from yard work for a member of the community to sandwich preparation for a local shelter or a visit to a retirement home. Projects are open to middle and high school students. Meet at the Church at 9:30 a.m. and return at 3:00 p.m. Sign up by contacting Mark Jones at 678.942.1614 or birminghamyouth@gmail.com

CONFIRMATION T-SHIRTS
The new corrected t-shirts are now available. The cost is $6.

CYT DAY CAMP
(Christian Youth Theater)
July 21 – 25, Ages 6 – 11 Peter Pan
Register at www.cytatlanta.com

THANKS TO THE TWENTY-TWO ADULTS WHO HELPED WITH CHILDREN’S NURSERY LAST SUNDAY

REGISTER TODAY FOR JULY AND AUGUST PLAYTIME!
Who? Children 6 mos. - 4 years
When? Tuesday and Thursday
Time? 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Cost? $18/day payable a month in advance
Contact: nancy.spence@birminghamumc.org

SUNDAY SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS EXPERIENCE THE JOY!
Join the children’s Sunday school teaching team for fall and experience the joy and satisfaction of sharing God’s love with BUMC’s youngest family members. Lesson plans and training are provided. You will enjoy the fellowship of other dedicated teachers as well as getting to know many of the parents of the children. Contact Nancy Spence at nancy.spence@birminghamumc.org or 678-942-1613 as soon as possible to learn more about this opportunity.
act Nancy Spence for more information.

SUMMER SUNDAY SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS
Please volunteer to help with Sunday School the rest of this month while many of our regular teachers are on vacation. You will be blessed as you spend time with the delightful children at BUMC. Materials and lesson plans are provided. Please contact Nancy Spence is you would like to help.

OPEN DOORS, OPEN HEARTS
These sessions have been discontinued temporarily and will resume in August.

DAVE RAMSEY FPU PREVIEW
What could the PEOPLE OF GOD do for the KINGDOM OF GOD if they were DEBT FREE? Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University is a life-changing
program that teaches you how to make the right decisions with your money. Through this 13-week curriculum, you'll be empowered with the practical skills and confidence needed to achieve your financial goals and experience true financial peace! On average, families reduce their debt by $5,300 and save $2,700 in just 91 days. Make plans to join an FPU study, coming to BUMC this fall!
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BETH MOORE BIBLE STUDIES
Beth Moore Bible Studies are offered this August. Morning and evening sessions will be formed as needed. Watch for more information in the Bulletin or contact Sherry Schoendorf at sherryschoendorf@comcast.net; Cathy Shea
at shea101897@comcast.net; or Mary Kay Bechtel at cbech123@comcast.net.

ALPHA IS COMING!
Do you have questions about God? about faith? Do you wonder if Jesus is really relevant to your life? Join us for Alpha beginning August 17 . . . a 10-week journey through the basics of the Christian faith. More information is
available online at www.alphana.org or call Kelli or Paul Eldridge at 678.393.0200.

CALLING ALL YOUTH & ADULTS…
Disciple Bible Study is gearing up for the fall and we would like YOU to be a part of it!

“If you make my word your home, you will indeed be my disciples.” John 8:31 (NJB)

Is this your year to:
▪ Grow closer to God?
▪ Have a life-transforming experience?
▪ Develop a sense of the Jesus you carry with you?
▪ Read the Bible in its entirety?
▪ Make a commitment to daily Bible study?
▪ Change and be energized by Scripture?

This fall, BUMC will be offering several Disciple Bible Study Classes. Disciple Bible Study is a covenant-based 34-week study that meets for 2 ½ hours each week. Each session involves daily Scripture reading, a group video component and group discussions. Classes are held either at the Church or in members’ homes. This is a great way to get involved in a small group and get to know others in the church. Evening and morning classes are forming. Come . . . and be a part of this
life-transforming ministry. Cost $40 per person.
For questions or registration, please contact Rev. Julie Boone at 678.942.1604 or via email at julie.boone@birminghamumc.org.

BUMC MISSION CORNER

▪ SERV Mexico 07/25/08 - 08/02/08
This is a BUMC sponsored mission trip to Mexico to build bunk beds for an orphanage and teach Vacation Bible School at night. The cost of the trip will be around $600 (depending on transportation).
If you are interested in this mission, or if you have any local ministries you would like BUMC to support, please feel free to contact Tal Cox at 770.310.6345 or Chris Holcombe at 404.276.0399.

▪ UMCOR Emergency Kits Needed: Please help the UMW collect items needed for school supply kits and the UMM collect items for medicine boxes. Donated supplies may be dropped off at the Church office. School kits: Blunt (rounded tip) scissors; loose-leaf ruled paper; 30 centimeter rulers, hand-held pencil sharpeners, unsharpened pencils with erasers; two-inch erasers; construction paper in varied colors; box of 24 crayons (24 only). Medicine Kits: 4” x 4” sterile gauze pads; adhesive tape (1” x 10 yards/roll); triple antibiotic ointment; aspirin (325 mg. tablets); children’s chewable
multivitamins with iron; adult multivitamins with iron; children’s acetaminophen chewable 80 mg. tablets

WOMEN’S RENEWAL RETREAT
SAVE THE DATES: FEBRUARY 6-8, 2009
AMICALOLA FALLS
Ladies, you do not want to miss this exciting annual getaway!

SANCTUARY MEMORIAL GARDEN
Be sure to check out the presentation on the BUMC web site about the plans for the Memorial Garden. Point your browser to www.birminghamumc.org, then click on the “Memorial Garden at BUMC” link on the home page.

SCOTTSDALE FARMS SPECIAL MEMORIAL GARDEN OFFER
If you purchase a plant at Scottsdale Farms for our Memorial Garden and turn in the receipt to the Church office, the amount will be credited to your giving record, and they will make a donation to the Church in the same amount! They have a list of
the plants designated in the landscape design. The plants you purchase will remain at Scottsdale Farms until planting is scheduled. BUMC greatly appreciates the generosity of Scottsdale Farms.

VOLUNTEER RECEPTIONIST HELP
If you would like to volunteer to help in the office a few hours each week answering the phone and doing some clerical tasks, please call the office at 678.942.1600.

HOW DO I JOIN BUMC?
Complete and submit a membership form available on the BUMC web site or contact the church office for a hard copy. All new members must be baptized prior to joining the church. If you have not been baptized, please contact the church office to schedule a baptism. You may be baptized on the day you join. Contact Mary Mueller at 770.815.4980 to schedule the date and time you wish to join. New members may join any Sunday, at either service. A Membership Sunday is scheduled each month for new members who wish to join in a group setting.

CONNECTIONS CLASS
This class is specifically geared towards newcomers and new members. It is a series of three one-hour classes held in the Education Building during the 11:00 a.m. Sunday service. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet the staff and learn about the ministries of BUMC and about getting connected. Classes will resume in September. The dates and times will be announced in the Bulletin.

Sympathy
To Bo Jackson and family and John Maguire and family in the passing of Terry Maguire, Bo’s grandmother.

Inform BUMC
Please advise us of any changes in your home address, telephone number, or email address by contacting the office at 678.942.1600.

Flowers
The arrangements on the altar are designed by Flowers From Us.

WE GATHER AT THE LORD’S TABLE

PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Lord, help us to get back to the heart of worship. We are sorry, Lord, for the things we have made it, and we confess that too often preference and performance have been far more important to us than bringing You glory and honor. We have put our own priorities and convenience ahead of Your Son’s priority of reaching out to the least, the last and the lost. Forgive us we pray. Free us to worship You in spirit and truth and to serve you with conviction and faithfulness.

COMMUNION PRAYER
Dear Lord, open the eyes of my heart to see your hand at work in the world about us. Deliver us from the presumption of coming to the Communion Table for solace only, and not for strength; for pardon only, and not for renewal. Let the grace of these Holy moments make us one body, one spirit in Christ, that we may remember who we and whose we are and go forth to serve the world in His name.

PRAYER LIST— Prayer requests will stay on the prayer list for two weeks. If you wish for something to stay on the list longer, you will need to notify Judie Purvis at Jpurvis818@aol.com

You can now communicate your Prayer Requests Online. Remember in Prayer Susan Hogg, Teri Baldwin’s sister; Charlotte Segovia, Dana Duncan’s sister; Bill Lipley; Brack Greer; Doug Sharratt’s family and friends dealing with his passing; Isabella Grace (9 weeks) and her family; Lynn Castleberry; Sandy and Jeff Putnam; Glen Carroll; Sam and Kelly and children, Luke and Lily; Patrick J. Uchtman and Jay Fisher; John Barton; Board of Trustees for the Academy (formerly Alpharetta Methodist Christian Academy); Camp Meeting at Holbrook Compound; Florence Ball in Johnson City, Tennessee; Mrs. Hayden Wells. Long-Term Requests: Julian Hazlewood; Stan Vitikas; Ian, Rylan, Joe, and Cathy Shea; Cindy and Adam Hayes dealing with the death of their son, Justin Hayes; Don Woolford; Flora Eberhard; Edward Taffee; Andrew Barnette serving in Iraq; Deanna, Connor, Logan and Sydnie; Haley Hunter, her family, Eddie and Tammy (parents) and Hannah and Ewing (siblings): Pat Cole in Iraq; Carol Stuen; Donna Shaffer; Karen Ross; Wanda Grigg; Cheryl and Blaine Franz and sons, Logan (13) and Levi (11); Tom Donovan; Lt. Col. Robert A. Baird; Capt. Jonathan Judy serving in Afghanistan; Lisa Irish and family; Robert B. Sumner; Jim and Jo Chavis; Amy Osborn, Emory Colin Hughes; Scott, Kelly, Neill, and Masey Christian; Rick, Deirdre, Patrick, and Zach Baker; Linda Sloan; family of Matthew Cady; Joyce; Scott Anderson; Kimberly and Joe Bakos; Jason Purvis; Bradley Riethmaier; Deane Stewart; Beth O’Linn; Karsen Zapata; Phyllis Naas. Praise & Affirmation God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 (NIV) PRAYER LIST - Prayer requests will stay on the prayer list for two weeks. If you wish for something to stay on the list longer, you will need to notify Judie Purvis at Jpurvis818@aol.com or via the online form.