St. Timothy's Service

What Local Church Ministry and Local Mission Looks Like

	Save your change and change a life. Save your coins for the Methodist Hospital Auxiliary for the benefit of the Children's Fund. Proceeds are used for infant car seats, bassinets, activity supplies and more. More details here.
	During March, our neighborhood Food Pantry helped 189 households – equaling 452 people! All of these households are living below poverty level. Plain and simple, they need our help! The following items are especially needed right now: Spaghetti Sauce, Peanut Butter, Pork and Beans, Canned Meat, Yellow Vegetables, Cookies, Crackers, Baby Food. The last three on the list are especially needed as we go into the summer months. Can you buy a couple of extras on each trip to the grocery store, so that someone else (maybe your neighbor!) won’t go to bed hungry? St. Timothy’s has a Food Barrel in the Fellowship Hall for donations.
	Assist Moore than Friends Sunday School class reach their goal to donate 100 Seafarer boxes this Christmas. For September, please consider a donation of nail clippers, chap sticks, combs, and small hand creams, plus shoe boxes. There is a box in the Fellowship Hall for donations. Thanks!
	Aluminum can tabs (yes, tabs only) are being collected for Ronald McDonald House by Christian Living Sunday School Class. Pull tabs help in the daily operation – purchasing food for the family food pantry, cleaning supplies, and providing van transportation for the families to and from the Texas Medical Center. Unlike the rest of the can, the tab is pure aluminum and therefore generates the most money from recycling. Through the continued support of individuals, corporations, and organizations, the Pull Tab Program brings in an average of $3,500 a year! Other cans besides sodas which often have aluminum tabs are cat food, cans, fruit, and fruit juice. If the tab is not bright silver, test it with a magnet. Steel tabs will stick to the magnet. Tabs may be dropped off at the church office or at the Christian Living Sunday School Classroom

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What is Ministry?

Some of us think that ministry has to do Administrative Board service, Council on Ministry service, Children’s Ministry and other well-known ministries. All these are ways to do ministry. And we are happy for all who commit in this way. Others think ministry has to do with the work the pastor does, preaching, teaching, pastoral care and other easily identifiable pastoral ministry functions.

Some of us think that mission has to do with going to Aruba or Africa or Russia or Puerto Rico or other places outside the continental United States.

Let’s look at other ways you might be in ministry and hands-on mission already and not giving yourself credit for the good work you do everyday.

If you give the children's message . . . you are in ministry.

If you put food in the food pantry barrel . . . you are in ministry.

If you help Nancy Collins stuff envelopes . . . you are in ministry.

If you help prepare the Trumpet . . . you are in ministry.

If you send a card to someone who is ill . . . you are in ministry.

If you serve on a commission . . . you are in ministry.

If you go to serve at the thanksgiving feast . . . you are doing hands-on mission.

If you go to serve at a Christmas feast for the homeless . . . you doing hands-on mission.

If you work on a Habitat for Humanity house . . . you are doing hands-on mission.

Think about and praise God for the places he has placed a passion in your to do ministry and hands-on-mission.

I love you, and God loves you more, Pastor BJ

Mission Accomplished Moments

	Mission Accomplished: Thanks to your generosity, over 67 pounds of medicines and medical supplies are headed for Cuba. PRAISE GOD! Learn more about this important mission trip.
	Mission Accomplished: Chili Cook-off raised $335 for 2007 UM ARMY. Thanks to all who cooked, cleaned, taste tested and made this event a success. View prize winners and pictures here
	Women Build, Habitat for Humanity sponsors First Women's Church Ministry Build Day on Saturday, April 14th. Download flyer. Download directions. Women can be part of the solution-one house, one family at a time. Women Build challenges and empowers women to build safe, healthy housing where children can flourish and grow to be all that they can be. Throughout the United States and around the world, women are positively impacting the future of children by making homeownership a present reality for families. Construction on the 2007 Women Build Project will continue through June 23, 2007.
	During February, 362 people were helped by the Food Pantry with which St. Timothy’s participates. Please remember to bring your nonperishable food items and place them in the Food Barrel in the Fellowship Hall.
	United Methodist Men Golf Tournament benefiting Summer Mission Programs took place Saturday, May 19th, at Wind Rose Golf Club. Format is a four-man scramble with prizes for Closest to the Pin, Longest Drive and more.