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Thursday, April 15      – 10:00 am UMW Meeting – FH
Sunday, April 18         – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School – WC
                                     – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                                     –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 19        – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting, Zoom
Wednesday, April 21  – 5:00 Prayer Team – FH
                                    – 6:30 Childcare Board Meeting – WC
Sunday, April 25.        – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School – WC
                                    – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                                    – 11:15 am Trustee Meeting – FH
                                    –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 26        – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting, Zoom 
Wednesday, April 28  – 5:00 Prayer Team – FH
                                    – 7:00 Church Council Meeting – FH
Saturday, May 1&8     – 8 am to 5 pm Boy Scouts projects:
                                        Fellowship Hall yard projects and Hagen Memorial fire pit

Childcare remodeling of the kitchen and laundry starts 4/21. There will be extra equipment and a dumpster on the property for debris. The childcare will also be using the Youth House for food prep during childcare business hours. The small chest freezer from the Fellowship Hall will probably be moved to the Youth House as well. 

Boy Scouts will be working at the Fellowship Hall on Saturday, May 1st and May 8th on the Fellowship Yard Restoration Project & Hagen Memorial Fire Pit.

Trustees will be meeting on Sunday, April 25th in the Fellowship Hall following worship, 11:15.

Backpack Buddies
We are collecting Chef Boyardee Variety Packs for Backpack Buddies. You can purchase a 12-pack at Sam’s or BJ’s for about $10.  Please bring them to church and place in narthex.  If you would rather donate money to purchase the packs, please write a check to Cokes Chapel and designate for Backpack Buddies — or give check/cash to Betsy Bagley.

Our April meeting will be Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10am in the Fellowship Hall.  

If you would like an opportunity to be the hands and feet of God, come join us on April 15 at 10 AM in the Fellowship Hall for some good fellowship and planning (the rebirth of Wednesday Evening Suppers).  We also will have lunch together in a local restaurant in the area after our meeting…nothing like being around the table for  thanksgiving, fellowship and fun!
 
 

Growing Our Faith…and    A Note from Pastor Lisa

Financial Snapshot for April, 2021
Monthly projected operating funds needed: $21,783
Actual operating funds collected as of April 7th: $12,338.40

A Note on Giving from Pastor Lisa
 

Dear Cokes family, 
Each of us has endured this long and hard journey through the pandemic in various ways.  It has affected us on every level; emotionally, physically and spiritually.  As you saw from the March offerings the giving dropped significantly from our average.  You may be financially struggling.  Your church is not yet in dire straits, however it is important that we call attention to the needs of your church home.  Throughout the pandemic Cokes was in ministry, and as we resume, we are ramping up in every way to regain footing in many areas.
Your participation in worship, mission, ministry and giving is vital to the good health and return to “normalcy” in every way.  I know you each wish that for your life and for your faith community.  Please review your giving.  If you have not been giving because you are not attending, remember that the work and ministry keeps on, and needs your support.  If you find that you need to “Catch Up”, consider that now would be a good time to do so.  Most of all, whatever you give or do, I pray that you will do it with a joyful heart!  We are blessed to be stewards for the God of resurrection and new life!  We are Easter people!  
Love Pastor Lisa
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.” Matthew 10: 8

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Thank you for your ongoing support of the minsitries of Cokes Chapel!  We are honored you would bless the Lord’s work with your generosity!   

Nancy Vermilyea, Finance Chair

 
Visit our website: cokeschapel.org to give regularly or make a one time gift.
                        

MINISTRY MESSAGE:  INTER-GENERATIONAL & YOUTH MINISTRY, April 14, 2021:  
 
In Inter-generational Ministry, the Inter-generational Sunday School Class has begun meeting in-person once again!  On Sunday mornings, we are gathering before worship in the Worship Center from 8:40-9:40 AM.  Everyone is welcome! (The church’s COVID guidelines for in-person gatherings will be followed.  Please remember to wear a mask and practice social distancing.) 
This month we are exploring what it means to live into God’s call to be holy.  This coming Sunday, April 18^th, we will study 1 Peter 2:1-10 and discuss how to pursue holiness as God’s people, uniquely united with God.
 
In Youth Ministry, during April, we will be working on the new Butterfly Garden next to the Cokes Chapel Labyrinth.  Also, we will announce plans for our rescheduled Car Wash Fundraiser.  More information to come this month!
 
God is at work all around us!  May we hold each other by heart and lift each other by prayer as we seek to follow in the way of Christ!  
 
With love, 
Kim 
(Kim Reindl, Director of Inter-generational, Youth & Children’s Discipleship; kim.reindl@gmail.com)

The Prayer Team has returned to in-person gatherings.  We meet at 5:00 pm on Wednesday nights in the Fellowship Hall.  If the Fellowship Hall is in use we will meet in the Eubanks Classroom.  Please join us!  Questions?  Contact Debbie Carter at debbiecarter30263@charter.net

PRAYER TEAM

Cokes Chapel Prayer Team is praying for you. Your requests, concerns, and praises are important to us. Please let us know if you need anything or have a special prayer request. I am available and happy to pray with you by telephone or just be a listening ear. Please join us in daily praying for God to heal our world. Claim it in the powerful name of Jesus Christ and give thanks to God for all things. Contact Debbie at DebbieCarter30263@charter.net or 678-233-4980. 
 

IN OUR HEARTS & PRAYERS
Please help us keep our prayer list updated by contacting Pastor Lisa or Debbie Carter to add or remove names. Current usually remains on the prayer list for 2 weeks unless you advise us. Ongoing Prayer list is for long term prayer needs.

CURRENT

ONGOING PRAYERS
Mick Moore
Mick Moore
Jane, sister of Tica Spake
Maggie Rivers, Floyd Collins extended family
Margie Jones Family – daughters Betsy & Nancy, grandson Eric & son-in-law
Kaye Beam
Elaine Lassiter
Jeff Kemmerer (Sherrie Kemmerer’s husband and Sandra Oliver’s son-in-law)
Stan Smith, Marcia Smith’s husband
Jerry Freeman
Pastor Wayne Ellis, Robin & Family 

CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY to

Howard and Margie Jones on the death of Howard’s brother, Walker Jones in Orange Park, FL.

the Family of Mrs. Virginia Hobby. Virginia was the neighbor and family friends of the Earle family.

May the Rest In Peace and Rise in Glory!

Let us join in prayer together:  
Lord of all people, of all circumstances, we come humbly to pray for this world, for the people who are struggling to live, eat and prosper.  We know that You desire good for each one of us.  Allow us to humbly take on Your mantle of love.  Help us to love, serve and bring light to the world in Your name, through Your power for your glory.  We love you Lord! Amen.

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Sunday, April 11        – 8:40 am  IN-PERSON Intergenerational Sunday School         
                                    – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
Wednesday, April 14  – 5:00 Prayer Team
Thursday, April 15      – 10:00 am UMW Meeting Fellowship Hall
Sunday, April 18         – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School  
                                    – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                                    –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 19        – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 21  – 5:00 Prayer Team
                                    – 6:30 Childcare Board Meeting
Sunday, April 25.        – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School  
                                    – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                                    –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 26        – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 28  – 5:00 Prayer Team
                                    – 7:00 Church Council Meeting
 

Our church directory is now updated!  Copies have been sent by email, and distributed at church on Easter Sunday.  Additional copies will be available at church or please let Brenda know if you need a copy.  

Many people in our community are struggling with the effects of the recent tornado.  If you would still like to donate to help, please make out your check to Cokes Chapel UMC and designate it for 
Fund 3752 Newnan Area Tornado 2021.

The Outreach Team is hoping to have our Southern Picnic/Silent Auction in August.  If you have any new or like-new items you would like to donate for the auction, please let us know by contacting Betsy Bagley. (ebbagley@gmail.com) 
 

We want you to be aware of the provisions that your North Georgia Conference has made to ask all North Georgia UMC Churches to support the Newnan community as the community recovers from the tornado.   The North GA Conference has set up a fund – #3752, Newnan Area Tornado 2021, which will allow the Conference to receive UMCOR emergency grant funds, as well as funding from churches that may want to give specifically to these efforts. You may give by sending a donation as instructed below, or drop off a check at the Cokes Chapel office made out to Cokes Chapel UMC, MARKED: Fund 3752 Newnan Area Tornado 2021 and we will forward it to the North Georgia Conference. Praying with you, Pastor Lisa and your Outreach team

Our April meeting will be Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10am in the Fellowship Hall.  

If you would like an opportunity to be the hands and feet of God, come join us on April 15 at 10 AM in the Fellowship Hall for some good fellowship and planning (the rebirth of Wednesday Evening Suppers).  We also will have lunch together in a local restaurant in the area after our meeting…nothing like being around the table for  thanksgiving, fellowship and fun!
 
In addition to our monthly giving to various organizations, UMW voted to contribute $100 to UMCOR (the Methodist relief response to the tornadoes in the Newnan area).
 
We have completed the annual planting of flowers in the front of the church.  We had about 6-8 individuals helping including Mike Cunningham, Paul Snyder and Earl Bagley (Earl re-made the beautiful bird feeder in the front of the church).  A big thank you to all of you.
 

Growing Our Faith…

Financial Snapshot for March, 2021
Monthly projected operating funds needed: $21,783
Actual operating funds collected as of March 31st: $13,422.28

Financial Snapshot for April, 2021
Monthly projected operating funds needed: $21,783
Actual operating funds collected as of April 7th: $7,563.40

Matthew 6:25-34  NIV
Do Not Worry
²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?
²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Thank you for supporting Cokes Chapel!  We are honored you would bless us with your generosity!   

Nancy Vermilyea, Finance Chair

 
Visit our website: cokeschapel.org to give regularly or make a one time gift.
                        

MINISTRY MESSAGE:  INTER-GENERATIONAL & YOUTH MINISTRY, April 7, 2021:  
 
In Inter-generational Ministry, the Inter-generational Sunday School Class will resume meeting in-person this Sunday morning, April 11th.  We will gather before worship in the After-School Room of the Childcare Center from 8:40-9:40 AM.  Everyone is welcome! (The church’s COVID guidelines for in-person gatherings will be followed.  Please remember to wear a mask and practice social distancing.)  This month we will begin a unit exploring what it means to live into God’s call to be holy.  This Sunday, we will study Leviticus 19:2 and discuss how holiness is not about moral perfection, but rather about being uniquely united with God.
 
Our youth are on Spring Break this week!  Upon their return, during April, we will be working on the new Butterfly Garden next to the Cokes Chapel Labyrinth.  Also, we will announce plans for our rescheduled Car Wash Fundraiser.  More information to come this month!
 
God is at work all around us!  May we hold each other by heart and lift each other by prayer as we seek to follow in the way of Christ!  
 
With love, 
Kim 
(Kim Reindl, Director of Inter-generational, Youth & Children’s Discipleship; kim.reindl@gmail.com)
 

The Prayer Team has returned to in-person gatherings.  We meet at 5:00 pm on Wednesday nights in the Fellowship Hall.  If the Fellowship Hall is in use we will meet in the Eubanks Classroom.  Please join us!  Questions?  Contact Debbie Carter at debbiecarter30263@charter.net

PRAYER TEAM

Cokes Chapel Prayer Team is praying for you. Your requests, concerns, and praises are important to us. Please let us know if you need anything or have a special prayer request. I am available and happy to pray with you by telephone or just be a listening ear. Please join us in daily praying for God to heal our world. Claim it in the powerful name of Jesus Christ and give thanks to God for all things. Contact Debbie at DebbieCarter30263@charter.net or 678-233-4980. 
 

IN OUR HEARTS & PRAYERS
Please help us keep our prayer list updated by contacting Pastor Lisa or Debbie Carter to add or remove names. Current usually remains on the prayer list for 2 weeks unless you advise us. Ongoing Prayer list is for long term prayer needs.

CURRENT
Mick Moore
Walter Jones, brother of Howard Jones
Roger Harkins

ONGOING PRAYERS
Jane, sister of Tica Spake
Stephanie (friend of Floyd Collins)
Maggie Rivers, Floyd Collins extended family
Margie Jones Family – daughters Betsy & Nancy, grandson Eric & son-in-law
Kaye Beam
Elaine Lassiter
Richard Harkins (brother of Roger Harkins)
Jeff Kemmerer (Sherrie Kemmerer’s husband and Sandra Oliver’s son-in-law)
Stan Smith, Marcia Smith’s husband
Jerry Freeman
Pastor Wayne Ellis, Robin & Family 

Let us join in prayer together:  
Lord, as we follow your journey to the cross this Holy Week, we become mindful of your commitment to save us through your suffering, death, and obedience to bring humanity into a new life.  We come in humility, remembering your silence.  We remember your tears in the garden.  We approach Easter with fresh eyes as we slow down to honor each moment.  In moments of terrible suffering, we accept that you are with us in our sufferings.  Christ has bonded to all humanity with Divine love.  As Easter bursts upon the world, may we find deeper joy, more love that offers grace and spirits that that sing to Your Glory! Amen.

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                                         Virtual Worship
 ** See special notice about In-Person worship below
 

Worship Service provided through G-Chat (register on website to receive this communication or visit our website cokeschapel.org

 THIS SATURDAY . . . 
  

     Saturday, March 27th 9:00 AM-1:00 PM

              Cokes Chapel Parking Lot

                  Only $5 per vehicle!!!

Everyone is invited to come get your car

sparkling clean while supporting our youth.

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Saturday, March 27 – 9 am to 1 pm Youth Fundraiser Carwash
Sunday, March 28   – Virtual Worship – Palm Sunday
                                  – 9:30 am Inter-generational Sunday School via Zoom
Wednesday, March 31 – 5:00 pm Prayer Team
Friday, April 2 – 7:00 pm Good Friday Service via Zoom
Sunday, April 4 – 7:15 am Sunrise Easter Service – IN PERSON 
                           – 10:00 am Easter Sunday Worship IN PERSON in Sanctuary
Monday, April 5 – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 7 – 5:00 Prayer Team
Sunday, April 11 – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School  – IN PERSON 
                           – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
Wednesday, April 14 – 5:00 Prayer Team
Thursday, April 15 – 10:00 am UMW Meeting
Sunday, April 18 – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School  
                           – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                           –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 19 – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 21 – 5:00 Prayer Team
                                    – 6:30 Childcare Board Meeting
Sunday, April 25 – 8:40 am Intergenerational Sunday School  
                           – 10:00 am Worship in Sanctuary
                           –  TBD Butterfly Garden Construction
Monday, April 26 – 11:00 am – Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 28 – 5:00 Prayer Team
                                    – 6:30 Childcare Board Meeting
                                    – 7:00 Church Council Meeting

Updates are currently being made to the church directory.  We will be emailing the final version out and will have copies to distribute at church on Easter Sunday.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to help buy gifts for Newnan Rehab and Nursing Center’s Easter party.  The activities director expressed her appreciation when we delivered over 100 little gifts to the Center. 

Our April meeting will be Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10am in the Fellowship Hall.  

Growing Our Faith…

Financial Snapshot for March, 2021
Monthly projected operating funds needed: $21,783
Actual operating funds collected as of March 24th: $11,837.28
Donations to the Ryan T. Giles Memorial were gifted to the Cokes Chapel General Fund.  Donations received in March were $500 as of March 24, 2021

Matthew 6:25-34  NIV

Do Not Worry
²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?
²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Thank you for supporting Cokes Chapel!  We are honored you would bless us with your generosity!   

Nancy Vermilyea, Finance Chair

 
Visit our website: cokeschapel.org to give regularly or make a one time gift.
                        

MINISTRY MESSAGE:  INTER-GENERATIONAL & YOUTH MINISTRY, March 24, 2021:  
 
In Inter-generational Ministry, we are continuing our church-wide Lenten Study. The class is gathering via Zoom on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:30 am throughout the Lenten season.  Each week, we are exploring how forgiving others and asking for forgiveness are central disciplines for all Christians.  Last Sunday we studied Matthew 18:23-35, while focusing on the concept of offering forgiveness. We discussed what blocks us emotionally from offering forgiveness and how God will help us live into God’s expectation that we are to forgive others as we have been forgiven.  This week we will be discussing the concepts of reconciliation and restoration while studying Luke 7:36-47.
 
Coming up in Youth Ministry, this Saturday, March 27^th is our Youth Fundraiser Car Wash!  Everyone is invited to drop by the church Worship Center parking lot between 9:00 am-1:00 pm on Saturday.  Last Sunday, the youth gathered to make posters and solidify our plan for the event.  

The Car Wash is part of the Cokes Chapel “Lenten Service Journey.”  For only $5, you can get your car sparkling clean just in time for spring!  Donations are also appreciated!  Please drop by and help out our youth!
 
God is at work all around us!  May we hold each other by heart and lift each other by prayer as we journey together, and apart!  
 
With love, 
Kim 
(Kim Reindl, Director of Inter-generational, Youth & Children’s Discipleship; kim.reindl@gmail.com)
 
 

Trustees have been busy while we have all been away since March 2020 to March 2021:
The Sanctuary roof and decking over the choir room and nursery were replaced due to a leak and the ceiling tiles were replaced. In anticipation for Easter, the carpet and pew cushions were cleaned last week by Rainbow Restoration, the pews have been polished and the burnt lightbulbs have been replaced.
      
  

The Parsonage had repairs and caulking work done to secure its doors, screens and blinds, repair appliances, and pump the septic.
  

Throughout the property, hazardous trees and limbs were cut down and removed anywhere that the roof lines were threatened, or exits were blocked, at the Parsonage and Fellowship Hall. Two downed trees were removed, one in the unknown’s cemetery and one behind the Fellowship Hall where the shed was damaged, which has also been repaired and the FH septic was pumped. Trustees have donated a new vacuum at the FH and cleaning supplies for the buildings.
The trustees held their annual Incorporation meeting in January, modified the church’s two loans by paying off the Sunday School house loan and renewing the Childcare Building loan with a Fixed 3.75% rate, fully amortized, so the church debt will be paid off, in full, in 9 years.
Coming soon, Trustees renewed their commitment to support the childcare, the largest childcare in Coweta County, by approving expansion of the laundry room and commercial upgrades to the kitchen.
A memorial butterfly garden organized by the youth will soon be added, UMW will be planting flowers at the Sanctuary, volunteers will soon be power washing the building, and spreading more mulch soon.
Trustees closed 2020 under budget for the year and so far for 2021 have maintained zero spending, except for the buildings’ utilities and lawncare. God is Good.  Cokes Chapel is ready for you all to come on in. God be Praised.

The Prayer Team has returned to meeting in person.  We will be meeting at 5:00 pm on Wednesday nights in the Fellowship Hall.  If the Fellowship Hall is in use we will meet in the Eubanks Classroom.  Please join us!
 

PRAYER TEAM

Cokes Chapel Prayer Team is praying for you. Your requests, concerns, and praises are important to us. Please let us know if you need anything or have a special prayer request. I am available and happy to pray with you by telephone or just be a listening ear. Please join us in daily praying for God to heal our world. Claim it in the powerful name of Jesus Christ and give thanks to God for all things. Contact Debbie at DebbieCarter30263@charter.net or 678-233-4980.  
 

IN OUR HEARTS & PRAYERS
*please help us keep our prayer list updated by contacting Pastor Lisa or Debbie Carter to add or remove names.  Current usually remains on the prayer list for 2 weeks unless you advise us. Ongoing Prayer list is for long term prayer needs.

CURRENT
Maggie Rivers, Floyd Collins cousins granddaughter
Dena Butler, Jackie Simpson, work associate’s wife

ONGOING PRAYERS
Jane, sister of Tica Spake
Stephanie (friend of Floyd Collins)
Margie Jones Family – daughters Betsy & Nancy, grandson Eric & son-in-law
The Prince Family (friends of the Cox Family)
Hugh & Jeanine Giles
Kaye Beam
Paul Snyder
Elaine Lassiter
JoAnn (Sandy Cavender’s sister)
Richard Harkins (brother of Roger Harkins)
Nancy Lenard
Jeff Kemmerer (Sherrie Kemmerer’s husband and Sandra Oliver’s son-in-law)
Stan Smith, Marcia Smith’s husband
Jerry Freeman
Roger Harkins
Mick Moore
Pastor Wayne Ellis, Robin & Family 

Let us join in prayer together:  
Lord, in these recent warm, golden days, we are reminded that change comes. Change in seasons, change in life.  We are thankful for Your unchanging presence.  During this season of preparation for celebrating Your resurrection, we seek change with boldness. We pray that each day we will seek after You and your wisdom.  May we come humbly before you, remembering Your great sacrifice made in love, turning towards you in heart and mind, allowing the Holy Spirit to shape us anew.
As we entrust ourselves to You, we also pray Your Holy presence be with all those in need of comfort, healing, reconciliation for Your glory and the building of the Kingdom of God.
 Lord, we love and worship You alone.  Amen

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