Our church directory is now updated! A current version will be sent by email, and distributed at church.
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
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On behalf of the UMW, Vivian Snyder and Sherba Peek (with help from Paul and Bill) delivered ALL the food in the “little pantry” to the fair grounds yesterday…
It took us awhile to find out where to take it because the website did not mention food. We stopped at the police station and they said, “take it to the fairgrounds, I promise they will take it.”
UMW planted half of the flowers in the front of church on Thursday and Saturday. It looks very good so far. We are trying to find vinca to plant behind the begonias then lay the pine straw. Our plan is to have the beds ready for Easter Sunday! We are excited to return to in-person worship Sunday!
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
Due to the absence of our Office Administrator, Brenda Minter, information will be updated next week. See information under the Sympathy for further information.
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 31, 2021:
In Inter-generational Ministry, we completed our Lenten Study last Sunday. The class, which gathered via Zoom on Sunday mornings throughout Lent, engaged in several weeks of personal reflection and study with the practice of forgiveness. We focused onhow forgiving others and asking for forgiveness are central disciplines for all Christians. Last Sunday, we studied Luke 7:36-47 and talked about concepts of reconciliation and restoration. This Lenten journey with forgiveness has been a powerful experience of allowing God to work on our hearts as we prepare to receive the gift of Easter.
On Sunday, April 11th, the Inter-generational Sunday School Class will resume meeting in-person on Sunday mornings. 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.)
In Youth Ministry, the Youth Car Wash that was scheduled for Saturday, March 27th was postponed due to last week’s storm damage in our community. Please watch for a new date for the event sometime in April.
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)
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 |