COME, BRING YOUR FAMILY TO OUR 2010 Ash Wednesday Service on February 17th at 5:30 p.m.in our Albright United Methodist Church's sanctuary at 128 South Palm Street. Rev. Scott Spencer, our new Pastor, will be leading our Ash Wednesday Service. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of our 40 day Lenten journey to Easter. Information=Chera Brewer 765-6432.
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This Weeks Events This Weeks Events Ì Sunday, February 7 · Sunday School……………….……………………...……..…9:15 a.m. · Worship and Communion Service.….…….……...……….10:30 a.m. · Youth Chili/Stew Cook-off - F.H.....................................11:30 p.m. · F.O.G..................................................................................5:30 p.m. Ì Monday, February 8 · Walking Group..................................................................12:15 p.m. · Women's Bible Study.........................................................6:45 p.m. Ì Tuesday, February 9 · Dorcas Group – Quilting……………….……………....…...10:00 a.m. · Walking Group..................................................................12:15 p.m. · Exercise Class……………….………………....……....…….1:30 p.m. · Mary Grace Circle..............................................................1:30 p.m. · Staff Parish Relations Meeting...........................................6:00 p.m. Ì Wednesday, February 10 · Walking Group..................................................................12:15 p.m. · Earnest Seekers Class Social..........................................12:00 p.m. · Televised Broadcast of Worship Service Channel 11….....6:00 p.m. · Children’s Choir…………………………………………....….5:30 p.m. · Sanctuary Choir……………………………...…………....….6:30 p.m. · Bell Choir………………………………………………....……7:30 p.m. Ì Thursday, February 11 · Walking Group..................................................................12:15 p.m. · Exercise Class……………………………………………...…1:30 p.m. · Visioning Committee..........................................................5:30 p.m. Ì Friday, February 12 · Walking Group..................................................................12:15 p.m. · Brown Bag Bible Study………………..………………...….12:00 p.m. · Fun Friday..........................................................................6:00 p.m. Ì Saturday, February 13 · TOPS Valentines Party – F.H..........................8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. . New Church Directories are available on the bulletin board outside the office. This Weeks Birthdays 2/9 Cierra Warner 2/12 Christine Eberhard, Mary Stanton 2/13 Eldridge Manering Announcements We will have our Ash Wednesday Service Wednesday, February 17th at 5:30 p.m. in our sanctuary with Rev. Scott Spencer presiding. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, our 40 day journey to Easter Haiti Relief – #418325 UMCOR Advanced Special Haiti Relief. 100% of every dollar donated will go directly to Haiti Relief. YOU'RE INVITED to wander the halls of Albright – Come walking with us Monday – Friday from 12:15 to 12:45. We will gather at the church office and begin walking the halls and stairs at 12:15. Everyone is welcome to exercise with us. If you have any questions call Chera at the office. Let's have fun as we pay our apportionments – Buy a letter for the Bible Scrabble puzzle located outside the office. Consonants cost $20.00 and vowels cost $25.00 Every letter purchased will reveal up to four tiles of that letter, so some letters may have to be purchased more than once. You can specify which letter you are purchasing or a random letter will be chosen for you. Who can solve the puzzle first? Children Helping Haiti Children – Don't forget to put your loose change in the “Children Helping Haiti children” bottle. News Notes Deadline – The deadline to put articles, letters, and thank you notes in the March Newsletter is Friday, February 19th. You can email them to the office at albrightumc@sbcglobal.net or call the office at 765-6432. Administrative Council Planning Session – Sunday, February 21st, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Committee Planning, 5:15 p.m. Administrative Council. Please put this important planning date on your calendar and plan to attend. Bring a finger food for all to enjoy as we work. (You know we work better with food.) please keep the church and this meeting in your daily prayers as we begin a new year, with a new minister, a renewed vision and our new strategic plan. May God direct your minds and our hearts to hear and follow his leading. February Food Drive Tom Short, Director of the New Emergency Resource Agency, reports, “Rice-A-Roni would be a wonderful help”. Challenge: Every man, woman, & child bring a box of Rice-A-Roni to church for the February Food Drive! Please leave your gift of food at one of the church entries and all non-perishable food items will be taken to the NERA.
1-19-2010 Has anyone seen a large box of decorations with Valentines across the top of the box? It is what is used to decorate the Earnest Seekers room and Fellowship Hall during February. If you have seen it, please let Betty Covey or Chera know. We are having a class social and would like to use them in a couple of weeks. Thank you. Donna Evans
The regular flu and swine flu clinics at the Kay County Health Department located at 433 Fairview are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The shots are free for adults and children. Donations are accepted. Information=762-1641
Now in the Albright United Methodist Church office are copies of a new book by Meri Whitaker, Albright's covenant missionary serving at the UMC Cookson Hills Center near Tahlequah. In her book, "My Sister, the Father", Meri share's her journey and experiences serving God to the fullest. Cost is $15.00 ***********************************************************************  Pictured is the 20th Habitat for Humanity home that the Ponca City group has finished. Our 21st home is now occupied at 5l7 North 7th Street and has a few things yet to complete in the yard. You are invited to help us build our 22nd home at 300 North 9th street on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings from 10AM-2PM. We have tools, materials and others with whom you can learn to build this house. For more information about helping to build this Habitate for Humanity home , contact Bob Wilson at 762-6857, lbwilson@cableone.net or William Brigden,(765-9611) one of our Albright United Methodist Church members who has worked on 11 Habitat Homes, or you can just show up at 300 North 9th between 10AM and 2PM on any Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Sunday in our sanctuary at 128 S.Palm Street in Ponca City, Oklahoma. CLICK HERE TO LOCATE US ON THE MAP ********************************** BECOME A FAN OF ALBRIGHT UMCHURCH ON FACE BOOK ********************************* PICTURES OF OUR ACTIVITIES *********************************  Beautiful St Valentines Day Decoractions,  Uruguay Mission Trip by Jane Bond,  Women Study Book of "Esther" Monday nights,  Fair Well to Pastor Joe and Judy Robinson,  Health Kits for Haitian Relief,  Children and adults enjoy Sunday night FOG,  Praise the Lord-Paid in full for 2009,  Wedding Reception, Dinner Between Choir Rehearsals Birthday Party for Jesus, UMW Children's Christmas Program, Christmas Bulletin Boards, UMW Supper and Memorials Webmaster Christmas Card, Gifts for Cookson Hills Mission Christmas Cookie Exchange, Seasonal Bulletin Boards. Looking A Lot Like Christmas, Thankful for little pennies. Church Thanksgiving Dinner, Veterans Sunday Service Litany, All Saints Day Service, UMW Salad Luncheon and Bake Sale, New Pager System for Nursery, Care Committee delivers treats, New Medical Aid Room , Brown Bag Bible Study , Dorcas Quilters/Lunch on Tuesdays , Items for Cookson Hills UMC Mission, Sierra Leone Missionary Visited , , Missionary,Meri Whitaker, spoke, Sunday School, If you have pictures of church activities for our Web Site, please turn them into the Office. ******************************** Click Below For: UPPER ROOM DAILY DEVOTIONAL, CHILDRENS MAGAZINE, YOUTH MAGAZINE UMC YOUNG ADULT WEB SITE MEMBERS' FAVORITE WEB SITES BIBLE SEARCH + HELPS UMWomen's World Website, UMC INTERPRETER MAGAZINE, UMC FAITH IN ACTION, UMC MISSION MAGAZINE, UMC INFORMATION DIRECTORY, PONCA CITY WEATHER, LOCAL-REGIONAL-NATIONAL WEATHER, PONCA CITY SCHOOL NEWS, DAILY OKLAHOMAN, PONCA CITY NEWSPAPER, PONCA CITY HELP LINE,, FISHING-HUNTING, GOLF, UM HYMNS,, UMC Connections, OKLAHOMA HOSPITALS,, Funeral Information(TROUT) I Click here for= THIS WEEK'S PRAYER LIST
NEED PRAYER? United Methodist Men invite you to phone their PRAYER LINE=800-251-2468. Someone is there 24 hours a day to pray with you to God through our loving savior, Jesus Christ. LOCAL PRAYER CHAIN = 762-1243 If you or someone you know has a physical, spiritual or emotinal need, please telephone 762-1243. Deloris Robinson will activate our Albright Church's prayer chain so that many persons will lift your need up to God in prayer. If someone is in the hospital, they may be put on our Albright Church's Care Committee's visitation list. Below are some prayer requests that have come to us in the past 7 days. ********************************************************************************************************** 2-1-2010 Please keep Alan Crockett's brother Ken Crockett in your prayers. He started chemo last week. He has developed pneumonia and is in the Cushing hospital. 2-1-2010 Carol Mann has asked us to please keep Lucy Ramey in our prayers. She has cancer and has been hospitalized for dehydration 2-1-2010 My neighbors, Bob and Dorothy Coleman, are not in the best condition. Mr. Bob has been in the hospital with pneumonia for over a week. He had been doing really well and looked as though he was going to kick this, and this morning he took a turn for the worst and is now back in ICU on a venilator. The family needs all the prayers that they can get at this time. Thank you, Annie Eberhard 1-29-2010 Jim Hastings is now home from hospital. 1-28-2010 Please keep Diane Pendleton in your prayers. She had surgery and starts chemo in two weeks. She is a member of PC lst UMChurch and has gone to camp with her kids and Albright kids . 1-27-2010 I am very thankful for safe trip to the OKC for medical care. I thank all of you for your prayers -God is so good . I will hope to see you all Sunday. Donna Evans 1-26-2010 Please keep Donna Evans in your prayers. She will be traveling to Oklahoma City tomorrow for a consultation with a cardiologist. 1-26-2010 Our daughter Kristin is experiencing additional eye problems. She now has lost her peripheral vision and some color vision in the eye that she had the retinal detachment in July. They now believe she may have optic neuritis. The schedule is so booked for the MRI that she can’t have one until Friday. She has also started experiencing some symptoms in her feet and legs very much like my peripheral neuropathy. Her family doctor is referring her to a neurologist. Optic neuritis is also a presenting sign for MS, so she is very anxious to find out exactly what is going on with her vision now in addition to her nervous system.I know many of you have been praying for Kristin for some time, so we would appreciate continued prayer.Love,Kay 1-26-2010 Please keep Lavon Ninemire in your prayers. She fell and has two broken ribs and some torn ligaments in her arm. 1-26-2010 Jim Hastings came through the surgery well and got a good report. 1-25-2010 Please keep Jim Hastings in your prayers. He is having surgery this morning 1-13-10 United Methodist response to Haiti Emergency UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) has organizing a response. See reports of continuing activities in the article in the top left of this page.Methodist Churches can plan to respond with monetary donations to UMCOR’s Haiti Emergency, UMCOR Advance #418325 or by visiting http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?id=3018760&code=418325.
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