SEE WHAT GOD IS DOING AND JOIN THE JOY

1. LOCAL MISSION NEWS,
2. DISTRICT-STATE MISSION NEWS,
3. WORLD UNITED METHODIST MISSION NEWS,
4. NEWS ABOUT THE WORLD WHERE WE ARE IN MISSION
5. OKLAHOMA UMCHURCH MISSIONARIES LOCATIONS OF SERVICE,

LOCAL MISSION ACTIVITIES

We serve  anyone in need of a meal, at Friendship Feast, on the  4th Tuesday  of each month at the 1st Christian  Church  at 5:30PM  at 202 North 5th Street in Ponca City.(To help serve contact Jane Rager= 762-1050). Other Ponca City Churches  provide meals  Monday through Thursday.

Food and Emergendy Aid :  We support and send people to the  New Emergency Resource Agency at 500 North lst Street inPonca City. There phone number is 580-765-5372. They are open Monday through Friday, 9-12, and 1-4PM. They provide to people with proof of Ponca City residence and Social Security Card; food(once every 3 months), financial assistance=utilities and rent, clothing(give voucher to "Twice as Good" 209 S. 2nd, medication (anneseptic or antibiotic) and bus tickets.  Asbury UMChurch at 700 Liberty has a free breakfast on Sunday 8:30-9:30AM, and 8-12 Monday-Friday has clothing and loan of crutches, walkers, wheel chairs, potty chairs etc. The Mission, 909 E. South Street Serves free meals Mon.-Sat. 10-11:30 and 2-3:30PM. For more information on other resources for people in our community, call HELP LINE at 765-5551.

Yearly Cookout and Fun Day for Church Neighborhood  is held on the last Saturday in September, to help folks in our neighborhood  have a time of fellowship, food, music , games, prizes, pamphlets  and informative speakers. If you would like to help with this, contact  project chairpersons William Brigden 765-9611. .

 Local Home Repair( in need or to help, contact Mission Chairperson, William Brigden 765-9611),

Habitat for Humanity  telephone for Poncacity is located in our Church office.  Phone our  765-2974 to join members of our church volunteer Thursday, Friday, and  Saturday mornings to build and improve houses.

PARISH NURSE, Thelma Stewart, holds a monthly blood pressure clinic on the 3rd Sundays at 11:30AM in room 105 in our church building at 128 South Palm.  She shares health information in person and in our newsetter and web site.  Come and have her help you and others to be healthy.

Care Committee visits persons who cannot attend Church. ( If you know someone in need of a visit in their home, nursing home, hospital, etc or you would like to help make visits, phone Ann Ryan 762-4466).

Prayer Chain, list, requests:  Phone Delores Robins  at 762-1234 to put someone on the prayer chain or to receive emails of prayer requests which are also listed for the past   7 dayson the home page of our web, and list that is given out in the bulletin on Sundays, and a  copy is on our web site  home page at

http://www.forministry.com/USOKUMETCAUMCA/News.dsp#PRAYERLIST

Neighborhood Cleanup: We  encourage people to take a litter sack with them when they go for walks.  Senior Citizens can turn in the hours per month  they walk to the Kay County  Retired Senior Volunteer Program which helps with their funding and qualifies  the walker to attend their yearly banquet/

Neighborhood Prayer Mission:  Albright UMChurch accepted the responsibility from the Ponca City Ministerial Alliance to pray for those who live in our neighborhood bounded by South Street, Peach Tree, Grand, and Pine.  Rev. David Miller and his committee are helping people "Talk to God about our neighbors and then talk to our neighbors about God." If you would like to help pray for our neighbors, leave a note in Rev. Miller's mail envelope by the church Office. 

5 Star Program   We work towards completing the Oklahoma UMC Conference Mission 5 Star award program through being in mission with presence, prayers, gifts and service  in a measurable way. Contact William Brigden, Mission Chairperson for more information. Past year awards are on the trophy cabinet in the Fellowship Hall.

 Mission Information in Library:-In the Fellowship Hall we have a magazine and pamphlet rack from which people can become informed and involved in a varity of mission activities. Above the rack is a world mape of where Oklahoma UMChurch missionaries are serving with their addresses so that people may encourage them by letters and cards.

THIS WEB SITE was started to help people be informed and involved in missions. If you would like to help, contact  William Brigden, webmaster,   wpbrigden@yahoo.com. As you see, our website tells of Church activities.  It Also  provides "Gleanings" of interesting and inspiring writings.  It has two pages for Senior Citizen Activities and Resources.

Minute For Mission in worship-bulletin boards-newsletter;and web. to draw attendtion to what God is doing. If you would like to encourage mission work by sharing a minute for mission in our worship services, contact William Brigden, 765-9611

The Child Development Center, 1 blocks East and 1 1/2 blocks South of our Church is given support by our church in finances and in volunteer work. If you would read to a child or do other volunteer work, please phone 765-7532,

Senior Center, three blocks east of our church, is supported by our members who help serve and deliver to homebound  250 meals a day  ,  lead exercise classes three morning a week,  teach ballroom dancing, teach computer operation, maintain their web presence,  do secretarial work,  fill out homested forms, help with bingo games, and other activties. If you would like to volunteer in some way, phone 762-9412.

We support Mary Whitaker, the Director of Cookson Hills, Oklahoma United Methodist Cherokee Indian Mission. Help contribute her salary through regular and special offerings to our church. We support salary of Missionary Meridith Whitaker,    Volunteer in Mission(VIM) projects, 

 The Summer of 2004 Gidget Warner was in Honduras. 

The Summer of 2005 our Youth and Sponsors did a VIM Vacation Bible School with the Black Food Indians in Montana.

Our Pastor is planning on leading one or more VIM trips to help Huricane victims in New Orleans in 2005.

Collection Points forFood Labels, Pull tabs,  used Eye Glasses ,  used cell phones, Ditty Bag Supplies for Safe House Residents, School Supplies,  and other items  to support missions are at Three places in the church(Back entrance, North East Entrance, and outside first floor office).  You are invited to save the following labels and turn them in to support our missions.  .

SAVE LABELS FOR MISSIONS: Many of you save Campbell Soup labels for our UMW, but here is a complete list of all of the products. All labels collected are sent to Cookson Hills where  they are able to purchase vans, etc. with A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS Note: There is an example of how to cut the soup labels--they request only the middle section be sent in. If you have any problems with getting the information below, you can get on their website at: www.labelsforeducation.com and look under "Eligible  Products" for the list. Save Front Label Campbell's Beans Products Campbell's Condensed 10 oz. Soups Campbell's Condensed 26 oz. Soups (Family Size) Campbell's Low Sodium Soups Campbell's Ready To Serve Classic Soups (18-19 oz. can) Campbell's Tomato Juice (10 oz., 46 oz., 64 oz.) Campbell's Soup at Hand™ Save 2 Code Numbers from Outer Case Campbell's Tomato Juice (11.5 oz./24 cans/case) Campbell's Tomato Juice (5.5 oz./48 cans/case) Save Lid Campbell's Ready To Serve Soups (plastic) Save UPC code Campbell's Supper Bakes™ Campbell's Soup & Recipe Mix (with the entire box bottom panel) FOOD SERVICE Save Front Label Campbell's Chef's Kettle® Soups (50 oz.) Campbell's Food Service Soups (50 oz.) Campbell's Low Sodium Soups (50 oz.) Campbell's Healthy Request® Soups (50 oz.) Save Front Label Campbell's Chunky Soups Save Front Label Campbell's Healthy Request® Soups Save Front Label Campbell's Select Soups Save Front Label Campbell's Soup To Go® (tub) Save Front Label Campbell's Simply Home® Soups Save Front Label Franco-American Gravies Franco-American SpaghettiO's®, A to Z's & Pasta Save Front Label Pepperidge Farm Soups Save UPC code Pepperidge Farm Breads, Croutons, Rolls & Stuffing (bag or carton) Pepperidge Farm Cookies, Crackers, Goldfish® Crackers, Goldfish® Cookies & Snack Mixes (bag or carton) Pepperidge Farm Frozen Garlic Breads, Cakes, Turnovers, Dumplings, Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry & Phyllo Dough (bag or carton) FOOD SERVICE Save 2 Code Numbers from Outer Case Pepperidge Farm Food Service Save Front Label Swanson Broths Swanson Food Service Broths (49.5 oz.) Swanson Poultry (paper label) Save UPC code Swanson Broths (carton) MARKET DAY Save Front Label Selected products (tub/carton) Save Front Label V8 Healthy Request® Vegetable Juice (46 oz.) V8 100% A.C.E. Vitamin Rich Juice (46 oz.) V8 Splash Juice Drinks (16 oz., 46 oz., 64 oz., 96 oz.) V8 Vegetable Juice (10 oz., 46 oz., 64 oz.) V8 Splash Smoothies (10 oz., 46 oz., 64 oz.) Save UPC code V8 Splash Juice Drinks (6.75 oz. boxes/8 pack) FOOD SERVICE Save 2 Code Numbers from Outer Case V8, V8 Splash (11.5 oz. 24 cans/case) V8, V8 Splash (5.5 oz. 48 cans/case) V8 Splash (16 oz. boxes/12 bottles/case) Save Front Label Prego Pasta Sauces (14-28 oz.) Save Lid Prego Pasta Sauces (46 oz. and larger) Prego Pasta Bake Sauce (27.75 oz.) Save Lid Pace Salsa, Picante & Picante Con Queso more sites... V8Juice.com Swansonbroth.com Supperbakes.com Spaghettios.com Puffpastry.com PFGoldfish.com Pacefoods.com Chunky.com Campbellshop.com

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AMERICAN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
History Forgotten

Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of

Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians?

The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth,

the God of scripture, and His personal
intervention.

It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible

 Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of

Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase

and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this

nation.

Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American

 Revolution, is still remembered for his words, '"Give me

liberty or give me death."' But in current textbooks the

context of these words is deleted. Here is what he actually

said: '"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is

left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just

 God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle

 sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so

sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may

 take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."'

These sentences have been erased from our textbooks.

Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he

wrote this '"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too

often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists,

but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of

Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths

 have been afforded freedom of worship here."'

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the

 front of his well-worn Bible: '"I am a real Christian, that is

to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little

doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the

unity of our Creator "' He was also the chairman of the

American Bible Society, which he considered his highest

 and most important role.

On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, '"The highest glory

of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one

indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with

 the principles of Christianity."'

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States

 reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, '"The foundations of

our society and our government rest so much on the

teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support

them if faith in these teachings would cease to be

 practically universal in our country."'

In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution:

 '"The Congress of the United States recommends and

approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."'

William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey

 Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public

schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was

stopped in 1963.
President Lincoln called him the '"Schoolmaster of the

Nation."'

Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: '"The Christian

religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived

 our notions on the character of God, on the great moral

Governor of the

universe.
On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free

institutions. From no source has the author drawn more

 conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all

these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."'

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were

 distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University,

chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student

 Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking

entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could

study the scriptures: '"Let every student be plainly

 instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the

 main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus

 Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to

lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to

 follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of

the United States, said this: '"We have staked the whole

 future of our new nation not upon the power of government;

 far from it. We have staked the future of all our political

constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to

 govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the

 Ten Commandments."'

Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can

 He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him? Prior

 to September 11, He was not welcome in America. Most of

what you read in this article has been erased from our text

books. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the

 truth about our country's Christian roots.

You are encouraged to share with others, so that the truth

 of our nation's history will be told.

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