Office hours are 8 am - 3 pm Mon-Fri. 

Each time you wash your hands for 20 seconds at least,

say a little prayer… You can change the world!

To shop at Amazon Smile, our unique charity link shares a percentage with the church:

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Christmas Eve Services Dec 24^th at 5:00, 7:00, & 9:00 pm. Please be aware of social distancing. Invite your family & friends!

  Worship Service will continue, as always, to be streamed on Facebook live each week at 9 am where it will remain on our Facebook page as a post.   In order to view, first find our Facebook page:  ‘First United Methodist Church of Mission, TX’.  Then, Like us.   You will now be able to view each week. Please call office if you need help 956-585-1665.

https://www.facebook.com/First-United-Methodist-Church-of-Mission-TX-126658420725009

Giving can be mailed in to:  FUMC Mission, 1101 Doherty, Mission, TX 78572

ALSO DONATE Online here:  https://2db4ab52.churchtrac.com/give

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Restaurant Fellowship Fundraiser Days

Ace's BBQ Fundraiser 956-205-2151 1st and 2nd Mondays each month, TO GO or eat in,    ALL day 11 am- 9 pm is our fundraiser days at Ace's! Yummy BBQ at a good price for you, and 15% of your purchase for the church.  *Verbal Church ID required while ordering for credit.  THANK YOU ACE'S!!   www.acesbarbq.com 

 Chili’s Fellowship Fundraiser Day back!  Third Thursdays each month. All day October 21 from 11:00 am – 11:00 pm. Go for lunch or dinner and enjoy great fellowship at the Chili’s off Shary Rd and Exp. The church receives 15% of all proceeds back to us!

*Verbal Church ID required while ordering.

EMMAUS NEWS 

Men’s Emmaus Reunion Group every Tuesday morning at 7:30 am here at the church in the Coffee Bar Area. Cancelled for now.

 Women’s Emmaus Group If you would like to join on Saturdays at 9:30 am, contact Ange Duvall at 956-627-5407 or 956-662-9632 for meeting location.

Women’s ‘Gonna Be Angels’ Group meets 8:30 am Fridays. Contact Ande Leatherman 956-583-1178

Pilgrim applications are now being accepted for the VEC #110 Men's Walk TBA. Fee $170. See the Valley Emmaus website for more details.  Go to www.valleyemmaus.com for application.  De Colores!

This Week

It is possible upon entering this church, you may hear the Call of God. But it’s not likely that he will contact you by phone... Thank you for turning off your phone.

Handbell Practice moved to Tuesdays in January at 7:00 pm.

  Meetings will be in Chapel

Committee’s Coming Up:

Stewardship – Tues. Jan 18^th  - 3:00 pm

Finance – Tues. Jan 18^th - 5:00 pm

Church Council – Tues. Jan 25^th - 5:30 pm

Trustees – Tues. Feb 1  - 6:00 pm

UMW Meetings Coming Up: 

-UMW Lunch Jan 13  @ Noon in Fellowship Hall.  All are invited to Luncheons. Bring a brown bag lunch. Installation of 2022 officers.

Donations for ‘Air Conditioner Fund’, above & beyond regular giving, still gratefully accepted  Total: $26,402.51. Mark A/C Fund on your check. $6,204.00 rec’d to date. Thank you to all donating! Grease Trap total was $12,210.00.

Upcoming Opportunities & Events:

-Jan 12^th  at 7:30 am, Congregational Breakfast on 2^nd Wednesdays through April.

-Food Pantry DISTRIBUTION SCHED:

01/18 PU at FB, 01/19 Bagging, 01/20 Distr

02/01 PU at FB, 02/02 Bagging, 02/03 Distr

-Pablo’s Closet clothing Distribution same as Food Pantry Distr days.

- Emmaus Gathering – 1^st Sat, Feb 5^th at 4 pm here at Mission FUMC, all welcome.  www.ValleyEmmaus.com for walk applications & medical forms. 

-Feb 20^th  – Noisy Pot Sunday

Jan 10^th - Ace’s BBQ Fundraiser the 1^st & 2^nd Mondays each month, ALL day. 2536 E. Griffin Pkwy. Awesome BBQ, and free peach cobbler night! Curbside or dine in 956-205-2151. *Verbal Church ID required while ordering.

 Jan 20^th  Chili’s Fellowship Fundraiser Day back!  Third Thursdays each month. All day from 11:00 am – 11:00 pm. Go for lunch or dinner and enjoy at the Chili’s off Shary Rd and Exp. The church receives 15% of all proceeds back to us!  *Verbal Church ID required while ordering.

‘Journey 101  Knowing, Loving & Serving God’ Pt II  Pastor Bill continues in-person study beginning this Monday @ 2:00 pm on Jan 10^th through March.

Stitches of Love-We are starting up Stitches of Love again in January. We will meet the 1^st and 3^rd Thursday of the month in the choir room at 9am. Jan 20^th. Come and join in the fun. Bears need eyes and stuffing and working on lap robes.

Dan Steenken’ Concert on YouTube!

If you missed it on 12/17 or if you’d like to hear it again, search YouTube: ‘Classical Concert – Pianist Dan Steenken’.

Texas Mobility will be here, once again, at all Jan 23^rd Worship Services to offer their health screening package here on Jan 31^st & Feb 1^st  to our church family.

Please Invite Your Peeps!

ALWAYS time to be invitational!

v  Give 3 people an invite card

v  Share Worship Service on Facebook

v  Pick up the phone and invite 3 people

v  Be sure to welcome our visitors

v  Invite to Worship, a Study, Food Pantry help, Lunch at Fundraisers, Sunday School or Dinner with Friends.

Donations of clean, gently worn, seasonal clothes welcome, to be distributed on Food Pantry distribution days, the 1^st and 3^rd Thursdays each month.

Contact office for info.

2022 Stewardship Campaign Update:

General Fund: $ 34,660.00

Elevator Fund: $ 3,080.00

Remember to designate giving on your checks or envelopes.

Blessings in 2022!

Prayer for the New Year
May all who work for a world of Peace and Reason, be granted the gifts of Strength and Courage;
May the Good that dwells within every human heart be magnified; May the Blessings of Truth and Understanding, always be ours~
And as we grow and build for tomorrow,
May we join hearts and celebrate the miracle of each other, as we also remember our loved ones gone before us...
Wishing you a wonderful new year filled
with happiness, harmony and hope!!

Amazon Smile

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Link Also on Website:www.missionfumc.com

 Needed Volunteer

 If you have any extra time you would like to help out in the office for a morning or afternoon during the week, to help answer phones, greet visitors, or help fold bulletins, contact office or the pastor.

Estudio bíblico en español todos los jueves por la noche a las 6:00 pm en la capilla con el pastor BB. Vey aprende la Biblia con el Pastor BB - en español. Todos son bienvenidos

Do you have any unused glasses? Cell phones? Hearing aids? The Lion’s Club would LOVE to take them off your hands! Just bring them to church with you and drop them in the box at the Welcome Center They will be recycled by being distributed to those who are in need, but cannot afford them.

Do you have old Upper Rooms? How about Daily Breads? Any other devotionals? Folks at the Salvation Army are in need of them to help them with their journeys to the Lord. A basket has been placed in the Welcome Center for you to put them in