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Anthony

United Methodist church

225 N. Bluff Ave, P.O. Box 542

Church School 9:45 a.m.

Worship Celebration 10:50 a.m.

Phone Numbers:

Church: 620-842-5486

Parsonage: 620-842-3241

Website: anthonyumc.org

Email: anthonyumc@gmail.com

More than News

Last Kansas West Conference

Nothing seems to last forever in the United States. I was sad to read that Linn UMC had closed and sold its building. In 1975 when I came back from seminary Linn was a part of the Morganville-Linn Charge.

The Kansas West Conference of the United Methodist Church came into existence in 1968 when the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren formed the United Method-ist Church. As a conference In the United Methodist Church we have been in Existence 45 years. I guess that is really not that long ago.

The Kansas West Conference held its last session on May 21st through May 24th. The busi-ness that will take place will be voting on four constitutional amendments presented by the 2012 General Conference. The only other business will be receiving reports from the Kansas board and Connectional ministries. This closes the chapter on the Kansas West Conference.

On August 22, 23, and 24 we will have the first meeting of the Great Plains United Methodist Church Conference. During this meeting we will be adopting the structure, budget, and nomi-nations report for the formation of the Great Plains Conference. All of Kansas and all of Ne-braska will become one conference. While there will not be much difference in what happens at the local church, the biggest change will be in the appointment and conference structure.

At the present time pastors from Kansas are eligible to be appointed to the Kansas East and West churches. Now all pastors in both Kansas and Nebraska will be eligible to be appointed anywhere in the two states. In some instances the bishop and his cabinet will be able to pro-vide better matches between a pastor and a church.

Some people might wonder why we went to all this trouble to change the conferences. Back in 2008 the United Methodist Church voted to reduce the each jurisdiction by one bishop. As a result the South Central Jurisdiction voted to drop the Nebraska Bishop and have the Kan-sas West, Kansas East and Nebraska conferences form one new conference. The reason they did this was to free up money to support new bishops in worldwide United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Churches in places like Africa are growing so fast that they need more Bishops in order to help establish the new conferences and churches in the for-eign countries.

During the Next 4 years the Great Plains conference will be taking on a new formation and life of its own. Please pray for our new conference and especially Bishop Jones as he leads the Great Plains United Methodist Church.

Your Pastor,

Terry McGuire

Thanks To Our Worship Team Ministers: Everyone

Pastor: Reverend Terry McGuire

Lay Leaders: Mike Cather

Head Ushers: Gerald Wolff

Choir Director: Curt Clark

Pianist: Martha Hadsall

Acolytes for 2013

06-02 Kendall & Miles Grippin

06-09 Innslee Albright & Neve Jensen

06-16 Cole Anderson & Jaylee Hekel

06-23 Jack Walker & Austin Clark

06-30 Abigail Reeves & Audrey Befort

Children’s Sermons 2013

06-02 Sunny Reed

06-09 Jen Clark

06-16 Bret Walker

06-23 Karen Cather

06-30 Suzanne Clark

Liturgists for 2013

06-02 Bret Walker

06-09 Ben Cather

06-16 Kathy Francis

06-23 Mike Cather

06-30 Kathy Stewart

Ushers for 2013

06-02 Karen Cather & Clara Newton

Wanda Harnden & Joyce Gipple

06-09 Bret & Lauren Walker

Kyle & Jen Clark

06-16 Tom & Rogene McKnight

Pat Wolff & Karen Hare

06-23 John & Marti Templeton

Bryant & Tess Anderson

06-30 Derek & Emily Holdt

Don & Jean Jensen

Communion Servers 2013

06-02 Kathy Stewart & Ben Cather

Robert & Carolyn Sharp

Communion Steward

06-02 Karen Cather

Song Leaders for 2013

06-02 Marsha Carothers 06-09 Lori Jensen

06-16 Morgan Hamill 06-23 Sloane Freeman

06-30 Lori Jensen

A Great Big Thank You to those Volunteering to be

a leader in worship this month.

JUNE 2013 BIRTHDAYS

06-01 Austin Clark Karen Hare 06-02 Faye Williams 06-07 Myrel Carr 06-09 Redeara Godfrey 06-11 Avry Carothers 06-12 Bryant Anderson 06-13 Kyle Carothers 06-14 Zach Mast 06-18 Lexi Walker 06-19 Wilbur Nickel 06-20 Chris Duwe 06-22 Crissa Cox 06-24 Ruth Warren 06-26 Lindsey Duwe Shirley Nelson 06-27 Megan Holdt Larry Stewart 06-30 Laurel McClellan ANNIVERSARIES Ross & Amy Latta 06-04-2005 Albert & Redeara Godfrey 06-05-1982

We Wish all of you Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!!!

Military men and women in Iraq and other

parts of our world,

Our President and others in leadership

positions

Our church and our town

People who are confined to their home

Laura Smith

James Williams Family

LaVera Bertholf

Reiferd Acord

Evah Beard

Dylan Dragoo

Ruth Warren

Ferris Williams

Alberta Scott

AUMC will be working the Thrift

Shop on the 4th Thurs. & Fri. of

each month from 9-1. We need

volunteers to help Irmal on the

first Sat. of each month. Tuesdays

we need volunteers to come help

mark the Brick a brack (odds &

ends). The clothes are marked

while the volunteers are there on

Thurs. & Fridays. If you have time and would like to share

your time with the Thrift Shop you are welcome.

For those of you who are interested in joining and help-ing with the church services at Country Living, they will take place on these dates. Mark them on your calendar so you can be there and join in the

service with all of the others. They will be on June 23rd and Sept. 1 and begin at 3:00 P.M.. These are subject to change and will be posted in the bulletin so you may remember to come out and join in the service. Everyone is welcome! Home Comfort & ACCC services will be June 5th with a 3:00 P.M. at Home Comfort and 4:00 P.M. at ACCC. You are welcome to help with these services as well. Everyone is welcome!

We will not be having Faith Factory (children's) Sunday School for June, July and 1/2 of August. The first day back for Sunday School will be Sunday, August 18th.

Thank You

For the prayers, thoughts cards, & calls for Larry before & after surgery. Continue to keep Larry in your prayers.

Also a big thank you to Pastor Terry for his visits to the hospital and for the visits to our home before and after the surgery. Kathy Stewart

Thank you for the refreshing Mother ’s Day Gift.

Faith FACT RY

Anthony United Methodist Church

Thank You Thank you to those who do-nated the many items for the Moore, Oklahoma tornado victims. We had many, many items brought into the church. We ask you to please keep these victims in your prayers. It cannot be easy.

There is a Work Day planned at Youthville Ranch in Dodge City planned for Saturday, June 1st. Let Erin Albright or Pastor Terry know if you would like to serve on this mission team.

Children’s Summer Food Program Summer Food Program July 8 - 12 - We need volunteers to cook and help for this week of feeding the children. Let Erin Albright know if you would like to help.

We are looking for volunteers to drive the church van on Sunday to bring folks to Sunday morning services. If you would be interested in this outreach, let Mike Cather know.

As for me now. I want to announce to every-one I have a Great Granddaughter. Her name is Claire Marie, she weighed in at 7lb 15 ounces and stands 20 1/2” tall. She blessed us on May 15th. She has beautiful complex-ion and lots of dark hair. She is the daughter to Chelsea Sona & Chance Boese. In case you did not know Chance is my oldest grandson. Chance is the oldest of Doug Boese & Susan Reynolds.

April 1, 2013 a Cooper Dean VanNahnam was born. I found this out from Great Grandparents John & Marti Templeton. So you might just says congrats to them.

We are blessed with a new member. Joel & Amy Walker announce their son, Thomas Clark. This baby boy weighed in at 8 pounds & 13 ounces. Tommy stands 22” tall. He is already for basketball being that tall. Thomas is welcomed by brother, Jack and sister, Lexi. Congratu-lations to the whole

Flag Day June 14th Happy Father’s Day!