News from Paxton Methodist Church, Nov 20th

November 20, 2017 - Sunday was the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Next Sunday marks the end of the Christian Year as we celebrate “Christ the King” Sunday. The following Sunday will begin the 40 days of Advent and our preparation for the birth in Bethlehem. We had a nice group this morning for Sunday school and worship. Our world traveler, Carolyn, was back and we all loved seeing her. Everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving. Some are hosting and some are traveling. We at Paxton Methodist wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Our Sunday school lessons on “covenant” are coming to an end next week. Fannie mentioned what a good job our author did in taking the idea of covenant from early in the Old Testament to the New Testament. I had one professor at school who said the Bible was all about covenant-making and covenant-breaking. Gene read our scripture lesson from Hebrews, after which Fannie reminded us that the covenant Paul spoke of is the one we as Christian people live under. Discipline and hard work are needed as we travel that lifelong road toward Christian perfection.

Our Paxton Community Christmas Party is Tuesday, December 5th at 6:00 PM. We hope to see everyone there. This coming Tuesday we head to Holiday Nursing Center for our ministry at 2:00 PM. We received a nice thank you note from First Baptist Joaquin for our church’s donation to the fund for providing Christmas gifts for young folks in need. I also had a very nice call from last Sunday’s Gideon speaker, Sam Hammontree, thanking Paxton Methodist for our hospitality and support of the Gideons. We really enjoyed having Sam, Jamie, and Caitlyn with us last week.

“Whoever you are, in whatever faith you were born, whatever creed you profess; if you come to this house to find God you are welcome here.” Paxton United Methodist Church is an inviting church that takes to heart the idea of “Open Doors, Open Hearts, Open Minds.” Sunday School starts at 9:30 and Worship begins at 10:00. Our email address is paxtonumc@yahoo.com. If you would like the weekly email newsletter about Paxton Methodist you can send me your email address to the Paxton email address and I will add you to the list. Godspeed.