Mt. Zion UMC Monday Bulletin, July 27, 2009

"Sharing Christ, Making Disciples, Transforming our Community and the World"

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Sermon: "When You Really Mess Up" - Rev. Edgar De Jesus

2 Samuel 11:1-15 "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, 'This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.' So David sent messengers to fetch her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, 'I am pregnant.' So David sent word to Joab, 'Send me Uriah the Hittite.' And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, 'Go down to your house, and wash your feet.' Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. When they told David, 'Uriah did not go down to his house', David said to Uriah, 'You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?' Uriah said to David, 'The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.' Then David said to Uriah, 'Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.' So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, 'Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.'"

Please pray for those on our Prayer List

• If you would like to purchase chairs for the New Fellowship Hall, please contact Betty Jean Horton. Chairs are $25 each. We have money for 100 chairs. We are halfway to our goal of 200 chairs!
• We are planning a trip to Emerald Point Water Park for Thursday August 6th. Beverly Foushee is able to get some discounted tickets through her workplace which will make the tickets around $22.00 (less for younger children.) If you are interested in your family or your children attending this outing, please contact either Paige or Susanne ASAP so that we may purchase tickets and plan our trip.
• "It's a Guy Thing" - A Joint Men's Retreat with Antioch Baptist Church sponsored by Mt. Zion Methodist Men Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:00am 'till 1:00pm at Hyco Lake Recreation Center (Shelter 2)
  Worship Leaders: Pastor David Chambers & Pastor Edgar De Jesus
  Prayer, worship, testimonies, breakfast & lunch fellowship, boat ride, fishing and lots of fun!!! Please mark your calendar ahead. All men, young and old are invited. Bring your friends. For details, please contact Merle Terry (merleterry@embarqmail.com, 336.599.5010) or Eddie Burton (eddielaurab@aol.com, 336.364.3053). More information to follow.
• Please sign up to provide Sunday lunch for our Duke Intern.
• New Fellowship Hall
  Balance Owed: $382,781.40
  Monthly Loan Payment: $3,862.29
  (This will now be updated monthly)

• August 3 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Pastor Edgar attends Spiritual Incubator
• August 3 - 7:00 pm Circle 2 Meeting
• August 4 - 7:00 pm Circle 3 Meeting
• August 4 - 7:30 pm PUMP Meeting at Salem UMC
• August 5 - 10:30 am Worship at Maple Heights Nursing Home
• August 5 - 6:45 pm Prayer Meeting
• August 7 - Girl Scout Lock-In at Mt. Zion
• August 9 - 3:00 pm Finance Committee Meeting
• August 9 - 5:00 pm Administrative Board Meeting
• August 10 - 7:00 pm Scouting Committee Meeting
• August 16 - Katie Matonich's last Sunday at Mt. Zion

Birthdays July 29 - Kim Tuck July 31 - Mark Duncan July 31 - Crystal Faulkenbury July 31 - Jeremy Wrenn August 2 - Jonna Mitchell August 2 - Eleanor Wrenn August 3 - Elaine De Jesus August 3 - Madeline Moore August 3 - Margaret Moore August 3 - Connie Pixley	Anniversaries July 29 - Mickey & Patsy Clayton July 29 - Derek & Marcia Green August 2 - Ronnie & Beverly Foushee
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