February 10, 2013

Attendance

8:45 Service ~ 219 11:00 Service ~ 460 Total Worship ~ 679

Bible Study ~ 490

Giving

Current Week’s

Receipts: $ 34,862

Campus Improvement:

$ 537

Loving and Leading People into a Growing

Relationship with Jesus

3515 Grandview Ave Louisville, KY 40207

(502) 896-8882

Web Site: www.smbclouisville.org

E Mail:

smbc@smbclouisville.org

Tim Galyon

Mary Ellen Yates

Growing Community Where do you find community? How do you connect with others? How does our

church create a warm fellowship with two worship services? How do we create the

kind of community that others want to be a part of? How can we prevent people from

falling through the cracks? How can we enhance our intergenerational community?

When God created us, he created us to be in community. It’s interesting how dif-

ferent we are -- newborn babies to 100 year-olds -- diverse theological commitments -

- extroverts and introverts -- thinkers and feelers -- detail people and big picture peo-

ple -- longterm members and newcomers -- singles, divorced, marrieds -- early service

attenders and late service attenders..... Yet, in our differences we are united by a com-

mon purpose of “Loving and Leading people into a Growing relationship with Jesus.”

In Total Church Life, Darrell Robinson writes,

Fellowship is one of the keys to the effectiveness of a church. A church will

never grow beyond its fellowship. If the fellowship is right the church will

continue to minister, witness in love, and be built up in maturity and number.

But if the fellowship is not right, the church will decline and eventually die.

If the fellowship is right, the church can work through any problem and con-

tinue to grow. But if the fellowship is disrupted, everything else goes down.

Attendance will drop. Giving will decrease. Outreach will stop! Building the

fellowship of a local church is crucial to its growth.

The Growing Community Team’s goal is to come up with 10-12 ideas that will

generate a closer community. We met twice in January to brainstorm, with future

meetings scheduled. We are challenging ourselves to think outside the box and allow

God to do something that only God can do!

Our team is made up of: Judy Jenkins, team leader, Nancy Beck, Jim Cordell,

Amanda Cotton, William Oliver, Lisa Porter, and Andy Vincent. Tim Galyon and

Mary Ellen Yates serve as staff liaisons.

Please pray for us as we meet over the coming months. If you have ideas and sug-

gestions, any member of our team would love to listen!

Awards Night!

Sunday, February 24, 6 p.m.

Special Guest:

Ventriloquist Steve Brogan

Join us on Sunday evening, February 24

as we celebrate our 2013 Upward sea-

son! Everyone is welcome regardless of

whether or not you played or

cheered. The fun begins at 6 p.m. in the

sanctuary and will feature the hilarious

antics of ventriloquist, Steve Bro-

gan. Players and cheerleaders should

wear their uniforms. Coaches should

wear their coach shirts. Don’t forget to

bring your Rice Bowl bank!

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Sunday, February 17

8:45

Babies/Crawlers & Toddlers:

Jody & Whitney Rogers

2&3&4&5 Year Olds:

Jill & Kyle Broyles

11:00

Babies/Crawlers & Toddlers:

Susan Eiche & Jennifer Moore

2&3 Year Olds:

Brian & Beckye Black

4&5 Year Olds:

Dan & Lori Wendelin

Please call Joyce Oliver at 502-608

-8047, if you are able to help.

New Members Sunday, February 3

Mackenzie Renee Childers

Debra Childers (photo not available)

Halftime Activity Please pray for Trip Fetter who will be leading the Halftime Activity on Sat-

urday. The BIG TRUTH for the day is that the Christian faith and the Chris-

tian life are about grace—grace given and grace received, despite perform-

ance that is often poor.

Registration Begins

Registration began two weeks ago

for our Weekday Ministries of

Weekday Preschool and Parents

Day Out. See the following infor-

mation and call today to register

your child for the school year begin-

ning in August 2013.

Parents Day Out is for children ages

birth – 2 years old. We offer classes

on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00

a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Call Missey McMillan at 502-896-

8882 this week to register!

Weekday Preschool is for children

ages 3-5. We offer 3, 4, and 5 day a

week classes from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00

noon.

Call Barbara Wise at 502-992-9000

this week to register! Several of our

classes are almost full, so call to-

day!

Registration forms are available on-

line at www.smbcpreschool.org/

and in the Weekday Preschool &

Parents Day Out Offices.

There will be no pick-up the 3rd

Sunday in February, the 17th. We

will resume our regular schedule the

first Sunday in March-- the 3rd. If

you are interested in seeing how

your items are used you can go to

our Facebook page, God’s Designs,

Inc. and view photos of many of the

homes or apartments we have fur-

nished. Remember we can use any-

thing it takes to equip a home and it

should be in good condition. We

thank everyone for their continued

support of this ministry.

Jim and Gerry Harrah

Workdays

March 7—9

8:30 am—2:30 pm

Contact Kevin Thompson

339-7711 or Steve Holm

426-3503 For more information

Last call for summer camp! The deadline to get signed up for

Crossings for Kids summer camp is

Wednesday, February 13. We have

to send our final numbers to Cross-

ings on Friday. If you decide to go

after that, we may still be able to get

you in but there are no guarantees

unless we include you in our initial

registration. Contact Emily Thomp-

son at 502-896-8882 for more infor-

mation.

Children’s Mission Recognition Service!

Wednesday, February 20 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary

The Recognition Service will bring

RA’s and GA’s to a close. Children

and preteens will begin rehearsing

the VBS musical on Wednesday

evening, February 27. The musical

will be performed at the St. Mat-

thews Street Festival on May 18.

This Wednesday from 5 to 8 pm

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Hospital List

No members hospitalized

at time of publication

Other Care Facilities

Forum at Brookside

Herb Johnson—Room 4A

Doris Proctor—Room 1A

Oaklawn

Linda DuRand—Room 254

Visitors please call first

Westport Place

Nancy Buttorff—Room 302

Marguerite Rhodes—Room 501

Sharing Prayer Requests If you or someone you know in our

church family is ill, in a hospital, or

has another prayer concern, please

call the church office (896-8882) to

let us know. If your Sunday School

Class, Small Group, or Ministry

Team has an email distribution list

for sharing prayer requests, please

include the pastor’s administrative

a s s i s t an t , Char lo t t e Hibbs

(chibbs@smbclouisville.org) in that

email distribution group.

Wednesday Menus

February 13

Meatloaf

Corn Pudding

Steamed Broccoli

Spinach Salad w/Warm Bacon-

Mushroom Dressing

7-Layer Salad

Parker House Rolls

Chocolate Delight

Warm Cobblers w/Ice Cream

February 20

Roulade of Pork Tenderloin

Cheese Grits

Southern Style Green Beans

Pear Salad

Baby Blue Salad

French Bread

Peanut Butter Chocolate Dessert

Key Lime Pie

HUGG Highlights

Julia Decker

Lincoln Hills Health Center

326 Country Club Drive

New Albany, IN 47150

Julia Temple Raper was born on

February 3, 1949, in Murfreesboro,

Tennessee to Charles Joyce Raper

and Dorothy Delaine Rogers Raper.

Julia was the youngest of two

daughters. Julia’s father went to

law school at Vanderbilt, and served

as the City Judge of Murfreesboro.

Her mother was an elementary

school teacher.

When Julia was 10 years old, her

parents divorced, and she and her

mother moved to Beaufort, South

Carolina to be close to other family

members. After graduating from

Beaufort High School, she then

went to the University of South

Carolina at Beaufort, where she

earned an associates degree in jour-

nalism.

At college, she met Arthur

Decker, a Marine stationed at Parris

Island who was attending college

part-time. Julia and Arthur married

on January 16, 1968. They moved

to Roanoke, Virginia. Julia and Ar-

thur were blessed with three chil-

dren: Arthur, Danielle and Kerry.

The family also lived in Cayce,

South Carolina, and then moved to

Spartanburg due to a job change.

As a journalist, Julia’s career in-

cluded working for the Spartanburg

Herald, the Beaufort Gazette and

the Greenville News. She has also

worked in telemarketing.

After 28 years of marriage, Julia

and Arthur divorced. "It was a hard

time, but it was necessary," says

Julia.

Julia names Amazing Grace and I

Sing a Song of the Saints of God as

her favorite hymns. She has at-

tended the Episcopal Church most

of her life. "I always like making

palm crosses at Easter," she

says. In 2008, she made 30 to 40

for Easter.

Julia's hobbies include reading,

writing poetry, and in the past, she

enjoyed painting with oils and

acrylics. She also plays the piano.

Julia has had strokes which re-

quired her to live in an assisted liv-

ing center in Spartanburg. In De-

cember 2008, Julia moved to New

Albany into Lincoln Hills Nursing

Center to be closer to her daughter

and son-in-law, SMBC members,

Danielle and Jeff Hudgins.

February HUGG Birthdays

3rd -- Julia Decker

14th -- Margaret Gresham

18th -- Dorothy Irvin

23rd -- Lois Sumner

Christian Sympathy

...to Ben & Tara Clark on the pass-

ing of Ben’s mother, Luann Clark,

on February 10.