T HE C LARION

23606 FM 2100 Huffman, TX Phone: 281-324-1541

www.LakeHoustonUMC.com Email: lhumc1541@gmail.com Volume 31, Issue 9

S ep temb er , 20 1 7

Dear friends,

Greetings in the

name of the Lord Jesus Christ! This past month

has brought not only heat but excitement to

Lake Houston United Methodist Church! In the

last several weeks we’ve had a baptism and sev-

eral new members. Another excitement is that

we hired Ken Burns to be our new Director of

Youth Ministries! As most of you know by now,

Ken and his wife Cyndi have been active in

youth work in other churches for several years,

and had been looking for a place to connect

since they moved into our area. Ken and Cyndi

started visiting several months ago, and became

active in the youth program right away. I’m

grateful to God for providing Ken and Cyndi and

their family in this important area of our minis-

try, and for providing a place like LHUMC for Ken

and Cyndi to exercise their gifts. I believe

there is no mission field more critical than our

youth, and I ask your prayers and participation

in this great task.

For the past couple of weeks Janie Web-

ster has been speaking to our congregation

about prayer. Janie is a prayer warrior, as most

of you know. She spoke about being in the

prayer room during services, serving as a prayer

anchor during the services, and the importance

of our prayer meeting every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

She quoted the great preacher Charles

Spurgeon, who said that every great movement

of God began with prayer. How is your prayer

life? We have the “Field Guide for Daily Prayer”

booklets, provided by the Methodist Men that

can help provide structure and prayers to begin.

Sign up to be a prayer anchor by yourself or

with a significant other. Before I entered the

ministry Brenda and I served in the prayer room

of the church we attended during the service. It

is a wonderful gift to be able to pray. And, like

anything else, we become better as we practice.

Practice the Christian life: pray.

At the end of September we again have

Family Promise coming to our Church! This won-

derful ministry of the Missions Team provides a

place to stay and food for qualified families who

are on their way to a better life. You can partic-

ipate with your prayers, your presence, your

gifts, your service and your witness. (Sound fa-

miliar? It’s part of our membership vows.)

Friends, may we all remember our mem-

bership vows, and trust in the Lord Who gives us

life, teaches us love and shows us the way to a

new creation.

Faithfully in Jesus Christ,

Pastor Frank

The Prayer Corner by Janie Webster

In case you were-

n’t able to be at

church one of the

past 2 Sundays,

or in case you’ve

lost one of your

Sun. morning bul-

letin inserts, this

week’s Prayer Cor-

ner is a summary of the invitation the Lord is issuing to

us all, as we search our hearts to see what our re-

sponse should be. For He’s called us. He’s clearly said,

in both the old and new testaments, “…and my house

(our church) should be a house of prayer”. (Isaiah 56:7

and Luke 19:46)

PRAYER ANCHOR MINISTRY- Prayer anchors pray FOR a

Sunday church service, DURING that same church ser-

vice. We pray for our pastor and those in the service,

plus for those on our prayer list and for anyone or any-

thing else the Lord lays on our hearts to pray for. We

pray in the prayer room that’s to the right of the CFC

entrance in the back parking lot. A current Sunday bul-

letin with its list of those to pray for, plus various other

prayer aids, will always be on the prayer room desk and

bookcase. And we want you to know that one of our

most helpful prayer aids is a book in the bookcase, by

Germaine Copeland, titled Prayers that Avail Much.

That God-inspired book contains already-written, God-

inspired Scripture prayers on 155 different prayer-

needing subjects- an invaluable aid when we might not

be sure how to best pray on our own! We must say

we’re predicting that, once you’ve served a prayer room

shift, you’ll want to sign up again! (The sign-up sheet is

on the wall beside the door next to Pastor Frank’s of-

fice, plus we’re also periodically given opportunity to

sign up online.)

TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER SERVICE- We meet at 7:00

in the sanctuary to worship, praise, share, laugh, cry,

partake of Holy Communion, wait and call upon the

Lord, pray for others, and sometimes be prayed for, our-

selves. Your LHUMC prayer team warmly invites you to

come pray with us, BUT, IF YOU CAN’T, the Lord is offer-

ing us yet another way to be praying together, in power-

ful unity and agreement…

DAILY PRAYER FOCUS FOR EACH OF US, WHETHER OR

NOT WE CAN ATTEND TUES. PRAYER- (We know we

each have our own ‘list’ of people and issues to pray

for, but the list at the end of this article is a list of spir-

itual growth needs we believe God wants us, as His

united church, to pray for, for our church. We’re hoping

we can all agree it’s a list we want to be part of praying

for! And, in order to keep our praying simple- YET POW-

ERFULLY EFFECTIVE- we’re suggesting we all pray for

the ONE, SAME CONCERN EACH DAY. Seven days, sev-

en concerns- 1 for each day. (Please Note: The Scrip-

ture verses in parentheses remind us that these needs

are among the many that are GOD’S WILL FOR HIS

CHURCH! They are His will for us here at LHUMC & for

His church universal.) (Please refer, now, to that list of

Mon.-Fri. prayer concerns at the end of the article.)

Reading along with us, we think you’ll agree- it’s not

only God’s will, but in fact, His GREAT desire, that we:

(1) hunger for more of Him, (2) become a house of pray-

er, (3) hunger for His Word, (4) be filled with the Holy

Spirit, (5) have unity, (6) have our hearts broken for the

unsaved, and (7) pray for our leaders. We believe it’ll

delight God’s great heart when, for example, on Mon-

days, we all storm heaven, each calling upon Him to

give us hunger for MORE of Him! Yes, we’ll all be in dif-

ferent places, praying at different times during the day

and night, but we’ll all be praying for the same thing, in

agreement. Then, we can only imagine His added de-

light if we go the next steps to (1) look up, (2) write

down, and (3) speak forth those Scripture verses, show-

ing Him we believe in the truth and power of His Word.

Why, how could He refuse us?! Because when we’re

praying in faith, believing His promises, wanting His

will… then we can know that, because He’s fully and

forever faithful, He’ll bring what we’re praying, to pass…

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A suggested list of 7 concerns for us to pray for, one for each

day of the week. Please pray for:

Mon.- our hunger for more of God (Matthew 5:6, Psalm

42, Psalm 63:1-8)

Tues.- LHUMC to become a house of prayer- with no

shortage of prayer anchors and with Tues. prayer

and individual prayer lives flourishing (Isaiah 56:7,

Luke 19:46, Colossians 1:9-14)

Wed.- our ever-increasing hunger for God’s Word

(Proverbs 4:20-22, Luke 4:4)

Thurs.- our church body to be filled with the Holy Spirit,

living lives that yield spiritual fruit (Ephesians 5:18,

Galatians 5:22-23)

Fri.- unity in our body (1st Corinthians 1:10, Ephesians

4:2-3)

Sat.- our hearts to be broken for the unsaved in our

church & in the world (Matthew 9:35-38, John 1:12,

Romans 10:9-10 and 13, 2nd Corinthians 4:4, Ephe-

sians 3:14-21, 2nd Peter 3:9)

Sun.- our church, local, state, national, & world leaders (I

Timothy 2:1-2, Psalm 105:14, Proverbs 21:1) *P.S. I

have to add that I’ve had a check on my spirit, since

starting this article. Surely we need to pray daily, not

just weekly, for our pastor whom we love and for the

leaders of this world that’s in such dire need…

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We come, Father, in the name of Jesus and in the power

of the Holy Spirit, asking you to help us become the

people and the house of prayer You’ve called us to

be. We know, Lord, that when we do our share, you

MORE than do Yours! How we thank You! Amen.

Summer is almost over and the Fall will be here soon with lots of fun

things to do!

We’ve been helping a family who fell on some hard times due to layoffs

and needed some help after losing their house. It is our honor to assist them. Carroll Taylor, John

Brahm, Harry Piercy and David McGallion have spent some time assisting with some plumbing, fram-

ing, etc!

A huge thank you to the four “grey beards” as Harry refers to them, for giving your time and talents to

help someone in need. You are a true blessing!

We’re gearing up for the Patch! The pumpkins will be arriving early October and you can bet you’ll

hear more about that as we get into September. We plan to have our normal “unload” the truck on Sunday with a meal to share afterward,

and then open the Patch to our community.

It is so much fun to work a 2 or 3 hour shift and hear the community talk about how many years they’ve been coming to our patch as well as

sharing information about our church and programs to first timers! Come join us in this outreach to our community, to our church and to

the Indian Reservation help support by continuing this long standing tradition.

And last but not least.....the signup sheets are available on line and the posters

are up on the bulletin board for sign up for Family Promise. The dates are, Sun-

day, September 24- October 1......

Help set up the rooms.....we have two Sunday School classes that assist with this and can always use another hand or two! There’s supplies

to furnish, dinners/dishes to cook, fellowship, mentoring, fun and nights to sleep over. Then help take down the rooms and get ready for

Sunday school as well as linens to wash......We humbly ask that you consider joining us....you can do a little or do a lot. This mission Trans-

forms lives in a very big way that you see and participate in right before your very eyes. We are hoping to host the next graduation during

our week so this is a great way to see what Family Promises is all about....now a little bit about our 3 Families.

The kids have returned to school (and some of the parents too!) HAAM helped them with supplies and shoes this year. They all got haircuts

from a company named “Sheers will Travel”. I can imagine it was a time of great excitement and anticipation for the upcoming school year.

Many of you have met Denise and her two children 7 and 10 years old. She is busy with interviews and has been called back for a second

interview. Once she lands that job, it will be a very exciting time for her as she prepares for her graduation! She wants to have her gradua-

tion at our church. We were her first church and she’s like to celebrate with us! Quite a compliment!

Stephanie will join us for the first time with a 9 and 2 year old boy along with one that’s 5

months old! All boys for this Mom! She’s also looking for work presently

Tonya and her 13 year old daughter will also be with us and she’s also job hunting currently.

Come join us.....sign up via signup genius – you can find the link on the church website under

missions or sign up on the posters on the Missions bulletin board! We look forward to having

you with us!

Transforming lives!!!!!!!

FAMILY PROMISE TEAM

A Note from Missions

The C lar ion -September , 2017

CHILDRENS DIRECTOR: CHRISTEN THIBODEAUX

WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN'S CHURCH HELPERS!

September 3: Martha Johnson

September 10 : Brinn Rhodes

September 17: Lark Rhodes

September 24: Emma Thibodeaux

Love and self-control are like bookends

that hold the rest of the fruit of the

Spirit in place. All the fruit initially grow

from love and are kept in place by self-

control. Desiring to walk in the fruit of

the Spirit is a good thing because it in-

volves being patient, kind, humble, display-

ing good manners, not being selfish, and

other good fruit as well. Although it would

be nice if we automatically behaved that

way toward people, it rarely happens with-

out self-control. We may be able to do it

sometimes, but then at other times we

may not feel well or we are having a frus-

trating day, and walking in the fruit of the

Spirit is more difficult. But thank God He

has given us self-

control to hold

the good fruit in

place in our lives. In children's church we

are learning that God helps us display self-

control in order to show love to people at

all times.

Children's Church helpers are

needed during 2nd service.

Duties will include helping prepare snack &

craft, walking children to the

restroom or be an extra set

of hands. Please know that

you can help as often or little

as you'd like. Remember our Volunteers are

vital to help our children grow in Faith.

For More information about

Lake Houston Christian Women

please contact:

Ann Williams at 281-324-2169

NEXT MEETING: SEPT. 12th @

10am

We will be starting a new Bible study on Sep-

tember 12th, Tuesday at 12:30pm at the

church. The study is Twelve Ordinary Men

by John MacArthur and focuses on the twelve

disciples. What is most amazing about the

disciples is that Jesus ever selected them at

all: among them, a handful of common fish-

ermen, a hated tax collector and an impulsive

zealot. When you take a fresh look at the dis-

ciples, you'll be faced with a stunning fact:

The men the Savior chose were ordi-

nary. Hopelessly human. Remarkably unre-

markable. But they were available and obedi-

ent to the Master's call. The message of this

study is that if Christ can accomplish his pur-

poses through the lives of common men like

these, imagine what He has in store for you!!

Please sign up in church office ASAP. Once

you book and workbook ($18) arrive, please

pick up and have the first chapter and first

week of homework (not that much) done be-

fore our first meeting day of September 12th

as we will jump right into the study.. Can't

wait to see you.

The C lar ion - September , 2017

There is one who scatters,

and yet increases all the more,

And there is one who withholds

what is justly due, and yet

it results only in want.

The generous man will be prosperous,

And he who waters

will himself be watered.

Proverbs 11:24-25

As of August 9, 2017- We have paid $127,140.70

since the original loan of $200,000 in November 2011

Balance on Phase I loan as of August 9, 2017

Is $70,340.26

Projected Pay-Off Date January 2023

General Giving 7/23 7/30 8/6 8/13

General Fund $5,312 $5860 $8,032 $6,998

Building Use $37

Bible Study Literature $36

VBS $599 $10

Youth Food $20

Water/Candy $84

Monthly Budget Needs $35,323 $35,323

Collections Month to Date $33,581 $14,804

Actual Month to Date Expenditures $34,566

YTD Budget Needs $247,956 $283,188

Collections Year to Date $220,116 $234,944

Actual Expenditures Year to Date $229,641

Attendance 202 158 193 165

Usher Help

Needed If you like to greet peo-

ple, give a hug, and gen-

erally be a welcoming

member of Lake Houston

UMC - ushering IS the job

for you. Please contact

Ann Whittington for the 8:30 service and Fred

Baker for the 10:45 service. Thank you

Each month LHUMC partners with Huffman First Baptist to provide a food pantry for the com-munity.

Participants are required to reside in the Huffman ISD. They are allowed to go once per month.

The food bank is open Tuesday and Thursday from 9am - 12 noon.

Attention Travelers: The small soaps, shampoos and other personal items that you find in hotel rooms are great items to donate to the food pantry. These items are kept in a basket on the counter so that those that need the items can help themselves. If you would bring these items home with you when you travel, then you can donate to the

food pantry. Just a way to help without spending any additional funds.

Our church is responsible

to stock the shelves with the following items:

Tuna

Diced Tomatoes

Peanut Butter

Spaghetti Sauce

Spaghetti Pasta

Jelly

Canned Meat

Soup

Canned Chicken

Macaroni Noodles

Canned Veggies

Canned Ravioli

Macaroni & Cheese

Canned Fruit

Any nonperishable food item is appreciated as well as toiletries.

We Collect POP TABS

For Ronald

McDonald House I want to say "Thank You" to everyone who so gener-

ously saves pop tabs from soda, soup, etc. cans for Ronald

McDonald House!! (There is a jar for them in the Sanctuary

kitchen and the CFC.) This is a big help for Ronald McDonald

Houses everywhere! They have made many thousands of

dollars from this program to help families who need to stay in

these Houses while their children are hospitalized near by.

Our church has saved a lot of tabs to help

them throughout the years. It is an on-going mis-

sion of ours. Thank you and God Bless you for

it! Sincerely,

Betty Frisk and Judy Cox

The C lar ion - September , 2017

2017

S U N 8:30am- Worship

9:45 am - Sunday School

10:45am -Worship

5:30pm -7:30pm J.A.M.

5:30 pm- 7:30 pm

Youth Sunday Funday

M O N

T U E

7:00pm- Prayer & Bible Study

Wed

6:30pm - 8:15pm Youth

6:30pm- Choir

T H U

F R I S A T

1 2

3

No Youth

4

LABOR Day

Offices closed

5

AA 6:00pm

Prayer 7:00pm

6 7 8 9

Youth

Clean Day

10am-2pm

10 11

UMW Work Day

10:00am

Missions

6:30pm

12

Bible Study

begins

12:30pm

AA 6:00pm

Prayer 7:00pm

13

14 15

16

17

Finance

3:30pm

18

Quilting

9:00am-

4:30pm

19

AA 6:00pm

Prayer 7:00pm

20 21

22 23

24

25

26

AA 6:00pm

Prayer 7:00pm

27 28 29 30

Communion

Rail Offering For September:

Mike and Jessica Ministry

Family Promise September 24 - October 1 Please sign up tp help!!!

The C lar ion - September 2017

Remember to pray for those in service to our Lord, especially ~ Mike & Jessica

Amelia Alvarado—

Tex Childrens, 1 yr. old

w i t h e n c e p h a l i t i s —

Tiffani Whitaker’s re-

quest

Carole Binnig—COPD,

aortic aneurysm surgery

pending

Owen Blackmor—

Shriners’ Hosp., 9 yr.

old, burnt, 39 skin

grafts—Harry Piercy’s

request

Dorothy Brown—

Health concerns, finish-

ing rehab

J a c k B r u n e r —

Ongoing breathing diffi-

culties

Ryler Buckalew—11

yr. old, cancer—Chips &

Jane Fountain’s request

Joanie Bumgard-

ner—Cancer, Hospice—

Tiffani Whittaker’s

cousin

J e s s i c a C h a u —

Considering nerve obla-

tion

Sybil Echeverri—

Biopsy 8/22—Cynthia

Adams’ mom

S u e F l a h a u t —

Abnormal mammogram,

2nd pending—Marlene

Fletcher’s request

Sheila French’s Fam-

ily—Died 8/16—Kay

Richardson’s request

Albert Gore—Knee

problems—Heath Gore’s

dad

J u l i a n n a F a i t h

Gore—Born 7/28 to

Kim & Heath Gore

Kim Gore—Recovering

from pulled internal

stitches—Ginny Gun-

trum’s request

Tracey Moore-Gray—

Cancer—Chips & Jane

Fountains daughter-in-

law

Louise Haney’s Fami-

ly—Died 8/7— Amy

Soto’s granny

M s . H a r p e r —

Strength—Dave Harper’s

sister

Elaine Hazeldean—

Hosp., cancer—Joyce

Lloyd’s request

Glinda Jackson—

C a n c e r — C h r i s t e n

Thibodeaux’s mom

Kristi Johnson—San

Jac Hosp., ICU, low

blood pressure—Fred

Baker’s daughter

A n d r e a K l i n e —

Ongoing testing, waiting

to see neurologist in

Sept.

Joyce Lloyd—Cancer,

steroid induced diabetes

Gary Matheny—Neck

problems

Vera May—Back to apt.

8/21

P a u l a O l i v e r —

Successful leg amputa-

tion 8/12—Ann Wil-

liams’ sister

Angel Reed—Testing

spot on lung—James

Reed’s wife

David Stephenson—

Pancreatic cancer, me-

tastasized into liver—

Kelly Freeman’s request

Buddy Townsend—

Back surgery 5/15, not

doing well

Baby Wade—Born 8/5,

fluid in lungs—Evette

Isbell’s grandson

Ashley Webster—

Budapest, Hungary

Kimberly Wells—

Hosp., lost several pints

of blood—Karen Wells

request

Cathy Wilkinson—

Recovering from recent

minor surgery

S t e p h a n i e W i l -

kinson—Surgery pend-

ing—George Wilkinson’s

request

Jolene Wilson—

Ongoing chemo

Our Church

Our Nation

Homebound

Jane Allen

Harlan Broeker

Judy Champagne

Delores Culver

Joyce & Kenneth

Lloyd

George Messinger

Carl Poteet

Nita Regan

Jack Sherer

Anthony Thompson

Our Armed Forces

William (Brad) Ballard

Matt Bardwell

Sabrina Bardwell

John L. Belsha III

John V. Brahm

Richard Brahm

Grant H. Bruner

Roger Cassman III

Shailynn Cassman

Marcus Allen Colburn

Michael Stanton Cyr

Ean Davis

Bryan Dodd

Shawn Paul Dyer

Taylor Frasier

Allan Garies

Daniel Garies

Christopher Hall

Devin Haynes

Scott Heavin

Jason Heinrichs

Josh Higdon

Eddie Hillburn

Nate Hoag

Nick Lange

Brian Lilly

Nate Martin

Dustin Matthies

Joshua Matthies

Mike McDermott

Christopher Travis

McGinnis

Alton Moore

Thomas Moreno

Paul Musachia

Chris Neuendorff.

Jesse Neuendorff

Kris Casy Pelley

Chris Pummill

Tony Sharts

Eric Tapp

Jarrod Tatom

Ryan Vollemaere

David Walker

Austin Whittington

Jacob Whittington

Andrew Wickes

Austin Wickes

Jenny Wickes