Announcements
- February 22: Ash Wednesday Services (6:30 AM, Noon, 6:30 PM)
- February 23: Book review - Betty White's "If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't)"
- February 25: Habitat Walk-a-Thon
- March 4: First Sunday class lunch - Chiloso's after the 11:00 service, so 12:15ish
- March 18: Cookie Caper - The church needs bakers, sign up today.
- Trinity Dinner Groups - Forming now. Sign up in class, or contact Kelley Gatewood.
- Trinity Class Leadership project - Anyone interested in brain-storming or volunteering, contact Rick Shamblin.
Joys/Concerns
- Dean Brown is in good spirits and trying to figure out the next steps in his cancer battle.
- Kelly Newsom's Dad passed last week.
- Chip Rawlinson's Dad is starting cancer treatment again.
Bible Verses
- The return of "The Trinity Players" in the conclusion of the "Jesus and the Believer" saga. If you missed it, you should be terribly disappointed. (And by way of preview, you'll have a couple of opportunities to catch (or even be one of) "The Trinity Players" during our Lenten study.)
- Conclusion of our study of "Not a Fan" by Kyle Idleman.
- "Wherever" sends us to places we don't want or expect to be.
- "Whenever" means NOW, not just when we're bargaining with Him. ("If you just get me through this, Lord, I'll...")
- "Whatever" means His will, not ours.
Next Week
- Question to contemplate: If you had 3 years to implement a plan to save as many souls as possible for all time, how would you do it?
- Primary Bible Verse: 1Corinthians 1:26-29
- Part 1 of our 6 Week Lenten Study - The Disciples: 12 Ordinary Men, presented by Clay
- Introduction - The Twelve, The Teacher, The Task, The Training, The Trump?
Announcements
- Gentlemen - Valentine's Day is Tuesday.
- In March, we're starting "First Sunday Lunches" - Everyone is invited to gather for lunch after class. Our inaugural lunch will be at Chiloso's on March 4th. Chiloso's is in Eastside Richardson at Central and Campbell.
- We are also starting up class small groups or dinner groups. If you're interested and haven't signed up in class, please email trinityfumcr@gmail.com.
- If you need a new name tag, please let Jana Bell know.
- We have a date for the 2012 Pancake Flip: Saturday, September 29th.
- Feb 25: Habitat Walk-a-Thon
- March 18: Cookie Caper. The church needs 160 bakers to make 6 dozen cookies. Sign up now.
Joys/Concerns
- Susan Schafer's mom, Kay, had surgery Thursday. She got out of ICU yesterday. Kay's primary concern was for family friends John & Gail Cash, who lost their son recently. Kay arranged for their prayer blankets.
- Dean Brown tested positive for cancer in his lymph nodes. Let's surround our beloved friend and teacher with prayers, support, and love.
- The Bailey triplets all achieved the level of Eagle Scout.
Bible Verses
- Luke 9:23. If John 3:16 is the "believer" verse, then this is the "follower" verse.
- Isaiah 43:1. "You are mine."
Themes
- We continued the study of "Not a Fan" by Kyle Idleman. Now that we know what kind of relationship Jesus wants, what does His invitation mean?
- Marie distributed Christ's invitations to us:
Upcoming Topics
- Next Week: We finish the study of "Not a Fan" with anytime, anywhere, anyhow.
- Our 6-week Lenten study, "The Disciples: 12 Ordinary Men", starts the following week.
Visitors
- Steve & Vickie Tesmer joined us today. They are not visitors, but long-time Trinitians (as our esteemed President calls us). They've been attending the start-up church their daughter, Dana, has been involved with. It was great to have them back with us again today.
Announcements
- 2/11 - Men of Faith Men of Honor is putting on the annual Valentine's dinner
- 2/19 - Chili lunch in the Bartula Family Life Center
- 2/25 - Habitat 5K walk
Joys & Concerns
- Request your continued prayers for the Tesmer family on the loss of Steve's dad
Class
- Rick Bell shared a little from Steve Pemberton's book "Chance in the World", which discusses the author's childhood spent in foster care. Rick had the opportunity to listen to him speak at a business function last week.
Leadership Program
- Rick Shamblin led the class in discussion of our role within FUMCR and how we can put the church's long-term plan, called Vision FUMCR, into action. We have committed to getting the ball rolling on a church leadership program. Specifically, we are charged with the following:
- Assess ongoing leadership needs (FUMCR, UMC, Community)
- Research best-in-class offerings (Leadership Richardson, Summit, district conference, Alban)
- The end goal is to cultivate a pool of ready leaders to fill the needs in the church and community.
- The church has hired Beth Smith to assist in the development of leadership.
- We kicked around a lot of ideas and had great class participation.
- SWOT analysis (Strenths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
- Survey church staff - where have they had difficulties
- How to create a culture of volunteerism and leadership
- Brainstorm church needs - start with a clean slate
- What resources are available through the North Texas conference and the UMC?
- We have multiple class members who have gone through the Leadership Richardson program
- What does the church staff do now? What committees are there? Where are lay leaders needed now?
- Marie's next lesson series (starting after Easter) will focus on servant leadership, so the timing is perfect
- Next steps
- Figure out when we can start working with Beth Smith
- Brainstorming session
Upcoming Classes:
- Next week - Marie will continue our series on "Not a Fan"
- Lenten Study - The Disciples: 12 Ordinary Men
