Join us on Thursday mornings

• Beginning July 28, 2011
• From 10:30-12:00noon

For a new 6-week book review study:  A Theology of God’s Grace: Life, Faith, and Commitment by C. David Grant.

This introduction to theology offers a contemporary and relevant theological understanding of what it means to live grounded in God’s grace. Grant argues that as humans, we need meaning in our lives. We fulfill this fundamental human need through faith. Drawing on the work of philosophical and religious figures such as William James, Friederich Schleiermacher, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, H. Richard Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich, Grant presents a constructive argument for understanding Christian faith as commitment to Gods’ grace.

The book is currently out of print, but there are used copies available.  If you’d like the church to order the book for you, the cost is $8, and we’ll need payment before we can order the book for you.

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Join us for “Jesus for the Non-Religious:”

• Sundays, beginning July 10, 2011
• 4:30-6:00pm
• Rm 302
• Cost:  FREE, and there is no necessary outside preparation!

for this 4-week DVD-guided study featuring John Shelby Spong.   This study is a perfect companion piece to this bestselling author’s book of the same name.  The Jesus for the Non-Religious DVD is a 68-minute distillation of Bishop Spong’s understanding of the God-presence in Christ. In this lecture, Spong explores:

• The meaning of ‘Christ;’
• Images of Messiah;
• How Christ has been experienced through the ages; and
• How the divinity of Christ has its ultimate expression in a fulfilled humanity.

“Jesus calls you to be whole, not religious. Jesus calls you to be real, not religious. Jesus calls you to be loving, not moral and righteous. Jesus calls you to be inclusive, not hating everybody that disagrees with you and claiming your superiority over them. That’s what this Jesus portrait is about and that’s why people believed that they experienced all that God is in the life and in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.”

-John Shelby Spong
From Jesus for the Non-Religious DVD

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Join us for “Jesus for the Non-Religious:”

• Thursdays, beginning June 16, 2011
• 10:30-12:00noon
• Rm 302
• Cost:  FREE, and there is no necessary outside preparation!

for this 4-week DVD-guided study featuring John Shelby Spong.   This study is a perfect companion piece to this bestselling author’s book of the same name.  The Jesus for the Non-Religious DVD is a 68-minute distillation of Bishop Spong’s understanding of the Godpresence in Christ. In this lecture, Spong explores:

• The meaning of ‘Christ;’
• Images of Messiah;
• How Christ has been experienced through the ages; and
• How the divinity of Christ has its ultimate expression in a fulfilled humanity.

“Jesus calls you to be whole, not religious. Jesus calls you to be real, not religious. Jesus calls you to be loving, not moral and righteous. Jesus calls you to be inclusive, not hating everybody that disagrees with you and claiming your superiority over them. That’s what this Jesus portrait is about and that’s why people believed that they experienced all that God is in the life and in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.”

-John Shelby Spong
From Jesus for the Non-Religious DVD

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The House of Jacob Synagogue here in Wichita Falls has invited our church to hear Jack Repp, a Holocaust survivor, speak at their facility:

• House of Jacob – 3414 Kemp Blvd
• Sunday, May 22, 2011
• 2:00pm

This is a part of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Days of Remembrance.

Repp was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland and lived in the Radom ghetto at the beginning of the Nazi occupation.  He also worked in the munitions factory.  Repp was transported to several different labor and concentration camps including Auschwitz and Staldach. He was liberated by American troops in 1945, arrived in the U.S. in 1949, and settled in Dallas in 1950.

For more information,
feel free to call the synagogue at
940-692-5476!

Beginning Sunday, June 12, 2011 (4:30-6:00pm), a new 4-week Bible Study will begin that will focus on some of the parables of Jesus.  Rev. Troy Sims will lead the study using the book, Re-Imagine the World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus by Bernard Brandon Scott.  If you’d like a copy of the book, it costs $14 (must have payment before book can be ordered).

This study sets the interpretation of key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did (and in the context of the 1st century). The result is a startling and provocative picture of Jesus as an historical figure and the challenge he presents to contemporary life.

Register below or contact Rev. Sims (tsims@fumcwf.org or 766-4231).

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Join us:

• May 14, 2011
• 9:00am-4:30pm

For the 2011 Men’s Retreat – Living the Abundant Life (based on John 10).

We’ll begin our retreat at Pioneer Restaurant (4545 Maplewood) before going to Warren Ayre’s ranch down near Bellevue.  Fun activities that will be available include:

• Skeet Shooting (please, bring your own guns and shells);
• Fishing (please, catch and release);
• Horse Shoes;
• A late lunch (please, bring your own meat!);
  • Sides provided include:
    Potato Salad (Jeff Ginn)
    Cole Slaw (Mark Price)
    Beans (Lamar Baer)
    Desserts (Gail Sogard & David Farabee)
    Tea (James Meaders)
    Ice (Troy Sims)
• MORE!

Our leader will be Scott Mraz, a Californian who moved to Texas in 1995 and never went back. A graduate of Brite Divinity School in May 2003 (along with Revs. Troy Sims & Becky [Henson] Cole Love), he has worked in a variety of vocations in his adult life, including retail, academia, and private security. His current ministry is as a third grade teacher living in Ft. Worth, Texas with his new bride and fellow co-worker, also a school teacher. As a result of his recent nuptials, he has converted from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to the ELCA Lutherans where he is also seeking ordination for ministry in their church. Anything else you want to know about him, just ask and he’ll tell you!

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