The Journey Young Adult Singles Sunday School Class (meets in Rm. 303) will begin a study of Adam Hamilton’s When Christians Get It Wrong under the leadership of Randy Martin & Rick Bowersock on January 9.

When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they often name certain attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging others, condemning people of other faiths, rejecting science, injecting politics into faith, and being anti-homosexual. With his familiar style, Adam Hamilton tackles these issues and addresses the how’s and why’s of Christians getting it right when it comes to being Christ in the world.

For more information, contact Randy Martin: RandyM@amnat.com or 940-696-3337.

The Living the Questions Sunday School Class (meets in the Parlor) will begin a new study on January 9 using Bernard Brandon Scott’s book, Re-Imagine The World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus.

In his parables, Jesus re-imagines the world. The re-imagined world, called the kingdom of God, presents his followers with a new option for living, one that contrasts with the default world of the everyday. In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did. The result is a startling and provocative picture of the historical figure and the challenge he presents to contemporary life.

For more information, contact Jeff & Lauri Cooper: (jcooper003@gmail.com or 781-7831).

The Bi-the-Way Sunday School Class has arranged to have Mary Simpson Poplin come and speak at our church on Sunday, December 19 during the Sunday School hour – 9:15-10:15am. She was raised and baptized in this church and will be speaking on her return to Christ and her two-month experience as a volunteer with Mother Teresa in 1996 in Calcutta.

Here is more biographical info about Ms. Poplin:

Mary Poplin is a Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California where she has taught since 1981. She has directed the teacher education program and served as Dean of the School of Education from 2002 to 2004. She currently teaches doctoral students and conducts research on the education of the poor. She received her B.S. from Midwestern State University and her Ph. D. in education from the University of Texas in 1978. Mary worked as a volunteer with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1996. She went there to learn why the Missionaries call their work with the poor “religious work” and not “social work.” She was baptized and raised in FUMC of Wichita Falls and attended FUMC until leaving Wichita Falls for graduate school. She will be talking about her return to Christ and her two month experience as a volunteer with Mother Teresa.

CLICK HERE to see more about her on the Claremont Graduate University website.

The generosity of our church showed through again during the recent food drive to benefit Interfaith Ministries.  A total of 1,113 lbs. of food was delivered today (November 23) with the help of some great volunteers (Pat Deal, DeEdra Folmar, Paul Goodrich, Gene & Elizabeth Newton, and Troy Sims).  Keep in mind that this does not include the food that our children have been collecting.  That will be delivered next week.

Coinciding with (and helping to fuel) this food drive was a friendly competition among Adult Sunday Classes.   For three years running, the Bi-the-Way Sunday School class won!  In second place was Exodus Class followed closely by the Win-Some Class.  Congratulations!

Check out the pictures of some of our workers from today:

The Children’s & Adult Sunday School Classes of FUMC are each taking part in a food drive to benefit Interfaith Ministries.  The Adults began a competition among classes on Sunday, October 31, 2010.  Here are the current stats:

The first number is the number of items collected.  The second number is “pro-rated” based on the number of members in the respective class.  Check back each week to see how each class is doing.

The Children begin their drive on November 7, 2010, and each week they are looking for different items that are of special need by Interfaith.  Here is what children should bring each week:

• November 7:  Pork ‘n’ Beans
• November 14:  Peanut Butter
• November 21:  Jelly
• November 28:  Canned Fruit

For more about the Adult Food Drive, contact Rev. Troy Sims (tsims@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x229).

For more about the Children’s Food Drive, contact Rev. Lydia Pellikan (lpellikan@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x272).

Join the Bi-the-Way Sunday School Class beginning November 7, 2010 in Rm. 17-U of the Undercroft (below the Sanctuary) for an overview of how to interpret the confusing New Testament book of Revelation.  Rev. Troy Sims will be the teacher.

For more information about this Sunday School Class, contact Tom Golden (golden@srcaccess.net or 544-2433).