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Current Season: Lent. This year, forty days of lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9, and ends the day before Easter, April 23rd. Sundays are not included in the forty days, because Sundays commemorate the Resurrection. See more about The seasons at http://www.kencollins.com/holy-00.htm
Holy Week:
Palm
Sunday - Combined Service
Memorial's youth will lead the Palm Sunday service on April 17 at 10:30 am. There will be only one English service that Sunday.
Maudy Thursday Service, April 21, 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. Bring an object that represents in some way experiancing God's liberating power.
Good Friday Service at the Academy Church at 7 pm.
April 24
There will be two services at the normal times on Easter Sunday at
Memorial:
IMAGINE! at 9:30 am and the Traditional service at 11:00
am.
Memorial is planning
special exciting Easter services for you. Come celebrate the risen Christ!.
BYOBasket egg hunt between services.
The special
Easter offering will be split between the Apportionment Minsisterial
Education Fund and teh African Pastors' Pension fund.
Easter Sunrise Service at the Academy Church at 7 am.
Academy Church Easter Potluck at the at 12:30 PM
Easter worship at 2:00 pm.
SPECIAL
GUEST - MAUNDY THURSDAY
Memorial is honored to have Kennedy Cruz, missionary in Cambodia & Laos, at Memorial's Maundy Thursday supper and service. Kennedy will share stories of Christ's liberating power from his work with Hmong people in Laos. Come join us to share in learning and growing with this wonderful guest! April 21 at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. Read more
Triple The Value Of Your Money!
All donations to the down payment for the new parsonage
before May 5th will be MATCHED by an anonymous donor up to $35,000!
That's double. When you give to the parsonage, down payment, Memorial's loan
payment for the parsonage will be lower. That means more money available to
be applied to missions and apportionments. That's the 'triple'. Now is
the time to donate! Help provide the Pastor Janette and future pastors,
a nice home in Clovis. Cash, Check, or
credit
cards accepted.
(On March 6th, 2011, Memorial congregation
approved initiating action to purchase a parsonage for the pastor.
Housing searches are now underway.)
Memorial now accepts credit card donations on line. Read more here..
UPDATED
SERMON PLAYER ONLINE:
A
new sermon player is added to the
Sermon Page and Sermons will be avaliable on
www. Sermon.net/memumc You may also receive sermons via
iTunes by following instructions on the
Sermon
Page. Sermon's are usually uploaded sometime between Sunday
afternoon and Wednesday.
MISSION TRIP 2011 to Northern CA on July 3-9.
SSpecial meeting on Sunday Jan 30 at 4:30 pm to finalize signups and talk about fundraising opportunities to make the trip as affordable as possible. We have 10 student spots available – you can hold your spot by turning in a $50 deposit at or before the meeting. Sara has a few ideas for fundraising but would love more; bring your own ideas of big fundraisers and ways to get the community involved. If you have any questions, you can call Sara at the church office.
See the latests news on Memorial's facebook page: www.facebook/mumcclovis (click). You do NOT need to be a member of facebook to view this. If you are a member of facebook, just search for "Memorial" while in your facebook account.
JAPAN NEEDS YOUR HELP
It seems like it never ends. One disaster after another. Jesus calls us to love one another. Our loved ones need help. ALL of your donations to UMCOR goes to the relief efforts. UMCOR stays when some other quick relief organizations leave. The world needs UMCOR. Please help.
Click here for Japan Disaster Relief.
Visit this site to donate to Haiti and other relief funds: http://gbgm-umc.org.
Memorial UMC Honors Hero
Saturday, Jan, 22, Memorial celebrated the life of General Vang Pao who, allied with the United States in the Vietnam war, led the Hmong people in the fight. The United Methodist Church honors Gen. Pao in unity with all Hmong people. Present at the service was Bishop Warner Brown, Bishop of the California-Nevada United Methodist Conference.
Click here to see video coverage by CBS, Channel 47 of Fresno.
Living Nativity 2010
Again this Advent! The story of Christmas told via live performers. Singing, fellowship and the true spirit of Christmas was present at Memorial on December 18th and19th from 6 pm to 8 pm. This was a free Christmas gift to the Clovis/Fresno community. The light rain only added to the wonderful atmosphere. Plans are already underway for next year!
See pictures from the Live Nativity event here
Don't Bust Your Trust.
A rap video by Memorial starring Mando Saavedra and written Mando Saavedra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903kLc_-hvg
We have heard it said that the fact
that Memorial's
IMAGINE! Service is the best kept secret in
town. If the secret got out, people would be flocking to Memorial. We want
to share and spread the love of Christ, not keep it secret! Come out and
see what it's all about and tell your friends. Over the last two years it has
been tuned and refined to meet your needs. It incorporates modern
Christian music styles, prayers for everyone, and meaningful sermons based on
the scriptures. The IMAGINE!
service starts at exactly 9:30 am Sunday
mornings with music that will inspire you with the love of Christ.
(The traditional worship service starts at 11:00 am Sundays.)
Everyone is welcome. You don't need to be a member to attend United Methodist
Churches. You don't need to be a member to participate in communion. Child care
is available. Sunday school at 11 am. Bring a friend.
Donate Gadgets To Help The Church
Gather up those old
cell phones, cameras, iPods, laptops, and other electronics lying around and go to the
web page below.
It's so easy. Gazelle will send you a postage paid box, put your device in it and mail. Memorial will receive cash to help with the maintenance of the A/V systems. There is no cost or obligation to you when you donate.
Need Transportation to the Church?
Memorial is in the process "beefing up" the Transportation Ministry to help those who cannot drive come to church. If you would like transportation to Memorial for services, special programs, or meetings, please call the church office.
Memorial's Thrift Shop
The Mission Thrift shop does not make a profit. It fulfills 4
missions: 1) Proceeds go to the missions of the
United Methodist
Church . 2) The store
provides low cost goods to people in need. 3) Some of the merchandise is
provided to FIRM and Love INC. 4) The store provides and educational experience
and growth for all of the workers involved with it.
Ministries for the Deaf.
If you are deaf and understand sign language, please come to our services. Let pastor Janette know that you are there and she will sign the entire service.
Memorial's Calendar on the Web
You may see a calendar of events at the church by clicking on "Calendar" on the menu to the left. This calendar is updated every 15 minutes as long as the Secretary is at work. Only events 30 days in the past and 90 days in the future are uploaded. You can access the calendar direct any time with this address: http://mem-umc.org/cal
FREE!
Help Memorial UMC fulfill its missions simply by shopping! Use Memorial's S.H.A.R.E.S card when you shop at Savemart or Smart and Final, and the church will get a small percentage of your purchase. This is NO additional cost to you! Completely free to you. Pick up a free S.H.A.R.E.S. card at the church office.
HEALING PRAYER DURING COMMUNION SERVICE
If you would like healing prayer for a concern of mind, body or spirit, or on behalf of someone, you are invited to go to one of the two healing prayer stations located in the back corners of the sanctuary during Communion. Members of the Healing Prayer Team will offer prayer for you there. You may share your concern or just ask for healing prayer.
What is your favorite Worship Service Times? Click the link below
to take our Survey:
http://mem-umc.org/survey/public/survey.php?name=BestServiceTimes
United Methodist Ministries
A
portion of your pledged giving to
How to
use microphones (for everyone)
Occasionally
you will need to speak into a microphone. Click the above link to learn how.
Listen
to Memorial's Sunday Services
FREE CDs!! Sunday's services are recorded. We are getting quite a stack of CDs from previous services. Feel free to take some. Bring them back if you can. The CD's are located in the Narthex between the two entrance doors. The CD tracks are one minute to make it easier to jump ahead and back.
Also click here to listen NOW via streaming audio:
God's Yellow Pages: http://web2.airmail.net/dpelc/yellow/
Worship Ministry
Contribute to
Memorials worship ministry by being a part of the A/VTeam.
Memorial needs
people to help set up the microphones before the services. Trained sound system
operators are needed. ( Click
here for sound operator duties.)
Video
operators are also desperately needed for the services. If you are
proficient with computers, you can be of great help in designing presentations
for projection
for Sunday services.
If
you wish to become a regular sound operator, video operator or projection
designer, please contact Ron Zastovnik, or Pastor Janette. These are very
important and rewarding ministries to the church and are desperately
needed.
YOUR donations
to the Multimedia Project has made these enrichments to Memorial's services.
Some very useful additions to the video and sound system are still needed.
There is no budget for them this year. Any additional donations would
allow us to purchase and install those additions. Click HERE
for more info about the needed additions.
A
Busy Church!
Memorial is bustling with action for God's work every day.
The sanctuary or other rooms may be occupied if you try to hold a meeting or
event at the last moment. Scheduling is very important. If you need to schedule
time in any room at Memorial, check the church calendar on this web site.
Please read the "Calendar Help" first to see how
best view and print the calendar. Contact the church office for final schedule
verification and to schedule an event.
Paper
Recycling
The Methodist Men's paper recycling project pays for many
needs of the church.
Please bring the following: newspapers,
magazines, and phone books. Please separate the phone
books. Paper must be dry. Stacking papers in a cardboard box works well.
Please do NOT bring the following: Cereal
boxes, plastic containers, cardboard, junk mail.
Recycling shed hours: 8am to 5pm Tuesday and
Thursday. 9am to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday .
Sermons Are On The WEB!
Did you miss Sunday? Forgot something the pastor said? Know of
some people unable to attend church? Read it on line. Print it out and
read it. Take a printout to someone unable to attend. Simply click
"Sermons" on the menu to the left.
Update Dec 2008: Recently sermon preparation has changed and there are no sermon texts for web publication. If anyone would like to take the ministry of helping to rip the sermon audio from the recorded CDs and publish them to a streaming web server, contact Ron or the church office.
United Methodist Women News
(see "The Good News" for
latest info)
United Methodist Men
UMM meet on the
first Saturday of the month at 8 am in the Social Hall.
Donations will accepted anytime from
members, non-members, and organizations. You will receive a statement for tax
purposes. Make checks out to "Memorial United Methodist Church"
and mail to 1726 Pollasky,
Prayer
is communication with God.
Make
him your best friend…talk to him often!
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