Breakfast with Santa is Saturday, December 7, 2013. Breakfast will be served in the Family Life Center beginning at 8:30 a.m. Story time and crafts will be provided for the children. There is no charge for this event. Click here to register:
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If you have any questions, please contact Beth Cochran at ecochran14@gmail.com.
Since we started, we have served about 8,000 meals in Paulding County and with Stop Hunger Now we have provided 30,000+ children around the world with much needed food.
Come be a part of this event and celebrate Thanksgiving with us.
Volunteers are needed for both the dinner and the Stop Hunger Now (SHN) meal packaging. Preparation will begin on Tuesday, November 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Family Life Center. We will need people for food prep, table set-up and dish washing. The day of the dinner, Wednesday, November 27, we need on-site volunteers beginning at 2:45 p.m. as follows: servers, greeters, table duty (cleaning, refills, etc.), dishwashers and meal packers for SHN. Take-down and clean-up will begin around 7 p.m. Two-person delivery teams are also needed beginning at 2:45 – (At least one person must be 18 years of age.) Serving and delivery will begin at 3 p.m.
Please contact Kara Holt at (678) 249-4011 or holt301@gmail.com to volunteer. If you can’t get there for the start, let her know when you can be there. If you have to leave a message, please include your name, phone #, email and preferred assignment.
If you are unable to volunteer, then join us for dinner and bring your friends. If you know anyone who needs meals delivered, please call the Church Office at (770) 445-2509 by Tuesday, November 26. If you would like to make a donation to support this project, please make the check payable to Dallas 1st UMC and either list Thanksgiving Meal or Stop Hunger Now on the memo.
This year we would also like to help stock our local food bank, so we ask all volunteers to bring a canned good that will be donated to Helping Hands. Please contact David Holt (678) 249-4009 or drholt@gmail.com if there are any questions.
MATT 25:35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;
Ladies, you are invited to a special night on Monday, December 2. Four wonderful women have agreed to share with us their stories of love, hope, joy and peace as we are beginning advent. We will also have wonderful Christmas music that is sure to put you in the right frame of mind for the season. We are looking for women to host a table. All the hostess needs to do is invite 7 other people- friends, church members, neighbors etc. As a hostess, you will need to decorate your table and furnish a dessert for your table. You may sign up to hostess a table by contacting the church office or Camilla Huddleston at revhuddleston@comcast.net. This is going to be an exciting night for the women in our church and community. We hope to see you all there! If you have any questions, please contact Camilla at 770-654-2659.
IT’S UPWARD TIME!
It’s that time of year again! While the cooler weather may move some activities indoors, let Upward Basketball and Cheerleading help keep your young ones active this winter. Upward is a program that teaches sports while remaining focused on Christ. If you have a child K4-8th grade that would like to participate, or if you would like to get involved, please speak to Greg Perry at 678-522-6620. We need kids, coaches, volunteers and, most importantly, your prayers for this ministry!
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Camilla and I grew up in Griffin, Georgia. I heard God’s call for my life in Christian ministry while Camilla was teaching and I was a fireman in East Point. In 1980 we surrendered to that call and moved to Louisville, Kentucky where Camilla and I adopted five brothers who were 2-8 years old, and I served in Missions and Evangelism specialties.
After being foster parents through Chick-fil-A and WinShape Homes, I returned to the ministry as an Associate at Aldersgate UMC in Augusta, then was appointed Senior Minister of Redwine UMC in Gainesville and earned my Master of Divinity degree. In 1998 I began serving as Senior Minister of Commerce FUMC, high school football team Chaplain and Chaplain for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
At the end of our five years at Clayton FUMC, Camilla retired after 35 years of teaching. Our most recent appointment was at Providence UMC in Fayetteville, where I served for six years. Camilla loves to serve in Children’s Ministry, Women’s Ministry and Adult Choir, and enjoys cooking and entertaining. We have twelve grandchildren and love being “Cammie” and “Poppa” to them My hobbies are golf, hunting, & fishing and I especially enjoy visiting church members in their homes to get to know them-I like to say I can get to know a family better in one hour in their home than I can in a year of Sundays at church.
We have been so blessed through Christ and feel honored that God chose us to continue His service at Dallas First UMC.
