 Holy Family by Kelly Latimore Payette United Methodist Church
December 31, 2023 – 11:00 AM In the church calendar, we are in the season of Christmastide. This is a 12-day season that begins December 25th and ends January 5th. During this season, we celebrate the birth of Christ, who has come and is coming again to redeem the world. The colors for this season are white and gold. Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Calling Song: “Joy To The World” UMH#246 vs. 1,2,4 Call to Worship - Macy Steckley One: Look, I bring good news to you! Wonderful, joyous news for all people! Many: Our Savior is born in David's city - Christ the Lord! One: The Word became flesh, and came to dwell among us! Many: We have seen that glory, full of grace and truth! One: Come! Let us worship Emmanuel - God is with us! Many: Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth, peace! Opening Prayer (in unison) - Macy Steckley Light of life, you came in flesh, born into human pain and joy, and gave us power to be your children. Grant us faith, O Christ, to see your presence among us, so that all of creation may sing new songs of gladness and walk in the way of peace. Amen. Hymn: “Gloria Patri” UMH#70 Scripture Reading Isaiah 61:10-62:3 (CEB) Praise Song: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” Music Team Children’s Time Pastor Mary Beth Prayers of the People Pastor Mary Beth Offering Prayer Pastor Mary Beth Doxology UMH#94 Prayer Hymn: “The First Noel” UMH#245 vs.1-3 Message: Pastor Mary Beth Luke 2:22-40 (CEB) Praise Song: “What Child is This?” Music Team Communion Service Announcements Sending Forth/Benediction Pastor Mary Beth May God strengthen you and bless you with peace; May Christ Jesus bring forth justice for you and among you; And may the Holy Spirit alight on you and affirm you as God’s beloved ones. And now, God, let your servants go in peace according to your word, because our eyes have seen your salvation. You prepared this salvation in the presence of all peoples. It’s a light for revelation to all! Amen. Prayer List Continue to pray for: Irene Jeffries, Don Essinger, Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Lis Williamson, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard, Jan Bolin, John Sandquist, Carol Stephan’s sister Jenny, Sheryl White from Utah and the family of Carol Bruce. Ty Waynetska has a broken arm. Keep him in your prayers. Upcoming Events No Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor this week. Next Sunday is Invite Someone New to Church! Give this some thought and prayer. We will not have a potluck following church, Next Sunday we will take the Christmas decorations down. Please plan to come to church and stay and help.
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No Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor this week. Next Sunday is Invite Someone New to Church! Give this some thought and prayer. We will not have a potluck following church, Next Sunday we will take the Christmas decorations down. Please plan to come to church and stay and help. Hi Everyone! December 28, 2023
I hope your Christmas was great! I loved having two Christmas Eve services this year. Our pastor planned the morning one and Danny Crego planned the candlelight service. Both were well attended and were so spirit filled. We are always blessed to worship together! Since this coming Monday is New Year’s Day there will be no Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor. Be thinking about who you can invite to church on Sunday, January 7th. It will be an Invite Someone New to Church Sunday. There will not be a potluck following. Instead, we will take all of the Christmas decorations down. I guess that’s an unhanging of the greens? Please plan to attend church that day and help us undecorate. It’s always easier to take stuff down, isn’t it? The funeral for Carol Bruce will be this coming Saturday afternoon at 2:00 here at PUMC. Please keep her family in your prayers. Ty Waynetska broke his arm playing basketball a few days ago. He’s working on getting it casted this week. Pray for a complete recovery for Ty. Carol Stephan asked us to pray for her sister Jenny. She recently had back surgery and now has severe nerve pain. She is pretty miserable so please keep Jenny in your prayers. My daughter Tess’ boyfriend Trevor’s grandma Sheryl is in ICU in Salt Lake City and has been diagnosed with afib. Please keep Sheryl and her family in your prayers. Carmen’s cousin Tory has had so much going on and now he is having kidney surgery soon. Please pray for continued healing for Tory and keep his family in your prayers. On Sunday we learned that this coming Saturday is Marcy Kumagai’s birthday. If you’d like to send her a card, please get in touch with me and I’ll get her address to you. I’d love it if she could receive a bunch of cards! If you are going the store to get a card, get one for Shane too. His birthday is Jan 6th. We received a nice Christmas card from Ron, Pascal, Dex and Hailey Hershey. They also wish us all a blessed new year. We certainly miss all of our Hersheys! It was sure good to see our sanctuary fill up on Christmas Eve. Let’s work on it looking that way every Sunday! I was reminded of this by our pastor Sunday evening: Hope is knowing something is wrong but believing there is still time for God to fix it. Think about that for a few minutes! I hope to see you Sunday. Happy New Year!!!!! Blessings, Cris  Payette United Methodist Church
December 24, 2023 – 11:00 AM Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Scripture Reading - Luke 1:46-55 (CEB) Caleb Smith Advent Candle Lighting Caleb Smith Sing Together “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” Children’s Time Pastor Mary Beth Prayers of the People Danny Crego Offering Prayer Danny Crego Doxology UMH#94 Prayer Hymn: “Emmanuel, Emmanuel” UMH#204 2x Message: Pastor Mary Beth 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 (CEB) Praise Song: “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” Music Team Communion Service Announcements Sending Forth/Benediction Pastor Mary Beth This Advent and always, remain watchful with your eyes on Christ, whose birth in a manger is a promise of his coming again in glory. And may the blessing of God the All-Loving, Christ the Son, and the God the Holy Spirit be with you now and forevermore. This Advent season, may we go forth as people of living hope. May we live as if we believe God’s promises are true. Christ has come, and Christ will come again. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen. Self-Reflection Questions: 1. David and Nathan assumed building a temple would be pleasing in God’s sight, and they were wrong. What are my assumptions about what will be pleasing in God’s sight? Are those assumptions in line with God’s character? 2. David and Nathan wanted to confine God to a temple. How do I seek to confine God? 3. David and Nathan wanted to link God’s purposes with their own political and religious agendas. In what ways have I sought to link God’s purposes with my own political and religious agenda? 4. In their desire to build a temple to do something for God, David and Nathan unintentionally blocked what God actually wanted to do. Where is God wanting to do something that I am unintentionally blocking with my own desires? 5. God promised David to make a dynasty of him, and promised Israel that a Messiah would come from David’s line. That promise was fulfilled, but in unexpected ways. How do I see God at work (even in unconventional ways) today? Prayer List Continue to pray for: Irene Jeffries, Don Essinger, Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard, Jan Bolin, Cory, Kyle and their parents, John Sandquist, the family of Jack Rayner. Lis Williamson has pneumonia. Keep her in your prayers. Carol Bruce passed away last Thursday. Keep her family in your prayers. Her service will be here at PUMC on Saturday, December 30th at 2:00 p.m. Upcoming Events No Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor this week. Candlelight Christmas Eve service will be at 6:00 p.m. this evening. Don’t miss it! We won’t have a Christmas Day service instead Pastor Mary Beth has a handout for home. Hi Everyone and Merry Christmas! December 21, 2023
The shortest day of the year is today so we can look forward to the days getting longer starting on Friday! Sometimes I think it’s time for bed and then I look at the clock and it’s 7:30. Ouch! We have a change to the Christmas services schedule. We will not have a service on Monday, Christmas Day. Instead, Pastor Mary Beth is sending a worship guide home attached to this letter. Please share this news with others if you know they were planning to attend in person. Danny Crego announced that there will be no adult Sunday School class for the next two Sundays. They will start up again on Sunday, January 7th. Bonnie Hall announced in church that there is a box of nativity scenes that were left here after the Winter Festival a few weeks ago. They don’t have a name of them. If they are yours, please come get them ASAP. Come anytime the church is open. We will be taking the Christmas decorations down on Sunday, January 7th right after church. Please put it on your schedule and plan to stay and help. The good news is that taking stuff down is way faster than putting it up! This Tuesday morning, I had the privilege of greeting a family at our church that spoke only Spanish. They are a multi-generational family that just arrived from Guatemala. They flew here with all the legal paperwork and escaped a violent situation in their homeland. They came to PUMC looking for clothes. Apparently, they arrived in the US with only the clothes they had on their backs. Teresa and Gloria outfitted them with so many nice clothes and now they will get enrolled in school and find jobs. Sometimes I think it’s easy for people to be tough on immigration but when you see the faces of the people who are just trying to make a good life for their families it complicates things. I’m not trying to cause a fight; I just think our job is to love people and we did that. (And as a bonus, I was able to practice my limited Spanish speaking skills.) I received a message from Jim Moy this week. I send him the current Upper Room edition and always get a note from him when it arrives. He says that everything in Arizona is going well for him and to send his love to the congregation. Merry Christmas Jim, we miss you! I’ll start my prayer list with the news that Carol Bruce passed away last Thursday. She was a mainstay in Payette and she will be missed. Her funeral will be here at PUMC on Saturday, December 30th at 2:00. Please keep Johnna, Suzi, Troy and the rest of her family in your prayers. Another long time Payette resident, Jack Raynor passed away recently. There won’t be a service for him. Please keep his wife Pat and their kids in your prayers. I received the news that Lis Williamson has pneumonia. She is pretty sick. Please pray for a complete recovery. Keep these folks on your prayer list: Hugh Homan, Jim Warzyn, Don Essinger, John Sandquist, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Jan Bolin, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard and Cory, Kyle and their parents. We sure hope to see you here on Sunday. I have seen the order of service for the Candlelight Service and you don’t want to miss it. Our morning service will be short and wonderful! I’ll leave you with this nugget of truth that we heard from our pastor last Sunday. God sees us and delights in us! Amen to that. Blessings, Cris  Payette United Methodist Church
December 17, 2023 – 11:00 AM Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Calling Song: “Savior of the Nations, Come” UMH#214 vs. 1,3,5 Call to Worship – Dalyce Knight One: Arise, O Church, and look! Many: The night is nearly over; the day is almost here! One: We know not when the Lord is coming. Many: So let us put aside the deeds of shadow and put on the armor of light. One: Come! Let us worship the Lord as we await God’s appearing! Many: May the light of Christ shine in the shadow! God’s Kingdom endures forever! Opening Prayer (in unison) -Dalyce Knight We proclaim the greatness of the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Savior! For you, Lord, have looked with favor on your lowly servants. You, the Almighty, have done great things for us and holy is your name. You have mercy on those who fear you from generation to generation. You have shown strength with your arm and scattered the proud in their conceit, casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly. You have filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. You have come to the aid of your people, to remember the promise of mercy, the promise made to our forebears, to Abraham and Sarah and their children for ever. Amen. Hymn: “Gloria Patri” UMH#70 Scripture Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 (CEB) Advent Candle Lighting Dalyce Knight Sing Together “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” Praise Song: “Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling” Music Team Children’s Time Pastor Mary Beth Prayers of the People Danny Crego Offering Prayer Danny Crego Doxology UMH#94 Prayer Hymn: “Emmanuel, Emmanuel” UMH#204 2x Message: Pastor Mary Beth Isaiah 61 (CEB) Praise Song: “Come As You Are” Music Team Communion Service Announcements Sending Forth/Benediction Pastor Mary Beth This Advent and always, remain watchful with your eyes on Christ, whose birth in a manger is a promise of his coming again in glory. And may the blessing of God the All-Loving, Christ the Son, and the God the Holy Spirit be with you now and forevermore. This Advent season, may we go forth as people of living hope. May we live as if we believe God’s promises are true. Christ has come, and Christ will come again. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen. Prayer List Continue to pray for: Irene Jeffries, Don Essinger, Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Lis Williamson, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard, Jan Bolin, Cory, Kyle and their parents. John Sandquist has a cyst behind his knee. Keep him in your prayers. Upcoming Events
Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor this week from 9-12 at Bordertown Coffee in Gayway Junction. Christmas Eve services will be at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. We will have a Christmas Day service at 11:00 a.m. Wear your pjs! Hi Everyone! December 14, 2023
Ten days before Christmas Eve! How did that happen so fast? When I was a kid, it felt like Christmas would never get here. I so remember my mom telling me that the older I got the faster time would go. Along with literally everything my mom told me, she was right! I find this year that I’m thankful for the gifts I already have: my faith, my family, my friends and all of those things wrapped up into one package, my church family. I appreciate you all! Don’t forget the ornament exchange/Christmas party at James and Pastor Mary Beth’s this Saturday at 3:00. If you don’t have an ornament to bring, they will have a few extras on hand. The January-February Upper Room edition is available in the entryway. If you need help getting one, please let me know. We have several prayer requests this week. Carmen Kumagai had Covid! She is thankful that she’s the only one who got it and that her husband Dale, Marcy and her mom, Grace and are just fine. She is back to work but keep her in your prayers. John Sandquist has been down with what he thought was a blood clot in his leg. It turns out he has a cyst behind his knee. He reports that it is very painful. We all know that John has no time for such a thing! Please pray for a complete, quick recovery. A former student of mine and now a neighbor, Kaghen Cluff hit a deer on his way to Weiser last week and rolled his pickup. He had to be cut out of the pickup and taken to a Boise hospital but is home with his family. He will have a neck brace for a few weeks but the doctors expect a complete recovery. It’s such a blessing that he is OK. Please pray for a complete recovery for Kaghen. Lyna Wilkins’ sister-in-law is in need to prayer. She has been struggling with many health concerns and now she is in stage 4 kidney failure. Please keep Jan in your prayers. Karen Sagehorn is asking us to keep praying for her friends Linda and Jim. They have two sons, Kyle and Cory who have struggled so long with health problems and addiction. Jim and Linda are praying for peace, wisdom, hope and courage for themselves and for their sons. Please lift up the whole situation to God. My good friend Susan is asking us to pray for her. She has a bad shoulder that is keeping her off of her horses. I’m sure it’s keeping her from doing other things too but riding horses is number one! Please keep these folks on your prayer list: Hugh Homan, Irene Jeffries, Don Essinger, Lis Williamson, Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia, Tory, Josh, and Bob Maynard. We are so blessed that we serve a God who comforts us! Let’s all be thankful for that. We hope that you are including our church in your Christmas plans. It seems like the right thing to do! We will have two services on Christmas Eve 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and a casual one on Christmas Day at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel. We hope to see you this Sunday too! Blessings, Cris  Payette United Methodist Church
December 10, 2023 – 11:00 AM Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Calling Song: “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” UMH#203 vs. 1,3,4 Call to Worship One: Arise, O Church, and look! Many: The night is nearly over; the day is almost here! One: We know not when the Lord is coming. Many: So let us put aside the deeds of shadow and put on the armor of light. One: Come! Let us worship the Lord as we await God’s appearing! Many: May the light of Christ shine in the shadow! God’s Kingdom endures forever! Opening Prayer (in unison) We proclaim the greatness of the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Savior! For you, Lord, have looked with favor on your lowly servants. You, the Almighty, have done great things for us and holy is your name. You have mercy on those who fear you from generation to generation. You have shown strength with your arm and scattered the proud in their conceit, casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly. You have filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. You have come to the aid of your people, to remember the promise of mercy, the promise made to our forebears, to Abraham and Sarah and their children forever. Amen. Hymn: “Gloria Patri” UMH#70 Scripture Reading Mark 1:1-8 (CEB) Payette United Methodist Church December 10, 2023 – 11:00 AM Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Calling Song: “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” UMH#203 vs. 1,3,4 Call to Worship One: Arise, O Church, and look! Many: The night is nearly over; the day is almost here! One: We know not when the Lord is coming. Many: So let us put aside the deeds of shadow and put on the armor of light. One: Come! Let us worship the Lord as we await God’s appearing! Many: May the light of Christ shine in the shadow! God’s Kingdom endures forever! Opening Prayer (in unison) We proclaim the greatness of the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Savior! For you, Lord, have looked with favor on your lowly servants. You, the Almighty, have done great things for us and holy is your name. You have mercy on those who fear you from generation to generation. You have shown strength with your arm and scattered the proud in their conceit, casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly. You have filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. You have come to the aid of your people, to remember the promise of mercy, the promise made to our forebears, to Abraham and Sarah and their children forever. Amen. Hymn: “Gloria Patri” UMH#70 Scripture Reading Mark 1:1-8 (CEB) Prayer List Larry Jeffries passed away last Saturday. Please pray for Irene and his whole family. No service is planned at this time. Continue to pray for: Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Lis Williamson, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard Upcoming Events
Monday Morning Coffee With the Pastor this week from 9-12 at Bordertown Coffee in Gayway Junction. James and Pastor Mary Beth are inviting us to a Christmas party and ornament exchange on Saturday, December 16th at 3 p.m. at their home. Save the date! Christmas Eve services will be at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. We will have a Christmas Day service at 11:00 a.m. Wear your pjs! The dollar offering collected today will be given to Rose Advocates. Hi Everyone! December 7, 2023
The Winter Festival was a big success and it certainly wouldn’t have happened without so much help from everyone. A big thank you goes to Glenora Wright for organizing the whole event! She had a lot of behind the scenes help from her daughter Tami and from Lisa Parsons Bisbee. A big thank you to them! The church made over $3,500 and some money will trickle in. All the items left over from the country store are still available and will be on the tables at least until Sunday. Come by and shop whenever the church is open. Our teenagers Kathryn, Lizzy and Caleb ran the bingo game and did such a great job. We know they are busy, and we appreciate them very much. The United Methodist Men will have their monthly breakfast meeting this Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. at Erika’s Kitchen in Payette. All men are invited to attend. Don’t forget about the free Liberty Quartet concert at the Nazarene Church in Payette this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. They will collect a love offering. James and Pastor Mary Beth are having a Christmas party and ornament exchange on Saturday, December 16th at 3:00 p.m. at their home. The only thing you need to bring is an ornament to exchange. It will be fun! We have some praises this week. Anne DeBord’s grandson Kian and the Parson’s grandson Corbin are graduating from the University of Idaho (go Vandals!) this Saturday. Congrats to Kian and Corbin! Keep both families in your prayers as they travel north. Our prayers go out to the family of Larry Jeffries this week. Larry passed away last Saturday. His family surrounded him as he passed peacefully. Larry was an important part of PUMC. I served on the Trustee Committee with him for many years and along with Ken Frazier, they knew every tiny detail about our church and how to fix it. If they couldn’t find a part, they’d make it. Please keep Irene and the whole family in your prayers. The family won’t be having a funeral at this time. Dalyce Knight asks us to pray for the Householder family. They are mourning the loss of her cousin’s wife Dagmar. Keep her whole family in your prayers. Continue to pray for Don Essinger, Lis Williamson, Irene Jeffries, Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh and Bob Maynard. Our Christmas schedule looks like this: Christmas Eve 11:00 am and 6:00 pm and Christmas Day 11:00 am in the chapel. Join us for all if you can. The dollar offering this Sunday will be donated to Rose Advocates. They are a confidential network offering resources to abused children & adults since 1988.They strive to help each person begin a safe life for themselves & their families. Have a great rest of the week and we hope to see you on Sunday. Remember that Grace is indiscriminate and that God cherishes each one of us always. Blessings, Cris PS. Our praise songs this week are Prepare the Way and Your Peace Will Make Us One. Click on the blue links to listen in.  Payette United Methodist Church
December 3, 2023 – 11:00 AM Welcome Passing the Peace “Family of God” Calling Song: “My Hope is Built” UMH#368 vs. 1,3,4 Call to Worship – Mike Hall One: Arise, O Church, and look! Many: The night is nearly over; the day is almost here! One: We know not when the Lord is coming. Many: So let us put aside the deeds of shadow and put on the armor of light. One: Come! Let us worship the Lord as we await God’s appearing! Many: May the light of Christ shine in the shadow! God’s Kingdom endures forever! Opening Prayer (in unison) – Mike Hall We proclaim the greatness of the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Savior! For you, Lord, have looked with favor on your lowly servants. You, the Almighty, have done great things for us and holy is your name. You have mercy on those who fear you from generation to generation. You have shown strength with your arm and scattered the proud in their conceit, casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly. You have filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. You have come to the aid of your people, to remember the promise of mercy, the promise made to our forebears, to Abraham and Sarah and their children forever. Amen. Hymn: “Gloria Patri” UMH#70 Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 1 3-9 (CEB) Advent Candle Lighting Mike Hall Sing Together “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” Praise Song: “Even So Come” Music Team Children’s Time Pastor Mary Beth Prayers of the People Danny Crego Offering Prayer Danny Crego Doxology UMH#94 Prayer Hymn: “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus” UMH#196 all vs. Message: Pastor Mary Beth Isaiah 64 1-9 (CEB) Praise Song: “Song of Hope” Music Team Communion Service Announcements Sending Forth/Benediction Pastor Mary Beth This Advent and always, remain watchful with your eyes on Christ, whose birth in a manger is a promise of his coming again in glory. And may the blessing of God the All-Loving, Christ the Son, and the God the Holy Spirit be with you now and forevermore. This Advent season, may we go forth as people of living hope. May we live as if we believe God’s promises are true. Christ has come, and Christ will come again. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen. Prayer List Continue to pray for: Jim Warzyn, Shannon Osborn, Olivia Bybee, Lis Williamson, Hugh Homan, Tory, Josh, Bob Maynard, Larry and Irene Jeffries and the Stephan family. |