Mission's Report:

We have packed approximately 170 bags for Back Pack Buddies thanks to the Sunday school classes and church members who donated items. We have extra snack items and will also donate those. This will save the organziation some time and money . Back Pack buddies are made weekly about 1000 weekly thru the organization called "4 Kids"

We will be meeting with His Hands of Horry county Executive Board and explore how we could help them periodically with a team of LRUMC members to help do a home repair on a Saturday. This would be a great outreach project for our church to combine forces with other churches for doing God's work in our local communities.

I will be metting with someone in Guidance Department at North Myrtle Beach High School regarding the homeless students and how our church could assist.

Blessings, Elaine Hoch Missions Chairperson

 

 

LRUMC FINANCE COMMITTEE

TREASURER'S REPORT

BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT

• Year to date Operating Fund receipts and expenditures
• Significant budget expense variances
• COJ review
• Introduction of Electronic Fund Direct Debit option

REVIEW OF OPERATING FUND PROJECTION MODEL

STATUS REPORT ON CTJ PLEDGES

SPRC REPORT

TRUSTEES REPORT (INCLUDING STATUS OF MEMBER'S OFFER TO DONATE REAL ESTATE)

STEWARDSHIP REPORT

NEW BUSINESS

Evangelism Committee:

At the April 26 Evangelism Com. meeting we decided to:

     1.  Seek and invite new committee members.

     2.  Recruit more bread bakers for first time visitors.

     3.  Order preprinted postcards to send to first time visitors and stop the handwritten ones due to our arthritic hands!

     4.  Prepare for LRUMC's booth at Blue Crab Festival on Saturday, May 15 only.  We'll give out 1000 bags containing "Invitation CDs". either a LRUMC magnet or pencil or scripture ribbon, LRUMC brochure, and VBS information.  On our tables we will have information on our PMO, CASA and Coastal Samaritan Counseling, plus free New Testaments and Gospel tracs.  We'll need 4 volunteers to work each 2 hour shift from 9:00 am until 7:00 pm on Saurday only.  We will not participate on Sunday.  The UMM will help us set up and take down and Ralph Lilley will once again loan us his tent.

     5.  Prepare for our May 27 final Thursday Night Connection called a "Time to Celebrate!" which will be sponsored by Evangelism.  Our program shared jointly with Donna Levinski of Youth and Children will be honoring all new members since the end of May 2009 and their Fellowship Friends as well as all graduates, those with special educational milestones, and our newest confirmands. The meal is the usual $6 except for our invited guests and their families which will be free.  Everyone is invited!

        6.  Include a new pictorial directory in each red folder of church info that is given to each new member.

Respecfully, Beth Coley

Christian Education Report

The combined Recreation Night and Egg-Splosion was a huge success. We had over 50 volunteers helping run all the activities and around 150 total attendance at this event.

Sunday School :Attendance Average for the first quarter of 2010 was 197.

Children’s Sunday School:

Children participated in the Worship Alive Easter Service. Karmen Smith taught them and led them in signing “Word of God Speak”.

Children participated in the Celebrating the Journey combined service. Ashleanne Cane led them in “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands”.

Our next Enrichment Series will be May 15 with Dorcas Berg reading to the children.

We continue to celebrate children’s birthdays monthly on the last Sunday.

The Children and Youth Art Show for Celebrate the journey was very successful with over 200 pieces of art created by the children and youth. At this time the amount raised from the art show is over $700 which is the children’s donation and commitment to Celebrating the Journey. The final amount will not be known until after May 10. The print done by Noelle Tarant brought in a high bid of $100.

Summer Sunday School theme will be “Jungle Adventure” to go along with the VBS theme.

Two new tables and 28 chairs have been purchased for the Upper Deck. We still need more tables at this time.

Attendance continues to be good.

Youth Connection Sunday School: Julie Richardson and Maryellen Hoffman, teachers for Youth Connection, led a Lenten Study with the group.

Adult Sunday School

All classes continue with excellent attendance.

The new Young Adult Class – CGIF – Christians Growing In Faith – is growing and thanks to Charlie and Marianne Schuler for their excellent leadership.

BIBLE STUDIES:

Disciple I and II will end in May. Disciple Graduation and recognition will be at all 3 services on May 23. Thanks to Pastor Randy Smith and Cookie Weber

Tuesday Morning Bible Study continues to grow.

Men’s Study – OH BROTHER; WALKING TOGETHER IN FAITH – had to be cancelled due to the illness of Don Woodwell’s son.

The Beth Moore Study led by Beth Coley has 14 students and has been wonderful.

The two 1-time Fish Tale Bible Studies led by Dan Moore and Charlie Schuler were well attended.

Upcoming Events: May 20, Thursday Nite Connection – Family Fun Night with Cook out by Light Keepers Class and Hay Ride with Ken Thompson. May 29 Family Recreation Night, Summer Sunday School “Jungle Adventure” begins June 6, Vacation Bible School begins June 14. Learn and Play for 3 to 5year olds June and July.

Joan Moales, Director of Education

 

Donna Levinski, Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries

United Methodist Youth Fellowship Groups’ scheduled activities and special events for each month are posted on the Bulletin Board in Fellowship Hall and included in the Family Gathering. We have extended the time for our meetings, to now be from 5:00-7:00 PM.

1. Our community service activity for the month of May will be preparing soup for Heartland Hospice Patients.
2. May 23 rd will be our last UMYF for this school year. We will resume UMYF meetings after Labor Day.
3. All of the Adult Sunday School classes and church groups have been invited to provide a meal for the UMYF group on one Sunday night during the school year.

Our goal is to provide an opportunity for the adults from our congregation to interact with our young people.

The CGIF SS class provided dinner, devotions and games in April.

The Heritage SS class will provide dinner on May 9, 2010

The Hoch family will provide dinner and an activity on May 16,, 2010

Thank you to all groups and individuals who have participated.

1. Our 2010 Confirmation Class consists of 6 young people who are participating in Confirmation classes every Sunday afternoon, lead by Pastor Randy Smith and assisted by Donna Levinski. These youth will be Confirmed on Sunday, May 30 th at the 11:00 AM service. The Confirmands are: Tessa Belk, Shari Carvalho, Micah Jones, Andrew Jones, Stephanie Provenzano and Anthony Provenzano.
2. The youth are most grateful to the Lightkeepers Sunday School Class for their financing and building of the New BasketBall Court. The court was dedicated on Sunday May 2, 2010.
3. The families and youth are appreciative of the donations made to our scholarship fund for them to attend Camp Asbury Hills. The following groups donated money to this fund: The Friendship Class, Heritage Class, Spares and Pairs Class, CGIF Class and The Tuesday Morning Bible Study. Without this support, these youth would not be able to share in this Christian experience.
4. The First Steps, Parent’s Morning Out Ministry has an enrollment of 19 children. Our last day of this school year will be Friday, May 28 th. Applications are being accepted for the fall semester. Our ad on the church website has been updated with all new phone numbers and information.
5. A Recreation night has been scheduled for Saturday evening, May 29 th , 2010 to provide additional opportunities for youth from the community to come to our facility and encourage intergenerational interaction for our congregation. Additional Recreation nights will be scheduled in March, May, and Oct..
6. Our Vacation Bible School will be held this year the week of June 14-18, with a set up day on June 13 th. We have ordered and received our curriculum. It will be Son Quest Rain Forest. Norma Carvalho will be our VBS Director again this year. Donna Levinski will be Assembly Director and Skit Director. We still need to additional actors for our opening and closing skits.
7. Our Youth and Children Summer Gathering Activities will be different for 2010.

Due to scheduling conflicts on Wednesdays, we will no longer have Wild and Wacky Wednesdays. We will begin a new program called Fabulous Freaky Fridays. The dates that they will meet are Friday, July 9; Friday, July 23; Friday, August 6 and Friday, August 20.