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Titusville
church offers seminar on Jesus’ teachings
Indian River City United Methodist Church in
Titusville is offering a two-day seminar “Applying the Teachings of
Jesus” April 4–5. Dr. Randall Smith, program coordinator for the
Institute for Biblical Studies, will present insight into the
geography, culture and religious institutions that influenced early
New Testament writers.
The event is free. Contact Janice Pound at jpound@cfl.rr.com
or 321-267-7922 or 321-267-8562.
Floridians invited to support
ministries
 Tampa United Methodist Centers (TUMC) invite
Florida Conference church members to support the 23rd annual Wonder
Walk March 29, 8 a.m.–1 p.m., at Lopez park in Tampa. This year’s
theme is “Taking Steps to Help a Child” and all proceeds will
benefit TUMC Children’s Services. Contact Kitty Carpenter, TUMC’s
director of development and public relations, at 813-248-6259,
extension 225.
The Stetson Wesley House Foundation invites
Florida United Methodists to participate in the second annual Wesley
House Classic golf tournament April 5 to support the ministry of the
Wesley House at Stetson University in DeLand. The entry donation is
$75. Contact Cindy Guiles, Stetson’s Wesley House director, at
386-734-4564 or WesleyHouseSU@aol.com.
New resource offers discipleship
experience for children
Discipleship Resources is offering “SPROUTS:
Covenant Discipleship with Children,” a new resource to help church
leaders encourage spiritual growth in children.
SPROUTS is for children in grades three to six
and helps translate “love God and neighbor” and “What Would
Jesus Do?” into specific acts children can understand. SPROUTS
children meet once per week to support and encourage each other.
Contact Steve Manskar, director of Covenant
Discipleship at the General Board of Discipleship (GBOD), at smanskar@gbod.org
or 877-866-2780, extension 1765, or Mary Alice Gran, GBOD’s director
of Children’s Ministry, at mgran@gbod.org
. Her extension is 7143.
Men to recognize outstanding young
people
The Commission on United Methodist Men is
recognizing young people for their personal and selfless contributions
to others. The commission will award $500 in each of the United
Methodist Church’s five United States jurisdictions, subject to a
minimum of 100 nominees in each jurisdiction.
To qualify, a person must be between the ages of
12 and 19 and must have received a Good Samaritan Award, a United
Methodist award begun in 2000 to recognize young people who represent
the attributes of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37.
To receive the award, youth must be nominated by
an adult not related to them. The nomination must be supported by the
pastor or president of the local church unit of the United Methodist
Men.
Contact the Office of Civic Youth-Serving
Agencies/Scouting at 615-340-7129 or mstowe@gcumm.org.
Short Bites
Cokesbury, a unit of the United Methodist
Publishing House, is offering youth ministry seminars across the
United States this spring. Titled, “Fun Factors and Feeding the
Soul,” the seminars will cover junior high culture, new brain
research, spiritual formation, starting a youth worship service and
making worship multisensory. Go to http://www.ileadyouth.com/seminar/index.html,
write to swalker@umpublishing.org
or contact Curricu-U-Phone at 800-251-8591.
April is National Donate Life Month, a
one-month focus on education and conversation about organ and tissue
donation. Churches are encouraged to offer events teaching how
donations can help ease the suffering of thousands of people waiting
for organ transplants. Visit http://www.donorcare.org
or contact Charles White, Southeast Tissue Alliance donor services
coordinator, at 1-877-733-3700.
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