Emmanuel Class
Meets 9:45
Room 131
Down in the basement under the Library

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If you are interested in creating a group web page for your Sunday School class or church group, email JD Graffam.

From exploring the Christian message in the music of U2 to studying the spiritual discipline of gratitude, the Preston class provides a forum for singles and couples in their 20s and 30s to discuss contemporary and faith-based issues in a relaxed, social environment. (Room 335, HMC)

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Preston Class News and Events

Thursday, May 22-
Class Social- Daniel and Holly Turner have graciously offered to have the social this week. It's going to be at 7:00 Thursday night at their house (7175 Claiborne Drive, Germantown, TN 38138). They're planning poker for the guys and games for the girls. Everyone's on their own for dinner so eat before you come or feel free to bring food along with you! See you then!

Sunday, May 25
Sunday School:
Steven Solomon teaching on Methodist and John Wesley history (Part 2)

Youth: No Element (Memorial Day)

Sunday, June 1:
Sunday School: Brian and/or Romilly teaching on some great topic

Church Picnic: Our Annual Church Picnic will be Sunday, June 1, at McVay Park from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the Welcome Center. Cost is $8 for adults, $6 for children, with age 3 and under free. Habitat for Humanity will be providing the food with all proceeds to benefit Habitat. The McVay House will be open for those seeking a cooler place to enjoy the picnic.

Attention class members, if you have any pictures, newspaper clips, or funny stories you want to post send them to GUMC@intermixdesign.com and they will be added to the our site. Visit the Gallery.

Preston Tattoo Shop
At this years Harvest Festival the Preston class showed their "class" by opening a tattoo shop for the kids. Hundreds of tats where given and many moms where pleased.

pics coming soon!


Preston Volunteers at Crave
This year class members turned out in record numbers to participate in the Youth Group's fall retreat known as "CRAVE." There was a super-hero dance, ropes course, faith based speakers and many other activities. Not only did the youth enjoy this event, I think members of our class learned quite a bit also.

pics coming soon!

Christmas Party Gets Interactive
This years Christmas party introduced Guitar Hero and Dance,Dance Revolution into the mix with funny results. Gift stealing was still in full force, the food spread was great and the dance club stayed open late into the night. Thanks for everyone who participated in the events of the evening.

Lets not forget that we raised over $100 to purchase toys for Reel Foot Ministries Group. Thanks to everyone who donated.

Welcome to the Seekers' page. Scroll down for a calendar of events, summary of lessons, class news, a list of activities, cares and concerns - all in one place.

Thought for the week
The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

October 19 Lesson - Jim Preutt
Jim continued a series of lessons on the history of the early church from 70 AD to the beginning of Constantine’s reign in 313 AD. This period for early Christians included times of relative calm interspersed with a number of brief periods of turmoil and persecution. Jim will teach again next week.

Class Lessons: October-April
Oct. 26 -- Jim Pruett
Nov. 02 -- John Wagner
Nov. 09 -- Debbie Nimtz
Nov. 16 -- Health and Wellness
Nov. 23 -- Frank Markus
Nov. 30 -- Cliff Wentworth
Dec. 07 -- John Wagner
Dec. 14 -- Cliff Wentworth
Jan. 04 -- David Jackson/Don Rhoads
Jan. 11 -- Kelly Arrendell
Jan. 18 -- Gary Rutherford
Jan. 25 -- Gary Rutherford
Feb. 08 -- Gary Rutherford
Feb. 18 -- Health and Wellness
Mar. 01 -- Ralph Hamilton
Mar. 08 -- Ralph Hamilton
Mar. 15 -- Ralph Hamailton
Mar. 22 -- Don Doyle
Mar. 29 -- Don Doyle
Apr. 05 -- Tracey Speake
Apr. 12 -- Tracey Speake

Calendar
Oct. 26 - Seekers usher
Oct. 26 - Fall Festival
Nov. 3 - Finance committee meeting at 700 p.m. at home of Larry Hines
Dinner Groups - First person in group should try to set up date for first gthering

Cares and Concerns
Martha Rutherford - recuperating frorm breast cancer surgery
Irene Bishop - Joy Cook's mother being transferred back to nursing home
Jacob Lawson Easter - New born grandson of Mary Lou and Jeff Easter scheduled for heart surgery at Vanderbilt this week

Rev. Rick Kirchoff

May 6 Casteel
May 13 Causey
May 20 Kenley
May 27 Davis
June 3 Jones
June 10 Waugh
June 17 Murphy
June 24 Sells
July 1 Adams
July 8 Hopper

Snack List
May 6 Casteel
May 13 Causey
May 20 Kenley
May 27 Davis
June 3 Jones
June 10 Waugh
June 17 Murphy
June 24 Sells
July 1 Adams
July 8 Hopper

Thanks for signing up to bring snacks

May 6 Casteel
May 13 Causey
May 20 Kenley
May 27 Davis
June 3 Jones
June 10 Waugh
June 17 Murphy
June 24 Sells
July 1 Adams
July 8 Hopper

Thanks for signing up to bring snacks!

May 6 Casteel
May 13 Causey
May 20 Kenley
May 27 Davis
June 3 Jones
June 10 Waugh
June 17 Murphy
June 24 Sells
July 1 Adams
July 8 Hopper

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SNACK LIST
March 4 Wirths
March 11 Bladons
March 18 Adams
March 25 Waughs
April 1 Williams
April 8 Easter - No Class
April 15 Jones
April 22 Sells
April 29 Harris

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Announcements
February 11

Max Lucado: Lesson for February 18
Romans: Session 5

Ladies Night Out: Sunday, February 25
Watch the Oscars
Charmoin Tatum's House
Come at 6pm
Bring $5 to go toward FireNStone pizza & BYOB
RSVP to Charmoin tatumch@bellsouth.net for a headcount for pizza
1491 Grand Cypress Drive
Collierville, TN 38017
850-7687 home
Wear your comfiest clothes or jammies!!!

Blood Drive: February 25
GUMC
8:30-12:30
call 754-7216 for details

Discovery Weekend: February 23-25
We are in the process of coordinating our class' contribution for this youth weekend. We are tentatively sponsoring and serving Sunday lunch for this weekend. We will take monetary donations and have a sign up sheet for helping serve the meal in class this Sunday. I will forward more details after I hear back from Allison Bocking.

Future Class Mission project: CCA
Rob Downey made a presentation in class about the Christian Contractor's Assn.
We are looking in to supporting this group as a mission project.
You can find out more about this group at http://www.ccaministry.org

Habitat Spring Build 2007
672 Jennette Place
Memphis TN
March 16,17,24 & 31
April 14, 21, & 28
May 5 & 13

Waiver forms for participation are available in our classroom.
Contact Drew Bladon with any questions.

Small Groups: February groups have been assigned by the Sells
If you are interested in participating and were not assigned to a group, call 751-9899 or email rmsells@hotmail.com Melissa to be added to a group.

These are the groups for February:
Group 1
*Shad & Paige Williams
Drew & Erin Bladon
Scott & Alise Davis

Group 2
*Pat & Angie Hopper
Scott & Susie Harris
Trent & Michele Causey

Group 3
*Brian & Kim Wirth
Robert & Madelyn Jones
Adam & Elaine West

Group 4
*Andrew & Christina Burns
Allen & Heather Tetleton
Joe & Kristen Williams

Group 5
*William & Carol Kenley
John & Sally Adams
Jimmy & Jennifer Murphy

Group 6
*Ron & Melissa Sells
Rob & Tammy Downey
Crawford & Charmoin Tatum

Group 7
*Casey & Laurie Casteel
Heather & Peter Whitehead
Mark & Marie Waugh
Wes & Lauren Truett

If you're a registered member, you can get your own group website. All you have to do is fill in this form below. We'll set your page up, give your class webmaster a username and password, and teach you how to use the system. It's really easy! You can have your own interactive web page within a couple of days! All in the GUMC framework, so no ads, no spam, just the stuff you want to talk about!

Features

• An online discussion board


• Make announcements and stay in touch


• Continue classroom discussions during the week


• Share links to other stories


• Share pictures


• You can even use it to plan events


• And more!

If you are logged in, you should see a form below. You'll need to register first to request a class.

We've now got a website where we can communicate as a class, in one place. Let's try and use it!

Hey everybody, as you may know, I've been working on the new church website for a long time, and now the Sunday School section of the web site I've been promising is here! Let's get as much mileage out of it as we can, to be a good example to the rest of the church and get as much participation as possible...

We've now got a website where we can communicate as a class, in one place. Let's try and use it!

Hey everybody, as you may know, I've been working on the new church website for a long time, and now the Sunday School section of the web site I've been promising is here! Let's get as much mileage out of it as we can, to be a good example to the rest of the church and get as much participation as possible...

Sorry about making you have to register, but let me explain why we want you to do it...

1) It helps us get everyone's correct email and contact info, so we can use some of the more advanced features to communicate with everyone easily.

2) It cuts out the possibility of a spam attack, which really does happen. And we don't want a spam attack on our church's website. It can get pretty nasty.

3) It's really quick. You just wait a couple of minutes for an email to come, click a link, and you're registed. You can use any password you want, we're not going to force you to use funny characters or assign you a hard-to-emember password.

So let's get started!