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CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR THE NEEDY! The Tuesday Morning Community Outreach is planning to serve a Christmas Dinner on December 20th. We will buy hams and are asking you (if you are able) to prepare sweet potatoes, corn casserole or a dessert. Please have your dish to the Family Life Center by 10:00 a.m. on December 20th. If you would rather donate money for the hams please make your check out to First United Methodist Church and indicate on the check that it is for “HAMS.” If you are traveling out of town and would like to prepare a dish, just bring the dish ahead of time and put it in the walk-in refrigerator in the Family Life Center Kitchen on the right hand side. Please come and help us welcome our guests for this special dinner as we want Christ to shine through each of us so they are able to see Him and not us. We have a loving, giving church and it can be felt and seen by others. Please call Stella Bergeson at 622-9432 and let her know what you can bring. Thank-you!

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Job Campaign God’s Way – is a Christian Support Group for people facing unemployment or who are underemployed. Everyone is welcome to this free group. Lots of good information and assistance is provided each Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. in Room 19. With hundreds of people out of work in our Greater Ocala area, we’d like to reach out and offer encouragement. Please join us!

Dine & Donate! Please come to the Wednesday Night Dinner to raise funds for Larry & Debbie Drake as they return to their Peru mission work this month. Wednesday, December 14th at 5:00 p.m., dinner in the Family Life Center will be dedicated toward honoring them with our presence and support. Come hear more about their work and enjoy a lovely meal with our church family. Make your reservations by using the Clip Boards this morning or by calling the Church Office.

Please join Pastor Sue for our Advent/New Year’s Study on the book Amazing Grace: by William Wilberforce and the Historic Campaign against Slavery by Eric Metaxas. We will be focusing on the Incarnation and discuss the question “Can we really change the world?” We will be meeting on these Wednesdays – December 14th, January 4th and 11th. Please sign up on the clipboards and indicate whether you’d prefer the afternoon or evening study.

Walking the 12 Steps with Jesus Christ…is a Christ-centered over comer’s group that offers help with emotional strongholds, healing from your past, emptiness, loneliness, depression, addictions such as gambling, eating, codependency, alcohol, drugs, etc. and any behavior or habit that interferes with your relationship with Jesus Christ. Come join us on Wednesday evenings in Room 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Our Preschool is offering “JINGLE FOR JESUS CAMP” for children ages 5 through 10, on December 19th - 23rd from 8:15 a.m. till Noon. The cost is $50.00 for the week. The activities include arts, crafts, games, story time and a festive birthday party celebration. For more information call the Preschool Office at 620-0003.

Our Christmas Eve Services are: 5:00 p.m. – A family friendly worship service in the Family Life Center with traditional Christmas Eve music and the worship band. The children will present the Christmas Story with music, dance and storytelling. 6:30 p.m. – A traditional worship service in the sanctuary with music from the adult choir, youth choir, children’s choir, organ, harp and instrumental ensemble. 8:00 p.m. – A traditional worship service in the sanctuary with music from the adult choir, organ, harp and instrumental ensemble. All services will include candlelight and communion. Child Care will be provided for all three services. On Sunday, December 25th we will have one service at 10:00 a.m. in the Family Life Center.

What would your life look like if you had No Debt and were really In Control of your money? Join us for Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University program starting Monday, January 9, 2012 from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The class will meet each Monday for 13 weeks and child care can be available upon request. You’ll have fun as you learn about saving, budgeting, investing, insurance and more. The average family eliminates $5,300 in debt and saves $2,700 while in FPU. The FPU kit costs $99.00 per family (1-2 adults). Register today by calling Karen Buss 425-2652. Space is limited to 10 couples.