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Bagdad Methodist News
A note from your Pastor … Weekly Newsletter May 6, 2021
A Mother’s Day Prayer
It is a wonderful thing to be able to honor the mothers among us on Mother’s Day. We do not do
enough to recognize what is undoubtedly the most important job in the world—nurturing children to become
the capable adults of tomorrow. So I would like to share with you this prayer for mothers, written by Rev.
Jane Sommers. If you are a mother, or have been as a mother to someone, I hope it blesses you. If not,
perhaps you can pray it as a blessing to someone else.
This day we gather with eager hearts, hungry for your Word, yearning for the joy you promise in love. O
God, together we hold a vision of your kingdom, a people of prayer and open hearts, a loving Body of Christ
eager to learn and eager to share. You bless us, O God, and shine upon us with the mercy of your salvation.
And your Good Earth has yielded its increase through those who have brought us great blessing.
On this day of celebrating your love, we lift to you those who have given us life, those who have loved
us, those who have blessed us, and those who have taught us, our mothers. May your blessing pour out upon
the woman who gave us birth, and those beautiful, strong women of faith who have been mothers to us along
our journey.
We praise you, O God, for your gift of motherly love, both gentle and fierce, both strong and humble,
both kind and true. Where we have been so blessed, we give our grateful praise, for you have provided loving
hands that have worked so hard in raising us, cared enough to correct us, blessed us in ways we cannot have
fully known as children.
We call forth your compassion upon every mother who has unknowingly caused pain and suffering.
And, so we lift to you our mothers, so imperfect, also so wounded by this world.
We bless our mothers this day, no matter what they have done or left undone. We do this because we
believe in your healing, and we believe in your love and we believe that you love every mother, good or bad;
and we stand together with all mothers in solidarity, for we all are in need of your grace. Where we have failed
because we did not know better, help us to forgive ourselves. Where we have seen your face in any woman who
has been to us a mother, in her face we have seen your light and your love and we give thanks -- for where they
have loved, they have kept your word and blessed us.
We lift to you the heart of every mother who has watched her child die of hunger, every mother who
had been a victim of abuse, every woman who stands in protest against a world that massacres her children
and renames them "collateral damage." We lift to you the prayer of every mother who has ever loved and lost.
We lift to you our Mother Earth. We lift to you our Mother Church. We lift to you, O God, your mother's
heart; and although we cannot fully express our gratitude, help each one of us to be your blessing of love, a
blessing straight from your heart. Amen.
Upcoming Events…
Sunday 9 May - Mother’s Day
8:30 am Worship Service Linda Broxson Hall
10:00 am Worship Service in the Linda Broxson
(Fellowship) Hall.
Message: “Faith that Conquers the World”
Scripture: 1 John 5:1-6
Note: W e w ill no lo nger have 8:30 B ible
Study on Sunday. We will continue Bible study on
Wednesdays at a new time, starting at 5:30 pm.
Monday 10 May - New Time…
9:00 am Piece-makers Quilt group meeting in the
Fellowship Hall. 5:30 pm Wednesday’s in the Cobb
4:30 pm Finance Committee meeting. Building.
5:00 pm Administrative Council meeting
We will no longer have the Sunday morning Bible
Wednesday 12 May - Bible Study - Study time.
5:30 pm Cobb building.
6:30 pm You are invited to stay and watch a
presentation by Adam Hamilton, “A Thinking
Person’s Guide to the Christian Faith”.
Author and Pastor Adam Hamilton honestly
and openly engages the questions that have kept
many from faith, while ultimately seeking to make
the case for a compelling Christian faith, one that
speaks to the intellect as well as the heart.
Thursday 13 May - 9:00 am The Piece-Makers
Quilt Guild are having their annual mini-retreat in
the Linda Broxson Hall.
Saturday 15 May - 8 am Chu r ch-wide work day.
Focus will be on trimming hedges and tree limbs and
hauling it off. We will need appropriate yard tools
and anyone with trucks and/or trailers willing to
haul the debris. Please call Jim Youngstrom at
850-607-0180.
Looking Ahead…
Birthdays…
Saturday 29 May - 10 am Women of Grace will
resume their monthly meetings. Meeting will be in Richard Manuel 5/9
the Cobb building. Pat Greene 5/15
Judith McClosky 5/15
Special Event…
Anniversaries:
Sunday 6 June - immediately following the Richard & Daphne Manuel 5/9
10 am service we will have a ceremony to
dedicate our Fellowship Hall as the “Linda
Broxson Hall”. To access our virtual service on Facebook please
use link below.
https://www.facebook.com/BagdadUMC Copy
and paste this link into your browser's address bar.
Worship Covenant
Holy Scriptures ….
It has been over a year since the
1 John 5:1-6 Coronavirus disrupted our regular worship
practices. We have maintained worship using
several different methodologies as the situation
1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of warranted, and I appreciate everyone’s cooperation
God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also and patience.
loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know Now that an increasing number of people
that we love the children of God, when we love God have developed resistance through vaccination or
and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love exposure to the live virus, we are hopeful that a
of God, that we keep His commandments. And His sense of normalcy is just around the corner. We
commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever are continuing to monitor the situation and
is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the heeding guidelines suggested by people in the
victory that has overcome the world—our faith. know. Currently, we are following these
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who
procedures:
believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is He 1. We continue to meet in the Fellowship Hall of
who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not Broxson Hall, where social distancing is more
only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the achievable.
Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
2. We continue to require masks or face guards
for those entering for worship. Masks are
Memory Bricks: available as a courtesy if you need one.
3. We ask you to continue to practice social
distancing as much as possible, especially
If you would like to purchase a brick in honor or avoiding handshakes.
memory of a loved one, Kathy Parker will be placing 4. Hand sanitizer is available for your use, and we
an order soon. The bricks are $20 each. Order forms encourage its use
will be on the bulletin board in the “Linda Broxson
Hall”. You can return the order form with payment to
the church office or to Kathy. For more information, We will continue to post video of our
contact Kathy Parker at 850-418-3784. worship service on Facebook for those who cannot
be in person. You are a part of our worship!
I am grateful to all of you who have honored these
rules and stuck with us through these trying
times. God’s people will not be deterred by
Quotes for the week… hardship or disease, and in fact, our faith grows
stronger the more it is tested!
“Forgiveness says you are given another
chance to make a new beginning.” To God be the Glory!
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu (born 1931)
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pastor Brian
“To plant a garden is to believe in
tomorrow.” Contact Information... Pastor:
—Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
Actress, Humanitarian Rev. Brian Dale
Office (850) 626-1948
Cell (404) 597-6242
“Sometimes your only available bdale100@gmail.com
transportation is a leap of faith.”
—Margaret Shepherd
Author, Artist Church Address:
P.O. Box 62
“The greatness of a community is most Administrative Assistant: 4540 Forsyth St
accurately measured by the Billye Anderson,
Bagdad, FL 32530
(850) 626-1948
compassionate actions of its members.” (850) 626-1948 Fax (850) 626-1949
—Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) (850) 426-2023 Bagdaduntiedmethodistchurch.org
Author, Activist billyeanderson@gmail.com
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