A Note About Online Forms: We have been having some difficulty with our online forms (i.e. Check-In) in the past couple of weeks. We ARE receiving the forms, but when you submit the form, it fails to display the confirmation page and so you receive an error. We hope to have the problem fixed soon, but in the meantime you may still use the forms. Melissia will send a message confirming the receipt of your form.

This Sunday, July 4

Prayer & Communion Service at 7:00 AM in Founders Chapel

ONE Worship Service at 10:10 AM in the Sanctuary of the Downtown Campus

Communion - This Sunday's communion offering will go to Kenyan projects.

No Sunday School

Pot Luck Lunch Following Worship

Full details below...

WOW - Worship On Wednesdays

Summer vacations have you out of town on weekends? Join us throughout the summer for Worship on Wednesdays! We'll worship together at 6:30 PM each Wednesday in the Sanctuary at the Heritage Campus. There will be a different speaker each week and we'll have music provided by a variety of people. The sermon series will be on the Ten Commandments. Childcare is provided.

July 4 - ONE Worship Service and Pot Luck

For information about all of our Missions Ministries, visit our website.

News to Change the World

Top Needs This Week
Money for food for Rwandan grandmother and three grandsons. Note "Rwanda food" on your check. Contact Trudy at trudyh@fumcg.org if you have questions.

First Saturday - Meet & Greet the Troops
Celebrate freedom this Independence Day weekend by joining us in welcoming home our heroes from Iraq and Afghanistan for their holiday leave. We'll meet and greet this Saturday, July 3, at DFW Airport Terminal D. Call the flight information line at 972-574-0392 late Friday night or very early Saturday morning for the recorded scheduled arrival time and location. Call again before leaving home to ensure no flight delay. Wear red, white and blue and bring a flag to wave! Parking vouchers are provided by the airport. Questions? Contact Donna Chabot (940-262-0366 or chabot113@juno.com).

Fresh Fruit Offering - July 11
Sunday, July 11, there will be a Fresh Fruit offering in support of Feed Our Kids. Please bring any type of Fresh Fruit and place it in the baskets on the table in the sanctuary foyer. The fruit will be used the following week as our church feeds 400 children a day during Feed Our Kids. 

Feed Our Kids – July 12-16
It is time to get ready to Feed Our Kids! Our church will be serving lunches to 400 children every day the week of July 12-16 as part of the local Feed Our Kids program. Every week of the summer, Feed Our Kids provides lunch to over 400 children a day. These children are on free or reduced lunch during the school year. There are opportunities to make and serve lunches, to donate food for those lunches, and to help coordinate. See Check-In in this Sunday's bulletin to volunteer. A table will be set up outside the sanctuary for donations on June 27, July 4 and July 11. Thanks for helping with this wonderful local mission. It could be the best week of your summer! Questions? Contact Deb Scheiwe at debscheiwe@verizon.net or 817-412-1762.

Popsicle Party - July 14
On Wednesday, July 14, we'll be hosting a Popsicle Party from 7:00 to 8:30 PM for our neighbors at the Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park on Scribner! We are working to build community with the Grapevine Village, so several of our ministry teams - Evangelism, Project PASS (tutoring), Hispanic Ministries, Children and Youth Ministries, etc. - are teaming up for a fun family event with food, games, music and more! As we take steps to transform one of the poorest parts of Grapevine, relationships matter. Our hope is to continue to build goodwill, trust and an ongoing friendly presence at the Grapevine Village. If you would like to help with planning, food, publicity, games or serving that night contact Donna Price at adkins96@yahoo.com.

God Can for GRACE 
Bring your non-perishable food items for the GRACE pantry to the designated bins in the Sanctuary Foyer, Founders Chapel Atrium and outside the church office. Click here for a current listing of GRACE's needs for the Food Pantry (pdf).

Mission Green Tip of the Week: Using Cruise Control
In general, cruise control does save gas, precisely because it maintains a constant speed until you tap the brake and slow down. Cruise control's main virtue is that it prevents involuntary acceleration, especially on long trips on flat roads--like where you start at sixty and somehow wind up at ninety with the highway patrol in hot pursuit. Now if you set the cruise control at ninety, it won't do much good, because gas mileage falls off rapidly when you get above fifty-five or sixty.

For information about all Adult Ministries, visit our website.

News for Adults

Tying up Life's Loose Ends Class Canceled
Due to a lack of registrations, this week's "Tying Up Life's Loose Ends" seminar will be rescheduled for sometime in the fall. Visit www.moneymatters4u.org to find out more about future classes.

Summer Beth Moore Study
Ladies, we will be doing Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed: A Study of David for our summer study. The study features video presentations with Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, and Kay Arthur. These three women explore their lives and the life of David in this six-session Bible study. The messages are divided into three segments, two lessons from each author. Each segment focuses on the life of David at a different stage of his life. You’ll laugh, cry, and learn to love God! The study begins Wednesday, July 7, and meets through August 11. Choose morning (9:30-11:30 AM) or evening (6:00-8:00 PM) session. Childcare available. Purchase the member guide at Lifeway Christian Store.

Questions about Youth Ministries? Contact Jenny Davidson at jennyd@fumcg.org or 817-705-2264 (cell).

RevolutionX News for Youth www.revolutionXonline.com

Wednesday Bible Study Locations - TONIGHT (June 30)
Bible studies will not meet due to Vacation Bible School

Sunday Night Youth
No Sunday night youth this Sunday due to the July 4th holiday.

2010 Middle School Mission Trip - July 18-23 to Menard, Texas
Our middle school mission trip will be here before we know it! We just came home from a wonderful high school mission trip and know that the next one will be just as great. All youth participating, their parents, and all of the adult leaders will meet this Sunday, June 27, during the Sunday School hour (10:15 AM) in Portable B-1. Please contact Jenny (817-705-2264 or jennyd@fumcg.org) ASAP if you are unable to attend this meeting. 

Summer Calendar
The youth event calendar through August is available on the youth website.

Buy a Light Help the Youth
Visit http://www.bogolight.com/?Click=8372 to purchase a solar-powered flashlight and support the youth! Click here for more info.

Questions about children's ministries? Rev. Nathan Firmin at nathanf@fumcg.org or 817-481-2559 x129.

KidsTown News for Children & Families www.firstmethodistgrapevine.org/children 

Vacation Bible School Is This Week!

Evening Session: 6:00 PM TO 8:15 PM. 
Please join us for our Closing Celebration on Thursday Evening at 8:00 PM in Founders Chapel. We'll sing songs and recap the awesome week!

Morning Session: 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM.
Please join us for our Closing Celebration on Friday at 11:30 AM in Founders Chapel. We'll sing songs and recap the awesome week!

Mission Swim
The Tweens have been hard at work on their Monday Mission Swims. Each Monday they gather in the Family Life Center at 8:30 AM for a devotional time, then head out to local spots (like GRACE) who need volunteers. After working during the morning, they head to someone's home for lunch and swimming. It's not too late to join us... we WILL have Mission Swim next Monday, July 5! Questions? Contact Children's Intern Elyse Hahne at nathanf@fumcg.org. 

Common Sense Media: Grown Ups?

Click here for THIS week's edition: Grown Ups?

Updates, Recaps, Gifts, Thanks, Photos, etc.

Gifts Given
A gift has been given to the Memorial Fund in memory of Kay Marquardt by the Carrabine and McDowell families.

Kenya Trip
The 2010 Kenyan Mission Trip is going great! Visit our website to read some of the reports we've received. Please continue to be in prayer for the team: Mark Howe, Cathy Jackson, Kody Diehm, Ken Diehm, Jeremiah Wilkerson, Sherry Brott, Carlos Dorris, Raymond Mikeska, Scharlet Mikeska, James Holmes, Grady Newton, Oscar Correa and Marilyn Zemba.

Travel Treasures
When you go on your summer or business travels, keep the Night in New Orleans Gala and Auction in mind! Come home with something special from your trip to donate to the auction. We've come up with a little game to help you have fun with it! Take a Mardi Gras mask (provided by us) and snap a photo of you and/or your auction item in that exotic (or not-so-exotic) locale. If you would like to pick up a Mardi-Gras mask to take with you when you travel, there will be a supply on the shelf by the reception desk in the church office. We’re challenging each Adult Sunday School class to get five Travel Treasure donations by September 12 (the day ticket sales begin). Here are the latest treasures...