Announcements & Prayers (Week of 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2024)

(Weekly Prayer Schedule Follows the Announcement)

• Ignite Youth:  Ignite Youth will meet Sunday afternoon from 4:00pm-5:30pm. Ignite Youth is a small group for children in Elementary and Middle School that meets each Sunday afternoon.  Each week, we’ll enjoy games, a lesson and food.  Spread the word! 

• Men’s Chorus:  The Men’s Chorus will practice Sunday afternoon at 5:30pm.

• Bible Study:  Join us for Bible Study on the book of Genesis each Monday.  Two sessions are offered for your convenience: one at 9:30am and a second at 6:00pm.  No special materials are needed for the study beyond your favorite Bible.  Please invite a friend and join us as we study God’s Word together.   This week’s discussion will focus on chapters 10 & 11.

• Weekly Prayer Meeting:  Join us for a weekly prayer meeting each Monday beginning at 11:00am.  We’ll pray for the church, our community, our nation and the world.

• WNC Volunteer Opportunity:  A group of volunteers from Fairfield are planning to go to Boone this Wednesday to help with relief efforts following Hurricane Helene.  This week’s task will be removing fallen trees and shoveling mud out of a home.  Anyone interested in joining the team of volunteers is invited to join the email chain by sending an email to Pastor Billy.

• Choir practice:  There will be no choir practice this week.  Choir practice will resume next Wednesday.

• BBQ:  Join us for our Annual BBQ this Saturday, November 2.  We’ll begin serving at 11:00am and serve until 7:00pm, or until we’ve sold out.  Volunteer signup sheets are available in the hallway.  Everyone helping to clean out the BBQ pits and get things ready is asked to meet at the church on Friday at 9:00am.  

• Beale-Culp Wedding Invitation:  Bobby and Lorraine wish to invite the entire church family to their wedding on Saturday, November 9, at 2:00pm in the sanctuary at Fairfield.  A reception will follow in the fellowship hall.

• Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes:  Please consider participating in Samaritan’s Purse’s 2024 Operation Christmas Child.  Plastic shoeboxes are available on the table in the Common’s Area along with brochures about “How to Pack Your Shoebox.”  Pick up a shoebox today and fill it with suggested items for a child this Christmas and return it to the church by November 10.  Please remember, your shoebox gift is an expression of God’s love to a child.  For more info, please contact Debbie Norton.

• Christmas Trip:  You’re invited to join us on our 2024 Fairfield Family Christmas Trip on Saturday, December 7.  We’ll depart from the church at 12:45pm and travel by motorcoach to Theatre Charlotte for their afternoon matinee performance of Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.”  After the show, we’ll travel to Golden Corral for a buffet dinner before returning to the church around 7:00pm.  Ticket prices are:  

         $55 for Adults (ages 13-61);  $48 for Seniors (ages 62 and over);  and $30 for Students (ages 5-12). 

          (If your child is under age 5, please see Pastor Billy for details.)

You may sign up for the trip on the clipboard at the table in the Commons Area.  Please write a separate check from your offering when paying for the Christmas Trip and indicate “Christmas Trip” on the memo line and place payment in the offering plate.  You may also pay online by visiting our website (www.fairfieldmethodist.org).  

• Lakewood Care Team:  A team of volunteers visits Lakewood Care Center on Optimist Club Rd. in Denver once a month to deliver gifts and visit with the residents.   Anyone interested in joining the Lakewood Care Team is invited to contact Scottie Barker.

• Ushers:  Anyone interested in volunteering as an usher (in either service) is invited to contact Greg Sunday to sign up.

 

                                                LET’S PRAY OCT 27-NOV 2, 2024

	SCRIPTURE – New International Version	Prayer Starter
SUN	Jeremiah 29:13 – “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”	Lord, I welcome You and thank You for Your presence in my life and for dying on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins. Please draw near to me. Let the name of Jesus be lifted high. Amen
MON	Luke 10:2 – He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.”	Lord, help us turn our hearts to You. We have work to do to awaken Your church. Allow Your truth to be spoken boldly as Your people turn to You. We ask for supernatural help to complete this work quickly. Amen
TUES	Luke 10:3 – “Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”	Lord, keep Your angels near us as we work among the wolves to save Your sheep. You are our strength. Apart from You, we cannot stand. Amen
WED	Acts 2:21 – “And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”	Lord, I truly believe Your plan for me before I was born was to help others call on Your name. Let me be used by You to expand Your kingdom. Let the Holy Spirit work BOLDLY in my life and show me Your will. Amen
THUR	Luke 22:31-32 – “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.”	You tell us to pray without ceasing whenever a prayer comes to mind and that you hear our prayers and intercede for us. You pray for us! Thank you. Amen
FRI	James 5:17 – Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.	Luke 19:46 “It is written,” he said to them, “My house will be a house of prayer”. Lord, help us human beings make Fairfield YOUR HOUSE OF PRAYER! Amen
SAT	Genesis 12:3 - “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”	Lord, please deliver Israel from their enemies and let it be shown to ever nation through Israel’s victory that You are the Sovereign ruler over us all. Amen