Vacation Bible School!!

June 16 to June 20

6pm to 8:30pm

More Info: 270-692-2761

Families will step back in time at Wilderness Escape, exploring some of the adventures faced by Moses and the Israelites. Each night participants will visit the Israelite Camp, sing catchy songs, play games, eat Bible-times snacks, and visit Moses. Wilderness Escape will run from  each day. 

May 2014

May 2014

Life Works News Youth and Children of Lebanon UMC

Greetings!  Spring is here!!  Summer is just around the corner.  We have lots of fun things in store for the summer so mark your calendars for the following dates: ·        VBS!  June 16- 20 6pm – 8:30pm ·        Girls Night (6th -12th)  June 27 5:30pm ·        Youth Water Day   (6th -12th)   June 28  1pm ·        Children’s Water Day  July 6  1pm ·        Girls Night  (6th -12th)  July 11 5:30pm ·        Youth Camp at Loucon (6th -12th)  July 27 – 30 (Sign up online)

Next Wednesday April 30 Mission Night! Children will meet at the church like normal and do missions projects here at the church. Youth we will not meet at the church but here is your assignment for the Wednesday: Our mission as Christians is to not only come to church but to invite people to come to church with us.  So for this Wednesday I want you to go out and be the church to someone else and to invite them to church with you. Is there someone who goes to school with you that does not know Christ? a.     If you answered yes, who is it?                                                                i.      Send that person a message, call them or talk with them at lunch and invite them to church on Sunday b.    If you answered no, ask your friends if they go to church and if they don’t invite them to come to church with you on Sunday

236 North Spalding Ave Lebanon, KY 40033 lebanonumcstudents@gmail.com Bekah’s cell – 859-576-0057

Scrapbook Party

Our finished Nursery

April showers bring May flowers

The children during our Kid’s Worship time will be going through a new series call Faith Builders.   It is a curriculum that will teach our children to build faith one block at a time.  We will be using Legos to tell the stories of our faith.  Children ages PreK – 5^th grade are invited to the Life Works Chapel on the third floor.

During Sunday School we will be learning about all the Gross things in the Bible.  Children 1^st – 12^th grade are invited to the third floor Sunday School room for a time of lesson, prayer and fellowship from 10 – 10:40.

Wednesday Nights in May we will be talking about families and friends relationships.   On May 28^th we will have our last Wonderful Wednesday by celebrating with food, fun and fellowship! 

Youth Group during the month of May will be talking about relationships.

Youth Girls will be meeting May 9^th at 5:30pm we will be talking about relationships and love language.

The movie Heaven is for Real is out and we are going to take a group to go and see it.  We will leave the church at 1pm on Sunday May 4.

Sunday

Easter Sunday

And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

1 Corinthians 6:14

Sunday Prayer

Lord, you have been powerfully raised from the dead.  In you, I have life and power over death.  Ignite my life with your power, O Lord, and let me take up my cross and follow you for all eternity. Alleluia!   Amen.

Sunday Meditation

Your love is stronger than death.  Your divine love breaks through the prison of death and destruction and becomes manifest again your risen body.  O Lord, who will ever be able to understand the heart in which your divine love became flesh!  Again I look at you.  You rose from the dead, and now you appear to me.  You say to me, “Peace be with you,” and you show me your wounded hands and your wounded side.  Yes, the wounds of your cross are visible on your risen body.  I look up at you and know that the marks of your totally self-giving love have found forever a place in the glorified body with which you are ascending to your Father and mine.

Henri Nouwen

Saturday

Holy Saturday

The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.

Isaiah 14:7

Saturday Prayer

A peculiar quietness fills the air today.  You hung your head and gave up your spirit, Christ Jesus.  Still, a peculiar excitement fills the air, too.  My Lord and my God, I wait with bated breath for your resurrection!  Amen.

Saturday Meditation      

It is the water from the Jordon through which the people and the Ark of the Covenant passed to enter into the Promised Land.  It is the water that flowed from the Temple, becoming deeper and deeper.  It is the water with which you yourself were baptized by John.  It is the water that became wine at Cana.  It is the healing water of the pool of Bethesda.  It is the water with which you washed your disciple’s feet.

Yes, Lord, the water flowing from your side is all of this, but much more than this too because it is the water by which you give us your innermost self and make us part of your communion with your Father; it is the water that becomes a spring in us welling up for eternal life.

-          Henri Nouwen

Friday

Good Friday

And in the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” 
which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Mark 15:34

Friday Prayer

Forsaken by both God and man, my Savior, you went through hell; you conquered it, Christ Jesus, by obliterating the gates of hell on the cross.  My God, let me know the love that you have for me.  Let me know the price that has been paid on my behalf.  The crosses that I carry are nothing compared to your cross.  Yet I take up my crosses knowing that you, O Lord, have taken up the far greater cross for me.  Amen.

Friday Meditation

How often have I missed the spiritual fruits of the season without being aware of it?  But how can I ever really celebrate Easter without observing Lent?  How can I rejoice fully in your resurrection when I have avoided in participating in your death?

Yes, Lord, I have to die – with you, through you and in you – and thus become ready to recognize you when you appear to me in your resurrection.  There is so much in me that needs to die: false attachments, greed and anger, impatience and stinginess, O Lord, I am self-centered, concerned about my self, my career, my future, my name and fame.  Often I even feel that I use you for my own advantage.  How preposterous, how sacrilegious, how sad!

-          Henri Nouwen

Thursday

Maundy Thursday – Holy Thursday

A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

John 13:34

Thursday Prayer

Far above are the trees you cause to grow.  Father above are the mountains you carefully crafted.  Even father yet are the stars you placed in the sky.  Yet Christ Jesus, you stooped down on bended knee to wash the feet of your followers.  Though it makes me uncomfortable to think of you doing such a lowly task, I know it was done out of your own free will.  Give me a spirit of readiness to carry the crosses of faith.  O Lord, I want to get my hands dirty.  Amen.

Thursday Meditation

Jesus says give me that little life, and he took it and he blessed it, he broke it and he gave it away, and it multiplied in the giving.  That’s what our life is supposed to be.  To be taken, blessed, broken and given away so that it can multiply.  Your life is called to multiply and be fruitful far beyond your little clock time, your little 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 years that you will live.  That’s just so little.  But if you live it as the one who is taken, blessed and broken your little life will be fruitful far beyond the boundaries of your little existence.  That’s true of Jesus’ life and that’s true for everyone who lives in the Spirit of Jesus.

-          Henri Nouwen

Wednesday

Wednesday of Holy Week

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 8:3-4

Wednesday Prayer

The cross of Christ began as a seed.  You, O Lord, provide soil to nourish that seed.  You brought forth rain and sunlight to sustain its growth.  You painstakingly prepared the tree upon which your Son would one day die.  And you did all of this for me.  Who am I that you would go to such lengths for me?  A willing ear, O Lord, is what I desire.  The work of your hands brought forth the cross of Christ.  Let the work of my hands take up my cross and follow you.  Amen.

Wednesday Meditation

Every prayer of petition becomes a prayer of thanksgiving and praises as well, precisely because it is a prayer of hope.  In the hopeful prayer of petition, we thank God for His promise and we praise Him for his trust.  Our numerous requests simply become the concrete way of saying that we trust in the fullness of God’s goodness, which He wants to share with us. Whenever we pray with hope, we put our lives in the hands of God.  Fear and anxiety fade away and everything we are given and everything we are deprived of is nothing but a finger pointing out the direction of God’s hidden promise, which we shall taste in full.

-          Henri Nouwen