Worship Services -
Sunday @ 8:30a & 11aSunday School @ 9:45a
Worship on Wednesday @ 6:30p

COOKSON METHODIST

Reverend Marilynn Schellhamer and the congregation welcome new guests each week.  They are pleased that they come to worship in Cookson.  Sunday services are at 8:30 for the praise (contemporary) followed by Sunday School at 9:45 then the traditional service at 11:00 am.  Cookson United Methodist Church is located on the corner of Highway 82 south and Cookson Bend Rd.  Please call 457-5717 or check the website above.  Last weekend twenty five youth and eight adults enjoyed a back-to- school retreat at Sequoyah State Park.  The Wednesday night service invites you and your family to come to this youth oriented worship.  A light supper is served at 6:00 followed by worship at 6:30 pm. led by youth director Marcia Martin.

"Straight Backs and Rekindled Dreams" was the title of Pastor Marilynn's message.  Scripture readings were Psalm 71: 1-6 and Luke 13: 10-17.  What is life without hope?  Is life full of despair?  Our hope should be in Jesus Christ.  Somedays we wonder where God is.  He hasn't left us, we have left him.  In Luke 13, a woman goes to the synagogue knowing that Jesus can heal her stooped back that she has had for eighteen long years.  He does and she leaves praising him.  Everyone has both physical and emotional burdens.  Jesus will lift our burdens up.  There is tomorrow, there is today, there is a lifetime ahead of us with Jesus Christ.  In the periods of despair, there is a rainbow.  We need to look for them.  Look for the good in others.  Jesus asks us to take the burdens from each other.  This is what our journey is, what the body of Christ is about.  Are you willing to take someone's hand and walk with them?  Share the grace of God, love and compassion.  Look for the rainbows and look to the heavens.  You will be renewed in the spirit of love and understanding with Jesus Christ.

Sunday August 29, from 2-5 pm. come and go, the congregation will be celebrating at the parsonage.  The United Methodist Women will be hosting an appreciation time for Ruth Stratton.  She is currently and has been Cookson United Methodist Church's organist for forty years this October.  Thank you Ruth for sharing your talents, dedication and faithfullness in worship at Cookson United Methodist Church.

                                                                              Cindy Ballew