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others closer to God.
We had a great time feeding hungry people at Casa Maria last Saturday! Our next date to serve is Saturday, February 21!

The Great Envelope Fundraiser Continues This Sunday!

Just how far is Orlando? 2019 miles! But it’s a short distance for our youth to travel for a life-changing spiritual event with thousands of other Methodist youth. YOU can support our trip by picking up a numbered envelope!. THIS SUNDAY, look for the wall of envelopes in the entrance to the sanctuary and in Fellowship Hall. Each envelope will be numbered. Simply choose an envelope and put the amount of the number in the envelope as a donation!  
You can also make your donation online. Go here and scroll down to the box that is labelled "Other Restricted Fund" and enter your amount. Beside that box, type "Youth Fundraiser" in the box. 
And start saving your change, especially quarters, for a special collection in February! You can track our progress, and see a new message from our youth every 100 miles closer we get to our goal. Look for the maps in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall. 
 

Fruit Picking Service Project 

Join us as we save fruit from being wasted and re-purpose it to help needy people in Tucson!  This project is planned for Sunday February 8 2-5:30 pm. Get the details here and sign up to volunteer or offer your fruit trees for picking! This is a great ALL-CHURCH service project! Flyers will be available this Sunday with all the information in print. 
 

Celebrate FAT TUESDAY with a pancake dinner at Catalina!

Join us in Fellowship Hall on Tuesday February 17 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Bring your friends and family for All-You-Can-Eat pancakes and fresh fruit, orange juice, and coffee. All proceeds support our youth summer trip to Orlando for Youth 2015. Adults eat for only $10, Kids age ten and under eat FREE! 
 

Home Energizer Workshop Rescheduled

The new date for this important workshop is Tuesday, February 15 at 1:30pm. Come and learn how to save energy and lower your utility costs! Space is limited, so make your reservation in the entrance to the sanctuary, or in fellowship hall, or by contacting Ruth Little at 327-4296 ext 115.
Wildcat Basketball fan? Don’t worry, you can still join us for Epiphany dinner and worship TONIGHT and make it home for the 8pm tip off. Come and have a healthy meal, meet some new people, worship together, and say a prayer for the most loved team in college basketball. Dinner starts at 5:30, worship at 6:15. See you tonight!
 

The February Family Ministry Calendar

Our latest calendar of great events (and a ton of other really good stuff) is already up on the Family Ministry Page! Check it out! 
 

Family First Friday

NEXT Friday, February 6 is our next Family First Friday! We begin with a healthy and tasty FREE dinner at 5:30, and there are always fun family activities! We will meet in Fellowship Hall and this month's theme is VALENTINE'S DAY!
 

Valentines for Blenman 

It’s nearly time for Valentine’s Day. Please enjoy shopping for Valentines for the Blenman families who cannot afford them and save their teachers from buying them themselves! The boxes of school valentines are needed. Bring them to worship with you by February 8.

Check out this awesome INTERGENERATIONAL group of volunteers making sandwiches for Casa Maria! We had so many hard-working volunteers that all the sandwiches were finished early!

SUPER BOWL PARTY is this Sunday!

Catalina Youth: Join all the south district Methodist youth groups for a SUPER event! The big game will be on the big screen, there will be fun activities all over the church campus, there will be great food, and some SUPER large group events! Bring a friend! We begin at 3pm in Fellowship Hall.


"I Walk This Path of Life"
Try this prayer and guided meditation by Christine Sine here.
"I’ve noticed something about the parents of teens and twenty-somethings who are high functioning and healthy. I’m talking about young adults who you sit and talk to and wonder how they got so wise, self-controlled and winsome. I’ve noticed they all have parents who have a distinct, unique, and rare quality about them." 
Read "Great Parents Do This Well" by Don Miller or watch the video here!

Methodist Men’s Breakfast

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015 8 a.m. to 9 A.M. Fellowship Hall 
Speaker: Eldon Housley Poet and Musician
Our program,“The History of the Cowboy in Verse and Song”,  is in honor of Tucson’s La Fiesta de los Vaqueros!  Wear your best western getup! Bring a friend and enjoy breakfast, coffee and fellowship!

 

 

Online Giving

Did you know that giving to support God's work through Catalina UMC is as simple as clicking here? It is!
 

There is MUCH MORE!

There is a good online devotional here.
Read about everything going on at Catalina in the Catalina News!

By the way, church news and church event photos are always welcome!
Send submissions to richard@catalinamethodist.org by Tuesday noon. We intentionally keep this email brief (so we cannot include everything) and we intentionally keep it about Catalina (so, please, no requests to announce outside events). If you are submitting a photo, send it to richard.lee.jones@gmail.com (Gmail works better with large attachments like photos).

Spiritual Gifts Discovery is now ONLINE!

You can take the Gifts Assessment and begin the process of getting involved with God's work here at Catalina, all on the church website!  Go here to get started!



This Sunday is Communion Sunday at Catalina, and our sermon theme is "Open Table", also dealing with communion. In honor of this theme, here are two videos by Chuck giving us insight into Holy Communion. Watch here and here.