USHER
Head Usher: Roy Monn
Nate Eshelman
Don McCleary
Dennis Mickley
John Thierwechter
LITURGISTS
4th – Clarench
Trump
11th – Lisa Hepfer
18th – Rob Brnett
25th – Carol Osen
GREETERS
Loyal Daughter’s Class
WAYSIDE PULPIT
Jack Goodhart
FLOWER
DELIVERY
Jean Hammond
|
FELLOWSHIP HOUR
Loyal Daughters
ACOLYTES
4th – Gabby Arpi & Jessica Pennell
11th –Kim Arpi & Chrissy Cramer
18th – Gabby Arpi & Jessica Pennell
25th – Kim Arpi and Chrissy Cramer
NURSERY
4th – Renee McBride & Isabelle Armstrong
11th – Richard & Tammy
Mickey
18th – Tammy Edwards &
Rachel Woodring
25th – Barbara & Patty
Jones
JUNIOR CHURCH LEADERS
1st Sunday of month – No Junior Church
2nd Sunday of month – Heidi Hawbaker
3rd Sunday of month – Heidi
Hawbaker
4th Sunday of month –
Cindy Edwards
|
MARANATHA FOOD PANTRY
Fruit
snacks, healthy snacks, pop tarts, snack packs for lunches, chips, crackers, nuts,
raisins, etc. Paper products, cleaning supplies, hygiene items, soap,
toothpaste, deodorant, etc are always needed. Fresh food, meat, milk etc. can
be delivered directly to Maranatha Food Panty at the corner of Loudon St (Rte.
11 W) and Franklin St. They accept donations Monday and Thursday 10 a.m. –
noon. Clothing donations accepted during last week of the month only.
MONTHLY
MISSION PROJECTS UPDATE:
Our mission project for May is yet to be
announced,
Our April project, Salvation Army, collected $423
as of April 20th.
Our March project, “Sam’s Kids,” collected $195.
Learn more about DEMENTIA – A Community
Educational Workshop, FREE.
A two part seminar series presented
as a community outreach project. This is for families and t heir loved ones who
face the challenges of caring for loved ones stricken with Dementia as a result
of Alzheimer's types of diseases.
This
is an audio-visual presentation produced by the North Carolina Alzheimer's
Association called "Accepting the Challenge". It will be accompanied
by professional panelists in the field of Health care who will invite you to
participate in a round table discussion between program segments.
Park
Ave. UMC - Part 1 May 20th
Part
2 May 27th
This
event is sponsored by Comfort Keepers, Fayetteville. Call today for
reservations. Space is limited.
717-352-2133
FREE TO ALL!!
A
new list of our shut-ins as of April 20, 2008, their names, address, phone and
birthdays, is in the May paper copy of the newsletter. Please contact the office if you need a paper
copy of this information – 263-2364 during the office hours listed at the top
of this page. They would LOVE to hear from YOU!
NEWS
ABOUT THE DIRECTORY: Despite numerous setbacks,
it is now underway! The photos, activity pages, roster etc. have been
completed, and the entire book is on its way to Olan Mills for printing as I
write (4/28). It should be in our hands
by the time school is out!! *whew* We
made it in under a year!
SAVE THIS DATE!
June 21, 4:00 p.m. - ? CHURCH
PICNIC at Waltonian Meadows on Cornertown Rd (off Scotland Ave. north of Menno Haven). We will have games, dinner (bring your place
setting and a hot and cold dish to share), cake walk (bring ½ cakes or pies, or
½ dozen cookies/fudge etc. as prizes), auction (bring good, used item or two to
be auctioned, wrapped or not, and some cash!) and Vespers. We will provide
drinks, fried chicken and hotdogs/rolls for everyone. All ages are welcomed.
Question? Call 263-2364 and Deb can help! Need a ride? Call 264-9484 and Ann
can help.
UMW NEWS
§
Mother/Daughter Banquet will be held on Thursday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Cost is $9.00 for adults and free for children
under 12. Reservations are needed by Sunday, April 27th. Contact Nancy Yeager at 267-3132 or call the church
office at 263-2364.
§
May Fellowship Day for Church Women United will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, May 2nd
at St. John’s UCC.
§
If you missed our evening UMW in
March, we would love to have you join us in May. Our meeting will be Thursday, May 8 at 7:00 p.m.
Bring your ideas for Bible studies and service Projects that you would
like to see our group do.
PENTECOST The Day of Pentecost is Sunday, May 11. Please plan to wear RED to church that day.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Mark your calendar now! VBS is scheduled
for June 22-26 (Sunday through
Thursday). This year’s theme is “Beach
Party: Surfin’
through the Scriptures.” Ages 3-12. Volunteers are needed! Please see Heidi Hawbaker
or call 264-1444.
PARK AVE
SOFTBALL!
Park Avenue Softball began on Tuesday,
April 22. To follow how they are doing,
or to see a list of game dates and locations, with directions and times, click here.
YOUTH
FELLOWSHIP
The Youth Fellowship is still collecting
your store coupons. Please bring in your
coupons, even if they are expired, and put them in the box in the
hallway. The Youth Fellowship will be
sending these to soldiers overseas who live on minimal income.
A DEVOTIONAL
WRITTEN BY LAY LEADER HARRY BLACK
FOR THE MONTH
OF MAY
Read: Luke
8:22-25 and Matthew 18:20
My fiends, when storms
in our lives are raging: when life is tossing us like a ship in the sea, and trials
and tribulations face us each day in the midst of faults and failures, we just don’t
know what to do or who can help us in our times of storms. When two or three are gathered in My name, there
I am in the midst of them.
Our faith
in God through Jesus Christ can stand by us and can calm the storms that are raging
in our lives and friends gathered in prayer for our concerns.
Jesus is
our companion; the strength, the hope. He
is the lily of the valley; the bright morning star that shines each day to help
us in our storms that are raging.
May the
God of Love endure in you forever is my prayer for each of you. Amen
Thought for the day:
Let the
Lord stand by you each day, and when storms come they won’t stay because Christ
and friends are with us all the way.
Harry Black,
Lay Leader
Some Humor for the Month of May:
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was
better on the computer. They had been
going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally, fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for
two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.”
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
The did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job know to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than
hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly
flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power
went off …
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse
word known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted
their computers. Satan started searching
frantically, screaming: “It’s gone! It’s
all GONE! I lost everything when the
power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files
from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate.
“Wait!” he screamed. “That’s
not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don’t have
any?”
God just shrugged and said,
JESUS
SAVES!!!!
Click
HERE for a complete Church Calendar
Click HERE for the Quigg Chronicles, latest newsletter of one of
the UMC missionary families we help to support.
Have a Blessed Day, and we hope that ‘U R’ not missing in ‘CH CH’!
