THE PERFECT CHURCH

ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
149 South Main Street, Woodstown NJ 08098
(856)769-2484

If you could find the perfect church
Without one fault or smear.
For goodness sake, don’t join that church.
You’d spoil the atmosphere.
But since no perfect church exists
Where people never sin
Let’s cease looking for that church
 And love the one we’re in!
      
                                                
Author Unknown
      

SUNDAY WORSHIP

9:00 A.M.     Church School 
10:30 A.M.    Worship Service
(Nursery and Children's Time are provided.)


 

ASBURY’S CARE TEAM...
Your help is needed! Whenever you are aware of     someone who is suffering, ill, or entering the hospital---please call the church office! (You may dial 769-2484 and leave a message 24 hours a day!) Visits and/or contacts are made to who are ill or hurting. This can happen only when it is known that someone is hurting.

PRAYERS

Please keep those who give us our settings and guidance of course.

Bishop District Superintendent
Asbury Church Asbury’s Pastor
Asbury’s Leaders Our Country and Leaders

 Those in need of God’s grace, guidance, help, love and special care at this time.
Our military personnel and their families
     

"...The Lord is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you;  but if you forsake him, he will forsake you."        2 Chronicles 15:2

Elsie Adams                    Laurie Anderson             Bert Armstrong
Vicki Armstong                Sherwin Atkinson           Jim Blauvelt 
Phyllis Bowman               Marjorie Brown                Rose Brown 
Bonnie Crispin                Velma Cramer                 Mary Crist                  
Jean Dale                         Shirley  DeLevo              Francesca DeSanctis 
Julio DeSanctis                Dottie Dobbs                  Sue Edwards 
Grace Ekis                        Judy Eyerman                 Marion Eyerman  
Ellen Fornaro                    Frances Frankenberg    Tyler Froats 
Mary Garner                      Burma Gaunt                   Barbara Gerber
Christine Green                Harding Family                Lucille  Hatcher 
Earlen Haven                    Richard Hayes                 Kelsey Henderson 
Hartley Hiles                     Russell Hiles                    Phil Holtzapple  
Carol Hungo                     Sally Hunsberger             Joyce Huizing  
Ron Krebs                        Kaye Kremer                    Kirk Kremer
Myuki Lane                       Matt Lemmons                Jim Maranto 
Ginny Massino                 Hank Mastyella                Ted Matkowski
Lolly Newton                     Erv Parker, Sr.                 Verna Parker 
Rebecca Peterson          Louise Powell                   Marion Powers 
Dr. Primiano                     Willia Mae Pruitt              Tyler Quinnette
Jack Rebhorn                   John Schlosser                 Marjorie Schlosser
Veronica Schultz               Ed Shallcross                  Allen Shapero   
Donna Snyder                   Doris Timberman            C. E. Townsend 
Don White                         Edna White                     Jack Whitehouse  
Becky Wilson                      
             
              

ABC BOOK NOTES...    
2/22/2008 "Not For Sale" By: David Batstone

3/28/2008 "90 Minutes in Heaven" By: Don Piper

       We have been having great discussions, so if you have always wanted to read any of these books, (or have already read them), please feel free to come and join our group. If you would like to be a host, please see Diane Dorrell.        

 UNITED METHODIST MEN...  

Our regular breakfast fellowship will be on February 24 at 8:00 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. All men are invited.

Habitat for Humanity Work Day - February 16...
Contact Jim Powell if you can come out to work that day, or just show up at the back parking lot of the church before 8:00 a.m. We will leave at 8:00 as a group. Men, women and youth are all invited.

ASBURY UNITED METHODIST WOMEN...
     If you would like to join a United Methodist Women Circle, please contact the circle leaders: Esther Circle leader Sue Edwards (769-0693), first Monday morning of each month; Eve Circle leader Kathy Kesler (769-3022), second Monday evening; or Friendship Circle leader Barbara Bender (769-9228) third Monday evening.

     All women of the church are welcome to attend unit and circle meetings. If interested call one of the circle leaders or Phyllis Bowman, 769-2899 or Kathy Kesler, 769-3022.

YES! WE ARE STILL COLLECTING:
           

           Help!!! We need your used ink jet printer  cartridges! Please help Friendship Circle as they spearhead a church-wide effort to raise money for the Church Renovation Fund. Bring each cartridge in a Ziploc bag and place it in the bin under the table near the mailboxes by Caroline’s office. There will be plastic bags with the bin. The Church will earn $2.00 for each cartridge. Recycling considerations are very important since it is stated that it takes a cartridge 1000 years to decompose. Through this effort, they can be re manufactured and reused. Cartridges with a print head qualify for payment. That includes most Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, Compaq, Canon and Apple. Those without print heads still can be recycled but without payment. That includes mostly Epson. We welcome all types. Feel free to ask friends, neighbors and places of employment if this "trash" can be used to help renovate our beloved church. Thank you for your support!                 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR AN OCCASIONAL "GOOD DEED"!
     At times parishioners call the church office asking if there is someone who could drive them to keep an appointment. Many of us are willing to do this, but it would be such a help to have a list of those of us who are willing to be "on call" to do this good deed for someone in need. If you are willing to volunteer to occasionally provide transportation for a fellow Asburian , please call the church office, 769-2484, so your name can add your name to a list.

DISCIPLE FOOD PANTRY ...
     Keep on your calendar - Fourth Sunday of every month is Asbury’s Disciple Food Pantry Day. What we would like to help the pantry with are: canned potatoes, instant potatoes, rice, cereal, canned meats, canned fruit, peanut butter, and jelly etc., at the present time. Thank you! Disciple Food Pantry hours are: Only on Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. to noon and 4:00 p.m. till 6:00 p.m. A box is in the back of the large room next to the Secretary’s Office. Thank you.
      Donations are always welcome. Checks made out to: Disciple Food Pantry.

CHURCH MOUSE" SIGHTINGS...

       There always have been, and hopefully always will be, a few          persons who silently help out or see a job to be done around the church - and they just quietly do it! And sometimes without the knowledge of anyone—except the ‘church mouse’. 

    Even for me, the church mouse, Advent and Christmas time is special! This year I watched as Sue Edwards, Millie Harbison and Fran Anzaldo struggled to stack those beautiful poinsettias in just the right way to make the altar look just right. Diane Dorrell and "her crew" decorated that big tree and the window sills. (That tree is such fun! I just love to run up and down, and in and out those branches! Wonder if they’d mind if I helped then un trim it?) Jim Kates did the ladder work to hang the high garlands; what is there around here that he does not do? - makes coffee, cooks, counts money, lock doors, ushers, and…. God Bless them each one!

               Things are popping up all over the place!

TRUSTEES...

Trustee officers for 2008:
Chairperson - Lou Henderson
Vice-chairperson - Jerry Federici
Secretary - Karen Bittner

The following trustees will oversee these specific areas of responsibility:

Lyn Brown & John Frankenberg Inside of church building
Lyn Brown & John Frankenberg Outside of church building
Bill Burgie & Jerry Federici Equipment/Utilities
Lou Henderson & Carlotta Ledbetter Layton property/rentals
Deb Willard & Bob Hill Parsonage property
Jerry Federici & Carlotta Ledbetter Cemetery
Karen Bittner Reports, Contracts, Policies

Congregation’s suggestions and concerns are needed and welcomed!
Please feel free to talk with any Trustee or put a note in the Trustee mailbox (fifth mail slot on the left side) on the wall, outside the office door.

HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Improved lighting of steeple crosses and the sign.
Repair of back parking lot flood light.
Parsonage porch metal roof has been restored/repainted
Parsonage cement steps repaired
Parsonage bathroom exhaust fan and toilet installed
Parsonage dining room and kitchen paper removed, walls conditioned      and painted
Parsonage doors weather-stripped, repaired, and step lights fixed.
Complete weather-stripping and realignment of all church doors to eliminate draft.
New kitchen range installed - just waiting for inspectors’ approval.
Repairs leak over ramp entry; metal roof restored and painted
Leaking furnace pipe repaired.
Layton property: three storm doors (wind damage); loose siding repaired
Layton property: drain snaked out, leak in ceiling repair, window frame/ catch repair

Trustees are watching...
Energy use and rising fuel costs! Short and long range planning-
Please shut all doors tightly behind you - even inside doors.
Please shut off all lights when leaving an empty room or area.
Turn back thermostats
Poor drainage of overhang of back door
Steeple metal roof deteriorating
Water-damaged brickwork of southwest corner of church

THANK YOU...

To Our Asbury Family,
   Thank you for the prayers, cards, phone calls, visits and offers of help during my knee problems. God bless you, everyone.
                                                   Betty and Jim Powell

To Asbury,
I would like to thank the person who donated money for me to go to Keswick. Without your help I wouldn’t be able to go.
                                                   Thank you.
                                                   Dorothy Kremer

Dear Church Family,
We would like to thank our church family, Asbury Eve Circle, FretNots & The Coffeehouse performers and all who have helped and prayed for us during our efforts to prepare for China with Justin. Please continue to pray for us while we are away and we look forward to sharing our experience with everyone when we return.
  Our deepest thanks.
Jason and Lora Lowery
"Justin’s Fight For Sight"

Dear Church Family,
This has been a year full of unexpected circumstances but the one consentience in our lives is the love and support from this amazing church family. Your kindness, generosity and love sustained us through some very difficult times. For every tear of sadness shed there have been tears of joy knowing we had your love and support. Your continue prayers are a source of strength to face tomorrow. Thank you just seems inadequate to express our appreciation.
    Wishing you all a bright and Happy New Year.
                                           With love and gratitude.
                                            Kaye, Dorothy and Debbie Kremer

To All of Asbury,
A great thank you to everyone at Asbury for the generous Christmas gift that was given to the Staff members.
It was much appreciated by all.
Thanks again for your kindness.
Staff

Dear Friends,
"Your thoughtfulness means a lot to us - More than we can say - And our warm appreciation comes with this thank-you note today."
     Thank you so much for all your kindness, cards and support we received following the loss of my mother, Mary Hepner. But most of all we are so grateful for all the love and prayers along this journey that you have traveled with us.
      God is so good all the time and He is smiling on Asbury United Methodist Church.
Lovingly,
Marty, Nancy, Douglas and Stephanie Varnold

Dear Members of "A Token of Love,"
I wish to express my thanks to all who work to make Christmas Eve a great surprise even for a 76-year-old, like me.
    Yes, there really is a Santa. I woke up to see this lovely, fluffy dog in my bed. I heard nothing, so it must have been Santa’s Helper.
     Thank you all and thank you for the blessing.
God Bless, Love
Catherine

 

 

 

 

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