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
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9:00 A.M.
Church School |
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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
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ABC BOOK NOTES... 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. |
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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... |
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 ...
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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