3664 St. Rt. 309, P.O. Box 148- Iberia OH, 43325.
Phone for both churches is located at Iberia's office. It is: 419-468-2413;Our Email Address is: iberia.umc@gmail.com
Blessings to all who are reading this web site. Special Hello to our new friend in Kentucky. Thanks for calling us!
Service Times: Sixteen has their Worship Service first-- at 9am -- meanwhile, Iberia's Sunday School starts at 9:30am for all ages, --10:30am -is the Morning Worship Service at Iberia. All are welcomed to join us at both churches. The churches are located:
Iberia-- 3664 State Route 309, Iberia Ohio 43325-- we are between Marion and Mansfield and not far from the Iberia Post Office on State Route 309. Sixteen is located at 7759 Morral-Kirkpatrick Road- Caledonia Ohio 44314, which is between St Rt 100 and St Rt 98. The mailing address for both churches is: P.O. Box 148, Iberia OH 43325.
Pastor: Rev. Pat Fruth
>Send an E-Mail to: iberia.umc@gmail.com
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We now have a new computer at the church. Windows 7. Larger screen, larger then I've ever had. The challenge for me is the website! Everything was installed on the old machine...years ago. Before I came to Iberia. Now to figure out how they installed it and will I ever be able to do this!
I have all the paperwork on my desk. Should be easy. Ha Ha! How many times have you said those very words... I have some things working... others not so good. How did I do that and this then forget how I did that or this? In the Pastor's corner I got the words ...but now I can not repair the sentences I want to change!
And, "WHERE IS SPELLCHECK?" Did you know...We are a host church to the Boy Scouts - Cub Scouts -Story Time for 3 to 5 year olds, and both Churches belong to the Friendship Parish- Compass Group. The Friendship Parish Choir
will be singing at the following places:A Musical Concert at Claridon will be held on April 29, at 7pm.--Friendship Parish Choir will be singing: May 6th, at the New Bloomington Fire House, May 20th, for the "Light the Fire" program -- 3-5pm @ Marion Salem UMC, and December 15th on Channel 39, Local Television.
In the Bible, God says to be of good strength and courage. "Joshua 1: 1 - 9" I think, at times, that might be saying--- have patience! Things will work out--- take it easy. SO have courage to have patience? Hmmmm. Well, the blessing is: I have a great lady in the church who just happens to be a computer tech.
I know if I have patience, she will teach me how to do this program the right way!
"Shew me thy ways, O Lord;Teach me Thy paths.Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me;For Thou art the God of my salvation;On Thee do I wait all the day." (Psalm 25:4-5)
In the Christian life: as deep as the need of waiting for supplies, is that of waiting for instructions.—Waiting on God. See how beautiful this comes out in Psalm 25. The writer knew and loved God's law exceedingly, and meditated in that law day and night. But he knew that this was not enough.
He knew that for the right spiritual apprehension of the truth, and for the right personal application of it to his own peculiar circumstances, he needed a direct divine teaching. The psalm has at all times been a very peculiar one, because of its reiterated expression of the felt need of the Divine teaching, and of the childlike confidence that that teaching would be given.
Study the psalm until your heart is filled with the two thoughts—the absolute need, the absolute certainty of divine guidance. And with these how entirely it is in this connection that he speaks, "On Thee do I wait all the day." Waiting for guidance, waiting for instruction, all the day, is a very blessed part of waiting upon God.
The Father in heaven is so interested in His child, and so longs to have his life at every step in His will and His love, that He is willing to keep his guidance entirely in His own hand. He knows so well that we are unable to do what is really holy and heavenly, except as He works it in us, that He means His very demands to become promises of what He will do, in watching over and leading us all the day.
Not only in special difficulties and times of perplexity, but in the common course of everyday life, we may count upon Him to teach us His way, and show us His path.
And what is needed in us to receive this guidance? One thing: waiting for instructions, Waiting on God. "On Thee do I wait all the day." We want in our times of prayer to give clear expression to our sense of need, and our faith in His help.
We want definitely to become conscious of our ignorance as to what God's war may be, and the need of the Divine light shining within us, if our way is to be as of the sun, shining more and more unto the perfect day. And we want to wait quietly before God in prayer, until the deep, restful assurance fills us: It will be given—'the meek will He guide in the way.'
'On Thee do I wait all the day.' The special surrender to the Divine guidance in our seasons of prayer must cultivate, and be followed up by, the habitual looking upwards "all the day." As simple as it is, to one who has eyes, to walk all the day in the light of the sun, so simple and delightful can it become to a soul practiced in Waiting on God, to walk all the day in the enjoyment of God's light and leading.
What is needed to help us to such a life is just one thing: the real knowledge and faith of God as the one only source of wisdom and goodness, as ever ready, and longing much to be to us all that we can possibly require—yes! this is the one thing we need. If we but saw our God in His love, if we but believed that He waits to be gracious, that He waits to be our life and to work all in us,—how this Waiting on God would become our highest joy,
the natural and spontaneous response of our hearts to His great love and glory!
O God! teach us, above everything, the blessed lesson, that all the day, and every moment of it, Thou art around and within us, working out Thy work of love. Show us that Thou only askest of us that we wait on Thee. And so teach Thou to say, 'on thee do i wait all the day.'
"My soul, wait thou only upon God!" —Waiting on God
You can reach us at 419-468-2413. When we come to the office, located at the Iberia UMC, we will return your call; or, You may email us at: iberia.umc@gmail.com. A person can honestly use the scripture as a prayer---There must also be belief with the heart. Do I sincerely believe in the risen Lord Jesus? Do I trust in Him as my sole hope of salvation? Is this trust from my heart? Let me answer as before God. If I can truly claim that I have both confessed Christ and believed in him, then I am saved. The text does not say it may be so, but it is plain as the nose on my face, and clear as the SON in the Heavens: "Thou shall be saved." As a believer and a confessor, I may lay my hand on this promise, and plead it before the Lord God at this moment, and throughout life, and in the hour of death, and at the day of judgment. I must be saved from the guilt of sin, the power of sin, the punishment of sin, and ultimately from the very being of sin. God hath said it -- "Thou shall be saved." I believe it. I shall be saved: I am saved. Glory be to God for ever and ever! Amen.
Do You Remember the Song-- "What a Wonderful Day" The chous is: What a wonderful day, when my burdens rolled away, And the Savior came in to dwell; He's my Comforter and Guide, Daily walking by my side, Hallelujah, hallelujah all is well! And these words by Haldor Lillenas still ring true today as they did back in 1946 when he wrote them!
Do YOU Know: God loves you...Let Him! --- Pastor of Iberia/Sixteen UMC: Rev Pat Fruth<><<
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