Sherman
United Methodist Church
2336 East Andrew Road
Sherman, IL 62684-9646
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Regularly scheduled church services on Sundays
are:
Blended First Service at 8:15 a.m. Childern's Church services are available for children thru 2nd grade at 8:15 a.m. in room 204
Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Child care is also available for younger children in room 107
Contemporary Second Service at 10:45 a.m. Click on the "Church Schedule"
button above for weekly church activity schedules
E-mail the Minister at: Rev. Mike Pennell 
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Sherman United Methodist Church(SUMC), Sherman, Illinois, is located in Central Illinois
just north of Springfield, Illinois, the capital of Illinois. SUMC is a small-medium size faith
driven church made up of agricultural, rural, small village and surrounding communities Christians.
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within the United Metnodist Church.
YOUTH GROUP - - - - - - - - - -
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Illinois Great Rivers Conference
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WHEN:
WHERE:
NEW ORDER just in of United Methodist Men Pecans!
Get in the Nothing But Nets Game!
BED NETS vs. MOSQUITOES
It's a fight to wipe out the Mosquitoes and slam dunk malaria!
The people of The United Methodist Church have joined with the United Nations Foundation,
NBA Cares, Sports Illustrated and others in support of Nothing But Nets, a global effort to end malaria,
a leading killer of thousands of children in Africa each year.
For only $10 you can save a life by buying a bed net to protect children and adults while they sleep.
Visit www.umc.org/nets to donate or to purchase a Nothing But Nets Game Plan Kit to help your church
or organization raise funds to save countless lives.
CONFIRMATION CLASS - 7th grade youth and older
Contact Pastor Mike and/or church office to be included in this year's class!
Confirmation explores the meaning of Christian Faith that leads to professing
one's faith in Christ and becoming a full member of the Church.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR AUDIO/VISUAL SYSTEM on Sundays!
Age requirement - 8th grade and older
CAFE' WEDNESDAY : then Wednesday evening activities
Choir Practice fall thru May, Bible studies, Crusaders follow after 7:00 pm
Contact the SUMC church office.
OUTREACH - Other Related
Activities;
(Here, on occasion, you will find information about activities
of our nearby affiliated congregations and other friends.)
The SUMC Prayer Chain is here for our personal, and immediate concerns
and needs. Please call the church office at: (496-2338) to have your special
needs included on the Prayer chain. You may also drop a note/card in the plate
on Sunday at church service if you prefer.
THE WEEK BEGINNING: June 12, 2011
CHURCH CALENDAR
Today: Sunday, June 12, 2011
Monday: June 13, 2011
Tuesday: June 14, 2011 -
Wednesday: June 15, 2011
Thursday: June 16, 2011
Friday: June 17, 2011
Saturday: June 18, 2011
Sunday: June 19, 2011 Church Office:
Mrs. Shirley Hopkins shermanumc@gcctv.com Sherman United Methodist Church
Staff Contact Information E-Mail Addresses telephone numbers Directing Pastor Rev. Mike Pennell mpennell@gcctv.com 217-496-3258 Director of Youth & Family Ministry Danny Motta mottafamily@casscomm.com 217-496-2570 Church Administrative Assistant Erin Able shermanumc@gcctv.com 217-496-2338 SUM Kids' Place Director Carmen Arnberger 217-496-2338 SUM Preschool Director Heather Hofferkamp 217-496-2338 SUMC Director of Music Ministry Melanie Pinter
grmekor78@gmail.com 217-496-2338 SUM Church Custodian Michael Folder 217-496-2338 SUMC Webmaster Cary Franks cfranks@gcctv.com " Our
Church Youth News Section. The Pastor's Corner From the Desk of Pastor Mike " JUST A THOUGHT .... for the week."
UMCOR aids the victims of disaster with basic necessities of clean water, clothing, blankets, toilet paper, food,
medicines, temporary shelters and more. Through UMCOR we can minister in ways we cannot do on our own. God bless everyone for what they are able
to do. -Pastor Mike ennell> The Week's Message given: (May 22, 2011) (I may have my past several weeks' messages here for those who could not attend the services.)
I want to report on my flowers which I planted nearly 2 weeks ago now and there is good news. None have died! Praise God! But transplants
I believe people are like this too, especially followers of Jesus. And so I resonated with Peter this week as he tells us: "Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation –if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good."
Salvation, we hear that term a lot. When did you get saved? Or, I was saved on such and such a day at such and such place. Testimonies like these suggest that salvation is instantaneous after accepting Jesus as one's Lord and Savior. But Peter describes our relationship to Christ as spiritual milk given so we may "grow into salvation." This suggests that salvation is a work in progress. Something that doesn't happen all at once, but grows over time like a seed that grows by stages toward maturity and then bears fruit appropriate to its species.
One would hope that the values at work in a crisis like this filled with such perseverance and caring for one another would become a
Long ago when God's people were trapped as exiles in Babylon, Jeremiah foresaw how this would change life forever. God allowed
We are still waiting for those days to come. But we have made a start. Jesus was trapped for three days in a tomb, but God set him free
At the time Paul was writing, of course, the only scripture he knew was the Hebrew bible. The New Testament hadn't been written except
The new covenant foreseen by Jeremiah and confirmed in Jesus requires a measure of biblical literacy in order for God's law to take root
Paul reminds Timothy of all the people who helped him to learn about his faith – his mother and grandmother and Paul, himself. What about
It is easy to take our spiritual nurture for granted. There is so much going on in our busy lives. We can easily become trapped by our own
Paul writes in another place: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I reasoned like child; but when I became an adult, I put an
God's covenant in the heart not only changes the heart. It changes the world through the witness of those whose hearts have been
I remember Dr. Pistorius from Moweaqua. He was an active lay member and I heard him several times. His message revolved the idea that
Dr. Pistorius' point was that God is not just for getting us out of problems. If we are proactive in learning and obeying God then this helps
"For the time is coming," says Paul, "when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will
I believe we are living in times like this where today some consult their horoscopes for guidance each day rather than the wisdom
As Paul wrote to Timothy so he writes to us today: 'continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom
Sometimes we wonder where is God. But Jesus asks: "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"(Lk 18:8)
Everyone who believes in Christ is a minister. Each of us has a ministry devoted to the well being of God's people, to rescue the
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past previous week's Sermon or Guest Speaker
(Mike Pennell)
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SUMC Youth
Page and Info Danny
Motta, Director of Youth & Family Ministry L.Y.N.K. January 11 - LAST CHANCE! $50 Ski Trip Deposit Due Today! Next Week - January 18 Bible Study after until 8:30 Looking Ahead • Ski Trip
Feb 12-14 • Fire-Up
Feb 20-22 • Talent Show
March 15th Poet's
Corner: From
our SUMC poet laurate, Marti Kelly Christ
In Our Lives 12-19-2004 Christmas is coming; Shopping is nearly done All year longChrist is in
our hearts My hope is that Christ will
be Merry Christmas to all
Marti Kelly Blessed
Friend You asked for me to write
you a poem I'm always glad to see you It's always nice to know Before each church service
begins May God bless you and your
family
Marti Kelly Sherman
UMC Links from here - coming shortly Church Pictures & Directory JOB POSITION(s) OPEN AT SHERMAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Sherman
United Methodist Church No
positions are currently available. Sherman United Methodist Preschool can be
found at: The space for this web site has been
provided courtesy of the General Board of Global Ministries,
8:15 a.m. - 1st Worship Service
9:30 a.m. - Sunday School
10:45 a.m. - 2nd Worship Service
1:30 p.m. - Boy's Basketball
3:00 p.m. - Girls Basketball
5:30 p.m. - Girls Basketball
6:00 p.m. - Cub Scouts Den 2 - Bears
6:30 p.m. - Weeblos Den 7
7:00 p.m. - Troop 330
7:00 p.m. - Boy/Girl Scouts
7:00 p.m. - Girl Scouts Troop 6381
2:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Directory Pictures
3:00 p.m. - Kids Place Tutoring
6:00 p.m. - Zumba Latin Dance Fitness
6:30 p.m. - Brownies Troop 202
7:00 p.m. - Blessed Assurance
7:00 p.m. - Ad Hoc Team
7:00 p.m. - Girls Basketball
7:00 a.m. - Methodist Men - Ray's Route 66 Diner
9:00 a.m. - Prayer Group
2:30 p.m. - Girl Scouts Troop 6655
2:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Directory Pictures
3:00 p.m. - Kids Place Tutoring
6:00 p.m. - Choir
6:00 p.m. - Adult Bible Study (Room 104)
6:30 p.m. - Weeblos Den 3
7:00 p.m. - Crusaders
7:00 p.m. - Den 11 Pack 330
7:30 p.m. - Boy's Basketball
2:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Directory Pictures
3:00 p.m. - Kids Place Tutoring
5:30 p.m. - Wedding Practice
6:00 p.m. - Zumba Latin Dance Fitness
6:00 p.m. - Praise Band Practice
7:00 p.m. - Building Committee Meeting
8:00 p.m. - Men's Basketball
2:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Directory Pictures
6:30 p.m. - Wedding Services
2:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Directory Pictures
8:15 a.m. - 1st Worship Service
9:30 a.m. - Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Generations Information meeting
10:45 a.m. -Second Service
Directing Pastor: Rev. Mike Pennell -- Rev. Mike Pennell Home phone:
496-3258
Several Sesquicential Plates are still available.
should make your checks ($18.00 each) out to: SUM Women.
"Nibblin Cookbooks" are still available in the church office for $12.
October 5, 2011
October 17, 2010
"No other gods!" “Shopping for an Angel”
Easter 5: 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14
by Mike Pennell
usually lose some blossoms early on and then come back with more. And so I've been watching. I've pruned old blossoms away and kept
watch as new buds appeared. They keep swelling and swelling. It seems like it takes forever. But finally you look and 'wall-a' there they are, full
blossoms basking in the sunshine of all their natural beauty, color and shape.
I believe people are like this too, especially followers of Jesus. And so I resonated with Peter this week as he tells us: "Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation –if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good."
Salvation, we hear that term a lot. When did you get saved? Or, I was saved on such and such a day at such and such place.
bigger part of our everyday world too even if our crisis may not be as dramatic or attract worldwide attention.
Israel to be buried in captivity because they had broken the covenant. But their punishment would not be forever. "The days are surely
coming," when a new covenant shall be established not scribbled on stone like before. Instead God will put his law in us and write
it upon our hearts so that never again shall we need to be taught because we shall all know the Lord, from the least to the greatest.
' Jeremiah believed God would set his people free, that their sins would be forgiven and remembered no more. The covenant would
be fully restored.
proclaiming repentance and forgiveness of sin for the whole world. Now a new covenant is being written inside us because of what Jesus
did and what he taught."Continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it from
childhood' Paul writes to Timothy. 'All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction and
for training in righteousness. It equips us for every good work.'
for Paul's own letters. But if Paul was here today and could see what was added to the Hebrew bible by the early Christians, there is no
doubt that he would endorse the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and all the other writings of the New Testament as inspired by
God and useful for teaching, reproof, correction, training and equipping for every good work.
in our hearts. Do you take time to read the bible on some kind of regular schedule? Once a day? In the mornings before heading out to
work? Perhaps reading with your spouse? Are you in a Sunday class where you can ask questions and learn alongside others? Did you
know that SUMC has 5 adult Sunday School classes from which to choose and also a Wednesday evening Bible study. If you have
questions about the bible SUMC offers opportunities to find answers. And not just for adults, but for the children too so they can learn to
read the bible and talk about it. This is a vital ministry whereby we help each other learn and grow in our faith and service.
us? Who are the people who helped us to learn about God? To understand the bible? I remember Sunday School teachers like Don Yeazel,
Mary Moser, Mr. Brown, Pastor John Andrew Smith. Who are the ones who helped you? And how are you and I helping to pass along that
same gift of faith to our family, friends, and other folks in the church and in daily life.
schedules and not leave time for study, reflection and conversation about the most important things in life which God's word can teach us.
When we take our spiritual nurture for granted though, we are taking our faith for granted too as if once we become an adult there is nothing
more for us to learn. I fear that many stop learning about God, the bible, Jesus, salvation, and more early on in life. And become satisfied
with the limited understandings of childhood until there is a crisis. And then the questions come: "Why do bad things happen to good people?"
"What does the bible really mean about salvation, justice, heaven and hell?" "Where do these terms come from?" "Is the bible only literal or
can we understand it's meaning in other ways too?" And the most important question is 'what is God really like?' Is God an angry man upstairs
who watches over every step we take ready to inflict pain and punishment on his people? Or is God a loving father who wants the best for his
family and will go to any extreme to make that possible?'
end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part, but then I will
know fully, even as I have been fully known." (1 Cor 13: 11f) Nurturing ourselves spiritually helps us to deal with the everyday world
we experience and not be defeated or crushed by the bad things that can happen.
changed. Knowing God's word is a first step. But living God's word is the second step of faith. Indeed it is the goal. If the written word of
God alone was sufficient for our salvation, we would not need Jesus. But as it is in John's gospel he emphasizes how the Word of God is
more than the written word. He proclaims the Word that was in the beginning with God before there was any written scripture. And the
good news is that this eternal Word came into the world in a flesh and blood person, Jesus of Nazareth. He was and is the LIVING
Word of God. He manifested in his life what the written word was all about and even more than what written words could express about
him. Jesus is what you get when the law is written on the heart and then lived out visibly in the world.
while God can and does help lead us out of the dungeons of life we sometimes fall into he also emphasized another point which was
encapsulated in this verse: "And now to the one who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand without blemish in the presence
of God's glory with rejoicing, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all
time and now and forever. Amen" (Jude 24-25)
us to avoid falling in the first place. An active and growing understanding of our faith in God and Christ not only can set us free from
captivity, it can keep us from falling into it – falling into the worship of idols, for example, or the things of this world. It can keep us from
becoming hooked on human wisdom that trusts more in power and wealth than in the love and mercy of God. The captivity of a world
where 'what's in it for me' rules over 'what would be good for all.'
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander
away to myths." (2 Ti 4:3f)
of God. Where we spend more time searching for happiness shopping rather than in spending time together to build better marriages,
families, friendships, churches. Where success is measured more by what we have than by our character, by our pursuit of justice and
?
by loving one another as Jesus loves us.
you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus…I solemnly urge: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable;
convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching…always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an
evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. ' (1 Tim 3:14f)
perishing, to correct and improve one another so that together the Church may glorify God and the victory of life over death. This week we
saw a dramatic rescue from deep within the earth and how several were saved from death and given the opportunity for a new life. What
about us? We have a mission too. God gives new life in Christ. Though trapped in sin, he has set us free. "Following Jesus and inviting
others to join us," is our theme. May we be as diligent and persevering in rescuing others in our neighborhood and community from
captivity as we saw in Chile this week. For when Jesus comes back we will rejoice not just over 33 saved, but over an entire world set
on course for eternal life.
" ”
and family: Karen, Josiah, Asa, and Mara
"Least You Need To
Know!"
This Week:
And last chance to sign up!
Youth Group 6-7:30pm
Drama Practice5:30 p.m.
Youth Group 6-7:30pm
Band Practice 5:30 p.m.
see Ski Trip LYNK for details
Sr. High sign up now!
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It is getting very near.
Our thoughts are focussed,
On those we hold near.
Our tree is up and decorated.
Christ is in our hearts
As His birth is celebrated.
And His birthday is special for all
Plans begin way ahead
Focus begins in the Fall.
With everyone all year,
And that He will lead us all
To love and care and no fear.
Live the life Christ showed us
Bless those in your life
And love without fuss.
So here I go . . . where it will end,
I don't know.
with your smile upon your face
And sit and visit with you
when I sit in my church place.
Someone you can trust
Who makes you feel quite happy
which is a daily must.
I have a friend to talk to
Friendship is one of God's blessings
Connecting with others is what we should do.
May he bring you happiness
Success and family love
And forgive when you confess.
March 28, 2004
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