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UMW Thank you

The United Methodist Women would like to publicly THANK the Trinity family for all their donations of goods, time, and bake sale items which helped support the Spring UMW Rummage Sale May 7th and 8th. The Rummage Sale successfully raised approximately $2,200 to be used to support many Missions. Everyone’s help in setting up, working the sale, and cleaning up after the sale was very helpful and very much appreciated. The UMW would like to thank our Janitors, Jason and Gil, for their help in moving equipment back and forth to prepare for the sale and the extra work in the clean-up. A big Thank-you to the Rummage Sale Coordinators: Marilyn Keyes and Beverly Pietraroia for their leadership and coordination

The UMW Social Action Committee

Would like to invite the Trinity Family to participate in a collection of Backpacks and School Supplies for children in Windsor. We will have a collection table in June and July in the Great Room foyer when church services move to the Great Room. These back-to-school supplies and backpacks will be given to Social Services at Windsor Town Hall so that we can help children in Windsor be equipped for back-to-school in August.

UMW Goals

One of our UMW Goalsforthis year is to encourage increased participation in all UMW events. Please accept this invitation to join us for our next UMW District event "Spring Day Apart" on Saturday, April 18, 2009. This is a District UMW Program and is expected to be attended by 100 women from around the state.

We are privileged to be hosting the program here at Trinity. The theme title of the program is "Come To the Table". This program continues from the 2009 Program theme "Who's At the Table" which was presented at the UMW Winter Gathering.

From the 2009 UMW Prayer Calendar:

“A moving experience for me was visiting Hiroshima, Japan, this past autumn. With tears streaming down my face, I sat in the Peace Park looking at the barren frame of the ‘atomic dome,’ the oone visual reminder of the past destruction. A Japanese passerby kindly offered me tissues. His simple act of kindness was to me a symbolic gesture of peace. What an affirmation to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of vast destruction.”

Harry and Kathy Barton-Lewis
Missionaries from Tokyo, Japan

FROM THE UMW PRESIDENT:

“Open to Pure Praise” Training the eyes of our heart on God will free our dancing (with God) in more ways than one. First, keeping your eyes solidly on your dance partner keeps you from being distracted by onlookers. Hebrews contains an image that illustrates this well.

The New Testament letter to the Hebrews is an epistle of encouragement. Written to Jewish believers who were trying to hang on to their new found faith, it gives advice on maintaining your direction in the face of critical opposition. The famous metaphor of the Christian race found in the twelfth chapter contains a command that’s critical to dancing with God:

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:1-2)

Marcia Pedersen

IMPORTANT UMW DATES TO REMEMBER:

June 24, 2009, Wednesday, UMW Board Meeting, 7:00 p.m., Youth Room.
September 20, 2009, Sunday, “Friendship Tea” from 2:00-4:00 p.m., in the Great Room. Guest author and speaker Cindy Secrest-McDowell will speak on Faith, Friendship and Tea. There will be tea and desserts served at this program. All women and girls are invited to join in the fun afternoon. Tickets will be sold in advance. Women: $6.00; Girls: $3.00. Look for more advertisement over the summer.

A MOTHER'S PRAYER

Make me a wise mother, O Lord. Keep me calm and give me patience to bear the small, irritating things in the daily routine of life. Give me tolerance and understanding to bridge the gulf between my generation and that of my children.

Let me not be too ready to guide my children’s stumbling feet, but allow me to be ever near to bind their bruises. Give me a sense of humor that I may laugh with them but never at them. Let me refrain from preaching with words; let me show by example instead.

Keep me from forcing their confidences, but give me a sympathetic ear when my children come to me. Make me humble. Keep my children close to me, O Lord, though miles may separate us. And let Thy light so shine upon me that they, too, will perceive Thy glory. Amen.