August 22, 2014
Mason UMC
6315 Mason-Montgomery Road
Mason, OH 45040

513.398.4741


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Mason UMC Staff
Lead Pastor

Pastor of Discipleship & Congregational Care

Esperanza Viva Pastor

Director of Music

(Traditional Worship)

Director of Contemporary

Music/Ministry Development and Administration

 

Director of Children

and Youth Choirs

Natalie Woodrow

 

 Associate Director 

of Music 

(Traditional Worship)

 

Director of Communication

Treasurer

Financial Secretary


Director of Youth


 
The Power of One                                                                            
Greetings Mason UMC friends!

A special sermon series entitled The Power of One is gearing up here at Mason UMC and we would be thrilled for you to be a part of it! These upcoming, engaging Sundays starting September 7th will empower, inspire and boost your weeks with a breath of fresh air. 

Be sure to check out the Dare To Dream classes starting September 8th to go along with The Power of One series. These classes will help you create a GOD-SIZED mission statement for your life. Click on over to our website to register today! 

Dinners for 8 will be starting this October. Stay tuned for groups forming.....this is a great way to meet your MUMC family!




The opportunities are endless. One step at a time, we invite you to tune into God, discover how you can make a difference and allow your light to shine. 

All my best.....Kami
Upcoming Dates                                                                          

August 24                 UMW Meeting

Sept 3                       MUMC Book Club Meeting

Sept 8                       Dare to Dream Classes begin
Sept 10                     Youth and Children's Choir begin  

Let Us Pray
 
For God's Healing: 
  • Mac McCann at Bethesda North
  • Jon Barker at home following surgery
  • Dee Wilt's daughter, Christy Riggsby with multiple sclerosis  
 
For God's Peace: 
  • For those who are grieving
  • For communities broken by violence and injustice in our country and throughout the world

For God's Care for those in the Military: 

  • Josh Barshinger 
  • Jeffrey Bertram 
  • Chris Resio - currently in Afghanistan
  • Greg Riehle

If you would like to submit a prayer request, or be added to our prayer chain, please email us at [email protected] .

 

  

Worship Service Announcement

Beginning 9/7:

 

The 9:45 worship service will be lengthened.  The worship service will extend to 10:40/10:45.  This will allow us to give more focus to a variety of worship elements.  It helps the experience to be less rushed.  The change will also allow us to take more time with communion, baptisms, and other prayers and liturgies of blessing.  We will be changing up the order and adding more as well as differing varieties of music, and using more variety in media and drama.  Children's Sunday School will be adjusted to end accordingly. 

 

At 11:00 the Chancel Choir will be back and wearing the new robes.  How grateful for memorial funds and other donations which have covered the cost to replace our 27 year-old previous robes.  
 

Worship at 8:30 will continue to be engaging as we move the order to more closely match the 11:00 service.  We offer communion the first and third Sundays of each month during that service.

 

Pray for a renewing of our hearts as we worship God together in all three of our worship services.

 

 


 

Dare to Dream Class  

 
You won't want to miss the Dare to Dream Class coinciding with our sermon series - The Power of One!


 

Creating a GOD-SIZED mission statement for your life!


 

Sign up today and grab your book for $10
Classes start September 8th and meet every Monday at 7 pm. 

Click on over to our website to register today!

Dale Lykins is leading the class. 


 

Mason UMC Art Show  
 


The MUMC art class will hold their annual art show -
October 19th. NEW this year, we are inviting the congregation to exhibit their "art talent" with us. (oil, pencil, clay, woodwork, photos, etc.) One Sunday only. All ages. More information to come!
Please contact Helen Voorhis 398-6275 or [email protected] with questions.

  

Port of Entry Picnic 
 
All families are invited to a picnic to hear about our Kidz and teen opportunities coming available Sept. 2014 - May 2015. Our first meeting is always our most important meeting of the year. 

All kids, teens, parents, leaders and anyone interested in becoming a mentor are being asked to reserve this evening on Sept. 7, 2014. Here are the details:

 

4:30 p.m. Confirmation parents and kids meet in                       the Sanctuary
5 p.m.       Everyone meets in Sanctuary
6: p.m.      Picnic/Food

Hot dogs and drinks will be provided. We are asking people to bring the following items:

Last names A-P: Please bring a side dish
Last names Q-Z: Please bring desserts

At this event, leaders will share new directions for kidz and teen ministry. 

The picnic will be held outside with games galore if the weather permits. 

Please make the evening of Sept. 7, 2014 a special family event!

Thank you!
Ellen Foss
Patty Van Zandt
Lisa Ellison, Supervisor

  

Youth & Children's Choir
It is time for youth and children's choirs to start again! Join your group on Wednesday Sept. 10 for new and fun music to sing.

Cherub Choir      ages K - 2nd grade        5:45-6:30     
meet in Room 2

Hi C Choir           ages 3rd- 6th grade        6:30- 7:30     
meet in Room 2

The Edge            youth 7th-12th grade     7:30-8:30       
meet in the sanctuary

For more information please contact Natalie Woodrow at 893-3721 or [email protected].
 

  

Chancel Choir

Chancel Choir would like to thank the congregation for its generous support of our fund raising efforts to pay for new choir robes. 


 

Through your donations and support of the Peach Festival we were able to raise sufficient funds to pay for the choir robes and contribute to the repair of the grand piano. We will debut the new choir robes at our first appearance this fall. 


 

We had a really successful fund raising period and couldn't have done it without the support of the congregation.

  

OTR Soup Kitchen

Servers and cookie bakers are needed for Saturday September 6 mission and for upcoming missions this fall. 

 

Sign up is online at SignUpGenius (http://bit.ly/1saMpFN) or on the OTR mission page of the our website. Reserve your spot early so we can plan and better coordinate volunteers. For more info or questions please contact Jane Doster at 513/379-0699, [email protected]

  

Rebekah Circle

 

 

 

Rebkah Circle will meet at 1 p.m., Monday, AUGUST 25TH in the church library. If you have the book, Bad Girls of the Bible, please read chapter 4 about the woman who needs a drink (at the well). If you don't have the book, still come join us for a lively discussion about how God wants to use us just as he did this woman. We welcome anyone who wants to share a cup of coffee or tea, a light snack and wonderful Christian fellowship with other women. 

 

Please call Helen Voorhis at 398-6275 or Donna McBeath at 

398-5453 if you have any questions. 

  

One Again Kid's Sale


 
Time to clean out your kids closets and help support a great event at Mason UMC! 


 

 The Mason UMW is hosting the Once & Again Kids Sale on Saturday, Sept 27 from 8:00 am - noon. We are in the process of recruiting sellers to participate in this event who may have many gently outgrown kids items just waiting to go to a new home. Items to sell can include: children's clothing (no adult, junior, young mens or maternity), books, games, toys, shoes, sporting equipment, kids furniture, baby equipment (strollers, car seats, cribs, high chairs, swings) and much more. 


 

If you want to participate in the sale, please visit out website HERE download the contract or contact Kelly Ralston at 513-754-8878. We are only accepting sellers until Sept. 17.

Matthew 25: Ministries

 

Mark your calendars to be a part of Matthew 25: Ministries' effort to pack relief supplies.  All ages are welcome.  Our next visit is

 

Saturday, August 23                             

10:00 - 12:00 noon

 

You may sign up on the MUMC website using ACS Access database or email or call Carole Hendy. [email protected], 398-4061.  Meet us at the M25M facility.

 

 

Matthew 25: Ministries provides humanitarian relief to the poor by collecting product donations from corporations, organizations, and individuals. With the help of  volunteers, M25M evaluates, categorizes, sorts, and processes these donated items before shipping them to those in need.

Matthew 25: Ministries is located on Kenwood Rd. in Blue Ash.  www.m25m.org.

 

 

Movers and Shakers

Do you have any unwanted gently used furniture or appliances? 

 

The Missions Team will pick them up, store them if needed, and deliver them to needy people in our community. Typically, we support women coming out of the Lebanon Rape & Crisis Abuse Shelter and the needy in the local Hispanic Community. Jim Covert and Randy Young lead this effort, with assistance from many dedicated souls from our congregation. Circle Storage also supports this mission by donating clean, dry, accessible space for us to store these items until they are needed. Please consider them for your storage needs as a means of "giving back" to those who help our community. They are conveniently located on Columbia Road just South of Western Row Road and Kings Island. 

 

Contact: Manager, Circle Storage, 7058 Columbia Rd, Maineville, OH 45039 513-754-0660 

UMC Market

 

You can provide income to the church at no additional cost to you! Shopping around online? Now you can click on over to www.umcmarket, Click around, shop your favorite stores and a portion of what you spend will be donated to the church!


 

 

UMW NEWS  
The next meeting is scheduled
for Aug 24th THIS SUNDAY! at 12:15pm in room 8.  

We will be assembling the layette kits,
discussing more about the upcoming
consignment sale, reviewing the
calendar, and other items.  We hope
to see you there! Food provided.

We will be placing an order for
RED UMW t-shirts.  If you are interested
in getting a t-shirt, please let
Nancy Thomas know at
[email protected] or
513-218-4967.  The deadline for this is at
our meeting on Aug. 24th.   

Prices are as follows:   
Small, Medium, Large, &
X-large = $12.00 2XL and 3XL = $14.00
 
The shirts will be ready for the
September 27th Consignment Sale.

It is that time again for UMW's Once and
Again Kid's Consignment Sale. The event
is taking place September 27th, 2014.  
We need many volunteers starting the
week leading up to the sale day  
(September 22nd - September 27th)  
for a successful event.  We would ask that
you consider working a shift or two if you
are available.  You can use this link
http://bit.ly/1op9W4k to get to the sign
up page online.  There will also be a
notebook at the welcome desk to sign up.



Disciple IV Class  


A Disciple IV class will begin on
Tuesday September 9 from 7:00-9:30 pm.

The Disciple Program is a wonderful opportunity
for in-depth Bible study in a small group setting.
Participants inDisciple IV will spend 16 weeks
studying the writings of the Old Testament
(Ruth, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, etc.),
8 weeks on the book of John, and 8 weeks
on the book of Revelation. It is preferred that
participants have taken Disciple I, but it is not required.

Sign up at the Welcome Desk on Sunday or contact
Natalie Woodrow at 893-3721 or [email protected].



Training for Caring Ministries   


Want to become better equipped to serve in compassion ministries? Learn how to listen and offer care in such situations as trauma (and PTSD), domestic violence, and depression.

 

A 45 hour training course is available  

 

October 13-17, 8 am - 5 pm in Maineville.  

 

The International Fellowship of Chaplains will award a certificate of completion and 4.7 CEUs.

 

See Pastor Lisa if you are interested in this opportunity or in any of our caring ministries.

 
Festival of Sharing 
 
 
LAST WEEK OF COLLECTIONS!!!!! The Festival of Sharing box will be in the Narthex for 1 more week. Please be sure to bring in the school supplies if you have them. We will be assembling them into bags and sending them off. We do need help sewing the bags. If you are interested, please contact Mary Wortham.
 
Needed items: 
* blunt scissors 
* 70 count spiral notebooks 
* Ruler (30cm/12in) 
* Hand held pencil sharpener 
* Large eraser 
* Pencils with erasers 
* Box of 24 crayons
Inner City Tennis Project  





I am working on an Eagle Project that will collect tennis equipment for kids enrolled in the Inner City Tennis Project program. The Inner City Project offers an affordable, quality tennis program for kids in downtown Cincinnati. 

I have a clear tote with a blue lid where you can place such items as: strung or unstrung tennis rackets that are between 19"-26," tennis balls, water jugs, tennis bags, and apparel. It will be located in the alcove from now until the end of August. 

A manila envelope will be at the welcome desk for monetary donations. Checks should be made payable to the Inner City Tennis Project. Thank you for your support. 
 Andrew Stocker
  
Stephen Ministry

Announcing.....A New Summer Class!
Don't Sing Songs To A Heavy Heart
How to relate to those who are suffering. 

 

July 13, 20, 27
August 3, 10, 17
Sunday mornings, 9:30am - 10:30am

 

Located in the Main Narthex
Registration is June 15 - 29th
For more information or questions, please contact 

  

Christ's Cupboard
An EASY Way to Make a BIG Impact!

Christ's Cupboard is a MUMC ministry
that provides food for our neighbors in
dire need.  This is an easy way to help
out...just grab a couple of extra items
when you are in the grocery store and
bring them to church!  Look for the
grocery cart by the doors/main entrance
of MUMC.  We have an urgent need for
these items:

Oatmeal (individual packets)
Toilet paper
Canned vegetables (15-20 oz size)
Canned fruit (15-20 oz size)


If you'd like more information about
Christ's Cupboard, or want to help further,
please contact: Amy Weis at  
[email protected] or (513) 508-0850


Have an announcement you want to share with the MUMC Community? 

Contact me at [email protected]!

Deadline for announcements is Wednesday at Noon.
 
Our purpose is to be a reaching, nurturing, sending community of committed followers of Jesus Christ.

 

Agape,
The MUMC Staff