Summer Choir begins June 9!

By Cathy Armistead

Do you love to sing but just cannot commit to weekly rehearsals? Then Summer Choir is for YOU! Summer Choir is for ALL ages - children, youth and adults, and it begins on Sunday, June 9. Simply come to the Choir Room at 10:30 am on the Sundays you are in town, learn the anthem, then sing from the choir loft. You do not even have to wear a robe! Summer Choir will sing on these dates: June 9, 16, 30, July 7, 28, August 4 and 11. Please let Cathy Armistead know if you are interested: music@reveilleumc.org.  The music is good quality, yet fun and easy to learn. Try it - and bring a friend!

College and Young Adult Summer Sunday School Begins This Sunday!

All college students, recent grads, and young adults are invited to our College Summer Ministry kick-off brunch Sunday, June 2 in room 206! Find out all about the summer fellowship, service, and discipleship opportunities, including a day at Swansboro, hosting a night of CARITAS, giving advice to graduating high school seniors (June 9), and the summer Sunday school series being led by Mari Humphreys, When Christians Get it Wrong by Adam Hamilton, beginning June 16! To RSVP or ask questions, contact Chris Cantone, Reveille Young Adult Summer Intern, at cwc2at@virginia.edu.  

Weekly Family "Play and Pray" begins June 19

Wednesdays at 10 am, June 19-August 28

Reveille Playground and Picnic Shelter

Summer is fun, but sometimes we can miss the discipline and fellowship that school days provide for our children and ourselves! So invite your friends and bring your children of all ages starting Wednesday, June 19, for a weekly time of fellowship, playtime, snacks, kid's activities, and adult and kid's devotional based on the lectionary and GPS. Church doors will be unlocked for necessary bathroom breaks, but all activities will take place in the picnic shelter, rain or shine. 

For questions contact Kelly Weaver at kellysweaver@hotmail.com. 

Congratulations to the following Reveille Graduates

of College and Graduate School!

Tyler Agee - University of Georgia

Ian C. Brown -   University of Memphis

Katie Kaugars - William and Mary

Trey Kern - Wake Forest University

Marian Baxter Felton - PhD in nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jesus Christ Superstar

a Rock Opera, by Andrew Lloyd Weber

presented by

Reveille Youth Choir and Congregation

July 12, 13, 14, 16 and 18, at 7:30 pm

in the sanctuary...save the dates!

Sign-up for Habitat

By Abby Baker and Heather MacIver

Join the Reveille summer of service! Starting June 20 and continuing through November, Reveille will build a new home for a single mom, Dina, and her four children with Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity. The house is located on McRand Street, close to Swansboro Elementary where Reveille members are actively engaged.

We need at least 250 volunteers to help with the build and other activities. The build calendar showing dates and number of volunteers and instructions for how to sign up for your preferred date can be found at http://www.reveilleumc.org/reveille-habitat-house. The build calendar showing dates and number of volunteers needed is now open. Please visit the welcome center or email Abby Baker or Heather MacIver for more information at reveillehabitat@gmail.com. Thank you for being part of our fellowship in Christ with the greater Swansboro community.

Children's Summer Sunday School

Tee-ology Reflection - "No Sandbagging!"

By Bo Bowden

In the book, Tee-ology, there are 18 lessons drawn from parallels between Christianity and the game of golf. Our tee-ology small group has enjoyed reading at our own pace and the fellowship of spending a few hours together outside this spring. To give you some idea of how seriously we take the golf aspect of these outings, this week after a wayward drive from a member of our group (trust me, it could have been any one of us), Dave Craven wondered aloud whether we should not rename our sessions tree-ology! 

On that day we played at Belmont Golf Course, which is the only course in Virginia to have hosted one of golf's major championships. Sam Snead, the famous pro from Bath County, Virginia who still holds the record for most PGA tour victories of 82, won that major championship at Belmont.

In pursuit of Sam Snead's record for total victories is Tiger Woods, who added career PGA tour victory number 78 by winning the Tournament Players' Championship in May. This particular victory was not without some controversy. Tiger was accused of unsportsmanlike conduct by Sergio Garcia, and some television viewers believe Tiger may have benefitted from an illegal drop down the stretch on Sunday. Whether either action benefitted Tiger on his way to victory, golf enthusiasts suggest, is not the issue. The honor of the game must be upheld.

Sam Snead played on the PGA tour for nearly four decades and was known to be an honorable competitor. He once forfeited competing in a playoff over the possibility that he had broken a rule earlier in the tournament. Still, even he could not escape scrutiny when he claimed to have thrown a match in 1959 on the final two holes because he had discovered he had one too many clubs in his bag. Instead of calling the penalty on himself and forfeiting immediately, he played out the final two holes and made sure to lose by hitting errant shots and missing putts. Though the final outcome was the same, representatives from the PGA reviewed the case because the honor of the game had been violated by his actions. Snead said he knew that the game was being filmed for TV and did not want to ruin the show.

As Christians we are called to honor God by seeking His grace even as we struggle with our own imperfections. Because we often fall short of perfection, we grant ourselves an exemption by justifying our actions. In the book Tee-ology, John Freeman calls this "sandbagging," and examples may include failing to do what we know we should, or doing what we know we should not. At first, we may allow ourselves a foot wedge, or a mulligan or fudging a number on the scorecard. Do not worry, no one is watching, we might say.

Some of us may find it easier to follow all the rules when there is nothing we value at stake.  But up the ante and what happens? Isn't it harder to follow all the rules when they seem to prevent us from getting something we really want? Did Tiger's quest for another victory allow him to more easily accept a possible advantage? Did Sam Snead's knowing a TV sponsorship might be at risk justify his bending the rules a bit?

In order to accept God's grace and therefore honor Him, we must remain aware of those times in our own lives when we are most likely to bend the rules in our favor. Our charge is not to continue to engage in such behaviors and later ask for forgiveness, but to rely on God's grace to help us trust that His way is the right one. Paul writes in Romans 6:1-2 "...should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means!"

I'm appreciative of the opportunity to participate in Tee-ology as a reminder that as long as we play the game fairly, God's grace provides the joy of community in His presence no matter how well or poorly we might play.

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Joys and Concerns

RECEIVED THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY BAPTISM

May 26, 2013

Mary Lucille Nelson, daughter of Mary and Ryan Nelson

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Issues and Deadlines for The Reveille Window

Attendance and Stewardship Report

May 19, 2013

Staff

Jim Noland, Senior Pastor

Katie B. Anthony, Associate Pastor

Stephen Coleman, Associate Pastor

Cathy Armistead, Director of Music Ministries

Tamara Nicely, Assistant Director of Music Ministries

Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries

Jennifer McCluskey, Director of Adult Ministries

Dwayne Stinson, Director of Youth Ministries

Kaarina Jobe, Worship and Music Leader for The Point

Glynis Holcomb, Financial Manager

Ken Case, Facilities Manager

Lisa Adams, Administrative Assistant 

Cheryl Arrington, Pastoral and Congregational Care Secretary

Thomas Goodall, Custodian

Darius Stokes, Custodian

Elaine Kastelberg, Director of Weekday School

Beverley Tilley, Weekday School Administrative Assistant