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July Birthdays4 - Kris Brown, Lewis Laughead
6 - Kelsey Green
7 - LeRoy Lantz
8 - Norma Mettler, Jane Warfield, Whitney Pullen
10 - Steve Spainhour
13 - Greg Lewis, Courtney Agan
14 - Douglas J. Bowman, Echo Logsdon
15 - Hallie Hottle
16 - Gene Larson
17 - Jeff Rankin, Will Best
18 - Louise Roos
19 - Mark Lyle
21 - Lolla Ballard, Shari Glasgow
25 - Mary Distin
27 - Dee Ann Shuff
28 - Judy Andrews
29 - Eugene Inman
30 - Donna Larson, Emily Fisher
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Your church family wants to keep in touch with you. With this weekly e-newsletter, we bring you up-to-the-minute news of the latest events and happenings. It's all about staying connected.
"Jesus said... 'I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.'" -John 13:31a; 34-35
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This Sunday ~ Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ~ July 21, 2013
9:30 a.m.
Liturgist: Ann Phelps
Communion Servers: Julie Armstrong, Ted Briscoe, Mary Distin, Carol Heflin, Joyce Lantz, Leroy Lantz, Betty McBride, Darlene Moffet, Deb Tomlin, Dee Long
Ushers: Jim Brown, John Turnbull, Greg Baber, John Lyle, Jim Glasgow, Shari Glasgow
Greeters: Alis Chy, John & Isabel Marshall
Children's Church: Crystal Sargent
Nursery: Bonnie Heflin
Coffee Hour: John Marshall and Sheila Wilson
Special Music: Linda Andrews, organ; Marsha Wetmore, flute; Phill David Wetmore, trumpet
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Meetings
Sunday, July 21 - After-Worship Gathering - 10:45 a.m. in church library or Social Hall
Monday, July 22 - Teddy Bear CDC Resumes
Tuesday, July 23 - Visioning Group Discussion - 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 23 - Session Meeting - 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 24 - Visioning Group Discussions at 5:15 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 24 - Bible Study with the Pastor - 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25 - Isabel Circle - 7:00 p.m. Car pools to Sharon Graham's leave church parking lot at 6:30 p.m. NOTE: Deacons and Trustees will not meet in July; however, the Session will be meeting July 23.
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From the Pastor
To sisters and brothers of Christ at Faith,
Below you will find a quote from Dr. Robert Worley who founded the Doctor of Ministry program at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in the early 1970's. Some aspects of his reflection on the need for a vision and on the situation of churches of his time may be helpful.
"Passive congregations and individual methods of renewal are symptoms of the lack of an activating, mobilizing vision. For some church organizations and their leaders, vision centers on the past while others look ahead but cannot identify it. And many organizations and leaders take the easy way and substitute someone else's vision for their own unique calling.
In some groups all that is imagined is a picture of the past. There is no effort to discern the call of God. The future is unclear and their thinking about it undeveloped. As a result, they stand and do nothing. Because they have not explored the current meaning of God's presence, they lack vision and experience little of life.
In groups that look forward but cannot focus on a central vision, members seem constantly occupied. They furiously engage in all kinds of activities, but the direction of their movement is vague. The assumption is that lots of activity must be good and effective. The weakness is in failing to discern God's purposed for the particular body. The healthy calling is to focus on the wholeness of a purposeful direction.
Some groups mistakenly claim someone else's vision. Another's vision is meant for a different time, place, ethnic group, or faith commitment. It cannot merely be transplanted and adopted by others. Groups that operate in this fashion become unauthentic, unrooted. They become detached from their faith, from their context, or from their calling. Vision must originate in the particular body itself.
The envisioning of God's movement in our world provides the opportunity for all-individually and in leadership groups-to be active in a revelation. To glimpse it and to respond by moving toward God and other people is to engage in the ever-emerging realm of God."
Starting on Wednesday, July 24, I will be hosting a Bible Study based on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. We shall gather at 6 PM. I shall keep it to an hour--especially since vision gathering starts at 7 PM. This way you can come once and enjoy twice.
Pastor Charles
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Gathering School Supplies for S.T.A.R.S.
Jamieson Center and Community National Bank have sponsored the S.T.A.R.S. program (Supplies To Arrive Ready for School) for several years. This program benefits many area students, helping them begin the school year with the supplies they need. It also helps the parents of these children, as it can become very costly when you have several children who need supplies. When you are out and about shopping, please think about picking up some of the items on the list below and adding them to the collection box at church by the office. In order to help the most children, the supplies collected need to go to Jamieson Center by the end of July (summer vacation flies by quickly!).
THERE ARE ALSO S.T.A.R.S. SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTS ON THE OFFICE DOOR THAT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU.
S.T.A.R.S. SCHOOL SUPPLIES
(Needed by the end of July)
No trapper keepers
| glue sticks
| No pencil boxes
| 8-oz. white glue
| Kleenex
| Fiskar scissors - pointed
and round
| Crayons - #8, #48
| rulers
| Colored pencils
| solid-color 2-pocket folders
| #2 pencils
| loose-leaf wide-ruled paper
| pencil bags
| spiral notebooks -
wide-ruled
| black or blue ball-point
pens
| composition notebooks
| yellow highlighters
| protractors
| Crayola washable markers
| Index cards - 3 x 5
| Dry-erase markers - black
| three-ring, 1" notebook
(hard cover)
| water color paints
| hand sanitizer
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Pink Pearl erasers
| Zip-Loc bags: sandwich,
quart, large
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Isabel Circle - July 25
Isabel Circle will meet at 7:00 p.m. at the home of Sharon Graham on Thursday, July 25th. All women and friends of the church are welcome to attend. Those wanting to car pool will meet in the church parking lot at 6:30 p.m.
Jane Kellogg will facilitate Lesson Nine from the 2012-2013 Horizons Bible Study, "Dispatches to God's Household -- The General Epistles."
The Scripture readings are 1 John 2-4 and Jude 17-25. The dispatches have been delivered and the message is clear. When we live with courage through Christ, we are able to love others -- even those we have been afraid to love. When we support and sustain one another through God's love, it becomes possible for us to overcome the pressures of living in a hostile world. God's household becomes a place where sisters and brothers in Christ embrace one another in truth and love.
As Nancy Benson-Nicol, author of the study, writes in the concluding paragraph of Lesson Nine, "In Christ, we find our purpose -- to live our lives in truth, love, service, and sacrifice, be we young or old, male or female, married or single, powerless or powerful. By assuring us WHOSE we are. the General Epistles tell us who we are -- none other than the children of God. Thanks be to God!"
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Horizons Bible Study Books
The 2013-14 Horizons Bible Study books have just arrived in our church office and are available for $9.00. The upcoming study is "An Abiding Hope: The Presence of God in Exodus and Deuteronomy" by Janice Catron. This study was designed around the topic of migration.
Please make checks payable to "Faith United Presbyterian Church" and write "PW Horizons Bible Study" on the memo line. The church office is open M-F 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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From left to right: Buff Hottle, Andrew Hayward Smith, Tammi Hottle, Mary Distin, Ted Briscoe, Vicki Briscoe, Dalton Hottle, Doris Dye, Larry Dye, and Vicki Dye Lantz. Not pictured: Mary Lyle, John Lyle, and Deb Dingman. In the foreground is "Bonnie," Andrew's 865-cc 2007 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle.
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Arctic Ride for Dreams Rolls into Monmouth
With just one day's notice, Faith United Presbyterian Church prepared to welcome a messenger sent from Miami Shores Presbyterian Church, which just happens to be where Hallie Hottle, who grew up in Monmouth and is a child of Faith Church, currently serves as associate pastor.
Rev. Hottle was helping one of her congregants determine what God was wanting him to do, when connections began to form. It had to do with Hallie's mentor during her seminary years at Princeton, Dr. Bruce Main, who founded UrbanPromise International and was coming to Miami to open a new UrbanPromise center in that city. Hallie invited Dr. Main to speak at her church, one gutsy guy heard him, and all of these connections coalesced into a vision--- a 15,000-mile journey that would take a motorcycle rider to the Arctic Circle and back again to Miami. The discovery of that vision and that calling came to Andrew Hayward Smith, who seems to have adventure in his genes as a descendent of the lineage of the famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
You might say that Smith is on a kind of 21st century missionary journey along a route that takes him from Florida to the Midwest, across Canada, to Alaska and back down the eastern seaboard on a four-month saga, accompanied only by his motorcycle, a few basic supplies and a GPS tracker. Not to mention a lot of prayers and an optimistic view of the basic goodness of people. He is visiting various Presbyterian churches along his route as well as special sites and places, all to raise money to help others through charity and personal contact. His charitable donors have challenged him to go to certain places and attend certain events, and have taken him to, among other things, Monmouth, Illinois, where he shared pizza with members of the Hottle family and others from Faith Church, had a finger gun-fight with Dalton Hottle at the Wyatt Earp Birthplace, attended Relay for Life at Sunnylane field, did a cheer with Hallie's pompom at Monmouth High School, spent part of Saturday at Rainbow Riders, and enjoyed a fish sandwich at Oquawka's Ye Olde Fish House along the Mississippi.
In fact, Andrew had such a good time in Monmouth seeing the sites where his pastor grew up, meeting people, and even collecting their dreams, that he stayed an extra day and surprised us all by showing up as an usher at our Sunday worship service. He talked to us at coffee hour about his journey and answered many questions.
The challenges he completes will bring pledges to many charitable causes, which the challenger gets to choose. And the dreams he collects will be written on ribbons which will be tied to the steeple of Miami Shores Presbyterian Church. In fact, the entire church may be covered in ribbons by the time Andrew returns on November 1.
The next stop after Monmouth is Hallie's alma mater, Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, as Andrew points his compass toward St. Cloud, MN and Grand Forks, ND. You can follow the rest of his journey at track Andrew Smith and on the Arctic Ride for Dreams Facebook page.
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Faith Mission Focus in July & August - "Mission in Monmouth"
Faith United Presbyterian Church is providing assistance to the community by stepping forward to help the senior population and offering assistance with household chores through the Strom Senior Center. Strom has made available an application in their monthly newsletter for seniors who need volunteer help with tasks such as washing windows, cleaning the garage, raking the yard, etc., and has stated a July 12 deadline. The Faith UPC Mission Committee will then try to match volunteers from our church with the job requests. Members of our congregation are also invited to request assistance with chores around the house with which they need assistance - just call the church office and requests will be forwarded to the Mission Committee.
There is a sign-up sheet on the office door for volunteers to sign up who are willing to do small projects. You can either pick the small project you'd like to take on, or simply sign up with your name and skills, and the Mission Committee will match you with the work requests as they come in.
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Meals on Wheels - August
Faith Church will be assisting with delivery of Meals on Wheels during the month of August in cooperation with the Strom Center, which serves congregate meals M - F to those who are able to come to the center, and delivers packaged meals to the homes of the home-bound in the community. Volunteers should arrive at the Strom Center between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. to sign in. The driver leaves Strom Center with the meals promptly at 10:45 a.m. and deliveries are completed by 12 or 12:30 p.m.
A sign-up sheet is posted on the church office door. We still have open spots on Monday, August 12; Friday, August 16; and Monday, August 26.
This is a wonderful and very tangible way to share God's love in our community.
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Sue Krummel Interviews Will Wetzel about the Recent Youth Mission Trip
Great Rivers Presbytery publishes a weekly e-newsletter and features a regular "General Presbyter's Perspective" with Rev. Sue Krummel. This week she shares with us a video chat she had with Will Wetzel, who is on staff at 1st Presbyterian Church of Macomb, working with both mission and youth. The youth from our church, together with Stephanie Reading and Heather Fisher, Ipava Presbyterian, and 1st Pres/Macomb, all combined for a mission trip to the Quad Cities last month. Find out more about what they did and why it is so important.
click here to watch the video
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Christian Education
Interim CD Director Position Opening
The Session, through a specially-appointed task force, has decided to hire an Interim Director of Christian Education. This paid position would last until the end of December 2013 and would involve approximately 10 hours a week. The CE Director would work with the Christian Education Committee and would report to the pastor.
The position will first be offered to our congregation. A tentative job description appears in the July 4th Focus on Faith newsletter (click here to access the newsletter with the full job description).
Please email John Marshall, Moderator of the Personnel Committee at johnbertismarshall@yahoo.com to submit a resume, or if you would like further information. You may also contact him by phone at (309) 536-0638.
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In the Community
Warren County United Way Trivia Night II
Strom Center will host the Annual Senior Trivia Night on Thursday, July 25. Registration is 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Each team of 8 will go 8 rounds of 8 trivia questions each round. The team with the highest number of correct answers wins a $200 prize; second-highest-scoring team wins $100. Categories are: food & drink, classic movies, random multiple choice, true/false, classic TV, 1960s, 1970s, and geography. You don't need to be a senior to play! For information and registration, call the Strom Center at 734-5677 or Warren County United Way at 734-6364.
Warren County Wellness Program
OSF Holy Family Medical Center and Warren County Health Department Present: Warren County Wellness Program This free community program was designed based on the results of a recent Community Health Needs Assessment. It was discovered that only 7% of our population engages in exercise at least 5 times a week, and only 3% of our population exceeds the minimum recommended servings of fruits/vegetables in a day. The 8 week program begins on July 23, 2013, and will offer free health screenings to participants, provide a weekly health and wellness program, a walking program, and a celebration planned for those who complete the program.
As previously mentioned the program is completely FREE to those that wish to participate, and screenings will be offered at the end of the program to determine if lifestyle changes helped improve numbers from initial screenings. FREE SCREENINGS The following screenings will be provided at no charge: Lipid Profile; Blood Pressure; Heel Scan; Peak Flow; Brachial/Radial Index; Mental Health Screening; Weight; BMI and Body Measurements. PSA screenings for men over the age of 50 will also be offered.
Call Kelly Kendall at 734-1404 to register. For further information and to see detailed descriptions of each of the 8 sessions, please click here
Red Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the New Warren County Health Department Building
There will be a Red Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on Tuesday, July 30th at 3:00 p.m., with an open house following until 5:00 p.m. at their new expanded facility at 240 South Main.
Farmers' Market - June through October
The annual Farmers' Market began Friday, June 7th at the First State Bank parking lot from 7:00 a.m. - noon. The Farmers' Market will run each Friday through October.
Next Music Days in Market Alley - July 24
Sponsor: IPP Associates LLC
Food: Olivia's Cookie Jar
Music: Winter Blues All Stars
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Monmouth Cruise Night
August 2 Monmouth College New Student Move-in Day - Saturday, August 24
Warren County Prime Beef Festival
September 4 - 7
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Prayer Concerns
Please continue to keep in your prayers: Cathy Abernathy, Andrew Hayward Smith, Chuck Hallam (at Seminary Bounce-Back), Craig Watson (recovering at home from hip replacement surgery) Pat and Merle Brown (now at Monmouth Nursing Home) , Cinda Stansbury (now at Marigold), Vern Mettler (now at home), Irvin Lipp (now home), Evelyn Carlson (now at home), Tara Hanson, Mary Johnson, Sally McVey, Gary Youngblood, Lindsay Murdock, and Jim Paris.
William Bersted passed away Friday, June 28 while visiting friends in Florida. A memorial service will be held on Monday, August 5, 2013 at 11 a.m. at Turnbull Funeral Home, with visitation preceding the service at 10:00 a.m. In accordance with Bill's wishes,memorials may be made to the Nancy Bersted Special Needs Trust.
Please keep Will Myers and Emily Fisher in your prayers the rest of this week as they experience the Presbyterian Youth Triennium at Purdue University with more than 5,000 participants. Click here if you would like to see the schedule of what they have been doing this week. read more. . .
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Lost and Found
Found: ladies' earrings - one is a gold rosette, one is a silver 1-1/2" hoop, and the third is a silver spangle earring with four spangles with stars on the ends. If one of these is yours, please pick it up from the table under the mirror, outside the office.
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Secretary on Vacation
The church secretary will be on vacation Tuesday, July 30 through Friday, August 2. If anyone would like to volunteer to answer the phone in the office and feed the fish, please contact Vicki at 734-5129.
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2013 Session Committees
Moderator: Rev. Charles Cunningham
Clerk: Scott McClintock
Personnel John Marshall - Moderator
Brad Larson, Mary Distin
Worship Denise Turnbull- Moderator
Gene Larson, Deb Tomlin
Stewardship Mary Distin - Moderator
& Budget Scott McClintock, Rod Lemon
Mission Barb Byrne - Moderator
Gary Pullen, Ann Phelps
Outreach Heather Fisher - Moderator
Tammi Hottle, John Marshall
CE Ann Phelps - Moderator
Rod Lemon, Brad Larson
Fellowship Tammi Hottle - Moderator
Heather Fisher, Denise Turnbull
Audit Gary Pullen - Moderator
Kristie Murdock
Memorial Deb Tomlin - Moderator
Kristie Murdock
Investment Scott McClintock - Moderator
Deb Tomlin
Nominating Gene Larson - Moderator
Vicki Young Briscoe
Wash Day Vicki Young Briscoe - Moderator
Ministry Barb Byrne
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